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Plating seriously needs to go. Being punished for helping losing lanes is nonsense.

Yenn··2 votes·1,187 views

My bottom lane is 0-4 and about to be 4-man dived by top and jungle. I respond, succesfully stop the dive, and we trade 3 kills for 1 death. Good play on my part, right?

Wrong. Meanwhile, the 0-1-0 Diana at middle lane AFK pushes, takes three plates and four waves of minions, and comes out with over 2000 gold. I'm now completely and utterly fucked and almost a full item behind, because the plating gave her 540 extra gold, on top of the minion waves, and one more push can take the turret and remove my ability to safely farm through my disadvantage.

When your team mates are losing, the entire game just snowballs out of control because of this bullshit. You can either help them stay in the game and lose your lane horribly because the opponent AFK pushed, or stay in your lane to protect your turret plating and let the losing lane snowball out of control, then wait for them to rotate and destroy you. There is no good option.

This mechanic is honestly the stupidest shit to have ever been introduced to League, and serves no purpose other than further reducing the agency a single player has over the game, which is already unacceptably low.

7 Comments

Jamaree12 votes

That literally isn't possible what you described by the way. Assuming she hit every cs during those three waves AND it was the third wave both times around, early in the game, she could have only gotten 3 plates for 160 gold so 480 + 12 melees for 252 and 12 ranged for 168 and the 2 siege for I will be generous and say 75 each for 150 meaning she should only get a total of meaning at max she could only get 1050 and that is only assuming she didn't miss a single of that cs.

Also plates only give 160?

So I got to ask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdtKbq3Omkw

Dynikus7 votes

There are so many problems with this. How did it take you that long to help bot that diana was able to take 4 waves and 3 plates before you got back? How was 0/1/0 diana ahead of you in gold after you just got 3 kills/assists? If you just opened up bot lane with 3 kills, why didn't you take bot tower plates of your own?

Yenn1 votes

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There are so many problems with this. How did it take you that long to help bot that diana was able to take 4 waves and 3 plates before you got back? How was 0/1/0 diana ahead of you in gold after you just got 3 kills/assists? If you just opened up bot lane with 3 kills, why didn't you take bot tower plates of your own?

Bottom lane was down 4 kills. Stopping a 4-man dive when your bottom lane is severely behind and has a level 6 disadvantage is extremely hard to pull off.

Four waves is only 2 minutes of game time; you have to walk to bottom lane, spend 30 seconds fighting, recall, and then get back to lane. Immobile champions, especially casters, do not move fast, especially with only tier 1 boots.

Assists only give 150 gold, regardless of bounties. I get 450 gold for roaming to bottom and outplaying the fed enemy team, then have to fight with everyone else for what little CS there is, which isn't comparable to the 2000+ gold Diana gets for literally doing nothing but sitting at mid lane.

Even if we weren't near death from the team fight, the plating would have been split amongst us, which makes it significantly less useful than having all of the gold consolidated on one champion. 180 gold on three champions is nothing, and I likely would have lost even more plates if I had stayed.

I'm really not sure why you're asking how a champion who's 0-1-0 gets ahead of you after being spoon fed over 2000 gold. Being 0-1-0 does not put you at a 2000 gold disadvantage, especially in the first 10 minutes of the game.

Stop trying to defend this idiotic mechanic with sub-par game knowledge.

Jamaree3 votes

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Bottom lane was down 4 kills. Stopping a 4-man dive when your bottom lane is severely behind and has a level 6 disadvantage is extremely hard to pull off.

Four waves is only 2 minutes of game time; you have to walk to bottom lane, spend 30 seconds fighting, recall, and then get back to lane. Immobile champions, especially casters, do not move fast, especially with only tier 1 boots.

Assists only give 150 gold, regardless of bounties. I get 450 gold for roaming to bottom and outplaying the fed enemy team, then have to fight with everyone else for what little CS there is, which isn't comparable to the 2000+ gold Diana gets for literally doing nothing but sitting at mid lane.

Even if we weren't near death from the team fight, the plating would have been split amongst us, which makes it significantly less useful than having all of the gold consolidated on one champion. 180 gold on three champions is nothing, and I likely would have lost even more plates if I had stayed.

I'm really not sure why you're asking how a champion who's 0-1-0 gets ahead of you after being spoon fed over 2000 gold. Being 0-1-0 does not put you at a 2000 gold disadvantage, especially in the first 10 minutes of the game.

Stop trying to defend this idiotic mechanic with sub-par game knowledge.

Calls someone out for sub par game knowledge.

Literally doesn't know how much gold plates give or how much gold that 4 waves give.

lul.

Yenn1 votes

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Calls someone out for sub par game knowledge.

Literally doesn't know how much gold plates give or how much gold that 4 waves give.

lul.

You're right, she got a kill on the jungle that I didn't notice. It was about 1800 gold, which is still close enough to 2000. There's a difference between having numbers wrong and flat out not understanding how the game works.

It doesn't change how stupid it is to spoon feed the winning team gold if the losing team's winning lanes attempt to help their team mates.

Jamaree5 votes

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You're right, she got a kill on the jungle that I didn't notice. It was about 1800 gold, which is still close enough to 2000.

It doesn't change how stupid it is to spoon feed the winning team gold if the losing team's winning lanes attempt to help their team mates.

Nice of you to just conveniently forget to mention that fact, also I just want to clarifying, the "behind" Diana who once again could only at MAX get 1050 gold assuming this was early in the game, got a kill and bounty of nearly 1 k, because again, max she could get from what you describe was 1050 gold and then was able to dominate. So what is it, was she actually behind, you are tripping over your lies a bit.

DuskDaUmbreon2 votes

That'd require the jungler having 7+ kills or an assload and a half of farm over everyone, because that's the only way Diana's making up that extra 950 missing gold.

At which point...how the fuck is Diana killing him?

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