The most important reason for why Air Drake should give Tenacity

Oakleaf Ranger·Jul 13, 2016·1 votes·564 views

Ocean drake is very useful for or against poke compositions. Yet there are common team compositions currently that are not really affected by the dragon buffs and those teams would be the wombo combo and heavy CC compositions. Tenacity would be the change that would increase the priority of air drake and dragons as a whole for teams who want the CC reduction while incentivizing teams to deny a buff that could be detrimental to CC reliant teams.

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ProExpertKingJul 13, 20161 votes

Or possibly adding effect that movement spells grant the move speed for a small period of time which could be anything from ezreal's blink to really help him get away or hec's rampage to help him stomp head in faster and harder

Oakleaf RangerJul 13, 20161 votes

hmm that's too much of a focused buff that would be limited in use to some champions while being completely useless for others aka ones who don't have build in mobility augmenting abilities like say Velkoz

ProExpertKingJul 13, 20161 votes

Too be fair, Ocean drake only effects health and mana which is almost point less on Garen DrMundo cause of just all the health regen they get already with 0 mana and then there are Aatrox Akali Gnar Kennen Katarina LeeSin Mordekaiser Rengar Riven Rumble Shen Shyvana Tryndamere Zed Zac Yasuo Vladimir That's quite a lot of champions who just get like half of the buff which most don't even care too much if they have it or not. Mostly cause that's their play style and they have ways to either regen back or aren't ment to stay in long, pick up kills and then leave. And almost every tank gets almost nothing from infernal because it doesn't grant health.

ProExpertKingJul 13, 20161 votes

It also turns an ability that's pretty meh and underpowered into something that can actully help out a lot of champions with the few that it won't really do much for.

Oakleaf RangerJul 13, 20161 votes

Yah I have thought it was weird that ocean drake didn't affect energy users, on the other hand at least everyone benefited from the health regen part. Your idea on though would have no use for those champions without build in movement which doesn't really fit the team buff idea that drakes have going for them. Inferno dragon is useful even to tanks who like to build at least 1 damage item before going full tank. Its probably more useful for them though in the early game before everyone starts stacking resistances than later though where it would feel less useful for them.

BluePolarizerJul 13, 20161 votes

wombo team comps LOVE earth dragon.

In the past, a wombo comp would often be able to finish a fight with a 3 for 4 or 3 for 5, and then be unable to take any objectives afterwards if they lost their ADC (since most wombo comps are tank and mage heavy), and get hunted down as they are struggling to take a tower, or forced to only get kills and it's a total gamble late game.

Now, a wombo comp can convert their teamfight wins into solid objectives with earth dragon.

Oakleaf RangerJul 13, 20161 votes

It sounded like that on paper but unless it was baron or dragon then earth dragon didn't help much with towers because minion clearing isn't affected by earth dragon so someone could usually stall long enough for freshly revived champions to come and bull rush you. It was only after the home guard change did earth dragon become more useful for those teams IMO. If even after that it still felt meh most of the time.