Riot just made dev: /DEV: 2024 ITEM CHANGES

Major take away from the post was

• “Item Power Budgets” to move power from Item to champions

• “Locked Slots” Where ap mages with mana have to build 1 mana item and due to now end game happen get locked into same 2nd and 3rd item due to “Pattern Binding”

These changes allow for great change to how “Pattern Binding” works but they just address issue about how there are more mana items in Mythic system and don’t provide solution for this.

The mythic system improved this in a few ways for mages by adding some competition among mana items, which meant that not every mage had to have the same first item.

Every mana mage has “Locked Slot” for mana item first. Each of those mana Mages have no choice and these changes has further reduced diversity.

We went from having 5 + 1 Major mana item starts to 3 + 1.

+1 being the tear route which being second item or 3rd for skipping mana item start.

Item	Cost	Best for
Liandry’s Anguish	3200	Great for burn/spam champion
Luden’s Tempest	3200	Great for burst champion
Crown of the Shattered Queen	2800	Great for early game battle mages / Countering assassins
Everfrost	2800	Great for cc focused champion
Rod of Ages	2800	Great for late game scaling battle mages
Archangel’s Staff	3000	(+1 Item to build 2nd/3rd) Great for delaying mana item for different mage item

How did we go from above to this below only options

Item	Cost	Best for
Caster’s Companion	3000	Great burst champion
Malignance	2800	Great for ult focus champion if it works well for them
Rod of Ages	2700	Great for late game scaling battle mages
Archangel’s Staff (+1 Item to build 2nd/3rd)	3000	(+1 Item to build 2nd/3rd) Great for delaying mana item for different mage item

I feel that these changes bring less option to “Locked Slot” and early game played out in champ select instead of on the rift.