One thing i miss about league.

53436278DEL1·Aug 7, 2017·39 votes·1,943 views

weird item builds nowadays builds are to direct. i miss the niche items like atmas impaler , or the ld last whisper , the old rage blade the old maw dft , etc etc .. also miss the old sheen animation

48 Comments

SennaFirstPickAug 7, 201715 votes

zephyr

that thing on an autoattacker was just nasty

LeylaniaAug 7, 201713 votes

Not only the niche items but mainly the fact that you could build whatever you wanted on any champ and you still had a chance to win (and didn't get flamed immediatly and spamed with "kys"), today you feel like you are fucked if you don't play after the meta. In general I feel like the fun factor of the game got lost over the years. Don't get me wrong I still love this game but it isn't nearly as much fun anymore as it was back in the days...

53436278DEL1Aug 7, 20172 votes

yup i don't have fun anymore. ... only when im pubstomping i feel like im having fun but its really not fun like back in the old days

JegonnAug 8, 20171 votes

The one time I don't buy item 3812 on Draven because I want to try out another build that's quite good on him as well I get questioned for it.

Maokai: Draven why do you have two BF Swords??

I like going item 1038 item 1053 item 3006 early on Draven if I'm snowballing quickly to make it easier to pick up more early kills to get to my core item spikes sooner but whenever I go for this build other than the boring deaths dance into shiv I get people in my games calling me out saying why like cmon bro there are more than 1 ways to build a champ.

Bard R FridayAug 8, 20175 votes

Old last whisper wasn't niche, the problem was that you just built it on every AD champion just like how void staff is now because it went through total armor instead of bonus armor.

AirKingNeoAug 7, 20173 votes

Old rageblade should have never been removed.

53436278DEL1Aug 7, 20172 votes

agreeeeed it was one of my favorite items

AirKingNeoAug 7, 20172 votes

#MakeJaxGreatAgain

TargonAug 7, 20172 votes

I loved the old rageblade! The current version feels so underwhelming in comparison and the number of champions it's viable on was halved.

AirKingNeoAug 7, 20171 votes

"but but but we neeeed to keep phantom hit!"

ElindiirAug 8, 20171 votes

Define 'old'.... There was the 'on-hit with a cleave' and then there's the even older version...

AirKingNeoAug 8, 20171 votes

The old but not oldest.

Aka, useful Rageblade.

GaliöAug 7, 20173 votes

I miss old galio

53436278DEL1Aug 7, 20171 votes

agreed lol not having no ult in a solo lane is toughhh

AleksaTeemoAug 7, 20172 votes

Remember the time when you could play anything and if you were good enough you could still outplay your opponent?Nowdays,your teammates will flame you so hard.

Denims Wrath666Aug 7, 20172 votes

ive been trying for 84 years to get wriggles back into the game. not feral flare.

PePsiLemoNNAug 8, 20172 votes

Old LW niche? If anything the new item 3036 item 3033 are way more niche

PaffWasTakenAug 8, 20172 votes

I miss the IQ of the people on the boards, it disappeared a long time ago... Thank you for bringing me some sweet memories with those items tho

Sire HippingtonAug 7, 20171 votes

Imo it's less about the items(still miss alot of them though) but more about riot slowly but surely removeing any somewhat relevant off-scaleings from the game. Ap ratios on non mages/sups have been reduced heavily acroos the board within the last few years, many champs have been hardpushed into certain builts by killing basevalues/alternate scaleings and buffing the intendet scalesing, preventing tanky builts aswell... On top of that, tankiness feels pretty pointless unless you fully commit to it and get stoneplate, so bruiser builts feel crap for most of it even on intendet users with few exeptions.

I really miss the days where i could adjust my built and playstyle to some extend depending on the situation, or go with fun builts and still have a decent chance to succed in normals.

53436278DEL1Aug 7, 20172 votes

yeah pretty much ... riot removing from the game what kept me playing it all along..if i wanted to be straight forward with little versatility i would just play heroes of storm

Sire HippingtonAug 7, 20171 votes

Actually, heroes' talent system allows for alot more diversity and differnt playstyles per hero than Lol currently does, which is oart of the reason for why i currently favour HotS over LoL

JedenVojakAug 7, 20171 votes

I miss my favorite item, Avarice Blade - such farming and money gain ;_;

But I agree, they just keep tightening down all of the character builds. That's part of the reason I uninstalled.

53436278DEL1Aug 7, 20171 votes

i also just uninstalled . avarice blade was also one of my favorite items.. i used to build it on zed, talon , aatrox and power farm with tiamat............... they are making this game incredibly boring

Also when they removed the Crit from tri force.. :/

OwntrolfAug 8, 20171 votes

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i also just uninstalled . avarice blade was also one of my favorite items.. i used to build it on zed, talon , aatrox and power farm with tiamat............... they are making this game incredibly boring

Also when they removed the Crit from tri force.. :/

Psh tiamat power farm?

