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Lets talk about stealth/invisibility/camouflage/literally not being able to be seen by a tower!

Season 4 Gragas·10/25/2018, 4:23:06 AM·2 votes·822 views

So first let's list the champions with invisibility/stealth or anything of the sort. First alphabetically is Akali, now personally I think not being able to be seen by towers is just ridiculous, even in the towers items it shows it has True Sight, which from my years of knowledge have concluded this to mean IT SEES ALL! Next, we have Evelynn, who I personally hate. Now I don't know for sure but I don't even think she can be seen by control wards (please let me know if I'm wrong) and after level 6 having essentially permanent camouflage is incredibly annoying. Especially with the fact, her burst is pretty darn high. I'm skipping over Kai'sa because I have personally never played her so I don't know how useful it is to her kit and functionality. Next, we have Kha'zix, now I'm also not 100% sure if control wards spot his invisibility but it does play a very important role of his functionality because it resets his passive and duskblade. Now we have Pyke, I personally hate this champion so much and I think that his role just isn't needed in League of Legends. I do think his invisibility is incredibly close to being balanced. It does play a part in his kit, helping him engage, disengage and to proc his passive healing. I would suggest lowering the movement speed gained from it. Rengar is an interesting one for me because I actually love playing Rengar because I feel like his invisibility is unbalanced. First, it grants him a leap which is important because it allows him to get a ferocity ability in his combo. Next, it gives him movement speed and a lot of it at that. And from what I've seen he doesn't need this movement speed because swiftness boots mixed with youmuus out of combat and active movement speed grant him enough already. And finally it gives a marker of who he is closest to but it doesn't give a representation of how far which I think would be better if it did show that. Now we are onto Shaco and I think a lot of people will agree with me when I say this champion is annoying. His Q gives him an enlarged flash with a short cooldown and invisibility briefly. I believe you can also R while in the invisibility so the enemy would be confused thinking the clone was Shaco coming out of stealth. It's not Teemo's turn! Being able to move in bushes is alright with me but there is no indication if he is near you or not (from what I know at least). I think there needs to be some way to tell if he is near you invisible. Twitch, in my opinion, has his stealth just so horrible. It resets on kills has a long duration and grants attack speed when leaving the stealth. I think this is horrible design because it makes Twitch play more like an assassin than an ADC because most of the Twitchs just go and murder your ADC when they least expect it. Now for the reason I made this post in the first place, Vayne. I don't think having a dash with invisibility on an extremely low cooldown is very fair. Also being on an ADC makes her even harder to lock down. The tumble also gives bonus damage and she can't be seen by control wards. Last, we have Wukong. I think Wukong has his stealth done near perfectly! From my knowledge, it doesn't grant him any bonus for using it outside of an escape/engage which I think it should be like.

Now that we went over the champions that have stealth and what I think about them it's time to offer a solution to this issue. The first and the easiest fix, in my opinion, would be to allow the Oracle lens to be upgradable for 1500 gold which grants the user vision of invisible targets on a 1-minute cooldown (lasting for 5-10 seconds) The next fix I'm offering is to first, allow the tower to see Akali in her stealth and to offer an upgrade to an item (kind of like Ornn upgrade) which allows you to get the same active as above ^^^ but to upgrade 1 of your items but sacrificing a portion of the main stat of an item Example: Rabadons would be 110 AP instead of 120, Bloodthirster would be 75 AD and 18% life steal, Sunfire cape 400 HP and 55 Armor The last and most ridiculous fix would be to COMPLETELY remove stealth from the game (outside of wards).

Thank you for taking the time to read this post as I spent about 30 minutes on it. Let me know any mistakes I made and if you agree or not with what I said.

1 Comments

Prestige AkaIi10/25/2018, 3:17:29 PM1 votes

Control Wards reveal Camouflaged champions, like twitch and evelynn. They don't reveal invisible champions, like Shaco & Khazix, and obscured champions, Akali.

Akali can be seen by turrets, just not targeted. She is instead revealed as a white silhouette which is a big target for skillshots and aoe, and if she goes to attack she breaks her obscure and can be fully targeted.

I think stealth as a whole is fine, all forms of it, including Akali's obscure which people have a lot of frustration against. Stealth has always been a frustrating mechanic in PvP games and will always be frustrating unless they make it super obvious a stealthed champion is near you, thus defeating the point of stealth. I think the shimmer mechanic and the Oracle lens are enough counterplay to most stealth champions. I'm just happy pink wards don't reveal invisibility anymore.

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