Why did we remove the laser turret?

Because they want you to be able to last hit under them.

Because last hitting under Inhibitor and Nexus towers is apparently more important than defending your fucking Inhibitor and Nexus...

Um... Because they were just as bad, if not worse, than normal ones?

If you want a buff to turrets, dont re-add the laser. That thing was garbo. ACTUAL BUFFS are what you want.

They said they removed it in the patch notes. SO. go read patch notes.

It's very simple, they were added because diving was seen as really easy and there wasn't anything a team could do against another team who was in position for the siege, after all they had a tank on it the entire time. The laser turrets dealt damage per every like half second and slowed, on top of that they shredded armor which made it easy for not only the turret to kill the tank but also your team. So people instead of running down mid like apes actually had to pressure multiple if not all three lanes at once, which made ending the game really hard if they couldn't push all three lanes (Though baron was a huge objective that could end games), teams which snowballed huge leads were at a strong inherent disadvantage when ending the game, riot decided that summoners rift did not need laser beam towers, though it was cool and thus the rift went back to it's old normal tier towers at the end.

• TL;DR rito wanted to give teams that deserved to lose a way back into the game but reformed their decision. Kappa.

Hell, they were easily abused, that's why. Even Galio could. He HEALED off them.

they couldnt fix sound issue continuously playing laser sound even if they didnt have a target ,so they simply fucked them. gg ez riot team.

Turrets are not supposed to be a source of defense though... the objective of the game is TO DEFEND turrets, not backwards (turrets defending players), so dying to a dive is pretty much your fault because YOU thought that the turret would defend you, the turret is trying to defend itself, you are simply on the way

Even the laser turrets were weak as fuck lmao. Maybe they should make the nexus turrets similar to the fountain turrets, but maybe half as strong. Inhib turrets 1/4th as strong.

so that and tanky and can thrive, since their weakness is that they are melee riot needs to create better diving opportunities for them.

#Here's why: #Table of Contents > Summoner's Rift > Turrets

#The previous reasoning on why to add lasers to inhib turrets: #Map Objectives

All in all, Riot is not bound to keep a mechanic in the game under all means if the general direction on why it was added in the first place, changes. Split pushing at that time (patch 4.20) was a common tactic that didn't involve people in a lot of fights and Riot made it more difficult to take that inhibitor when it's being defended by a champion. Divers wouldn't be able to run away after a dive, which makes that play risky if it's just one champion looking for an easy kill.

#General Context

With strategic diversity being our big goal for the 2015 preseason, there are a number of ways we're tackling the challenge. In the case of objectives, we wanted to create incomparable rewards to better differentiate between map objectives.

So... what's that mean?

Basically with each map objective on Summoner's Rift becoming more unique (both in terms of the rewards they give and how you take them), we can make it so that every path to victory in League can be uniquely different as well. So rather than most strategies boiling down to who can get the most gold (which is important, don't get us wrong), we wanted to amp up the number of interesting and meaningful choices a team can make throughout a game. Should we be prioritizing dragon buffs? What if we just fast push to the nexus? Can we do that with proper map rotations? IS THAT A LASER!?