"Oh nooooo, Dominion is goneeeeeee. It was totaly my main game mode, I only play LoL because of it!"

Nice use of common core math.

countered? I'm not sure that's the word you were going for here lol

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Complaining about the removal of dominion is like complaining about halo removing splitscreen in the end no one really cares as long as the game that they actually care about is fine

Are you fuckin' kidding me? Removing splitscreen is the number 1 reason why fans dumped Halo 5. You want to invite your friends over to play Halo 5 together like you've done with the past games for the past decade and a half? You each need to buy a $500 console, $150 TV, and $50 game, that's $700 per person!

343 has RUINED Halo!

Halo is no longer fine, fool!

I miss so long ago when I could start spectating a game from when the Featured Game thing was new, and I'd occasionally get to see a high-ranked Dominion game. That was some of the funnest stuff to spectate because it was so different from SR. While someone like myself may only sort of understand what was going on, you could tell how well those top players, like Sauron, understood the mechanics of the map and how to use them to their fullest. It was so interesting because it was so different.

I tend to love being a spectator and analyzing the action more than actually being in the action myself, so that probably doesn't help, unfortunately

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Pretty much this. People might find it hard to believe, but Dominion WAS popular back in the days. Hell, we even had DominateDominion, a group dedicated to promoting the game mode and the matches between "higher ranked" players (so to speak, because of hidden ELO system) were epic. Unlike many might think, Dominion DOES have diversity, DOES have strategy and can lead to some amazing clashes when 2 or more veteran players meet on opposite sides. There were some gimmicky builds that eventually worked (movespeed Zilean anyone), but they were situational at best. Any team that had at least 1 player familiar with this kind of trick could easily neutralize it and, thus, punish the enemy team by steamrolling over it.

As someone who played it since launch (over 4k matches before they reseted the counter, God knows why), it is a really sad moment. I sincerely hope Riot will realize how bad of a move it is and, on a not so distante future, bring it back with the necessary updates and THE GODDAMN RANKED QUEUE WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR WAY TOO LONG.

It wasn't ever "popular", it died extremely quickly even when Riot tried fixing things. The fact the few people who cared about Dominion felt the need to try promoting it should've been a clear indicator that it wasn't popular in the first place. Other than when it was new que times were generally fairly long depending on the day and matches tended to be fairly one sided pretty often. Long que times was a general complaint back then and people had tried encouraging others to play it, although the general population had no interest in Dominion.

Although, it makes sense to remove it as a que, but I don't see why the map can't stay as an option for custom games.

Hide and Seek? Yea, it's pretty fun. I used to play it a quite a bit. I'll explain in short. You have 2 seekers, and 5 hiders. Seekers are supposed to find, and kill hiders. You have 5 lives as hider. When you have 5 deaths you have to afk in base, disconnect, or just walk in the outer circle. Some champions like Teemo, Evelynn, kassadin, and rengar are banned.

Hiders are not allowed to kill seekers. And you can only use abilities that create terrain, apply any kind of cc, or grant mobility/health/defense.

Tank builds aren't allowed, you're supposed to build MS items.

The point is basically literally what it's called. Hide, and Seek I'm going to miss hide and seek D: