LOL: The paradoxical change of the next patch with which Riot will end a very hated strategy

When we approach at the end of the competitive season of League of Legends , all the changes that come to the game are made thinking about the Worlds. Riot Games does not hide with respect to this purpose, which sometimes generates some complaints in the community. In the case of this year, there will be the nexttwo patches * those that the developer will almost exclusively dedicate professionals. Updates with great adjustments whose first measures have already been revealed and include a modification of the most interesting that has drawn the most creative facet of the company.

The paradoxical change Al Zhonya that will arrive from patch 12.17

Riot Games will carry out a paradoxical adjustment to Zhonya in the next 12.17 ** patch. When the company wants to reduce the use of an object without modifying its passive, it plays with statistics or the price, so that one variable is maintained and the other receives a small NERF. However, the developer recipe to modify the sand watch is something different. Instead of crushing what is the most popular item of the game, they wanted to restrict their use in a much smartest way and that does not affect the champions based on the power of skill.

Before continuing, let's take a look at the changes...

To explain why this adjustment is an improvement we have to go to the concept of gold efficiency. This term is used to analyze whether objects provide statistics according to their total price. For this, calculations are carried out that determine the exact value of an ability, damage or speed power point. It does not offer an absolute result since passive (impossible to measure) play a very important role to decide for an item. However, yes is the perfect tool for cases like this in which changes only affect the numerical section and not the Zhonya sand watch as a whole.

In this sense, mathematics are clear. Although the object will increase its price by about 400 monetary units, will receive 568 gold in statistics . A shy improvement that still has an additional section. As all League of Legends players know, the inventory is limited to six items. In response to this situation, the fact that objects offer greater advantages is much more positive when the games approach the final minutes, since the sacrifice for having access to the powerful active of Zhonya is less.

The intention of Riot Games with these changes is Limit access to the Zhonya sand watch to the champions in the position of Support or Jungla . Due to the value that the active in the fights has, heroes such as Jarvan or Nautilus were betting on taking the item to increase their survival and have more capacity to avoid enemy skills. An alternative that offered better results than to accumulate life or resistances and that Riot Games was like anything. In this way, increasing statistics makes it more profitable for the heroes of the central lane and much more expensive for the League of Legends champions that only take advantage of their active.

As additional measures to achieve its goal, Riot Games will also modify the stopwatch . The most important ingredient of the object will increase its cost by 100 gold. However, the adjustment that truly changes things in this regard is related to the right moment. Until now, when obtaining the stopwatch through this element we could make the complete purchase of the Zhonya sand watch to 650 cheaper gold units. However, League of Legends developers have worsened considerably this virtue to make the achievement of the item by this route only the final price enrared in 250 currencies.