As a support main, I hate the new plants...

Chatillon·11/10/2016, 6:09:43 PM·3 votes·956 views

Namely, scrying plant. It's cheap and overpowered. You can just whack it and it does more than Oracles ever did. I spend all my time setting up wards, only for a lee that takes trink so he can ward hop, just to have vision denial like that?

It lights up and entire half of a jungle quarter if you position right. Why does it feel like i need to just hit them, before someone else does and clears them?

Stupidly strong.

The melons are fine, gimmicky, but spawn rarely. Blast cones have had no meaningful interactions in the games I've played, and scrying blooms are by far the strongest, and can be used to clear all wards surrounding baron, light up hidden pinks.

What's the point of hiding wards, when you get big flashing arrows and sparkles stuck on it....

Plants are fun, blast cones have caused shenanigans, but they are dumb and gimmicky. Better to make more plants and put them into a gamemode for shenanigans, than to have them on the rift. Use them, or waste them so the enemy cant use them. That's basically my approach to plants.

Only gold, but its a valid opinion. They provide no depth, just shortcuts to something that originally took strategy. They work around kits, like a leo wall hopping. Immobility is something you signed into, you shouldnt be able to hop on leo. Pick Ekko if you want hops.

Plants are unhealthy, don't listen to your mother

9 Comments

Your Real Mom11/10/2016, 6:19:05 PM2 votes

I actually think that the vision plant reinforces how important vision is in the game. I've seen a ton more control wards being bought in my games than I ever did pinks, and removing wards is a healthy part of the game because most people don't even bother to replace them. I buy a control ward almost every back in this season. And shifting your vision as you move around the map is mandatory anyway so I don't see why clearing one area seems abnormal because if you're moving your ward placement as you rotate it's happening anyway. Personally I love the plants. Particularly honeyfruit just because it gives you your mana back.

Theseus8511/10/2016, 6:28:58 PM2 votes

I think they cause problems for other reasons, yes the AOE sweep is pretty op but my issue is it takes away anything that took time to set up. Lets say you are doing drag get some ward in behind clear rift scuttle sweep dragon pit all of that denial of vision then plant spawns they hit it bam drag stolen and free flash out now WTF. They are removing the "chess" thought process of the game, no more methodical game play other than now I have to make sure all the plants are gone and make sure they don't spawn while we are doing the dragon or baron which is too time consuming and unrealistic.

ForFoxSakes11/10/2016, 6:48:37 PM1 votes

I hate them too. Now scrub supports can "justify" not getting a sightstone even more. "Just hit plants idiot" :/