Will we ever get back Butcher's Bridge ARAM? Long-term new maps.
I just wonder why we can't cycle between the two ARAM maps every now and again. And you know what else would be nice? Other alternative maps. Why can't we have Magma chamber as a reskinned Summoner's Rift or Hollowing Abyss? We've seen them make wonderful new maps for things like Dark Star: Singularity and several for Star Guardian: Invasion. Something that would probably take a lot less work than those but have a more lasting value to players some kind of new map skins.
Ideally, you just take the map's wall physics and make a new place built into that mold. I'm sure there's a lot more that would go into it like designing new Jungle mobs, a Baron and Dragon alternative possibly, but honestly, they've shown that they are fully capable of doing stuff like this.
There are plenty of locales that would be wonderful to see in the gamespace too. Piltover vs Zaun map of some time showing how these two places meet in the middle most levels of the city. Magma Chamber, I'd love to see this concept revisited as a Normals 5v5 or ARAM map. How about a REAL shuriman Dominion/DnDominion/Ascension instead of that old ugly and ill-fitting Crystal Scar location that might not even be canon anymore. And i for one would love a dedicated Ionia map. Imagine a long Ionian training ground as an 5v5 or ARAM map.
and considering what maps we have seen and what they represent, we havnt physically seen much or runeterra.
Summoner's Rift is a currently faction neutral battleground that is in on some random mountain somewhere Twisted Treeline takes place in the Shadow Isles Hollowing Abyss takes place in the Freljord Butcher's Bridge is in Bilgewater (currently unused since 2015) Crystal Scar was in Kalamanda but might be retconned to be in shurima though is in need of a complete visual rehaul (only seen during certain RGMs)
as well as maps from other universes which see very little use for how much new assets they use. The Cosmic Ruin which is a part of what looks like summoner's rift pulled into some kind of Dark Space (Dark Star: Singularity) Valoran City Park, taking place in the City where the Star Guardians live. (Star Guardian: Invasion) and Substructure 43 which takes place in the PROJECT central Universe (PROJECT: Overcharge)
I do love an appreciate these maps and events, but i also wish this same kind of work was put into our everyday League affairs.
At the very least can we get Butcher's Bridge back? It's coming up on 3 years since we've seen it. Don't waste it's greatness!