Should League of Legends get turnrates?

Meeks011·Aug 22, 2015·1 votes·516 views

Melee champions without mobility are fucked against ADCs and Quinn top stomps everything with no chance of survival. Why? Because they can kite insanely well and easily. That's EXACTLY what turnrates are for, to prevent kiting.

I heard a timeline of LoL balance once and it went like this: Remove turnrates > give new melee champs mobility to make up for it > give ranged champs CC and mobility to get away > give Assassins mobility to kill them before they use it > and on and on and on. It all started with the removal of turnrates.

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ToasteyAug 22, 20151 votes

adding turnrates back in would require a rewind of that entire timeline. we're too far down the rabbit-hole of no turnrates to go back now. if you want turnrates, go play dota. that's what i do when league exhausts me with every champion having either 98324875234 dashes or 999 movespeed.

SEKAIAug 22, 20151 votes

In games like say Dark Souls, longer animation wind up adds to its merit because the camera is behind the character so the tight and detailed animation replacing the usual twichy-reflexy wonky gameplay we get is met with appreciation and critical success across the board.

However when the camera is high up in the air, in my honest opinion, long animation/turn speed just won't work all that great as a whole. Sure you can always get used to it, but it in the end of the day would always feel somewhat unresponsive and never really feels smooth, especially when movement is solely handled by a mouse instead of a controller or WASD in this type of genre (excluding Smite).

Let's not mention the game has been building up with the assumption of no turn speed for the past 5 years +, it's pretty safe to say that it's already way too late.