What's the deal with dragons?

Aletheiacracy·Jul 26, 2019·1 votes·800 views

Is there a system to what dragon is going to spawn next? When you have 5 dragons, 1 cloud, 2 mountains, 2 oceans.. and the enemy has 3 infernals..

It just seems to be too randomized because I can't see the pattern. I know Infernal respawning in 1 minute … but after infernal? And will it even really benefit us? I ignore cloud drakes like ehhh.

3 Comments

JackMcCarryJul 26, 20192 votes

It's random, and it's psychological. When you get infernal, you think "cool" and forget about it, when the enemy team gets infernal, every little extra damage you blame it on the drake.

At least that's how i am, losing infernal is much more "memorabale" and impacting to my morale than getting one myself.

ShmeeveJul 26, 20191 votes

It's all randomized, all are beneficial in some sort of way (despite infernal being the best because of this meta that lasted for 2 years)

SEKAIJul 26, 20191 votes

You can tell which dragon is going to spawn next, AFTER THE PREVIOUS ONE IS DEAD.

During the dragon's respawn time, on a wall of the dragon pit there would be a rune that you can easily see. The rune is the signature of the type of the NEXT dragon. They are usually pretty self-explanatory in design so when you look at it you should have an idea which it is that's coming up.

Another method is to press the "Tab" key and look at the dragon respawn counter. They will also show the same symbols under the counter that tells you which dragon is coming up next; and if the dragon is live it just shows the symbol of the dragon. And if you 'ping' it and paste the timer into the chatlog, it will tell you exactly which dragon it is in text.

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However, that's the extent of how much you can tell.

You can not foresee for instance, all rotation of the dragons the match is going to have before heading in.

I've always advocated that it would be a neat feature to have both in general play and professional play that actually benefit both experiences. But it doesn't feel like Riot is planning to do that any time soon and insist on keeping the Dragon aspect of the SR RNG based and shrouded in uncertainty for some reason.