Trinity Force -- The Mutation
I’ve been around for two major changes to Trinity Force changes. One in which they removed AP, and one in which they removed Crit Chance. They stated that these changes were to channel it into an item more useful for the standard niche of champions that used it, but each change removed something from the item, and made it less useful to the majority of champions. What seems strange about this to me is the fact that this is in direct opposition to the original purpose of Trinity Force, which was to be an item that offered a little of everything. Now it offers a little health, a little AD, a little bit of other miscellaneous stats like movement speed, and a lot of attack speed and spell-focused auto damage. I think it’s a better item, but the name no longer sticks. Why is it called Trinity Force? What about it implies 3 forces? I just cannot tell anymore. This item has always been weird, I’ve never liked it except on a small selection of characters (Poppy, Renekton, Jax, and Gangplank in my case) and even then, it sometimes felt really bad to build because of the general lack of synergy among the component items. I often preferred to build one other item, farm up for a while, and straight up buy as much of it as I could in one go. Now it’s a lot cheaper, and more efficient, but the reasons for buying it have decreased.
The strangest part of all, of course, is simply that Riot has never stated that they are changing Trinity Force’s purpose--rather they say they are refining it for the majority of champions that use it. I think Riot may have lost the original intent of the item.
~Aodhfyn