First tower gold should be reduced

AstroFerrari ·Oct 2, 2017·1 votes·225 views

I don't want beat the "buff towers" dead horse. Despite that being true, I'm pretty sure everyone is tired of hearing that. Perhaps reducing first tower gold will help relax the pace of games.

2 Comments

The Bearded BardOct 2, 20173 votes

Agreed. First tower bonus gold is supposed to give you incentive to play aggressive, but the opposite seems true because no one wants to risk their tower going down first. You see less mid lane roams, less top lane TP ganks, and less action throughout the entire early game because of it. Even dragon takes a backseat to first tower.

GrievousFetusOct 2, 20173 votes

This happens every time. No matter what it is the thing meant to encourage aggression always results in a decrease in aggression because no team wants to take the risk that would mean giving the advantage to the other team. Towers give first brick? Nobody tries to take a tower for fear of leaving theirs undefended. Increase kill gold? Nobody fights because nobody wants to die etc.

The only reason towers even give first blood now is because lane swaps were absolutely killing excitement for Esports, they were the most boring thing in the world. So now towers give first blood and bottom tower intentionally has no early protection purely for the sake of rigidly enforcing the meta. First tower is hugely important and the snowball is difficult to stop.