Could a support be made to give a person limited range?

Thair·5/18/2018, 3:01:22 PM·1 votes·1,387 views

The idea would be that you could bring a melee bot like xin or some other person and the support would give maybe 3 autos to a person either by something like kalista's passive where they can only give to that one person they chose at the beginning or it could be anybody could receive the buff. The problem would be i think it would be difficult to balance and just that ability alone would have to be a somewhat low cd and take a lot of power from the overall kit to make it good or even useful, but the idea seems cool and it could get a melee bot lane as a adc if it happened. It wouldn't be anytime soon since a support is coming out already but i think it is a possible idea.

2 Comments

You Disgust Me5/18/2018, 6:17:32 PM2 votes

Greatly increasing the attack range of melee champions defeats the purpose of kiting counterplay. Imagine a Mordekaiser or Jax permanently hitting you from 500 range with their on-hit skills or a ranged champion like Caitlyn or Ashe with farther range. That doesn't seem fair. If anything, the range increase needs to be temporary and have a hard cap like Rapid Firecannon.

Instead, I would suggest the opposite; temporarily lowering the enemy's range. The closest thing to a CC like that in game would be Nearsight which lowers the vision range of a champion from 1200 units to 300 units. Players really can't use Attack Move if they are unable to directly see what they are hitting.

FloRaider425/18/2018, 5:52:28 PM1 votes

What prevents that champion from buffing the range of regular marksmen?

I personally dislike the idea of giving melee champions more range, since they are built around their current range.