Why I hate the Domination tree

Zapzya·9/28/2018, 1:11:29 PM·3 votes·1,247 views

I took a month break or so just before the nerfs to damage, but every time before I took that break, a constant sentence I found myself saying was "I hate electrocute". I said this sentence so much my friend over discord started getting actually annoyed at me. After coming back, I still hate it, it's just less extreme.

The domination tree is about burst damage and is tailored towards assassin style game play. But then you have champions like Jarvan who take electrocute and build full lethality, then hit R and almost one shot you. Renekton might take electrocute and function as an assassin for the first 10 minutes. Illaoi in the top lane might take electrocute and punish you even more for getting hit by her E. Galio uses it occasionally.

Then there are junglers who take predator and just one shot whoever they feel like it. Do they have a Hecarim on the enemy team? Guess your ADC's gonna be playing grey screen simulator, because you know he's hitting mach 5 before one shotting them. Predator Nunu functions similarly. Can anyone remember predator Vlad, who just ran you down and you couldn't do anything if you were mildly out of position?

Dark harvest is less seen for me, but it essentially just gives them a duskblade they can farm up over the course of the game. Not to mention the awful effect it had on ARAM. As for hail of blades... well it's pretty non existent, but it just offers more damage.

I know assassins need burst to function and actually do their job, but this tree is just toxic to other types of champions. The worst part is that if it wasn't in the game, assassins wouldn't have a keystone. I don't know what I would like done about this honestly. I know that you can play around these things as well, I just don't find the counter play fun. They have a lethality Jarvan or predator Hecarim? Guess you better sit back in the fog of war as an ADC until they've been cced or used their cds, otherwise you'll be deleted. Fun counter play.

6 Comments

Hethalean9/28/2018, 1:21:31 PM2 votes

I like playing Morgana into those Predator champions. I love imagining they get whiplash from Mach 5 to 0 instantly. Now that they reworked Nunu... it's less useful since for some reason the Sion ult on a basic ability needs to keep going when he stops rolling it. lol

BlinkZZ1829/28/2018, 2:51:33 PM1 votes

I play Alistar Chogath DrMundo Galio Garen Nautilus Maokai Ornn Shen Sion Skarner TahmKench Urgot I play these and I have never got one-shot by anybody

boricCentaur19/28/2018, 3:57:06 PM1 votes

You listed things that are not problems like predator and dark harvest the only meta champion that uses them is eve and nunu idk if he is meta but if somone uses predator on him there most likely new since it does not help him. Vlad never used predator when he was meta it was spellbook not predator. Most of the tanks and juggernauts you listed he only go into the tree for a match up or not use it at all. The tree has only been used for damage champions and was nerfed for it with the exception of hec.

ZT Xperimentor10/16/2018, 6:48:05 PM1 votes

Don't forget the marksmen and mages with AOE, allowing them to apply electrocute without presenting a target; still agree particularly since they didn't really nerf it, but they nerfed most tanky options for being 'too good at what they do'.

RookPusher10/16/2018, 6:54:35 PM1 votes

As someone who plays J4 with a Resolve tree as primary, I'm always a little sad to hear about his near one-shot potential because I know my tanky ass is going to get nerfed right along with him.