Potential 'Solution' to help 'fix' hostage games (just a suggestion)

Chalze·10/18/2019, 3:09:06 AM·1 votes·755 views

I had a thought recently, along with watching some videos on YouTube about "hostage games", where you have two pairs of duos playing champions that have 'some' sort of infinite scaling like Veigar, Nasus etc and they just stall out the game, never surrendering, essentially taking the other 6 players hostage, a situation which, due to their infinite scaling, can last for up to 4 hours.

Now I know minions get 'stronger' as the game goes on, but with champions like Nasus or Veigar, regular minions pose no real threat, and the only real 'threats' to them would be hyper late game Super Minions. What if Riot made it so Inhibitors can only respawn each a maximum of 5 times? Of course it's not uncommon for Inhibitors to respawn once, it happens very frequently. Inhibitors respawning twice isn't too uncommon Inhibitors respawning 3 times, game's a bit lengthy, less common Inhibitors respawning 4 times, that's very rare and by this point the game should be well over an hour or so Inhibitors respawning 5 times? Now the game is just well over the highest percentiles of game lengths and should be closed by now Inhibitors respawning more than 5 times? I'd say 95% of all games with Inhibitors respawning more than 5 times would be a hostage situation.

This way the hostages at least have hyper scaling hoards of Super Minions helping them close out the game somehow. I doubt hostages in this situation care about whether they win or lose, they just want to end. And even if it isn't a legitimate hostage situation, by the time Inhibitors spawn 5+ times, the game realistically would be 90 or so minutes long or over that.

I dunno, just a suggestion, maybe this has already been suggested, if so then I dunno, I guess this is the equivalent of a 'shower thought suggestion'

1 Comments

MagicFlyingLlama10/18/2019, 3:14:59 AM3 votes

The only way for this sort of hostage game is if you get the following incredibly rare conditions:

  • A troll premade

  • Other team also all trolls

  • You (+ whoever else is not trolling) suck so much you cant find a way to close out the game with a full build, even suicide diving structures with a lichbane and full ap.

It is not a problem that needs a solution.