I'm sad that I've never played on the old TT map

333lom·Jun 30, 2015·8 votes·2,842 views

I think I started playing League around the time the Twisted Treeline got changed, but I never actually played on the old map. I recently discovered the images of the old one, and I have to say, I like the design of the old one more. Even though the colours on the old Summoner's Rift were too saturated and stung eyes, and the new SR looks better with pastel colours, the reverse goes for the Twisted Treeline, but only in my opinion. I don't know. The new one is too dark and greyish-blue to me, it doesn't draw me in to play on it. But when I saw the images of the old one, they looked very interesting with the giant glowing mushrooms dominating the barely alive forest. I like the idea of the last living forest of Zaun - they destroyed every other. And there was Ebonmaw, of course.

The lanes of the map were different, though. Have some of you played on the old TT? How was it then, was it more of a maze than it is today? How was the ganking potential?

http://i.imgur.com/jmxMrUI.jpg

16 Comments

Mylon RequiemJul 1, 20152 votes

I'm still salty to this day of Riot not only not releasing certain teased maps like Magma Chamber, but also straight-up deleting them. The old Twisted Treeline is no exception, and I still miss it. Once upon a time there was a way to play 6v6 (that, as you know, Riot released as an official Featured Gamemode) on the only map, and one of my favorite nostalgic videos of a YouTuber by the name of ColbyCheeze showcases just how fun it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLL9gDMh10s

a rabid cupcakeJul 1, 20152 votes

Ahh yes, the glitched custom games. Sometimes you could get more than 6v6. If I remember correctly, this glitch happened as a result of Riot's preliminary tests of spectator mode.

It was still great. And I still love Hexakill. Always makes me sad when people play it and complain. "ERMERGERD WHY WOULD THEY PUT THIS ON TWISTED TREELINE IT'S SO DUMB!"

Because that's where it's belonged. Always. item 3070

Mylon RequiemJul 6, 20152 votes

The sweet 10v10... good times.

333lomJul 1, 20151 votes

Wow, I laughed a lot while watching this video, those guys really had fun! I can't believe how fun the jungle was! And at least most of the jungle camps were indented, so that you don't attack them by accident. But that Lux.. what in the world...

Mylon RequiemJul 6, 20151 votes

Yeah, that Lux was really fucking high...

ParessJul 1, 20152 votes

Well, best jungle ever (miss 20% AS wolf buff, huge MS Ghast buff, Red buff + Ebonmaw buff which increase your damages by 1% per level).

And the warding.

Oh and the bush jukes, the one hour games, the fact that comebacks were ALWAYS possible thanks to Ebonmaw. Would have loved to see it as a 4v4 map, a 2v2 bot lane, top laner + jungler.

MinardeJul 1, 20151 votes

Well, best jungle ever

Weren't jungle spawns random though? Which made jungling really frustrating at times?

ParessJul 1, 20151 votes

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Weren't jungle spawns random though? Which made jungling really frustrating at times?

But still, the buffs were so coool, the bush jukes, all these precious memories

333lomJul 1, 20151 votes

Wouldn't the random spawns make it even more interesting?

MinardeJul 1, 20151 votes

Depends on what you value. Random spawns make each game more unique at the cost of competitive consistency. Different camps do different amounts of damage, based on what champ you're playing. It feels bad when you fall behind the enemy jungler simply because you rolled ill-suited camps while they rolled great camps. For instance, imagine trying to jungle on SR as an single-target jungler, and every camp is replaced by raptors.

333lomJul 2, 20151 votes

Aha, so that's the case. I thought the camps spawned at random times, but it looks like the type of the camp that spawns was also random! Yeah, that adds a dose of uncertainty and fun, but it certainly wasn't too good for the competitive play.

333lomJul 1, 20151 votes

It would be epic if they returned the old TT map as 4v4! Comebacks are something this game needs more of. And more of Ebonmaw.

Sickly SummonerJul 1, 20152 votes

The dragon steals =(

Puri Puri TaricJul 3, 20151 votes

honestly you cant be sad about something that has been taken from you when it wasnt there in the first place for you.

333lomJul 4, 20151 votes

Well I saw the images. That's the trick - I like how it looked like, and I saw how it looked like!

Puri Puri TaricJul 4, 20151 votes

well it doesnt exist enymore and so it doesnt matter anymore. Btw it was an awsome map sadly imbalanced against tryndamere. Ehe could spin throu the wall and kill the nexus.