Lets talk about Dragons!

Infernal Drake: 8/16/24% more AD and AP. Ocean Drake: Restores 4/8/12% of missing HP and Mana every 5 seconds. Earth Drake: 10/20/30% bonus true damage to epic monsters and turrets. Cloud Drake: 2/4/6% Movespeed, out of combat 6/12/18% movespeed.

Vs

Old Drake = 180 gold per player.

180 Gold x 5 = 900 gold for the team.

AD required to surpass old drake = 6 AD. 5 old drakes = 30 AD.

AP required to surpass old drake = 9 AP. 5 Old dragons = 45AP

68 HP regenerated to surpass old drake. 5 old dragons = 340 HP regen'd.

36 Mana regenerated to surpass old drake. 5 old dragons = 180 Mana Regen'd.

15 Movespeed in or out of combat to surpass old drake 5 old dragons = 75 movespeed.

Damage is too difficult to calculate.

If we take a look at that. The current drakes are a massive part of the reason why snowballs have been so bad for the last few years.

If we want to address snowballing I say we start actually talking about Rift Herald, Baron, and Drakes.

Way back when!

Players could opt to give up a singular tower for dragons and the trade would be worth. Now, its situational as to which one is worth.

Never give an infernal for a tower.

Never give an tower for a ocean.

Just wanted everyone to know a little bit about causes of snowballs!

(Also, these drakes make scaling for assassins and late game hyper carries much easier.)