What Happened To Auras? - Forgotten Mechanics In League Of Legends

[@VarsVerum]

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[@lemon9.9]

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[@strykeralpha9650]

Biggest forgotten mechanic is the average league player's ability to have fun

[@Milchschnitzel]

And Respekt sb be Bad and try Something Off meta or new

[@TherealNiqqa]

and touching grass lol

[@GetTheMute]

Hahaha

[@FalcnPWNCH]

Most of the playerbase consists of jaded veterans whom have played close to or over a decade (likely) non-stop without taking breaks from the game and their mindset/mental have been completely dilapidated - I've personally taken breaks from playing game and still find it enjoyable, largely due to growing up and having other priorities but also just having other interests increasing in priority, taking break from a game you like should be a much more normalized and a healthy approach to reset your mental and mindset towards the game

[@jedanim9536]

That's a you problem

[@hmonglord]

I was there....i was there 3000 year ago... during the Wards War. Where all a support did was buy gold generating item and then spend it all on wards. And i ENJOY IT

[@aaronparry2636]

Ah yes, back when support champs were given only decent baseline stats and had effectively no scaling off items and still were the most influential role in league outside of bronze. Those were the days, my friend. Those were the good times.

[@kirokun08]

yeah, then my friend does the same for irelia top and has the Safest Lane Ever before going ham 10 minutes later

[@Langharig_Tuig]

I remember playing Taric for one specific reason back then: when you got into range of Taric and receive the armor auro you would hear a sound effect, something like rapidly freezing ice or cracking earth, something in between, point is... it was a terrible and loud sound effect. I would play Taric and constantly walk in and out of range to constantly apply the aura and sound effect to annoy my friend. KRRRRR KRRRRR KRRRRR KRRRRR KRRRR

[@neroz06m.20]

I miss my omni night at home with pizza feet

[@melibaws2328]

HAHA YES OLD TARIC ONE OF MY FIRST MAINS AS SUPPORT I LOVED THE CRACKING SFX

[@metzger5850]

Truly....truly

[@Quixote3]

A Tarorrist

[@americantwist2617]

One big reason the aura items were so "inflated" was because supports had next-to-no gold income, thus their itemization had to go much further. It was entirely common for supports to have 2 items (no ward stone/item) while everyone else had 4+. Thus, a support item had to be worth more. The real problem (as in the video clips) is when junglers (Nunu and Sejuani, etc) started getting those items in addition to their more standard economies. Riot has said in the past they dont like auras, but the fact that Frozen Heart, Abyssal, etc itemization still remains, tells me they didnt like the economic impact more

[@1lik3Fir33mbl3m]

League could have kept a lot of their aura items, if they were locked to the support role and thats also something they should have done for other arc types. Like people hate it when non tanks become unbeatable while building items meant for tanks, same goes for marksmen and assassines abusing bruiser items and so on.

[@AJ-em2rb]

Remember the days when you could stack five Heart of Golds until you had enough gold to just buy your entire build? Philosopher's Stone, HoG, Kage's Lucky Pick, Avarice Blade.... yeah those were the days. Also when Executioner's Calling was just an anti-Garen item that had the bonus of basically neglecting any opponent's natural healing entirely with its 8 second DoT that applied on every auto-attack?

[@ignacioperez5479]

Sona's gameplay before her rework was full aura. Her Q dealt damage to 2 enemies and gave her an AD and AP aura, the W was the heal and, if i remember rigth, it was armor+MR, and the E a permanent movespeed aura. You could only have 1 active

[@cupie2255]

And the previous aura would persist for like 2 seconds.

[@ignacioperez5479]

@cupie2255 really? I don't remember that. Maybe it had a minimum duration

[@cupie2255]

@@ignacioperez5479 It was part of her passive, and it's why whenever you casted an ability it was represented visually with the two aura effects forming full circles around her.

