New Game Mode: Sparring Grounds

FarRockBF·Nov 6, 2014·6 votes·1,044 views

I would pay RITO $100 right now to be able to play this mode. It's simple.

OPTION1:

Custom > Sparring > 1v1

Picks/Bans No bans. Each player picks a champion. Both players AGREE on a starting level and gold number!

Map It's empty. Literally. Just your shop and a long isle like ARAM. No minions. No turrets. No nexus.

Gameplay This is for people who want to "get better at late game Ezreal vs Vayne" or "Improve at Nasus vs Ryze early game". You just buy items and level up based on your earlier choices. When you both have had enough either player can click "Exit". The game immediately ends.

Pro for RITO Extremely easy to code. Like ridiculously easy.

Pro for us We can actually test champ vs champ for only 5 minutes with a friend! No minions, turrets, or early levels if you choose!

OPTION2:

Have a sparring grounds LOCAL on our machine. We don't have to load anything. We can summon ANY champion in the game and have minion waves come at us so we can test champion mechanics.

13 Comments

R3k0n1nGNov 6, 20144 votes

Love it!

SciencePrimeNov 6, 20143 votes

Single lane 1v1 would be the BOMB.

DJ FARROCKBF ON THE ONES AND TWOS!

PsykovaNov 7, 20142 votes

Yes, it would also be helpful if you wanted to test out builds to.

JunkοNov 6, 20141 votes

"Improve at Nasus vs Ryze early game"

With no minions and turrets i have no idea how that would work, Nasus won't be able to get Q stacks, Ryze will just roflstomp him

Extremely easy to code. Like ridiculously easy.

Do you work for a game developing company so you know it is?

FarRockBFNov 6, 20141 votes

"Improve at Nasus vs Ryze early game"

With no minions and turrets i have no idea how that would work, Nasus won't be able to get Q stacks, Ryze will just roflstomp him

Extremely easy to code. Like ridiculously easy.

Do you work for a game developing company so you know it is?

Are you saying you don't want this? Yeah, I guess Nasus would be tricky; perhaps there would be an option to just have minions run from one end to the other and then die. As an OPTION since most champs for trying out, just a set amount of gold is enough. Everything else wastes time when just looking to test things out.

No, I don't work for a gaming company but I can program in over 5 languages and I teach computer science at a city college.

CrimsonRakanNov 6, 20141 votes

I see what your saying I also wouldn't want to walk in to a spar with a half stacked rod of ages or seraphs(probably butchered the spelling) but i also wouldn't want to add an infinite stack cap for nauses ability. He would need a set stack cap of like 180 which is pretty decent for him. Ps I don't main him so I wouldn't know what the average ending stack is.

CrimsonRakanNov 6, 20141 votes

Also I would like to see riot add a expert and master computer difficulty. And add a expert computer setting for this gameplay.

FarRockBFNov 6, 20141 votes

I see what your saying I also wouldn't want to walk in to a spar with a half stacked rod of ages or seraphs(probably butchered the spelling) but i also wouldn't want to add an infinite stack cap for nauses ability. He would need a set stack cap of like 180 which is pretty decent for him. Ps I don't main him so I wouldn't know what the average ending stack is.

I agree with this. Still, having to load a game every time and get a victory just for testing wastes a lot of time. We could even do something cooler:

Have a room LOCALLY where we could summon any champ we have with any items and streams of minions just coming from top; even test ANY champ - I'm sure this would make ppl want to buy more champs being able to actually try them locally. See FarRockBF on YouTube; watch my Battleforge Tutorial 1 video. It was a very nice concept.

Imagine: ZERO wait time to test a champ - COOL!

FarRockBFNov 6, 20141 votes

Why not! Bump!

CrimsonRakanNov 6, 20141 votes

Me and my brother do this all the time! The round always take like 60+ minutes though and by the end I'm always pissed off at the time waisted. Thus is a great idea and I to support this gameplay.

xSyndicateNov 7, 20141 votes

finally we can have something to do when noobs ask for 1v1 cus they suck but say they good

Rustling BushNov 7, 20141 votes

are custom games not good enough for you sir?

The DrBonjigolloNov 7, 2014

Seems cool except for one thing. You say in this mode we would be able to test characters early and late game, but how do we level w/o minions? Other than that I would love this, especially the part where you can test ANY champion for their mechanics. I figure that there won't be any exp or ip given though.