A Simple Idea To Reduce Snowballing

ModCaliCoastReplay·4/12/2019, 10:39:49 AM·6 votes·1,347 views

Reduce base kill gold to 200g.

Many people agree that one of the worst feelings in League is to skillfully jockey for a hard-won, if small, advantage at your own position - and then to be wiped out by the marauding dance partner of some hapless individual going 0 and large in an autofill or hard-countered position. Most solo queue players just don't realize the importance of keeping deaths low in lane phase - and someone going 0/4 early on as it stands basically gives their opponent a free (or the equivalent per position) - which is more than enough to start a lethal, roaming eventual snowball in the right hands. If kill gold goes to 200g, that's a or just parts instead - a lot less oppressive.

10 Comments

letsfeedtogether4/12/2019, 10:47:31 AM9 votes

why punish the players that do know how to play the early game?

PrismalDawn4/12/2019, 10:56:21 AM7 votes

I would rather be able to bring back old defenses in runes so I can itemize against a specific match up going into the game.

Thingamajig4/12/2019, 12:32:43 PM2 votes

Riot talked about kill gold long time ago the reasoning for the 300 gold was that it was the middle ground between making people ignore kills and ignore farm If kill gold is less then farming is more important if kill gold is more then snowballing is massive and farming is an irrelevant skill

ie 300g is the middle ground and that is why the bounty system is in place in both positive and negative direction to reduce snowballing both directions

ModCaliCoastReplay4/12/2019, 5:52:57 PM2 votes

Well, the community's largely rejected the idea, so there we go. :)

All that being said - if you guys want 300 gold for your kills, be aware that you are also agreeing to basically continue to give a full item by 10 to 15 minutes to any fed member of the enemy team that racks up double digits on your next tomato can teammate, too, next time you play. (Yes, I'm aware that after awhile kills on a punching bag are worth less, but the extra farm and turret plates and map control just about always make up for it.)

So, the next time the enemy ADC 10-0's your poor autofilled botlane, they will continue to be on item 3072 or item 3153 or item 3031 by the first time they see you at least, while you guys are still minutes away from an item powerspike.

Cind3rkick4/12/2019, 10:51:50 AM1 votes

That would make a kill equal to 11 cs... It would slow the games down alot as people would just be more content to farm rather than kill

Syrile4/12/2019, 10:53:58 AM1 votes

Int'ing Sion will become Int'ing anything that can stay under turret for a while. Turret plates will be even more sought after, so the greed will go up. This will also punish players good at CS even more since the bounty system counts for CS now (idiocy abounds for this decision). Snowballing is way too strong but I doubt this would fix it. You would have to change the gold values of just about everything for this to work. and I am not a big fan of that.