Riot, have you thought of other rift changes beyond the winter rift?

Ralanr·Jan 4, 2017·26 votes·1,877 views

I'm just curious because someone on Reddit brought up the idea of a sandy/Pool Party Rift around pool party time. The idea sounds rather neat but I imagine that you might have to remake the rift from scratch in order to do that since the new rift is more of a painting.

But did other concepts come to mind when working on the new snow rift? And if so, are they possible within the next year or so (I doubt you'd have time to make a sandy rift after making the new snow rift).

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/sites/default/files/styles/scale_xlarge/public/upload/pool_party_banner.jpg?itok=Y_UR7zq2

15 Comments

GreenLoreJan 4, 20176 votes

Well for quite some time now we pretty much get a new map every year. 2012 got the new Twisted treeline 2013 got the howling abyss 2014 got the new summoners rift 2015 got the butchers bridge 2016 got the winter rift(also some additional poros for the howling abyss)

And honestly,the winter rift looks like the smallest project out of all of these. I mean the other maps were completely new,wheras the winter rift still uses a large amount of the regular summoners rift.

So it wouldn't surprise me if the 2017 map comes out during summer or something like that.

TheHobbitsJan 5, 20171 votes

What the hell is a "Butchers Bridge"?

I'm kidding obviously. It pains me so much knowing that they made it then swept it under the rug and filed it away in some hidden location. WHY NOT KEEP IT IN ROTATION!?

Beyond LegendsJan 5, 20171 votes

Probably the tech isn't really there to allow for rotating maps atm. The just finish updating the client and are still busy hammering out bugs, give them time.

TheHobbitsJan 5, 20171 votes

I hope so. I sure hope so.

mr Boombastic787Jan 5, 20172 votes

Don't forget the new crystalscar in 2015(or was it 2016?)! We don't have normal dominion anymore but the map got updated for Defenently not dominion and ascention. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

XIII VanitasJan 4, 20176 votes

Dat Pool Party Vayne booty tho...

GehcoJan 4, 20171 votes

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Dat Pool Party Vayne booty tho...

who is dat babe drinking from a straw ?

Moonboy65Jan 4, 20171 votes

Leona

Leona is WaifuJan 5, 20173 votes

Get away from her!

TyrekGoldenspearJan 5, 20171 votes

Name checks out lol.

Moonboy65Jan 5, 20171 votes

??? I didn't say she was my waifu, I just told MrHatStick who it was [zombie-brand-facepalm]

my real waifu is Ahri

Leona is WaifuJan 5, 20171 votes

I was responding to him, but clicked reply on you, lol

Blue Moon WolfJan 5, 20171 votes

There are 2 that come to mind that we could potentially get. A pool party map skin and a Lunar Revel map skin. Aside from that, the only Ideas I could think of are versions of maps using skin lines as themes. Something like an Arcade Howling Abyss or a Bioforge vs Steel Legion TT. They could potentially do some reskins for different regions such as an Ionian SR or Piltover ~~the map formerly known as~~ Dominion, but then we might have the same issue we have with the lore where you want a certain place to get one, but might not happen for years.

Papa AndreiJan 5, 20171 votes

Off topic, but just look at that sad Morgana ;-; I just wanna go hug her like she looks so sad ;-; [zombie-nunu-tears]

CrazyBear1987Jan 5, 20171 votes

I don't know how well it would work, considering Color-blind players already struggle with the Snowdown Summoner rift.

But i honestly would love to see a variation, An Ionia skin or a Shurima skin, with jungle camps skins and plants to match.

Technically they would be the same creature and mechanics, just cosmetically different.

Currently the summoners rift is a tropical zone, barely changing in seasons except winter, would be awesome if there was a summer map, an autumn map or shadow isles map, all in the summoners rift.