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I feel like rift herald needs to give a permanent buff like dragon in order to be prioritized

Demented Lemur·12/11/2019, 4:01:54 PM·2 votes·2,205 views

Between dragon and rift herald, dragon has always been more important in the early game ever since they gave you a permanent buff for slaying it. It doesnt really matter what the buff is. Now dragon is practically a win condition.

They buffed rift herald this season by allowing you to get two of them in a game but significantly nerfed it for some reason.

Either way I feel the only way to get people to prioritze it over dragon is for it to give some sort of permanent buff.

My suggestion

The focus of dragons seems to be champion combat. So make the buff from rift herald be a buff to minions or a buff to taking objectives. This would give teams a good motivation to priotize rift heral.

5 Comments

Düff McWhalen12/11/2019, 8:39:08 PM2 votes

Herald could simply give Baron buff to a single champion before Baron actually comes up in addition to being able to summon it. It's the Rift HERALD. Thematically it HERALDS the coming of the Baron Nashor.

xDogMeatx12/11/2019, 4:13:47 PM1 votes

i think its situational. one is sieging their towers while the other is a lasting buff sometimes its better to give up a dragon to get herald to get that 5 plates/tower it will give more gold in the long run since you can make up dragons later but you cant make up lost plates/1st tower.