[CONCEPT] Featured Game Mode: The Watchers Return
Featured Game Mode: The Watchers Return
Type: Co-op vs AI. 5 vs. Waves
Map: Howling Abyss
Map Modifications: Always start Blue Side, Blue side inhibitor removed, Purple side structures removed, Purple side minions removed. Goal: Survive as many waves as possible.
Gameplay: You and your allies fight The Watchers in waves of varying sizes, units, and strength (all increasing upwards with each new wave). After each completed wave you’re sent back to base to heal and shop, all structures respawn at full health as well. If you die, you cannot respawn until the wave has been cleared. Per death you have a onetime health and temporary AD/AP boost you can give to your allies (so you’re not just idly doing nothing at a grey screen.)
Loss Conditions: Your team gets aced, your nexus is destroyed.
Units (Names not final)
Vel’Kousin: Essentially Vel’Koz (namely because he bares an uncanny resemblance to the Frozen Watchers) but smaller and it doesn’t have his passive or his ultimate. At a higher wave level it gains the ultimate. At an even higher wave level it gains the passive.
Watcher Impaler: A four armed creature that used empowered AA’s to do damage. Arms glow blue they will slow, glow red they will apply grievous wounds, glow yellow they will ensnare with the durations of each cc effect increasing with wave level. At a higher wave level it gains a white glow attack which will stun.
Watcher shield: A tank watcher than will have a weaker sunfire cape by default but can up its damage intensity in bursts. Frequency of bursts and base damage will increase with wave level.
BlackFrost Lissandra: Lissandra would be the final unit of each wave. Rather than the normal lissandra, she would be larger and have a black ice (hehe) skin with awesome new particles and effects. As the waves grow higher in number, she gets more AD, AP, and Tankier.
To show the release of the game mode I would create an awesome cinematic. You have Greyor (the blue side shop keeper cleaning up his store when across the abyss he sees Lissandra burst out of the temple. He sees hundreds of magical glyphs filling the air around her ultimately leading to a large portal opening behind her from which The Watchers begin to emerge.
“Oh no.” Greyor says, he drops the items he was holding (a few potions and a sword) and grabs the Guardian’s Horn and blares it as loud as he can. “THE WATCHERS HAVE RETURNED!” He screams out and then blares the horn again. The scene then cuts to Ashe hearing the horn and gathering her troops to head the Howling Abyss. It then cuts to Sejuani doing the same thing. We go back to Greyor about to blow the horn again but a black ice claw grabs it from him. He looks up to see Lissandra in front of him, and The Watchers back on the other side of the Abyss. With a terrified look on his face and a nervous chuckle he says, “I don’t suppose I could sell you some stuff at a discount….say and armguard maybe?”
Lissandra then smirks and goes to impale him when Ashe’s Enchanted Crystal Arrow and Sejauni’s Glacial Prison intercept it. Lissandra looks over to see the two of them side by side, and behind them all the other champions that hail from the Freiljord. She lets out a confident evil laugh and says, “If it is war that you want, it is a war that you will lose.”
I feel that a wave clearing style game mode is something that will really differ from what Riot has done in the past. While it will have elements things that already exist i.e. the wave units being more akin to champions/jungle creeps, and empowered Lissandra akin to Ascension Xerath. Having a game mode with no defined winning point will also have players and groups of players trying their hardest to work together, and if a group of yolo-queues synergize really well, odds are they’ll try together again.
Obviously there will be rewards for various degrees of success. Like play 5 games of watchers return get “x summoner icon”. Survive 20 waves get “y summoner icon”. Be last to die in a game of Watchers return get “x summoner icon”. And if you’re on a team that does exceptionally well like say Survive 100 waves, everyone on your team gets BlackFrost Lissdandra unlocked. Goals would be determined by Riot, but this is just my thoughts on a game mode I came up with.
If you like the idea, have thoughts or criticism, or anything constructive on it, bump it, comment, and let me know. Let’s get this post to the top of the Boards Home so Riot will see it and maybe…just maybe…. a lower likelihood of Yorick being re-added to free rotation before rework maybe, we’ll see them actually make it.
