Turret Portraits and Baron Health

therubberpig··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 Nomerables4 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.

Altiia1 votes

How about adding segmented health bars for the lesser monsters of the rift. I still use the teeny little numbers target frame. I once got killed by a clown Shaco while trying to smite my precious blue. item 3070 Amumu

MackleDoge3 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.

12tales2 votes

Given the the skill being removed is the ability to left click a huge hitbox once, I'm not terribly concerned.

Ciphered Entity3 votes

Yeah because it's not like on the current Summoners Rift you can just click on Baron and have his health numbers displayed in the top left corner of your screen. Because that would completely go against my skill to smite when the Barons health bar looks low enough.

MackleDoge2 votes

Actually managing the target, health, your positioning, and the activity between the two teams is significantly different between checking the corner of your screen and having it in big ass numbers directly over the baron. Go tell the professional junglers that Baron steals take no skill, see how that goes.

Mums1 votes

It takes skill to left-click Baron and watch the health?

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