Give us a reason to use the alcove.

Thresh Outta Fux·12/5/2019, 5:42:34 PM·4 votes·1,706 views

Disclaimer for the downvote monkeys: I use the alcoves. I see their value. This is more about teaching new/bad players to utilize them, instead of ignoring them.


In most games, there's no point to going back there. Put a health relic back there. The old speed boosts from dominion. Hell, put a neutral monster that adds a vision ward to your inventory if you kill it, and grants bonus gold if you have a support item.

That being said, I play characters that can make use of the extra area, but I can see how players with different playstyles will never use the alcove.

9 Comments

Navarune12/5/2019, 6:09:26 PM2 votes

I think a lot of people just haven't learned how to use them properly yet. As you said, some champs (Bard in particular) can put it to good use, but many can use the extra fog of war to creep up on the enemy duo as well. You just have to learn where the vision break points are and manipulate your positioning to abuse it.

ThunderCraft12/5/2019, 9:40:37 PM1 votes

Riot should program a "secret shop" in the alcoves with exclusive items leading to teamfights there.

IVSakenz12/5/2019, 5:51:25 PM1 votes

As jungle I have had many successful ganks coming in from alcove..

if they have sight in river and pull back from an initial gank, swing around behind dragon and come up from behind the turret and sneak into the alcove... the opposing team thinks you went to top of the map or into your jungle to farm.. 9 times out of 10.. soon as you leave they push, and you can punish them for it

Proxy34512/5/2019, 10:19:26 PM1 votes

At least Camille can make good use of it lol

Chembaron Yamada12/6/2019, 4:58:30 AM1 votes

I like them, they are enabling some pretty nice outplays. People in my games in general tend to use them quite a bit. No need to give the area a reward, it is already useful enough.

Inkling Commando12/6/2019, 5:08:43 AM1 votes

I commend you on using the term monkeys and not bots.

5050BS12/5/2019, 10:11:23 PM1 votes

I agree that it would be nice to have something back there.

I use them a lot tho for hiding/backing or setting up a gank but I hate them for vision. You now need 3 wards to keep vision there.