Don't get me wrong, I love the new elemental dragon ideas. But the benefit provided by the fire dragon is way overtuned and will annoyingly make games way shorter, contrast to what the majority wants.
For clarity - here are the numbers. This isn't a joke.
Increases damage versus champions for 8/16/24% (based on stacks) increased Ability Power and Attack Damage, +50% if they have Mark of the Elder Dragon.
They are pretty much making dragons too valuable to give up...so more fighting for dragons
I think when they implement something new with a bunch of different options, riot often times makes 1 of them slightly more favorable then the rest.
They do this not because they like to have random overpowered things in the game, I think? but instead to serve as a bench mark to compare all of the other ones to when balancing. If it really is the overpowered one it will be nerfed eventually, just don't expect it to happen to soon.
Was a similar situation with thunderlord's where after the first update to keystones after release they said they knew it was clearly the most powerful but they didn't nerf it in that first update to as I said serve as a benchmark to see how the others were performing.
