TAKE FLASH OUT OF THE GAME!

Dem Wheaties··2 votes·851 views

As somebody who likes to play every role in this wonderful game I have noticed something that needs fixing. Take flash out of the game.

Now before you click away, hear me out. Wherever you play with whatever champ, you will most likely take flash. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because flash is a great summoner spell, but it is in fact so great that instead of people saying "What two summoner spells should I take?" they instead say "What should I take with flash?"

Now I do realize that there are some play styles where people don't take flash but the majority of us do. So why is this bad? if its good take it, right?

The problem with this is that it is limiting creativeness and new and inventive play styles. If everybody takes the same spells you can predict what people are going to do or how they are going to play, but if you were to take two spells that your opponent hadn't seen before it would be a newer and more refreshed creative gaming environment.

Perhaps there could be an item that had an active that accomplished the same thing as flash but the item would be set up so that the only reason you would ever buy it would be if you were losing/feeding very very badly and needed an upper hand. This of course would be an extreme challenge to the Riot staff but I believe it could be done.

Do you agree with me? Disagree? Have other ideas? Let me know down below.

7 Comments

Retillin2 votes

The main problem is, if you remove Flash the champions that get hurt the most are those that have no other escapes. Just as an example, Ashe would only have her ult to try and save herself from a gank, when the jungler has a good gap closer (ie Lee, J4). It would make the gap between the haves (high mobility) and the have nots (little/no mobility) unplayable. So unless you are okay with remaking the whole game, it just can't work.

vC48YNoGbJ1 votes

The beautiful outplays Flash enables makes it too good to pass up. In fact, I personally think it would be cool if there were an AP item that had an active that did the same thing as Flash with the same cooldown time.

Overcentralization of Flash usage doesn't really limit creative summoner spell potentials since none besides Flash could be considered very skill-oriented or allow for creative gameplay in the first place. Taking Ghost and Ignite for example doesn't really make you creative, you just move faster and have one more damage spell.

If Flash were ever to be taken out, the pressure of jungle would be insane and the game as a whole would be much more boring in my opinion.

Piantissimo1 votes

flash is a 5 minute cooldown that gives mobility to otherwise immobile champions, it makes their time being aggressive in lane safer, it lets some champions engage fights when they otherwise wouldn't be able to.

removing flash would just mean everyone that is unsafe takes heal/barrier. and all the champions that don't need the mobility just take ignite teleport.

flash is more balanced since it is more valueble to immobile champions, than flash is to mobile champions.

RavenKouhai1 votes

Dear god, just imagine how annoying champions with dashes would be then.

SlackerboyTC1 votes

Ashe would be screwed as well as anyone without escapes, until every champion has some kind of dash it wouldn't be too great.

Raja Chachki1 votes

It gives immobile champions a chance to get a blink, immobile champs would HAVE to take ghost next, while mobile champs could pick and choose, creating an even bigger deficit between the mobile and the immobile. Also, without flash I know that I would not enjoy this game as much, even before lvl 12 I looked forward to the day that I could use flash and make plays and escapes. taking flash out of the game would be such a huge change no one could even think of how the game would change. And people don't HAVE to take Flash, but if they don't, it puts them at a disadvantage. there is nothing wrong with that, as I'm sure you could climb up to Gold or MAYBE even higher without the use of flash your games.

Bârd1 votes

Remove flash? Hell no. It is the only mobility that most champions have. Could you imagine playing Twisted fate, Heimerdinger, Ashe, or Vel'Koz Without this? However, Adding a summoner spell of equal quality to flash would work.

Say, a half second stasis, a knockback, or something like vaynes Q in her ult.

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