Now wait, are you talking about Pre-season 1 when pretty much every class went through periods of god mode, followed by league of tanks?
Because if that's the case how about we mention old Zhonya's which was much more powerful than old LW? Why are you stopping with old LW? And why not go like 2 months forward to Season 1 with Omen + sunfire?
If you want ranged ADCs to be similar to goalees how about some confirmation from Riot and a "ranged ADC" slot added to ranked play?
I actually did.
metagolem was a myth, it never existed.
League of GA and league of Warmogs (and the little remembered league of banshee's veil) just shows there will always be one item that has the most overall defenses that everyone will use as their 1 slot defense.
Uh.
trinity is bad because phage is bad now. That's all. Nothing can be changed till riot gets off their high horse and makes phage worth buying again.
Make an item at 1500 gold that builds out of a pickaxe that does 30 damage + 1.5% HP -> AD. Then make that and a long sword + chain vest build in to another item at 3000 gold that does 40 damage, 45 armor, and 2% HP -> AD.
not really.
current BotRK obliterates 1v1. You can not beat BotRK 1v1.
The changed version (And it will be nerfed mind you, it's broken tier on PBE, straight near autowin tier) is actually worse for bruisers and better for ADCs.
Near the end of S2 top laners, M5 notably, stopped building anything that wasn't defensive on any of their top laners. Sunfire/warmogs Xin, Olaf, Darius, etc. At the end of season 2 and starting to pick up speed in S3 people noted that this was the best way to play the characters.
Your incorrect assumptions are exactly as I just labeled them.
people can agree with me without fully understanding me. Exactly what you're doing.
There's this trend out there that "you either build full damage or full defense no exception" that has arisen because of ... well incorrect assumptions. MOBA games actually typically REQUIRE you to build a defensive item by your second item or you'll get crushed. Many AGILITY heroes in DotA will buy poor man's shield or vanguard just to augment their survivability, yet are carries. In WoW it's expected for priests to stack on survivability. In PoE every character needs defense. So why is it LoL players assume NO DEFENSE FOR OFFENSIVE PEOPLE?