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Crystal Scar Comeback

rodom123·Aug 22, 2018·16 votes·7,381 views

Hello! This topic might not appeal to a lot of people, but I am here to try and find out how many of you all would like to see Crystal Scar back. For those who do not know what Crystal Scar was, it was a map that League of Legends had once, which was 5v5, map was a circle with 2 spawns, 5 objectives, game mode was called Dominion, basically Control Points. I personally loved the map, great soundtrack, fast gameplay, overall great. If Riot brings back Dominion they will get more players on it now more than ever because the game grew so much from what it used to be. Now people have to leave normal/ranked matches on 5v5 because thy do not have time to finish. A Dominion match ends much faster and if for example I do not have time for a 5v5 match, I'd love to play dominion. I know we have nexus blitz now which CAN end fast but dominion was something else and the concept of it was amazing. In conclusion please vote on the poll, upvote or downvote my post and let's see if we can get Riot to return the map for the people who loved it and would still love to play it.

6 Comments

JedditeAug 22, 20186 votes

Yes, I'd love to have Dominion back (note Summoner Icon lul lul lul).

Dominion just needs to be either Draft Mode or Blind Draft (so people can ban their most-hated Dominion champions, like Kassadin or KhaZix -- and some champions would be a whole new level of fury (like Zac or Zoe, perhaps).

The one thing that Definitely-Not-Dominion did better was the contested Storm Shield in the map center. The original Storm Shield was boring because it was essentially pointless to contest since each team had their own SS buff.

The worst thing that Definitely-Not-Dominion did was remove the 1v1 bot lane. This completely obliterated a ... oh, I'll just say meta-game ... that made ganking bot lane and/or back-capping an over-extended bot lane opponent a strategic part of the mode. By removing the 1v1 bot lame, Definitely-Not-Dominion definitely made "WINDMILL OR LOSE" the only thing that mattered (and that was awful because Windmill -- or whichever the northernmost node was -- was already the most important node).

Modl Ryden lAug 22, 20181 votes

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Yes, I'd love to have Dominion back (note Summoner Icon lul lul lul).

Dominion just needs to be either Draft Mode or Blind Draft (so people can ban their most-hated Dominion champions, like Kassadin or KhaZix -- and some champions would be a whole new level of fury (like Zac or Zoe, perhaps).

The one thing that Definitely-Not-Dominion did better was the contested Storm Shield in the map center. The original Storm Shield was boring because it was essentially pointless to contest since each team had their own SS buff.

The worst thing that Definitely-Not-Dominion did was remove the 1v1 bot lane. This completely obliterated a ... oh, I'll just say meta-game ... that made ganking bot lane and/or back-capping an over-extended bot lane opponent a strategic part of the mode. By removing the 1v1 bot lame, Definitely-Not-Dominion definitely made "WINDMILL OR LOSE" the only thing that mattered (and that was awful because Windmill -- or whichever the northernmost node was -- was already the most important node).

Blind draft would be fine enough for how short those games normally are, not exceeding more than 20 mins. I've played it's draft mode, mainly because draft music was so good, but it took almost 10 minutes just to prepare, which is half of match and no rank placements. Blind draft would be fast enough to get the shit picks out and have everyone lock in what they want to play.

JedditeAug 22, 20182 votes

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Blind draft would be fine enough for how short those games normally are, not exceeding more than 20 mins. I've played it's draft mode, mainly because draft music was so good, but it took almost 10 minutes just to prepare, which is half of match and no rank placements. Blind draft would be fast enough to get the shit picks out and have everyone lock in what they want to play.

Part of the problem was that having a Blind Pick and a Draft Pick queue for Dominion. Players hated dealing with Kassadin, but players also hated waiting ... well, it easily got to be common for a 1-hour queue time in Draft Pick.

https://i.imgur.com/mAXCcLI.jpg

Blind Draft didn't exist anywhere back then, but Rito James™ refused to consolidate the two queues into one. So I contributed to the problem in my own way by not queuing for Blind Pick.

If Dominion was re-introduced as a RGM map, having the current "everybody bans a champion" followed by a Blind Pick would be fine. I'd still prefer Draft Pick, but as long as I can ban a champion I hate, I could deal with Blind Pick.

WøOxerAug 22, 20182 votes

Why u want these boring capture maps back? Only ARAM is fun to me when u want to chill.

rodom123Aug 22, 20182 votes

ARAM can be long too. And again, even though I like ARAM, League simply needs a capture the points map so there is more content for new players.

1800NICECLIENTAug 22, 20182 votes

Still my favorite game mode/map! [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

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