I do not understand why this game needs even more damage.

Catch a Cold·10/23/2019, 6:10:31 PM·2 votes·942 views

I wonder if the balance team learned anything about the Pyke problematic and the decline of armor/mr in comparison to damage.

New infernal dragon buff: Random AOE damage that seems to scale with your stats? New Elder dragon buff: Global true damage non flashable true damage execute under 20% of your health with additional true damage burn ticks that last longer than hourglass protection? WHAT? WHAT ?

This probably lets your team end the game in less than five minutes or let the enemy team that you dominated let you stomp in 5 minutes without anything to do. Still having 20% of your HP meant to much back when I started playing league. Now Riot takes away your keyboard if you dare to drop under 50% of your HP

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ModThe Djinn10/23/2019, 6:19:18 PM3 votes

You're missing some of the changes to lessen damage.

Stacking multiple Infernal Drakes is harder.
Infernal Dragon Soul requires your team to take four dragons and also requires Infernal element.
Lethality nerfs reducing early game damage.
Cooldown reduction removal of Lethality items lowers frequency of burst.
Earth Drake + Ocean Drake both provide more defenses than previously.
Ocean Element provides more healing.
Spellthief's Edge has the damage removed, reducing bot lane damage.
Bot lane and jungle XP has been nerfed, decreasing the damage those champions do early on.
Conqueror nerf.

Additionally, Elder Dragon is flashashable if you're fast.

Basically, Riot is stripping a bit of early-to-mid game power out of the game and putting that damage into more limited game-ending power windows instead. The net overall effect should be lower damage on average, but higher highs when a team captures an important objective.