Title says it all, I've always wondered why his ult doesn't have some kind of bonus for being in the danger zone.
But maybe all Rumble needs to become relevant again is to have his shield buffed slightly?
god fuckign damn it, NOT IN META != UNDERPOWERED Every fucking day "lol this champ isnt picked that much that means he needs buffs" Rumble is in a great spot.
Rumble main here. I'm convinced his winrate is only low because he suffers from the "Noobs play him" problem. He is hard to pick up but once you get him down he's easy to play well.
Assuming he DID need a buff, the LAST thing you'd want to do is buff his ultimate. At worst, they sidestep it as it falls out of the sky. At best, their whole team is baited into the jungle where they all take 60% of their hp from full duration. Buffing the Equalizer would make him and incredibly toxic one and a few halfs trick pony.
If he did need buffs, they would need to buff his w. His q is great, and with its good scaling and high bases, is fantastic danger zone late game. His e is again, bad early unless you land both, but once you get it leveled and some ap, can be once of the most powerful abilities and the only reason he can duel and adc late. His W is never really great, it's just always decent. And to buff it, they would have to remove the shiled OR the speed, and move that power to whichever they leave behind. Or they could keep both and increase the cd and make it stronger.
Qwe makes him great in lane, and his r keeps him from falling off in teamfights. He has more viable build options than any other AP champions aside from Amumu and Cho'Gath.
Title says it all, I've always wondered why his ult doesn't have some kind of bonus for being in the danger zone.
Because it's his ultimate. 
's Heat mechanic is meant to be a gate to his spammable basic abilities, and the Danger Zone bonuses are there to encourage proper ability timing in order to make the most out of them. Equalizer isn't spammable, and its timing has nothing to do with the use of his other abilities, so it would make little sense to give it a Danger Zone bonus. The variance it would bring would mean that the ultimate would have a case where it would be either far too strong, or far too weak, depending on balancing (unless there's not that much variance in the end, in which case there would be no point to the Danger Zone bonus in the first place).
Rumble's ult is pretty nuts damage wise already under a best case scenario and has a pretty high effectiveness variance too (dropping it directly on one enemy who steps out versus on a whole team who have to run along it in a jungle choke point for example). That means increasing its damage isn't appropriate, but making it weaker when he's not in the Danger Zone probably isn't a good fit either - it succeeds and fails hard enough already.
If we were happy with a bit more variance though and added a Danger Zone bonus we'd almost certainly have to reduce the current damage to compensate (so lower than current without bonus, higher than current with). Rumble's not too stompy when played by someone only moderately familiar with him, he's got one of the steepest learning curves in the game statistically though, so becomes really effective when played by someone with a lot of experience on him.
Wait... really???? Rumble is SUPER strong right now. He doesnt need any buffs.
His Shield was buffed, ult doesn't generate heat.
because rumble needs no fucking buffs right now.
Bro have you watched esports lately? Rumble pick or ban most of the time
Yes please buff so I can abuse him LMAO.
what if It's width is increased by 50 in heat zone.
Yea, let´s buff one of th strongest abilities in the game - what could possibly go wrong?
His ult doesn't need it. His ult does retarded damage albeit not as retarded as when it had frontloaded damage (people really had no idea how utterly broken rumble's old ult was until he became popular). Giving it a danger zone bonus wouldn't do anything to help.
His ult does not add heat right? That would probably be why. Could be an interesting change though if it did and had a bonus in the danger zone.
