The Sad truth about rotating gamemode is...

taleofsonata·Jan 15, 2017·125 votes·4,125 views

They are not rotating...

40 Comments

GrReaper96Jan 15, 201790 votes

OBJECTION! They do rotate Between Ascension and Poro King

aspects1Jan 15, 201713 votes

honestly ascension int that bad, at least it feels like something different poro king might be

GrReaper96Jan 15, 201712 votes

It wasnt bad the first 5 times or so

aspects1Jan 15, 20175 votes

you can play almost anything in ascension, so it cant get too boring

the Anarchit3chtJan 16, 201718 votes

you can but everyone still plays the same kat/shaco/illaoi/veigar

WAP JookayJan 16, 20177 votes

Which kinda happens in every game mode tho

Inb4 Rito suddenly decides to make Ascension random and I get Yorick and the enemy team still gets the champions you mentioned.

Random picks solve everything Kappa

Malicious MetalJan 16, 20173 votes

Oi, are ya trash talking my boi Yorick?!

Velzard of KozJan 16, 20172 votes

He's not talking Thresh, he's talking Yorick :^)

Glory ln DeathJan 16, 20173 votes

Yorick is awesome, but his passive is kind of useless on Ascension... you can almost never get ghouls outside of your ult.

the Anarchit3chtJan 17, 20171 votes

It's really annoying the main reason I tend to only play RGMs with friends or when grinding our ip/champ grade.

gileskdJan 17, 20172 votes

yorick support OP ascension style max the wall first and build whatever you want item 3050 item 3109 item 3107 item 3190

p.s. its not really OP, but its fun running around trapping people and watching your team mates kill them (unless your team mate miss and then its a "o.0 how did you miss?" XD

Glory ln DeathJan 16, 20171 votes

Nah, man! Full CDR/movespeed Zilean!

Keylight XDJan 16, 20174 votes

Yeah ascension is probably my second favorite but damn it's appearing too often

SwiftKitten88May 28, 20171 votes

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OBJECTION! They do rotate Between Ascension and Poro King

if they didn't RUIN Ascension by making it a fucking pick up token... i woudnt care... but im not going to play that game mode ever again until they fix it..

SteelflameJan 15, 201728 votes

The issue is the new client. They don't have the tech in it to do any other game mode, only PK and Ascension are programmed in at this point.

Although 5 freaking weeks of PK really wore me down, it already was a stupidly stale game mode because it's ARAM, only you get to pick your champions... The new snax mechanic just turned into a shitfest almost instantly when people realized you could either keep up the eternal barrage of shots from the icy ones, or the party snax of a hundred poros shooting being nearly unavoidable.

RocketRelmJan 15, 20178 votes

To be fair, those snax suck, especially the garbage tier Icy Snax. If those were the only two snax the mode'd actually be alright. They're dodgable, make poro king a threat, and the mode'd only be a little clown fiesta-ish.

But Spicy Snax exists. A team that isn't trash, and uses the good spicy instead of the trash icy is what makes the game mode degenerate. This thing does 560 True Damage to turrets, once you get the poro king up within 500 range of the turret. Per snax. You get 5 snax to use. The turrets have less than 3k HP.

A team that has a clue what to do will kill your first turret on their first poro king literally 3 minutes in, if they get poro king and any kind of field edge. That's Not Okay.

(The Shield Snax is good is good too mid game and onwards, where your champions hitting turrets matters more than Spicy Burn. A singular Rainbow Snax can be good harass as you run up to the turret also. But your team should always have a minimum of 3 Spicy Snax no matter what)

BrisecouJan 15, 201714 votes

The issue is the new client. They don't have the tech in it to do any other game mode, only PK and Ascension are programmed in at this point.

That's true, but honestly, Poro King and Ascension have been taking half of the RGM for months, before the New Client was released.

Although 5 freaking weeks of PK really wore me down, it already was a stupidly stale game mode because it's ARAM, only you get to pick your champions... The new snax mechanic just turned into a shitfest almost instantly when people realized you could either keep up the eternal barrage of shots from the icy ones, or the party snax of a hundred poros shooting being nearly unavoidable.

Couldn't agree more.

TheDelightedJan 16, 20177 votes

Pre New client : we don't have the tech to do X Post New client : we still don't have the tech to do X but hey you have a new shiny client with half the functions working

OwynJan 16, 20173 votes

The issue was NEVER about the new client cuz it existed long before the new client... [slayer-jinx-wink]

BoilTheOilJan 17, 20171 votes

riot doesnt have the tech for shit which is sad since they own the BIGGEST game in the world

Mistress MadokaJan 16, 201722 votes

http://i.imgur.com/GRtv7SK.gif?noredirect

Odd, it appears to be rotating to me

MrWasjigJan 16, 201713 votes

It's rotating the opposite direction to the arrows! http://media2.giphy.com/media/ZEVc9uplCUJFu/200w.gif

LichKing234Jan 16, 20172 votes

That isnt your avarage triggering this is Advance triggering

Scary DoorJan 16, 20176 votes

Last time URF was in the RGM was the weekend of May 20, 2016 (I don't count ARURF because it's a craptastic version of URF, it's like RC ... it calls itself a soda but it's garbage).

