Game Mode: Darkness

Ataraxas·Apr 5, 2015·57 votes·3,649 views

So the rules are pretty simple: You lose all vision except your own champion sight. And no wards, trinkets, etc available. It's pretty simple but can be tons of fun. :) Maybe make it the next Halloween game mode? So ya... No turret vision, no nexus vision, not inhib vision, no shared vision, etc. etc. only your champ's vision which is decreased to 700 units from 1200 units. EDIT: Should we keep or remove the minimap? heheheheheh and anything be changed in champion select? You can't see what your teammates and enemies pick? Idk discussion is open to everyone xD

51 Comments

FredgerdApr 6, 201513 votes

I have an improved version. You get no vision outside the fountain and you must carry a supply of torches (20gold ea, max stack 5). Each torch provides a short range of vision (3 minute duration) and if goes out, the grue comes and kills you. If Nocturne ults, everyone dies.

Tis a nice dayApr 6, 20152 votes

AnruiApr 6, 20155 votes

10/10 Zork reference

Occams RaiserApr 7, 20152 votes

That I like

SpiritGearApr 5, 201511 votes

I think that wards an trinkets should at least be kept or else some champions with abilites that give vision would be most used plus wards are the only counter play to some champs like shaco also would Nocture gain vison of champs within his ult range? Would PINgs still work? Just make wards give halved vison

AtaraxasApr 5, 20151 votes

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I think that wards an trinkets should at least be kept or else some champions with abilites that give vision would be most used plus wards are the only counter play to some champs like shaco also would Nocture gain vison of champs within his ult range? Would PINgs still work? Just make wards give halved vison

How bout in the trinket slot you get an item that makes one red rengar ! go above your head for every enemy champion within 1050 units (yes multiple ! for multiple champs) and green !s for allies and it makes a champion become revealed from stealth if he or she is within 350 range and yes you can still use pings lol as for nocturne/tf ults i still have to come up with something xD Maybe yes with less range? idk feel free to add suggestions

CrazedPorcupineApr 6, 20158 votes

For Specific balance of TF and Nocturne:

Nocturne's Ult now removes ALL vision down to 150 range during the duration. Distance he can jump is unchanged. (Nocturne should be OP in this mode since he IS the master of Darkness)

TF's ult only grants vision of affected enemies to himself and not his team and only reveals the area around them in a 150 radius.

YumekazeApr 5, 20158 votes

Sounds hilarious. Just walking, only to find an enemy champion, which scares the hell out of you, giving you no time to react, and then, everybody laughs and dies

test accountApr 6, 20157 votes

Paranoia Game Mode: Players must queue solo. All players are under the effects of a Nocturne ult at all times, with the exception that personally placed wards will still provide vision. Pink wards that would reveal stealthed enemies/traps/etc. will do so for any allied champion who does not own the ward and is in range to normally have vision of those things if they were not stealthed. (Nocturne ult reduces vision further and also negates wards to compensate) When a champion dies, there is no announcement. There are no icons on the side of the screen to indicate ally health, mana, ult cd, etc. There are no pings. All ally and enemy champions have the same color healthbars. Ideally, the enemy team's color. Anivia walls and trundle pillars will, on occasion, randomly pop up in choke points for about 10 seconds before disappearing. A champion being nearby is not a requirement for this. After 15:00 minutes, at a randomly chosen point in time two randomly chosen champions from each team will "defect" to the enemy team upon recall or death. Later in the game at a randomly chosen time this can repeat, though it should be infrequent.

DreddethApr 6, 20156 votes

Let's give brush a random chance to spawn hostile neutral creeps when champions move within warding range.

Also, why only impassable terrain? Why not traps such as Shrooms or Bushwhacks, perhaps balanced out by Bard Shrines and the like?

Let Baron and Dragon roam. Let Jungle camps chase indefinitely. Make the map itself the player's worst enemy.