[@moobo3944]

I feel like auras are an important aspect of support characters in games. For me it always made me feel like my team would never be at full power unless I was there which is a rewarding feeling. Also I've always just been a big fan of the rallying paladin gameplay fantasy.

[@subaruuuu1]

Riot should make new summoner spells for one season and see how it goes, I'd love to have these spells and try new strats with them today

[@johnmcconnell7052]

The spells would be in question does it grant mobility or direct pressure if the answer is no likely won't be used. But I agree they should

[@n4th4niel100]

I hope Riot does a "Classic LoL" similar to WoW at some point. I'd love to play old Aatrox on a seasonal themed map again

[@drewsmith3673]

I too would love some old school league. Leviathan, Sword of the Occult, Mejais, full "bravery" build. Loved old AP Gangplank too.

[@lillyie]

i miss boot enchantments the most. it could've been the "tier 3" of boots but riot just had to make new mechanics either 200 years or absolute dogwater

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

Honestly I am never excited about boots. Other items can be fun, they usually are. Boots feel like an obligation, and a lot of the time you barely feel the speed increase, even if you know it matters. Sometimes I unironically wish the game just didn't have boots as a whole ngl. Make everyone's passive Cassiopeia's lol

[@dynhoyw]

​@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 SMITE is like this. i prefer league in many other aspects, but that game having no boots is a pleasant change of pace. literally just build 6 items and start killing.

[@zachhollins604]

@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149especially with how gutted and expensive they are now…so jarring, theyre no fun but unfortunately most champs cant play without them bc ms is just so op

[@Veolfen]

Smite removed boots ? Cuz i rember it having them but it was a while ago

[@SappyEuphoria]

"or abyssal mask" oh this is like when someone references old ryze and they mean version 3

[@brennanrodriguez122]

First mechanic: Teamwork

[@Scudmaster11]

2:40 Sona is basically all Auras

[@gkarak1996]

Sona used to have infinite duration auras that would shut off only if you activated another aura.

[@Plight_]

I started the game in 2014, your memory is so much better than mine i couldn't tell you about hardly anything that happended except for the game modes

[@amysakalov6915]

If I remember correctly the fact that Homeguard was the universal purchase was the reason Riot cited as removing boot enchantments. It was something to the effect of, "Because everyone just rushes homeguards since they're the best option in many circumstances we're implementing that as a universal mechanic and removing all other enchantments." At the time it was considered one of those, "If an item is so universally useful that everyone has to buy it then you should just remove whatever the item is and make it something everyone has." This is also the same general era from which we got universal warding trinkets for some similar reasons.

[@pikmints]

I miss the aura from Mana Manipulator strictly because of how much stronger it made ARAM poke comps before they added mark/dash. Another removed mechanic was how Eleisa's Miracle was an item that consumed itself and gave the player permanent stats, effectively acting as a 7th item late game. Also good in old ARAM when health relics only healed 1 person and Warmog's either wasnt available or didnt have its regen passive.

[@Nartanek]

I miss aura items, they were auto buy sure but so are any items conducive to your playstyle. The game was so much more focused on team play rather than today's every man for himself, even supports go full dps most of the time because nobody cares about the team and everyone just try to kill the enemy team by themselves.

[@DastardlyDavid69]

I thought you said “conductive” and thought “wow, he’s a dummy” and then I reread it and thought “wow, I’m a dummy” 😆

[@GenericUser860]

7:09 A different MOBA, Smite, struggled a lot with this problem for a long time. Supports practically had to build items with auras because of how many thete were and how efficient they were, and building selfishly would get you flamed. Non-tanks would have relatively high resists, which necessitated assassin items getting buffed with higher penetration, which began a power creep snowball that lasted years, with items becoming more and more bloated with stats. It was a huge surprise when I started playing League last year and found the only item that increased ally protections was Locket as a Mystic item, and even then it was only like 3 armor/magic resist per legendary item.

[@ValleriaValentine]

You don't get flamed, really. Also, aura items are very strong, so they are often better than "building selfishly". Unless you play like mage, in which case, almost anyone builds selfishly anyway.

