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Plants lost me a game

Kyloz··193 votes·7,632 views
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I was playing Rengar and it was almost 40 minutes into the game, my team was dead and I was the only one alive. 2 enemies were siegIng down mid and 1 was in the enemy jungle. I went to assassinate the enemy in the jungle, who was a zed, and just before I was about to jump on him I misclicked on a plant revealing me and knocking me away, which lost me the gapcloser element. I managed to kill him but I died as well. If I could've killed him and lived I could've recalled and killed the support and adc who were at our nexus turrets (by the time i was dead), as I was fed enough to pretty much 1 shot them.

Even though this lost my friends and I the game, I still laughed my ass off when it happened.

The plants have been a fun and great edition, I was against them at first but they really don't have THAT much of an impact on the game, unless you're garbage like me and misclick.

Edit: So many upvotes :o I guess my title is upvotebait, it's nice to see everyone not complaining about the plants for once :) Edit 2: Also wanted to point out that when I was going after the Zed, they were only at the inhib and I tunnel visioned on the Zed.

91 Comments

Ralanr91 votes

Was expecting negativity. Found positivity.

Upvote.

TyrekGoldenspear37 votes

Wonder how many of the OP's upvotes came from people skimming the board, thought this was negative, then upvoted before moving on, not wven reading the post? XD

7 Fires3 votes

Well, before I read I upvoted so I guess I count xd

Valeckserai9 votes

Hey! A positive boards post!? About plants? What's next, people admitting whenever their main needs a nerf?

But seriously though, I'm glad that other people than me are enjoying them. They don't make a HUGE impact on everything, but they can be quite good in certain situations and are really hilarious. Me and a friend got into a custom game vs each other to see how plants interacted with dueling in the jungle. After our testing was done we just started screwing around. He went to solo baron for the lulz (as GP). He ran when he got low hp and went through a ward I had placed in an area with a blast cone. I managed to time my auto perfectly to launch him right into me from the other side of the wall and kill him instantly. We laughed so hard.

Mimy7 votes

I could've recalled and killed the support and adc who were at our nexus turrets, as I was fed enough to pretty much 1 shot them.

Why didn't you do this in the first place? You would of stopped their siege and made just enough Time for your team to come back.

Sounds like you lost due to your lack of making the correct decision in the crucial moment of the game. Not the plant. I do this all the time too...

#ALSO you have to click on the plant to make it explode...

The plants have been a fun and great edition, I was against them at first but they really don't have THAT much of an impact on the game, unless you're garbage like me and misclick.

But I think you understand the mistake already. ^_^

But next time this happens try to go for that ADC and Support that you know you can one-shot before trying to go for a zed who could "probably" also one shot you.. xD

theArtifacts5 votes

{quoted}

Why didn't you do this in the first place? You would of stopped their siege and made just enough Time for your team to come back.

Don't worry about those down votes. The OP knows it was his fault and not the plant. You are also correct in every way.

Mimy4 votes

{quoted}

Don't worry about those down votes. The OP knows it was his fault and not the plant. You are also correct in every way.

Oh I stopped letting downvotes get to me a looong time ago. xD I actually expect them in "Gameplay"

Everyone has their opinions and sometimes even I'm incorrect.

Like my deep-seated hatred for Garen and Juggernauts. xD They're not OP, but I don't know how to Fight them correctly _and find them annoying as hell to deal with. _

"I'm Teemo, and I don't play top a lot I'm against a Garen what do I do?"

Buddy: "Just don't get cheesed at level 6 by his flash engage, he's gonna try to one shot you with his ultimate.."

I still get one shot. Well not One shot but you know.. He flashes, Does his move speed, Spins, and then ults you. Usually that gets him a Kill..

#I get frustrated to say the least.

There are many ways to counter Garens ultimate it seems but I can never do anything right..

Sorry! I'm rambling off topic! xD

New topic..

I see you play Udyr. You excited for the Brok + rage blade buffs? x3

theArtifacts6 votes

I misclicked on a plant

So you fucked up and want to blame the poor innocent plant? No sympathy here bud

Didn't read the whole post. Downvoted myself.

