What if towers got stronger with deaths?

Disulfiram·Mar 30, 2018·1 votes·254 views

For example: you get killed in lane, and your tower gets some damage reduction. You die again, and your tower starts doing more damage to champions. You die again, and now your tower shoots faster against champions. You die again, and now your tower Grounds the enemies that it attacks. Etc.

This would make it slightly more difficult to lose a tower after just 1 gank, and would also stop enemies from snowballing off a single bad player in your team, by making it progressively safer for him to farm under his tower.

10 Comments

Mysticman89Mar 30, 20185 votes

I'd be very wary of any design that potentially punishes the opponent for correct play, or worse results in a strategy where someone intentionally ints to get a mega tower.

DisulfiramMar 30, 20181 votes

If you int, your mega tower won't defend baron nor the other lanes from the roams of your now fed enemy.

Also, any design that slows down the snowball is going to be one that punishes whoever is winning - there's simply no way around that.

Sona PingMar 30, 20181 votes

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If you int, your mega tower won't defend baron nor the other lanes from the roams of your now fed enemy.

Also, any design that slows down the snowball is going to be one that punishes whoever is winning - there's simply no way around that.

Singed

(Also, that's not true, you can do that. Easiest way is don't confer additional advantages to the enemy team, just don't make the benefits as big.)

SwiftKitten88Mar 30, 20182 votes

you really didn't spend much time thinking this through did you...

MordepoolMar 30, 20182 votes

I could see it Granting the Tower a Damage and Durability buff if an ally Champion died underneath it.

Let's say you lose a 1v1 in Toplane and start farming under turret. Enemy jungler starts camping you hard. Both start Tower diving over and over and over. Every time they are successful while you are hugging the tower. The Tower gets a Temporary Durability/ATK speed/ Damage Buff.

Tower diving has become so trivial there is nothing preventing a 4 Man Tower dive from being successful. At least this could provide some recourse to people who often feel helpless

OurLestradeMar 30, 20181 votes

The worry there is that it'd become a viable tactic to feed in order to buff your turrets

DisulfiramMar 30, 20181 votes

If you feed to buff your turret, your fed enemy can gank another lane and easily take THAT unbuffed tower. Also, good luck trying to defend other objectives against the enemy you fed on purpose.