I apologize if you've already seen this. Riot took my post down for posting it on the wrong board.
I would like to see Riot implement map skins. In Dota 2 the different terrains bring a lot of character to the map and break up the monotony of playing on the same map. I've added a link of one of Dota's terrains as an example. What do you guys think?
ModKnightsKemplar4 votesHow long has DotA had map skins?
Swornhoggled4 votesThe desert skin for Dota 2 was released five years ago.
ModKnightsKemplar1 votesThat's pretty neat.
I would love to see League adopt this, but I can speculate on what makes them nervous. They do a lot of art-intensive updates to the game (it's my impression that DotA does fewer of those), and updating multiple maps when they do things like... add Rift herald or update drakes, would take a lot of dev resources. Also, they theme the buffs and things in ways that would make less sense. Like... infernal drake doesn't make sense underwater.
But I won't lie. The map skins are definitely cool.
Swornhoggled1 votesIt would definitely be more difficult for an underwater theme. I was thinking they could start with something like the different regions. Shurima, Noxus, Freyord, Zaun etc.