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Meet your nemesis (draft)

Riot·2/10/2015, 12:44:59 AM·0 votes·185,081 views

We’ve just cranked open the Featured Game Mode workshop and rolled out the team’s latest creation! This time, you’re picking your ENEMIES’ champions before making the most of the champs and comps they pick out for you. Here are the main points:

  • You pick out your enemy team.
  • The champions you pick for your enemies will comprise your team’s combined champion pool.
  • Battle Boosts are back!

Here are some details presented in handy Q&A form! Yay!

So Riot, I pick the champion the other team uses? I can give them champs like... Urgot?

Yep, and they can reply with Poppy! But champ select is only a tiny part of a game of League - the rest is all about kicking butt on Summoner’s Rift!

Oh. Yeah that makes sense.

Mmhmm. So once you’ve figured out who on your team’s playing who, you’ll need to figure out how exactly you’ll win your game. Maybe you’ve got Blitz, Thresh, Janna, Nami, and Poppy. Sweet - stick Thresh and Blitz together for those ludicrous end of days lantern grabs, set Poppy loose in the jungle, and try out Nami top and Janna mid? Or whatever - it doesn’t matter. The point is you’ll have a bunch of tools to use together, and it’s down to you to figure out if you can chisel out a masterpiece with what you’re given, or just derp around the Rift until your Nexus goes boom.

So can I counter... counter pick...?

Yep! Maybe you’ll be Nemesis Drafting away, and discover that you’re being given some pocket siege comp by accident. Instead of just giving your enemies champs that you just think are weak, why not deliberately give ‘em characters who clear waves slower than a manaless level 1 Swain? Again, it’s up to you.

Huh. How does champion select work?

Excellent question - couldn’t have worded it better myself. In Nemesis Draft, everyone picks a champion for the opposing team, and each team gives their opponents champions from their team’s combined champion pool. For example, if you’re blue side, and only Dave on your team has Nidalee, anyone on your team can give any of the red team guys the crazy cat lady, even if none of them own her. Does that make sense? I think that makes sense.

Okay, but what about dodgers? DO YOU HAVE A PLAN HERE, MR. RIOT?!

Of course! Wouldn’t have added this question into an FAQ if we didn’t, duh. Queue dodgers and game leavers might play (or er, start to play) Nemesis Draft, too, so to make sure those of you who legitimately want to play the mode get to actually do so, we’re dialling up the queue dodge and game leaver penalties. Check out this post for details on how our detection system, cunningly named LeaverBuster, works!

We also wanted to reward the summoners who play the mode properly, so we’ll be sending out a fancy summoner icon to all Nemesis Draft players who play the mode without quitting during champion select or the actual game!

ASUMMONERICONERMAHGERD.

I know right?! Oh, and speaking of which, it won’t actually hit your account until up to two weeks after Nemesis Draft closes shop. Something something manually applied something takes time something patience.

Anything else we should know?

YEP. We’re locking Battle Boosts into Nemesis Draft! Stick 125 RP down and you’ll find yourself 200 IP richer while your teammates get 100 IP for basically being in your team, and ALL of you’ll unlock access to all the currently available skins for the champion they select are given! Enemy team gives you Veigar? HIT THEM BACK WITH FINAL BOSS VEIGAR AND CACKLE YOUR WAY TO VICTORY. That’ll learn ‘em.

Okay. Cool. So when does this mode end?

We’ll wrap Nemesis Draft up on February 23, meaning you’ll have plenty of time to find your way around a whole bunch of new champs and comps!

882 Comments

Gimonfu2/12/2015, 11:06:42 AM102 votes

The flaming you will get at the start of every game:

"OH NO, you asshats why did you give us blublu or blabla?"

Bergk2/12/2015, 7:02:40 PM57 votes

Only thing to make this more troll, would be if it was blind pick instead of draft... you have no idea what you're playing until loading screen XD

Notorious Nose2/12/2015, 1:16:41 PM57 votes

It's Urgot 's time to shine

Kei1432/12/2015, 3:15:20 PM54 votes

this mode just shows that everyone hates support.

sad for a support main like me.

EDIT: apparently everyone hates jungle too ...

and then you realise how much the LOL community is lacking in knowledge of how to play certain champs ..

mumbles grumbles no one ever knows how to play support ........... grumbles

How Do You Meta2/12/2015, 10:34:45 AM36 votes

I hope I get Poppy, that way I can equip my Lollipoppy Skin and give them all PTSD and night terrors after they taste my delicious candy of justice. Poppy

http://i.imgur.com/Nhxgm7i.jpg

ilovep132/12/2015, 11:17:09 AM33 votes

Just played a round, it was fun, actually talking to your teamates ermuhged!! Communicating to the other team in a friendly way too! It was fun.

NoSkillHecarim2/12/2015, 12:57:21 PM31 votes

For the first time ever in the history of League of Legends, Urgot becomes an automatic pick or ban champion.Urgot summoner 1

Evalyn2/12/2015, 10:28:23 AM30 votes

Well, I thought I was going to sleep soon, but I guess that's not happening.

