Kill gold

Madtepez·Nov 18, 2015·1 votes·389 views

I'll start by saying as a disclaimer that i don't like going YOLO and that i much preferred a more controlled playstyle. I may be in the minority that's why i expect a whole lot of downvote :) but I would rather go 5/1 than 12/8 ooh and btw it's better for my team too...

So....The problem is that people are incentivised to go YOLO and to have ratios of 12/8 rather than 5/1, for 3 reason:

1° they receive (12-5)*300 = 2100 gold more gold 2° the drawback that the enemy team also receive 2100 more gold is kind of invisible, you don't see a big +300 every time you die, so you might not really realize it, or at least it's easy to forget 3° what you gain (the gold) is entirely for you making you super strong (and most people like to be strong, see the whole KS non sense), on the other hand, what you give might not even hurt you, (let say you went 5/5 in lane against an assasin, it's probably your adc who will suffer from the 5 kill the assasin got, not you). Sure you might loose because of it but most people seem to care more about carrying hard personally rather than winning as a team

so, those incentive kind of send a mixed message, ofc diamond+ when playing in ranked know what's best and will probably not fall for that but the majority of players don't play in ranked, even less in diamond +

My proposition is thus that you steal 150 from the opponnent rather than receiving 300 when you kill someone.

If you get a clean kill you still end up with a 300 differential, if you trade kill you end up balancing the book, but at least you cannot snowball out of control by trading your life, if you want to snowball you have to get clean kills.

Their might be some balancing issue cause it might favour low economy champ but it's not a more insurmontable shift than what we got 3 time this season (AP item, juggernaug, ad item)

In the end it might also promote a more controlled, objective based game where kills are a mean to achieve objectives rather than an objective in itself.

2 Comments

BattleOxeNov 18, 20151 votes

It would make farm based champions too strong. It will increase fear of dying, so those will be much less dived in lane. Also, in the end, after clean kill, you still get only 150 gold, instead of 300. So, farming would me much more effective. And it would slow down a game. By a lot. And that's not what RIOT wants

MadtepezNov 18, 20151 votes

Not entirely true,

Yes it will increase the fear of dying and it's the goal

Yes the total gold in the game will be lower, but the gold difference in proportion to total gold would actually be larger so in some aspect it might even prompt quicker game

Farming champion could actually be weakened, cause right now they farm, they might die in lane but will continue to farm and will be relevant at some point, with this proposition killing them does even more to keep them down

Also, don't forget that it is extremely complex to foresse the way the meta would shift : buffing adc makes assasin more valuable wich makes tank more valuable etc... So you cannot definitely say what the impact would be and if it is desirable or not.