Nexus Blitz "underdog" advantages

Need Gold 4 Tent··1 votes·709 views

After playing a few rounds of this, I feel that while the location handicaps they give for events are good to prevent a total snowball, it is unfair to start them when the lead is very small. I have had scores like 6/5 spawning the fire ring around the enemy turret. This is totally unfair for our team because that 1 kill did not give us that big an advantage to even think of towerdiving. Even at 10/6 I would still hesitate at a 5v5 tower dive that early in the game.

While there should be some anti-snowball mechanics in place (note: some, I still like it ending quickly), this is overdoing it because it is literally swinging the advantage to the enemy, not just letting them catch up, which feels totally unrewarding to play well. At this rate, there may be a strat of intentionally feeding right before an event just to get that advantage, because of those broken rewards.

Remove that mechanic until the gold/takedown difference is significantly bigger, not just 1 kill down.

3 Comments

Icy Hot Shoto1 votes

Or maybe just not have it circle around a tower if it's still up.

I had it happen twice so far. The first game we got lucky and were able to tower dive. The second time? Nah, not a chance at tower diving.

Need Gold 4 Tent1 votes

It's fine if one team is massively ahead, that the turret actually makes it a fair fight. But in cases where one team is only slightly ahead, having a turret in a teamfight is a very unfair advantage that totally gives the win to the team that was slightly behind.

Icy Hot Shoto1 votes

Oh I know it's fine if a team is ahead, it's how we were lucky enough to tower dive as we had the one who could fight while the rest of us took the tower.

So when you can't it's... extremely unfair, so the better way to make it slightly fair is to just have it happen around the mid area if a tower isn't taken, rather then hoping the system can pick up that yeah, these guys can totally tower dive and not fail. Especially if both teams are rather even in damage.

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