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Ranked Twisted Treeline needs some massive updating.

Copic·12/4/2018, 9:39:04 AM·33 votes·10,731 views

As a last season Master Tier ranked TT player with over 2000 games, let me tell you just how bad this map sucks right now.

For those who don't know, this map hasn't received a single patch in over 3 years, nothing in regards of balance, nothing in regards of switching anything up, nothing. Us players who are dedicated, like Roman who is rank 2 TT, honestly feel like the map needs to just have the dominion treatment at this point, or have its ranked privilege removed.

Here's why:

You cannot play on the map without having a gold funneling strat on your team. What this means is you have a support (Taric has a 63% win rate on the map) and a hyper carry (Typically something like Yi, Graves, Aatrox, etc.) The support helps clear the jungle and they both roam top and the hyper carry gets all the gold. This is insanely problematic because the hypercarry will have** 60-70 cs at 5 minutes and will be level 7**. And because of how much gold monster camps give you, you can have blood razor and Guinsoos on Yi at 12 minutes just by farming correctly and solo kill Vilemaw in 8 seconds.

So in other words, if you don't have a funnel against a funnel, you just auto lose. Because of this, premades are insanely problematic and playing solo beyond gold 3 is just an autoloss.

Alters also are completely useless, for getting both of them only gives you 1% HP and Mana per kill. The items that are TT exclusive are complete ass besides item 3090, in which the bonus AP is pretty much meaningless. You pretty much only get 70-80 bonus AP per game unless you're playing Veigar.

To top it all off, the champion roster has been the same for years. There hasn't been a single bit of meta change since they last gave the map any sort of love.

For those who are curious what is meta and what isn't, check here: https://rankedboost.com/3v3-tier-list-lol/ It also describes the funneling system a little better than I did.

Edit: I forgot to mention the "If you're in queue for longer than 2 minutes, re-queue". What I mean by this is that you're literally gambling what you get on your team after that minute margin. You can have challenger players vs Gold players or Diamond players with a Bronze player on their team. It happens all the time due to lack of players. MMR just doesn't exist once the timer goes after a certain point lol.

Furthermore, if you're going to have a ranked option on a map, give the map some updates. There is no excuse not to, because I know you guys have the funds to do it. I hope you guys can revive my favorite mode, because at this point, it's a real drag.

-Copic.

19 Comments

Jeddite12/4/2018, 9:41:35 AM13 votes

At this point, the only "update" Twisted Treeline is likely to receive ... is to be completely removed from the lineup and only make the occasional appearance as "Hexakill:TT" in the RGM rotation.

jurrrr12/4/2018, 3:59:44 PM9 votes

I think riot should have spent their time rebuilding TT instead of making nexus blitz.

Khä Zïx12/4/2018, 1:05:24 PM3 votes

haha update TT in 2018 funny

Bert laPigna12/4/2018, 1:35:35 PM3 votes

i love TT, is a really funny game mode , but i think riot should say somethings about tt , just to know if they want to remove it , don't touch it or ,i hope , add stuff

MrGerund12/4/2018, 5:49:23 PM2 votes

let's also not mentioning the terrible tower placement which get progressively harder to defend and the terrible terrain placement making towers shoot over certain walls just for the lulz

The23rdGamer12/4/2018, 5:58:46 PM2 votes

Shame that TT is the way it is. I still enjoy it but everything you said is absolutely correct. We can only hope that one day it will receive some more love.

Naono12/5/2018, 12:02:27 AM1 votes

Unless TT becomes a pro scene or some event like bilge water, I doubt it. It might recieve some updates if they ever do hexakill again.

TT is weird as it has rank mode but no one streams it, or ppl do stream it just not pouplar streamers or pros. If you want to see it updated ask streamers to start playing it even if for an hour.

The Great Duck12/5/2018, 6:24:27 AM1 votes

Then don't play it. Simple. Ranked in TT is the only ranking climb that feels like any accomplishment or gives me a strong sense of individual contribution toward winning or losing compared to the shitfest that is Rift.

Dimwitt12/5/2018, 8:13:46 AM1 votes

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honestly feel like the map needs to just have the dominion treatment at this point, or have its ranked privilege removed.

As someone who really enjoyed Dominion, no mode deserves this treatment. Riot as a company needs to do much better to support what it has instead of going down the route of pulling the plug. They are big enough to support these modes to be quite frank.

Trias00012/11/2018, 7:33:16 AM1 votes

They even make champion-specific balance changes for Nexus Blitz. Yet they can't be bothered to balance a ranked queue...

ISeeDumbPeople12/4/2018, 4:29:27 PM1 votes

Honestly... with how they are handling their 5s map and champion balance even with the problems I would prefer they keep ignoring TT. They'll only make it a disaster.

Wolfalisk31812/4/2018, 9:17:58 PM1 votes

Reminds me a bit of the old TT problem. Basically most of the Jungle was safely above the Top Lane. The main issue was Tryndamere who would push the lane (he enjoyed 100% safety during lane because he could just E into the Dragon pit from almost any vulnerable position), then E from camp to camp in the Jungle. He'd effectively have two income sources and every match was his to lose. The map was basically just a Tryndamere playground. Other brusiers like Xin Zhao and Jax were an issue but Trynd was something else.

Trias00012/4/2018, 9:21:44 PM1 votes

Riot, at least remove support items from TT. It's not that hard.

3TWarrior12/4/2018, 10:33:27 PM1 votes

If you can post something like this in Gameplay+ , it might have a higher chance of being seen. The topics there linger for a while because there are so few of them

that being said, I wouldn't want it removed like dominion. It was hard enough just to have dominion be removed. Without it, that makes only Aram and SR to play

Frog goes moo12/4/2018, 10:48:44 PM1 votes

I tried playing twisted treeline once. Jungled against an enemy Shaco.

Could not gank even one lane because of his boxes and no oracle.