IMO, the game is way, WAY too dependent on
successful early game farm. The possibility of successfully last-hitting is not only random because your own minions sometimes decide to all pile the same enemy minion and KS, but some laning opponents are basically hard counters that prevent you from getting much gold at all.
Darius gets shut down hard against Kayle, and switching lanes puts your team behind by ~500 gold.
Morgana who is dependent on farming has a hard time with natural pushers like Heimerdinger and Malzahar, and some AP/AD carries who outrange her can harass so much that at 10 minutes they have 80 CS and you have 20 (This puts them ahead >1k gold even without any kills; this is absolutely
huge midgame because it translates to massively better items for their AP). Evening out this pretty much requires successful ganks, but after playing a couple of high elo games with friends, I found out that pretty much every bush is warded, shutting down that possibility.
If the other team isn't retarded (and they typically aren't in higher elo games), they won't feed you midgame and teamfights go in their favor from their carry having better items.
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IMO, the game is way, WAY too dependent on successful early game farm. The possibility of successfully last-hitting is not only random because your own minions sometimes decide to all pile the same enemy minion and KS, but some laning opponents are basically hard counters that prevent you from getting much gold at all.
Not entirely. Even if you're behind in cs, you can make it up through team fights. Getting a few kills/assists will really help you if you've fallen behind in gold. Also, the jungle can help a lot (if your jungler doesn't mind) since the wolves and golems give a decent amount of gold.
Darius gets shut down hard against Kayle, and switching lanes puts your team behind by ~500 gold.
That's just circumstantial. All champs have hard counters, such as Fiddle being able to shut down Tryndamere with his drain. If you're laning against your counter, that's just bad luck for you. Alternatively, you could do a draft pick in which you ban champs and then see who the opposite team picks, so you can pick your champ around that. I'm not sure if you can do that a low level, though.
I don't have enough champions to draft pick (and if I do they're probably going to ban Morgana, leaving me with champions that I suck at).
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Just curious poison, why is it that you hate Flash so much, and why don't you use it on Flash-dependent champions Such as Nautilous or Alistar?
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The issue with flash is because they accidentally made it a FORCED mobility skill that its almost like you're always supposed to have. After the flash cd nerf in Season 3, I think we're finally going to see less of its existence.
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They should just make flash an item ability like they are doing with promote, so you are forced to use up an item slot if you want it, then they can balance its cost and stats (if any) to make it so it isn't useful on just anyone. They could even potentially afford to buff flash if they go this route.
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DotA and HoN have the blink dagger and port key, which only have the item ability and no stats, IIRC, and there are heroes that make good use of it, and it isn't an item that just everyone gets.
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who doesn't gain from an instant jump from A to B?
Everyone does, ofc.
But item space is a resource so you can't get everything that helps you. You have to get the items your hero has best synergy with.
Also gold. Buying blink is expensive and certain hereos benefit greatly from it while others could only use it to increase movement speed.
Also keep in mind that Dota and Hon's implementation gives the item a small cooldown if you take damage from player controlled units which makes it useless for escaping when things went bad.
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Also keep in mind that Dota and Hon's implementation gives the item a small cooldown if you take damage from player controlled units which makes it useless for escaping when things went bad.
That WOULD be interesting to see added to Flash in LoL