Anyone else feel like Elder drake buff was in a good spot with being on par with baron buff. Everyone feared it and even in some cases preferred it. Changing elder drake to this execute does tend to value it wayyyyyyyyyyyy more then baron imo. Simple fix is to revert, thoughts?
It needs to be strong enough that if the team without dragon soul gets it, they can win the game.
I don't think it should be reverted since it didn't have a sharpened amount of power, but I do think that it should be changed.
Its bugged right now and executing people from 80% health, but even if it wasn't, the 20% threshold for an execute is too high and execute in general isn't rewarding gameplay.
Elder drake buff needs to be reverted. Just had a game where we were ahead in kills, gold, and drakes and just flat out lost because of elder buff. The game already has many execute mechanics within champs so shortening the game for the pro scene is a terrible excuse to make the 90% of the player base feel like an absolute win condition is elder. The previous elder buff, the team that didn't get it had a chance to outplay or stall until the buff wore out or if they made a mistake and were able to get kills, now there is no chance of that. No opportunity for outplays, cannot stall, and dont even think about trying for a backdoor upset. If the game goes on for that long, then it's an evenly matched game. NO MECHANIC should override player skill, player mechanics, or teamwork to shorten games. There are other ways to shorten games like further increasing the minion spawn rate at a certain time, make baron buff persist through death at a certain time, have towers lose armor/magic resist at a certain time, etc. Preseason elder buff is not the right way to shorten games. This entire preseason is full of problems and Riot is just focusing on making their pro scene look good and to make money instead of making the game balanced and fair. If the elder buff makes it through to next season, good luck.
