i played about 5 games in this season. i’d say the boots are overhyped. i tried super hard to get them every game but the fact that you can only buy them after two legendary items and that their effects arent as great (at least the ones i build), makes them good imo. it adds ton of excitement and fun to the early game, trying to get that first turret for example. it encourages the laners to roam for epic monsters. and the bonus the shoes provides is not really a snowball. they are too weak and too expensive to snowball. i personally rather bought a third item component than shoes when they became aviable. for late late game i hope they will help close games then.
It depends on which ones you get, I’d say the swifties, tabi and merc threads are pretty good to upgrade. The others are decent but nothing too special. If you build attack speeds boots then you basically get access to a cheaper version of Zephyr, which was removed.
In my experience so far, it’s led to a lot more snowballing in games. I’ve played 10 (ranked) games so far and out of those 10 only 2 of them lasted past 30 minutes, the team that won the battle of the boots won 9/10 games and I’ve seen a lot of raging, flaming and quitting already. Overall it’s not been great. But hey, I guess it shakes up the meta. Welcome back early game stomp champions… Looking forward to seeing Draven ADC every game.
im gonna give a hot take here: the flaming team (almost) always looses. i dont think its the boots beeing such a power boost, i think the fact you lost so much originates in people beeing mad about not haveing them. imo, i could 1v1 and teamfight well against upgreated boots. and i play singed who is heavily reliant on ms.
I am not willing to die on this hill. Maybe the boots are op, but i really dont feel that.
I don’t think the boots are OP (well, most of them at least) but swifties, merc threads and tabis do get pretty nice upgrades. You’re probably right but I personally don’t understand Riots design choice here. Why go for a mechanic that’s going to lead to so much toxicity and throwing after cracking down on those things so hard with other stuff (the mute options, default disabled all chat, quick bans, etc.). They’ve even stated that they wanted to reduce snowballing before and this is the exact opposite of that.
I can’t imagine playing a jungle now, they already had a lot of responsibility before and it’s only gotten more intense. I saw people rage quitting over their jungler missing smite, insane.
I can’t imagine playing a jungle now, they already had a lot of responsibility before and it’s only gotten more intense. I saw people rage quitting over their jungler missing smite, insane.
I’m starting jungling now, this will definitely be a challenge. Will probably post my progress
i played about 5 games in this season. i’d say the boots are overhyped. i tried super hard to get them every game but the fact that you can only buy them after two legendary items and that their effects arent as great (at least the ones i build), makes them good imo. it adds ton of excitement and fun to the early game, trying to get that first turret for example. it encourages the laners to roam for epic monsters. and the bonus the shoes provides is not really a snowball. they are too weak and too expensive to snowball. i personally rather bought a third item component than shoes when they became aviable. for late late game i hope they will help close games then.
It depends on which ones you get, I’d say the swifties, tabi and merc threads are pretty good to upgrade. The others are decent but nothing too special. If you build attack speeds boots then you basically get access to a cheaper version of Zephyr, which was removed.
In my experience so far, it’s led to a lot more snowballing in games. I’ve played 10 (ranked) games so far and out of those 10 only 2 of them lasted past 30 minutes, the team that won the battle of the boots won 9/10 games and I’ve seen a lot of raging, flaming and quitting already. Overall it’s not been great. But hey, I guess it shakes up the meta. Welcome back early game stomp champions… Looking forward to seeing Draven ADC every game.
im gonna give a hot take here: the flaming team (almost) always looses. i dont think its the boots beeing such a power boost, i think the fact you lost so much originates in people beeing mad about not haveing them. imo, i could 1v1 and teamfight well against upgreated boots. and i play singed who is heavily reliant on ms.
I am not willing to die on this hill. Maybe the boots are op, but i really dont feel that.
I don’t think the boots are OP (well, most of them at least) but swifties, merc threads and tabis do get pretty nice upgrades. You’re probably right but I personally don’t understand Riots design choice here. Why go for a mechanic that’s going to lead to so much toxicity and throwing after cracking down on those things so hard with other stuff (the mute options, default disabled all chat, quick bans, etc.). They’ve even stated that they wanted to reduce snowballing before and this is the exact opposite of that.
I can’t imagine playing a jungle now, they already had a lot of responsibility before and it’s only gotten more intense. I saw people rage quitting over their jungler missing smite, insane.
I’m starting jungling now, this will definitely be a challenge. Will probably post my progress
Interesting, thanks for sharing!