How about we get upgradable towers

Spoofghoul··3 votes·308 views

Upgradable turrets would give players the option in how they like their towers to work. Want your towers more durable? No problem buy them some armor. Want them to have more Damage no problem get them a weapons upgrade, or how about some more range? Sick of seeing your tower being whittled down by constant shoving and want to buy them some health regen now you can. Tired of your team not using you splipush prowess to pressure objectives how about you upgrade a line of turrets to give minions a temporary buff!

Have players be able to upgrade their turrets in the shop by spending gold. Via a tab in the shop players can select turrets, from there players can select which line of turrets to upgrade, outer, inner, inhibitor and nexus turrets. Upgrades would cost an appropriate amount of gold. Upgrades can be a items for example;

  • Defensive Items, like giving turrets a selection of items players can buy for them, this could be aura items like aegis, minion buff items like banner where it would buff a minion whom passes by. Other things could be stuff like a shield generator. Or maybe a thornmail or whatever these items may be, these items would ofcoarse have buildpaths, items bought apply to all turrets in that specific line, example; you buy health regen item for all outer turrets, or increased vision range.

  • Offensive upgrades Like buffing its range or damage, but also altering its attack behavior and type of atacks, think about stuff like splash damage or turning its damage into magic damage. But also increasing the overheat capacity or the way it attacks, lasers, or slow firing large heavy hitting aoe blasts, or fast attacks, or allowing it to hit more than one target (splitting it's attacks and damage)

Both types of upgrades come in the form of items so turrets can only have 6 upgrades each. The balance in this turretbuff is that you either spend gold on turret upgrading or buying items for your champion. But contrary to champions, when turrets are dead they wont just respawn on the fountain :)

2 Comments

Lu7GxFdkYz1 votes

Health regen for towers? How long do you want these games to last? Hours?

And they already got rid of the shield from the tower. It should stay like that. They should revert it back to the old way. No items.

Spoofghoul1 votes

No they would not. Say you get an item hich provides 5hp/5 that would cause a line of tower to regenerate 300hp in 5 minutes.

You can even dive the enemy champion or pick him off leaving his tower vulnerable so you can focus it down with 2/3 teammembers,

If the upgraded tower falls that means your gold spent isnt worth anything anymore meaning it is a risky investment.

And like i said in the original post upgrade applies to all towers in that line, for exampl all outer turrets, upgrade prices are adjusted accordingly

So take that 5hp/5 on a champion a comparable item item 1006 would cost 150 but to upgrade this on towers would cost 450 or even 500. Another comparison lets say you want a really heavy tower damage upgrade something comparable to item 3031 this would cost 10800, remember how i said it upgrades a whole line of towers, so for really strong upgrades you will need team effort to make it happen.

Upgrading towers cost gold meaning your champion will fall behind in items allowing the other team to have a slight advantage everywhere else on the map.

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