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Very right opinion here: Blade of the Ruined King should be turned into a mythic item. It is more build/playstyle defining than a lot of mythic items and making it actually a mythic item would prevent a lot of BorK abuse. You could even tie some of the hp dmg into the mythical stats. But yeah, BorK is currently the worst designed item since mythic items

It feels weird for the video to not be a premiere but I'm not complaining lol

this aged well

I actually REALLY love the boot enchantment system they use in Wild Rift, I wish it was implemented in league, it feels immensely more satisfying than our current boot system.

Loved the idea of boots taking half the stats of a legendary item. Maybe another option for this would be for your boots to merge with your mythic item when both are built? Therefore this could open a 6th slot for people in really long games? Cool format Vars!

The Boot system thing could be merged with the Mythic item stat rework, put the mythic stat increases on the boot upgrades, every champ buys upgraded boots anyway. Might be a food for thought idea to consider instead of putting those stats on the rune page.

My hot take is that the majority of the new Champions are too safe. They are always too good and "flawless" gameplay wise and this makes Champions who actually has some flaws feel extremelly bad. It is for this reason that i liked k'sante. He has its flaws and people need to actually learn I don't know If this is the ideal way to say what i wanted. This just for the sake of not making a huge comment

Y'know, hearing the grievous wounds idea reminded me of my own, where I believe that ignite (and only ignite) should have 60% grievous wounds, because there's no incentive to bring it for anything other than damage rn, if you face a healing opponent, ignite feels like it barely cuts healing anymore (same as all grievous wounds), but if it was at 60% again, it'd be worth as an anti-heal option, and not just a damage option

On that second one, I really just wish they'd give more options for supports. The thing about every other role, is, while you may run into the question of compatibility when selecting your items, you never have to worry about the gold shortage even when you're playing well. Supports are essentially gated to a select few items that are intentionally balanced and priced around their limited budget. While this is understandable, I feel they could stand to at *least* provide more options to a support since they don't have the benefit from the freedom of budget other roles do. On your point of preferring that the gameplay focuses on a champion rather than items, the thing about supports is that they're the primary supplement to non-champion-dependent playing, like macro and vision control. I've been an advocate for having more vision control items like Umbral Glaive, but for non-AD supports, like a tank one that makes your wards sturdier and an enchanter one that increases your placement range, or items that can place a special ward as an active that provides buffed zones kinda like the Cloud Drake field.

I don't hate mythics, I understand that to have one items that does nice things you need to give it limitations, but at the same time, as a casual gamer, I do feel it limits even if just a bit the build options you can do (since first item must be mythic or you'll fall behind easily)

I'd love for this kind of videos to become a series

I think this video format is simply great, it's just varied food for thought. exciting because it can be unpredictable on what you will talk about. it's like watching multiple small videos in 1 video. my biggest issue with watching any of your videos is that, when I'm half-way, everything just becomes a broken record, a lot is explained before moving on to a next point. Here because each point has X allocated time, you can't just re-iterate over and over as much over the already established concepts

The should make a tank item that knocks down/grounds enemies for a short time. There's so many dashes in this game that it's hard to shutdown threats if they all has 4 dashes

I just found this channel when a random Sett video caught my eye, then out of nowhere I’m getting a comparison using Pokémon typing charts. Hooked!

To the question, YES

With the boots thing, I think at lvl 18 or at full build it should be like smite and dissipate from the item slot but keep the stats or give boots it’s own item slot the don’t take up one of the main slots like wards

I had to rewatch a portion of the video because I was just vibin' with the Mystery Dungeon theme in the background.

Seeing that LB and Olaf bicker in the bottom left mildly bothered me in a way I didn't know was possible

Oh shit even riot agrees with you now

As somebody who just started playing after the item shuffle in season 11 it made learning the game at least somewhat easier

I think boots should have their own slot where only boots can be kept. It would also be nice to have a second trinket slot but u could also put pink wards in it. Coz as u said late game it become such pain to have to lose movement speed for an extra item or just miss out on so many stats. Also as a support player its annoying to not be able to carry pink wards when my item slots are full

Hey I really liked the video!! I also liked the e podcast, I’m super tired and listening to your voice and just chilling while lying down and getting ready to sleep was so nice. Even if you don’t see this, I really appreciate what you did with this video!!! And if you never do a video like this again, that’s fine, I liked this one a lot!!