[@supermariolover20]

Heck yeah fun niche things. Zzrot, ohmwrecker, frozen mallet fun.

[@LukeA471]

I miss old AP Taric. My first off meta main

[@AJ-em2rb]

man, League's visual vibe has changed so much. i miss the old map and minions. also, maybe it was the elo i played at but i remember Rally + old Warwick W being super busted at pushing towers since you'd give all the minions an AD boost and an attack speed boost; Rally was just very potent for split pushers

[@Dyna1One]

I loved auras, it promoted teaming up and go for those brawls with your team, or yknow, help the team with stats they need at the time if the support gets ahead.

[@americantwist2617]

Also, Annie was a big boots of distortion user, stacked with lucidity and gave more flash stuns.

[@95ellington]

I really miss auras, I love those in the way back...as an old school taric main.

[@frost7842]

One of my earliest League memories is playing old Soraka, both teams deathmatching and me getting annoyed on constantly dying. So I sold all my items, bought banner, every aura item I could and then buffing up a cannon minion and ending the game this way.

[@Kingofredeyes]

Clairvoyance actually used to be THE support summoner spell to take back in the day. There were no real viable assassins, so exhaust wasn't really needed, and heal and ignite just didn't do enough. Meanwhile, the ability to track the enemy jungler and scan to see if you where safe enough to push into the enemy jungle for deep vision without needing to facecheck was amazing, especially when not losing your oracles elixir to clear enemy vision was so important. It's actually a playstyle I wish would come back in some form, beyond support Ashe for the lulz, but I miss being the vision and map god of the rift. Enemies used to never move without my team knowing it. Not even if I track them with vision, half my teammates can't without me spelling it out in very small and slow terms.

[@MrMac1219]

Alternative to tier 3 boots would be something like Smite's Elixir of Speed. It disabled move speed from boots but was a permanent elixir that gave that speed itself, allowing you to sell boots for a 6th item in late games. Smite eventually took the route of buffing MS and removing boots entirely but League could try this or even an elixir that turns your currently bought boots into permanent stats to free the slot. Either way, Cass passive would need some changing.

[@Mike-iz6li]

10:48 the big and huge difference is that in the old you have an item and now it cost a full mastery/rune. I rather have it in an item than costing me 1rune/mastery slot.

[@Omegadragon4]

I miss Furor boots so much. I would always get them on ADCs that had no innate mobility options like Kog'Maw and Varus, and it was also disgusting on Sivir. I have a distinct memory of being able to kite a bear stance Udyr late game thanks to Sivir's passive and Furor boots.

[@quaffie]

i am still in love with madres

[@juancamiloramirezforero7354]

auras used to stack as well, you built sterak on yi and you got its stats + the one from your support. This was insane on certain comps, for example vladimir or kennen. In fact, way back in the day shen´s Q used to be a point and click, it dealt an insane amount of damage for a tank AND it healed you every time you hit that marked enemy. This made AP shen viable and probably its best build way back in the day, not only would you heal yourself and allies for a stupid amount, both shields (his W used to give him a shield) scaled with AP as well, his ult could easily give you a 3k shield.

[@aliasv6964]

I do recall Captain boots being used on Janna a fair bit. Kinda improves her passive move speed increase to the party even further really allowing some hit and runs. But I would say it was niche and amusing more than meta defining

[@Pentagram666mar]

I still miss old Jarvan aura master, yeah I know you don't see effects but it was just satisfying to know you give attack speed armor resists etc

[@ChucktheSpicyChicken]

I think boot enchantments could come back. MLBB has them for that game's version of support, that being the Roamer. Currently, there are four boot enchantments those being Conceal which is an active skill that gives stealth and 33-75% MS to all allied heroes in a small zone. Encourage which gives 15-35 Adaptive power and (MLBBs version of AP) and 15% attack speed. Favor which heals the lowest HP ally in a 5 yard radius for 480-1200 HP when a healing or shielding effect is applied every 15s. And finally, Dire hit which every 30s makes attacks to targets under 35% HP take 7-18% mixed damage. All of these scale with gold gained from assists or the passive increased gold generation given to the Roamer. Side note: Roamers can not gain Exp or Gold from minion kills if an ally is nearby, instead the full bounty is given to the nearest ally. And Roamers gain increased gold and Exp from assists.

