Save the rift herald

Jöśéph·May 7, 2017·4 votes·413 views

My personal idea on how to save the rift herald from being exploited. Yes it does take near 40s for soraka to solo it, but I don't believe any champ should ever be able to solo the rift herald. My current idea is as follows.

Increase rift heralds current damage by 10% and it won't open it's eye (weak spot) unless there's two champs. (the two champs don't have to be on the same team.) While the eye is open it should also have it's damage increased by 15% until it's eye is hit and closes.

The reason I suggest these buffs to the heralds is to make any champ soloing rift herald virtually impossible and to increase the trading off of agro since the bonus damage from the eye being opened will hurt whoever it's on and possibly kill one champion if they never trade agro.

Open to thoughts and opinions on the matter.

2 Comments

OceanicEyesMay 7, 20174 votes

It's tough to balance because you want to make the reward worth the risk. I think as of now it's fine where it is, and think that buffing its damage will make it less desirable to go for altogether.

But at the same time, you have a point that it shouldn't be easy to solo for some champs, though wouldn't that depend on how ahead that champ is, or if they built to sustain/are focused for sustained fights? In that case it's more on the champ than it is on herald.

Asayake 5150glowMay 7, 20171 votes

Rift Herald's AD is actually incredibly low, I believe it's around 110 or so? It could stand to go up to 200, at the very least.

That being said, your ideas are almost completely useless against someone solo'ing it, because although Herald will get 15% extra damage when his eye is open and not hit, it won't open until multiple champions come near it. So basically it's just 10% extra damage... which is about 11 AD. Not very impressive, I'd say.