Rift Herald is a Game Changer

NightOfLight··1 votes·288 views

Might question me on this but grabbing rift herald might win you some games. The reason why is towers are more important than ever and every tower you get increases the potential of your minions, Rift Herald gives minions pushing power and gives you Damage and move speed allowing for quick escapes or the ability to turn fights around while the pushing advantage of the minions might snag you a tower or 2. If your lucky you might destroy a inhibitor tower allowing you to backdoor it getting super minions which in turn can distract them while you grab baron giving you even more pushing power. Point is it can spiral into a bigger lead probably even more than dragon since it gives you a bigger impact for the moment you grab it, although if you don't do anything with it its wasted while dragon its always there so it cant be wasted. Also as a funny thing when I do get the buff it usually tends to be when im a support and I urge my jungler to grab it since he was going sated or we couldnt contest dragon but he ends up giving me the buff, in fact when I do it with top laners same thing and I get the buff, even though I feel a top laner is better with it, idk maybe supports can do some more good with it but not sure

3 Comments

Arcane Azmadi1 votes

Actually, general consensus is that Rift Herald buff is underpowered because, unlike Baron bufff, it doesn't make your minions any TOUGHER. Against an opponent with sufficiently good waveclear it will do effectively nothing to help your pushing.

NightOfLight1 votes

Yea I guess that could be a major weakness of Rift Herald I think cannon and melee minions should have at least 10-20% reduced damage, or maybe some extra armor and mr. That said its still helpful toward pushing basically by grabbing the buff they have to send 1-3 people to counter the splitpushing while the rest of your team can grab other turrets, maybe dragon if it's up.

Old Man Teeto1 votes

Rift Herald is strong against low-wave clear champions.

Rift Herald is useless against anyone with strong wave clear.

At least the buff gives damage so it has some merit for the snowball factor.

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