In League of Legends, season 14 has heralded a seismic shift in the meta, marked by extensive changes to items, maps, and jungle dynamics. Among the notable modifications, support items underwent a comprehensive change, streamlining the starter item selection to the World Atlas.
This effects from previous support items promised to redefine the role gameplay, allowing for shared gold acquisition through minion executions and champion engagements.
However, Season 14 brought about unintended consequences with the introduction of World Atlas. Players quickly discovered the potential for exploiting 2 support items, triggering an exorbitant surge in gold generation.
Major Support penalty after Patch 14.2 changes
In response with Patch 14.2, Riot Games implement rule to mitigate the impact by reducing minion gold for all users of the support item, World Atlas. While this adjustment curbed the prevalence of double support items, it inadvertently birthed a new penalty: the potential for players to sabotage their own team.
Patch 14.2 change enabled players to wield the reduced gold rule against their own teammates, leveraging the item’s mechanics to impede their gold accumulation.
This newfound capability for malicious gameplay introduced a new way of trolling, allowing players to wield the item as a weapon against their teams.
Even if the player relinquishes the item, the repercussions persist, as they remain deprived of minion gold for the duration of the match, effectively stymieing their income and impeding their ability to contribute effectively.
As the community grapples with the ramifications of this unforeseen, Riot Games finds itself confronted with the urgent of addressing the systemic issues inherent in World Atlas.
While the company has yet to outline concrete plans for resolution, the possibility of future patches heralds the potential for corrective measures to rectify the impact of this contentious item.