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here i am still wanting Dominion back

S3NNA··74 votes·15,503 views

yup title says it all, bring back the best game mode leagues ever had. anyone agree with me ?

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giannishannibal10 votes

Apart from 1 Rioter, Riot gave up the mode completly. They didnt balance items or champion or update the map to look better. As result they player poulation was diminishing.

The biggest reason was that Dominion didnt get Ranked as it was firstly advertized due to the small size poplulation ( which it was small due to the abovementioned problems). All that result in a vicius circle and gave negative feedback to kill the mode.

The only way is to complete overhaul the mode and modernize it and make it faster and give it ranked ladder. I think it will help the mode survive. But I dont see Riot giving resources to an old project similar to Magma chamber ( 1vs1 or 2vs2 map).

Try to make a petition hopefully if you get 5-10% players ( people not different acounts) in each region they may consider it. Good Luck in your endeabours

PS I like Dominion and i had like 80 games on it, I played when I was bored from ARAM (I am RTG player, i like to play the modes other than Summoners RIft).

ZeroAgainst1 votes

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Apart from 1 Rioter, Riot gave up the mode completly. They didnt balance items or champion or update the map to look better. As result they player poulation was diminishing.

The biggest reason was that Dominion didnt get Ranked as it was firstly advertized due to the small size poplulation ( which it was small due to the abovementioned problems). All that result in a vicius circle and gave negative feedback to kill the mode.

The only way is to complete overhaul the mode and modernize it and make it faster and give it ranked ladder. I think it will help the mode survive. But I dont see Riot giving resources to an old project similar to Magma chamber ( 1vs1 or 2vs2 map).

Try to make a petition hopefully if you get 5-10% players ( people not different acounts) in each region they may consider it. Good Luck in your endeabours

PS I like Dominion and i had like 80 games on it, I played when I was bored from ARAM (I am RTG player, i like to play the modes other than Summoners RIft).

real reason dom didnt take off is cause when it came out remember when riot had a fucking 10 min que bug for like two weeks?

giannishannibal2 votes

real reason dom didnt take off is cause when it came out remember when riot had a fucking 10 min que bug for like two weeks?

Ah yes I had forgotten this bug cause it was so long ago. True this was the 1st thing that led to the other problems.

ZeroAgainst3 votes

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Ah yes I had forgotten this bug cause it was so long ago. True this was the 1st thing that led to the other problems.

the other issue was the riot who they put on to balance it was just avoiding the things that needed nerfs nid q kass was the other issue and bding wasn't fun to play against and those were the key issues the bots weren't as bad as people scream on here.

(use to have 5k games on dominion or so.)

3TWarrior1 votes

really...the bots were awful...try playing a game where you get 4 people on 1 team and 1 person on the other

preternatural3 votes

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really...the bots were awful...try playing a game where you get 4 people on 1 team and 1 person on the other

i could just afk those ones and let the enemy team autowin, 2/3 minutes later i'm not trapped in a game and i can do whatever else i want. but that was honestly (and literally) two games out of 1000's so the bot thing is really overhyped, at least from an EUW standpoint. maybe you get the odd legitimately fresh account trying out the game "league of legends" but dom is more intuitive and less technical than the rift so really they weren't a burden if ever it did happen, and they get gold for just existing on the crystal scar so that skill gate is gone for new entrants. maybe they take a bit too long to shop but whatever i can live with it.

such a good mode man...we just can't have nice things. meanwhile everyone is sat here wondering who even asked for twisted treeline.

3TWarrior1 votes

maybe you were a longer-term player but bots were everywhere, at least in NA. If you were lower or middle tier in MMR, you'd get bots way too often just because of the smaller amount of players

Sire Hippington3 votes

I don't think dominion needs an overhaul, and the only modernisation it needs is visual, and it really doesn't need to get faster, the paceing was perfect and one of the reasons i loved it. If you want a faster versiobn, we have ascention for that...

What Dominion needs is rannked and publicity. The main thing that killed the mode is that it wasn't showcased in anyway, not even sure if newcomers in later season even got any hint that it existed beyond beeing able to pick it in game mode select. No streamers(Mostly because no ranked), no proplay, not even show matches for fun on events like it's done with aram or the 1v1 turnaments. Just as with TT right now, riot did all it can to hide it's existence from the players which paired with the neglect in terms of ranked and balance(though one can argue that the latter is a blessing given the current state of SR) caused the small player base. The mode at it's core was awsome, just everything around it sucked.

