If you want to reduce snowballing, then baron needs to be nerfed.

Rexxiee·Jun 10, 2018·8 votes·5,288 views

And i dont mean baron itself, i mean the buff it gives.

On a close game whoever gets the baron just kinds of run down the other team base and wins the game, and with how easy is to tank and do baron it means the game becomes super snowbally since 20 mins in theres already a chance a team thats sightly ahead do baron and then just win the game on spot.

The minion buff it gives needs to be seriously nerfed or the AD/AP it gives needs to be straight up removed.

To add, rift herald also needs a nerf on its damage to tower, right now its pretty much a free tower for absolutely free even without minions and if you're splitting and theres nobody on the side of the map, you can get 2~3 towers with it easily since it just 1 shots towers.

2 Comments

ISeeDumbPeopleJun 10, 20183 votes

yeah, the baron was in a decent spot I have no clue why they nerfed it back to uselessness aka free objective. And herald does do too much as well, it also pretty much goes to the team who got first tower which gives them another free tower or 3 as you said. At that point they can just 5 man whatever they want and wait for baron op to win the game... 5v5 is a bit too predictable, I have gone to 3s, at least there I fight the players more than bad objective decisions every patch.

HammermancerJun 10, 20182 votes

Only full lifesteal aatrox should get to solo baron, and that's only because it's so memeable and aatrox shouldn't go full lifesteal (How did it take til season 8 for people to figure that one out?)

otherwise baron should require four people to do it, regardless, with a % damage reduction that reduces by 25% per person there, to max of 4 people reducing it.

then again if we want to eliminate snowballing we could address

First blood

First tower blood

Shutdown gold

movement speed and mobility creep

Tower resist/tower damage

minion gold

item cost

item power

stat power