Icons aren't enough for the death of Twisted Treeline

I started playing league during Christmas of 2016. My brother had told me that it was a great game and he thought I would really love it. He was right, I fell in love with the characters and the fun from getting kill streaks and objectives. Once I reached the needed level, I could play PVP. Now, he had explained to me that PVP is fairly difficult for new players, and he asked me what I thought of the Summoner's Rift map/game mode. Though I told him I thought it was fun, I also wanted to give the other game modes a try. ARAM was alright, but being new to the game and being given a champ you most likely have never played before was not really fun. However, Twisted Treeline, a 3v3 game mode, let you play a champ of your choice and wasn't as huge of a map as Summoner's Rift.

I literally became addicted after the first game. I wanted to play it again and again until I would have to get off. Soon, I started to only play Twisted Treeline. Yeah, there were the bots, the inability to ward, and the seemingly useless jungle camps, but it was all still lovable for me. Once I got to higher levels, I started to see bots less and less. Eventually, it was only real people. The intensity of just 3 people on each team, the need for altars, who's gonna get the ghost relic first, you're saying I can get two starter items? I loved 3v3 so much! It's a wonderful game mode if you want a break from the huge 5v5 map with tons of objectives stress and reasons to want to AFK from game. 3v3 is also manageable and can easily close. Summoner's Rift is great and all, but who's up for one more when the game you just finished was 55 minutes long?

Twisted Treeline was flawed, just as every other map is, but it is it's attributes that make it enjoyable if not memorable. ARAM, everyone loves them bushes, health relics, and the fact that you can only re-heal and but items when you die. Sure, the random aspect can get annoying at times, and you might get a team of all melee champs while the enemy team miraculously got a mage, ADC, tank, assassin, and ranged support. Summoner's Rift is great for its lane gameplay, fun jungle camps, and dragons and baron. Blast cones, Honeyfruit, those cool blue plants whatever they're called, it's all awesome. Sure, you got inting people who can be a whole lane or two away and helping them would hurt you and them if not just hurt you. Games can potentially go on for way too long and there's a higher chance of having more, how you say, "inexperienced" players.

Now, Twisted Treeline isn't perfect, but there is always going to be something you like about a game mode and somethings you won't like. I know I'm not the only person who loved TT this much, so here's my suggestion to Riot. . . . . . Every Halloween you guys do something spooky, and we could use a map that isn't all wet dream forests or icy stone bridges.

For every Halloween event in the future, I suggest bringing Twisted Treeline back. There are a lot of people who actually enjoyed the game mode, but not enough for it to be kept on the servers. . . . . I know you guys will award icons and stuff but that isn't going to hide the fact that a lot of people are upset about this. I guess what I'm saying is that I would hope you guys do more than just icons and cosmetics. Make it an event game mode, or bring elements from it into a new game mode if you plan on making another. Don' let it be dead forever. (You guys kept elements of the old rune system which I liked, do something like that for this!) . . . You guys are changing very fast, and I am happy with that. New champs, new gameplay mechanics, new dragons and adding and removing items. These are good changes. Removing Twisted Treeline forever and giving fans icons in correlation to the game mode? Big change, big disappointment, but not too late to do some more modifications. I hope others will see that more should be done in response to the removal of Twisted Treeline, and that it should be done and away with. Also, one more thing, don't go astray. Big changes are hard to make the first time, but as you keep going, they'll feel less and less difficult. Change for the better is understandable, but change for other motives will cause you to lose what was golden. For now, you guys are in the clear.