New game mode, slow mode for less committed players

robIIwastaken·11/10/2017, 5:23:30 AM·1 votes·379 views

Leagues fast paced gameplay makes it hard for someone who doesn't or didn't play similar video games for a long time keeping up decently. Someone new or knowledgeable about the game but not wanting to put in as much time it may be underwhelming knowing how unfirm he can perfom, as example in a teamfight just hitting the nearest opponent not being aware of what the other four enemy champions are doing. Even in a 1 v 1 good repositioning takes concentration and effort.

Reducing the overall game speed to a half or a third will loosen the requirement of fast mechanics and make the player comprehend what he's doing in detail and understand what he did afterwards, instead of lacking intense mechanics not having sidestepped while doing damage.

The map summoners rift wouldn't suit for the game mode as it would be too big and moving around would take long. Even twisted treeline would still be too big. A 3 v 3 map with 2 lanes 3 turrets on each side, a nexus turret and one for each lane, maybe not even jungle camps would maybe suit.

There's the discrepancy between fast paced games and other activities growing in importance as one grows older like learning or refined calmly thinking. Reading an educative book is a slow process, which makes it difficult transitioning to fast paced games after learning. Someone who grows older may take distance of league if he played or not get into it knowing the time it would take to be decent at it.

If the gameplay would be less about fast action and ingrown mechanics, but let the player think more it would maybe attract older new and casual players which seek an real time strategically action game.

6 Comments

coliosismitosis11/10/2017, 3:21:45 PM1 votes

This wouldn't have them be learning the game, it'd be teaching them that the community will baby them and the moment they go into the rift, then they will still get smacked silly as they will have been being used to playing at a much slower pace, and not real summoner's rift, as well as playing with other people who don't know how to play, so it would end up being that either way they would have to hit a hard learning curve

Terakali11/10/2017, 11:48:17 PM1 votes

This gamemode would make a lot of champions completely worthless. For instance, Sion Q and R would land only when people are blind, deaf, and stupid. Meanwhile, Katarina and her effectively instant cooldowns and effects would be infinitely more OP in this gamemode since her own combo time would effectively go down by a factor of 2 or 3.

Not possible to balance, especially for the purpose you intend. This would just be flooded with assassin mains.