I like the ideea of making a live where you talk about hot takes because the viewers can also hace a say and maybe bring new light to a subject

Was just thinking about banner of command after you brought it up, and I had an idea. Banner of command was really cool as a concept, but it got out of control when everyone started building it. What if more lanes had lane-specific items they could build? Like how really only top ever builds hull-breaker combined with how only jungle can build the knives and only supports build their money making items. Give each lane a small handful of items geared specifically to the role of the lane rather than the role of the champion, with different items simply leaning into a champions preference. Banner of command could be a good toplane item for passively pushing lane objectives, while hullbreaker could be turned into one of these items for more active lane pushing. Midlaners could get an item that gives out of combat movespeed to help with roaming for mid assassins and short range mages, or maybe something like horizon focus to help long range mages. It'd be a way to add some of the cool items without breaking the game from more than one person building it.

I honestly would love a solo podcast talking about stuff on league for Vars and Smash bros for Vars III. If the idea is there im looking foward to it

I actually enjoy these type of videos ^-^ Would like to see more of these

Loved the video, excited to see a part 2

Please do more of these! I love them

Props for playing the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon music in the background lol

I would love if there was a separate itemslot for wards so you didnt have to choose between vision wards and items in the lategame

Grievous Wounds should stack with Diminish Returns. And i think the perfect Sweetspot would be: Everybody of the Item Choices with them Grant 20% Grievous wounds, but the first successive Wound of another Champion increases it to 35 (15%). The second one to 45 (10%) and the 4th to 50 (5%). So its a streamlined way, without making Heal Champion useless, but still emphasizing the importanty of any Team Member!

The combination of boots with an item already exists in Wild Rift,the mobile lol(Although the items are not purchasable by themselves, they are unique boot “enchantments functioning as an extra item (zhonya is a boot enchantment over there😢)). The thing is that it is sooo good, i would like it if they implemented same thing into pc lol.

10:55 i legit got so satisfied by the olaf q so i couldnt focus on what vars were saying

Super good video. Love this format and content 💪

Would love to have a longer video/stream vid to put on in the background while I work or cook

Not to take away from the actual discussion of the video but is that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon menu music in the background? Superb Taste Vars, absolutely splendid

I'm kinda glad this video is not a premiere, this way youtube did notify me instead of just recomending me randomly if I wanted the notification or not :^V

As a player who returned to league after many years (like season 1), I played just enough to get into the old items before the mythic update. It annoyed me a lot that I had to learn all the items again, but I eventually did, like everyone else. IMO the game is A LOT more interesting with the new items than the old ones, and I'm not sure I'd have continued playing if it wasn't for the item rework.

They talked about that grievous wounds idea on Sneaky’s trip queue, I wonder if they got that hot take from them without realizing it

Is that Pokemon Mistery Dungeon i hear in the background? Love it.

love the mystery dungeon music:) great video

man, you don't need to apologize so much... your content is really good as you do it!! please, just keep doing as you feel it's a good material about the mythic items topic: i think it was an ok addition to the game, and even if most of the games it feels (and usually is) the best first purchase, as a matter of fact, i never felt like an obligation to build it first

I feel like mythic items are mostly fine; the only ones I have problems with are the marksman mythics, since they feel too. Same-y. I wish that they made them around the different kinds of "Marksmen items", like if one was an Energized effect, one was an on-hit item, and one was true critical strike (Kraken Slayer actually kind of does fit with that, since it's an on-hit item, which. Actually kind of makes it a bit more egregious that they didn't do that). As it is now, Energized items might as well not exist anymore- I wish we had an Energized mythic to make them feel worthwhile; maybe even a third item like Infinity Edge or Rageblade that converted critical strike chance to Energized strength, similar to old pre-slow Stormrazor? That's the only item set I have actual big problems with.

