Why Does Ignite Need More Damage?

Kivolan·Mar 15, 2018·5 votes·1,793 views

On the PBE: "Damage increased from 70-410 to 80-505"

Just looking for some context on this. I've never, ever seen anyone complain that Ignite felt too weak.

Heal's cooldown is also being increased, with no other changes to summoner spells.

7 Comments

Cowgirl EdMar 15, 20182 votes

FINALLY SOME IGNITE BUFFS ALSO CONTEXT WAS GIVEN, DIDN'T YOU READ IT? STOP THE FUCKING TELEPORT BORING SHIT

KivolanMar 15, 20183 votes

The context given was

Just looking to increase the power of going for kills (Ignite damage buff) by a bit and increase the windows of vulnerability of Heal users (Heal CD) a bit.

Which really isn't context at all. Was another summoner spell pushing it out? Do champions that take Ignite generally have a lower win rate than those with other summoner spells? The current reason basically says "Just wanted to add more damage to the game" without really explaining why.

More supports have already been taking Ignite over Exhaust lately as it is, especially since Grievous Wounds is extremely useful in the current meta where healing is so abundant.

KivolanMar 15, 20181 votes

I could understand them wanting to push more Teleport users out of top lane with the Ignite buff, but that wasn't the context given... And it could have been done in another way (such as increasing the cooldown on Teleport or removing the ability to teleport to minions) that won't have repercussions for other lanes (cough cough assassins in mid lane.)

MorganFreemanBotMar 16, 20182 votes

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I could understand them wanting to push more Teleport users out of top lane with the Ignite buff, but that wasn't the context given... And it could have been done in another way (such as increasing the cooldown on Teleport or removing the ability to teleport to minions) that won't have repercussions for other lanes (cough cough assassins in mid lane.)

That's the subtext.

When the gamestate makes acquiring kills more about your enemy playing poorly, rather than you playing well, teleport is the best option; you can't base your game plan on your enemy being bad.

A more powerful ignite tilts it in the other direction, somewhat.