I hate these runes & effectiveness analysis (long post)
So I've been trying the new runes and these feel terrible.
A couple of things...
First... more than half of these runes are not useful. They all SOUND very effective but the majority of them are not. [sg-lulu] If you've watched DOPA / APDO's mastery guide from previous patches, you would understand which runes are more effective and why you would rather choose certain ones over the others. Which leads to my second point.
Second... there is less variety than you think. Sure, Riot gave us many choices but look at the effectiveness of runes. I tried Jarvan LV and made a post of how broken it is (see the link below) because the damage output was actually not okay. https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/AbGAwNM9-broken-j4-jungle-build [sg-lux-2] And then I realized this: when I choose another champion, I keep coming back to SIMILAR RUNE SETTINGS because they're simply better. I ended up taking the exact same runes as Jarvan IV on Nocturne (which doesn't sound very intuitive), and managed to get over 80% win rate in ranked, Plat 5-3 level, for a decent number of games. I used different item build though obviously. [draven-pose] Let's delve into runes/trees more specifically.
Precision Press the attack - decent. You only get it because you are an ADC. Lethal weapon - borderline op. Stronger runes out there. Seen it work on Fiora, Twitch, Fleet work - simply useless (nerfed mastery...?)
Overheal - useless. Mini malphite passive, conditional. Triumph - decent Presence of mind - useless
Legends alacrity - good. Other legends are outclassed.
Coupe de grace - this is rune for janitors... most likely useless Cutdown - situational match up rune. Most likely taken because nothing better. Last stand - useless. Only for certain champions that wouldn't use precision to begin with.
Domination Electocute - the best. 50% ad scaling plus high base. Simply... retarded. Predator - useless. Requires boot + long cooldown, outclassed by electrocute. Dark harvest - useless. Unless you want to play an RPG. Outclassed.
Cheap shot - decent. Low cdr, true dmg, on impaired targets... who can use? Low dmg. Taste of blood - lane sustain rune, decent but outclassed by: Sudden impact - broken. 4 second cooldown, free 10 lethality or 8 mpen.
Zombie ward - useless, maybe unless you are support Ghost poro - useless Eyeball collection - good, and you don't have a better option.
Ravenous hunter - broken. Scales (possibly early) to 15% vamp. Retarded (esp. on Ryze). Ingenious hunter - lol... useless. Relentless hunter - decent... but outclassed.
It's important to note that some trees have more op runes than the other trees.
I'll save the other 3 trees unless someone wants to know. Sorcery is important, other two, not so much.
[sg-jinx] Sigh... let's see how these get balanced in the next while. In the meantime, if you want freelo, you know what you have to do.
