Do you believe that new runes will have diversity or it will just be 1-2 optimal paths again?
Personally i believe that the system has potential but based on Riot's track record im not hopeful
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yes
some champions definitely have options some champions feel more like a "no brainer".
But overall there are a ton of ways to play a champion now "Do I use Predator/Alacrity and go Full Lethality on Master Yi so I can get 1000 MS and cruise missile their backline?" "Or do I go Lethal Tempo Master yi and Shred everyone?" _"Do I use Summoner specialist to start the game with smite giving me access to Bloodrazor so I can do a Bloodrazor,Bork,Rageblade build?" _
the options are definitely there
1 or 2 optimal paths
i mean when you get useless stuff like +3/5% armor
which is really just a the blandest of bland stat boosts and quite useless at that
yea i'm pretty sure there will be optimal paths again
especially since you only have an extremely narrow selection of choices with only 3 runes per slot and half of them being kinda useless or extremely niche
Mostly optimal paths. Some of the runes have potential, but others need to be purged entirely.
At the beginning there will be some very colorful and interesting play styles. But then a meta emerges and essentially fucks that up. Haha.
There will always be number crunchers and by-the-numbers best builds.
I am excited about the fact that we will only have one thing to customize instead of 2.
Primary path will be optimized.
Keystones will probably be optimized, worth some edge cases.
Secondary paths might have some real decisions.
If people really want to, the options are definitely there. I have a feeling that a lot of different builds will be used for a few weeks until the sheep come out to play. They will just copy their favorite streamers/pro players like they always do and we will have the same 3 builds again.
Depends on the types of champs. Mages definitely got the short end of this runic stick. Bruisers, assassins and fighters in general tho. Lookin decent with atleast 2 pretty good MAIN paths and probably 3 keystones they would want to go for in general.
This is the classic trap of companies touting "choice". It never ends up that way, there will always be a best way to play something. Give it 4-5 months after the new rune system is released and the pros/top tier players will have found out the optimal builds for most meta champs.
With so many possible choices, players will inevitably make tons of sub optimal, wrong choices. The good news here is that a large majority of players, including myself, are in elos where making sub optimal choices will ultimately not matter to the outcome of a particular game. Those types of players will have fun messing around with some new toys and experimenting. However, with that mentality comes another layer of frustration for the person who has to support a Draven that went full cdr runes because he wants to ult more, for example.
The saving grace here is that it runes will be free, so that's nice.
It's too early to judge. I think the rune diversity right now is mostly an illusion because we don't know what's most optimal and/or what'll get nerfed into the ground in the future.
After more time with them, we'll really see if rune diversity ends up being a real thing.
Choice is only an illusion in this case, in the end you'll end up with the same build everywhere.
In the beginning there will be alot of different setups until everyone finds out that this one specific setup is the best thing for the champion.
I believe many champions will have different choices based on the individual playstyle and matchup. Some will have one superior choice(the attack speed keystone for adcs especially) but overall the diversity should be quite good. Remember that they will balance it out if some runes are underperforming or overperforming. Remember that you can change/edit masteries in champion select, and this allows you to customize it based on the champions in the game.
Overall the diversity should be bigger than current runes/masteries, since there's a lot of places where there is only one option for your champion atm.
The playerbase always bandwagons on things regardless of useful alternatives being viable. The actual set of viable stuff is wider than people think.
So yes, most people will think only a few setups are viable after the meta settles. This will always happen regardless of what is actually true.
I have to wonder how Sona will be in the new runes. Truly think she will get URF level's of broken. One of the runes has what 60% CD Add that + her passives on her Ultimate. She will be forced to buy a Tear because she could get Karthus/Singed level of stupid on stacking it.
For midlane pretty sure will be only between comet and thunderlords.