As someone with roughly 7k games, i've noticed that the fountain laser is hitting like a little girl? Maybe it's just me but i seem to remember that laser pretty much insta nuking, but now it seems like enemies can play around in it forever without dying. Maybe i'm rememberin wrong but it seems that way to me...
The slight delay makes it garbage
Everyone here is wrong btw.
The Nexus Obelisk laser deals two ticks of 1000 PURE damage in a second (so 2000 dps).
Pure damage is does the exact same thing as true damage in that it ignores all resistances, but it also bypasses most death defying effects (GA, Kayle ult, yatta yatta yatta). Guess I’m being a bit nit picky but there’s that.
it still does 1k true damage
600 AD + 100% critical at 250% damage x ~2 attacks per second is, with only 30% lifesteal, 900 healing per second before armor is applied. Most have more lifesteal by endgame time, and that doesn't even account for the variable coefficients of runes and the like. When you're attacking a mage or another ADC in their fountain, this is absolutely achievable.
I think it's the excessive state of lifesteal right now. Lifesteal is extremely powerful on a fed champion, such that you can easily milk 3-5 seconds under fountain if you're hitting consistently. They should consider making the fountain laser a one-hit sentence, in my opinion.
Are the boards really running out of things to whine about? Honestly, the fountain laser of all things....
They made it weaker so that people can get famous pentakills inside fountain and potentially giving assassins a deal to instant shot you even when you're healing.
The fountain laser (Nexus Obelisk) was nerfed at the same time as the other turrets were nerfed. Not surprising that the damage is diminished. (I saw a master game yesterday on Aphromoo's stream where they weren't scared to dive the tower to net two kills. That for me says tons.)
It used to be insta-death, I believe, but I didn't play a ton of high-health tanks back in the day
It doesn't switch focus and it has a (relatively) low attack speed, so if a bunch of minions are in the fountain it'll clear them all one by one before switching to champions.
Isn't it like 1k true damage a second?
That's kind of a lot.
So two things come to mind.
If people are trolling by diving into your fountain anyways, there is a high possibility you're going to lose. Maybe every 1 in 500 games them diving fountain will actually screw them out of the win.
It does 2000 true damage per second and nullifies shields and life saving effects. Unless there are like 3 tanks that tank for a total of like 6 seconds and the AD kills you, I cannot fathom how the laser is underwhelming. It's not an instant kill, that's about all I can say.
