The buff to ghost poro won't change anything

Oakleaf Ranger··25 votes·1,579 views

This rune in its current state is awful and needs to be relooked at. I think the concept is cool and has its place but the vision buff won't get people to take it.

First off this rune is very similar to zombie ward in what they are trying to achieve except zombie ward being better in so many aspects. Before going further let me say that zombie ward needed the recent nerf and now seems to have appropriate power. What I’m trying to say is don’t nerf zombie ward futher in order to try to get more people to take ghost poro because all that is going to happen is no one taking either and just going for eye ball collection if they go down domination as the main tree.

When I first heard of ghost poro I was under the assumption that I would have multiple ghost out at the same time. Instead what we got is a one at a time “ward” that resets itself in the latest bush you enter if stay you stay in there for a couple of seconds. This in itself should have raised flags as the rune becomes so much more difficult to use effectively that it’s basically has a self defeating purpose.

Who wants a “ward” that resets itself in a bush you are currently in because you decided to hide/wait in it for a couple of seconds. I don’t need something to grant me vision of a bush if I’m already in it myself. That’s extremely redundant. If anything it punishes players for going into bushes since they risk resetting the poro into their current bush and losing vision of an important area.

This is the first thing that needs to be addressed about this rune. Players have to play around this rune so much to make effective use of it when I can just take zombie ward plop a ward down and gain extended vision duration when it dies out instead becoming paranoid of bushes and wanting play Brand just so I can burn down all the bushes on the map.

After that see where the rune stands.

8 Comments

Hexs Fortune4 votes

It's a pretty nice buff for twisted treeline

Elkington VI1 votes

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It's a pretty nice buff for twisted treeline

Agreed. I'm glad this rune exists for TT. Very useful for avoiding the instagib from the brush, when your vision trinket is down. The early vision also helps counter the snowballing a bit.

Åsher1 votes

I think it is a good rune for split pushing. Pop it in bush and it only needs to reveal one champ then it disapears. That's when you get outta there.

Iffy Jarl1 votes

As much as I loved zombie ward, it did need that nerf I had hoped that the droves of~~ bronzies ~~ people who don't have proper understanding of the value of vision underestimating it would keep the nerf off for a bit but Riot got that one right.

I guess to understand what would be an appropriate buff to ghost we have to question at what point we would take it ourselves in it's current state I wouldn't take it even if it _literally _ gave me free gold Zombie ward and eyeball collection are just so much better. I'd take it maybe if it revealed stealth wards placed after it?, or increased the duration at which stealth wards expire when placed in the same bush, also the 3 second cooldown is just trash who is seriously utilizing this short cooldown? we need to heighten the cooldown so we can give some actual power to this rune

Void Baboon RF1 votes

Just make it give 40% bonus AP that's literally riot's solution for balance problems.

Disulfiram1 votes

What if the ghost poro could only be summoned by pinging it in the champion sheet?

Evil Yasuo1 votes

I think it should be scrapped for something else and for them to release the ghost poro as a ward skin. (riot i'll buy this I swear to God)

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