Flash as an active effect on boots

HaugheyPuck99··1 votes·623 views

Hi everyone, I was thinking about some potential changes for League and I think I came up with a fairly interesting one. What if Flash was removed as a summoner spell and put as an active effect on all boots? Now I know something like that would be a HUGE shift to the meta, so it's not something I think should be implemented right now, but I think it would be interesting for a future update. Maybe in a couple patches, next season, a couple seasons down the road, etc.

Now let me explain my reasoning:

  1. Both boots and flash are something that almost everyone takes in every game
  2. Junglers would have the freedom to be able to take another summoner spell. Think about it, junglers being able to exhaust would make for some much more deadly ganks, but people would have the freedom to pick up cleanse or barrier to help better counteract this.
  3. Putting such an important ability as an item active would better help both newer and lower skill level players better remember item actives. I remember when I was first learning to play remembering my item actives was always much harder then remembering my summoner spells. And as someone who has taught 3 or 4 friends how to play, I think I can safely say I'm not the only one who has had trouble with that.

I would love to get some other opinions on this, so please tell me what you guys think about this. Do you agree, disagree? Do you think this would be too drastic of a change?

7 Comments

WorsePlayerUSA2 votes

The game would literally be spamming exhausts from 6-8 out of 10 players.

Sohleks1 votes

Too much summoner spell spamming. All those aggressive summoners would feel oppressive. The game shouldn't change this way and diminish what makes each champion unique. Pretty sure I wouldn't like it.

Hellpyre1 votes

They experimented with having flash as a boot upgrade at one point (Yordle stompers, I believe was the name). Apparently, tying the effect as an upgrade to a common item crowded out other upgrade choices, and having it on boots meant that they tended to get upgrade priority over almost everything else. All in all, I think that they would need to heavily revise the effect to make it appealing on boots without them returning to the boots-first-always meta.

Magnathar1 votes

Hmm... sounds overly complicated. Something like this was suggested a few years ago and I think I recall a Rioter answering why this wasn't the best idea to implement but I can't seem to remember who or when :P.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

id say a better way to balance flash would be to disable it somehow as an escape summoner, and only make it useful for aggressive plays.

maybe youd have to use it on enemy champions to flash towards them, or something like that. i dont know. someone else can probably come up with a better idea.

or maybe it could generally be turned into an ability more like kats e. meaning you need to target champions/minions/wards to flash towards them.

MacDthree1 votes

The ability itself is just cheap to begin with Being able to dodge things, or jump after a champion who made a really good juke for free....That's enough as it is. The point of it being a summoner, is so that not everybody can always take it. Do some people always have it? yes. But there are several times in ranked where you really have to make a decision on whether it's your most useful ability considering you only have 2 slots. The boots would just make it where everybody could dash away for free all the time. Don't know how i feel about that :/ Really interesting idea though. I love seeing what people come up with for the game. You get to hear and see a lot of opinions that way__

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