FSRER1 votes

And if they ever bring it back, even as a temporary gamemode (Definitely not Dominion) I beg them to keep the music. That nostalgia of the music is something else...

FinalFlare1 votes

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Apart from 1 Rioter, Riot gave up the mode completly. They didnt balance items or champion or update the map to look better. As result they player poulation was diminishing.

The biggest reason was that Dominion didnt get Ranked as it was firstly advertized due to the small size poplulation ( which it was small due to the abovementioned problems). All that result in a vicius circle and gave negative feedback to kill the mode.

The only way is to complete overhaul the mode and modernize it and make it faster and give it ranked ladder. I think it will help the mode survive. But I dont see Riot giving resources to an old project similar to Magma chamber ( 1vs1 or 2vs2 map).

Try to make a petition hopefully if you get 5-10% players ( people not different acounts) in each region they may consider it. Good Luck in your endeabours

PS I like Dominion and i had like 80 games on it, I played when I was bored from ARAM (I am RTG player, i like to play the modes other than Summoners RIft).

I mean at least people played Dominion, mean while 3v3 norms, is pretty much all bots and is completely ignored by Rito.

Die Area1 votes

ARAM has never been ranked either and yet it's still around, hmmmm

I'd be down for dominion, just because I don't like normal rift, and I pretty much play aram exclusively.

giannishannibal1 votes

Correct me if i am wrong but Riot has given a promise that after the releash Dominion would have ranked ladder-of cource they broke their promise. As for ARAM i have seen the some players ask for ranked and Riot refuses to implement it but i never saw a post or something official by Riot promising a ranked ladder for ARAM.

Pierce The Veal10 votes

Dominion returning would make me come back to playing league of legends. The gamemode wasn’t done justice. It was fast paced, there was significant strategy, much more champions were viable and much fewer were broken, and teamfighting was prominent from the very first minute of the game.

As someone who never liked dominion game modes in other games, I was obsessed with League’s dominion. I played it whenever I wanted to play League.

preternatural7 votes

i don't even care if the map is greyscaled with prototype assets, just bring back the god damn game mode. fuckin hell rito, you cash in a billion dollars a year and you can't just put together a skeleton crew to maintain dominion? i'm not even asking for it to be balanced ffs, cause who the fuck trusts rito to balance shit when they had 8 years to get the rift right and on year 9 it still ain't right. but oh well no base capture game modes allowed no epic 1 to 1 point finishes as teams fight for that last spire that's now uncontrolled. no easy platform to practice champions in whatever manner you so deem worth your time.

nope we got practice tool, because i can put another human in practice tool OFC we got aram, cause i can pick what i play there and we have the rift because fuck you you either play league or nothing.

"but twisted treeline" honestly there is little to nothing to be gained from 3v3's, dom was 5v5, a large fight could break out on this new champion you might only get a few passing teamfights with on the rift or TT and you would get to experience endless skirmishes on dom or just lock yourself bottom side of the map and learn how to lane with your champ

FUCKING RIOT do the thing ffs don't give us this halfbaked bullshit "defnintely not dominion" piece of shit game mode that just leaves a sour taste in peoples mouths, fucking bring back dominion, you spergs.

SAILOR SATANA7 votes

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bring back the best game mode leagues ever had.

AHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Tahminatrix 6 votes

Riot: We are no longer supporting this gamemode since nobody wants to play it.

Community: We want to play it!

Riot: You`re a small minority and we refuse to do a poll to prove that.

Ayzev4 votes

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we refuse to do a poll

Has anyone actually asked for one and gotten any visibility?

Jennifer4201 votes

well. runescape started to do polls. works out great for them lol

Trist mid opop5 votes

Inb4 rito will come and say: doesnt work on new client. Take a lux skin.

The Trent5 votes

Oop... okay but r u going to enjoy the 20 hour queues? They got rid of a lot of the bots, so you won't get any bots to play with you. I'm not kidding either, before so many people started botting, queues were anywhere between 3-20+ hours.

P00py Head2 votes

but its just for hide and seek

The Trent1 votes

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but its just for hide and seek

ohhh true that or king of the hill

Sire Hippington4 votes

My icon should say it all...

ModCaptainMårvelous4 votes

Wanting it back? Sure.

"bring back the best game mode leagues ever had"? Sorry hoss that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too bold a claim.

