Tethers

Gnar Is A Cat·1/5/2019, 7:14:34 AM·6 votes·6,034 views

I think this topic has been mentioned before by quite a few people but I still think it would be a great thing to do.

Kled

Yes he's strong, he's quite tanky and hard to kill with Skarl and he does a decent amount of damage,

but his tether is one of the most balanced abilities in the game I'd say, looking at it from a tether perspective.

Think about it, find me a champion, who has a champion to enemy champion tether, who doesn't have some sort of mobility, speed boost. There's none

You may think well what about Morgana,

Her tether still counts because it has a slow and she has the ability to block crowd control so technically doing a comparison of movement speed: Morgana gets a 'movement speed boost'.

And anyway she usually walks towards you then hits zhonyas so you practically cant get out unless you flash or use another form of mobility.

There is no champion in the game, with a tether, that doesn't have some sort of ability to help them hold the tether.

Back to Kled and the idea of changing tethers: give every tether a reducing radius of break, (the point where the tether breaks) like Kled.

Too many times Leblanc has hit me with her tether yet I flash away and I'm still in range.

SHE HAS TWO WAYS TO GET CLOSER TO YOU YET IT STILL HAS A RIDICULOUS DISTANCE!!

You kidding me?

The result of a tether is ALWAYS hard cc. So why don't Karma, LeBlanc and Morgana have to work to hold the tether. They all have some form of mobility. Make them work for that reward because too many times they've hit me, I walk away (even flash away) and I'm still in it.

I would say if this change is too be implemented maybe increase Morgana and Karma's tether distances slightly to adjust for the change, but it would still make so much of a difference

Just

Change

It.

EDIT: Also I forgot Nocturne, that tether range is kind of ridiculous too

15 Comments

Monstermushmush1/5/2019, 8:44:42 AM5 votes

Kled, Morg, and Karma's tethers are balanced. LeBlanc's IS NOT.

Imbetterthanmoe1/5/2019, 7:29:06 AM2 votes

when saying "I would say if this change is too be implemented maybe increase Morgana and Karma's tether distances slightly to adjust for the change, but it would still make so much of a difference" you do mean decrease right?

And yeh i totally agree with this. A champ like leblanc just has so much range on her tether that its impossible to get out of and if you flash she can just jump farther to you. Although i think morgana's is balanced because its her ult unlike how its a normal ability to other tether champs.

LordGeovanni1/5/2019, 9:33:24 PM2 votes

Leblac needs her tether fixed and Karma and morg needs the damage reduced. I dont she morg teather problems I see ones with karma and lebanc though when you cross the threshhold and you still get effected. Their thether points need to be slighty away from the middle point of the character on the opposite side of where leblac and karma is probally 50-75 units off center. Leblanc's is plain broken just to keep her as an easy assassin. Now Mobility spells in general need more downsides and down times which could help leblac if they ever fix her tether.

jocomotion1/6/2019, 1:06:38 AM1 votes

Doesn’t Kled have two dashes too? Plus he’s melee, meaning that he wants to be in your face to get his tether off in the first place, he’s not going to use it to kite like the others. and his tether gets to deal arguably the most damage in exchange for actually getting it off.

Since Karma Morgana and Leblanc are squishy, and rely on keeping enemies passed arms length lowering their tether range would mean they would each need a compensation buff. Otherwise, the tethers they do have would be absolutely useless (minus maybe LB since it’s range is SO huge). This in turn would probably (knowing Riot) cause at least of the following buffs.

  • more damage if the tether actually does get through
  • Better CC
  • HUGE defensive buffs
  • More effective ways to stick into a target.
  • Lower cooldowns

And I doubt you or anyone would want that.

aezens1/7/2019, 11:27:20 AM1 votes

Just want to point out here Morgana Soul Shackles is:

1.) an Ultimate ability and 2.) has 3 seconds delay

Not really a fair comparison.