Riot, could you PLEASE buff Baron and Dragons?

KnKitsune·6/24/2019, 11:49:08 PM·1 votes·1,108 views

Seriously, drop the "Faster Games" mentality and buff these monsters.

People who are Pre-6 with just a machete and a couple of health potions shouldn't be able to casually solo dragon. No one in general should be able to solo baron and elder drake.

Buff their defenses or damage, make them attack faster, give them better armor and magic pen, apply grievous wounds to their abilities, just something that can prevent people from solo'ing the thing or at least make it harder.

3 Comments

The Ecdysiast6/25/2019, 12:17:59 AM1 votes

Yeh. Pretty much.

They didn't make them any harder to get, but increased the reward for doing so way too much over the years.

Leon41676/25/2019, 1:40:42 AM1 votes

I don't really agree with buffing Elemental Drakes because if the junlger is soloing it pre-6 that's just you not paying attention. I know it's an annoying chore for a jungler but part of securing it is making sure your opponent isn't soloing it. There are at least three players who can prevent solo Drakes and all you have to do is ward and respond. However buffing Baron and Elder? Yes there should be a much higher risk to match the reward and when two people are taking out Baron after a brutal 5v5 that left them both under 30% health they shouldn't be allowed to take it so freely.

iiGazeii6/25/2019, 1:50:41 AM1 votes

I think it'd be interesting to make the epic monsters a bit more like the enemies in Monster Hunter, with powerful, telegraphed attacks, varying combat strategies, and breakable parts.

Make Baron necessitate multiple people by having different objectives than "hit it". Maybe someone needs to channel and restrain it to keep it from using its most powerful attacks, or have people focus attacks on its head to blind it before its big combo comes out, or cut off smaller heads to limit the size of its AoE. No one should solo Baron.

Dragon buffs could also use a touchup. Some are phenomenal (Infernal), some can dominate games if you get one early, but don't really do anything for late game (Ocean), and some are just kinda meh. It'd be really cool if (following the Monster Hunter theme), dragons would drop a bunch of parts that each person could use to craft their own buff. If you want defenses, maybe take the scales. Damage could come from the claws or teeth, movement from the wings, etc., and each dragon would affect it differently. So the Infernal wings might give you movement speed after dealing damage, while the Mountain wings would give you movement speed after taking damage, stuff like that. Everybody could have a buff that is useful to them and tailored to their playstyle. I think dragons should be solo-able, but it should be more difficult and/or only something an objective-focused jungler can do.