Doom Bot Lux needs a change.

TSM Aury·10/21/2016, 6:38:19 PM·2 votes·1,913 views

I understand that Doom Bots are supposed to be insane and unfair. I get that, and overall I love the game mode. The way things currently are, it's crazy difficult to win, but possible. UNLESS there's a Lux Doom Bot. Then, unless you have a perfect team of highly skilled players, you have no chance of winning. The biggest reason for this is that Lux Bot is nearly impossible to lane against. She has her usual snare, yes, but now her E sends out 8-10 snares, which ALSO do damage. So you may be doing well in lane against her at first, but then she throws out the E. The E snares you (and does significant damage), she follows up with her q which snares you again (and does the same damage), she autos which triggers Thunderlord AND her passive, and you're dead before you can even move again. You might say "just git gud and dodge the E snare scrub" which sounds like an obvious solution, until you realize that the snares are so close together at the origin of the blast that it is nearly impossible to dodge them unless you are a good distance away. And after she hits 6, any slight chance you had of surviving is gone, because after the E snare/Q snare combo (which leaves you at half health) she ults, and there's practically no way to dodge that, because you're snared. And even if the snare runs out as she begins to ult, if you flash to one side, you'll most likely still get hit because you'll run into one of the other dozen beams that goes off in a circle around her.

The bottom line is that I strongly believe that the Lux Doom Bot needs to be nerfed. I think that reasonable changes could be to either remove the damage from the E snares, or leave the damage but remove the snare, to make the E/Q/Ult combo somewhat avoidable, because as it stands currently, that combo is a guaranteed death.

I'm open to anyone else's thoughts on the matter.

13 Comments

Gengar10/21/2016, 6:39:23 PM1 votes

Stand. Behind. Minions.

Blumpkin Nation10/21/2016, 6:43:50 PM1 votes

Just use Zilean in all of the doom bot games. He really can abuse their AI and deal 1,000+ damage consistently mid-way through the game.

Besides, Doom Bot Annie is the worst.

reaperteaser10/21/2016, 6:50:41 PM1 votes

doom malz in the dame lane as doom amumu= aoe cursed voidlings

i would take on a lux anyday after that

this was the scariest thing ive ever seen in league, doombots did their job perfectly

NoobLearninGame10/21/2016, 8:18:23 PM1 votes

Annie seemed weak once I was throwing Tibbers around with Syndra, along with most other units.

Critmaster Garen10/21/2016, 8:21:39 PM1 votes

im more afraid of doombot veigar.

he stacks.

the thing is, doombots will always be strong to a certain level, since they get items per game time, not per gold. so theyll always scale the same way, no matter if you win or feed.

veigar on the other hand. oh boy.

NoobLearninGame10/21/2016, 8:43:05 PM1 votes

I wonder if Nunu can bite him. Adding the 2 together (Smite & Consume) would take out a good chunk, he just has to not be so useless before Teemo arrives that the game is lost. If he maxed out his CDR he'd be able to contest for the highest damage against Teemo maybe, while healing himself a decent amount. He'd also have to be able to get close enough to take a bite out of Teemo without dying. Maybe multiple suicide runs would work if you allies try to distract the bots with CC and such. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard with a good comp, you could make up for one player not contributing so much until the end (he'd probably be a support most of the time). Blood Boil would assist the team if there's any ADCs.

The base mode is probably pretty easy if everyone knows what they're doing and your team has a decent composition, but I'm not sure what the difference would be if the custom mode is set to 100. Is the 100 mode just like starting with the bots as they are at the end of the normal version of the doom bots mode?

Calabok10/21/2016, 8:43:18 PM1 votes

Its fine. It makes it fun