Rotating game mode queue now live!

Riot·Sep 29, 2016·1 votes·38,832 views

From the original clone-tastic One For All to the frenetic manatee magic of Ultra Rapid Fire, featured game modes provide unique spins on the classic League formula. It’s time to kick things off with the next game mode in the rotation: Ascension is now live!

As a refresher on the mode, let’s go over the basics:

Unlike Summoner’s Rift, you can’t walk out of your base to reach the battle; you’ll have to use the Golden Transcendence trinket or right-click a pad to teleport into the fray
Earn victory by scoring points; the first team to 200 takes it down
You earn 1 point for kills, 3 for capturing a Shuriman relic, 5 for landing the killing blow on an Ascended champion, and 2 points for each kill you acquire while Ascended
Claim Ascension by taking down Ancient Ascendant Xerath in the center of the map (he’ll respawn after the Ascended champion dies)
Be cautious when approaching the Ascendant, you'll need your whole team to battle him and claim the buff
The Ascension buff yields awe-inspiring power including bonus health and infinite mana, AD & AP, CDR, as well as armor and magic pen
The gifts of Ascension come with a price: healing and regeneration effects are halved and the opposing team always has vision on Ascended champs

We did touch up the visuals slightly while specially tuning Champion Mastery so you can earn points in the mode. You’ll also be able to earn keys for your wins and loot chests for your (or your premade’s) S-, S, and S+ games.

Ascension is now available and lasts through the evening on Monday (we’ll shut it down very early Tuesday morning--usually between 1:00 AM and 3:00 AM).

If you need to catch up on the rules for any game mode, check back at leagueoflegends.com each Friday, and we’ll give you the lowdown in a quick post like this one.

As part of our ongoing commitment to refreshing the RGM modes, we’ve started with Ascension this week and the Ascended Xerath change. Hopefully now you can engage him guilt-free and become the Ascended god-beast-man-creature you always knew you could be. Go forth. FOR SHURIMA!

120 Comments

Fluffybunny645Sep 30, 201645 votes

I bet ??? is Doom Bots

DamynSep 30, 20166 votes

OH GOD YES PLEASE!

ZekeyboobooSep 30, 201610 votes

Inb4 its Poro King. Kappa.

Light SovereignSep 30, 20163 votes

if not then they are prob still trying to add more Bots for the mode.

cavemanyesOct 1, 20165 votes

DOOM PLAYERS

SykonightmareSep 30, 201614 votes

DOOM BOTS!!!!

ARAM or FEEDSep 30, 201612 votes

Seriously Riot, how much money do we have to raise before URF or ARURF becomes a permanent game mode like ARAM? Tell me and I will start a campaign to make it happen.

KittyVioletOct 1, 201611 votes

if that happened then nobody would be playing normal item 3070

ShippoTailOct 1, 20166 votes

and thats a bad thing?

iTz Mr CuddlezOct 1, 20162 votes

DO NOTbuy RP again they intentionally disrespected customers Making ARandom URF (no one wanted random) and intentionally blocked it on Custom games so force people to play random shi t! DO NOT buy RP do not buy their merchanside they disrespected the CUSTOMERS!

McsquzzyOct 2, 20163 votes

They did make some good points on why they did it, selected champ pool was fairly stagnant, choosing outside of the OP pool resulted in hate for wanting to try something different. Of course I feel like the system was against me with how often free rotates ended up being my selection.

dnsupOct 12, 20161 votes

Actually, they didn't.

the Anarchit3chtOct 2, 20163 votes

if urf/arurf becomes a permament game mode.. it will lose its charm, trust me.

Cute PoroOct 7, 20163 votes

It'll be fun at first, but the appeal will quickly wear off.

It's more fun when it's every once in awhile and you have the excitement leading up to it instead of it always being there and you just wind up not playing it.

JofeyySep 30, 201612 votes

Uhhh how does Yorick do anything in Ascension LOL

RisenDarkKnightSep 30, 20163 votes

Yeah seems like he'd be useless, good point.

Wert the WackyOct 1, 20162 votes

Well, it won't let me pick him. Seems like he's just not allowed to be used.

jaguarino777Sep 30, 201610 votes

wheres urf again? ;_;

AurielionSol007Sep 30, 201610 votes

we just had urf.

nightshockSep 30, 20162 votes

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ShippoTailOct 1, 20166 votes

You apperently dont understand "Rotating Game Mode" where they have had 4 game modes (ascention, hexakill, one for all and poroking) rotate on the average of 6 weeks, with 2 random game modes thrown in. Urf was the original random game mode in the rotating game mode, and while I wish URF would have replaced one of the others, I understand that it filled the random slot.

Papa ThrêshOct 2, 20162 votes

And you apparently don't get that we have had URF twice. ARURF doesn't count. If you go back and count we have had every other game mode 4 to 5 times. I believe if I have counted right Ascension has been in the rotation 6 times. Nexus siege was a new mode given to us 2 weeks in a row. It was received poorly by the community because Riot hyped it up so much and then once we got it the game mode sucked and the community made it clear that it didn't like Nexus Siege but Riot as usual doesn't give a fuck about what we want (LoL wouldn't be as big as it is if we the community didn't exist) and gave it to us again the following weekend. We asked for URF and they give us everything else but URF and then when we think we are finally getting URF again we get it all random which ruined it. The fun of URF is playing your favorite champs and spamming their abilities but while being able to ban champs that could ruin the fun and disabling certain champs since they would be too broken in URF(Karthus, Sona, Nidalee, Soraka)

The fact we have had URF twice and every other game mode at least 5 times proves how little Riot actually listens and cares about what we want because the Forums and these comment sections say loud and clear what we want from Riot. URF, Doom Bots, One for All and actual balanced champions.

