Why do we have "compulsory" drake fights every few minutes?

Zeppelins circus·7/5/2019, 7:50:21 AM·2 votes·2,612 views

Me: We are losing quite heavily...can't we just ignore the drake and take cs and knock some towers down so we can catch up? Team: NOH DRAKE TEAMFIGHT (~~clown~~cloud drake)!

Me: They have superior AOE cc, and we are on red side, they will just nuke us in the small pathway while we try to go near the pit. Team: CHARGE THAT PIT!

Me: We are pick comp, we should wait out and catch they while they try to group. Team: 5v5 IS HONORABLE COMBAT!

...I guess this has been a thing since elemental drakes were been in the game. But I notice for a lot of high elo junglers, drakes are a afterthought because securing early-mid game is more crucial than causing a fiesta that can compromise the whole game. Why?

15 Comments

giannishannibal7/5/2019, 8:00:40 AM2 votes

Cloud dragon is great one he gives MS and out-of-combat MS. It greatly helps you roam and split-pushing. So its no longer clown dragon.

As for your team, in low elo its very frequent to see game-throwing fights from both winning and losing side. So there is always a comeback chance-very slim one. Now you cant expect them to know or act like the high elo players. When to roam, how or when to freeze the minion wave, when to splitpush and for how long etc. Just do your thing and type i go splitpush and i am away so dont die just throw skillshots to try to steal the dragon and literally leave them in their machination.

Thats why i always suggest find a buddy to play with and communicate and since your buddy wont join their clown fiesta the will probably back out form a 3vs5.

Pyrosan7/5/2019, 8:20:19 AM1 votes

All drakes are important, people in high-elo just don't want to circulate a bad drake into a good one aka mountain into infernal for example

Ocean's basically a free lane as you just regenerate any damage you've taken

Crispy0Snake7/5/2019, 8:28:05 AM1 votes

Why not just commit to the call and play the fight?

Sounds like you just watch it happen and then complain in chat "im not fighting for a cloud drake rerere"

Zezilian7/5/2019, 9:53:15 AM1 votes

Because drakes are free items and don't take space in your inventory. For example, if you being careful, with regen drake you never need to go heal, it works like warmog except that you dont have to spend money on it.

Zezilian7/5/2019, 9:57:40 AM1 votes

Every day I have number of games where drake advantages wins games for me. When teams are 50/50 drakes will decide the winner.

Makarakarn7/5/2019, 12:43:50 PM1 votes

Clout drake is great wtf are you on?
Yes, stupid fights happen all the time, welcome to typical silver.

Atom Knight7/5/2019, 11:40:06 PM1 votes

Junglers priorities by importance

Dragons
Scuttle Crabs
Winning