Originally posted by THESuperStuntMan

Buffs to champs that have been languishing? Can't languish harder than Vel'koz so buffs confirmed?

Originally posted by Javonetor

seeing those nerfs on systems makes me think if they have a hotfix to triforce prepared, idk if monitoring will be enough

and the overheal nerfs are weird?, Aphelios is like the only one taking that rune consistently now

Originally posted by Altruistic_Milk

I hope Xerath is one of them. I don't know how he can be made more satisfying without making him more toxic but I look forward to it if so.

Originally posted by WoonStruck

Any chance you can make only the greatest source of lifesteal apply or make it a unique passive so it doesn't have to be tuned on the weak end due to having to consider the possibility of stacking?

I'm sure people would love a universe where the only good time to build lifesteal isn't just if you're stacking or a source is OP/zero opportunity cost.

Originally posted by enflame99

I amnt trying to argue that things should be nerfed when they are out of hand I feel this kind of NERF is silly and sets a dangerous precedent. I legit change my runes every game specing into match up specific runes every game. Now there is an issue were pros are just gonna funnel they carry super hard. But I like rune choice and think it's important. I think it's good that my knowledge of runes nets me LP over say another player using auto runes. I also think runes should beade to be competitive with each other before that change overhead was never picked but now it's a big consideration in that line please don't remove meaningful choice from the game.

Originally posted by SilvertheHedgehoog

Do you think there are possible avenues that can force players to actually think about their rune choices instead of defaulting onto one set for multiple games?

Originally posted by Estrald

Oh cool, so in cases like Nasus, it won’t really affect him? It’s more tuned around ADCs? Was there someone else it was overtuned on, like Draven or something?

Originally posted by ShotoGun

He lost his home in support too. Vel’coz has been abandoned by his most ardent mains.

Originally posted by shinomiya2

so are you gonna revert lethal tempo? buff pta or conq for ranged to make them actually viable choices?

Originally posted by MoonDawg2

Yeah it's most likely that. Idk why they turned the primary lifesteal item into just more damage with some LS tagged onto it.

If BT falls out of meta thornmail will become dominant again like it has done in the past f**k

Originally posted by WoonStruck

Why is everyone suddenly pretending he's allowed to be in the game?

Like this has been standard ever since his release, but a week of him being decent and people forget that he will inevitably get nerfed when he's decent.

Originally posted by shinomiya2

like who? unless youre counting build changes like varus going on hit lethal ap hob or lethality comet, aphelios using all 4 depending on game, who takes lethal tempo as core but should use something else?

Originally posted by MoonDawg2

Fair enough, thanks for the insight phreak it's always appreciated.

As a suggestion, would either upping the LS on shieldbow or somehow moving the 30% atk speed break shieldbow? Atm one item is just plainly better, not just because of stats, but because one has a constantly working passive while the other item only really has its own base stats. LS on BT alone makes it so you can stay in the map for much longer and be safer on teamfights where the isn't a 100-0 threat.

There's also the issue that by the time shieldbow's shield is popped (on the situations it would be better than bt, like a rengar or talon burst) you're honestly more preocupied on running away than fighting, so the atk speed steroid goes to waste by a good amount.

That's the feedback I can give as an adc after I tried it out. Hopefully it helps out

Edit: Kraken is also feeling really good this patch as a situational build. Kraken > IE > ldr/seal item is doing really well on the few adc I've tried it on including lucian.

Originally posted by blublub1243

Can you go into why pro play ADC needs nerfs? The problems with bot lane in pro seems to me moreso that the meta can be somewhat stale, not the overall power of the role (and, tbf, I don't really see a good reason to care about role balance too much as far as the pro play viewing experience goes), and I don't quite understand how making it harder for basically every ADC to survive would actually address that.

Originally posted by KiddoPortinari

Out of game optimization is just not something most players enjoy.

You're wrong, at least you WERE wrong, before the last few years of changes like this drove the majority of thinking players out of the game

Originally posted by Guest_1300

Oh I have a question on lifesteal items. It's pretty noteworthy that both BT and Shieldbow start scaling later into the game, which I assume was intentional. Were there specific reasons you wanted lifesteal on adcs to be less prevalent or nonexistent before 3rd item or so?

Originally posted by Guest_1300

Yeah, I guess that's more or less what I expected. Thanks!