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How do you feel about the Tier Lists/Item Builds.Is Full Sorcerer Locket Stacking good for the game?

skaels·7/12/2019, 3:02:53 AM·3 votes·2,594 views

How does everyone feel about the current tier lists and item spam in the game? Is the massive shield stack from the sorcerer bonus is meant to stack with lockets? Also are there any plans to remove item stacking? With the current system 70% of the items are obsolete due to double stacking Spear of Shojin, Guinsoo's Rage Blade, or in the rare case lockets. With how few items we get during a match it makes the game feel stale and repetitive when you can't make interesting compositions from the hand your dealt.

There seems to be a lot of dead items. For instance unless you are running Draven w/ Bloodthirtster, a cloak would only be useful to make a Dragon's Claw, a belt is only useful for Titanic Hydra if you're running shapeshifters, or a Morellos. Essentially the extreme gap between the top tier items and the rest result in a overall a lack of creative options and makes your units adjust to your items rather than a balance between the two.

I'm not saying the game is too hard, if anything I'm saying the path has been laid out far too clearly as what is the best and after playing 10+ games a day, it's the same teams in top 4. My question is whether at some point we will expand the pool of viable builds before things get stale and repetitive.

7 Comments

2 Weezy Baby7/12/2019, 4:13:27 AM2 votes

yeah it's good. there are many many op builds and you can still lose locket stacking vs another op comp.

iainB857/12/2019, 2:39:02 PM2 votes

The one comment I'd make is at least Riot is very actively making balance changes.

For instance, you mention how strong Sorcerer is right now and on the PBE they have buffed demons so that mana drain is quite an effective counter now.

AlienPrimate7/12/2019, 2:57:19 PM1 votes

Makes thread complaining about Locket.

Says cloak would only be useful to make a Dragon's Claw.

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

BluePittGames7/12/2019, 6:13:43 PM1 votes

I personally think that Item stacking takes any skill out of the game. Items are purely RNG whether you even get them or not and which ones you get. To allow the stacking of items means you allow the luckiest person to win not the most skilled person to win.

skaels7/12/2019, 9:20:41 PM1 votes

If the game is X counters Y and you're playing against 7 people. Without knowing who is likely to make top 4 how do you prepare for any particular comp? There's hardly any item drops post lvl 7. Certainly not enough to stack Dragon's Claw on your units as above poster is suggesting. One Dragon's Claw doesn't counter a 6 sorc +locket + karthus comp. You'll end up with one unit alive. I could see a late transition into demons being a viable option.