Is the killstreak bounty a good mechanic or one that needs removed?
I personally feel like it is a bad mechanic since it seems to punish players for doing well and reward bad players for that 1 lucky kill on a better player. What do you guys think?
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I think it’s good. It stops the match from being a one sided snowball.
I’ve had multiple fed jg flash ult dive me and die giving 1000 gold before for shut down and it swung the match and after they said “worth”. But in reality I picked up way more gold than they did.
So I think it’s a good mechanic because it can change a match and it teaches people to think things through instead of just throwing kills to the enemy. I was able to carry a game better because I was more aware that if I die I’m going to give them so much gold.
I think it's a necessity. It's the only thing that allows good players with shit team mates to have a chance at winning. If a good top laner has an inting bot lane, he might be able to carry through shut down gold. And it doesn't stop better players from playing well for 1 lucky kill.
I agree this was needless change and it doesn't help losing team much. It favors assassin or high dmg junglers hence why they are meta in soloQ. It affects basically nothing in pro-play.
It is just another mechanic that goes against mages as they are immobile, squishy and very easy to shutdown if they are lucky and doing well in lane. You killed this Zed 3 times, doesn't matter, if they pull out good gank and Zed gets Kill suddently Zed goes Legendary and solocarry from that point.
Shut down gold is a beauty and a half, and a terror for the fed one. It allows for gold catchup, give the other team a fighting chance to make it not a giant snowball, etc. Ive went 12/0 27 minutes in and then i somehow die, my kill gold was a whopping 1200 spreaded across 3 people. and because of that single kill on me, it gavw them a fighting chance, and eventually they won the game because of my shut down gold.
Tl;dr, shut down gold is a feelsbad for the one qho got killed and feelsgood for the whole enemy team. It prevents complete snowballing, and gives the losing team a fighting chance (think of it like the catchup exp system. If ur behind in levels, youll get more exp. If youre losing the game, if you kill someone with good bounty, you get rewarded with large gold to fight back and possibly come back)
So in my opinon, it prevents complete snowballing, and allows losing team a fighting chance if they can get that shutdown