Why doesn't Miss Fortune have a Bounty Mechanic?

The Pale Woman·Nov 2, 2015·53 votes·2,246 views

With the release of Kindred, don't you think it's a bit ridiculous that Kindred can mark players but Miss Fortune can't?

I read that Riot is trying to make ADC's more fun and unique, and Miss Fortune could really benefit from having a Bounty Mechanic!

She is a bounty hunter after all!

Why doesn't the game generate a random enemy champion in the game to have a bounty, and if Miss Fortune kills or assists in killing the Bounties champion, she gains an additional 50-100 gold and after a short cooldown the game will randomly generate another bounty!

I think that would be a fun mechanic that can further make ADC's more unique and less lack-luster point-and-clicks!

Besides, other champions (COUGH COUGH) already have this mechanic so the coding is there; why not implement it onto an actual Bounty Hunter?

**Edit - 49 Upvotes! Coolio! :)

26 Comments

XonraNov 2, 201532 votes

I don't know why I read that as "booty mechanic"

I need to sleep or something <_<

IcyPepperNov 2, 201522 votes

Arcade Miss Fortune has the best booty mechanic.

XonraNov 2, 20155 votes

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Arcade Miss Fortune has the best booty mechanic.

You've solved the mystery

IcyPepperNov 2, 20151 votes

Tomby-Tomby Tooooooooo!

Corrupto123Nov 2, 20151 votes

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I don't know why I read that as "booty mechanic"

I need to sleep or something <_<

exactly the same. 1+ for booty

SpecterVonBarenNov 2, 20151 votes

Liar. You know exactly why you read it as "booty mechanic".

SKG BlueNov 2, 20157 votes

I would actually like this. An early game ADC who can wrack up gold like a pirate and use it to gain a gold lead, and you can't say it's unbalanced because Draven has potential to gain even more than Fortune.

Either way, I think the change they're going with right now is a really fun champ, but in no way do I think it suits her play style one bit.

SolarPWNageNov 2, 20152 votes

The game already has a bounty system... like, you do know the more champs you kill the more gold who ever kills you get right?

Chromatic EagleNov 2, 20151 votes

Bonus gold then.

ShyvauniNov 2, 20152 votes

The Bounty Hunter was retconned. She is just a person who wanted revenge on GP now, and quite possibly a pirate now that she has taken over.

Lazypeon100Nov 2, 20157 votes

"The bigger the risk, the bigger the bounty."

"Beauty and danger: There are few who can match Miss Fortune in either. One of Bilgewater's most infamous bounty hunters, she built her legend upon a swathe of bullet-riddled corpses and captured ne'er-do-wells. The booming echoes of her twin pistols in the port city's reeking wharfs and scavenger shanties are sure signs of another warrant from the Bounty Board being settled."

That's in game lore. There are also NUMEROUS mentions of her being a bounty hunter in the bilgewater update. So no, she wasn't retconned into no longer being a bounty hunter. Yes, she hates GP. She does become more or less the driving force behind bilgewater as well.

Shield VillainNov 2, 20152 votes

The only problem I see with this are, she's stuck in bot lane. Mid MF isn't that great compared to her AD counter part. So either way she's kinda unable to roam. She's not very mobile either, so she's likely not going to be capable of cashing out on that extra passive gold. Especially not when the Jungler or Top Laner is marked. Really doubt she's going to leave lane and go travel all the way to gank top. It would leave bot lane heavily exposed. Thus losing a tower for 50-100 gold wouldn't be worth it. Especially when the enemy team would receive 100 global for taking a tower.

This is a great mechanic for Kindred because it allows them to apply pressure without stepping into lane. They can apply psychological stress on a marked champion, and can inevitably gank to snatch up the mark. It works for Junglers, not so much for laners.

Maybe instead give MF passive Avarice blade where killing a marked minion will grant her +5 gold on kill. Make it refresh during every wave, or something. Kinda like how Quinn will have Valor randomly mark something. Only in MF's case it would only ever be a minion.