I don't think the word "rotating" means what Riot thinks it means.

LeetriJan 16, 20175 votes

As long as it rotates between at least 2 different things it is technically rotating, so I don't see your point here.

Scary DoorJan 16, 20178 votes

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As long as it rotates between at least 2 different things it is technically rotating, so I don't see your point here.

You're being deliberately obtuse. Clearly, my point was that it is not a rotating game mode in the sense that it does not rotate through, cyclically, the various game modes. Some are repeated frequently, while others (URF) are out of the rotation for eight months. You know that's what my point was but you chose to attempt to be a smart ass and obfuscate the issue, which adds nothing to the conversation but thanks for trying anyway.

Velzard of KozJan 16, 20173 votes

The funny thing is that players suggested something like rotating game mode (less days, more often) directly for URF so that it won't be one-time-a-year thing while simultaneously won't get too boring, yet URF seems to be there the least :D

Mistress MadokaJan 16, 20178 votes

I loved ARURF, I didn't have to deal with the same craptastic champions over and over again and it was always a fresh experience every match

kickingsquirrelJan 16, 20174 votes

I felt the same way. Loved ARURF!

Nightcrow TeoJan 16, 20175 votes

URF still once a year lol

S0kaXJan 15, 20173 votes

You missed the M&G board

Sraeg2013Jan 15, 201710 votes

The difference between M&G and G&B, is that M&G know they are joking.

Sadly the only thing moderators are capable of, is banning people for content they find offensive.

rtbf225618241Jan 16, 20173 votes

And Riot doesn't care about them much cuz having 130+ champions is a good excuse to say SR isn't repetitive.

UnoGetGoldELOJan 16, 20173 votes

all i want is a permanent URF mode , why even bother with rotating modes when you could play all of them anytime? it´s as stupid s path of exiles templeagues where they come up with great additions to the maingame mode then keep them heavily nerfed in the next leagues or completely remove them.

ill never undestand this notion , if youve the funds and time to add more to your game - you keep it and not take it away then re-install it every few months.

ErockandrollJan 16, 20172 votes

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all i want is a permanent URF mode , why even bother with rotating modes when you could play all of them anytime? it´s as stupid s path of exiles templeagues where they come up with great additions to the maingame mode then keep them heavily nerfed in the next leagues or completely remove them.

ill never undestand this notion , if youve the funds and time to add more to your game - you keep it and not take it away then re-install it every few months.

A lot of that boils down to what's available resource wise. If they made every featured game mode available, they would have to adjust their servers to allow for additional Qs. Also, if you kept those game modes around, Riot is going to have a bigger expectation of maintaining and balancing those game modes, which may be difficult to Justify if they wined up with aggressively low play rates. (Which was the case with Dominion)

I kinda found this as a result of the 5 weeks of LotPK. At first the poro snacks seemed like a fun addition at first, (and buy and large, they still are) But after the 5 week, I begin to see that the snacks arn't quite balanced with eachother. (often seeing preference for the frosted snack or the party pack) I also think the part where your feeding the poro king is kinda buggy as well.

Glory ln DeathJan 16, 20173 votes

URF will be permanent pretty soon - Practice Mode, where you can get 100% CDR on everything!

Legacy HydralphaJan 16, 20173 votes

Nah fam it rotates. From Ascension, to Ascension, to Poro King! Sometimes spaghetti code gets in there and the RGM sometimes has fun gamemodes, but that gets patched out soon enough!

ReZisT LustJan 16, 20171 votes

smites is lol dem gods

Eighth SinMay 28, 20171 votes

i abbreviate alot and i dont like to use proper capitalization and semi colons and colons. had enough of that in school and im on getting graded on it here. ggez.

HI RITO! just thought id put my 2 cents in here since i put in my support ticket inquiring about the "non rotating" rotating game mode... the rito support rep suggested i come on here to air out my grievances. yea as you know your so called rotating game mode is biased towards the ascension and poro king. all while fun in their own right but im pretty sure the purpose of the game mode was to alternate between MORE THAN TWO game modes.

now i dont know much about your programming intentions on this mode but i assume it is one of the following two: 1. it rotates on a schedule which to me means EACH mode gets its turn till it completes a cycle BEFORE repeating, 2. it is on some sort of random algorithm (this i highly doubt) but if this mode is true... please explain and show it to me.

poro king and ascension is fine. however personally i like going against the mad AI that you call this doom bots. which i honestly havent seen more than once a yr. similar to URF. it irks me a a fair amount to the point that i come on here to bitch and cry about it. my hatred still ascends even if i dont play those modes due to the constant disappointment i go through when i find out the NEXT mode is again either ascension or poro king.

as a decent summoner of the rift i implore you to fix this or at least step in and take action. other game modes got love too. black market brawlers was fun too imo. if you dont do it cuz your getting paid... think of it as keeping us happy. i mean if you came to my job id like to make you happy. i honestly dont like seeing suffering. at least the non funny type. love you guys though... for now. but seriously please fix this. all or nothing not half assed.