The two items has received discount from Riot without any explantion included in Patch 11.6 Note.
Shortly after the release of League Patch 11.6, players have discovered a relatively big issue revolves around Stridebreaker and Goredrinker in League of Legends. The two items have been discounted for 100 Gold each, without any announcement or information about this discount on the Patch 11.6 Note, which made gamers extremely confusing since this can be considered as a direct buff for Bruisers.
“Hi, I’m on NA and I just hopped into practice tool as soon as the new patch dropped and I saw that Goredrinker and Stridebreaker were reduced to 3200 gold in the shop.
Is this intentional? The patch notes mentioned nothing about those items getting buffed, and even though yes Whip got reduced by 100 gold the mythics getting their combined cost reduced by 100 gold was not mentioned anywhere and is actually insanely huge, especially when Stridebreaker was supposed to get nerfed by 266 gold worth of HP.
Can someone verify a) it’s the same for them and b) this is correct or mentioned literally anywhere? I don’t even remember this being on PBE, and it can lead to some pretty game warping scenarios where a Goredrinker top laner can get their completed item before a Sunderer top laner can.”
The community discovered that Goredrinker and Stridebreaker are both cost 3200G.
A representative from Riot Games – Riot Beluga – had quickly admitted this is a fault, since they forgot to increase the cost of both items with the nerf of the Ironspike Whip.
A hot-fix was quickly applied.
Both Stridebreaker and Goredrinker has proven to be the best Mythic Choice for Bruisers at the moment. Despite being nerf, Goredrinker has mantained to be one of the best item for Bruisers that depend on Conqueror and healing mechanic, while Stridebreaker has become the top choices for meta champions such as Gnar, Darius or Garen lately. The 100G cost reduce can make these two items become absolutely broken at the moment, a bug fix from Riot Games is thus, appreciated.
