Why Was Turret Plating Added

Troy242621·3/23/2019, 6:29:47 PM·1 votes·2,030 views

Really boring when games are over by 10 minutes because you can back with 1,900 gold by farming plating. There's never any point in playing anything except early game champs, especially because of shut down gold; better to distribute the bounties by just farming platings.

Scaling junglers? Why bother? I can just gank early and not only mega-snowball myself but also give 900 gold to my late-game-scaling ally. This way I also don't give up 1,000 gold and 2 levels of experience on-death like a fed late scaler would.

16 Comments

Mavëríck3/23/2019, 6:47:29 PM2 votes

Plates were added to give the illusion that they listened to the community about games being over too fast and early towers not doing anything. In reality all it did was reinforce the early win damage meta when they snuck in the gold earned from the plates. Just like when they nerfed the jungle under the goal of "reducing the level 2 gankers" when in reality all they did was make it even worse.

Riot Devs hate the players at large. Why don't people get this? Every dumb change they make is willful and obvious contempt for us.

ZephyrDrake3/23/2019, 6:38:39 PM1 votes

so... there's no point in playing anything but early game champions but you will have an scaling ally? ok I guess