Season 8

I am excited, but I want more changes to runes. Personally, I think they should remove the change summoners spell rune. It's not good. And if they buff it to BE good, the whole meta will revolve around it. Which will suck. Will be the "cheese" meta. They need a good rune for bruisers like darius. Right now, they just feel weak vs all the poke champs and exploding electrocute champs.

They need something that was like Death Fire touch. Because certain champs are just MEH now without it.

Other runes need to be buffed. I think all keystones but the swap summoners KEYSTONE runes are fine. Guardian may be a bit weak. Because I just don't see a reason to take it. Aftershock if you have any cc that can proc it. Otherwise, summon aery for either poke or shield. I literally do not see a reason EVER to take guardian. Range too short, The effect is too little.

I think ghost poro is garbage. Really cute, whatever, but zombie ward is far superior. Personally, zombie ward is all you need for a vision option. They should change the poro to either do some damage like a maokai seedling, or have it where the poro attaches to the one who disturbs it and gives the entire enemy team vision on them for X amount of seconds. Only two ways I see it ever being used MORE than zombie ward.

I think absolute focus is too risky to take. Same as gathering storm. Gathering storm doesn't give you enough to mean anything. Because if a game lasts 40mins, then you and your team have failed someway and everyone is full build. That extra item's worth of AD or AP is not going to make a big difference. Scorch can help you early to win lane. Water walking can help you as a jungler early to gank and win the game. Focus only has worth above 70% health. Which is great for a Xerath maybe. Because you have superior range and can play safe. For 90% of champs though, it is not worth the investment. I say lower the threshold to 50%, lower the AP/AD you get early from it and let it scale to normal as you go.

I think Iron skin and mirror shell need buffed to 7. I think conditioning needs changed. Because all 3 options are just meh right now. You NEED something before 10mins. And if it is after 10mins, it needs to be worth it. Conditioning should be at least +10 arm an mr + bonus health, not bonus armor. Because only tanks would really want this. And they will have armor anyways. Which yeah, bonus would be good but I promise you. As someone who plays tanks, I'd rather have + 10% bonus health over +5% armor. But I dunno. Cause I don't want a tank meta. All I know, all 3 options are sub par.

Lastly, the only rune in inspiration besides summoner swap that needs SOMETHING, is celestial body. Honestly....what champ besides cho'gath even looks at this rune? and even a cho'gath would look at 5% cdr/max cdr and say, "yeah, this" Celestial body is another 10min rune. Not understanding that current meta = games decided in the first 10mins. But this rune lowers your dmg by 10% for only 100 health lol. I want to know what the hell riot was thinking when designing that rune. As it has 0 benefit. If I am gonna do 10% less dmg for 10 mins, I better get something amazeballs for it. Honestly, just remove celestial body altogether and create a new rune. Preferably something like +10% dmg to large monsters and epic monsters. Just call it monster hunter. Will give junglers something nice.

Then instead of that summoner swapping rune, give a rune that acts like a GA. Where, for the first 3mins it is on CD. Then, when you die, you are resurrected LIKE GA, but give it 3:30 cd and give you a debuff where you cannot be resurrected by guardian angel. So people don't stack that . Cause imagine Aatrox with GA and this rune. Plus a zilean lol. Idea behind it would be, "hey, I'm an AP using mage. Can't justify GA. Zhonyas is not good for me cause I have no escape, so am literally just prolonging my death by a few seconds." You would MAYBE take this rune. I know a lot of immobile champs would take it to help against early ganks/dives. You'd sacrifice the damage from other trees to help you stay alive. Not everyone would take it, but you don't want runes to be universal.