The New Bounty System is to Blame as Well

Frosted Tips·Feb 11, 2019·8 votes·1,821 views

The Frostmancy strategy has found it's way into league partially because of the bounty system changes that occurred a few patches back. One part of those changes in particular has caused Frostmancy to exist. That mechanic that was added to the bounty system is the farming bounty. The farming bounty is given to an individual that has been farming better than the average farming of the enemy team, so if your top laner doesn't farm than the other team will start acquiring bounties. The whole bounty change has had mixed feeling with the community, but because if these horrendous strategies evolving from the change I think it would be totally logical to remove the changes.

Riot should remove the farming bounty and make bounties start at 3 kills again

6 Comments

disregardableFeb 11, 20192 votes

I think kill bounties are fine.

the farm ones just need to go. enemy team shouldn't be rewarded for farming like shit.

DerMangoJoghurtFeb 11, 20191 votes

They don't get rewarded though. The bounty you accumulate from farming better than your opponent is worth far less gold than the gold advantage you got from said farm.

Frosted TipsFeb 11, 20191 votes

So are kill bounties. Kill bounties are worth less than the gold you have gotten from kills, but farm bounties were added to try to prevent split pushing non interactive champions yet they have harmed the game more than they have helped it.

EedatFeb 11, 20193 votes

They do get rewarded. They get some of the difference back for absolutely no reason. If you got outfarmed there shouldn't be a system to babysit you getting some of it back

haaaaaaalpFeb 12, 20191 votes

They need to rework the formula but going back to kill only bounties would be a step backwards. It never made any sense why kills were the only thing taxed via bounties when cs and objectives mattered so much more. Realistically, cs, map pressure, vision, gold, and exp should all factor into bounties.

Frosted TipsFeb 12, 20191 votes

The problem is that they have two separate systems if they want it to be based around gold income then they need to switch to purely gold income based bounties instead of minion gold income and kill bounties like they have now.