Bots
So just a minor worry or thought. Once dominion is removed where are all these bots leveling accounts to thirty going to go? Is twisted treeline going to only be bots vs bots? Is co-op vs ai going to be bots vs ai? I feel like this is comparable to trying to turn a faucet off by plugging it with your fingers. These accounts are going to have to get leveled somewhere else. They aren't going to go away. It's just a matter of whose game they are going to ruin and it's a ticking time bomb for 3v3s and after that is gone, blind pick.
So why not just end the need for bots, allow for people to start the game at level 30 with some form of validation, ie linking it to a fb, PayPal, credit card etc. Then up the requirement of ranked to a certain number of draft 5v5 wins per roll you can queue as and the number of required owned champions. IE you have to win 10 games as "top" before you can queue as top in ranked.
Benefits No need to level to 30 Only need for bots would be for a truly anonymous account. New players get the real community instead of just smurfs. People who get banned are easily trackable through these linked accounts. People who get banned and make new accounts are distributed through the community instead of packed together in sub 30 accounts.
This is not a post about dominion itself but about gameplay in other modes being effected by its removal and the displacement of its bot "player base".
Thoughts, concerns, pictures of cats?