Double kills at bottom lane generate way too much of an early advantage

Yenn·Mar 8, 2018·4 votes·368 views

Can we do something about this?

Often if a kill happens at bottom lane, it turns into a double kill. It feels like this is the #1 problem contributing to bottom lane deciding the majority of games right now. This generates too much gold and makes it extremely hard to recover from, compared to the solo lanes.

I honestly can't count how many games I've been in where I hit level 6 as mid, notice that the enemy ADC is 4-0, and accept my loss because they have a full item advantage, it's too dangerous to gank, and are likely about to take the turret and rotate into my lane.

8 Comments

chipndip1Mar 8, 20182 votes

The hell CAN you do about it? If two people die, that's 600 gold. You can't change that.

YennMar 8, 20182 votes

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The hell CAN you do about it? If two people die, that's 600 gold. You can't change that.

Why can't we?

We can split the gold more evenly across participants during the early game, scaling down to the current values by the mid game, so the advantage is split with the support and not just stacked on the ADC.

Alternatively, we could reduce kill gold in the early game, but that might have a negative impact on top/mid lane.

SwiftKitten88Mar 9, 20182 votes

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The hell CAN you do about it?

make adc items not dirt cheap?

YennMar 9, 20182 votes

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make adc items not dirt cheap?

That too, but the extra gold would still translate into an unstoppable number advantage.

SwiftKitten88Mar 9, 20181 votes

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That too, but the extra gold would still translate into an unstoppable number advantage.

thats only because damage creep is too absurdly high. it also depends.. if the adc got both kills, then your pretty much screwed if they get to back afterwards to spend it unless you can set up a great gank to immediately get back in the game. but if they support got 1 of the kills it is still possible to beat them if you can significantly outplay them. or if they fuck up and do something stupid becuase "ohh i have money therefore i am gosu" which i unfortunately get as my adc when im supporting them and get them some free early kills.

jadelinkMar 8, 20181 votes

I'd really like to see kill gold drop to 250 across the board. It would tone down the snowbally nature of the early game, and perhaps push for more objective based play and less chasing kills like a pack of rabid wolverines.

YennMar 9, 20182 votes

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I'd really like to see kill gold drop to 250 across the board. It would tone down the snowbally nature of the early game, and perhaps push for more objective based play and less chasing kills like a pack of rabid wolverines.

This would probably cause issues for solo lanes and I'm pretty sure Riot wants to push the game towards everyone playing like handicapped monkeys going balls to the wall 24/7, because it's more fun to watch.