Very entertaining please a part 2!

I could see boots being made similar to jungle items where after maybe level 16 or some other late game condition their stats get "absorbed' into the champion freeing up the slot for a 6th item.

League should adopt a few changes present in Wild Rift. Teemo changes and Howling Abyss changes come to mind immediately along with the perspective shift so everyone is playing on “blue” side no matter what team they’re on due to just flipping the map. Maybe make that a toggle based on preference like camera lock

My hot take is that I think S5-S6 slow, tanky meta was the best. I like being a big meatball and having wet noodle fights where you get many rotations of your spells and weaving autos and all that. The slower game at the time (think proplay) with vision being key and big macro concepts I enjoyed the high-level strategy of, and seeing gameplay that I would never otherwise experience with teamplay.

ty for showing what tear item you were building, suspense was killing me lol

Is that a PKMN mystery dungeon piano ost? Cant find the track on yt, but it is incredible a really good fit~

That piano rendition of pokémon explorer was very welcome

As a solution to the boots. Give them a minor mythic type boost when at least three slots are filled. So like a haste increase of 2 per filled item slot. Note I didn't say completed item because doing it this way would keep them relevant throughout and would differentiate them from mythic items.

Hey Vars, interesting video! Always curious to hear what you have to say. My hot take is that LoL needs different maps. Not other game modes like 3v3 or Dominion, that clearly didn't work out, but just 5v5 maps with different objectives, layouts etc. That would be sth to keep the game fresh and interesting.

I agree on the grevious wound i had a match where i build it early and had ignite but the soraka was able to outheal my damage with ignite and morello on the adc

The boot enchantment should be back and they should be consider as a legendary item once completed. They should only be purchasable at level 13 for example. I also like the idea that it should fused with a mythic item and that way we have our "7th" item choice

Interesting idea with fusion! What if your boots infused with mythic item after 16 level or something like that and then mythic item upgrades all by itself like with Orn passive.

For Grevious Wounds, I think taking a page out of Dota's book and making different modifiers multiplicative wouldbe the best way to go about it. For example, if you get hit by a 40% GR and a 20% GR, your total healing is now 1x(1-0.4)x(1-0.2) = 0.48 = 48%, so there is a noticeable but not champion-destroying increase of antiheal. That way, stacking grevious becomes a viable but not as-scalinh of a tactic against super healing champions, and makes it properly situational. Great video overall! Would love to see more of this style of video in the future.

I like that format! It feels like a fun discussion. Dunno if it's much of a hot take, but I do wanna share it: I think we need League of Legends 2 at this point. A successor of League, with updated engine, visuals and large amount of current issues addressed. It would really shake things up and make room for adding completely new mechanics, like multiple units control for summoner type champions for example, or a client re-build. Wild Rift is notorious for looking better than League on PC, so that would be an opportunity to address that as well. As a former Dota, and then Dota 2 player I think it could work miracles for the League too

They could do what wild rift did with boots. Give them an extra effect like qss or stopwatch on top of any boot type.

I got one. What is your thoughts on boots having their own item slot like recall and stealth wards/ oracle lense.

On the thought of boots combining with items in some way; what if boots could combine with warding item nobody gets or the trinket slot, that way late-game you have the extra slot, but aren't rendered immobile (like Cass). Perhaps the mobility is an important tradeoff for balance, but if they went with the vision slot idea, trinkets are already locked to levels, so it wouldn't require revamping the idea of a trinket.

Make boots enchantment give the mythic item passive stats. Just a spit balled idea, so item choices get freed up, and that the passive can be chosen on a case by case basis instead of being forced by the item (maybe giving a few unique enchantment choices to each boot type, as to better ballance a bit easier.)

I think mythic items would be much cooler if they made them scale better off the mythic bonus, but not work nearly as well as a first item. I think that exact thing is going to happen with tank mythics(besides the health one), and I can't wait.

