Idea: Rift Herald buffs your summoner spells

LegacyDAP·Dec 21, 2016·1 votes·619 views

Rift Herald is pretty much useless to do over any of the dragons. But I think Rift Herald would be more worth if it buffed your summoner spells. That way top laners who roam with TP will have a better way to help their team. Or if they take ignite it does more damage per tick and lasts longer, and flashes range is increased by a certain amount.

I'm not sure how much this could affect the game, but I think this could bring a lot more summoner spell diversity in the game and Rift Herald and top lane wouldn't be completely abandoned the whole game.

I don't really know what they would do to balance it, but I think this could make League more fun and more of a team game. Bot would have to go top to take a Herald early on and it would actually be worth it, and it would be easier for top to participate after getting the buff, or just give it to the fed person to make them stronger.

6 Comments

venomous frostDec 21, 20161 votes

i'm not sure what you're smoking...but splitpusher+rift herald buff=unstoppable

LegacyDAPDec 22, 20161 votes

They could just get rid of the Damage Buff on it. And how do you know it would make splitpusher's OP without knowing the numbers on it or changes they would make? Also having splitpusher's meta would actually be a nice change for once considering Top is pretty much on it's own for now, yet the only meta champions to pick are ones that do well in team fights for that role.

venomous frostDec 22, 20161 votes

I mean the current rift herald,if anything, is broken on splitpushers. It's just not really contested for whatever reason, prolly because nobody wants to help only 1 person get an advantage.

Tryndamere will just kill everything if he gets this buff and rushes shiv, the magic damage is just insane.

LegacyDAPDec 23, 20161 votes

No it's not? Not for the buff it gives. If they just decrease the time Rift Herald lasts, from like 20 to 15 minutes and do the changes it wouldn't be that bad.

This is literally all it does right now:

This unit has the following bonuses: 5% damage reduction while no allied champions near CORRUPTION: At 100 charges, your next basic attack discharges all stacks of CORRUPTION, dealing 15-270 magic damage (at levels 1-18, damage halved for ranged champions)

venomous frostDec 23, 20161 votes

combine that 200 damage with a crit, and a shiv proc, and you have circa 800 magic damage on your first auto midgame, not calculating physical damage. (speaking from a tryndamere POV)

the buff is way too undervalued in the community.