Hide and Seek Modern Format

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Rest in Peace, Hide and Seek. Goodbye Crystal Scar. Among all the trolls and toxicity, you were the real sanctuary. I will leave these rules up as a vivid reminder of what WE created together. I will leave these rules up in hopes that one day we can have our game mode back.

Special thanks to: JaxJaxz Frozen Eternity Altonia Olabamba BAN3 OF H3RO BigGRiZmatik av1996 KagerouKiller Bate The Master Luna Heartnet Heart of Fire Kyaxuro Swiflez VelcroCookies Tsuikaya iPokes StitchTheWounds iDontStackAP TheFullguard Ssonicninja Ionian Starchild akatsuki281 xAce

To all who shared the fun with me and my friends; don't be sad. This is not the end of the line. Our fun is not gone, it's changing. Just like the rest of League. I am working on translating this gametype into a playable version on Summoner's Rift We will meet again 02/22/2016

Thank you all. Yours Truly, -Dusk of Oolacile -Soul Surfing -Illusory Wall -Best Nen User NA -Eye of the Mind -Sinister Bell -Lucid Philosophy -Sleeper Shaco -Misaka x Misaka -wun two

Last Edit: wun two (10/02/2016 10:33 p.m. EST)

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Section I - Gametype, Perma-bans

Section II - Game Rules

Section III - Section III.A are hider-specific, Section III.B are seeker-specific

Section IV - Banned / Allowed items

Section V - Exclusions / Exceptions / Variables

Section VI - Granting Lives

Section VII - Lone Wolf Recall

Section VIII - Summary

FAQ

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Map: Crystal Scar Pick Type: Draft

Permanently Banned Champions:

Hiders: - - - - - - - - Seekers: - - - - - - Quinn (added Quinn for ascension due to reduced map size) Both Teams: - - - All champions with any amount of invis are permanantly banned. This INCLUDES Leblanc.

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GENERAL: -5v2 (5 hiders versus 2 seekers) -All hiders have 5 lives each -Neither team can capture turrets -Game is 40 minutes long -Both teams are allowed to acquire the stormshield. Hiders are not allowed to interrupt seekers, but hiders shall capture the stormshield at their own risk -Only 1 slow item per team until the 15 minute mark -Max 2 slow items per team

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SECTION III.

(A) HIDERS ONLY:

i. You can only use abilities that apply crowd control and escape: ---------------Respectively, -------(1) Silence, Blind, Slow, Stun, Root, Snare, Knock-back, Knock-up, Wall (Anivia, Trundle), Fear, Taunt, Grab ------------------ Blink, Jump, Dash, Leap, Clone, Invisibility and Movement Speed buffs. Additionally, shield, heal/suppresses are allowed. -------(2) Vision-granting abilities are not allowed EXCEPT for Quinn's W and Nidalee's W and Ashe's E and Viktor's R -------(3) Buying item(s) such as Rylai's Crystal Scepter does NOT validate the use of abilities that don't already apply crowd control -------(4) You may not use crowd control that requires a combination of abilities (i.e; Brand, Kennen) -----------Exception: Jarvan IV, Syndra

ii. You may not recall at any time -----------Addition: You may not return to base in any way other than through death.

iii. You may not auto attack under any circumstances -------(5) Exception: Udyr's E, Hecarim's E, Twisted Fate's Pick a Card

iv. When you die, you must buy items while dead and immediately leave base upon respawning -------(6) GRACE: You may call grace upon leaving base to grant 30 seconds of invulnerability, but you must state whether or not you are using grace in all chat.

v. There shall be no more than 2 hiders assisting another hider's escape

vi. 5 hiders are allowed in the same bush, the only rule being that they are not allowed to use any crowd control for 3 seconds after being caught.

vii. After a hider has died 5 times, they MUST stay in the area where you can buy items. No exceptions.

viii. If any hider kills a seeker at an illegal time, or if the hider recalls, they lose 1 life.

ix. All rules broken by hiders will be punished based on the host's discretion.

