The New Bounty System

1. Bounties used to be capped at 450 or so, im not entirely sure because this bounty change came up so fast. Anyways, if I am 0/2 trying to farm my way back into the game I get punished with a 450 gold - 550 gold bounty for farming minions to make up for my gold deficit. People often was: "Why is this in the game?" or "Why is farming punishable?" I think many of us on this board know their fair share of one person dying so much to where it throws the game. Some call it inting/trolling/feeding etc. This bounty system can often make it so that you are never going to be back in the game, you are totally f***ed forever and youre basically dead weight for your teammates to scapegoat you.

2. The other effect of bounties is that if you are playing a match up that can totally change if one of the players gets a massive gold lead (like 1,000 gold for example), it can make you insta-lose. Take the Renekton vs Nasus match up for example, lets say you got 4 kills and 50 cs up on Nasus and you come back to lane with your tiamat, phage and boots. Nasus kills you, yoinking your bounty, takes two turret plates and now Nasus is in the lead because with the bounty gold he buys a bramble vest and tabis....

Bounties either make it so that youre punished for getting back into the game, or punished for making one mistake after multiple good decisions. Once again adding another coin flip to this already coin flip based game. Whichever team has the CC comp, the good jungler, the first to link a discord in team chat or the team that doesnt have the inting bot lane. At least I can remember when I said "At least I dont have a bounty for farming CS". **Congratulations Riot Games, you amazing company. **