Talk:Doran's Ring/@comment-3310579-20120419175443/@comment-149.169.174.223-20120426190347

Imo someone who has doran start vs boots + 3x hp bots should generally not win the early lane. The 3x hp pots gives the person another 450 effective health over the doran start. Unless you get outplayed those 3x hp pots should let you win early game exchanges, and boots will allow you to take less minion aggro doing those exchanges (as well as potentially dodging skillshots, skill differences are a different matter though).

If you start dorans you should have a totally different playstyle than someoen who goes boots + hp pots. Anyways yeah i agree it was to discourage stacking dorans. triple dorans is the same regen as an AA and while you will have to sell them causing you to lose some gold, they provide enough early game stats to do very well in lane and wait to see what you truly want to build next, whether it be a deathcap for pure damage, or something like rylais/roa for a mix of dmg/hp.

Just my two cents.