TussApr 6, 20152 votes

Shrooms and bushwhacks would actually be pretty flavorful since it is the "jungle"

test accountApr 6, 20153 votes

The idea was to cultivate a sense of paranoia and claustrophobia. You don't know where your team is, or how well they're doing. After a certain point, you don't know if that rengar you just saw at the edge of your vision is on your team or not. You don't know if when you take a path through the jungle, if it will actually be open and available to you. It's a halloween event, the idea is to deny players a ton of information while simultaneously changing things up just enough that they can't even trust the map layout they've grown used to. If I thought it were possible for the rift's walls to move and create alternate paths through the jungle while closing off ones that are already available I'd have gone with that instead of anivia walls and trundle pillars.

DreddethApr 6, 20152 votes

This is starting to remind me of the pen and paper game "Paranoia" in a very good way.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Paranoia

test accountApr 7, 20152 votes

Yeah, I love that game.

lCantPauseltMomApr 6, 20155 votes

Maybe wards, turrets, and other important places can ping with a little ! on your minimap when an enemy champion is nearby within a certain distance. This would alert people to any attempts at backdoors and pushed lanes, and still give wards importance in the game.

Thats just my little idea anyway, but I like the overall concept!

Chaotic ReksApr 6, 20154 votes

can someone tell me how this is different from an average bronze game?

Civil DawnApr 6, 20153 votes

This mode would be impossible for anybody to play anything but assassins or tanks. How can you defend against assassins if you can't see them?

LittleBlastApr 6, 20153 votes

Fight fire with fire. If you cant see them they cant see you.

Jeddy017Apr 6, 20153 votes

But by the time you see them,they can see you.And I don't want to be the Ashe who sees Zed .

Civil DawnApr 6, 20152 votes

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Fight fire with fire. If you cant see them they cant see you.

Pretty sure if you walk into a bush and a Katarina/Zed/Anyone is there, and you're playing anyone that isnt either A) Tanky B) An Assassin aswell, you will get bursted down immediately and there's nothing you can do about it unless you are uber fed or you're a lcs bigplayer

FredgerdApr 6, 20153 votes

Wrap a towel around your face. Full protection against all ravenous bugbladder beasts.

Spacesuit SpiffApr 6, 20152 votes

So basically exactly like all the other special gamemodes? Also, bruisers and burst mages could do fine, it's just hard on adcs and some apcs.

Civil DawnApr 6, 20152 votes

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So basically exactly like all the other special gamemodes? Also, bruisers and burst mages could do fine, it's just hard on adcs and some apcs.

I can name over 40 people minimum that would have lots of trouble. The special game modes are supposed to be fun, what's fun about getting 100-0 every time you walk into lane/jungle with no counterplay because you can't buy wards or even see down the lane with minions???

zangagerApr 6, 20153 votes

Nocturne Embrace the darkness!

IceKingChernobogApr 6, 20153 votes

if this happens prepare for these 4 to get permabanned RekSai Nocturne Shaco Evelynn maybe Twitch too

Duke AnaxApr 6, 20152 votes

This game mode already is a permanent Paranoia, so Nocturne's ult would do exactly nothing (beside the jump)

Also Evelynn only has slteath oputside champion sight, so that would be meaningless as well.

Shaco and Twitch would be trouble though.

iamthegoatofwarApr 6, 20152 votes

twitch is fine shaco however is already trouble.

PapaShongo53Apr 6, 20153 votes

Put it on the reduced Crystal Scar like the Ascension mode.

Aria ValkyrieApr 6, 20153 votes

I'd think it'd be fun, but there's a few points i'd make. like for one, instead of flat out no wards, how about item 3340 instead putting out that experimental mandrake ward on the pbe (rather nice if i say so). that way you don't know who is where, and you don't have vision, but you do at least know something is. what about things that give vision, like with summoner 14 ? maybe if you reduce the summoner vision to 700 from 1200, you can make ignite make them visible within 1200, (fire can be seen in the darkness, after all. I'd say pings would be needed, and teamchat. It would make communication very important to succeed, and if you don't communicate, you die. i'd say it'd be blind otherwise, and it'd be fun to make it draft style, where you ban 6 champs in total, then make it a blind pick (kinda like in urf at the moment), but after you pick, you go into the game not knowing who you're facing until you see them for the first time. Kinda keeping the current version of how you don't know the enemy's build until you see them, but with everything, including teammates. All in all, i'd say that it'd give the game a very nice, dark feel to it, but i think that certain champs (namely Nocturne with his ult and champs give/depend on vision to do things like Ashe 's hawkshot, Diana q, Gangplank ult, etc) would need to be looked at to see how they could be modified. like maybe their abilities could give slight vision if used within their live sight range (going back to the ignite giving sight in 1200). Idk, all i know is that it sounds fun as heck