x. At no point shall any hider assist the seekers

xi. If a hider is disconnected or otherwise AFK they will receive a -1 after each 5 minute increment they are gone. If they buy items upon returning, it is an additional -1.

xii. An additional slowing item (e.g, Randuin's, Rylai's Crystal Scepter*) may be purchased at the 15 minute mark ----------*Rylai's is allowed to be purchased, but will not legalize moves that are illegal. (see III.A.i.3)

xiii. Hiders MUST leave base by 2 minutes ----------At the beginning of the game, Hiders may choose to wait in base until 3 minutes at the risk of being killed upon leaving.

xiv. Hiders may not interrupt a seeker's recall -------(7) If a seeker has been recalling for more than 2 seconds and a hider interrupts the recall, it is a -1

xv. If a hider leaves the base with an illegal item, it is -1

xvi. Hiders may have only 1 of any item (no duplicate items)

xvii. A hider that is out may not use any abilities or any item actives.

(B) SEEKERS ONLY:

i. Seekers must remain in their own base until the 2 minute mark

ii. Seekers may recall whenever they wish

iii. If any seeker is under 300 hp at any time, they must immediately recall ------(1) If any seeker under 300 hp does not begin recalling after a grace period of 5 seconds, then the hiders may kill the seeker

iv. Seekers may not follow enemy any enemy hider(s) out of base after respawning

v. Seekers may not buy Oracle's Elixir until 15 minutes into the game.

vi. Only one seeker may have an Oracle's Elixir -------(1) At the 34 minute mark, as long as there is a Twitch still in play, both seekers may have oracles.

vii. Seekers may interrupt their own recalls

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SECTION IV.

(A) BANNED ITEMS (HIDERS)

• Abyssal Scepter

• Amplifying Tome*

• Archangel's Staff

• Atma's Impaler

• Bami's Cinder

• Banner of Command

• Berserker's Greaves

• Black Cleaver

• Blasting Wand

• Brawler's Gloves*

• Caulfield's Warhammer

• Chain Vest*

• Cloak of Agility

• Cloth Armor*

• Crystalline Bracer

• Death's Dance

• Doran's Shield

• Elixir of Sorcery

• Elixir of Wrath

• Entropy

• Executioner's Calling

• Frostfang

• Frozen Heart

• Frozen Mallet

• Giant's Belt*

• Giant Slayer

• Glacial Shroud

• Guardian Angel

• Guinsoo's Rageblade

• Haunting Guise

• Hextech Gunblade

• Hextech Revolver

• Hextech Sweeper

• Iceborn Gauntlet

• Jaurim's Fist

• Kircheis Shard

• Last Whisper

• Liandry's Torment

• Lich Bane

• Long Sword*

• Lord Dominik's Regards

• Lord Van Damm's Pillager

• Luden's Echo

• Manamune

• Moonflair Spellblade

• Morellonomicon

• Mortal Reminder

• Muramana

• Nashor's Tooth

• Negatron Cloak

• Nomad's Medallion

• Null Magic Mantle*

• Odyn's Veil

• Oracle's Extract

• Phage

• Pickaxe*

• Prospector's Blade

• Prospector's Ring

• Ravenous Hydra

• Relic Shield

• Rod of Ages

• Ruby Crystal

• Runaan's Hurricane

• Sanguine Blade

• Seraph's Embrace

• Serrated Dirk

• Sorcerer's Shoes

• Spirit Visage

• Statikk Shiv

• Sterak's Gage

• Sunfire Cape

• Sword of the Divine

• Targon's Brace

• The Lightbringer

• Thornmail

• Tiamat

• Titanic Hydra

• Trinity Force

• Vampiric Scepter

• Void Staff

• Warden's Mail

• Wicked Hatchet

• Will of the Ancients

• Wit's End

• Wooglet's Witchcap

• Zeke's Harbinger

(B) ALLOWED ITEMS (HIDERS)

