@RIOT on Dominion bots and lack of mode support

swordishforce·12/27/2015, 5:15:13 PM·23 votes·1,002 views

So to start off I know that the mode takes a back seat to summoner's rift due to Esports, etc but lately the mode has been getting worse and worse. Bots in nearly every game, no real changes to the mode in i don't even know how long, and not many balance changes either. Either get rid of the game mode altogether or put some real time/effort into making this a fun mode for the people who like a change from SR. Not everyone wants to always play SR or has the time for a match on SR. Just because you don't want it to take away from the playerbase for SR doesn't mean it can't be great in its own right.

21 Comments

Rebonack12/27/2015, 8:32:08 PM5 votes

Riot needs to axe the Blind and Draft Pick queues in Dominion and replace them with a single Blind Draft Queue. The map's population isn't high enough to support two queues and Blind Draft would at least let us ban out over-powered and/or obnoxious champions.

For the bots, Riot just needs to automatically ban any account that gets reported for Cheating/Account farming more than one or two times. It would be unworkable to farm them if they constantly get shot down.

Old Man Teeto12/28/2015, 12:36:10 AM4 votes

They're ignoring EXP botting largely because of how terrible the leveling process is

takes off tinfoil hat

Minarde12/27/2015, 8:24:54 PM3 votes

Bots in nearly every game,

This is "new."

no real changes to the mode in i don't even know how long, and not many balance changes either.

These aren't new. Riot's always been too busy throwing resources at SR to remember the rest of the maps.

Yordle Phoenix12/28/2015, 2:47:51 AM2 votes

I played a game where I was the only human player, a real fun killer. I also noticed that when looking at the match history of the bots, they don't show any dominion games or no games at all.

swordishforce12/28/2015, 2:44:55 AM2 votes

Currently playing a game and 3 people on the other team are bots. All three using ghost/heal and same summoner icon and no keystones , fun times.

Solidair312/28/2015, 1:54:26 PM1 votes

Ghost crawler said we should be hearing news about domi soonish... So hopefully next year.

Jacobofcourse12/28/2015, 3:26:20 PM1 votes

I personally don't play dominion. I was never a really big fan of it but that is besides the point. However, it is really sad to see the way it has been treated. I played one game a few months back with a friend and everyone else was bots. For a map that had so much hype upon released, it is disgusting to watch it fall to the waste side. I believe ARAM ended up taking it's place as the casual game-mode (I know some people do casually play ARAM lol) for players. Hopefully more players will rise up to push riot into at least cleaning up the bots problem. After that, the game mode will at least be enjoyable to play a game or two to escape the rift. I would never expect RIOT to really dedicated a large amount of resources like they do for SR and TT.

swordishforce12/28/2015, 8:13:00 PM1 votes

Well hopefully something good does happen soon. Even if it's the decision to remove dom (which i would be bummed about) at least its better then leaving it to rot.

swordishforce3/4/2016, 4:08:32 AM1 votes

Lol little did i know that i called this shit before i had any clue they were actually gonna go through with it.