I miss being able to build whatever I want first, and being able to build multiples of items. Mythics feel kind of limiting and you're sorta forced to go them first unless you're a specific champion

Ngl, that hybrid thing in the ad looks actually interesting, might give it a go

I've been saying for years that heal cut should be a stat like lethality or ability haste. Some items offer more some less and it stacks. I think that would open up some more items diversity while also making healing cut a team factor.

Really enjoyed this! Hope you do a part 2 so I'll leave my hot take: I really like having balance nightmares in the game. Not only does it drive up discussion about the game, I think centralizing around a few champions every so often can be very dynamic. It makes for great stories, counter metas can arise, etc. Kassadin being 97% ban rate makes for quite the moment in league history! I just wouldn't want it to last too long or be really easy to pilot, kinda like bayo/cloud in smash 4. Sometimes that's even okay depending on the level of play, like how Garen and Morde completely destroy everybody until you get a little higher skill. Learning how to get past those characters is a huge gateway as a player and I think that's great.

To expand on the component slot idea, could there not be a 7th Component only slot. So even at full build you can bump your stats more. You wouldn't be able to build a full item in the Component slot.

What about making boot enchantments serve as a way to get supplemental effects, such as grievous wounds? That would allow players to get those effects without having their entire item area being dedicated to components

Hot take: I miss hybrid items. I know, hybrid scaling and whatnot is a balancing nightmare, but I really just love having more options for champions with some out of place AD or AP scaling without having to build an actually useless item for it Also a side note, I wish Adaptive Force could be chosen which stat it applies to and not which one you have more of, especially since AP has bigger numbers than AD

I really enjoy these hit take videos

i think the boots should be like the pets for jungle and somehow you can upgrade them for late game, a lot of times when i have 5 items and like 3k gold i just sell them for a 6th but some champs really need them so this change would be really good

Imagine giving Boots their own unique dashes. Berserker's Greaves lets you immediately dash back and gain attack speed. Merc Treads dashes in any direction you want and can be used while CC'd (Not a cleanse, just a reposition mid-root like finishing dashes on other champs.) Swifties could go further and over walls. etc.

Idea... Move the Mythic passive to a boot enchatment. And for the last item slot, they could make a "Provisional slot" so you can buy part of an item, but that would be "closed" after the sixth item is complete

Got one hot take: we need melee/range only items, like murama, both hyrda items, dd, and sheen items from meele, and things like immortal sheildbow, phantom dancer, and rapid-fire cannon for range)

17:00 interesting idea but imo they'd have to buff cassio late game in return in some form then

Adaptive Damage is a really cool mechanic, I wish we could actually use it in the game on item.

Do a video on how you would rework a champion like Tryndamere for an example or any other one-dimensional champ.

i guess this is my 'hot take': ever since i started playing wild rift a bit, one thing i noticed immediately is that kraken slayer is its own rune page in wild rift, which i think is honestly genius.. PTA is in there too, but for league, it honestly might be a good idea to just straight up replace PTA with the kraken slayer rune page and get rid of kraken slayer as an item. i think that having it as a rune page is more beneficial for a lot of ADC's.. it could be a good second option for ADC's who usually go lethal (zeri, xayah, etc..) or could just be another good option for other ADC's, i know that kindred would benefit a LOT from having kraken as a rune page (i personally dont like the precision keys on them besides conq, lethal is fine imo but you almost ALWAYS rush kraken on them so..) but, a lot of champs do use PTA usually (renekton i think, warwick (ik he uses lethal too), ezreal does too i think, etc..) so maybe fleet footwork could be replaced instead (i dont think enough champs use it to keep it tbh.. most champs that do have a viable 2nd option aswell..)? or they could just add it as a 5th rune key, who knows. although, the precision tree already has 4 rune keys, more than all the other rune pages so i think having a 5th is too many for just one tree. still though, i think its an AMAZING idea to have as a rune page instead of it being an item, for a lot of ADC's or just AD champs in general it could be a good dmg buff early and would probably fall off late as to not be too overpowered, but idk.. feel free to reply to this w ur thoughts :)

side note on the subject of boot enhancements. I feel like it could be elaborated on more but: I wish some of the more important secondary effects of boots (like the tenacity from merc treads) could be boot enhancements instead. if the enemy team has a full AD team but TONS of CC...well I'd love to get cc reduction without needing to build useless MR.

