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Does Dominion need a team courier?

SanKakU·8/10/2014, 4:26:24 PM·2 votes·839 views

In Dota 2 there is an animal courier item which is a consumable that when activated, summons a unit that the entire team can use to deliver their items. In Dominion, sometimes I'm torn between shopping and reviving with my trinket. Also, there are some games where I rarely buy just because I'm too busy with the turrets(otherwise known as capture points). For other game modes, I get that the game doesn't need a courier for the most part, but Dominion is so fast-paced, it bothers me pretty much every single game.

So, should Dominion get a courier? Or is there something that I'm not aware of that will make the feeling fade away? I've played a lot of Dominion games, so I don't think I'm wrong about this. But I'm wondering if anyone else agrees or wants to discuss the idea. I play every game mode in League of Legends, except for sometimes whichever temporary game mode might be gone before I feel like playing it. I absolutely love the new Team Builder for Summoner's Rift by the way. The only mode I play significantly less than the others anymore is Twisted Treeline, and I feel it's mostly because I hate getting a party of 2 on my team in that mode without knowing they are a party or I don't even get the option of whether to play with 2 solo players or a party.

So yes, I play plenty of Dominion and Summoner's Rift, as well as the other modes when I feel like it...and I have been enjoying Summoner's Rift a lot more ever since the Team Builder feature came about. But something is missing in Dominion and I wonder if it's as simple as not having a courier bring me my items while I'm hard at work securing the capture points or turrets, whatever you call them.

Does Dominion need an item delivery unit for each team?

9 Comments

Earl Eulrich8/10/2014, 6:27:20 PM2 votes

no, you just have to time your recalls right. It really is far more interessting gameplay to rotate the teams recalls arcodingly to make surte you always have enough power to defend at hand, than it is to mikro-manage some dumb flying animal. This is pretty much the essence on way LoL is a far better game than Dota...keeping unnecessarry mikro-managment of the board lets you focus on real decissions that make or break a game instead on trying to just overcome the UI.

gubigubi8/10/2014, 5:18:19 PM1 votes

No :L

ploki1228/11/2014, 5:04:40 AM1 votes

The main problem with that idea is that LoL still has no reliable way of micro managing, so there is no reliable way right now of ordering the courrier around. At that point you could choose to add 2 buttons (come to me, go back) and personally micro when/where he will pass, but that ends up offsetting the pros of having it in the first place.