Can We Just Remove Teleport to Towers?

Uh, this is definitely off topic, but Ragingstorm said you guys were sisters, yet Ragingstorm in the Ward Up had a male voice, but then Ragingstorm starts talking about hir *** and chest...I am pretty confused. Can you explain?

Uh, this is definitely off topic, but Ragingstorm said you guys were sisters, yet Ragingstorm in the Ward Up had a male voice, but then Ragingstorm starts talking about hir *** and chest...I am pretty confused. Can you explain?

It's really the actives themselves.

Think about it: Aegis Amulet and Purification Beads are really more of a check against potential attempts to kill you. However, they are balanced around the fact that they are only up every two minutes or so, depending on the rank. Meaning, they're good for countering a single skill. So if you beads out of No Escape, it won't be up for when Anubis comes around to Mummify you ten seconds later. There is counterplay to those actives.

Hand of the Gods is a bit different however. On junglers, it's perfectly fine since it's necessary for clear efficiency and getting the buff camps down fast.
In the lanes however, it's a push war. The side that can push harder will win out in the end simply due to how towers reduce your experience and gold income now. If one side of the duo lane has Hand of the Gods and the other doesn't, guess who's going to be sitting under their tower and losing gold? Unless the HoG-less side has Ao Kuang in the duo lane for god-knows-why, it's going to be them. In order to avoid this scenario, the tank needs Hand of the Gods to make up for otherwise poor waveclear.

Shielded Teleport is even worse for all of the reasons stated by previous posters. If you aren't running it but your opponent is, they get free farm and possibly an opportunity to start breaking your tower in the time it takes you to run back to your lane. Only way to counter it is to use teleport yourself.

The big problem we see here is, the counters are the same actives themselves. You must counter HoG with HoG. Teleport must be countered with Teleport. This isn't a good design, it stagnates the meta, and it diminishes the diversity of playstyle that used to exist before.

Except you're forgetting that HoG can now be upgraded into FoG. An active that gives you a free stun after you're done with the early game where HoG would've been needed to push the lanes. So you are transitioning an otherwise worthless ability into one that can help you secure kills. But it's the fact you needed HoG to begin with to counter HoG that was bad.

Right now, the current meta looks like this:

+Jungler needs HoG to clear buff camps.
+Duo Tank/Support needs HoG to secure GF/FG, because the jungler will turn his into FoG for ganks.
+At least two players need EoP to ward the jungle.
+The solo needs Shielded Teleport to not give his opponent free farm after a recall.

Those right there are at least five active slots on your team which must be reserved for specific purposes. Depending on your team's god choices and the makeup of your opponent's team, more might have to be reserved. I'm not looking at just one active slot: I'm looking at several that are forced, and limiting the player's options. For example Blink on tanks can be awesome for initiating, but if they're forced to hold both the HoG and the EoP for the duo lane just to prevent potential snowballng from the jungler or the ranged carry? Not cool.

Solution: Buff every active to also teleport you anywhere you want to go.

Result: Absolute chaos.