and summons the RH from our base to walk down the lane with the highest HP furthest out tower the enemy has.
For those odd times where its about to expire and you're dead. Seems fair enough IMO since this is the only thing that really expires in your inventory
Umbral Regent1 votesThe Rift Herald summoning channel can also be interrupted, so being able to channel it while dead and have a free, uninterruptible Rift Herald walk out from base? That lacks the counterplay the interrupt is there to provide. With that in mind, I don't see them adding any ability to channel Rift Herald while dead anytime soon.
ForFoxSakes1 votesDoes interrupting the channel use up the charge though?
The benefit of summoning it in lane is to escort the thing to a tower while being a minion to help burn it. Without an escort she's much weaker and having it walk to base gives plenty of time to react to intercept it
UnboundHades1 votesyes it does and a rift herald from base is 100% useless
Umbral Regent1 votesYeah, interrupting the channel consumes the charge. If someone stuns you while you think you're safe channeling it - it's gone.
And, hypothetically, let's say Herald was summonable in base while dead - enemy teammates get an alert saying the Herald's up and (implying the Herald knew which lane you wanted to send it), everyone in the rough area on the enemy team moves to intercept it, killing it either in-between turrets, or in the middle of the lane.
Unless your teammates move to escort it as well, but that would take pressure off of a lot of areas in the map, making it more trouble than it might be worth.