One way to make toplane more relevant

Fresh Untilted·2/9/2018, 11:52:44 AM·1 votes·328 views

I'm sure there are many ways, but how about this: Voluntarily cancelling teleport puts it on a 20 second cooldown.

That's it, that is the entire idea. I'm sure you can see what I want here. Currently, we see a lot of people, even in high elo, use their teleport simply to get back to lane and not miss out on farm, instead of making plays on botlane etc. The reason for this, especially in solo queue, is that it's so incredibly hard to read how long your teammates will last during those 3 seconds of channeling that tp. So people don't use it to make plays, which is kinda sad.

Balance other aspects of it if you must. Maybe make the channel time 0.5 seconds longer or whatever.

I'm sure there are other ways toplane can be more relevant before the teamfighting phase, but I can think of no better start. How about you?

6 Comments

eaglei32/9/2018, 12:06:49 PM3 votes

Aside from the constant bluffing around the map that others mentioned, I see two other downfalls of this.

You can constantly tp on cannon minions to effect lane pushing and/or hinder any lane opponent from CSing at times.
This would not work well with Zac's passive as anyone could freely try and save a Zac with their tp and then not be punished for using it in that manner since they cancel the tp once he is back up.

Sasogwa2/9/2018, 11:59:43 AM2 votes

Nah you can start channeling teleport every 20 s to make their botlane scared, it's kinda fucked up to be honest. I don't even think toplane is in a bad spot. It's just botlane that it is in an unbelievably good spot for two people that collect only one lane worth of minions gold and exp. Too cheap items, too good exp sharing. They need higher costs on their items, especially crit and potentially support items, and rageblade needs to be less good on ranged. The fact it requires the same stacks for a melee than for a ranged when it's so much easier to stack on ranged makes no sense. And nerfing the free exp sharing (it is currently 30.4% free bonus experience before sharing for being 2 or more in a lane) could use a slight nerf. Limitating botlane's powerlevel would go a long way to make the game more balanced and not entirely focused on one lane.

nelogis2/9/2018, 11:55:58 AM1 votes

But then everyone would just bluff TP everywhere and there would be no kills happening since you have to back out all the time.

Mid goes for a dive "tp channels i have to back" "whops he canceled it LUL i guess i have 20 seconds now until he does it again"

Same for Bot and even same for Top

Makes top even more irrelevant to be honest

DegenERICK2/9/2018, 11:59:47 AM1 votes

This is the worst idea I've ever seen. Imagine how would this affect the pro play, people TPing just to scare any sort of aggression, dives, jungle ganks ...

Are you kidding me ?

The way you could make top lane more relevant is remove teleport completely from the game. That way when I kill someone 1v1 he can't just TP back and then farm like nothing happened.

BeatzBoyFTW2/9/2018, 12:44:29 PM1 votes

So now you're promoting TP-spams in order to intimidate bot/mid lane? No please.