Why it is so easy to towerdive?

YumaS2Astral·Dec 27, 2015·4 votes·805 views

At late game, there should be absolutely no problem with towerdiving. After all, you are there to protect the towers during the late game; not the other way around, and people usually have enough tankyness to whitstand tower shots.

However, the real problem is during the early game. Towers are completely useless. A champion, no matter how squishy it is, can just dive with ease and still survive because a tower's damage is pathetic. Also because there are thousands of ways to drop tower aggro with the mobility creep.

There were times this week, on games, that champions were able to towerdive me without any punishment and still get alive... without any complete tanky items yet.

6 Comments

NsEternalDec 27, 20152 votes

towers need to be seriously buffed in my opinion in the later areas of the game because i feel like tower diving should be a complicated and strategic move not just have tahm kench stand there with 2 bars of hp to tank the weak towers.

shadecrapperDec 27, 20151 votes

Towers are there, they do damage, but they wont keep you safe.

HahahahyenaDec 27, 20151 votes

then whats the point of them, might as well just make them non damaging statues that you can auto a few times then do the same with the next to win they should be the ones protecting you and the base and you should be destroying the enemies turrets and base not the other way around

LeadpaintchipsDec 27, 20151 votes

This was actually why I gave up on trying out another MOBA, because they had the philosophy of "You are there to protect the towers all game, not the other way around." Early game, it should be a risk to go in on someone under their tower. No items, No lvls of health or mitigation, everyone is relatively squishy. Later on, when we have the power behind us (either through "Tons of damage" or massive tankiness), we should be able to take those towers.

There have been times in this preseason where I dived an opponent, got the kill, dropped tower aggro, and with a AD champ I killed the tower before my opponent came back into lane before lvl 10. That's dumb.

fééd l0rdDec 27, 20151 votes

Cause there are really unskilled players who are doing nothing but standing under their turrets and hoping for a combeback while safe farming. Why shouldn't I be able to destroy him?

Jack RakanDec 27, 20151 votes

The power of outer towers is somewhat ok, inner turrets and nexus turrets need some massive buffs tho. They need to be freaking terrifying, not mildly annoying.