ARAM Summoner Spell Mark [FEEDBACK]

Lightningfst··1 votes·437 views

I like the addition of something that allows melee champions to compete in ARAM, however the true damage spike of the Mark means that all champions are taking it which is turning every ARAM into a "how well can you dodge a spam of skillshots every 15-20 seconds regardless of what champions there are.

I thought the poro king mode was fun for a little while, but the spam of snowballs became a little too obnoxious and so I lost interest. Now that snowball spam has reached regular ARAM, I find that the fun factor it adds is not nearly as good as the amount of obnoxiousness it brings. The amount of true damage it adds is considerably greater than ignite if you compare the two over the length of the overall cooldowns. So Mark becomes a superior summoner choice in most circumstances and it is being taken by almost every single summoner regardless of what champion they play.

Here is what I think would bring Mark into a balanced alignment - keep the ability to move to enemy champions after hitting, but remove the true damage. This will give melee champs the mobility they need to engage without giving ranged champs even more long range spammable damage into an already intense game mode. OR - make the mark damage only proc when the player activates Mark a second time to move to the opponent. This way ranged champions won't get free sustained long range poke in addition to their arsenal without putting themselves at risk.

3 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

The PBE has them moving 2/3rds of the damage over to the Dash portion, so most of the damage can only be done if they dash in. They are also keeping an eye on how the ability performs so they can consider reducing the range and/or increasing the cooldown, but they need more than just 1 week of data to determine that.

Pucking Purrfect1 votes

SMH

Mark/Dash spell damage isn't the problem. The problem is people are abusing it. This spell should balance the map only for melee champs. Amumu Annie Blitzcrank Fiddlesticks Kennen Katarina Malphite Morgana these champs are freaking broken with mark/dash spell. Any champ with aoe ult literally 100 - 0 the entire squishy team in a heartbeat. Not to mention since the addition of this spell 3 out 5 games I face against tank champs stacked team with squishy champs stacked team. Riot should reduce the range and increase the cd (at least 60-90 sec.) of mark/dash spell or find another way to balance the map for melee champs.

8valve1 votes

If Mark had been made with any though whatsoever it wouldn't be "abuseable". It clearly was just thrown together without thought. I can't wait until it gets nurfed.

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