As per Riot Maple on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiotMapleNectar/status/1095159089166921728
Heads up!
We'll be shipping a hotfix tomorrow to address the 0 cs top lane strategy that's emerged in both solo queue and pro play in the past few weeks. We don't take this lightly, as we generally want to support as many unique ways to play League as possible, but the gameplay offered via this strategy asks you to ignore many of the skills learned playing League over the years, provides very little counterplay, and also lends itself to a fairly poor viewing experience at the highest levels of play. We are choosing to act quickly rather than adopt a wait and see approach since the risk to the quality of many games of League is too high should this strategy become optimal/widespread.
These aren't the most elegant changes, but we wanted to prioritize expediency rather than wait on finding the perfect change.
Thanks everyone
The changes:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzLIOh-UUAAa9NO.jpg
Tribute - Spellthief's Item Line
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Now requires an allied champion within 1500u range of the player in order to earn the gold. Procs are still consumed regardless of this
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Gold Per Proc :: 10g / 20g >>> 11g / 22g
Favor - Ancient Coin Item Line
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Now requires an allied champion within 1500u range of the player for gold coins to drop. Drops exclusively mana coins otherwise.
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Gold Per Gold Coin :: 25g / 45g >>> 28g / 50g
