Recently with the changes to the items, I've noticed a MASSIVE snowball rate. Any champion that previously snowballed well (Ieblanc, Brand, Darius, Ezreal), now snowball even harder. It's literally damn near close to impossible to counterbuild. With the loss of FoN, the INCREASE in the costs of armor/MR and the DECREASE of costs of damage items, games are now impossible to come back from. I've played quite a few games with this preseason, so I'm familiar with the changes enough. I've played so much before this preseason to note that those champs that were bull**** to deal with already(Darius) are now just impossible to counter. Certain items are really helping with this. 1. Sword of the Divine, that active ability is completely ridiculous. I was against a vayne, and she was able to do 4k damage in 1.7 seconds alone. 2. Black cleaver is becoming a replacement for the frozen mallet. You no longer even need to build tanky. Just build pure damage and AS and you're gaining health from it too. 3. You think jungles are deciding lanes too early? Nope. It's the 40 BASE ability power and 32 BASE bonus attack damage people are stacking from runes. You're effectively taking off 3-4 hits of an ability or an autoattack to kill someone. Not to mention with the increased difficulty of building tanky. Instead of making a jungle decide a lane, you made 1 kill decide a lane. The snowball only rolls out of control from there. The balance of this game is completely upside down now. You're ruined everything you've created in the last season. It's all gone. Congratulations.
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