@Meddler, can we get an actual important objective for top lane?

Malicious Metal·Feb 12, 2017·10 votes·1,046 views

I think it's safe to say that Rift Herald failed making top lane be more important to the Jungler and make it more interesting as a whole. The objective is simply a selfish buff that just makes an already winning lane snowball even harder and even then it's often not worth the risk taking.

So, can we please get an actual team-wide buff or something else that shifts some of the attention from bot lane to the top side of the map? It would also help ADC's since it would take pressure off them.

13 Comments

Jeddy017Feb 13, 20174 votes

Here's a couple of top lane objectives:

Make a campfire
Craft some tools & weapons
create a small hut for shelter from the weather
catch some fish in a nearby river
grow a glorious beard
draw a face on a volleyball
bang the hot daughter/son of the chieftain of a native village
craft a raft because you're about to get ~~fucked~~ganked by an entire village
find out your team have already won the game 10 years ago & your wife/husband moved on to someone else
queue for another game

All this straight out of The Island: Top Lane guide.

KoggyStyleFeb 13, 20171 votes

i love this.

Big LincolnFeb 12, 20171 votes

i think Herald shouldn't be a one-time objective

Doesn't really create a lot of pressure when it's something that takes forever to obtain, gives one temporary buff for one player that only works if they splitpush and work away from their team, and then never shows up again. Just never worth the risk when Dragon is permanent and boosts your whole team.

Ben SharpioFeb 12, 20171 votes

i cant even remember the last time i actually wanted to do rift herald. Thing is, they nerfed its damage and what not, but it's STILL too risky to take. it takes way too long to kill, it still does too much damage, like who the fuck is going to actually do this

AhristocatsFeb 12, 20171 votes

rift heral problem: -only appear one time -hard to do -only good for split pushing

RebonackFeb 12, 20171 votes

Replace Harold with a void corrupted dragon. Make 'em give a unique team-wide buff that counts as two dragon stacks for the purpose of Elder Dragon's burn.

OrangesilkFeb 12, 20171 votes

There is a reason why it's supposed to be very hard to do, because many toplaners have wide access to lifesteal and/or easy dragon killing mechanics. If it was easier to make it would make toplane even more snowbally. Imagine a toplaner just kill their enemy laner, walk down and get a free objective with a significant buff, awful.

However, with it being very hard to do it just becomes not worth the risk. For something to be worth a risk that big it'd have to be too good of a buff.

StellafreyjaFeb 12, 20171 votes

Completely serious/not serious idea, but what if for the first 20 minutes (before Baron spawns) Dragon can either spawn topside or botside?

EndlessSorcererFeb 13, 20171 votes

I see this having one of two results:

[1] Teams don't know where the dragon will spawn, so it may randomly go to a team simply because they are near where it spawns.

[2] Teams know where is spawns ahead of time, so both teams swap their bot and top lanes to have more players near it.

KoggyStyleFeb 13, 20171 votes

2 dragons spawn till baron pops up..... now blue can send adc/supp top for better protection and we can remove turret FB/shit stats on bot turrets, you can lose that cock sucker in 3 waves..... ya we did pooorly but trist melted that damn turret.

kirbyzamaFeb 13, 20171 votes

I was thinking that if rift herald gave a very strong temporary buff to ALL members of the team that took it, It would be more valuable. It can still be hard to take and very strong like it is now as to make going for it kinda like trying to sneak baron but if an enemy team 4 mans bot lane than your team can get that buff for everyone and even if you lost tower you will be as strong or stronger than the enemy next time you meet your laner cause they invested too much in one place. If the buff only lasted until baron spawned than that means the later the rift herald is taken the less valuable the buffs would be. So you could still do a massive dive later in the game so bot laners would at least get an early reprieve from ganks and if herald is strong enough top would be camped more but to less effect because tanking herald could turn a fight if mid rotated to stop the herald after top dies. Just some random ideas. No clue if this would balance out like I imagine but it's just a thought.