Turret Portraits and Baron Health

therubberpig·6/17/2014, 9:07:04 PM·2 votes·1,749 views

I have noticed that when a turret went down on the Summoners Rift Livestream, it looked like the icon for turrets on the Minimap, do you plan on keeping this or drawing a splash-art for them?

I have also noticed that there is the number of health over the health bar. Have you guys put that there to make Baron steals easier or do you plan on even keeping it?

8 Comments

RiotLes Nomerables6/17/2014, 9:13:56 PM4 votes

Re: icons. I'm unsure right now what our final plans are for this.

Re: the Baron health bar--if it makes Smiting Baron easier, you have to ask why. What about this change makes it easier? Well, you can look at Baron now instead of the target frame inset. It was important for us to adapt the UI to player patterns; your attention should be on the game, not the target frame, and that's the core justification for this change. We'll be putting out a dev blog ("soon") that goes into some additional detail on clarity-related changes.

MackleDoge6/17/2014, 9:01:48 PM3 votes

I'm really really hoping they don't keep the displayed health numbers over Baron. That is a pretty significant impact on contested Barons and I feel it goes directly against keeping skill relevant in the game and making it so that the visual update doesn't skew gameplay.