Remove Buff Timers from the Game

Stained Spear·7/12/2018, 2:08:18 AM·14 votes·7,283 views

Once a midlane assassin gets their level 6, they just walk to my buffs right as they spawn for the rest of the game. This works against 90% of players I see in diamond. I literally have to wait until both bot and mid get lane priority just to be able to do my jungle. It's become so predictable that I just sit in a bush when mid is mia. This leads to comical bush standoffs as seen in this vid. I really miss when they would actually need to ward my jungle in order to pull off coordinated plays in my jungle.

If it really is deemed necessary to keep these stupid timers in the game, then at least make junglers hit 6 at the same time as mid and top laners to be able to fend for themselves 1v1.

8 Comments

Lotus Bloom7/12/2018, 2:18:24 AM6 votes

That's actually pretty hilarious to watch with full vision. I thought the same thing when they first made that change, and it's why I stopped playing jungle as a secondary. When it was first implemented, people would just show up to my buff on-cooldown and take it, or fight me for it without needing to have warded it at all.

Salron7/12/2018, 5:10:26 AM6 votes

Buff timers are fine What's not fine is a team being given the information that a buff they didn't see die is going to respawn in a minute or 20 seconds for free It's silly

My Waifu Vanilla7/12/2018, 4:14:38 AM4 votes

Except....wait a minute....you have been able to do that since season 1. The first camp you do consistently respawns at the same time no matter what and that hasn't change for the past like 8 years. Yes, the "time" the buff spawns has fluctuated by a few seconds depending on when the camp spawns, but the fact still remains when your path is incredibly obvious you should have gotten punished for it.

Davaken7/12/2018, 10:47:21 AM1 votes

Really hasn't been too big of a problem for me playing in Diamond 5, but I'm usually duo with my mid, which helps a lot. Also, defensive vision is everything when playing against roaming assassins, because depending on what you pick, you can usually kill them when they come to contest your red (as you did in the vid). Doesn't matter how fed Talon is, I can still burst him super hard if he facechecks me when I play Taliyah. The real problem for me is when their support and/or jungler also roams to my botside buff, because then I'm completely dependant on my team to actually contest my own buff.

LordGeovanni7/12/2018, 9:17:49 PM1 votes

I agree. I May have never learned buff timers but I know that just giving people free information so that they dont have to remember isnt how you promote a Smart Though provoking game on what to do. In a similar vane of thought Annie doesnt need her Stun counter If they lower her damage either though dps or cooldowns this would be pretty decent compensation buff to her. Maybe a less obvious aura like other champions have.