Training Your Laning Phase (No defensive runes or masteries)

Shadehunter12·6/19/2015, 10:21:29 PM·1 votes·646 views

So I just had the idea to try and train yourself for favorable trades in lane by taking away defensive runes and masteris to punish bad trades and reward, or maybe just not punish (XP), favorable trades. I feel like keeping your offensive runes and masteries would make it so that your damage out put is the same so you would not have a harder time CSing and could focus on the issue of trading better.

This idea is mostly to teach good and bad trades not about CSing, but if someone really wanted to try they could have no runes or masteries for a true challenge to try and better themselves.

This mostly applies to laning and not jungling, because without offensive and defensive boosts it completely changes the way you are physically able to jungle. (Don't believe me? Go into a custom choose a jungle your good with and see if you can clear the camps and still gank normally. Although bots are easy there is a clear less amount of health for ganking, clearing more camps, or couter jungling.) I also believe that this can be applied to every laner especially top and mid, but could still be beneficial to adc, and while difficult still useful for the support too. (might only be difficult for me because I overextend as sup and maybe might teach me to stop that, but I digress.)

What does anyone think about this? Think it's a good idea, or is it too much of a handicap and just make it frustrating?

(This isn't a post about weather or not runes and masteries are good or bad or weather they should be in the game [which they should, adds a whole other level of strategy])

2 Comments

HaxProdigy6/19/2015, 11:10:27 PM1 votes

Yeah I can see the logic but seriously don't do it, it will mess up your knowledge of lane match ups and just annoy the crap out of you while not really learning much, Obviously I don' think it will work, just my opinion tho

TestlAL267/14/2016, 1:48:17 AM1 votes

haha i accidentally didn't take masteries in a ranked top match as trundle. Still went 5/4/18. It was actually really fun. You can look at my match history <3