i played about 5 games in this season. i’d say the boots are overhyped. i tried super hard to get them every game but the fact that you can only buy them after two legendary items and that their effects arent as great (at least the ones i build), makes them good imo. it adds ton of excitement and fun to the early game, trying to get that first turret for example. it encourages the laners to roam for epic monsters. and the bonus the shoes provides is not really a snowball. they are too weak and too expensive to snowball. i personally rather bought a third item component than shoes when they became aviable. for late late game i hope they will help close games then.
It depends on which ones you get, I’d say the swifties, tabi and merc threads are pretty good to upgrade. The others are decent but nothing too special. If you build attack speeds boots then you basically get access to a cheaper version of Zephyr, which was removed.
In my experience so far, it’s led to a lot more snowballing in games. I’ve played 10 (ranked) games so far and out of those 10 only 2 of them lasted past 30 minutes, the team that won the battle of the boots won 9/10 games and I’ve seen a lot of raging, flaming and quitting already. Overall it’s not been great. But hey, I guess it shakes up the meta. Welcome back early game stomp champions… Looking forward to seeing Draven ADC every game.
i played about 5 games in this season. i’d say the boots are overhyped. i tried super hard to get them every game but the fact that you can only buy them after two legendary items and that their effects arent as great (at least the ones i build), makes them good imo. it adds ton of excitement and fun to the early game, trying to get that first turret for example. it encourages the laners to roam for epic monsters. and the bonus the shoes provides is not really a snowball. they are too weak and too expensive to snowball. i personally rather bought a third item component than shoes when they became aviable. for late late game i hope they will help close games then.
It depends on which ones you get, I’d say the swifties, tabi and merc threads are pretty good to upgrade. The others are decent but nothing too special. If you build attack speeds boots then you basically get access to a cheaper version of Zephyr, which was removed.
In my experience so far, it’s led to a lot more snowballing in games. I’ve played 10 (ranked) games so far and out of those 10 only 2 of them lasted past 30 minutes, the team that won the battle of the boots won 9/10 games and I’ve seen a lot of raging, flaming and quitting already. Overall it’s not been great. But hey, I guess it shakes up the meta. Welcome back early game stomp champions… Looking forward to seeing Draven ADC every game.
Interesting, thanks for sharing!