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Creating a New Rotating Game Mode: Faction Wars

Hi Im Eaton Dix·3/5/2019, 8:14:33 PM·1 votes·1,293 views

Considering that Riot Games is making strides towards creating a much more compelling, vast, and story-driven universe as of recent (seen through the interactive world map, release or short stories and comics with Marvel, and well thought-out cinematic shorts), I think it would be a great addition to the game to have a rotating game mode that pinned two factions together in a 5v5 brawl.

This is open to interpretation and I, by no means, have a perfect vision or final say in what this might look like but here is what I think it could be like:

The premise is that Factions are invited to some grand tournament to settle which nation is superior. The map is either exactly Summoner's Rift or it's a slightly altered one (3 lanes + jungle but formatted less like a square and more like a circle) that resembles a sort of Colosseum. In the Champion Select lobby, both teams' players will vote for which Faction they wish to play (Demacia, Noxus, Ionia, Bligewater, Zaun, etc) and it is chosen via majority rule. If both teams pick the same Faction, a coin toss determines which teams gets it and the other team will have to choose another Faction. Once chosen, it's a blind pick of all the Champions that belong to that Champion. Assuming everyone follows the 5v5 Standard, you can expect a Demacia v. Noxus game to look like: Garen v. Darius (Top), Xin Zhao v. Talon (Jungle), Lux v. Katarina (Mid), Vayne/Sona v. Draven/Morgana (Bot). Once the game starts, the bases will be either completely overhauled to match the Faction or may just have small tidbits like flags and/or different patterns on the towers/tiles to represent the faction. For example, the Bilgewater base might be a complete overhaul to resemble a port of Bilgewater, or may just have Bilgewater flags hung up around the base and have Serpentine structures as towers, whereas Zaun's base might look more mechanical and run-down. I'm thinking the Minions could also be changed for each team to better match the Faction's clothing/weapons. The game would run as a normal Summoner's Rift 5v5 but perhaps there can be more impactful 'Lore Missions' throughout the game. Yknow how if an Ashe and Sejuani are facing each other in a normal 5v5 game there sometimes pops a mini-quest in the corner of the screen? Maybe we can have more of those but have real repercussions such as increased gold for the entire team or extra vision granted or some wacky RNG like the Catapult from URF or the Viktor Ult-Towers from The Teemoing. Also, for the sake of canon (non skin line) story, all the champions would have to be played in their Default skin.

This would obviously be A LOT of work and there would need to be more champions to fill out the Factions with less Champions pools like Mount Targon, Piltover, Bandle City, The Shadow Isles... and it could also be a cool idea for the VS event in 2020 or even 2021.

If you want to add anything or bring up other unique concerns/thoughts about this, let me know! Hopefully the Devs see this. I know it's a big project but I think it would be SO COOL. Seeing that Ionia vs Sion fight in the Awaken MV makes me want this to happen SO BAD!

2 Comments

ChaosReyn3/5/2019, 9:43:52 PM1 votes

For this to work, you're only going to have a few factions that are really viable (the others simply don't have enough members)

  • Demacia
  • Noxus
  • Piltover/Zaun (more to pick from if you combine the twin cities, even if they're normally enemies)
  • Freljord
  • Ionia
  • Shurima/Targon (Targon is technically in Shurima, and again, more to pick if you combine the two)

Bilgewater, the Shadow Isles, and the Void don't really have enough champs to really roll with.

It'd also be better to random the faction. this takes out the waiting part, and gives people just the option of what they want to run. Let them see which faction they're fighting (Ex. I get Demacia, but get to also see you got Freljord...though not your champion picks) and just run it blind pick from there.

Doge20203/5/2019, 10:22:37 PM1 votes

At first I was thinking more along the lines of all or a few factions, so 2 or more factions/teams, in a sort of League version of bed wars from the Minecraft minigame communities. It could be 10 or less players but with an even amount of players per team per faction. So it could be a 1v1 between a noxus champ and a demacia champ, or it could be a 5v5 between the two said factions, or it could be a 2v2v2v2v2 with each team being a different faction.