Brownie Elfie28 votes

How bout you read the rest of his post before posting a useless comment

theArtifacts30 votes

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How bout you read the rest of his post before posting a useless comment

Touché

Virgin Ray1 votes

and me wrapping my head around how you put an accent mark on the e. how u do dat?

theArtifacts1 votes

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and me wrapping my head around how you put an accent mark on the e. how u do dat?

Canadian English keyboard setting, press /

QIΥANA1 votes

if you are wondering how he did é, then you might also like those ones: ě š č ř ž ý á í é ú ů

SpecterVonBaren5 votes

Stop with your black magics!

BladeSteel1 votes

for american keyboards press alt+130 (numbers being on the keypad)

President Swa1n3 votes

I might just have no life, but I Google the character I want and copy it from Wikipedia.

I can be hanged now.

Kyloz2 votes

{quoted}

So you fucked up and want to blame the poor innocent plant? No sympathy here bud

If you're going to vent, refrain from doing it here.

But regardless, I hope that your day gets better :D

theArtifacts6 votes

{quoted}

If you're going to vent, refrain from doing it here.

But regardless, I hope that your day gets better :D

Nah not venting. Lost interest in reading your post right to the end. My bad. RIPPERONI

PeponiPoro1 votes

Pepperoni

Saewin4 votes

Do I upvote or downvote? confused now

Supreme Senpai691 votes

I upvoted, but only because of the edit.

Spoofghoul5 votes

Lol

im concerned about the ranged advantage on plant activation

so far ive gotten out of messy situations using blast cone as well as use it to chase people which was fun. same with honey fruit drop it to slow people down or gain some healing when somebody is chasing you on low hp and then turn the tables

the overall impact isn't too big though i agree on that part.

But so far a lot of people haven't figured out all the uses and mechanics yet but ranged champs can activate the plants much easier so they can more easily use them against their opponents like blast cone or the heal plant slow to prevent melee from escaping/getting to them

That is my one concern

RavenMagus4 votes

I'm not too concerned about the ranged advantage of activation since you have to be close to the plant to benefit from its trigger anyways - fruits drop by the base and the blast cone has a small radius. If anything it hurts ranged mages the most since melees and ADCs have much smoother animation times for attacks.

Spoofghoul1 votes

You are 100% right!

Except that was not quite my point.

My point was you can use it vs melee's to kite them or prevent them from getting away. You see in order to do this you yourself need not benefit directly from the effect, just apply it to the melee champ.

Like hurling them towards you with blast cone. Or dropping fruits from range, they have a slow on pickup which allows you make an escape or prevent one.

Supreme Senpai691 votes

I feel like that would be considered an out play honestly. If you AA a plant to make it drop fruit that the dude you're chasing will pick up you have definitely earned that kill lol. Especially if, after he heals up, he can't kill you still with the healed HP

RavenMagus2 votes

Well, the fruit slow is pretty minor, and it brings a % hp heal with it. If you're really chasing a melee down, it sounds like a very niche situation in which you can hit the plant, cause the fruits to drop right on top of them, and make use of the minor slow to kill them even with the fruit's heal - especially considering that if you can hit the plant right before they go by, you're in range to shoot the guy you're chasing anyways.

The blast plants are much the same way. If you can actually shoot a plant to blast a champion back towards you, then you're already in range to hit that champion anyways. This is actually less punishing towards melee champions - if you were in range to shoot the plant to knock them towards you, then you just knocked a melee champion back into your own face who has enough life to survive at least one hit from you, which is risky business.

Escaping with a blast cone is just as easy with a melee champion as it is with a ranged champion. A melee champion could also use it as a surprise gap closer to turn on someone who's trying to kite and chase them, too.

sp4412 votes

Honestly, I think that has a very easy fix if it becomes a problem: Make it so that Blast Cones have 2 HP, but take double damage if you hit them inside the blast zone.

Spoofghoul1 votes

i like this change

i think it's mostly blastcones which will be the biggest offender and this would be an easy fix, the radius is small enough that 2 attacks will make it very difficult if not impossible to abuse them in the manner i decribed

sp4411 votes

Blast Cones are the only ones that provide an advantage to ranged champions in combat.

