Talk:Ignite/@comment-4546311-20111218220305/@comment-2.122.237.101-20120514145736

In answer to your question, Xeneonic, I can see several problems with the scenario you create.

One, allowing healers to heal for as much as an AD carry can damage would make their 'squishiness' inherently irrelevant; the only thing that could kill them would be heavy CC or insane burst damage because they could just self-heal ad-infinitum.

Two, allowing for such heavy healing would cause fights to last longer, which in turn would slow those fights down intrinsically. LoL's combat is fast and furious; that is the way the game is designed. It is very rare you'll see a teamfight last more than 15 seconds in game. Creating your 'Healing Carry' role would essentially completely screw with the entire nature of the game, which Riot don't particularly want to do since their current system is working.

Three, the right of the AD carry to have higher numbers than your healing would include 'Having to actually stand in range of the enemy' - as opposed to merely hiding right at the back in range of a teammate - and his intrinsic squishiness. As I've already stated, a healing carry with the same survival stats as a carry is still not squishy because, well, HE CAN HEAL.

Four, 'why doesn't he take a healer with him as well'? Just because you want to be able to heal loads doesn't mean everyone - or indeed, anyone - shares that wish. Creating the scenario you describe would mean healers would be absolutely, positively, 100% necessary in any team. This in turn means people are forced into playing a role they don't want to play, or else they lose the game simply by not having a healer.

Note that this 'forcing people into roles' was done, at length, by certain MMOs. Also note that later MMOs are trying to avoid doing that, because people f'cking hated it.

Bonus note : Losing a game automatically because you lack a certain archetype is more or less the definition of something being 'overpowered'. Hint.

I could go on, but I don't think I need to. Your request is entirely motivated by a focus on your own enjoyment and ignores logic, the wishes of others in the community, and the mindset of the game itself. If worded more simply, it would read 'I WANNA HEAL! I WANNA HEAL!'.

Now please, go and be ashamed of what you've written here, and maybe in a few years when you learn the world doesn't revolve around you you might be able to post something of actual worth.