Why not give Ohmwrecker an effect on allied towers?

Clint Orris··60 votes·14,401 views

Since it debuffs enemy towers, it would be cool if it buffed allied towers instead of making them invulnerable. For example:

  1. Increased firing rate or
  2. It’ll auto target enemies if they’re attacking the tower
  3. Splash damage on attacks
  4. A completely new attack
  5. Able target 2 more enemy units

I feel like this item has a lot of potential for supports.

19 Comments

Sonic Adventure12 votes

I suggested this a long time ago but got ignored, I'm upvoting this one hoping more people see it this time!

Irelia Bot4 votes

Summoner spell fortify on a single turret.

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Fortify

Make those turret dives actually be dangerous once in a while.

Beacon Academy4 votes

I wish there was an item to repair towers :/

Which would be pretty cool considering how some towers stop regening after their lowest third health now

i.e. inhib turrent stops healing at 2/3 health, use item on tower, tower boosted over 2/3, heals to 3/3 health

Hell I'd even be ok with giving up some farm if an item targeted an enemy minion and turned them into a minion that dives the turret and heals for a small chunk.

(Plus ohmwrecker would be a funny name for a repair kit)

ankoanko191 votes

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I wish there was an item to repair towers :/

Which would be pretty cool considering how some towers stop regening after their lowest third health now

i.e. inhib turrent stops healing at 2/3 health, use item on tower, tower boosted over 2/3, heals to 3/3 health

Hell I'd even be ok with giving up some farm if an item targeted an enemy minion and turned them into a minion that dives the turret and heals for a small chunk.

(Plus ohmwrecker would be a funny name for a repair kit)

basically azir passive

Glory973 votes

I don't know. I like the idea, but if that concept was viable in competitve lol, it would slow down the game extremly. Because teams have to respect the ohmwrecker and not go for 4/5 man dives, extending laning phase. (Similar to league of stopwatch)

And if that results in another stupid change to shorten competitve game lenght to an acceptable level, such as the insane buff to the baron-buff. I would rather have ohmwrecker as a forgotten item

revliledpembroke2 votes

Smite had an armor (it's been awhile since I played) that had Health and Physical Protections similar to it's companions, but it's special ability was to buff ally tower's firing speed by 30% and reduce the enemy tower's firing speed by 30%.

Something like that would not be out of place in League.

Metal Janna1 votes

One empowered shot that's basically a smaller Cho'gath Rupture?

The Taco Kat1 votes

Tower invulnerability for the duration would be neat, though I'm unsure of its actual usefulness in game.

1800FLASH FASTER1 votes

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Since it debuffs enemy towers, it would be cool if it buffed allied towers. For example:

  1. Increased firing rate or
  2. It’ll auto target enemies if they’re attacking the tower
  3. Splash damage on attacks
  4. A completely new attack

I feel like this item has a lot of potential for supports.

If you honestly build Ohmwrecker you need help.

dogownerjr1 votes

[{quoted}](name=1800FLASH FASTER,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=PLlOebtL,comment-id=0006,timestamp=2018-06-10T10:24:15.906+0000)

If you honestly build Ohmwrecker you need help.

Did you even read the post?...

Silverjust1 votes

they should buff tower damage, and ohmwrecker makes them how they are now and the cooldown is changed to an average active item cooldown and maybe buildpath/stats improved

FilDaFunk1 votes

Would be cool if you could choose the target of the tower's attack.

Fack you Brad1 votes

It would be interesting if Ohmwrecker gave the nexus siege ability where you get to fire three tower shots.item 3634

Rathar Dashing1 votes

Then you'd have to call it Ohmmaker

CytheGuy1 votes

The current problem with Ohmwrecker is that its active is only good when towers are actual powerful or even useful for something other than preventing people from taking your inhibs first. This idea sounds pretty good, but you'd have to pick either buff or debuff rather than both. If you had both then buying it would just make the other team buy it to disable your turret after you buff it. The game would become League of Ohmwrecker.

I do think that if it buffed allied towers instead of debuffing enemy towers it would be a nice creative band-aid for the current situation with turrets. Sure it would still become a must-have item, but at least towers will become meaningful while Riot realizes that tower's base stats are abysmal right now.

We could even rename it to something like "Ohmguard" (get it?) because it would be a defensive item instead of an offensive item.

Vztah1 votes

sounds neat but kinda ridiculous alternatively would be down for something like a self and/or targeted shield against towers attacks for a 2-3 seconds but still allows you to be damaged by anything else could still be a supp item

PowerSlave9931 votes

Riot be: ''Nah this will just increase the game time...''

LatetotheRace1 votes

How about that shield that used to exist in inner turrets a couple of seasons ago?

DragonVS1 votes

Oh I like this idea

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