[@witto200]

Yes I remember playing Alistar and going full aura build. With ultimate, you were very tanky anyway and his heal was on demand (E) AND HEALING MINIONS for some reason... it was very different time

[@ryuma143]

I have all the aura now

[@Avabees]

I used to love aurastacking. It was so bad tho lol

[@SynderFGC]

Coming over to this game from Smite,a game with a large variety of Aura items, actually made me swap from Support to Mid, since it just didn't feel as good

[@leonardo9259]

So early the sponsor block hasnt even detected the opera gx scam

[@a13ph0]

be the change you want, add a segment!

[@miguelsanchez825]

I think it was Soul Shroud or something like that, the item that gave mana regen aura which was suprisingly powerful so alies wouldn't need to buy mana regen. In those days most teamcomps had 5 mana champs.

[@saxas_Over_Heaven]

Number 12: "Bomba"

[@thrahxvaug6430]

Yeah I never understood why they removed ALL the boot enchantments when they were making Homeguards which was objectively the best option a standard mechanic. Honestly i really liked taking Captain enchant on Janna and Alistar while also buying the elixir of iron or Deadman's plate. It made the game state very different than normal because you'd amp so much team speed with them. Making following up on Alistar ooga booga way easier for people. Or the ability to dodge or kite back easier.

[@LifesY-T]

Only a true former maple player would remember to shout out the hannukah enjoyers among us xd. Awesome vid as usual! :D

[@LukeA471]

When will they make league classic like WoW classic 😢

[@Darkdjinn79]

I still wish so many removed summons would be added to the spell book keystone. Even if it’s nerf versions.

[@dylanwignall759]

Imo a grounding summ would be good for the game. Nothing insane, just a budget singed pool without any synergies or damage. Especially if flashy movement is going to be more common in kits, it would be nice for there to be a standard counterplay tool for all champs to have access to, like how ignite deals with high lifesteal champs.

[@Darkhero32100]

while not an in-game mechanic, I do really miss doom bots and the ascension game modes, those were fun.

[@SonOfSparda03]

Full aura team sounds pretty fun, just all ad with zekes

[@Motorboatasaurus]

Clairvoyance on Twisted Treeline (3s) was the best summoner you could take.

[@robertharp16]

iirc I think boot enchantments were looked at less favorable because I think this was around the time that getting to or past 40% cdr was becoming more common and champions with dashes were running rampant because slows dont affect dashes in any meaningfull way, I think this was also about the same time Kalista was getting optimized and with the Furor boots(memory willing) was no cap LITERALLY impossible to catch on any melee that didnt have a movement steroid or attack speed slow..... I wanna say there was a clip somewhere at the time that was being used alot where it was a Darius running at her with ghost up and she had enough atk spd/dashes to literally outrun and straight up kill him 1v1 and it wasnt too soon after that those boot upgrades got scrapped, you may just yet get your wish tho i think they are bringing a vertion of those back and are on the pbe right now

[@BlahBohogun]

Starks Fervor was one of my favorite aura items totally busted gold econ wise but awesome none the less.

[@zexian3384]

I miss when items really had that fantasy / anime mmo esc synergy like zzrot classes felt more classy and you could build in odd ways out win with new goals organs than kill the adc

[@Strlz_Remtachi]

if I were to chose what to bring back to current League...it would be the ability for Mordekaiser to cast Ult on Drakes and steal their soul upon killing. Imagine New Morde transforming into a Drake when you slay it

[@Zenek_Rozenek]

unpopular opinion- they should nerf flash to the ground so we have to pick more than 1 summoner spell (bc flash is default for like 99% champs)v

[@AdnanRahmanovic-vv8lz]

The thing is tho, it would still be taken, cuz 1 it is just so much in our brains that you have to take flash, and 2 a lot of champions don't even work without flash, like Annie or Neeko to lesser extent

[@Nightwalk444]

@@AdnanRahmanovic-vv8lz I'd argue those champs would be more powerful if nobody had a flash.

