Dominion is pretty much dead right now.

Trap Nap·Dec 30, 2015·23 votes·1,311 views

The queue times are the worst I have ever seen.

At least 7-10 minutes for a game that might have bots, even if you are level 30 and with okay to good MMR in it.

23 Comments

RebonackDec 30, 20156 votes

The MMR restrictions are already pretty loose.

The reason there are bots in nearly all games now is because they made them TOO loose. Causes people to dodge, meaning there are fewer people in the queue, meaning you're even more likely to get a bot, meaning it only keeps getting worse.

Riot seriously needs to do something about it.

Earl EulrichDec 30, 20154 votes

strangly enough, my q-time really decreased this preseason (1-3min now) - though i´m rather high-elo. Seems like quite some people have turned to Dom again after Riot sort of wrecked SR.

Master PantzDec 30, 20151 votes

yeah with all the bots queue times are fast!

Earl EulrichDec 30, 20152 votes

there are no bots in high-elo dominion...

morris1Dec 30, 20152 votes

[{quoted}](name=Don Eulrich,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KQ6gK03t,comment-id=000200000000,timestamp=2015-12-30T13:26:08.302+0000)

elo

dominion

Don't approach the two words, Rito doesn't like that.

SluicewayDec 30, 20152 votes

I wonder what Dominion and Twisted Treeline would look like if they had their own branches of the LCS, and how they would fare.

BastionKrossDec 30, 20152 votes

All Riot has to do is give it a little love. The vast majority of players don't care about Dominion because Riot has left it to rot; and Riot doesn't care about Dominion because the players don't. In fact, Riot doesn't really seem to care all that much about any mode that's not SR or a featured game mode. That seems strange to me, as making League all about Summoner's Rift would be a foolish decision. If, for some reason, players were not satisfied with SR (like during a period of questionable preseason changes) then League would still benefit from it's other modes if Riot paid more attention to them.

But alas. There's no LCS for other game modes. There's no announcers to cream their panties when Yasuo ults in ARAM. There's no icons for sale with high level Dominion teams on them. There's no live crowd cheering a Twisted Treeline game. There's no money to be made with these places; so Riot ignores them in the hopes they go away.

bahamutkaiserDec 30, 20152 votes

Doesn't seem complicated, they can make first win of the day available for each mode the way SMITE does so there's greater incentive, and rotate in cheap skins as participation awards for playing a certain amount on certain modes.

bahamutkaiserDec 30, 20151 votes

They could unpin the elio restriction and match players more loosely, it's not like there aren't hundreds of players engaging even the unpopular maps...

JbelsDec 30, 20152 votes

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They could unpin the elio restriction and match players more loosely, it's not like there aren't hundreds of players engaging even the unpopular maps...

Or they could save money by not hosting a server that's completely unpopular and give that serverspace to a different game mode that people will actually enjoy?

Earl EulrichDec 30, 201510 votes

lots of people still enjoy Dominion even thought Riot never actually invested anything into this brilliant mode after promising to do so when they first started it.

JbelsDec 30, 20158 votes

[{quoted}](name=Don Eulrich,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KQ6gK03t,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2015-12-30T02:45:44.541+0000)

lots of people still enjoy Dominion even thought Riot never actually invested anything into this brilliant mode after promising to do so when they first started it.

But even more people seem to be turned off to it by one sheer fact. Riot doesn't care. Riot doesn't care about Dominion, and it shows. Dominion has pretty much become a meme at this point. I'm more than certain Dominion would be five or six times more popular if Riot actually gave a damn about it

Earl EulrichDec 30, 20155 votes

so instead of deleting it they should actually invest in it! They have sth. that every fcking developer out there would kill for - another angle to the MOBA-genre that has all the traits but still feels and plays unique compared to the current "standard"...any yet they leave it to rot instead of promoting it.

JbelsDec 30, 20151 votes

[{quoted}](name=Don Eulrich,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KQ6gK03t,comment-id=00000000000000000000,timestamp=2015-12-30T02:57:01.365+0000)

so instead of deleting it they should actually invest in it! They have sth. that every fcking developer out there would kill for - another angle to the MOBA-genre that has all the traits but still feels and plays unique compared to the current "standard"...any yet they leave it to rot instead of promoting it.

Until DC tried it and it rotted away

LordForrestDec 30, 20151 votes

Wait, i thought this was dead when they made ARAM an official game mode

Rebel 986Dec 30, 20151 votes

Wats dominion lol. Game mode sux. Replace with URRRRFFFFFFFF

RebonackDec 30, 20151 votes

[{quoted}](name=Talic Drayven,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KQ6gK03t,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2015-12-30T11:28:57.209+0000)

Wats dominion lol. Game mode sux. Replace with URRRRFFFFFFFF

Game mode is great. Fixed nearly all the things that Summoner's Rift players constantly piss and moan about, but I guess it turns out that you guys actually like all the bullshit you guys bitch about.

I don't wholly disagree, though.

If Riot replaced the Draft Dominion queue with URF Dominion, I suspect it would be the most played queue in the game. URF has always been more fun on Dominion.

Won't happen, though.

Feels like Riot has been on a crusade against fun for ages now.

LOL SpammerDec 30, 20151 votes

Have you tried playing team builder as mid? It took me 20 minutes to find a match.

ZephyrDrakeDec 30, 20151 votes

well no one cares about the mode since Riot refuses to do ANYTHING for it. What is the point of having a game mode in a game if you aren't going to support it when it needs it? it would be one thing if the mode was healthy and without any issues but the way it is? and they refuse to even acknowledge it even though it has been brought up to the multiple times? people just stopped caring about Dominion

HellhamerXDec 30, 20151 votes

Ohmwrecker is as dead as Dominion

ThrëatDec 30, 20151 votes

What is dominion?

Rot PandaDec 30, 20151 votes

Been stated, at this point hundreds of times, that Riot and more specifically Morello do not want Dominion Supported. For a good long while Dominion had a High Elo Scene with Monthly Tournaments, but after a few years of barely any support and Riot still dangling that Ranked Dominion Queue that was promised to come once its meta was set it started dying out.

Pretty sure most of the High Elo Dominion players left to play HotS since that was close enough to Dominions fast team objective play and actually got support from its creators

To illustrate the care and support Dominion receives Patch 4.4 released March 18th, 2014 had Thresh generating 4 stacks of his passive per soul which more than a little bit broken. Patch 4.7 May 8th, 2014 nerfed this down to 2 stacks per soul. It took Riot 3 patches to fix an overbuffing leaving Dominion players at the mercy of 80% damage resist Tank Thresh for over a month.