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Feelings on dragon animation....

Fallsiar·5/14/2015, 4:54:25 PM·1 votes·438 views

This might be an old topic but does anybody else feel that the animation that pops up whenever a team takes a dragon kind of...wrong? Not only does it take away the need of having a ward in the pit to at least get a timer, but to me it takes away the "strategic diversity" that was put in place at the beginning of this season. It used to be if nobody on your team saw dragon go down you, at best, had a window where you have an idea what could be happening there. Now, as long as a single enemy champ is visible on the map, you have an exact time of when dragon goes down and all you need to do is type "dragon up at x:xx" in chat. Between this and the scream you hear when dragon dies, it feels almost in the opposite direction of the "strategic diversity".

Also, to those that say all you need to do is look at the dragon count tracker, that may tell you how many they have which is understandable, but the key issue is when did they get it. In a game that involves crucial timing, having the enemy unaware when you are taking an objective seems pretty important.

Anyone else feel the same? Feel differently? Just kind of wondering what the opinions of this is.

4 Comments

SEKAI5/14/2015, 5:01:00 PM1 votes

Yeah stealth taking dragon is kinda not all that possible now unless nobody on your team is under enemy vision constantly, but they would just check dragon and baron if that's the case.

Otherwise in the old days we could take dragon maybe even up to 2 times (and multiple rounds) straight without giving the enemy a chance to claim it, nor would they know what was going on. Because we could take it stealth-ly (with like 3 guys and other 2 function as smoke screen), and when the enemy jungler finally passed around there to ward it, it was already gone and he would have no idea when was the thing taken (and when it will spawn again), and we could just come back again to take it later without giving enemies a chance.

Nowadays, 1 stealth dragon is as far as it goes.

KMannnnn15/14/2015, 5:01:46 PM1 votes

The problem they introduced by changing the way dragon worked was that if you are not alerted of the dragon buffs, it adds a lot of invisible power. The decision then becomes: do we make the buffs easily readable, or do we make sneaking dragon actually sneaky?

If you ask me, invisible power is the worst kind, so it's important more than anything else that you be able to see even seemingly small powerspikes like a dragon buff, instead of wondering how the enemy laner suddenly started winning every trade.

Fallsiar5/14/2015, 5:15:34 PM1 votes

True, hidden power spikes are bad but isn't that just strategy? Those buffs are the main reason we try to get dragon in the first place. Yeah the exp is nice but not why we're team fighting there. Also if I'm losing in lane, the first thing I do is see what has changed in our match up. I want to see what new item he bought that i missed seeing and would then see that they grabbed a dragon somehow. That's just me though.