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Time to Rebalance Summoner Spells: An Unpopular Opinion?

Destello Azul·1/26/2020, 2:28:52 PM·1 votes·1,815 views

Imo if you are gonna establish the Chinese Meta, you must do in all senses, I mean for all the stuff in the game, not only damage. And that's why you must change Summoner Spells. The 2 most important reasons are: 1st beacuse most games now have a duration of +/- 25 minutes, not all of course, and 2nd because of flashy plays.

This post is an example of a possible rebalance of them, mostly in cooldown, becuase be in mind, currently status of your Summoner Spells are balanced around the (longed for) old meta, while games lasted 40-50 minutes so you were able to use flash, 8-10 times, and now, where damage and mobility are insane you long for constantly use flash every second you have not.

So here it goes, my prototype proposal:

I'm gonna establish 4 tiers of cooldown, which correspond to, Tier A, Tier B and Tier C (Most Useful, Useful and Less Useful, respectively) and The Special Tier.

Tier A: 4 minute cooldown:

summoner 12, summoner 4, summoner 14. These are the most used, maybe teleport isn't, but you know, it allows you to do base rushes.

Tier B: 3 and half minute cooldown:

summoner 6, summoner 7, summoner 21. Used frecuently to survive wich in this meta is very hard.

Tier C: 3 minute cooldown:

summoner 3, summoner 1, summoner 13. Less or even not used.

Special Tier (S tier or Tier S, not recommended the second one wich maybe will cause confusion): 1 minute cooldown:

summoner 11, summoner 39 and any variant of this last Summoner Spell.

And this is my opinion, but which is yours? Mostly important, Riot's opinion.

3 Comments

Zyniya1/26/2020, 2:35:44 PM1 votes

Tier A: 4 minute cooldown: summoner 4 summoner 1 summoner 21 Don't want to ruin the Burst Mage and Assassins fun now do we?

Tier B: 3 and half minute cooldown: summoner 3 summoner 7 summoner 14 Bot lane is gonna get camps gotta help them out a bit.

Tier C: 3 minute cooldown: summoner 6 summoner 12 The top laners need more ways to get into bot lane.

I think rather then buffing all the damage like they have been in the past to get those shorter games they wanted they should have just buffed XP gain across the board. When everyone is L18 by 25 mins the damage will buff it's self. [sg-miss-fortune]

Killer of Night91/26/2020, 7:51:20 PM1 votes

Ignite should be on lower cd than heal in my opinion otherwise noone will use ignite since heal/tp and exhaust are all better option. Barrier and exhaust need a small buff and that's it.

Gath Immortal1/26/2020, 8:09:03 PM1 votes

honestly we should just remove summoner spells and make them all actives on items so everyone has access to whichever ones they want based on their strategy. If Flash were on a 2000 gold item that gave little in the way of stats not only could you make flash a better spell without it being super OP but it would actually be a real investment and serious build choice because that's a statless item taking up a slot giving you huge utility.