As Support Main I would love to get an extra itemslot for Pink Wards... Yeah there is the Sighstone, but this doesn't change the effect that I have to build a Warditem.

I enjoyed this type of video and I want you to make another one

Interesting take would be to give boots their own slot and shake up the T2 boots a bit. Throw some kind of T3 upgrade on top of it, giving some stat boost, like, say HP or mana (or AP/AD) or something between rune effects and old enchantments (akin to the stuff they are doing right now with the jungle item, have an effect for each champion class). They truly are as you say outdated, people just build either lucidity for haste or mercs/steelcaps for the defense, which is kinda stale. Who knows, maybe next preseason.

yea, insted of a usless B icon on the inventory, that B could be the boots slot, and then 6 other itens adn +1 gold per minions (or +2 or something)

My take in boots is the following: Make the (upgraded) boots become a permanent passive in your champion after 20 minutes, like the junglers item does after using the smite a few times, so it frees another item slot for late game. This would also somewhat fix the issues that arise from the change of 25% crit to 20% on Adc items, as having 25% opened up a slot for survival items besides the carry ones, allowing some builds that currently only have 80% crit, such as Zeri's with shieldbow and titanic hydra, etc.

My hot take is that the map needs to be reworked in some extend every season. Im not talking about big changes like the from the old map to the one we have now. But there should be something to keep the game fresh. Maybe swap dragon and baron positions so top matters more, change the camps, add one more turret in each lane but make them squishier, create a double jungle meta and crazy things like that (not all at once, just some examples) . Make the players interested to relearn the game, everyone has been playing in autopilot mode for years thinking they know everything because even the biggest changes dont change the game too much.

I think the easiest solution to the last two takes is to combine them, put boots into the trinket slot, and have the "enchantment" be the old trinket system. Maybe you could add a cost to this to move the boots into the trinket slot, say 1000 gold, so that you don't want to do it right away, but when you're getting towards full build you have the option to spend that gold to unlock that item slot.

I don't like the fact that Mythic Items just lock you into building the same way for every game with maybe one item change depending on match up, I miss having a wider build options for risky off meta builds that work. But my biggest gripe is that Tank items feel lack luster due to how much damage and damage type in the game that makes most of their stats useless and the fact Riot also buffing these items to make you into a health assassin with massive damage out put. I believe that Tanks should be able to survive at least a solid QWER rotation in a team fight from about everyone dealing a very slow burn damage to everyone through out the fight. Lately I been seeing Tanks as a walking med pack for anyone with lifesteal or just one rotation of QWER someone to death due to the insane amount of damage Riot has in their game trying make games last less than 20 minutes.

I really would like to see content like this again. so dropping a content

funny enough some of these like the extra item slots and boot enchanments are in wild rift, they are nice, but idk since rift is still in very early days compared to its PC counter part

10:00 Don't think I didn't hear that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.

As a new player to LoL, I would like to have a more streamline/simplified version of the class/role system (and more lore for Fiddlesticks/Shaco)

this was great pls do more :)

I enjoyed the video please do more videos like these 👍

i miss playing brand , zyra with ludens and liandrys combo :(

i just miss it when i could build both luden and liandry

I feel like boots ought to be something similar to a trinket. Once they're built, they don't take the slot from everything else. You could also have support item vanish similar to JG item... or have both support and JG items persist in a role-item slot, and allow other Laners to have an item that helps to individualize their role. I know there's cull and whatnot, but you could have lane items that complete a quest. Even if it's taking out a tower, or whatnot. I know that's snowbally and weird but it might be interesting nonetheless.

make the boots something like the support item quest with 3 tiers and give them a mini flash in tier 2 and in tier 3 a flash with slightly more range

I love you typing "then just win lol" in the chat at the start of the game... gave me a good laugh :)

Vars i really want you to do a video about crit adc marksmen to how they are less stronger than they were before and how the crit changes from the season 11 (mythic season) caused their decrease in power and presence