ever thought towers should use abilities like champions do

xDogMeatx·May 27, 2018·6 votes·5,971 views

play tower defense games enough and you think when playing lol, why not use different variations of bullets (not at once) but 4 different moves and a aa just to make them interesting. it doesnt have to do psycho dmg it just has to cause aoe effect ability 1, ability 2 a slow effect, ability 3 some kind of utility bullet slow damage on highest damaging target, 4th ability aka the ultimate which is this under heavy siege it activates a lighting bolt in an epic fashion that would make its death (if it dies of course) glorious/remember able instead of them caving in under pressure and dying undignifiedly at late game where 1 whole team fight end whole game regardless of towers remaining.

sorry for wall of text

12 Comments

ChalzeMay 27, 20184 votes

But LoL isn't a tower defense game, its a MOBA...

Besides, they gain passive abilities already through 'items'

MhihnjMay 27, 20186 votes

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But LoL isn't a tower defense game, its a MOBA...

Besides, they gain passive abilities already through 'items'

Take this with a grain of salt but in a sense, we are defending towers.

ZackTheWaffleManMay 27, 20181 votes

That's not what a tower defense is.

A tower defense is where you build towers to prevent waves of creeps from "leaking" (i.e. reaching the end of a maze.)

SpiritOfOdysseusMay 27, 20181 votes

And once again, MOBAs are tower defense games eeolved for multiplayer. It might as well be called Multiplayer Online Tower Defense. The only difference besides multi vs single player is each team has prebuilt tower defenses and added variables to keep it from taking 3 hours before a game is over because of turtling

xDogMeatxMay 28, 20181 votes

actually its the same arguement for resists your buying for your survival. you invest on a tower when destroyed u lose that spent gold on that tower or invest in final towers but yes there needs to be more investing in towers and stuff instead of bland defend tower set up. We want games that are epic and intense.

MhihnjMay 28, 20181 votes

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That's not what a tower defense is.

A tower defense is where you build towers to prevent waves of creeps from "leaking" (i.e. reaching the end of a maze.)

I know. I have played my fair share of tower defense games.

SpiritOfOdysseusMay 27, 20181 votes

Dude, MOBAs are tower defense games evolved for multiplayer.

IAintDariusMay 27, 20184 votes

Towers dont exist in the jungle so riot wont make drastic changes to it.

SilverjustMay 27, 20181 votes

I think the nexus turrets need something like this, they feel more like a formality for winning and less like the last defense

xDogMeatxMay 28, 20182 votes

your right it has to be THE ULTIMATE DEFENSE. make it memorable

SpoofghoulMay 27, 20181 votes

I always argued for having players buy/build upgrades for towers

They could have items which could grant abilities stats all kinds of shit Super drastic change for sure but it would increase game diversity endlessly

So yes i like this idea for Tower abilities

I kind of have 2 ways of going about this

A second rune page

Basically each player selects a rune for a tower ability, passive, stat Just 1 from a wide variety prior to game start in champ select

For example you could select +20 armor, and all towers start the game with 20 extra armor or 100 if all 5 of you pick this or you could all pick the scaling version which would ramp up over time to 40 armor giving the possibility of 200 armor instead if everyone grabs it Or you pick a passive, like a mana regeneration aura which regenerates 1% of missing mana every 5 seconds for example Or an ability like tower promotes a minion that passes it Or perhaps an ability that let's it shoot exploding fireballs for splash damage if you are outnumbered as an anti siege ability with multiple players selecting this making the fireball bigger and deal more damage or granting more bonus effects like applying a a dot

Second option would be in game items for towers

You would buy tower specific items this would be more tricky to balance i think But you would be able to adapt on the fly increasing strategy a ton

The effects ofc coarse would be similar as option 1

Anyway i would like to have more interesting towers