Perma CC2 votes

Preach dude. Also hate when people jump in to say "Oh well Riot gave up on it because it had no playerbase" it had a massive playerbase of people playing hide and seek. It was one of the funnest game modes people came up with I fucking legit spent hours playing hide and seek. And I actually ACTUALLY had fun which is a fucking whole new world from SR. When the ranking gets fucking annoying and you get tired af of the community, Go play HIDE AND SEEK. Cant do that anymore. Riot truely hates us when they take one of the last fun things away.

WoollyWitch2 votes

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ZeroAgainst2 votes

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I haven't been on league long enough to know what dominion was but I always hear great things about it. And it sounds quite fun. Never played it but I hope it becomes a game mode again so I can try it. I really really loved urf though. Spamming my abilities as my main was just really exhilarating. [sg-kiko]

i just hope you dont have to play the shitty reworked version they did that is a mockery to dominion. (not talking about ascension)

3TWarrior1 votes

think capture the flag but without spawn-camping and with only rare cases of camping a flag location (and of course, no insta-deaths by grenades). To explain this more fully, there were always defenders, but true camping was more a heimerdinger, zyra or yorick thing

there were also buffs that you could harvest in the center of the map, your were given ALL THE GOLD YOU'D EVER NEED (you could start with a BF sword if you wanted to, or maybe it was 50 to 100 short, I forget, and passive gold gen was like triple the (at the time) SR gold gen)

the game mode even focused every aspect riot tried to push: team fight brawls; faster games, communication, objective gameplay

when I asked most people, typically the only response I got was "I don't play it because the visuals are awful" the other reason which was not too much was: you can't leave the spawn point at the beginning of the game (which is now implemented in SR, lol )

Sukishoo2 votes

Keep on dreaming, unfortunately. It was removed and won't be back.

Shendelzare12 votes

This mode was best and nothing they make can compare to it.

MegaHuff2 votes

They could have just, ya know. Left the damn thing instead of removing it.

Big reason why I just gave up on Rito at this point entirely. They're just going to do more stupid game modes that they aren't going to take care of, like Dominion, and keep looking for ways to squeeze money out of their players until their once rightfully attained popularity fizzles out.

If you ask me, they shouldn't be even be attempting side shit until they can get their main game right, but what would I know? I'm not part of a big corporation.

Meritas2 votes

A poll wouldn't work as nobody would vote "No" to a question if they wanted something to be added to the game, regardless if they're going to use it.

Pegasix1 votes

I only starting playing League in early 2018 and everyone I know mentioned Dominion being great and how they miss it. I don't see why Riot doesn't just add an actual automated RGM playlist into League. I'm not asking for new content just throw some of the current RGM's into a queue that rotates every week. I'd love to try dominion and ascension but it looks like I'll never get to try them.

stone the blacks1 votes

:(

Yandere6661 votes

@reyntime118 put my man in plat on dominion pls

Peppurr1 votes

Oh?[sg-jinx]

FSRER1 votes

They said that nobody played Dominion. I disagreed but they were partly telling the truth. You know what Riot planned about the gamemode and never did it? Ranked. Ranked Dominion. The simplest solution that they had thought but they never got to do it for unknown reasons. That would have saved Dominion.

YiffMeImAFurry1 votes

I wasnt around early enough to play dominion but I played Definitely Not Dominion and some of my most fun matches ever were in that mode. I absolutely loved those down to the wire moments and the music in the map is really really good for hyping you up. I loved sneaking to the enemy base and yoinking their gem to spawn a super minion...ah good days

Demented Gag1 votes

The Crystal Scar is weeping!

jama6551 votes

idk about best game mode

Émilia1 votes

I agree .. at least dominion wasn't a fuck Rng like aram or TFT

Hocker1 votes

I'd rather see a "FFA Mode" than Dominion.

A TRUE "King of the Hill"

C9 Scott1 votes

I'm glad it's not coming back. TFT is so much better.

Jerry SeinfeId1 votes

here i am still waiting for a shen revert.

BWG REFORMED1 votes

Dominion back then was better than League is today but that doesn't say much about Dominion since current league is a pile of shit

Jaghatai1 votes

Me too

Lovelle1 votes

I would love Dominion and/or Ascension back. Please, just give us back a fast n' fun mode again. Been playing TT since they've both been gone, but the mode is honesty too slow and snowball-heavy for me to ever get used to. Pretty much every game is decided before you can even complete 2-3 items and SR isn't much better in that regard.

You can play pretty much anyone on the Crystal Scar and make them work (though marksmen are the weakest champs there) and since there's no laning phase (aside from bot lane on Dominion, which is a different beast entirely) it allows for much more strategy and team comp variety than SR, ARAM or TT.

Śhunpo1 votes

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