Hide and Seek game

Hello,

It's been a long time since Hide and Seek has been around. A lot know it, a lot may not. What's the point of Hide and Seek ? It's pretty simple.

There are 2 seekers and 5 hiders. Let's start from the beginning, then I will come up with my ideas on how to make it playable without creating a new game mode.

First, the champion select.(custom) On the map crystal scar, on the left side there is 5 summoners, on the right side 2 summoners. On the left side, it's hiders, on the right side, seekers. During the champion select it's pretty simple, both teams bans 3 champions. Depending the rules, there are few "perma bans", which are evelynn, teemo, shaco, rengar and maybe few other. Since it's not an official game, these rules changes a lot from games to games. some people don't want any invisible champions, some think that it's just harder for hiders, but not impossible.

After banning, we pick our champions and go into the game.

In game, it's also pretty easy. These are the rules of Hide and Seek :

1. Seekers leave the pool at 2 minutes, so the hiders can actually hide
2. Hiders can buy items, but can't buy items that only boost the damages. Usually they go for movement speed, cdr, tankyness some actives.
3. Hiders can only use their CC spells. Crow control like slow, taunts, snares etc. Traps are fine depending who is the host. Using an item that make your auto-attacks and spells slow is not permitted. As you shouldn't really damage the enemies.
4. When a hider die, they can use that opportunity to buy their items, since going back to the pool is only permitted when you die. You can't go hide in the pool.
5. The hiders have 5 lives, once all used, they are asked to stay at the base and wait until the game ends. (A lot of them actually just go around the map, which is not permitted. Since they give free vision if they go inside the jungle. Often they "mistakenly" use their cc ability when there's a big chase around them. come on guys, stay at the base and afk like a teemo waiting in top lane)
6. When Seekers are low, under 20% they are requested to back. Since they can die, if they keep chasing, our CC spells would just kill them
7. When a seeker back, you can't use your CC to cancel it. (seriously I shouldn't be saying that, it's obvious)
8. Some people still play with "grace", which is a 30 sec immunity when a hider is back to life. It lets him go hide safely when seekers just wait at the exit, or just chasing around that spot.

A lot of people play hide and seek everyday, it's almost possible to play anytime, there is always someone hosting a game, a game is normally 40 minutes max. Because at 40, hiders win if there is still someone with 1 life.

This game is fun, and not fun. The problem is mainly that because it's all based on players agreeing to follow the rules, there is nothing holding back people to just go in these game to troll.

• When the game starts, they go full damage and kill the seekers
• When they die, they go full damage and kill the seekers
• They pick forbidden Items, when asked to sell, often go on a rampage
• Sometimes, even if help between hiders is very good, going on a 5v1 full CC spells level 2 won't let that seeker live. That's trolling. (you don't need to be 5 to survive at that level).
• When the seekers go back to base with their recall, sometimes they just cancel their recall to kill someone. That's also forbidden, 100% of the time, the hiders just kill that seeker, since attacking to kill someone means they started chasing again, which let them use their CC (then the seekers starts crying that they'll afk because it's agaisnt rules)
• Sometimes, Hiders go back to base when they should not.

Hide and Seek is a very fun custom game, but this is not fun anymore. Because what I'm describing up here happens in minimum 60% of all those games. Just today, all the games in HnS I played were a surrender. Because they all had trolls in them.

That's why we need something to make it playable. Here is what I think could be done.

A custom "Game mode" When creating a custom game, there would be that "Rule sets" button, which would have few presets of rules for few custom games. When there, we could click on it, and then select "Hide and Seek rules". Selecting it would make the following possible :

• **The seekers have an infinite amount of HP. ** This would make the trolls killing stop their rampage, also, it means buying attack damage items won't affect the game. It lets us buy whatever we want, since anyway it won't kill the seekers. Also, it means the seekers won't have to back, they would only to buy items. This would fix the major problem of hide and seek, the fact that a lot of people just join the game to kill the seekers.

• The Seekers could only leave the pool at 2 minutes, when the time for hiders would not change

• ** At 5 death, hiders can't leave the pool**

• Hiders would be able to leave the game and join a new one without waiting the end of the game

• Hiders would not be able to go back in pool when they once left

• When in pool, hiders would have the spell on the keybind #4 that would let them, if they are still in the pool, make them invincible for 30 seconds. This is basically the "grace" system that we already have

• **Hiders and seekers would not be able to pick perma banned champions. the host would choose them before the game **

I think these simple rules would fix everything in hide and seek, And using the "rule settings" in custom games would not mean that Riot has to create a new game mode (like URF) that would be available few times a year. It doesn't require a new map, new items.

**The second idea is a tribunal. Only required if the first idea isn't accepted. ** This idea is simple, it would be when creating a game an option that would let us say "hey, it's a hide and seek game". So the tribunal for hide and seek would only work for those game. The review would be on what the summoners say and do. If someone starts trolling, and get reported. They would be judged (like a normal tribunal) and once qualified as trolls, wouldn't be able to join games where the "Hey, it's a hide and seek game" is selected. This is not as useful as the first idea, but since the goal is to play that little game and have fun, this would probably increase.

I hope that everyone likes the idea, if not you can also let a comment. I'm open-minded, and would love to know if there is something missing, or something bad about these ideas.

God Solotop