a lot of repetition this patch... here's why
so hear me out: Spat in carousel allowed for certain occurrences which are no longer as likely, if at all. Namely the ability to comeback from a rough start. As it stands right now, the best way to approach the game is to try to get early woodlands or maybe some early synergy off your two-stars, or preds, winstreak into first carousel, pick whatver- and go for the insane lategame comps that generally don't need spat. Posion/Crystal Rangers is OP af, this is probably the best comp to try to get, followed by Ocean Mages (although the first tends to beat the latter). Neither of these comps is truly reliant on spats. There are 6 rangers to choose from, u can audible to inferno version, or glacial version, and u really dont need to worry about people competing for the same comp, cuz by the time your bombs show up, people are either RIP or are on to something else. This is a generalization ofc, but the point is, you rarely have to compete in the same way that ocean mages might have to compete, cuz you are selling off your early game stuff with Rangers. Okay so then u have Ocean mages, some games there are like 5 or 6 people on it, once they die, one or two people get their pieces and hopefully aren't too far behind to pull out a win or two (or u roll for them, but big oof if u waste ur gold with this comp). Everyone is going for tear, but rangers is okay with just about any items, thats another reason they are good af, they can use swords, bows, whatever lol- mages pretty much need tears, rods, and maybe cloaks/belts. Then there's stuff like light- its pretty good, but if you cant get that yorick with a few items ur f'd, and there is just more reliable comps to play imo. Still nutty light builds can pull wins, just not nearly as well as before when u could rely on spat to make lucian good. Glacial, meh lol - warwick isnt great and u really want spat to make a berserker glacial too so u can try to get zed on there or some other bomb lategame, they just dont have any bombs, especially considering Singed is basically a free Olaf ult right off the bat. Blademaster is dead. Yasuo carry is good, but ur not putting azir out there, or (insert back in my day joke here, lol) nocturne. And the thing about yasuo carry is that he can get shut down pretty easily with certain items. He is weak to cc and there's plenty of it. OR he just can't kill crystal stuff... still he's a dream killer, just not really a good overall comp imo. I might be missing something, but to me its clear, that the removal of spat from carousel has really limited a lot of the niche builds that were keeping the meta less stagnant. Currently its mages vs rangers almost every game, and thats no bueno. WE DONT LIKE RNG!! lol, at least not that much of it... maybe people do? It seems like there would be less RNG involved because there is no random spat showing up but without people being able to build those niche comps, certain comps will rise to the top and everyone will just naturally play those, and as a result, better rng wins :/ I honestly didn't think removing spat from the carousel would make that much of a difference, but i can't see any other reason why the meta has devolved into the same two comps showing up EVERY SINGLE GAME xD Thanks for reading, glhf