Saturday, April 6, 2013

Alternative Rumble Change

I realize it's a tad late to be messing with Rumble since they just changed his ult to give him less laning presence, but I think that there was a much better route that Riot could have gone with in changing him.  And this is to move the damage Rumble does with his q more towards his e, or for those with different keybinds, away from his flamespitter and into his harpoons.

Now there are a few clear advantages to this change.

1.  Ups the skill cap on the champion, making it more of a challenge to bring out his potential damage by forcing him to land his skill shots.
2.  It makes laning against and with Rumble more of a active experience with more focus on dodging actual skillshots instead of simple positioning to avoid the constant aoe flamespitter.
3.  It lowers Rumbles scary harass/pushing combination while still giving him the opportunity to outplay his opponent and do some serious damage.
4.  It opens up more options for skill leveling which I believe that Riot likes.  Essentially it rewards you for playing well and lets you opt in for a more risky spell to max first if you're looking to reap the rewards of higher damage.

I believe that this change is better than the change to his ult because it fixes not only the problem of Rumble's laning phase but it also makes playing him and landing your harpoons more satisfying as a whole.

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