NarasimhaApr 7, 20153 votes

Nocturne becomes a monster and randomly wanders the map. If he finds you, he will do his best to kill you. If you kill him, you get global vision for a short duration. Nocturne's strength is between Dragon and Baron's.

Daedalus871Apr 6, 20152 votes

Wards and trinkets should still exist, and you should be able to teleport to turrets.

HighH1Apr 6, 20152 votes

no nexus vision or inhib and turrets?

I feel like you have never heard of back doors

UPfreelyApr 6, 20152 votes

the teemo shrooms and shaco boxes snicker

Spacesuit SpiffApr 6, 20152 votes

Disable pings, wards, chat, and if there was a way to disable voicechat that would go too. This could be quite the experience.

SolaxoApr 6, 20152 votes

"Darkshadowrath" so edgy

SmknWdlApr 6, 20152 votes

Shyvana should get increased vision when she uses burnout... just sayin

Lyokocoder12Apr 6, 20152 votes

So pretty much a really realistic war scenario. I think that could be fun :)

MattAkhavanApr 6, 20152 votes

how many times is this game mode gonna get front page holy shit.

kinglallakApr 6, 20152 votes

I support this. I also think scoreboard should be removed and that you are forced to queue up solo with no minimap. but you can see anything your own personal wards can see (anything that gets the community to buy more wards, I will support). Also, you can't see what your allies have chosen until the game starts. You pick your champ much like going in solo into team builder and then when queue pops, it just goes straight to the match starting and the loading screen where you finally learn who your teammates have picked.

Dead EchoApr 6, 20152 votes

My only question is how would Nocturne 's ult effect the enemy team?

DeliothApr 7, 20153 votes

Everyone dies from too much paranoia. Shaco just dies from laughter.

Manly man Braum just laughs and kicks back.

AMYS GRAVEApr 6, 20152 votes

i'd be interested, though the version in the OP sounds a touch harsh. maybe you only get vision from your own wards and not those placed by your allies.

toxicpanda36Apr 7, 20152 votes

Teemo gg

uzuis wife 3Apr 7, 20152 votes

doesnt even matter if you remove or keep the minimap, people won't pay attention anyways

WolfBVApr 7, 20152 votes

Only thing I can find wrong. "your turret has been destroyed!" Which one? "Inhibitor destroyed!" Oh god what. game suddenly ends Oh. My. God.

AtaraxasApr 7, 20151 votes

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Only thing I can find wrong. "your turret has been destroyed!" Which one? "Inhibitor destroyed!" Oh god what. game suddenly ends Oh. My. God.

Lol +1 for funny xD

Occams RaiserApr 7, 20152 votes

I get everything except turret vision. I would want to click over a turret to see if it is getting attacked.

phoodApr 7, 20152 votes

the idea of total blind pick (both sides cannot see your pick) is cool, but it gives an overwhelming advantage to people who are together as a group - also this opens up the prospect of having 2 - 5 people playing the same champion on each team

teleport would need to be removed, unless turrets can be seen (do not have to give vision)

as for wards and vision items: leave pink wards but have them only grant invisible detection but no actual vision, keep scrying orb, keep oracle lens

BeatzBoyFTWApr 7, 20152 votes

Ashe : Let me fire this E for vision. Gasp! Where it go?? Nocturne : Whuts this in my butt....?

Shaco : Want to hear a joke? Oh sorry, I lost him in the dark. Lucian : Y u do dis..... Azir : This joke Azir-riously sucks......