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Riot, new modes please

Missing Number··14 votes·1,117 views

Not trying to troll or anything, but i honestly really and truely desire a new game mode, so this is a plea to riot for more game modes.

i get what type of game this is, but it wouldn't hurt to add a few new tricks to the trade no?

we have 4 maps, and of the 4 only 1 is different than the others. we have "go bash the enemy nexus" x3 and "capture the tower". back when i played Starcraft and Warcraft, i wouldn't play just DotA or Naruto Wars or whatever clones, i'd mix it up with DBZ tribute, Enfos, TDs, Hero Siege, and a plethora of various other modes, what i would LOVE to see is new and innovative modes that made use of champions abilities in new ways

i do not have links but i have seen a good number of modes suggested by members of the community of which a few stood out to me

  • An epic sea battle where the goal is to tilt the intertwined ships into obsticals to destroy the enemy team's ship (my idea)
  • A treasure hunting free for all inside a tomb filled with traps and monsters, a race to the treasurehorde and back out again
  • A stealth game of prisonbreak where wardens try to keep prisoner's from escaping
  • An extreme PVE Hero Siege where you try to defend your nexus from all kinds of baddies
  • Summoner mode where you direct what type of enemies to swarm your opponents with
  • A mode where waves of enemies attack your team's base and you can thwart the other teams efforts to defend their base

admittedly some of the modes seem similar to what have been done in the past, but since how was that a bad thing for the game we currently enjoy?

there is also alot more modes i haven't mentioned, which doesn't mean they aren't good, just didnt want to list em all lol, so what do you say? can we get s'more modes or what?

21 Comments

Erockandroll5 votes

For the most Part, I would say that we should first better support the game modes we already have. To an extent TT has been updated taking the Jungle changes into affect. The thing with the different maps and modes is to adapt different strategies and metas.

TT for example is a far different game than SR. Ganks tend to be more devastating, due to absence of vision. The Alters provide a different kind of Objective control. And on this map, the team fight is everything.

Dominion is on the Opposite end of the spectrum where champions really need to duel 1v1. Also favors champs who arn't farm reliant. Favors speed. And to keep things in Perspective, Everything from a health relic should be treated as an Objective. Even if it's just a small one, getting these smaller objectives will add up.

And Again, I feel like these modes should be better supported. Maybe they should have Ranked Queues as well.

A Slime Appears1 votes

Only the bot laner needs to 1v1 in Dominion. The other 4 will be constantly team fighting. Assuming you go top, Dominion is the most team fight-centric mode in LoL.

Erockandroll1 votes

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Only the bot laner needs to 1v1 in Dominion. The other 4 will be constantly team fighting. Assuming you go top, Dominion is the most team fight-centric mode in LoL.

Perhaps you haven't played enough Dominion. You start with 4 man top to contest the windmill. But that quickly dissolves. Try to group up as a team in that game mode, and you will constantly be Back doored, by roamers with good MS and even good duelists.

and bot lane isn't so much about dueling as it is about defending. Your bot lane is designed to defend capture points mostly. Then you would have maybe 1 or 2 pushing champs, the others need to be roamers.

The reason you need to hold your own in that game mode is because you need control of the map (that means control of the center) and the Center of the map is dark with nothing to grant you vision.

A Slime Appears1 votes

Only a couple thousand games, so yeah not that much. Backdoorers are only common in low elo where people can't handle it. Higher up it's not really used unless you cannot win teamfights, and ganking bot lane doesn't work out. Though at that point unless your name is pooters you've probably lost the game anyway. The majority of games are, like I said, team fight-centric. It's a nice break from SR, shame Riot never supported it properly...

BluePolarizer3 votes

A treasure hunt map to seize a treasure in the middle of a huge forest and bring it back to your team's Nexus would be amazing, with no minions, alot more jungle neutrals, etc. Map should have alot of blind spots, trees that block vision and unjumpable terrain so that immobiles can compete with mobiles.

Nybx4life2 votes

So, capture the flag?

BluePolarizer1 votes

isn't capture the flag capturing it from an opposing base and bringing it to your own, rather than from the middle of the map?

Nybx4life1 votes

Some variants have it in the middle.

Pinker 101 votes

~ Age of empires 2 relic system. 5 of them. Hold all 5 for set time to win.

A few minor tweaks would make it a pretty good alternative win system. lower it from five to two, have em guarded by turrets that pop up when you have both, enemy destroys the turrets they can take em.

Of course, they'd have to spawn x minutes into a game and couldn't fully override a nexus destruction, or games could go for days, but it'd open up a lot more teamcomps.

BluePolarizer1 votes

ooh, thats great. I think 3 is a nice round number.

NorthernDruid2 votes

I'd love something like the old "Seven Blademasters/Illidans" custom map from WC3 would be really cool, where it's just the fountain and hordes upon hordes of incoming enemies, and you win by hacking your way through them until they run out or you destroy their source.

As a purely co-op map that could be really fun and interesting.

There's also stuff like showdown/magma chamber which I'm sure people wouldn't mind seeing the return of.

Or a new 3v3/4v4 mode.

I'd love a 4v4 non-classic mode focused on roaming, smaller skirmishes along jungle-farming and periodic teamfights over bigger objectives.

Or something more free-for-all/multiple team based stuff.

Of course, before that I'd love to see more love for Crystal Scar and Twisted Treeline.

Though I don't like the thought of letting the lore team near the Crystal Scar.

Maximum Zilean1 votes

For one, there is a difference between new maps, and new modes.

And they do have more modes out there, Usually temporary for some reason and they plan on bringing back the most popular once they fix all the bugs that were shown off during their initial test runs. (URF mode, All for one as a few examples.

Missing Number1 votes

allow me to reitterate, new modes and/or new maps would be delightful, as 9/10 im playing on the exact same summoner's rift 24/7 with a few ARAMS and Dominions in between, i feel it would be nice to have some choice and not the same old same old all the time...

i find myself of late building weird random experimental or just outright crazy builds on random champions for something different

and while i think nemesis might be a little bit fun, i'll get rather bored of that quick since it doesn't alter anything really, its certainly not doombots or URF

Reynard the ƒox1 votes

No they should remove everything except Summoner's Rift everything else isn't fun at all.

Kaijeo1 votes

That's subjective.

aaronconlin1 votes

I would love to see maps featuring other parts of the world (Shurima, Kumungu etc), and modes that have 2v2v2 or even 5v5v5, 10 player free for all, and more featured game modes

RoyaiChaos1 votes

If you mean new temporary game modes, nemesis pick is coming soon. If you mean a new permanent game mode, hell now. There are already a shortage of players in TT and Dom, especially Dom, if there was a new game mode, there would be even less and the new game mode would probably also be underpopulated. Fix TT and Dom first before adding more stuff.

Missing Number1 votes

whats there to fix about those modes? people just choose SR cuz its of its new art, objectives, size and its where ranked people go to train. while i agree that those modes could add some more draw to them, i still want new modes for variety

Raptamei1 votes

Riot won't do it, because they can only balance one mode for e-sports.

This may be a competitive disadvantage when HotS comes out with 4 viable maps.

A Slime Appears1 votes

Only map from Starcraft I truly miss is SCV football. Replace the SCVs with melee minions and we are good to go. Shame LoL is too basic to have multi-unit control. Well, "true" multi-unit control.

R0GER1 votes

constructive suggestions, support

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