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.

  • daswef2B
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m really confused what is supposed to happen to Liandry users in the new season. Caster’s Companion looks terrible and not every Liandry champion will love or even be able to use Malignance, and those champs who wanted the haste are not going to pivot to ROA with no haste.