What happened to the Bounty gold icon beside the health-bar?

Omnydragon·Feb 11, 2018·3 votes·2,329 views

After the visual update to the health bars everyone seems to have forgotten about them and I haven't seen a reason given by riot or explanation anywhere.

5 Comments

Beached ManateeFeb 11, 20182 votes

I remember seeing a red response about them and basically it was something along the lines of "No one asked for them and we replaced them with something better" That is, they figured if people would go for the kill, the bounty icon had nothing to do with the decision and the state icons that replaced it were much more influential to gameplay

OmnydragonFeb 11, 20182 votes

I see, that does make sense (I do kind of miss them tho) you wouldn't happen to have the link to that comment would you?

Beached ManateeFeb 11, 20181 votes

It was on Ask Riot:

I have a question regarding hp bars. I quite enjoy the new style and accessibility of information they provide. However, I really miss the killing-spree badges near the hp bar. Are they coming back?

Per Rayven

Hi, glad you like the update. The Tl;Dr answer to your question is no, at least not in game space. We felt the bounty display was not providing enough tactical value to warrant its high visibility, so we repurposed that spot to deliver more widely-relevant targeting info like defensive windows and timely state changes.

The bounty display was originally intended to add another decision-layer to target selection as well as expose new players to the concept of shutdowns and gold sharing. What we found was that in most cases, if a player was able to kill a target, they would regardless of their bounty status.

Put another way: You’re Rengar and you spot some squishies grabbing blue. You ult and pop whichever champ is closer, smite blue, dip into brush, jump on the other one, and flash m’pengu. After killing them, you notice a shutdown in chat. Or maybe it’s a late game team fight, and you notice the enemy Rammus has a full badge and the backline has one or two. Even taking bounty rewards into consideration, you should still probably go for the squishies.

Anyways, how did you use the old bounty display? What do you miss about it?

OmnydragonFeb 11, 20182 votes

Thanks a bunch!

GeraltOfRivia42Aug 1, 20182 votes

I love you for asking this question!! I was so tired of looking for what happened to it after going through all the patch notes since i left the game at patch 7.15 (when my laptop broke) and when i started again at patch 8.12 (when i bought a new computer). I searched for hour long on Google What happend to the most gold icon, what happened to the most bounty icon etc... And nothing showed up then i went through youtube patch notes and atlast league's official patch notes and found it's removal listed nowhere. I really liked it and was really frustrated since i couldn't find why it was removed my 3 hour long journey has ended. Thank you. 😂😂😂