League of Legends is replacing a cornerstone rune

Riot Games announced not long ago some of the changes that come from legends during the next pre-season period. Part of those changes included the arrival of a new rune known as first blow , a rune that is inside the tree of inspiration and that seemed to be an evolution of the extinct key of cleptomance. In a more detailed publication on the functions of First Strike and its planned strengths and weaknesses, Riot said that this new Keystone Rune will replace Prototype: Omnistone.

First Strike, for those who missed the initial revelation, grants additional damage to the champions when they are the ones who start combat or retaliate in a short period of time. Your reuse time begins in 25 seconds and is reduced to 15, and its full description (from the moment you came to the PBE) you can see below to better explain what you do.

Damage an enemy champion with an attack or skill before they do it, or within 0.25 seconds of the start of combat, grant 5 gold and first blow for 3 seconds, which makes your attacks or skills inflict a 12 % additional damage against all champions, and granting (100% body to body / 70% remote) of additional damage inflicted as gold , said Riot.

Instead of existing along with other options in the inspiration tree, Riot said that the new Runa First Strike will essentially take the place of Prototype: Omnistone as the latter will be eliminated. The Runa Omnistone is the one that periodically gives the champions the use of a semi-random angular stone rune, which was a good idea, but failed to win a great attraction and did not have priority over other options. Riot alluded to this state in which Omnistone was when explaining why he was eliminating and said that those who wanted KEYstone s variable options often chose spelling book.

While Prototype: Omnistone was a decent option for the champions who really did not love any particular Keystone, over time, most have discovered at least a couple who adapts better to them, Riot said. And for players who want to stop using Keystones completely, the unselably spelling book provides additional access to the invoker spells, allowing users to spend their runes energy budget on a completely different system.

The pre-season period has not yet begun, since we have not begun to see that part of the content reaches the test servers, so for Omnistone s defenders, it still has time to use Keystone Rune. For those who have access to PBE servers to perform tests, they can now try the new First Strike Rune.