A crazy idea for Mark

Volcaetis··1 votes·497 views

This is a bit of a text wall, so there's a TL;DR at the bottom.

So, I recently read a thread about how Mark is a mediocre summoner spell, which was intended to serve a particular purpose (making melee champs more viable in the siege-heavy environment of ARAM), and I found something rather interesting. Here were several arguments against Mark that were brought up in the thread:

-It simply allows you to feel like you can engage from further away, while ordinarily you are merely jumping to your death -It allows immobile champs (Annie, Galio, etc.) to engage from much further than they should be able to -You can't properly follow up on a Mark unless you're a particular type of champion (such as one who has strong cc) -Basically, it mostly helps champions who didn't initially need it

But let's widen the scope from just ARAM for a moment. If we consider a map like Summoner's Rift, then I feel that some of those arguments are no longer relevant. In particular, the issues people had with champions Mark/Dashing in and dying, or Dashing in and not being able to follow up, are less relevant in a 5v5 in which team comps are often more balanced and less one-sided. The only argument, I feel, which still really holds water in Summoner's Rift is the second one - that many immobile champs can use it to set up combos that shouldn't be that easy to set up.

My question is - how is that any different than Flash?

Sure, Flash has a shorter range and a longer cooldown, but other than that, they serve a similar purpose. In fact, I find that Mark has more interesting gameplay - there's a skillshot to dodge, it's not instantaneous, and you can't just use it as a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Here's the crazy proposal - let's replace Flash with Mark in Summoner's Rift. Even if only for a featured game mode! I think it could be a really interesting change to the gameplay of the map, and it would serve (I think) a similar purpose as removing Fortify did several years ago. What do you guys think?

TL;DR: replace Flash with Mark, see what happens, even if only in a featured game mode. Maybe it could improve the game.

5 Comments

Kãtãrinã1 votes

how do i escape over a wall then with mark. do i mark a jungle monster now? lol. I think ill stick to keeping my flash buddy

Volcaetis1 votes

That's exactly what you do.

Champions have to be balanced around Flash because you can blink over a wall whenever you want. It makes the game more stale when you can just say "oh I got outplayed/caught in a bad position, let's just blink away." Mark wold be a more balanced option that also allows for more variability in the summoner spells you can take. Not everyone would benefit from Mark - you're going to say you like the fact that 9 times out of 10, literally each champion in the game takes Flash? It makes things so much more stale and boring.

Kãtãrinã1 votes

Um i don't think the games balanced around flash. Since idk a lot of mobile people can take it as well as immobile lol. they dont determine it because flash. Flash is a fine spell it is LITERALLY a good offensive and defensive one

Volcaetis1 votes

League is a game in which you are able to choose items, masteries, runes, etc. based on what is the best option for a given situation. When there's a summoner spell that's clearly the best option for every situation, it overshadows every other summoner spell and limits your options to just that one spell. I believe that is when something is considered overpowered, and it's typically how they handle items as well.

They literally just reworked AP items because every champion built Deathcap, Luden's, Zhonya's. But they don't change Flash although every champion takes it.

Kãtãrinã1 votes

some go exhuast smite some go ignite smite some go teleport ghost. You don't HAVE to have flash. it is just a strong summoner because positioning alone can be very important. I'm just pretty sure if they try and change it the community is going to be mad about it and then riot will then not change it, I'm 100 percent ok with flash being on a majority of people. much rather that then someone going ignite exhaust or something.

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