ShadoScout2/12/2015, 10:34:14 AM28 votes

Welp! Here come the 5 man support teams Top Lane Braum FTW!!!

qcCzIUfWvq2/12/2015, 12:27:22 PM25 votes

I'm unsure about that leaverbuster thing. One day I received a blue screen on my laptop which caused it to crash and restart in the loading screen of a ranked match. I did manage to get back into the game but when it ended I was forced to type "I Agree" to not leaving any more games in the future. It was out of my control. I hope they can implement something to detect things like that before I end up getting suspended for it.

JesusTakeTheKill2/13/2015, 1:35:38 AM21 votes

worst game mode ever its like volunteering to play in bronze 5

Deep Terror Nami2/12/2015, 11:03:25 AM19 votes

Playing my first game now; my team gives them a full top tier legitimate team comp...

Raxicor2/12/2015, 4:55:48 PM17 votes

So did Leavebuster get an upgrade? Last I knew it couldn't tell the difference between if your ISP loves you or hates you.

Kei1432/12/2015, 3:55:35 PM16 votes

This mode just shows how much people hate supports.

Sucks for a support main like me.

mike271122/12/2015, 9:10:37 PM16 votes

We also wanted to reward the summoners who play the mode properly, so we’ll be sending out a fancy summoner icon to all Nemesis Draft players who play the mode without quitting during champion select or the actual game!

Serious question: how many games do you have to play without dodging/leaving in order to qualify for the Nemesis mode Summoner Icon?

StugBug2/13/2015, 4:43:06 AM15 votes

I would have to agree with most that his game type isn't very fun. The reason is, as mentioned by a lot of people, players are taking it to seriously and flaming their teammates for giving the enemy certain champs. I also had a similar experience. Also, this game mode lacks the creativity that some of your other game modes had, best of all of which was URF. I'm not trying to be one of those people that whines about bringing back URF mode, But URF is a great example, obviously because of its success. In URF you did more than change what what picking champs was. Whether there was great effort put into making this mode or not, it definitely feels like none whatsoever. Why? Because their were no game changing mechanics. The only thing this mode has to offer is the enemy team picking your teams champs, most of which you probably have never played, and putting you into a normal game as someone your most likely not going to have fun as. Obviously, making modes where you change the fabric of the game is a lot more difficult. But seriously, only changing the champion selection, Isn't enough for this game mode to be fun. My advice would be to add a couple mechanics that aren't in the vanilla game. Seeing as how its called nemesis draft, It should have something like, "when you slay an enemy champion, they deal increased damage to you for each time you kill them until they kill you or get an assist in killing you." I don't know if people would enjoy that per se but it would be a start to something more fun and unique. One more thing I would add, is that this really isn't lower level friendly, seeing as how they are still learning and working towards getting better, there would be no desire to have the enemy team picking their champ when they are still trying to get better with their main or whatever. At least that's the way I see it.

Sorry for the long post, but its something I had to get off my chest. I hope you guys see it, but who knows what you guys see and don't see. :/

ForeverInBrush2/12/2015, 8:08:30 PM15 votes

Spoilers: it can detect if you just disconnected because your ISP hates you, which is nice.

why must you lie in your release notes? I have been disconnected by a combined riot/verizon issue 3 times and leaverbuster has been dumb as a box of rocks about it.

if you're going to claim it can detect unintentional DCs, at least put some effort into making it actually do that.

Sizmic2/12/2015, 5:12:16 PM13 votes

I played a game...I didnt' like it. It seems like it would be a fun mode like ARAM but what I saw was "why did you give them X you noob" The trolls are real in this game.

RogueStatus722/12/2015, 4:59:11 PM12 votes

all the flamers on this mode i played 1 game and all they did was complain.

Pheisty2/13/2015, 4:28:31 AM12 votes

Alright so here my opinion after playing this game mode: This game mode has a lot of places it can and probably will go wrong. Champion select is whatever, you gave their team 3 tanks and a late game adc and Teemo? Whatever that is on you. You dun messed up, kid. But the real issue arises when it comes to having to deal with this game. You are now in a game that you basically are screwed against and while that may be fun for the other team, you are still in this game for the full duration of a Summoner's Rift game. ~45 minutes of just sitting there trying to FF instead of wanting to finish out the game mode. It causes toxic behavior, it causes negative attitudes, it causes people to leave, it causes literally EVERY SINGLE REPORTABLE OFFENCE THAT RIOT HAS GIVEN US. I have had to report every single one of my teammates in the games I have played because of this game mode. The idea is different and people will still say "Bring back URF" but that's whatever. My issue is that this game mode has functionally created at least 1 team of salty players who don't enjoy playing this game, and to top it all of you've put a reward for suffering through these games for a summoner icon. A reward most people won't even use because they most likely love their Plantie icon or their Spirit Guard Udyr Bear Form or the Battlecast Poro.

TL;DR - This game mode creates toxic environments for teams, and can turn the ~45 minute game un-fun very quickly.

thecheckM82/12/2015, 1:55:42 PM9 votes

I just won a all supp team Soraka Sona Nami Nunu Cassiopeia

we were about to loose and we just saved our nexus 1/3 health left and aced them. We rushed to baron and killed it in a few seconds we went to there base and destroyed 3 of there turrets they all spawned and we started dyeing they were only few left we just got the last hit on the nexus and won.

It was so intense

adc soraka op

WalmartRobinhood2/12/2015, 11:21:15 AM6 votes

Ban list: UrgotUrgot JannaJanna aniviaAnivia nautilusNautilus evelynnEvelynn sonaSona