I would like to play dominion again

WyvernEgg·Apr 13, 2019·18 votes·9,331 views

….Please?

12 Comments

Jennifer420Apr 13, 20195 votes

rito doesnt give a fuck what you like and what not.

otherwise they wouldnt remove nexus blitz with the only reason being "we're too lazy to constantly update it" which is a pathetic excuse even for riot. we have 3v3 which didnt get touched in years. and its not like 5v5 is getting "constantly updated" in a positive way either. but hey thats riot.

ÉvelynnGodApr 14, 20195 votes

It's fast... it's fun... It's Dominion

SaiannaApr 14, 20191 votes

If it was fun for huge audience, it'd stay along with SR and TT. But truth be told It hardly had any fanbase. It was even worse than TT, which is already sad to begin with.

It could be used as LTM, but I can tell you now that quite a few people would be angry, feel betrayed, by Riot implementing dominion for LTM than actual "fun mode".

MinardeApr 15, 20191 votes

Part of the problem with Dominion as a time-limited mode is that it's a relatively complicated game mode. A lot of the challenge and appeal isn't immediately noticeable. As such, it wouldn't really work as an RGM mode, which tend to be straight-forward and easily approached. Coincidentally, this also caused Dom issues as a permanent mode, since Riot provided absolutely no motivation for players to actually give the mode a chance.

It'd sort of be like introducing Summoner's Rift as time-limited or without ranked. It's okay, but generally too complicated and involved to really bother putting time into it when you could instead play something more familiar or rewarding.

Definitely Not Dominion attempted to make Dominion more approachable by simplifying the mode. However, it also ended up removing most of classic Dom's challenge and appeal.

hiyaresApr 13, 20193 votes

I honestly prefer it over 3s anyways i thought it was a good map to have something different from arams one sided kill fest or 3s odd meta. it had its own littele meta it was the frist map to have its own items and it was over all pretty decent it was a mix of aram/ 3s in terms of how it played fast games which also needed strategy go for the 1v1s all over or some kind of 2 2 1 roaming split to take the alters to boost your score.

Ashryver Queen Apr 14, 20193 votes

Hide and Seek ; - ;

MordridtheBlackApr 13, 20191 votes

sadly from what I heard the player base for that game mode was rather thin and Riot saw that it wasn't really enough to keep the game mode running.

now to be fair there is (or was) a rotating game mode called Definitely Not Dominion

I haven't seen it at all so there is no telling if (or when) they will add it back into the actual pool of rotating game modes

MinardeApr 13, 20191 votes

The situation was definitely more nuanced, even from a player's perspective, but you've mostly got it. The main difference I'd point out is that Riot had already essentially abandoned the game mode before then (arguably as soon as the mode launched). Shutting down the mode just made it official.

Furthermore, Definitely Not Dominion generally didn't play like classic Dominion. One comparison would be taking Summoner's Rift, completely removing the jungle, and then trying to pass that off as classic SR. That is, the "Definitely Not" part of the title wasn't just a joke. Even among former Dominion veterans, DefNotDom was divisive. Some players liked the changes; others hated them.

WyvernEggApr 14, 20191 votes

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The situation was definitely more nuanced, even from a player's perspective, but you've mostly got it. The main difference I'd point out is that Riot had already essentially abandoned the game mode before then (arguably as soon as the mode launched). Shutting down the mode just made it official.

Furthermore, Definitely Not Dominion generally didn't play like classic Dominion. One comparison would be taking Summoner's Rift, completely removing the jungle, and then trying to pass that off as classic SR. That is, the "Definitely Not" part of the title wasn't just a joke. Even among former Dominion veterans, DefNotDom was divisive. Some players liked the changes; others hated them.

I didn't hate dnd but classic dominion was way better