• All boots except Berserker's Greaves and Sorcerer's Shoes

• All boots enchantments

• Aether Wisp

• Ancient Coin

• Ardent Censer

• Blade of the Ruined King

• Corrupting Potion

• Dead Man's Plate

• Dirvish Blade

• Elixir of Iron

• Fiendish Codex

• Forbidden Idol

• Frost Queen's Claim

• Kindlegem

• Locket of the Iron Solari

• Mikael's Crucible

• Phantom Dancer

• Randuin's Omen

• Quick Silver Sash

• Rapid Firecannon

• Refillable Potion

• Righteous Glory

• Spectre's Cowl

• Spellthief's Edge

• Stinger

• Talisman of Ascension

• Tear of the Goddess

• Youmuu's Ghostblade

• Zeal

(C) BANNED ITEMS (SEEKERS)

• The Lightbringer

• Hextech Sweeper

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SECTION V.

(A) Teemo variable: i. Hider: No more than 3 mushrooms down at one time ii. Seeker: No more than 3 mushrooms down at one time

(B) Nidalee Variable: i. Hider: No more than 3 traps down at one time ii. Seeker: No limit

(C) Runes exclusion: -(Hiders Only) Try your best to not blatantly take damage/tank runes (i.e, starting game with 30 ap) -Hard to mediate this because people may not have alternative runes, but honor system will work.

(D) Shaco Variable: -(Hider) Maximum of one box down at any given time

(E) Shen Variable: -(Hiders only) Shen may not ult to anyone who is in base

(F) Mao'Kai Variable -(Hiders only) Mao'kai may not place any saplings (E) in such a way that it would cause a seeker to be hit by more than one without fully utilizing the slow. (In other words, you must flawlessy chain the slow)

(G) Lee Sin Variable: -(Hiders Only) You may use your Q for gapclose, but not to facecheck bushes.

(H) Nunu Variable: -(Hiders Only) You may not use your ult

(I) Displacement Exclusion: -(Hiders Only) You may not use any abilities that would cause the seekers to be hit by the fountain turret.

(J) Orianna Variable: -(Hiders Only) Orianna may not use her Q. You must position your ball solely with your W and your E. --------Why? - I banned Orianna's Q because the ability to spam it for damage was too difficult to control (especially in combination with her W and E). It's banned so that 1.) she couldn't dish out dps as easily and 2.) to make her a higher skill-cap champion in this gamemode

K) Viktor Variable: -(Hider) You may only use your ultimate if you have 0 AP (besides Hexcore, since it's unavoidable).

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Granting Lives

• Hider's are allowed to give lives to one another. However, only the first life given costs 1 life. Every following life you give will cost 2. ---------- *For example: when you give a life for the first time, it won't cost anything in addition to the life itself (if you had 5 lives, you are now down to 4). However, the next life will cost the life itself, plus 1 additional life (if you were at 4 you are now down to 2). -So i can only give 3 lives maximum? ---------- Yes. Unless you gain enough lives to give another.

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Lone Wolf Recall

• Hiders - The moment there is only one hider still alive, so long as that hider has zero deaths they are allowed to recall and buy items only once. They may choose to call grace.

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Section VIII

Summary of the ruleset:

This does not include every change, just the basics you may encounter most/all games.

-Additional permabans -Hiders may not buy any items that don't help them run away (for example: blasting wand, giants belt, ruby crystal, long sword) -Seekers are allowed to interrupt their own recalls -Hiders can't wait for gold after respawning, they must immediately leave base. -Hiders must call grace in order to receive it

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FAQ

Why do you ban tanky items? -I feel like the point of Hide and Seek is to be punished for being caught. The idea of buying tanky items defeats that purpose because it allows you to make a lot more mistakes and get away with it.

Why do you ban Lich Bane and (similar item) when they grant movement speed? -Lich Bane gives too much damage. Getting "movement" items like Lich Bane and Luden's Echo are too easily abused.

Why do you permaban so many champions? -I feel like eliminating these few allows for a much wider-range of viable champions. I like seeing people pick unpopular champions and make them work. Due to the way this game works, that isn't always possible because some mechanics simply counter others, that's how they are made. Champions are balanced for Summoners Rift, not Hide and Seek.

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