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Put death timer reduction on third or fourth dragon buff.

Bots Whilst High·4/8/2016, 4:39:44 AM·3 votes·635 views

Riot stated that they don't like how dragon and herald are taking a back seat to turrets when team fights are won. Meanwhile the players have been complaining about the outrageous death timers. So put a death timer reduction on dragon and watch it suddenly become the most contested objective in the game. It's completely reasonable to get to 3rd dragon by 20-25 minutes and would reward the better team with a nice 10-20% death timer reduction. If the team that secured 3 dragons lost the one fight at 30 minutes that can often end the game for the otherwise winning team, the reductions in death timers would make it so "losing" team couldn't come back as easily after picking one or two champions off during mid game.

2 Comments

Fondling Gems4/8/2016, 4:47:40 AM1 votes

you do run into the issue that after a certain points the death timers will end the game even with the reduction, so it is a buff that both gains and losses usefulness as the game progresses. Riot seems to try to stay away from buffs that get both better and worse based on game length. They like stuff to be obviously good, bad, or neutral depending on game time

WoonStruck4/8/2016, 5:04:05 AM1 votes

Death timers are not supposed to be a snowball mechanic.

How about on first or second. If someone can't pull first or second dragon, that means its either a huge trade-off, or the other team isn't even in the game, finishing the match sooner.