Better yet, make MF have a similar currency mechanic like Gang Plank, where he can buy upgrades for his ult depending on how well he farms with his Q. That seems way more useful to her than a champion kill passive. I just don't see her being able to utilize it to her fullest.

SoMNiaNov 2, 20151 votes

"Bounty hunter" is just her cover, her excuse for poking around Bilgewater to plan her revenge on Gangplank. Also, she HAS an innate passive. She doesn't need an extra one. I agree it would have been a neat concept...but it IS, on Kindred. And the game has a built in bounty system which she can utilize (by roaming with her free mobi boots), and I heard they're making it more obvious in the UI when a particular champion is worth some extra gold.

ShénzhìNov 2, 20151 votes

Hunter Passive. I said this Kindred thing about Rengar. It works better on Rengar than Kindred, in my opinion.

You can't really decide Bounties as a Bounty Hunter. Doesn't quite make sense?

The Pale WomanNov 4, 20151 votes

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Hunter Passive. I said this Kindred thing about Rengar. It works better on Rengar than Kindred, in my opinion.

You can't really decide Bounties as a Bounty Hunter. Doesn't quite make sense?

That's why the game chooses one randomly for you..?

HupsisNov 2, 20151 votes

That mechanic would be more suited to Rengar. Instead of always getting a stack to his trinket he would have to hunt down a random enemy champion which is marked as a bounty.

I see MF more as a pirate hunter than a bounty hunter regardless of her official title.

facemelter710Nov 2, 20151 votes

I feel like with love tab being so lame and all of her incoming nurfs this is a good idea. Maybe it could give 5/10/15 gold at lvl 1/7/14 when you hit a champ with love tap. That would be bad ass maybe a bit op though. What do you kids think?

Hatless CasualNov 2, 20151 votes

She needs a full redo more than anything else. Between the pirate event and now the preseason changes..... their just putting it off further and further instead of doing what's needed.

Then again Riot needs to start redoing almost all the champs pre-Lulu to make them able to compete against all these super heavy kits and absurd scalings the game now has.

Olath QuortekNov 2, 20151 votes

I think the problem with this is that there is already a bounty mechanic in the game for all champions based on kill streaks. And Draven has the bonus gold on kill. I mean I like the idea. They would just have to do it right. XD

LVL 5 PORONov 2, 20151 votes

WOW. This makes SO much sense. How did we go so long without realizing this? O_O Well ... as good as it is, its too late now. I seriously doubt Miss Fortune is getting anymore changes in the near future.

JacknifeNov 3, 20151 votes

Two reasons really.

Draven Gangplank

they already have similar mechanics in their kit, so adding any more would probably make too much monoteny.

Athenes LuluNov 3, 20151 votes

Something to add to more than just a caster lane bully ADC? I'm up for it.

The current lore, though, depicts her more as a stereotypical female protagonist heroine rather than a bounty hunter. Which means, I don't think this will be implemented.

If that is going to be an idea, then what should she gain for such "bounty"? Bonus AD? AP? AtkSpd? Gold? (even though Draaaaven has that already)

This could go somewhere.

Lazypeon100Nov 3, 20151 votes

SPOILER ALERT FOR NEW LORE.

She's not really stereotypical though for a protagonist. If anything, she is more of an anti hero. Yes, she cares about bilge water and wants the place to do well. But under her rule. And with her new updated lore, within the very first chapter she is introduced even, it makes sure to mention that she's not afraid to get bloody.

MF was mostly a "good guy" in the harrowing event. But then, almost any living soul would be considered a good guy since it's the living versus the dead kind of deal. She fought to prove to everyone that she wasn't to be trifled with. That's not protecting the town, that's asserting authority in the dumbest manner. She even regrets her decision and realizes how dumb it was so they run to the temple of the bearded lady.

Her motivations are also still questionable. She has dealt with pirates and thugs her whole life, and thinks that offering Lucian gold will convince him to stay with her and her band. Heck, she even chuckles with Rafen about how the other gangs are all falling apart and killing each other. I don't think a stereotypical protagonist would be laughing about the deaths of others, even if they were objectively bad people.

That's just my view on it anyway.