“This necessitates a rebalancing of power across the board such that it can be acceptable of new items being introduced.”Īnd while that patch may go by without much controversy, not so for a recent dev blog in which Riot soundly rejected player requests for a sandbox test mode in League of Legends, saying that the community should be playing the game and not “grinding” in sandbox mode to learn it. “We’ll be introducing several new defensive items in the 5.16 patch and the existence of these high-powered items create a world where any new item has to be almost equally high-powered to compete,” Riot Games explained. Play League of Legends for freeAn upcoming League of Legends patch will be giving players more options for defense while smoothing out power levels of items across the board.
