Buzz
However, the Phong Hoa core can still be chosen if players want to optimize their damage from Ignite. Of course, they still cannot match the popularity compared to last season, with the current appearance rate only at 35.4%.
Echoing Shadow Luden
The Luden's Echo core was very powerful last season, especially when most carries only have single-target damage. However, this Technology Core is currently less used. The main reason for this is that most champions chosen as late-game carries (Yasuo, Xayah, Talon) have strong multi-target damage, and their damage is physical.
Meanwhile, the Echoing Shadow Luden core may help deal a large amount of multi-target magic damage (150/225/300), but it only applies to champions using magic damage. In reality, champions using Ability Power in this season are not too strong, except for the Dragon Gods. Therefore, players often overlook the Luden's Echo core, or only choose the Diamond-level Echoing Shadow core. The selection rates for these three cores are 30.8%/35.7%/33.6%. Among them, the I-level core appears the most (1214 times) and is chosen 374 times.
Path of Solitude
Remember, in seasons 6 and 6.5, the Path of Solitude core was considered a measure of a player's skill and a very powerful core. Each piece without a tribe, with this core, can be seen as gaining a large amount of strength. In addition, this Technology Core also allows players to comfortably build a suitable team without worrying about having synergies or not.
However, in season 7, activating the tribe synergy is crucial to harness the strengths and buffs that the tribe synergy provides. Therefore, the Path of Solitude core is almost 'forgotten.' Except for the super strong 4 and 5-gold champions like Xayah or Yasuo, almost every champion in season 7 needs tribe synergy to truly be effective in combat. Consequently, the Path of Solitude core is also overshadowed, even in lower ranks. All three Path of Solitude cores have appearance rates of only 0.9%/3.7%/4.7% respectively from the beginning of season 7 until now.
