Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm really need to be buffed

phongphu·12/30/2019, 9:48:57 AM·4 votes·3,181 views

I think Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm should be buffed, since these two runes are suitable for AD Carries and Mages at late game phase but they aren't used very often. In most games I often see AD Carry uses Biscuit Delivery and Magical Footwear in secondary path for staying in lane longer at lane phase and Mage uses Transcendence for poking and Scorch for harassing at lane phase. I think the reason of this is in the current meta, if you have advantage to your opponent at lane phase, you are more likely to win the game than when you don't have, so you have to prioritize your power at early game over power at late game when you decide which champion to play and runes to use in the game. The above runes are really good for you at lane phase, while Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm don't help you much, thus, they are much better than Gathering Storm and Absolute Focus.

3 Comments

Speeedy12/30/2019, 3:43:06 PM1 votes

One point you are dancing around as I advocate for a power shift to gathering storm is average game length. Games do not last long enough for gathering storm to be effective. In order for the rune to be worth while the game has to last longer than 30 minutes to be chosen over boots/biscuts. There is absolutely no reason to take anything else as an ADC because even when games do go over 30 minutes they are already decided in over 75% of the time. In my last 10 games I've had 3 go over 30 minutes and then 2 of those 3 lasted less than 65 seconds longer (already decided). Then the one game would of been a solid choice for it. So in my last 10 games I could of taken it one time and have it be optimal.

Gathering storm when it was first implemented was a great rune because of the average game length and you had to chose late vs early. Now since the game time is shorter you need to update the rune to be viable. The easiest thing you can do is make it scale every 5 minutes instead of 10 while the 10, 20, 30, etc being the same power level as you currently get with the rune. This is a small buff that could possibly make it viable. You need to be careful when buffing late runes so they are no so good that they over shadow.

XJ9999999999999912/30/2019, 9:06:23 PM1 votes

absolute focus doesn't need a buff imo. it is fine. it is strong on characters that can maintain high hp, especially for junglers.

Gathering storm could easily be better if they made it every 5 mins instead of 10. They can keep the values the same, but it just sucks that for a whole 10 mins each time it doesn't gain power. It's meant to be the scaling AD rune (scaling AD reds/quints were the shit imo) but they don't function the same.

I would love if they did that.