nerf it: Cinderhulk being used in top lane

chide da jungler··2 votes·821 views

Riot, you need to add some kind of jungle-dependant state to cinderhulk to keep it out of the lanes. Ideas include a small stacking-requirement like feral flare had. Something small so all junglers can hit it, but not so small that it could be attained while laning.

You get the idea.

8 Comments

King Odin3 votes

What's wrong with cinderhulk in lane?? Smite is good in lane but considering that the person is either going summoner 4 summoner 11 or summoner 11 summoner 12 they are sacrificing a core escape spell or map control for smite. It has it's perks for steals and so on which makes players tend to go summoner 11 summoner 12 but this makes them an easy target to gank since they have no flash. Also the stats of cinderhulk are actually less useful than item 3068 early game, as it only gives health with no other stats such as armour. Also item 3068 deals more burn damage aswell and is better for dueling. My solution is abuse the early game and put them behind before they get mid game items

IcyPepper1 votes

Eh, I say leave it. Champions have to sacrifice a summoner's to use it, which makes laning more difficult, and have to stack health in order to benefit from cinderhulk's passive (going full armor or damage... not so much).

Strategic diversity. Nobody complains about flash being in every single game ever, so why not just let this new fresh breath of air run its course and have fun without trying to stop top laners from experimenting and doing their best?

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

What's wrong with Cinderhulk that impacts laning so badly?

Sinister Snail1 votes

It's a considerable opportunity cost for a top laner to dedicate to cinderhulk: losing TP or flash, and being pigeonholed into a straight HP build.

I think we should watch it play out for a while first.

Droogzy1 votes

Not only that, there are actually disadvantages to using Cinderhulk in the lane, its passive will auto push the lane and force you to think about when to make trades that causes Cinderhulk's passive to ramp up.

Yimmortal1 votes

oh man i totally miss seeing a lee sin every game for the past 2 years

AtheosisX1 votes

Please explain how it is better than Sunfire Cape in lane.

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