Rift Herald is too easy to kill.

HateDaddy·May 19, 2017·9 votes·863 views

Yes I'm aware that it does have a lot of HP but I've been able to successfully solo it with Jax, Nasus and Nunu. I've seen Trynd, Astrid, Akali, Shen and Gragas solo it as well. This shouldn't be a thing. In my experiences, I wasn't even super fed. I could basically do it with gunblade/botrk in Jax and Sheen + defensive item on Nasus. It's too strong at pushing lanes down and while the risk shouldn't be too high, soloing it shouldn't be an option unless stupidly fed either. It's basically a free tower and in the rapidly snowballing game we play in today, that's critical. This needs to be changed.

18 Comments

xelakerMay 19, 20173 votes

if left alone soraka can solo in in like 8 minutes of running about haha

Nanuk PihoqahiakMay 19, 20171 votes

It doesn't take anywhere near eight minutes. She could do it in probably 45 seconds to a minute due to the true damage proc.

xelakerMay 20, 20171 votes

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It doesn't take anywhere near eight minutes. She could do it in probably 45 seconds to a minute due to the true damage proc.

what soraka do you play?? item 3006 item 3046 item 3031 item 3072 item 3085 item 3153 ??

Nanuk PihoqahiakMay 20, 20171 votes

Uh, the one where all she has to do is rotate around the Herald and proc his eye for something like 1,500 true damage, which is around 12 percent of his health every 5 or so seconds?

xelakerMay 20, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Angus The Bear,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=EaNfzYdv,comment-id=0000000000000000,timestamp=2017-05-20T22:36:08.915+0000)

Uh, the one where all she has to do is rotate around the Herald and proc his eye for something like 1,500 true damage, which is around 12 percent of his health every 5 or so seconds?

I'm not gonna argue with a brick wall.

Nanuk PihoqahiakMay 21, 20171 votes

Personally just tested in a custom game. I assumed Soraka would be around level 10 when the objective popped up. Only items present were Ninja Tabi, Sightstone, and Redemption. The only challenging part is kiting to ensure you have enough health to deal with the eye not opening when it hits a critical threshold of health. This took about a minute and thirty seconds due to the last bit.

I did another test using a less fair setup. This one involved Lucidity Boots, Sightstone, and Talisman of Ascension. I figured Redemption from the first build would make it too easy. I messed up pretty royally on positioning, and would have been able to do it without the honeydew plant. This attempt was also done in about a minute and thirty seconds.

I'm not sure what will suspend your disbelief over it being possible, but you're welcome to test it yourself.

420 gramsMay 19, 20172 votes

Warwick could solo the last one with no kills needed

Tobias BracknerMay 19, 20172 votes

Nah it's fine.

Soloing is risky business and I have no problem with mad fed characters having strong tools the end the game quicker.

Sun Wu RyuumokuMay 19, 20172 votes

yeah even without herald game was onesided but taked too long time for loosing team. Remind me of many game where i was taken in hostage for 20-25 min for nothing.

PhDs NutsMay 19, 20172 votes

My biggest problem is that I don't even realize the enemy took the herald until they summon it somewhere. Either the death roar doesn't exist or is way too subtle.

nice tableMay 19, 20172 votes

the fks astrid? also yeah ww can solo it at spawn

LuggMay 19, 20171 votes

The fact that a lot of champs can solo it is just ridiculous. It's basically a guaranteed tower for taking it at the least. Anything that valuable should be at least a two person take.