@Riot and the new mandrake

AFK Push·Apr 25, 2015·1 votes·411 views

I love the idea of this item and all, but won't this hard counter the likes of . People are already warned from rengar's ult when he is under 1250 units away. The mandrake alerts at 1000 units, but can't that easily catch him out somewhere much before he even would get within the exclamation point range. This mostly hurts rengar because people already have a warning range for him when he ults, and he has to actually ult for his stealth unlike a majority of the other stealthy champs.

5 Comments

Variks the LoyalApr 25, 20153 votes

The idea is, by adding more counterplay to stealth, you can buff champions who use stealth to make up for it.

Champs that stealth are lackluster, atm, because stealth is really powerful, and they need to be balanced around it. By adding counters to that power you can make those who use stealth stronger.

So, for example, if there's stealth counterplay like Mandrake wards, they could buff Rengar's ult movement speed, or even his damage.

AFK PushApr 25, 20151 votes

I don't want them to buff rengars damage. He has the second number of most nerfs second only to kassidin, just because old rengo used to do wayyyyy too much damage. Which would result in a buff/nerf train. Ult movement increase, or increased time stealth would be very good compensations though.

Variks the LoyalApr 25, 20151 votes

I think the best for him would be to revert the CD nerf. Maybe give it a 120 second CD at rank one instead of 150.

CrettApr 25, 20151 votes

if this mechanic goes through, they'll have a really good excuse to make stealth champions more powerful.

AFK PushApr 25, 20151 votes

I'm not saying that they should remove the exclamation mark to make him old rengo, but perhaps increase the time stealthed to work around the mandrakes if caught by it, or slightly increase the base jump range etc. Those would be decent compensations.