Lots of proactive updates for gameplay, but if you address low level play...

bad manner kid·Nov 20, 2014·1 votes·704 views

For the sake of electric humanity,

ELIMINATE LOW LEVEL RUNES AND ALL IRRELEVANT RUNES.

It's an obvious resource trap to encourage new players to IP boost repeatedly when misguided.

You offer so many "newbie trap" runes, and not only are they worthless and misguiding, but they COST MORE than the meta ones that WORK!

New players should be trying out champions, and not be limited and roped into buying crap runes that destroy any chance they have at winning their lane.

Bla bla bla, you know what you are doing. Get people on the right path, eliminate your messy early game. Leveling one to thirty is also basically meaningless torture the way your system is set up.

3 Comments

disregardableNov 20, 20141 votes

I had Tier 1 runes. I traded them all in for a Tier-3 rune when I hit 30. I got a Quint. It's an attack speed quint, so I'm not gonna use it, but I don't regret it.

Also, not being meta does not make a rune irrelevant.

FeatherztormNov 20, 20141 votes

The low-tier runes are fairly worthless. By the time you have enough IP to buy enough to make a difference, you'll already have surpassed that level into the new ones. Now you're stuck with t1 runes. When I start off, I was too frugal. I didn't buy runs til I was mid-way through provisional games. I didn't care about runes, as during that time, I was still beating people.

bad manner kidNov 20, 20141 votes

I'm pretty sure energy/e. regeneration runes are complete trash and mathematically cannot improve your survivability or damage. Those champions have built in mechanics to manage their skill cooldowns.

Other more "attractive trash" like critical strike damage encourage people to try full critical builds or play Ashe/Tryn/Shaco, but the reward is trash compared to having more AD in general.

If anyone made a chart for runes played, I guarantee you there would be atleast 15 runes that are virtually non-played because they offer no strategic advantage.

"Not playing the meta" doesn't mean you use garbage runes over ones that obviously give you an advantage in game.