Which map would you prefer to play the Snowdown Showdown on? The Howling Abyss or The Magma Chamber?

ModPrandine·5/23/2015, 6:23:27 PM·4 votes·595 views

Just what the title says there really.

For those who don't know about the mode itself it's basically a Blind Draft mode where you fight your opponent(s) either in a 1v1 or a 2v2 format where the goal is to get either:

A. 100 CS. B. First Blood (2 kills in the 2v2 format). C. First Tower.

Recalling is allowed of course so you can go back to base to both buy and heal up as well also.

The Magma Chamber map and the Snowdown Showdown mode (not the official name of the mode at the time) were both first shown at All-Stars as the premiere 1v1 and 2v2 map and mode combination. When the mode was first released to the general public, Riot placed the mode on the Howling Abyss map and called it the Snowdown Showdown featured game mode. Because the mode wasn't very popular though, the Magma Chamber map wasn't released to the general public.

So which map would you prefer to play this game mode on, and do you feel that if the game mode had just stuck with the Magma Chamber map to begin with there would the mode have featured more play than it had when it was on the Howling Abyss map instead? I personally feel like it most definitely would have seen more play had the mode been released alongside the Magma Chamber map and had been done there instead of on the Howling Abyss map instead.

Thanks in advance and as always thank you for your time.

4 Comments

His Goatliness5/23/2015, 6:36:04 PM3 votes

When they did the 2v2 gamemode they really fucked it up. Why do you win if you get 2 kills or 70 farm. It made it pointless because everyone would just play cait and heimerdinger. Then they said they were scrapping magma chamber because nobody liked their garbage game mode. I think they just wanted a reason to not have a 1v1/2v2 map.

Duke Anax5/23/2015, 6:32:44 PM2 votes

The maps are decidedly different. For example in Magma Chamber you could actually gank in the 2v2 format.

Though Snowdown Showdown would sound really odd in Magma Chamber (;

How about Broiling Brawl? Frying Fray? Scorching Skirmish?