What if rift herald was just another dragon?

rtbf76109271·Jan 1, 2017·1 votes·437 views

Rift herald is useless and needs to be reworked in a way which makes going top lane desirable for a jungler.

Idea 1: The first 2 dragons (no more since baron will spawn) now have a 50/50 chance to spawn in either top pit or bot pit. The dragons are functionally the same as now. If the baron spawns and kicks a dragon out of the pit, it resets, gets mad and flies away to the bot lane pit.

Idea 2: Both pits spawn a dragon at the same time and each have their own timer. The top pit dragon will get deleted like rift herald if baron spawns. Dragon buffs are lowered to accommodate the possibility of 2 more dragons to be killed

2 Comments

SchmidttyGamesJan 1, 20171 votes

Idea 3: Keep the Rift Herald and make it's buff act more like Baron's, with or without the buffing minions part. Maybe something similar to the Elder Drake buff on a smaller scale, or something else that isn't just totally useless to everyone who isn't split-pushing.

rtbf76109271Jan 1, 20171 votes

ya i think whatever they do the main point is it needs to be for the whole team. Getting more damage on a winning top laner isnt super relevant because presumably if you have time to kill rift herald you can already 1v1 your laner.

Also we are seeing way more top lane tanks so getting burst damage isnt all that useful to them anyways

one reason I thought it could be dragons was so that it was actually easier to kill, so you didn't have to be winning by a TON already to have the time to kill it