Boards›Gameplay

What if the drake get's switched to topside.

Skycrowx·3/27/2018, 8:18:47 PM·2 votes·480 views

Wouldn't it be much better if the drake would be topside, so if the botlane is getting ganked from your or the enemy Jungler, it would be a huge risk to loose that Drake instantly for that Gank? Right now there is way to much Power in botlane, Not just the ADC role is the problem, but also the way of how the game is designed currently. Let's just think about this: What does a Jungler get if he ganks the enemy Toplaner? that's right. He gets a kill at best. What does a Jungler get if he ganks the Midlaner? Right again, he gets 1 Kill. what does a Jungler get when he ganks the Botlane? Well first off, he can get a Potential of 2 kills. Then, he can get a potential first Tower for extra gold, because there is no "tower shield" and THEN he EVEN can get the entire river control, for a Easy free Drake. So why does everyone play Around botlane? Well simply, getting a good gank off botlane is much MORE worth, compared to any other Lane here. So why not changing the way how players are playing right now? Switching the drake to Topside could simply solve this Problem, if some guys now believe "wait adcs can just switch their lane too then" no they can't, because there is still the "towershield" at topside. That would allow a 3v1 gank at bot, for a easy first tower at botside. I would even go as far and say, if there is any possibility that the botlane would switch to top due to a dragon change, then make that tower reduce the most dmg in the first 10minutes from all towers, to solve this problem once and for all.

This change also would make toplane more relevant again, because even without being a toplaner (mid main) i know personaly that they hell as sure have almost no Impact in the game. One tp move for bot, and that's it for the first 15minutes for them.

It also would allow adc players to not get perma dived anymore every 3.minute from the jungler or midlaner, i always hear them being annoyed about it, so how about we just change the meta and everyone get's what he wants :) ?

21 Comments

shoe65353/27/2018, 8:57:08 PM4 votes

switch drake to topside, support and adc go topside

NoPaxt3/27/2018, 8:29:21 PM4 votes

You move the drake you move the duo lane...

Oleandervine3/27/2018, 8:31:57 PM2 votes

If you move the drake, then the Herald becomes a MUCH easier target to take. And that would then in turn severely weaken bottom lane, which also suffers from the flimsiest turrets. It would also drive the junglers to focus more on hovering around top lane more, so that they could defend/take the dragon at a moment's notice, which would lead to MORE ganking in the top lane to press an advantage for the dragon. This idea would only exacerbate the already existing problems in top and bot lane to an extreme degree.

Très Pauvre3/27/2018, 8:40:37 PM1 votes

Switch drake topside, and give elemental drakes a set spawn order or have the elements available during specific time frames throughout the game and evolves to elder at 35-40 minutes. Or at least put icons in the dragon pit so people know the order of spawns that game. Removing the randomness and influence of the drakes would make it easier to give them a higher power budget early game to make topside more favorable for attention, if that is really what you want to do. Then herald would spawn botside but delay it an extra 5 minutes and have baron spawn at 25 minutes. Give bot tower the shield every other turret has and at I think that would give each lane a pretty standard window of power through the current laning phase of the game.

If drakes are more consistent you can make that early drake slightly more CONSISTENTLY important. If it's infernal duh its important, but who gives a shit about air/ocean. This way early game top side of the map is the early focus. Rift herald comes in and some damage has hit some turrets bot lane now its the focus for first turret. With the shield back up on the turret it can no longer just be 4 man dove and steamrolled the gank has to be moderately successful and the objective taken in order to take it super early. This makes each map side have a window of relevance in the early game where jg and mid can influence both sides.

This would not bring back the awful "just lane swap it" meta because the influence on the map changes with respect to time not a teams lead causing a team to have to focus on a specific objective..

I really like the elemental drake buffs and how they impact the game, but the randomness of its impact bothers the shit out of me. I think drake spawns need to be looked at and normalized which would make influence on the map easier to balance and that could lead to finally fixing game pacing.

FOR JUSTICE3/27/2018, 11:21:47 PM1 votes

Assuming adc + support even bother staying down there, all that means is the winning botlane now gets 2 towers because of herald.

GripaAviara3/27/2018, 10:22:35 PM1 votes

The reason top goes top is because of herald and that sup can use wards for drake which is first prio

Titanium703/27/2018, 10:39:46 PM1 votes

The reson for Bot being Bot ist Drake!

If you put Drake Top - Supp and ADC will follow xD