User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Black Market Brawlers!/@comment-5588011-20150707203700

To me the new minions are just the icing on the cake.

I feel like they're using this new gamemode as a way to test out new items, and one of the things they're trying to do I think is to remove Grevious Wounds and add alternatives, hence the 3 upgrades to basically Morellinomicon's alternatives. I'm guessing that in the gamemode and perhaps the future your CDR items are basically Athene's and the three books, one for split-pushing, one for extra harass and the other for movement to become more stickier I guess.

I really hope some of the new items become a thing because some of these items do have interesting gameplay to them I think, e.g Dead Man's Plate for Sion, Martyr's Gambit for Braum.

I think that the Murksphere is going to be an alternative support item. (I hope it isn't I'd like to go Talisman and still be able to buy it.)

Staff of Flowing Water seems like the worst item of the bunch to me, probably because it's designed to be a support item due to the low AP and for roamers and the minute I leave my ADC for a second they usually get murdered. Unless you're Bard then perhaps they'll live for longer than a second. (0.5 anyone?) Furthermore by the time you build it, it's after your tier 2 gold item, and sightstone and usually by then everyone's grouping in lanes and going alone is going to kill you.

The thing that stands out to me is that Teleport is now a boot upgrade, this should mean that Junglers might have even more presence and splitpushers who already have strong 1v1 potential can get even more damage, escapes, map presence, etc.