Why are tower plates a thing? Or is it overtuned

SgtAwesomeness·7/31/2019, 4:30:47 AM·6 votes·1,418 views

A death in lane without your JG babysitting your tower turns a 300 gold (+exp) deficit to a ~780 gold deficit. Granted packing TP can keep the first death from lane ending to just a disadvantage but still.

Like I genuinely don't understand this. Ok my laner is pushing me under tower so I lose farm does he really need 160 free gold for doing all lane?. Yeah I'm a salty top lane mane The only advantage this really brings is controlling/punishing roaming from your lane. But shouldn't you follow your laner when he runs off?!?!?!

8 Comments

True Garen7/31/2019, 11:33:53 AM4 votes

Runes Reforged was a mistake.

WoonStruck7/31/2019, 4:54:08 AM3 votes

The early tower tankiness is good, but the gold bonus shouldn't be there. Just another snowball mechanic to keep things 'exciting'...as if we don't already have enough of that in this game.

Dynikus7/31/2019, 8:03:04 AM1 votes

how are you losing 3 plates on a single death top lane?

preternatural7/31/2019, 10:49:10 AM1 votes

nah the plates are fine, if teleport were removed from the game as it currently exists then everything would be perfect. they should maybe only give 120g instead of 160g, wouldn't mind them having some armour growth before the plates fall away. demolish needs to be more tied to tank stats so that I can't cheese plates with demolish on my assassin picks.

Darkdemon6537/31/2019, 11:05:56 AM1 votes

What? You mean you don't enjoy the fact that your own turret is a detriment to you?

Syrile7/31/2019, 10:08:45 AM1 votes

Honestly, turret plates are a perfect example of what is wrong with League lately. They are a huge part of what is stripping away skill in favor of a short-term boost to revenue through eSports viewership. They, among 99% of Riot's supposed "balance" changes are making the game so boring that I can barely watch pro games anymore much less play the game.

DOUBLE TAPPED E7/31/2019, 5:59:30 AM1 votes

The situation I personally experience more often is 6 deaths and a tower falling in the bot lane leads to 4 people splitting the gold from taking my tower 100-0 while I sit behind it and grit my teeth while rhythmically pinging for assistance that never arrives.