remove item effects from drakes

Critmaster Garen·7/25/2019, 6:20:50 PM·40 votes·12,841 views

i get it. at some point in riots playtesting team some prankster had the funny idea to let the drake benefit from the random item hes wearing, but this novelty has honestly worn out for me.

its not fun to have the thing spawn with item 3083 and be literally unkillable despite that some of your units have red buff, or it has red buff itself, or hurricane, or titanic hydra and deletes your whole team in seconds, with nothing you could have done differently in either case.

its actually quite ridiculous. as if item rng isnt bad enough by itself (i STILL just faced a guy with 3 completed items after the first couple rounds, and 2 more components on the bench) you get fucked over by randomly getting an unkillable drake and turn up empty, while your opponents roll shit like force of nature for their drake item drop.

how the fuck are you so bad at designing this game? the beta state isnt an excuse for all the broken mechanics that you should have known would be broken right the moment you came up with them, before you wrote the flowchart that would lead to the eventual code to implement them.

people are telling you for weeks to adopt a different system for item drops or at least normalize them, and youre trying your hardest to keep this shit in the game, and make 1 gold rewards equal to 2 or 3 items that your opponent rolls over you.

26 Comments

Beacon Academy7/25/2019, 9:28:42 PM5 votes

They took magic shield away

Then I got trolled with Dragon Tooth Dragon.

seasaltcake7/26/2019, 4:42:50 PM4 votes

When the dragon gets better item rng than you and rolls you over too.

DeusVult7/26/2019, 12:57:10 AM4 votes

Watched my buddy get smacked by a item 3072 dragon, that healed for 20% max health every attack

Also, while we are at it, could drag + elder no longer drop items that make champs into a certain class. The more generic items are always useful, but if you are running a ranger comp and Drag drops an item that turns someone into a sorcerer, it is actually useless for you, besides the 20 AP

At that point in the game it is generally too late to comp shift, whereas getting a more "generic" item could actually help you

Subdue7/25/2019, 7:02:35 PM3 votes

I can't remember the last time I failed to kill the dragon... Seems like you're positioning incorrectly. You should be moving your tanks to one side and your dps to the other so that the dragon doesn't splash onto your dps. It dies pretty easily if you do that.

Marshbouy7/26/2019, 2:43:13 AM2 votes

It's pretty clear that riot would rather have a gamemode that favors bruh moments over competitive strategy.

Z3SIeeper7/26/2019, 12:51:31 AM2 votes

Until they fix this though grabbing a blitz when ur close to dragon round is always a good idea since he CC’s it for a good period of time and can shove it into prime position for your team.

Works regardless of comp and with a 1 star blitz.

Can’t say it woulda saved u cuz yeah red buff on frontline means u gotta pray it doesn’t target them first.

General Esdeath 7/26/2019, 11:06:59 PM1 votes

I have an idea, everyone buy more little legends! If Riot sees this game mode makes money, they'll be inclined to fix it, just like ranked, right?

Shmeeve7/25/2019, 6:34:06 PM1 votes

Dragon with warmog's? Just build red buff on someone

Sihari7/26/2019, 5:31:26 AM1 votes

got a drake with a guardian a few games ago... killing it twice wasnt fun, almost didnt made it in time x.x

1 Inch and Proud7/26/2019, 8:21:31 AM1 votes

item 3137 wooo. 1 shot all my units. i luv u riot. not playing it until it becomes actually enjoyable.

Vlada Cut7/26/2019, 12:24:40 PM1 votes

Small Indie Company. Screw whoever is ordering the changes to the balance team. Up next: Gunblade Drake.

FrancoTheHating7/25/2019, 6:28:54 PM1 votes

i got drake with this item, killed it. well i got drake with huricane it was much more scary

but yeah overall removing the effect or making it 50% would not make it worse