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Riot, Plz. STOP REMOVING ITEMS.

sp441·10/22/2019, 9:48:19 PM·7 votes·1,055 views

Seriously, I am so tired of continuing to see the itemization of this game being an absolute barren wasteland, where your entire build is decided before you even reach the first minion wave.

I get removing Shojin's Spear, since it's a nightmare to balance in the best of circumstances, but removing Zzot's Portal is just removing one of the few items in this game that isn't dedicated around making your numbers bigger. And that's my biggest issue with items in this game, seems like almost all of them are dedicated around making your numbers bigger. It's sad that TFT has better item variety than the core game.

And no, I don't count the new Lethality items as "adding items", they're just gonna be different flavors of already existing options with the sole end purpose of making your damage numbers bigger. Lethality in general is a cancerous stat that has absolutely wrecked the damage balance of this game and should be way harder to obtain than it is now.

10 Comments

Jaspers10/22/2019, 10:01:31 PM5 votes

They are removing Zz'Rot? Why?

Sad times. I haven't played him in a while but it was a must item on Yorick for me. Might start playing it again. A great older build was Heimer with old AP Banner and ZZ'rot, just keep pushing towers. :)

5050BS10/22/2019, 10:57:03 PM5 votes

Ya I dont like the removing ZZ port. Its the ONLY way to push out a enemy team that has more wave clear the your team.

Lethal Sion 201910/22/2019, 9:56:30 PM2 votes

What items do you want to add that won't be just "flavors of already existing options"? there are only so many stats. you cant have an item thats gives a stat that doesnt exist. If your talking about actives and passives, there is just about something for everything. They arent going around removing items that don't need to be removed. ZZ provides tower pressure from anywhere on the map. put a ZZ down and bot and then tp for baron and then it is a losing situation for the other team. they are adding items. you ask for items then disregard the items they are adding for useless. this is hypocritical.

True Garen10/23/2019, 5:28:08 AM2 votes

Were people complaining about ZZ'rot and Ohmwrecker?

If ZZ'rot was leading to boring OP strats... why don't I see more of them being built?

The boards were full of complaints about SoS. But ZZ'rot and Ohmwrecker have existed here for years. I haven't seen complaints about either of these items in at least two years (I want to say "ever").

People complained about non-interactive GOLD FUNNELING, for example. Where are the cries for removal of ZZ'rot?

They JUST did some touch-up work on Ohmwrecker, too. Why fix an item, to remove it? ):

Judah the Hammer10/23/2019, 5:29:53 AM2 votes

This is going to make pre-season even more depressing.

JustDonnyy10/22/2019, 10:49:22 PM2 votes

Zz honestly is incredibly annoying, the entire "split push" tactic is also, incredibly annoying. There is absolutely nothing skillful about playing Nasus or Tryn and TPing top to 5-shot an inhib and still somehow mange to get away scott-free. I understand the split push is an important part of League, and is a genuine tactic, but when there are champions and items that make split pushing the only thing you need to win a game, it should be removed.

Daddy ReTaric10/22/2019, 10:20:16 PM2 votes

Zz caused the same issue Banner of commands used to do, split pushing without close to no risk for the user and simply put the enemy team at disadvantage. Afk split pushing a low interactions strategy that is not really interactive or fun to face .