Should Singed be changed so his Q isn't a toggle anymore?

darkdill··1 votes·809 views

Having Poison Trail as a toggle is fairly problematic. You can never catch Singed with his pants down (so to speak), and it forces his mana costs to be weird.

I know a lot of people will be skeptical about changing Singed's Poison Trail, but hear me out. Here's an example of how it could be changed.

Poison Trail For the next 8 seconds, Singed has increased health regeneration and leaves a poison cloud behind him; the cloud lasts for 3.25 seconds. Enemies standing in the cloud's trail are Poison icon poisoned for 2 seconds, taking magic damage every 0.25 seconds for the duration, continually refreshing while remaining in the affected area. 16/15/14/13/12 second cooldown. Costs X mana.

The reason for changing it like this is so you can't keep it going continuously until you get enough CDR, which allows opponents to capitalize on a cooldown while laning, or even post-laning if Singed doesn't focus on CDR.

But to compensate (and since Singed is already easily bullied), Singed gets some free health regeneration while Poison Trail is active, giving him some more sustain and letting him take a little more of a beating in lane. Additionally, Singed's other abilities could get their mana costs reduced thanks to this change; they normally have high costs to try and stymie Singed players who use quick toggles.

Of course, it doesn't have to be this way word-for-word, but changing it away from a toggle, I feel, is necessary to allow Singed to have more "balance levers" to pull.

6 Comments

Jamaree3 votes

Seems like a massive nerf that only makes his laning phase even weaker and easier to abuse.

darkdill1 votes

As I said, changing his Q to being an active instead of a toggle would be accompanied by some other buffs, ones that would allow him to be tougher to kick out of lane. For instance, his W and E could get their mana costs drastically reduced.

Jamaree1 votes

You should state that then because as of right now, this just seems like a massive nerf overall without really changing his end game.

7thHeaven1 votes

Then dig for topic of old BV. I dont want to see "why did mage got too many defensive items" topic any more.

7thHeaven1 votes

He is toxic enough for not getting another health regeneration.

Glîtchy1 votes

honestly I'm fine with him being like this, all singed is really intended to do is split pressure to get the enemy team to divide

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