How does Riot want to make the dragons of League of Legends have more sense? Changes are coming
The creators explain that they would like dragon buffs to be more important in the game.
In League of Legends, dragons have always been a very characteristic element of Summoner’s Rift. It’s hard to imagine a LoL match without fighting for epic monsters.
Unfortunately, Riot began to notice that fewer and fewer people are interested in fighting for a Dragon buff or Herald in the early stages of the game. The developers don’t really like it, so they want to change it.
Why is Riot changing dragons in LoL?
On the night of July 26-27, update 12.14 came to League of Legends. It brought a lot of changes to the game – buffs and nerfs of some heroes or items, the second part of Star Guardian skins (will be available on July 28), and the balancing of dragons and the Herald towards increasing the importance of these monsters in the earlier stages of the game.
The changes include, for example, the Herald now grants 200 local gold to the team that killed him. What’s more – summoned with the Eye of the Herald for the second time, he will have 75% more health.
Why did Riot decide to make such changes? Here’s the makers’ explanation:
Early game is currently becoming much slower which has led to a meta shift focusing on scaling team comps. Players have become more comfortable conceding early objectives in order to reach their late game win conditions.
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In order to increase the priority of early game objectives we’re going to be increasing the reward for early drake and Rift Herald takes. Individual drake buffs are currently too low impact as players will more likely prioritize them due to the threat of soul and less for the individual buffs themselves. In order to make drake buffs more meaningful, we’ll be increasing the buff values of each by roughly 50% (and even more for Cloud Drake). In addition, we’ll be decreasing the damage output of drakes across the board in exchange for more durability so that teams have more time to contest drakes as a coordinated group. In a similar vein, we’re now increasing the value of Rift Herald by making Shelly drop local gold. We’re also increasing the amount of health on the second Herald to increase its value and priority relative to the first so that it’s ignored less often.
