What is the point of these Elemental Dragons?

Zuil··1 votes·553 views

> With the advent of the Elementals, your ability to adapt on the fly becomes much more important. Questions change from a pre-solved ‘How much do we care about 1st stack, 2nd stack, etc?' to a situational ‘How much do we care about each element right now?’ Trading and denying become much more important (and realistic) ~ 6.9 Patch Notes

1st, how tf is this more 'realistic'

2nd, not every game is even, matter fact more games are uneven because of how bloody easy most champions snowball in damage, and when these champions snowball, it makes taking dragon much more difficult since the enemy's team ADC (or mid laner, good god) got a kill and is now able to bring hell to my team, take one of these 3 buffs that spike that team's power by a good chunk and then have the game decided within the first 15 minutes of a game.

3rd, RNG (said it again), now the team on the backfoot is now instead of just worrying about defending baron being snagged by the enemy team, they need to worry about the 50% chance of the AP / AD bonus or damage to monsters and turrets added to them to make them that much more stronger and the other team that much more behind. Also there's the RNG in teams who pick for split pushing / damage and them getting the ap / ad drake or epic monster / turret drake.

While this would be maybe be better if the match you were playing so that the contests for dragon would be more even, it's just not a good addition to the game with the current state it is in right now.

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EcchiOtakuTM2 votes

So why did you and your team become that behind in the first place? You would lose anyways.

The new elemental dragons are better because now there's more strategic value is deciding whether to take a dragon you or the enemy want or fighting to keep resetting a weaker dragon(earth) so that one benefiting a comp won't show.

It's a lot more fun and interactive than current dragon is and auto grows into the most valuable dragon (dragon 5) at 35min so there's still an objective even if teams havn't been contesting the early dragons.

The RNG is also better since it'll negate certain comps from just being constantly picked just because they benefit more from the way dragon would work if not RNG. Thus more viability.

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