[2022] Riot Phroxzon's opinion on BORK

From Riot Phroxzon's twitter: https://twitter.com/RiotPhroxzon

"Have seen conversations in Western media around BORK. As we've seen Mythics play out, we're more comfortable with non-Mythics being purchased first and have some thoughts on how to move to a better world for future. (Some champs don't have Mythic first purchases that feel good)."

"BORK fills a missing niche in Mythics for squishy AD+AS fighter and it's not a problem if many champs build BORK, (esp if not statistically optimal on a BROAD set of champs you wouldn't expect). Any item has optimal users, it's normal for any item and isn't a reason for nerf."

"Long term, some combination of adding more Mythics for different styles of champions/playstyles, lowering the requirement to always build Mythics first (while still featuring in final build) and moving more non-Mythics into first item space are all viable options moving forward."

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Originally posted by kanated

Wit's End was an issue of being TOO good first item

It's basically the same story for all the items on that list.

Riot has never said they nerfed legendary items because "OMG how dare you not build a Mythic first". It's such a ridiculous thing to even suggest. Especially in a thread about BotRK, which has been built first by several champs ever since Mythics came out.

Everytime there's a comment in this sub saying some variation of "Riot said/did X, but now they're doing the opposite" it's always either misleading or flat out bullshit.

Riot has never said they nerfed legendary items

Just to be clear, this does represent a shift in our approach to Mythic items. (I don't remember offhand everything we've ever said about them, but internally it's a thing we've been changing recently)

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