Runaan's Hurricane Needs A Tweak

BlunterMonk··15 votes·4,263 views

This is strictly a visual change and not so much for balance, I'm not sure if there is a category for visual changes alone.

I believe the two bolts on item 3085 should be identical to the champions basic attack. I understand why they look the way they do and all that but from a personal opinion I think it would be much more visually pleasing if you got to see your champions basic attack 3x.

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RiotMeddler17 votes

I'm with you that the visual effect would generally look cooler, we do think it's important that the secondary shots from Runaan's are clearly distinguished from the primary shot though, so this is a case where clarity of gameplay has to trump aesthetics a bit unfortunately. The primary shot both deals more damage and applies some effects (such as Silver bolts) that the secondary shots don't, so we feel it's important it's clear which is which.

Arcade Andrew14 votes

you could make them the same projectile but made of rainbows and unicorns?

Very Hard Engage2 votes

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I'm with you that the visual effect would generally look cooler, we do think it's important that the secondary shots from Runaan's are clearly distinguished from the primary shot though, so this is a case where clarity of gameplay has to trump aesthetics a bit unfortunately. The primary shot both deals more damage and applies some effects (such as Silver bolts) that the secondary shots don't, so we feel it's important it's clear which is which.

no clarity at all when twitch uses it with his ultimate, they're tiny little bolts and the enemy team doesn't even know where the bonus damage is coming from, it gets marked up as "rat-ta-ta-tat" damage

Kobold1 votes

Nah guys we need to make Runaan's passive not unique anymore, I want to see the interesting implications from doing so as it really is only efficient on 2 characters at all. But stacking would be interesting to see what would come of it if anything with its only having AS as a stat.

tracerbullet6245 votes

Thresh with 3 hooks >.>

idoki2 votes

Vel'koz haze 10 tentacles ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

50000000000000001 votes

Speaking of which. Thresh and Vel'Koz (as well as Azir) don't use projectiles for autoattack.

Sinister Snail1 votes

Yep, a little perk I love to annoy amateur yasuos with. "Hacking I saw auto go through wind wall!"

Actually, with autos, Q, E, and ult, Vel'koz really doesn't care about wind wall.

Avious2 votes

Pretty sure Q and E don't go through.

Shockforce1 votes

Q does not...

E does, it is weird. The projectile is erased but the aoe still goes off. Unless they fixed that interaction.

Oh, and hope you are ready for brain hurt because W gets erased by wind wall.

Avious1 votes

Yup, I know about W. I don't think E goes through... I can't be sure, though since I don't play Velkoz too much

JustMyBassCannon1 votes

Q doesn't go through Wind Wall, but it can go around it pretty easily.

JustMyBassCannon5 votes

Might be a pain, but it would be hilarious to see a flurry of Ashe flurries.

LordForrest6 votes

Your name... It is familiar to me. From days long past, in a time when we had freedom and the ability to bump. It is good to see the old crowd once more, for i heard mention of the Cerealboxofdoom and now i see basscannon.

Duke Anax1 votes

Ever tried it? you actually get three flurries here.

The Bishop Piece1 votes

The real question about Runnan's is why do you get that yellow orb on top of you?

Solidair31 votes

that wouldn't work, because not all ranged champions have missiles.

Kayle and vel'koz for instance.

Qarekeo1 votes

Kayle isn't a ranged champion by default, but her buffed autoattacks are considered ranged for cases like this. Nitpicky, but still.

Solidair31 votes

I am aware. My point is that her auto attacks when ranged do not have missiles. They just instantly hit the target. They can't be blocked by wind wall.

But hurricane 's attacks do have missiles and an associated travel time. And can be blocked.

Morsigil1 votes

Did anyone else read this as "Runaan's Hurricane Needs A Twerk"?

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