Seriously who came up with the dark star mode idea ?

Yi Bencheikh·May 10, 2017·76 votes·3,360 views

Holy shit it is so awesome :D even if you lose it is still hella fun my main supp is thresh too so it makes it x5 better give that man a lantern

31 Comments

2BeholdMay 10, 201710 votes

personally i dont like it that much. It feels wonky and unfair. Im not a thresh main but I have some mastery on him and i usually find him fun but this mode just feels...again wonky and unfair. Thats just me though.

cocacolalipsMay 10, 201717 votes

What's unfair about it? It's a mirror map and everyone is playing the same exact champion with the same exact abilities, it coudn't be more fair even if it tried.

YouGoTownedXMay 10, 20173 votes

Maybe it is maybe it isn't but we're all doing the same thing and unless you're blind and or bad at skill shots it should be fairly easy i don't even main the guy and i'm decent. (There are things you need to get used to like flays and lanterns and portal hooks so i understand how you might feel about those.) (Extra thing: portal hooks: hooks thrown through the black hole deal extra dmg)

ElikainMay 10, 20171 votes

I feel the gameplay and repeatability of the mode is there but i too felt some odd things while playing. It may be just because i never played Thresh and i'm not accustomed hos his kit works but there has been too many cases where a crab or HP shard pops out in front of the target i was about to hook.

Also, the total lock-out of your skills or the other Thresh's immunity to CC if he flays you first/hooks you first. I feel like the mode lacks clarity in that regard and i feel like (since the hook is "global") really weird that after such a long skillshot, you can still move but are waiting for your hook to disappear when you miss.

SkorchMay 10, 20175 votes

Doesnt show up to retrieve the lantern [zombie-nunu-bummed]

Pater GascoigneMay 10, 201713 votes

Must be an ADC main :^)

Stand in my XMay 10, 20171 votes

: ^)

DwarvenGiantMay 10, 20175 votes

That would be Luke "Rabid Llama" Rinard, who previously designed the gameplay of Bard and Aurelion Sol! He likes cosmic stuff as you can probably tell and you can read about Dark Star: Singularity's development here, with insights from Luke and all: http://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/2017/05/dev-on-dark-star-singularity/

dnsupMay 10, 20174 votes

Personally, I find it pretty bland.

Looking forward to the day that Riot returns to actual RGMQ, after having legit rotation for about 2 months last year.

ZtokaMay 10, 20173 votes

Obviously, a Thresh main had something to do w/ it. Maybe not but not being a Thresh player, I didn't enjoy it at all. I could see it being fun if an amazing Thresh didn't get thrown in w/ noob players, but a good Thresh utterly seems to destroy in there. Oh well, I guess people are bound not to like/hate every mode that comes out. This is one of the most un fun other than the Nexus siege mode. It looks cool though and had a neat concept. Just a champ I don't care for :/ Oh well :)

cocacolalipsMay 10, 20172 votes

Legit never played Thresh before and it only took me 10-15 games to get the hang of it before roflstomping everyone every game. If I can do it, so can you, it's not hard.

Bad players gonna lose games and good players gonna win game, well yeah, big whoop that's how games work.

ZtokaMay 11, 20171 votes

If I had gotten paired up w/ noobs at thresh like me, I would agree w/ you. Maybe that is what the game mode needs, if you own thresh, you go into this queue. If you don't own thresh, you go into the queue w/ the thresh noobs :) Then I'd try it again. As of now though, it's no fun being completely shit stomped, even in a "fun" game mode.

cocacolalipsMay 12, 20171 votes

the queue has a mmr, if you lose, your mmr will go down until you are where you belong where the games are more fun for you.

owning thresh doesn't really mean anything, there are plenty mastery 7 thresh in bronze 5 you know.

BhayanakaMay 10, 20172 votes

WC3 Pudge Wars

EchoZeeroMay 11, 20172 votes

I'll be honest I hate it. I think it lacks depth and feels like a repetitive phone app with no real strategy involved and a huge luck factor. First time I played it, I went "nope not for me, I'm going back to summoner's rift", then the round thing popped and I went "really?".

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

SqkergMay 11, 20173 votes

Besides your team, what's luck about it?

ShovelShepherdMay 11, 20171 votes

In one of the dev blogs, I think, they mentioned that they wanted it to be like an arcade game, so the appy, repetitiveness was intended

cocacolalipsMay 12, 20171 votes

I thought that was going to be super lame at first like you, but it turns out there is quite a bit of depth and skill involved, you can hook enemies, you can hook minions, you can hook walls, you can hide into bushes, you can hide behind stuff, you can flank or come from behind, you can hook through the dark portal directly, you can dash around offensively and defensively, duels can be intense where you gotta micro your champion just like Faker does when he jukes stuff while waiting for cooldown + while still keeping an eye on the map for other players, you can pile-gank on the same enemy, you can save teammates with a counter-hook or the lantern etc..

Easily the most polished rgm riot has ever made, good balance between fun, originality and depth for a quick 5-10 minutes game

Only complaint, the pathing can be a bit finicky when you click near the edges of the map or around obstacles, and the 3V3 clusterfcks where everyone presses E at the same time can be a bit random.

nGioMay 11, 20172 votes

I played it to get the icons, and now I never want to see it again, like Nexus Siege. It's a personal thing, but it's hard to play some of the lesser game modes when I know that URF and Hexakill exist. 6 Threshes pushing E on a prison court just hit the point of being enough by my second game. I'm a glass is half empty gal though.

Ponas2rniusOct 20, 20172 votes

This is the worst mode Rito came up, it's Amy Schumer of modes! And it's up 2nd time in a row u sick bastards at Rito?!

FourVsFiveMay 10, 20171 votes

If only regular mode was fun win or lose.

SexyBabyJesusZMay 10, 20171 votes

its a lot of fun and should be kept as a perm gamemode because as of right now all the rotating gamemodes are boring af (Even urf sucks rn)

ZtokaMay 11, 20171 votes

That's because part of the URF fun was selecting the champ you wanted to play. If they were forcing random champs on us, might as well just urf on the ARAM map. I mean, at least then it would be more enjoyable imo. I find it hard to enjoy SR as a random champ.

MeBuffULongTimeMay 10, 20171 votes

Ayyy me too, really love that there is a game mode that is as fun as it is and highlights my main :D Lanterns for Everyone! Thresh

SkyhillMay 11, 20171 votes

It's the most fun ive ever had in a new game mode.

Dr PoroMay 11, 20171 votes

I really love it too. The first real minigame in LoL. I played over 40 games this weekend. Good that it's gone now, I can focus on my studies again haha.

ZtokaMay 11, 20171 votes

Huh, weren't Illaoi tentacles a mini game along w/ Fiora vital's/ult?

Hyrum GraffMay 11, 20171 votes

@L4TENCY and crew. Props!

TEA Nietzsche May 11, 20171 votes

I think it's a perfect rotational mode: it's kinda fun and feels like a minigame, but I can't see myself playing it on a regular basis. Great mode overall.