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Yeah but back to the thread. Garen is jsut a pain with those 9 pots and yesterday I faced it to an extreme point where Vlad started with 15 pots in lvl 1. That is an indication something is wrong.

But then again Garen suffers late game cause he is just a tank. He is not the strongest character in a teamfight. Some champs like Vladimitr with 9 pots is just crazy. That makes for an unwinnable lane and Vladimir is supposed to be able to lose early. With those 9 pots that will never happen. And then he will come to late game where his strength lies and just wreck your team. This is where my issue lies.

And I happen to play on East :P

I would love if you could. :)

And about the counters. Those champs like Rumble are designed to win lane vs certain matchups and is difficult to win against. Now rumble is good late game and in TFs but that's not the point. Lane bullies usualyl suffer at other areas outside of the lane.

Some champs like Akali and Vladimir are supposed to have bad early games.and be stronger in the late game. That's why you win over them early. 9 pots 2 wards makes their early games too good.

Then again. If you want some sustain you can get the flask or a faerie charm and something else + some pots. it is farily simple to fix.

Yeah exactly what I am trying to tell here. The meta has been stuck and Riot is doing something against it. GG

Yeah I did but if I want Riot to actually see it I need to post it on NA servers :P

I can't post no NA forums since I am not level 5 and not able to post there. :/ So I had to do it somewhere ^^

Well someone had to man. Sorry :/

In this case I am referring to the coming changes to the fortitude potion and the HP pots. I think Riot is taking the game in the right way. Right now we are in a very boring meta, if you ask me, because the solo lanes is all just about sustain. So people get as many health potions as possible to be able to stay the longest in the lane. Those players who acutally then want to buy items or anything else are restricted if the ywanna survive their lane cause otherwise they will only have 3 pots vs about 9. This will probably make you lose your lane (Unless you are Yorick, cause common, that guy got no counters.) and it has created a very restricted sort or environment were not much is happening cause people just play passive and it is generally boring to watch and play against.

Sure you solo laners will go all like: "But Akali and Katarina and other champions are so squishy and bla bla BLA" yeah they are. They always was. Fortitude potion can sure make you survive ignite (Cleanse can too) and it can create some nicew baiting opportunities but it is not fun. The top lane is stale and nothing simply happens. We had the same problem in Season 2 where everybody (Even the support in some cases) bought boots and if you wanted to be on the same edge you had to do the same thing and it created a restricted envrionment, Riot did a good change where they increased base movement speed and implemented machete and boots are still awesome and needed (A league without boots would be fun...) but they are not as needed in level 1 anymore to be able to escape and survive. 

The channe to the potions in this patch is another one of those changes that will be accepted. It is good and Riot wants to lift this restricted environment and open up for plays in the solo lanes. They already changed the flask and that was needed, trust me. So before any solo laners (Or even some AD carries who buy fort pots, STAHP PLZ) starts blaming and saying this is a bad change and solo lane will be more huggin turret and whatever excuses there are. Solo laners you made it before this meta and trust me you will make it after these changes. 

I maybe forgot to adress the fact 1v2 lanes are common and you might need the potions to survive. Well if you ask me I still feel the change is needed. 2v1 lanes will be common for a while and if you wanna make the best out of it just pick champions who is good at farming under turret, for example Zed (Thank you Captain Obvious for pointing this out.) and deal with it. I am simply tired of a league were nothing happens. The first 10 minutes of tournament games are the same. Outer turrets fall and solo lanes play passive and nothing really happens unless a team make some crazy Level 1 battles. I just skip the first 10 minutes to go grab a coffee or something else that is actually needed to be done. Sorry for this long post and lastly I wanna say this:

Thank you Riot for changing a boring meta. I really mean it. Thank you.

TL;DR: The potion changes are good and solo laners should stop bash Riot for this now. Thank you Riot.