Upcoming League of Legends patch to encourage teamwork

It looks like Riot is looking to give some help to support and jungle players in League of Legends. This will be in the form of helping them keep up with their damage-dealing counterpart by increasing the experience they get for landing kills or assists.Riot also wants to give you an extra reward for outplaying your opponent if you’re significantly behind in experience.

Here’s a summary of the changes that have hit the PBE and are soon going live everywhere:

-Teamwork Bonus: Bonus XP has been added on champion takedown (kill or assist) for players who are behind their team in level. The amount of bonus XP scales with how far behind your team you are.

-The bonus starts kicking in when you are just over one full level behind.

-By two full levels’ difference, you get an additional ~25% of your share of the base kill experience. The bonus reaches its max value when you are 4 levels behind your team’s average, giving an additional 60% of your share of the base kill experience.

-We put a limit of 60% on the maximum size of the bonus to prevent extreme slingshotting.

-Underdog Bonus: XP bonus for takedowns (kill or assist) on champions higher level than you has been increased. Expect around 10% extra XP if you are 4 levels behind your opponent.

“We are seeing certain characters (usually supports or junglers) fall significantly behind their team in XP, even when they are playing well,” Riot Colin said on the forums. “They are still providing value to their team in team-fights and through utility, but these actions are frequently not rewarding enough to pull them back into the game.” So while they can still lose lane pretty badly, there will be fewer situations where a player’s made completely useless by the end of the game.

Riot says that they are also keeping an eye on the experience granted by things like Dragon, Baron, and Turret kills to see if that needs additional tuning. (source: pvplive)