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Revive an old game mode: Hide and Seek

Psyber·3/8/2019, 6:32:02 AM·41 votes·12,410 views
r/leagueoflegends - Hide and Seek Ruleset and Guide for Summoner's Rift

Some of my favorite league of legends memories come from the custom games that are currently non-existent in the current client. With Riot's new interest in creating new game modes, I was hoping that they'd bring back the most popular custom game mode from back then. Hide and Seek on the Dominion map was incredibly popular for a custom game mode and was born without any intervention from Riot. Not only do I think it would be a huge hit among veterans and new players, but it'd also be very simple to implement. My suggestions are short and straightforward:

  1. The Dominion map is outdated. The Overcharge map is very suited for this game mode and would be my first choice (Dominion would be my second). Summoner's Rift is not suited for this.
  2. The game mode would have to roles to choose from: Hiding and Seeking. As there are 5 hiders and 2 seekers, any lobby with 3 or more players would only be eligible to hide. This is to prevent ghosting in all-chat.
  3. While some champions would be stronger than others, I see no problems if Oracle's Extract is included. Evelynn and shaco as a hiders is my only concern.
  4. The seekers need a distinct advantage. Permanent overcharge for invulnerability (without the spotlights chasing opponents) or a gold lead/damage resistance come to mind. They should definitely be rewarded gold for killing hiders and should be able to back and shop to further their agenda.
  5. Hiders need objectives on the map to promote continuous interaction and to allow them to not be trapped in a game with inactive seekers.
  6. Inactive Hiders need to be killable.

I tried to keep this post as short and sweet as possible. The link is to the current rule set for Hide and Seek, which is played on Summoner's Rift as it is the only 5v5 map available. I'd love to hear any community suggestions in the comments! Please up-vote to support the return of this game mode! :)

12 Comments

The Trent3/8/2019, 7:51:59 AM4 votes

just so you know OP, you need to switch hider and seeker numbers in your post. You said 5 seekers and 2 hiders.

The Trent3/8/2019, 7:49:42 AM2 votes

Hide and seek and base race were amazing... Please up vote and share this guys! Don't forget about king of the hill 1v1 battles (brought back in nexus blitz but as 2v2s and 1 1v1). Sadly these died out because there's no big passive exp map without minions anymore. You could still play base race, but when the hide and seek and king of the hill communities died, so did the base race community. They were mostly the same people.

ChaosReyn3/8/2019, 7:34:37 PM1 votes

The only way to really improve on the old H&S mode would be to make the seekers not get "accidentally" killed by the hiders. It was unfortunate that a lot of the utility items in that era also were heavy on the damage...and most of the cc hiders used to help run away often meant the seekers died after every other attempt to catch someone.

Riot has that power...but will they make the mode? ...Possibly. They did it with ARAM, after all.

Westryx3/8/2019, 9:47:09 PM1 votes

You have my vote for Hide-n-Seek!

Lyricines3/8/2019, 11:43:42 PM1 votes

Hide and Seek was absolutely amazing to play back in the day - it was fun enough that even the Summoner's Rift version was enjoyable. If you make new items for the gamemode, and maybe disable stealth/ban some champions, I think it could be a really fun gamemode.

deltemp9515123/9/2019, 4:34:54 PM1 votes

RIGHT?! Bring back the dominion map for customs!

VBPretend3/8/2019, 7:31:09 AM1 votes

loved this game mode. definiatly was fun with friends and randos alike

MasterDClone3/9/2019, 10:19:03 PM1 votes

Yes i would be so down for dominion map for customs

OoTriloDiveroO3/8/2019, 8:57:06 AM1 votes

Why i have the feel what this game mode will happens after Nocturne rework?