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Can you just remove the useless runes?

Nunya Bezwacks·1/31/2016, 10:32:57 PM·3 votes·1,122 views

It's bad enough they cost stupid amounts of points for what is borderline pay to win while having NO reason to cost so much (the only reason its not pay to win is because one small letter is changed on the cost) but does anyone even use most of the damned things? Energy per level? or any of the energy runes at all really. What about the mana runes? those would BARELY be worth it on champions like ryze and kassadin who get damage from mana. I have not heard of anyone using gold per 5 or EXP runes in years,how about the color specific runes? like armor pen glyphs and seals? does anyone even use them? Their are some runes that are just worthless on other versions like AP per level marks and seals. why do these exist in the game? the only AP runes people use on most pages are magic pen reds(marks) AP per level and AP blues(glyphs) and ap/ap per level quints.

while the ap reds and yellows could and might very well be used there are a lot of runes that are just noob traps and its not fair to the players who start and get told from day one "save your IP you need runes hur dur" after which the ones who are unfortunate enough and stupid enough to listen end up with no champions and just get baited into buying "gold per 5" or "2% spell vamp" runes because they didn't know better and thought they would be good next thing you know your playing with a cait who keeps trying to get health off her Q.

TL;DR make all of the runes worth while or remove the ones that aren't you take balance tips exclusively from pro's already ask them which runes they find useless.

4 Comments

TNHA Baritone1/31/2016, 11:12:43 PM2 votes

How are runes pay to win? What the hell? Riot has given us so much opportunities to get butloads of IP.

ThePartyLeader1/31/2016, 10:45:41 PM1 votes

I believe Adrian from immortals uses gp5 still.... I agree on some you mention but there are even pros who use some of these runes.

Mysticman891/31/2016, 11:32:28 PM1 votes

Borderline pay2win is an odd way to describe something you can't pay real money for even if you wanted to. People able to buy the latest OP champs with real money (as you can) is probably maybe a fair thing to call borderline pay2win, but runes not so much (not to mention having particular runes doesn't have 'that' big an influence on winning).

That aside, they did remove most of the 'useless' tier 1 and tier 2 runes. By the time players are tier 3, they should have enough game knowledge to decide for themselves whats worth it, so players have the freedom to explore alternative rune builds. Things that aren't amazing currently may turn out to be great on a later champ or in a different patch, plus some players may have differing playstyles (off-meta or otherwise) and might give some lesser used runes use.

In certain match ups people might like trading armour runes for more offensive ones or their mr/hp for more offense (eg when all ad or all ap teams come up). Some support players like gold runes I think, and I think I have heard of people occasionally getting xp runes if they're confident in their ability to snowball after a level 2 all in (or various other level power spikes).

Nyaboron1/31/2016, 11:35:55 PM1 votes

it would be pay to win if you had to use RP to buy runes, you can get them with IP by playing the game, so suck it up and play with some friends to get bonus IP. I unlocked a bunch of runes and rune pages with only IP before IP bonuses were a thing. There is virtually no reason to remove runes, just dont use them if you dont like them. You don't even have to buy them if you dont want to holy shit.