FACTIONS — Lore-focused game mode, open to all
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Factions is a community game mode modeled after Riot's original "Ionia versus Noxus" tournament. It centers around faction versus faction matches fought with faction-specific Champion lists. It's definitely not perfectly balanced, and that's kind of the point: the limited rosters give factions different in-game personalities, and encourage each faction's Summoners to work together to develop faction-specific strategies. (I found that playing Factions helped me understand team comps better.) Matches are scored, and the storyline evolves based on how the factions fare in their battles against one another.
Whether you like lore, enjoy strategic theorycrafting, or just want a break from solo queue, come join us and play a few. As an added bonus, you're still a Summoner in the Factions universe.
http://i.imgur.com/pQLp5vh.jpg What's Factions? A quick introduction to the mode. It began about a year ago.
http://i.imgur.com/Dl1nFL0.png http://i.imgur.com/k72ebb6.png http://i.imgur.com/3xLFJ2g.png http://i.imgur.com/6E2wWVM.png Sign Up Sign up here. Signing up doesn't obligate you to participate in any particular matches: you can start or join a match anytime you like. We break it up into story arcs, each lasting a few months and featuring a different set of playable factions fighting over something different. Not every faction is in every arc; this is mostly to make it easier to get matches going. However, don't worry: you can change factions freely when the next arc starts.
http://i.imgur.com/Itm8YAV.jpg Lore Factions isn't just a game mode: it's also a lore initiative that provides a framework for an ongoing, evolving story. Some people say that it's impossible to have a real storyline with the League of Legends around; we like to think that we've provided some evidence to the contrary.
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The Factions chat is the main meeting place within the client.