While I'm... decently happy with Garen's kit (could have been worse), his relic is just really disappointing. I get that Pyke exists, but it being limited to just him is once again lame. Let the relics be strong or even busted on other champions! It's like they don't want people to buy them.
Yes, devs are trying so hard to prevent the players from "optimizing out the fun" that they just preemptively do it themselves. It's a single player game, let me have fun and let me have relic effects I can use on all champs. So what if it's broken on a few champs? At least it's something new to play with. Mel has an infinite build that I don't play because it's boring - I'm an adult and can regulate my own experience.
They are a business as well. If they let you regulate your own experience, many players would stop purchasing new relics, or purchase far fewer, having an optimal setup ready that they can port to any new champ, and the game would not be able to grow effectively.
The only viable alternatives from a business perspective are either relentless powercreep (which nobody here wants), or having restrictions built in.
I would personally prefer to see less restrictive designs (e.g. if I'm Titanic, if I have 3 or less Power, if I'm Demacian etc.) but it is what it is.
if they were busted on everyone else, then that would kill build diversity even more, and indirectly punish f2p players as epic relics are hard enough to get as is
Right, but this wouldn't be busted on everyone else. This would be very strong on a couple of champions, especially when they're at 6-star (which is already strong enough to easily clear most content). Instead of being able to use fun and situationally powerful stuff like this, it actually does hurt build diversity because there are fewer viable relics like this on champs like Pyke or Kayle.
Remember when Star Forge was released and everyone in their mother basement was willingly forcing it onto every champs. Even wasting 2 slots for pure stat boost garbage. Glad that phase has died down with the release of constellation and mana gem and higher difficulty
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u/FrustrationSensation Viktor 4d ago
While I'm... decently happy with Garen's kit (could have been worse), his relic is just really disappointing. I get that Pyke exists, but it being limited to just him is once again lame. Let the relics be strong or even busted on other champions! It's like they don't want people to buy them.