How about stacking 6 tiamat and watching old Fiora ult destroy entire teams

ElindiirAug 8, 20171 votes

Now there is item 1083 which I use on Tryndamere and Irelia (and sometimes Yorick) so that I can be a kill's worth of gold ahead of my lane opponent for noo obvious reason. It's not like its that much weaker than item 1055

53436278DEL1Aug 8, 20171 votes

cull is cool but i like the fact that avarice blade can actually be built into something and has semi useful stats while you hold on to it ( crit chance)

ElindiirAug 8, 20171 votes

I think also, Riot is doubling down on the idea that 1: There is no such thing as an AD support (as opposed to DOTA, where it is the norm rather than the exception), and 2: Non-supports need to out-perform their lane opponent to get ahead. They have taken recent measures to keep item 3303 from being picked up on mids and item 3301 from being taken by Gangplanks.

JedenVojakAug 8, 20171 votes

Except that it doesn't passively generate gold, gains less gold per minion kill (2 vs 1) and has a maximum gold cap, all things which make it total trash.

ElindiirAug 8, 20171 votes

It puts you a kill's worth of gold ahead if you are in a farm lane, if that means anything. It has stronger early game stats than Dorans except without the extra HP, but if you are going in knowing that neither is going to kill each other in lane and will mostly be farming (either because your opponent is scared to death of you, your opponent isn't exactly going to put a lot of pressure unless you attack... or your own champion is an efficient farmer no matter the situation [irelia]) cull is a nice thing to have.

JedenVojakAug 9, 20171 votes

And I'm saying "a" kill is not good enough. I want enough gold to build a whole item.

HensetsuAug 7, 20171 votes

I miss the days when I was so noob that Ryze Bot was the most frustrating aspect of the game :(.

DoozkuAug 8, 20171 votes

^ Although my nemesis was Karthus bot. Now Ryze bot has a glitch which makes him go afk the whole game...

FinalFlareAug 7, 20171 votes

I miss the AP on Iceborn Gauntlets, Use to love my AP bruiser Leo top lane, with that I swear ap Bruisers are hardly a thing anymore all I see are AD Bruisers or Tanks now.

53436278DEL1Aug 7, 20171 votes

totally forgot they had ap lol really ruined my niche item on kassadin

ElindiirAug 8, 20171 votes

I still build IBG beefy Kassadin... it surprises people because he's surprisingly tanky for an assassin (like akali used to be).

Kitsuki05Aug 8, 20171 votes

I always build whatever I feel like and get along just fine. I am rarely flamed and I don't feel like I am held back by not following a strict guide.

Evil YasuoAug 8, 20171 votes

Old rageblade FUCK YES Run that shit on kayle, udyr, yi. Loved it. I also missed old duskblade. It was strong but no one complained about it nearly as much as this new one.

53436278DEL1Aug 8, 20171 votes

to bad riot is ruining there own game

PopcornBunniAug 8, 20171 votes

Off meta builds and playstyles are still very much doable and can be strong.

The issue is when the team with WW support decides to throw the game out of rage over someone daring to try and use a character outside of their designated play area.

I Main SwainAug 8, 20171 votes

i for one miss how they used to be so simple and straightforward and because of that builds had clear strengths and weaknesses and so many more builds and playstyles were viable, not to mention ap itemization was actually good and if you wanted you could get that 1100 ap from just your items if you went hardcore magic damage.

53436278DEL1Aug 8, 20171 votes

yup

FilDaFunkAug 8, 20171 votes

Zhonya's Ring.

RaoulAug 8, 20171 votes

Atmas Impaler => Niche Item ... ... ... LOL! EVERY FREAKING TOPLANER build Atmas, it was the old version of Titanic Hydra!

ElindiirAug 8, 20171 votes

I think part of the build diversity issue is that on-hit magic damage was forcibly pulled from the meta, and builds involving on-hit magic damage had a really varied mix of all types of items... I used to (for example) build Master Yi with item 3078 item 3124 item 3142 item 3153 item 1419 item 3009 because they all did useful things with a mix of tools...

However, recently, they put items in neat categories. item 3085 became a crit item, then eventually item 3142 stopped being a quick attack speed steroid and Devourer became a bastardized BOTRK and rageblade became a really bad devourer. Armor penetration actually became a stat to wrap an entire build around, while magic penetration became harder to come by (in the supposed name of the end of old item 3105 passive, which was also the supposed reason for adding more AD/MR itemization, which was only just recently changed back). With these changes, the concept of doing magic damage no longer was necessary to circumvent tankiness. Oh and I forgot to mention that AP numbers on items has generally been on a downward trend as of late, while AD numbers are going up.... Or the fact that Will of the Ancients was removed (a spell vamp/AP/CDR item) and Death's Dance was added in(a 'physical vamp'/AD/CDR item).

andrew9514Aug 8, 20171 votes

I also miss the longer games, the systems were designed for that length of game and also the phases lasted longer which helped accentuating champs weakness. Trying to shorten match length threw balance out of wack and made the game too lane centric.

ElindiirAug 8, 20171 votes

That trend is (thankfully) starting to fade a bit. Early lane bullies are falling out of the meta and with the nerfs to armor penetration (its been too long), tanks can be tanks again and the pressure to win lane is easing off.. I am having a lot more games recently that have been won despite multiple lanes losing (albeit not horribly) that earlier this year.

Giggling GrannyAug 9, 20171 votes

Shaco with item 3068 x5 (back when it was dealing 50 magic damage) and it was stacking with your clone you you were dealing 500 magic damage per second to anyone who was near you and your clone!

Good shit...then riot gut it

Then i was build the random item shaco the old ones item 3146 -Sword of the divine-Malady-boots- item 1419 (the old one) back when everything work with shaco clone