[@AdnanRahmanovic-vv8lz]

Neeko would. Annie wouls still struggle. All she can do is run at you and if she is, you just run the other way. Neeko would have help from her passive and e

[@Nightwalk444]

@@AdnanRahmanovic-vv8lz Ye, now run the other way when enemy team is doing baron and she's holding a choke point.

[@loy10000]

Rather just buff the other summoners

[@Mike-iz6li]

12:39. And serious, how much have to do it, before it implement it. It rediculous it cost them 10 years realising that boots upgrade was fun.

[@grauenritter9220]

I liked the aura items but yes it leads to a wacky mandatory purchase arms race

[@TrickingTrapster]

I saw that Siv HD clip. Good times.

[@gallardof13]

Its crazy seeing adc just standing still vs a melee champ

[@smartalex22]

I miss Fortify. :(

[@chadwilson4947]

You forgot fortify which would make all you towers invulnerable and I think give them attack speed.

[@cameronbartlett913]

Now, hear me out, remove zhonyas hourglass and make the stopwatch effect a summoner spell, finally balancing the effect and making it accessible to more champions.

[@thrashyart4369]

I remember Runic Bulwark I think it was introduced around S4 or some shit and pretty much every tank and their mother build it

[@reden666]

Aren't boot upgrades going to come back with next season?

[@suho_calamity]

8:45 i swear instead of "auras" i heard it as "any semblance of vars" lmao.

[@dramat123]

nilah W it think its W fk this champion but shouldnt be considered AURA cuz it only looks like AOE but works more like effect cuz you touch nilah or she touches you and doesnt work like AREA cuz even if you would teleport with this effect you still got it and doesnt matter if nilah die

[@n45a_]

i wish they brought back Fortify summoner spell

[@jacobrusso2211]

Love your videos, impossible to listen to on headphones

[@Beij1ngCorn]

Negative aura

[@josephguzington]

I remember clairvoyance being actually used in season 2 no?

[@marixsunnyotp3142]

Imagine Yuumi with all the aura items

[@Leah_Newton]

I remember my frd shared his story of abusing that lifestealing aura and won many games back then. Not sure if he was one of those that started the trend tho 😂

[@luckasneo2089]

Old homeguard didnt have the 20 min requirement.

[@Taylor-bw4zg]

Didnt mention fortify 0/10 lol

[@farconwill4708]

funny how a lot of league's removed/forgotten mechanics are still working in DOTA 2:V

[@bottomtext251]

On PBE they are testing boot-upgrades

[@SimonMester]

League boomer here: Surge, promote and banner were all useless. And no they weren't global. We weren't sure why they added promote and surge either, and they weren't much used. Keep in mind Flash used to have like 2-3 times the range back in the day with a lower cooldown. Split pusher also wasn't really a thing back then, and teleport, ignite and exhaust were all way more broken, so you couldn't really release anything to compete with them, or the numbers would have been so absurd as to make it mandatory for the early levels, leading to insanity. Keep in mind, back then even Heal outcompeted most of these new trial summoners. Heal used to have way less CD, and no diminishing heals, so it wasnt uncommon for both botlaners to bring heal to just full heal back from the brink of death.

