How to nerf Level 3 Malzahar Dragon clear: Give Dragon the Rift Herald patience (explanation inside)

BeatzBoyFTW··2 votes·973 views

I just happened to purchase Malzahar and then tried him out in Customs, and yes, even I managed to grab an early Dragon with Malzahar by level 4-5. It's all about making your Voidlings do the tanking job, similar to how Morde uses his Dragon to tank the Baron/Herald's attacks.

But while I was trying out Malzahar in a Custom game, I ran into this situation. I tried to solo Rift Herald this time, and for some reason, Rift Herald steadily loses his patience when he was focusing my Voidlings, which means there were occasions where the Rift has a burst of HP regeneration by a tab, and then I had to redo my solo leashing all over again, and the only way to grab the Rift Herald by myself is by sometimes using my own body to tank some hits.

I'm not sure if this is intended, or it's some kit that I haven't read up (be it on Malz or Herald), so here's my suggestion. Why not make Dragon have the exact same Patience behavior on the Dragons as well? That way, it would heavily nerf the solo dragon Malzahar, thus will require teammates to help with the Dragon leash.

2 Comments

Fives555551 votes

Nice idea, I don't see a reason to not do that.

The Yetii Rider1 votes

Patience is an effect that prevents players from juggling aggro, and it's very strict on Herald to make it dangerous because someone has to tank it for a while and it does a lot of damage.

Dragon is intended to be contested, it's intended to be fought over by all 10 players and its attacks against those players while they fight are very interactive and juggling dragon aggro is a key skill for a team to have. If we give dragon the same Patience as Herald it will reset earlier and make it much harder for an invading team to steal.

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