Official Hide & Seek: After all this time?

Capn Evan·1/20/2016, 6:14:48 PM·9 votes·729 views

I'm not sure if most of you even know this, but deep inside custom games in League, there's a small cult following for a fun gamemode, called Hide & Seek. Basically it's a gamemode that emerged pretty much with Crystal Scar, since it's a lot more fun to hide in than Summoner's Rift.

The gamemode is about 2 seekers chasing down 5 hiders and killing them until they run out of lives, or if the time runs out. The hiders can't kill the chasers, but they are allowed to put down CC abilities. If the seekers get low, they must recall to base, and when they do hiders can't CC them or damage them.

The official rules for this gamemode are enforced only by players, and it's hard to blacklist every individual that comes to troll. Usually the penalty of a fault is losing a life, or extra life if the seeker gets a fault.

What I'm suggesting isn't a total revamp that will make the casual gamemode feel forced. I just hope Riot can help us out creating some rules (most likely just make crystal scar, but with different rules for victory, buying, dying, and damage). Also it doesn't have to be a queue, just an option in custom settings. That way perhaps we can enjoy our fun little game and even get more people to play it.

What could be changed:

  • Seekers are released 30 seconds after the hiders.
  • Hiders can't return to base once they leave, and they die if they stay there for more than 20 seconds after respawning.
  • Hiders can't do damage to seekers at all, but all CC still apply. (Permanent Kayle ult effect on Seekers maybe, just without the particles?)
  • When hiders lose all their lives, they respawn but cannot move or use abilities, so they can still watch the match but not interact with it (stun effect?)
  • When the time runs out (40 minutes with 5 lives, 30 minutes with 3 lives) the hiders gets the victory screen, and if seekers eliminate all hiders, they get the victory screen.
  • Also, perhaps deactivate or just remove all naturally created vision around the map, like from the capture points, or the middle buffs.

8 Comments

jacktjong1/20/2016, 6:31:38 PM1 votes

GIMME DE!!!!!!

I really would like this. I always try to join a Hide & Seek, but nobody wants to seek. So then they all leave, and I either need to seek, or the seekers leave.

LOL Spammer1/21/2016, 3:49:32 AM1 votes

Another game that is incredibly fun is ultimate bravery.

TlT1T1T1T1T1TlT1/21/2016, 4:05:41 AM1 votes

OH!!! So this is what was going on in that custom game I joined. No one spoke any English at all. It was on the Crystal Scar map. The teams were 2v5. I was on the team of 5 and kept killing the people on the team of 2. Most people quit after about 10 minutes....

Now it all makes sense..

OnlyGragasOnlyGG1/21/2016, 11:12:09 AM1 votes

Maybe just go play it in real life [zombie-brand-facepalm]