its still in development, hope just developer will see this and fix it, and you right about it if somebody would wanted to exploit it they could pause the game when tower is broken and unpause to deny all the spheres at the top cause they expect it, or something simmilar
Echo shard should be reworked to be either be for less money ( or craft from other items) or be fully reworked into new item type passive like which i think it should be toggle items, toggle items are items that you can select for what skill they are used(like duration increase items or imbuing)...
match id: 6073808
time: 0:47-0:52
you can see it on this twitch clip, there was a long pause and when its resumed soul still traveled upwards, despite everything was stopped.
also i attached the video in clip as mp4 file...
sounds to identify is your teammate winning fight or not, like double triple kill and other sounds simmilar to dota, first blood unstopabble, rn you only can identificate this by kill feed but this will be better visualization to people with lower fov and those who focused on something else