My reaction to Riot's plans to remove Dominion

Vasaris·Feb 11, 2016·139 votes·5,685 views

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AriamisFeb 11, 201659 votes

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WarlordTimFeb 12, 20162 votes

How do you post a gif into the comment?

NearanceFeb 12, 20161 votes

Just put a link in comments. summoner 31

WarlordTimFeb 12, 20161 votes

Thanks!

jQueryFeb 12, 20162 votes

Like this: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wh35FqlXlwg/VfaWQwpsESI/AAAAAAAABE8/Nwt_RRglunc/w426-h568/Funny-Cat-GIF.gif

WarlordTimFeb 12, 20161 votes

Velkoz I thank you, kind sir, for your contribution.

T RexHasTinyArmsFeb 11, 201618 votes

Mine involved one single tear that I will have to waste an extra 6-10 minutes or so getting fwotd ip bonus against bots now. Still haven't figured out how to clear sr bots in less than like 12-15 min consistently, and on dominion you had to be careful not to win so fast that it didn't count for fwotd. Rip 10 minutes on days I want ip but don't want to invest time to play a full game.

SchbiddzbuaFeb 11, 20168 votes

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Mine involved one single tear that I will have to waste an extra 6-10 minutes or so getting fwotd ip bonus against bots now. Still haven't figured out how to clear sr bots in less than like 12-15 min consistently, and on dominion you had to be careful not to win so fast that it didn't count for fwotd. Rip 10 minutes on days I want ip but don't want to invest time to play a full game.

Just play 3v3 COOP Bots

T RexHasTinyArmsFeb 11, 20162 votes

Lol forgot about that option. Guess I gotta learn a new map 😄

UnpaladinFeb 11, 201614 votes

Watch out, 3v3 Co-Op bots can and will kick your ass. They're the old bots, the ones that build alacrity boots early and have a surprising amount of gold while often playing champions with the tankiness of a brick wall while still dealing effective damages. It's actually quite fun

T RexHasTinyArmsFeb 13, 20161 votes

Sounds fun. I switched to Dom bc SR bots for fwotd was getting so boring. People try and play them like it is a real game and don't want to push down nexus as fast as possible so I started locking the bots in the fountain and killing them when they came out so my team would push bc there were no bots to fight against.

When you learn the patterns well enough to do that you need a change of pace. Hopefully 3v3 bots will be something fun to learn the pattern on.

doombotMECHAFeb 11, 20162 votes

i leveled to 30 on dom. it was back before mass bots became a thing, season 3 or so, about when shyvana came out.

Vistha KaiFeb 11, 20167 votes

For me it was more like:

They are seriously removing Dominion? HA HA HA! Bunch of incompetent, lazy pricks. And they are giving an icon for 100 games, I wonder how many games I played. *Dominion backlog was set to zero before the article went live* Fuck you, Riot.

MirkwoodiaFeb 11, 20166 votes

hehehe for me, the dominion community is pretty tight around high elo, and extends a bit to anyone who enters dominatedominion chat, so we had a bunch of ppl playing together and streaming, crying and reminiscing, but we had a hella fun night (to cover up the pain)

MaratsuneFeb 11, 20165 votes

...Yup, basically. A little too accurate, actually...

Bear GauntletsFeb 12, 20162 votes

I tried to watch a video of Dominion the other day because I wanted to try it, but it just looked like an unfun mess of a mode.

Silver FluffenbuFeb 12, 20162 votes

I tried to play a farewell game. I was in lane vs Heimerdinger the entire time

w0m6QLJ4v4Feb 12, 20163 votes

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I tried to play a farewell game. I was_** in lane vs **_ the entire time

But you don't do that in dom.. You backcap and do mind games and stuff...

FuTKLaYRCJFeb 12, 20161 votes

In low level ELO dom, back capping is nonexistant akin to how invading is to bronze level SR.

I was once stuck in a elo hell period in Dominion where everytime I backcap a Heimer my team goes "why are you not sitting at top?".

I win everytime I do that, but at the cost of my sanity.

w0m6QLJ4v4Feb 12, 20162 votes

There's.... There's ranked dom...?

FuTKLaYRCJFeb 12, 20161 votes

Pretty sure pre-lulu patch (which is also pre-aram?) had an elo monitor tool, linked to a website (I think it was called Lolmatches) that monitors your matches, picks and what nots (It predates kassad.in, I can't remember the name. You can also download the software to make it more seamless).

The website tracks your matches, picks, items bought, and you can sort through win by champions, items pick, %pick of champions per games, and quite a robust collection of data similar to what kassad.in have that I use for ARAM ELO monitor.

Of course this is unofficial, as after the Lulu patch had the website dead as it can no longer request data from the server to tell you your current match average ELO.

Highest ELO I had gone was around ~~1900 for Dominion Queue, (apparently 2000++ was the higher echelon, where queues take 5 min at least), and I was stuck around 1400~~1600 for quite some time. A clear indication of getting to a higher elo was the number of revives per game. If it is perfect 10/10 players picked revive in that game, you can be damn sure it's a higher elo one.

Ranked Dom never existed, because Riot screwed up the launch of Draft Mode for Dominion quite terribly. People opted for Dominate Dominion instead for better rules organisation.