Snowballing is worse than ever.

Even worse so than it’s been the game is decided at level 2-4.

How often is this the case. Talon vs some mage mid. Talon level 2 all ins with his ignite and 100-0s them under turret.

Now talon is a kill up. Before turret plates this wouldn’t have been a problem. But now he’s going to take 2 plates and get about a 2 minion wave advantage. Let’s do a little math.

Kill = 300 gold Two turret plates = 320 gold 12 cs = 240

That’s an 860 gold lead from just one kill. Talon now backs with his 1000+ gold, finishes his serrated dirk and boots and now one hits the map.

This isn’t exclusive to talon either. It’s litteraly whoever gets the first kill in lane is given such a massive advantage that it’s actually hard to throw it.

Let’s take the talon example to the extreme.

First blood gold = 400 Two turret plates = 360 Minion waves with cannons = 300 Smite mid taking raptors = 200

Now it’s a 1260 gold lead. He backs and grabs dirk, boots another long sword. He is now incontestable. He will dive you with out without ignite and you have no options to defend yourself unless you have multiple forms of hard cc. Oh, did I mention you are stuck at level 2 while he is likely at 5? Because that’s a pretty big deal.

TLDR. Turret plates didn’t buff turrets, they just put more ambient gold on the map.