With a continuous updated game like League of Legends, Riot's remake, editing the equipment, the outdated champion is essential. At the present time, the Runaan arc is falling into this situation when it has only 1.3% of the purchase rate (statistics from Leagueoofgraphs). This is a sad statistic and shows that Runaan is being “abandoned” by players.
Runaan is extremely low purchase rate (1.3%) in the official server
The Riot Games side certainly knew this so they had moves to upgrade Runaan. It even has been tested in the PBE server and is expected to be applied in the upcoming version 14.5. However, Riot Games's “super bizarre” editing has received a lot of mixed opinions from the League of Legends community.
At the PBE server, the Runaan palace can be purchased by the melee general
Specifically, instead of upgrading the power for the gunner to use, Riot chose the way for melee to buy Runaan. Moreover, they also let the ability to activate the attack effect of this item work with extremely strong features. As a result, some generals suddenly possessed extremely “ridiculous” power when there was Runaan's crazy.
For example, in the case of Master Yi, the above equipment will help this character constantly activate the intrinsic effect and reduce the cooldown of skill Q. This helps Master Yi, although in normal mode but works like playing at the URF mode. This character can constantly use Q skill, defeat the opponent, the ultimate cooldown and repeat the above combo string only with Runaan palace.
Master Yi only needs to use the Q, slash a few attacks on the opponent …
… is the q skill that has ended the cooldown with the Runaan palace
Not stopping there, a series of other melee generals such as Katarina, Illaoi, Pantheon … also have extremely strong interactions with this equipment. This makes the League of Legends community angry because Riot makes an extremely heavy “game break” change. And after only a few days of testing, LoL – Riot Phroxzon Design Team Leader has withdrawn this editing to please the community.
A surprised gamer commented: “I cannot believe that one day I witnessed Braum applying the passive to 3 goals at the same time.”
The League of Legends community also affirmed: “This update has no life to be put into the official server because it is too” troll “to be applied.”
Just a few days after the test, Riot Phroxzon spoke out about this editing: “We will withdraw the change of Runaan and Galio royalties out of the 14.5 version because of some unforeseen issues.”
In the official server, the Runaan palace is in a rather bad state with a very low purchase rate. The reason is because many gunners are not too suitable for using this item. Perhaps Riot should find a way to help Runaan more powerful in the position of the gunner instead of finding the idea of giving it to melee generals and causing League of Legends to imbalance.