Dominion Ranked - is long overdue

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I believe they stated in the past that they wouldn't do more than one queue for dominion.

The amount of people playing dominion is so much lower than other game modes that it would split the playerbase and make queue times ridiculous.

That was said a few years ago when Dominion first released. The player base has increased exponentially since then, so maybe its something they'll take another look at.

Riot likes to pull statements out of their asses, and that was a good example. After the Dom playerbase was firmly established, it was about as popular as TT, or more depending on how you look at it (about 15% less active games, but being 5v5 meant a lot more players were queueing for it). Keep in mind that TT had ranked despite this.

Fast forward a bit and TT get a complete overhaul. Broken map and champion imbalances galore. Still has ranked. lol.

Fast forward more, gamebreaking bugs plague Dominion, blind pick OP spammers are destroying draft queue times by hogging high elo positions (why is elo shared between these modes? who the fuck knows), dodge penalties don't work so games never start and the draft population is steadily bleeding players. Lack of any kind of Riot attention to these issues causes the high end players to eventually give up because they can't even start a normal match. At this point Riot has zero excuse other than blatant neglect or, at worse, outright malicious and intentional sabotage.

From my perspective, Dominion didn't suffer from lack of popularity at all. It suffered from popularity. Riot saw it as a threat, and killed it on purpose.

Your timeline is backwards. Riot stated on release that a ranked queue was ready, but they wanted the meta to settle a bit before opening it up. Then a few years later, Riot's argument had changed to "ranked would split the low playerbase."

The counterargument has always been "Waiting for the playerbase to magically increase before doing anything just further shrinks the playerbase."

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they'll sooner add 3v3 solo q (which they should) then add ranked dominion.

Can we steal their ranked team queue? Trade you a normal draft queue for it.

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they should fix the number of players who are botting first

They wouldn't bot in ranked. For Dominion, rename Bronze to Entry, and let it be the real beginners' learning experience.

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While I have not been here the longest. All of what these folks are saying is true. It is a changing rito story every time. How it stands now, it would be abysmal to separate the small player base into two modes. You could argue that ranked will bring more people, but I don't believe that's true. Maybe some SR people looking to get a diamond badge or whatnot like you see in 3's. Those people don't actually play 3's because it is 3's, but rather for the rewards. The queue times are atrocious and are unplayable for some people. In order to bring a lot more people to dominion it needs rito TLC, but as stated before riot rather invest their time into improving/maintaining the summoner's rift experience. Not sure if riot will ever show dominion the attention it deserves. So sad news bears.

You're right. Ranked would do nothing for the mode now. Arguably it was never really ready for it, but as much as TT is/was? Definitely.

For me it's always been about the blatant double standard. If TT is good enough for ranked (a ludicrous statement if there ever was one) then so is Dominion. Ranked TT after the rework was not just a matter of "keeping it on", they actually had to work it into the client and make new art assets for it, etc. They worked to make it available. A broken map gets reworked, is completely imbalanced with bruisers facerolling their way to diamond, but Riot makes damned sure it gets ranked... for some reason. While Dominion has an active tournament scene, better champion representation, and is totally ignored.