The new earth drake increases armor and magic resist by a flat percentage.
This makes champions tankier while lowering damage done to objectives.
Sure it's somewhat offset by other drakes but, games where earth is dominant will matter of factly have less damage overall.
CaptainAntiHeroz2 votes
I've seen it and I am pleased
meowwow72 voteslaughs in 
passive stacking
Jesi Oni1 votesIts good change... and boring one.
we began as one1 votestbh as someone who plays top lane a lot i dont like these changes bc if my bot lane is weak the game is over... i have a teleport here and then to compete for these objectives, or lets say, my tp is more important than ever now, but early game i kinda feel stuck on top now or obligated to keep tp for drake and might change to play more mid bc of that... and if my bot is weak, i might also just tp into nirwana, bc my tp is wasted anyways then... i dunno... it's just too much impact on the game to revert three buffs mid game. ocean gives 5% health reg every 5 sec. wtf? i am not sure i like this...
iiGazeii1 votesGames with a dominant Earth drake will have less damage, but it has the potential to be one-sided. If your team takes all the Earth drakes and get the soul, you are significantly tankier than the enemy.
Even if you both take the same number of Earth drakes, its effectiveness depends on your comp. A team full of assassins, burst mages, and marksmen will not get the same amount of value as a team with bruisers, battlemages, and tanks. Lots of champions have abilities that scale with armor and magic resist, and some runes do as well.
This is why it's so important for us to know what the dominant drake will be before the game starts, so we can plan our champ and build accordingly. If I know that the enemy could be getting free armor, then I might choose to play a champion that can reduce or ignore it, or avoid playing champions that can't deal with armor, or ban champions I know will get a huge benefit from it.
