I honestly feel like Infernal Dragon needs a new effect

OyddAWqJ5r·Feb 16, 2017·2 votes·667 views

The damage increase is just too good in certain comps. And with this meta, pretty much every meta comp is gaining far too much from it.

Infernal is creating extremely contested dragon fights which is definitely a good thing but it's doing so for the wrong reasons. Risking everything to contest a dragon solely because the effect is broken and the other team shouldn't have it should not be the main reason for taking it. It should provide an effect that you'd really want to have and not have the enemy have but the current effect is one that you absolutely need to make sure the other team doesn't claim.

However, I honestly don't have a good solution or even suggestion for a replacement.

4 Comments

BlackFluxFeb 16, 20171 votes

yes. infernal drake is a little too good :/ giving 8/16/24% attack and AP boosts. and with three that's almost like everyone having a item 3089 . mountain is also good giving a base 10% extra tower damage and the other two are just out of combat passives which make direct buff and wins very RNG dependant

Miror BFeb 16, 20171 votes

See, I'd just like the dragons to shift toward giving base stats instead of those "special effects". Instead of their current ones, here's an idea:

Ocean drake: +4% Max HP per drag, +3% added bonus if you gather 3 Infernal: +5% bonus AD/AP per drag, +3% added bonus for 3 Cloud: +15 movement speed per drag, +10 added bonus for 3 Mountain drake: +15 armor/+10MR per drag, +10armor/+8MR added bonus for 3

Not only would this allow teams to benefit off the drags at all times (instead of now where aside from infernal you're looking at situational advantages), but it could cause certain teams to put more focus on them depending on the roll. A team with a 2 damage source comp could potentially try to go after a 3rd ocean instead of a baron/inhib, as the added bonus might be worthwhile.

SlythionFeb 16, 20171 votes

next patch has a lot of damage nerfs from masteries and items, so I don't really see how this post will be relevant considering how your reasoning is about to be fixed in a week