Rotating Game Mode Idea - Despair

Strawberry Bird·1/19/2018, 1:04:14 PM·2 votes·366 views

A 5x5 Blind Pick skirmish on the Howling Abyss (so matches would be quick). If your team wins, nothing changes. If your team loses, your Champion becomes afflicted with Despair and takes a nerf to their passive. They also get some flavor text showing what the character would think if they lost hope, e.g. Nami "I will never find the Moonstone." Winning a game restores hope, but losing continues to deepen the character's despair, and after a certain number of losses (3-5) the Champion becomes unplayable for that mode, with a note saying something like "This Champion has lost all hope" or "This character has no more will to fight." Surrenders would cause more despair than regular losses.

There'd have to be some mechanism to ensure players couldn't be entirely locked out of the mode. Maybe despair could only affect Champions you own, so you could still play free week Champs.

3 Comments

S0kaX1/19/2018, 1:22:59 PM1 votes

I'd rather play a gamemode that doesn't make me sad.

PookeyTheCat1/21/2018, 4:53:57 PM1 votes

The idea itself is absolutely Hilarious. I wish i could see a reaction of a person that has a champion that lost hope xDDD

I don't believe it would turn into a game mode though due it being pessimistic. It also has a balance issue where if you lost due to having inferior team composition... you are at further disadvantage because of nerfs - i mean it wouldn't be fun to play. It would be costly as well - to hire all the voice actors to record additional voice lines.