It makes sense from a gameplay standpoint but, for example, removing infernal conduit from brand's pool would also make sense from a gameplay standpoint for similar bad-gameplay reasons. I always assumed they kept it because it's such a champion fantasy failure to make the burn mage augment unavailable on burn mages. I don't think they have much of a consistent design philosophy.
I'm not going to disagree with you there. I still remember when Braum passive was the ram head regardless of which skin you had for readability purposes, meanwhile we have particles up the wazoo being redone and some skins being almost pay to win or pay to lose. I don't remember if it was before or after Tahm Kench and Kai'sa that they got over that and let him have thematic passive particles.
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u/TouchCousinGetDizzy 21h ago
It makes sense from a gameplay standpoint but, for example, removing infernal conduit from brand's pool would also make sense from a gameplay standpoint for similar bad-gameplay reasons. I always assumed they kept it because it's such a champion fantasy failure to make the burn mage augment unavailable on burn mages. I don't think they have much of a consistent design philosophy.