ShippoTailOct 13, 20162 votes

I wish I would have seen this 12 days ago but I didn't realize I got logged out of the website so I didn't see notifications.

I agree with you ARURF doesn't count as URF, just like DND doesn't count as dominion.

I also do know that the 'new' game modes (doombots now counted) nexus siege, DND, Doombots, will have shown up as many times as one of the first RGM. And I personally agree that it sucks that a lot of us LOVE urf, dont care for ARURF (different tier of play even when on your wanted champions) and want to see it more.

I was just saying that the Rotating game mode was structured to look something like... 1 Ascention 2 Poroking 3 HexaKill 4 One for all (with the exception of the 3rd rotation and after poroking and hexakill look to be swapped). They also have 1-3 slots with in those 4 game modes (the rotating game modes) that they have 'new' or 'random' slots open for games like DND URF ARURF Nexus Siege, and Doombots.

And if it makes you feel any better knowing this... here is how many times each game mode has shown up... (or will be showing up from the 3 weeks preview)

Ascension : 5 Poroking : 4 URF : 2 Hexakill : 5 One For All : 4 DND : 3 Siege : 3 Nemesis : 1

ARURF : 1 Doombots : 2

iTz Mr CuddlezOct 1, 20162 votes

we dont had urf.. NO we didnt they banned Uff from custom and they forced people to hate urf with all random sh!t.. just DO NOT BUY RP anymore they intentionally made people hate urf and disrespected the Customers! DO NOT buy RP unless you're very dumb..

ItsbeghdevOct 2, 20161 votes

What's so disrespectful about trying to let them enjoy the game? And what's so much worse about all random than the whole deal of draft URF's power pick problem?

dnsupOct 12, 20161 votes

You have answered every question like this. Are you doing Riot's work for them?

Why not just go to Wal-Mart and stand at the customer service line, telling people to go home? Tell them "I disagree, you don't know what you like--go home and enjoy your product that you wanted to return. Stop complaining."

blackrx4lifeSep 30, 201610 votes

is hexakill that popular!? [slayer-jinx-unamused]

DamynSep 30, 20164 votes

No. But Rito doesn't care what is popular. I mean they came out with AR URF when no one wanted AR.

iTz Mr CuddlezOct 1, 20162 votes

they intentionally made All Random urf and intentionally blocked it for custom to force people play rando m shit and force people to Hate URF but it wont happen lol i just wont bu RP anymore and keep promoting negative stuff about the game everywhere!

ItsbeghdevOct 2, 20164 votes

If you really want people to boycott Riot you should use more than just the fact that they made a decision that you personally don't like. Do what you want, but really.

CatsaberSep 30, 20169 votes

mfw i see TT hexakill in queue.. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

PokemichaelSep 30, 20169 votes

That ??? Had better be Doom Bots, Black Market Brawlers or URF (not random)

ModPeriscopeSep 30, 20167 votes

Gettin close to Halloween....doombots

HerpedeederpedeeSep 30, 20167 votes

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EmojaySep 30, 20164 votes

scam scam scam

No flash no lifeOct 1, 20167 votes

couldn't find clairvoyance when I queue'd for ascension this weekend, is this intended? On a map with little vision I find this arguably the most useful summoner spell, and nothing was mentioned regarding its disappearance.

ShippoTailOct 1, 20166 votes

They removed that summoner spell and revive a while ago, back when dominion was still around. And they did mention it.

ItsbeghdevOct 2, 20164 votes

Last I checked, before this weekend, it did still exist on crystal scar whenever crystal scar actually existed itself. Or maybe I'm just confusing it for Clarity (as a near-useless summ) and the Definitely Not Dominion trinket (which does a similar thing to Clairvoyance). That's probably it.

McsquzzySep 30, 20166 votes

Not a fan of how the ascension buff isn't last hit, also even if your team kills it the other team can still contest for the buff.

iTz Mr CuddlezOct 1, 20162 votes

ascension and dominion modes are bullsht .. they do not have ideas anymore..

HolyVentusOct 1, 20161 votes

only thing people play dominion for are hide n seek custom games tbh

ItsbeghdevOct 2, 20162 votes

It's also just overall a quick game mode and the whole laneless map deal can be refreshing.

TheHappyReaperzSep 30, 20166 votes

???, Looking forward to whatever that is.

InTheKappaWeTrusSep 30, 20166 votes

seems like the hated game modes aren't on SR like TT Hexakill

and ik rito will most likely see this but imagine a 1v5 gamemode like the fan gamemode raid boss in smite and for those who don't know raid boss is a gamemode where 1 player is the raid boss and 5 players are raiders. The raid boss receives plenty of gold (probably like 99999 gold idk) and can buy any item besides lifesteal (for many reasons) and the raiders are only allowed to buy starter items and the raiders are allowed only ghost and heal for sums while the raid boss is allowed access to any summoner spells. The map a for this kinda gamemode should be on the ARAM map and all random since its more fair and exciting. o and since item 1055 has life steal id say only like 1-2 is allowed

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]
Let me know what you guys think? :D

enesesOct 1, 20162 votes

One thing Smite does right - game modes. I don't even know what's the total count of them!

ShippoTailOct 1, 20163 votes

I thought they already had this out... Darius But seriously, I think that wouldn't be the most balanced because either the 'raid boss' gets CC chained and blown up, or the 'raid boss' 1-2 shots everyone while staying at or above 90% hp

InTheKappaWeTrusOct 1, 20162 votes

true true but then again in the smite version of this its the same story :P

TheCoolPokeOct 2, 20166 votes

No offense rito but I think no one really plays Ascension as much as they do for URF or One for All and I highly recombined that you won't put this game mode in as often as you and maybe put URF in more often or introduce the old game modes like Doom Bots or Black Market Brawlers