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Dark Harvest in ARAM is overbearing

Clowington·3/2/2018, 8:54:15 AM·3 votes·2,303 views

Over the past few weeks I've noticed Dark Harvest being extremely overpowered in ARAM. Soul generation is just way too much with how many deaths happen in ARAM and since teamfights are always happening you are basically guaranteed to get it stacked by 15 minutes, if not much earlier. In Summoner's Rift it's balanced because you actually have to play around your stacks and collect them from minion waves and it takes a longer period of time to come online. I've noticed every time I take Comet/PTA/Aftershock/Electrocute, I do noticeably less damage overall than I do with Dark Harvest. There is little gameplay interaction with the souls in ARAM compared to other Keystones, there is basically no risk to having it with huge reward, and there is no reason I should have 150 souls (fully stacked Dark Harvest) at 7 minutes as Yorick and do 4500 damage with the keystone at 15 minutes.

As for suggestions on fixing the problem, I would suggest changing the amount of soul essence champions drop from 5 to 3/4 so the keystone is still viable but it takes longer for the damage to ramp up and teams not being able to snowball as easily.

8 Comments

Khristophoros3/2/2018, 9:09:11 AM2 votes

Most mages do more with comet.

Tanks are better with aftershock.

DH is one of the top tier runes on ARAM for champs that are good with it, but what's actually the problem with that? It helps divers and bruisers out in the poke dominated mode. It's got more gameplay than Electrocute.

Wait sorry, how is there "less gameplay interaction" with DH? You have to pick up souls which is often risky. You have the potential to proc it multiple times in a short window of time if you time your pickups correctly which is something extra to think about if you want to optimize it. Meanwhile with Electrocute it just does its thing when you do your thing. PTA does its thing when you do your thing. etc... those runes have boring 0 risk gameplay.

my waifu Taliyah3/2/2018, 3:45:25 PM2 votes

No nedd to fine tune monitor DH, just remove it.

vgamedude3/2/2018, 9:22:23 AM1 votes

when you get dark harvest ezreal in Aram [sg-ezreal]

iPooUnicorns4/3/2018, 8:47:11 PM1 votes

Dark Harvest really just needs a mini rework more than anything.

GunSlinger935/24/2018, 2:24:24 AM1 votes

imo the problem lies on multiple dh hits on the same champ, i find it very hard to tank against multiple dark harvests, the burst is just too much. I think subsequent dh hits on the same champ after the first should deal less damage, like 75% on a 4-5 sec timer. It's not very uncommon to get atleast one tank each game, and i think ppl would see a big diference if this was implemented. If your tank dies too soon without your team beeing able to deal enough damage, its impossible to win.