PLEASE equalize item drop rates

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Hate to break the news but items by end game are typically even...usually within an item or 2 apart.

I find if I get nothing at the start I get 4 items or so from raptors or krugs.

Typically always even out to people getting 6 completed items.

Thanks for the breaking news, but you're not making it to late game if you're not getting items in the first place.

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Hate to break the news but items by end game are typically even...usually within an item or 2 apart.

I find if I get nothing at the start I get 4 items or so from raptors or krugs.

Typically always even out to people getting 6 completed items.

Yea, it evens out in the end but usually you are going to have bad time during early and midgame. You need to waste your eco and invest in rolls/levels while they can just let their items carry them and winstreak their way through early/mid game. Or at least not loose that much HP and play from safety. If it gets paired with bad rolls you might not even get to the raptors which is the round that usually evens it. In meantime you are forced to complete suboptimal items because some items are still better than no items but since you do not have the luxury of multiple item combinations you just make the one that is possible to complete which is usually worse than having a choice what to complete. Also there is the problem that items are pretty vital for most compositions and once you get to wolves or raptors you are usually set in composition you want to play and you might get items that do not really fit. So yea it evens out, but I would always take items earlier as that allows you more choices and easier planning. And even after the raptor round there are big differences in item counts between players. People who did get really bad item RNG are usually not around to actually compare.

RNG becomes really obvious and painfull once you get paired with people who are actually on your skill level. If you play against bad opponents you can still outplay them but once the skill gets relatively even item RNG makes huge difference. Going only with carousel items(or with like1-2 drops) whole game to wolves is basically suicide and best you can hope is to end somewhere around 5th.

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Hate to break the news but items by end game are typically even...usually within an item or 2 apart.

I find if I get nothing at the start I get 4 items or so from raptors or krugs.

Typically always even out to people getting 6 completed items.

Yeah...No. I just got out of a game where I got 2 item drops and was wiped because my opponent had 4 more items then myself. That is 2 combined items. That's a huge difference. I was lucky on my champ drops so I lasted longer but when you don't have items, you don't have items.

If you're 1st place half the game, then you didn't need early items. And actually, late game items would be better for you as you can tailor them to your late game champs better.

Use your gold to build econ, not reroll.

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They fixed not getting anything from the first few rounds, now were here, getting either gold or an item. Improvement.

If they do equalize item drop rates, then people will complain that the RNG on what items you get is too impacting.

I don't think this will ever be solved tbh. I understand wanting it to be fair, but it will never be fair as long as RNG has a role in deciding something as vital as items. This will never be solved.

But it would be more fair. Yes, people would still complain but right now RNG plays too big factor. Even just discarding the stupid gold drops and making one item guaranteed would push it closer to being even as everyone would have at least option to complete 2 items before the PvP rounds. Sure you could still face people who would have more, but it would not be as bad as going with 0 or 1 item against a player with 3+ items. I do not think we need totally equalized drops, but I think the game should be more fair considering the drops. Also this is not just about ladder as on ladder it kind of evens out in the end with hundreds of games played, but if they will want to make some competitive scene the RNG is just too big to have any fair competition as items just give you too big advantage. And now we are getting stupid hextech origin because RIOT thinks it is better to have ,,counterplays" than to have more balanced game.