Turret shots bounce once, 60% damage on first hit, 40% damage on second.

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  1. Multi-man dives become a bit riskier. The tower doesn't put out any more damage per second, but the damage is spread out and some damage will be dealt before and after the dive because of the bounce. Makes the dynamics of diving bot lane a bit scarier and interesting.
  2. Ohmwrecker becomes more attractive than just armor and health specifically for diving towers because whereas armor and health can protect you and you alone, ohmwrecker can protect both you and your ally since the tower isn't shooting and the shots can't bounce to your ally.
  3. Melee champions can now farm early game under tower without being harassed by ranged champions, so they don't need bonkers stickiness or crazy durability to actually exist; in other words, if they don't have either of those they can still be practical if they offer something else, like warwick, aatrox, mordekaiser for instance. So instead of having to play overloaded champions like riven, renekton and yasuo in order to stand a fighting chance against champions like ryze and kennen, you can see a wider variety of melee champions everywhere.
  4. Because tower shots bounce once, lanes "unfreeze" a lot faster. If one minion gets by, the tower can bounce shots off of it to reset the wave. This means it is more difficult to deny the enemy gold, but it is harder for them to deny you gold as well. Controlling the minion wave is still important, but you will have to consistently outplay the enemy to completely shut them down.
  5. Harass oriented champions can be given more power to even further differentiate them from eachother, because they lost quite a bit of power in being able to harass the enemy under tower. For instance, pantheon's aegis can be up more frequently so he can get a few spears in despite bouncing turret shots and teemo's damage over time can last a lot longer so if he hits you once its about the same pain as being hit twice.
  6. Game is a lot less frustrating in general and everyone is happier.

1 Comments

Altonius Amakiir1 votes

Seems like a neat idea, maybe something they could try experimenting with on ARAM first to see how it changes gameplay and how its recieved. Don't really like the idea of it bouncing off minions though, seems like I would miss more CS that way.

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