Remove Homeguards

Homeguards offer nothing healthy to average gameplay. They are also extremely unhealthy in many edge cases, and have forced Riot to nerf specific champions (Hecarim) as a result.

Homeguards do the following:

1. Needlessly extend games by making it too easy to defend inhibitor turrets against poke/siege comps, forcing tower dives or split pushes as the only viable strategies to break into an enemy base.
2. Seriously increase the risk of staying on the enemy side of the map to pressure and take objectives since a homeguard champion can easily run you down.
3. Reduce the cost of mistakes for taking serious damage since you can be back out on the map and in position quickly after recalling.
4. Remove diversity in boot enchantments due to the amount of utility that homeguards have (increased healing plus all of the above).
5. Create situations where players can teleport to hard engage, leaving the enemy team without time to react and retreat or reposition. If you see a Hecarim running at you, you can reposition. If that Hecarim has homeguards running you just die. If you're in the center of the map this simply shouldn't be an option for players.

In the past we've had problems with homeguard rush on Rammus and Hecarim because they essentially become omnipresent with this item. While I like the idea that map presence and mobility is an option for spending your gold, in this case it's not healthy because of champion specific edge cases and it also crowds out other options. There's a reason that homeguards are the only boots people pick up before 30 minutes into a game. There's a reason nobody builds Alacrity, Captain, and Furor, and very few people build Distortion. These four boot enchantments provide an excellent bonus once you have 5 or 6 items, but they pale in comparison to the boost that Homeguards give.

Homeguards should be removed or redesigned.