I mean, range doesn't help with a Sight Plant, you need to be at the right angle to see what you need, and you still need to walk over and eat the fruits for the Healing Plant, which is something that you don't want to do if you're kiting.

Spoofghoul1 votes

You can use your range to drop the fruit in front of them in a chase or if you are being chased to either kite them or slow them down in a chase

this way an ally can come help you out as you can use the fruit to stall for time

Chief Mayonnaise5 votes

TBH the plants seem to be okay for me RN. The most fun i've had with them was knocking my friend into baron pit using blast cone. fun times

Riprox3 votes

Plants should be clickable only with the left mouse button, not right (or which ever button you use for Move / Attack commands). Happened to me too, I was 1v1'ing the enemy jungler and he misclicked a Scryer's bloom, missing an AA on me and losing the fight.

Automated Riven4 votes

2 words.. attack move

Stephenizgod3 votes

Haha i was once running through the jungle with my Jungle Rengar away from enemy bot lane, but I got cut off by the enemy mid laner. So I went to attack the Blast Cone to jump into Dragon Pit, but I didn't realize the explosion Radius was so big. I hit it and it launched Rengar right into the middle of their whole team, it was extremely funny. I felt bed because it was an accident, but it looked like I did it on purpose, I honestly did not realize their radius was that big and there was no time to wait for him to get into position.

Still their impact was not as bad as everyone was making it out to be, typical Boards complain as if a change is the end of the game before they even try it out for themselves.

agbudar3 votes

scryer needs to go though.

boo9102 votes

i feel the same way about plants. one time i was playing twitch in a bot game and juked out 2 bots on my tail with blast cones.

invisiblecat12 votes

The enemy was baiting the Baron, and my friend hit the red plant, and he got knocked away, but the other 4 people on the team were on it, so it separated us and we lost the game

MagikarpIsBoss2 votes

I was about to down vote this because it seemed like a useless "Fuck plants" sort of post. Thank god it wasnt.

Weathered2 votes

All those people who upvoted because of the title and their salt against plants.

Virgin Ray2 votes

I hate plants because they add a new annoying mechanic into this game, it's so stupid and I really want riot to consider removing plants. I hate plants and I hope that riot will learn what they did and not wait an entire season to remove them. They are very very unnecessary and very stupid. End rant

I love plants and it was fun using them.

Bladeglory2 votes

Last night I was Veigar, just doing fed Veigar things and exploding carries. I walked out of our blue base to the wall west of Brambleback, where I placed my stun over the wall and was planning to delete anybody unfortunate enough to walk into it.

Sadly for me, I was standing in range of a boomboom plant and our Nami accidentally clicked it. It sent me flying across the wall into the enemy team's tanks. I panic Flashed and ran away from their thankfully stunned front line while screaming bloody murder over mic.

A+ would scream again.

Yordle Xayah2 votes

80% of the time I forget plants even exist... and I really miss my jungle buffs.

Candoodle2 votes

you chasing an enemy in their jung when your team is dead and enemy breaking the gates cost you the game the fact that you were chasing zed instead of going B tilts me more than any plant bs reminds me of the priorities of every assassin ever and the kind of decision making i look forward to in preseason

but nice that you can laugh about it

Sammystorm2 votes

why not just kill the adc and support at nexus and not risk it?

Kyloz1 votes

{quoted}

why not just kill the adc and support at nexus and not risk it?

tunneled on zed

Sammystorm2 votes

Well I hardly think it was the plant that cost you the game then

Phyuq Yiu1 votes

I just had a game as support where I was being chased down river, got ashe ulted and attacked a fruit that slowed the persuing zyra. I like to think that saved me :)

Support IRL1 votes

Plants are not that bad, its just a change in the game, and me, I don't really like change but I can see what Riot is doing here and I respect them for that, testing it out in the Pre-Season, through playing with the plants, I don't really mind them, I guess it makes the game more complicated and fun, that is just my opinion though

[slayer-jinx-catface]

President Swa1n1 votes

Yeah, I love plants, I'm glad they're working out for more people than initially expected.

Also, I accidentally used a blast cone as well, but it ended up engaging a blind teamfight that ended 3-0 in our favor.......

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