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Riot, there can't be strategic diversity as long as games are decided by first blood/dragon.

NeoScout·11/27/2014, 5:53:14 PM·8 votes·747 views

As long as one team can easily stomp the other due a few early kills we won't be seeing the variety in strategies that you guys are aiming for.

A losing team can't worry about how they want to win the game, or how to best execute their strategy because of the pressure of not having enough farm, or getting caught and falling further behind. Team need room to breath. Right now the only and best strategy is getting that bf or first dragons of the game, then proceed to deathball through the now super weak towers.

If you guys want to see strategies you would have to make the game less snowbally, this is why different strategies work in games like Dota where an early lead may not mean much, losing teams have a better chance to play their cards right and even turn the game around.

12 Comments

Yandere Carry11/27/2014, 5:55:23 PM3 votes

I disagree over the first blood comment, but I will say the Dragon issue does exist. It isn't the dragon buffs themselves so much as the best buff being the first one. That damage increase is huge so it confuses me as to why the first buff would be the strongest, till buff #5 of course.

Fed by Snu Snu11/29/2014, 9:18:59 AM2 votes

You will never have anything more than first blood deciding games as long as the majority of items are only a bunch of stat sticks.

People are calling Zhonya's broken, when Zhonya's is what all items should be. Strong actives are what should make the difference, not stat advantages.

kurufal11/27/2014, 9:12:58 PM1 votes

I don't have an issue with the dragon buff other than it is permanent. It gives an already (usually) ahead team the advantage for the rest of the game. If you try to contest the ahead team it only gets worse. The buffs they give should be timed and maybe stack 5 it should make them permanent. The residual buff gets way out of hand and the game is nearly decided. There is no way to outplay the ahead team unless they THROW the game themselves.