A little attention to dominion...?

EverTokki·10/25/2015, 7:25:04 PM·5 votes·1,674 views

C'mon riot, this is how much effort you've put into this gamemode. You could remake it, make a ranked for it, or do something to revive the mode(RIP). I used to play a lot of dominion, but the thing that stopped me from doing so were the bots. The soon-to-be-sold bots.

Dominion is a great game mode with shorter game times with an awesome comeback factor. I don't know how many times we've had that comeback with like 25 hp left. I would never want this gamemode to disappear. So riot, please consider doing anything to improve our decent, wonderful gamemode.

4 Comments

BastionKross10/25/2015, 7:52:14 PM2 votes

The trouble is, what are they going to do?

The first thing that pops into my mind is to update the map itself, but that's a lot of work for potentially a low payoff. People could come back to dominion if it got a shiny, new map, but they might not. Or they might show up for a few games and then leave again.

They could invent a few neat items to spice things up, but that only worked for BMB for a few days. item 3829 being the exception, imagine the fun you could have with that in the dominion map. Using gold to upgrade your dominion minions like BMB might be something worth looking into though.

They could fix some champions for the map, like giving Azir a passive or letting Mordekaiser have something like his dragon, but that would only improve gameplay for those specific champions.

I suppose they could "bribe" players with higher IP gains, but that would just mean more bots.

A ranked mode wouldn't be worth it now, considering a draft game takes around ten minutes to find people for as it is. If ranked brought in more players, great. If not, you could end up waiting longer in queue than actually playing a match. Not good.

Perhaps some dominion-only awards like banners or emblems or boarders? Again, bot bait.

At this point, the only thing I can think of is Riot giving dominion some rubs. Just like we have "Watch CLG make this play" and "Learn how SKT jungles" we could have articles like "Watch team X come from behind in this dominion match" or "See how Y changes the meta of dominion". Let dominion be recognized somewhere outside of the bottom of the patch notes. Have Riot treat it as, maybe not equal to SR, but certainly something better than "Oh, and here's a couple changes for dominion, scroll all the way down to find them". If there's gonna be hype for dominion, I think it's going to have to start with Riot giving it some attention. But Riot probably won't give it attention until it gets some hype. Vicious.

SKOBODO10/26/2015, 10:21:38 AM2 votes

There are at least two necessary conditions for getting a good rework: That Riot is interested in doing it, and that Riot has the ability to do it. Is Riot interested in reworking Dominion? I doubt it. They've given Dominion very little attention since the release, and Morello has stated several times that they don't want maps competing with Summoner's Rift. But let's assume they actually were interested in doing it, then there's the second question: Do they have the ability to make a good rework?

I'm leaning towards "no". Riot has made plenty of mistakes in the past with various reworks, new champions and new items, and many of them were for Summoner's Rift. I doubt Riot is paying much attention to what the current top Dominion players are doing, and I'm not sure that they really understand the map all that well themselves. I've seen a lot of rework suggestions on the boards, and I find nearly every single one of them pretty terrible. I'd rather they didn't ruin my favorite game mode, it's in a pretty good state as it is, although there are plenty of issues left still. Many of those can be solved by some itemization changes though.