Rally

[Jonathan Meer]

I think it would be an awesome spell to throw onto a support champion (especially a Taric or Sona), but, again, it runs into that problem of "is it worth giving up CV or Flash to have?" For most people, the answer is no.

That's fair enough. Hard to justify Rally over CV or Flash in most cases for Support.

Can't Rally be targeted by anything, and has like no health?

Kaden already listed a number of reasons why Rally isn't picked over other spells, and that's basically the point isn't it. It's not a matter that Rally is useless or not, because it is useful. However, it's not worth giving up the utility those other summoner spells offer over Rally. You give up escape mechanics, map awareness, debuffs or transportation in order to have a buff that only truly shines late game and only in an effective area and only if it's not targeted or accidentally destroyed by enemies.

Can't target a beacon if you're stunned. Mummy or Annie.

Dancing around, but not directly on top of beacon, makes it hard-to-hit.

Champions with built in escape mechanics (plank practically counts here, with the cleanse and crazy movespeed and movespeed buff) don't need one beyond Flash, and if someone else can grab CV, there's an extra slot for Rally.

650ish hp at level 18, doesn't have any armour or MR iirc. Cooldown is 270, only shorter than teleport, fortify and revive. Also the LoL wikia is telling me it's got an 850 range aura.

Yeah, 1000. Not 850. Not sure where I got 1000. Still, 850 is hardly negligible.

270 cooldown is a thing. I'm not saying the skill is god.

...

Hellz yeah to all of this post. Didn't even think of the synergy with hybrids.

This thread is a defense of Rally as absolutely legitimate, and in some situations, facemelting and gamechanging. Not a claim that Rally must be a part of all team comps.