Let's talk about Feeding and How the new BOUNTY SYSTEM has changed it
For better or worse feeding exists.
- **feeding as defined by the community is : dying to your enemies consistently **
I dont know if some people didnt get the memo about how much the league community flips tables over this, but... lets go into a few scenarios and details.
there are 2 types of feeding :
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Accidental Feeding ** - a player dies because they are unskilled**
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Intentional Feeding ** - a player dies on purpose in order to help their opponents win**
with that out of the way, let's talk about bounties.
- a bounty is defined as : a gold reward granted to the player that "shuts down" an opponent who is on a kill streak of 3 or higher
so what that means is if you're on a spree and you die you just gave the opponents a massive surge of gold.
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3 kills : 200
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4 kills : 250
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5 kills : 300
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6 kills : 325
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7 kills : 350
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8 kills : 375
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5+n kills : 300+(n*25)
- for bounties over 5 refer to the above formula.
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Dying causes your bounty to reset to 0
so as you can see this can be very troublesome if your carry dies after racking up a bunch of pointless kills that grant nearly no gold.
#what does this mean for players?#
######~~it means that killing feeders will actually make it more likely for you to lose the game. ~~
- kills make you a target
- killing someone without a bounty isnt beneficial if they're likely to earn a bounty in the near future
- kill stealing is going to become a problem again (you sooooo needed that 700 gold bounty for your faerie charm and mobility boots sona)
- feeding gold bounties into a single carry player on your team may cause your team to win even with a "feeder" on your team so long as your team isnt feeding bounties back
- dying after racking up kills can cause your team to lose. majorly.
- The value of Pyke's ULTRA-COMBO... i mean ultimate has just skyrocketed. along with the skill cap.
- assists no longer grant gold from bounties. Pyke can't gain HP. You'll be carrying around a massive bounty.
i doubt any major new strategies involving these scenarios will evolve from low tier elo, but i feel as if a lot of combacks are going to start happening in lcs due to simply learning how to abuse the bounty system.