[@shanecoffing]

Personal hot take, i think they should make zhonyas a summoner spell. It actually makes it a choice for ADC/support players and you can than balance the cooldown so it cant be used every fight. It could be used for weak early lane ADC or into super dive heavy comps. But because it's a summoner spell you are giving something important up like exhaust, ghost, heal, or TP and you can make the cooldown longer so it cant be spammed by champs like lissandra/fiddlesticks/fizz/morgana. It would take some balancing but i think it would be good change. That and take TP away. Hate to say it but TP promotes boring gameplay early, and can solo win games later. Its extremely strong and lane fights would be so much more fun if over half the game didnt just take TP. Sucks when you earn a hard early solo kill only for them to TP back, or seeing people out of posistion late game only too see 2 tps come in basically making your call or pick useless.

[@anthonylulham3473]

The difficulty is that you only want a stopwatch or hourglass later on IF the assassins get rolling. It would be a change that would remove agency as they would sacrifice exhaust or heal for zonyas for the off chance of needing it. Flash is so useful as it's a gap closer wall jumper and reaction gold button. Zonyas doesn't get you out of trouble, just pauses you for 2.5 seconds. It also doesn't get you into trouble. A soul trap summoner that stacks with use, gaining stacks of target dies in 10 seconds to then give a zzrot summon for stack number of zrots, that would be an interesting idea, sac a summoner for a scaler summoner as a "win more" to give risk. You have to get rolling and kills or you play down a summoner spell.

[@gamerguy756]

I miss the old "mechanic" of seeing everyone's ping when loading and then dogpiling the poor soul who had 100+. God that was awful but hilarious

[@mosdeadly98]

Summoner spells is a dead system because of flash. Flash is so broken even if they added 12 summoner spells it would just be more tools for adcs/supports to use.

[@ahmed.khaledhelaly3546]

Still don't know why they removed movement speed of staff of flowing water They ruined the item

[@Hyuga_Natsu00]

Controversial take: Make League slightly "RTS-ish" again. (Active items, aura abilities and items, balanced point click abilities, cleanse mechanic, unique debuffs other than exhaust and slows.)

[@rektbiich4585]

Sona was the ultimate aura champ

[@MrAzuresapphire]

I was itching to hear about Sona cause you know, auras are her kit. but you never did. Missed the chance there. Although, this video made me realized that maybe that's the reason why they changed her kit in the first place, I mean if I remember correctly her persistent aura boosted ally stats like ability power, defenses, and speed. Felt like a downgrade after that.

[@KHfan0011]

I wish they just removed boots from the game and gave everyone MS buffs to compensate. Just make Cassiopeia's passive a global thing like they did with homeguard then give her a better passive. They already did that with Ivern's buff sharing. Let us buy 6 items and not be punished for it.

[@leobarb201]

That heimer looks cursed

[@dramat123]

new boots enchancments are pretty bad i mean they are powerfull but i would rather have something smaller but cheaper like old ones

[@lukiedoodle]

I just know sona is sobbing rn

[@KhangTran-df1qx]

Back then, you can try thíng, but now you just buy the correct items the dev wants you to build and that is

[@Arob4343]

Revive would actually just balance games when dealing with Akshan

[@purpledabs]

Gp support with zekes and frozen gauntlet

[@zachariashoeldtke8567]

Ok, can we maybe get a video on everything wrong with Ekko? Has anyone seen his ap scaling on his W? Effing busted!

[@johnmclain1482]

They need to release a legacy game mode of league

[@dokidokiduckie]

I miss aura items so much, especially old Locket. It feels very lame playing tank supports these days, there's so few ways to itemize as an actual support instead of just a watered down toplaner.

[@BooelGaymes]

people will say yuumi sucks but will want aura tanks back

[@dokidokiduckie]

@BooelGaymes You got me, I definitely said that

[@wraithchronicler5915]

Auras broken. "Revive is broken. Point and click dispel and silence... all this is still in Dota, it's not broken, it works fine, Riot just can't balance their items (as if we didn't know).

[@geoimage]

even league can't escape inflation.

[@remicon73]

so what you're telling me is that league players have no aura

[@gloomish5120]

Yall remember when split pushing was good?

[@ghy357]

Predator is the most fun for me

[@antonioreconquistador]

Now league has no aura

[@snolls105]

you forgot about sona