User blog comment:NydusTemplar/A 'What If' about Champion Kill Rewards/@comment-3970297-20130210094205/@comment-5088437-20130211011812

Yeah, the only way they could continue to get gold is if they stopped getting the kills themselves and started getting assists. I suppose that is an issue for a burst character who, more or less, destroys someone as their job.

At that point, someone like LeBlanc, for example, would get the standard 300, 240 etc etc until it got low enough, then grab assists for 150, 140, etc.

This might not be enough, since I'm not looking at it from a perspective where you don't live and breath in the game by champion kills and only kills since, at the highest level of play it seems, this is relatively rare.

I guess the only way to mitigate this issue would be to cause champion kill values to depreciate slower, so they could continue to get reasonable amount of gold bounties.