"Hunger Games" mode?

LegendaryEbola·8/18/2015, 9:07:34 PM·4 votes·685 views

Does anyone else think it could (would?) be entertaining to have a Hunger Games-esque mode: a 20-minute battle royale? There would be no teams. 24 champions would participate (instead of 10) and the objective is to have the most kills by the end of 20 minutes. (Maybe 15?)
Kills = points. The player with the most points would win. (Maybe deaths could subtract points?) Riot could develop a special map with a large circle area and an outlying jungle.
You can only buy items in the center of this map. E.G. the cornucopia.
You can "dominate" the cornucopia (similar to the relic things in Twisted Treeline) which would earn additional points and bonuses. (+ stats, +gold) The longer you maintain this area, the greater the bonuses.

Obviously it's asking a lot of Riot, so this is mostly quixotic (as I'm sure developing a map is brutally challenging) but what do you guys think of the idea?

2 Comments

Valderis Vandala8/21/2015, 1:08:06 AM2 votes

Sounds fantastic, probably broken as hell but a lot of fun.

I think a map for this kind of mode would need a lot of boosters scattered around at semi-random location and spawn timers, stuff like health packs and speed boosts, lots of bush, perhaps even moving bush, also extra danger like traps or immortal moving towers, points that can be walked on to give true vision in a large area as long as you stand on them.

Also, no shop in-game, you get a starting amount of gold and exp and that's it, nothing is gained while playing because that would be way to unbalanced.

Champion (re)spawn points are also a problem in this kind of mode, you can't make them camp-able or people will just camp them for free points, you also can't make them safe zones or people will just "stay in base" once they get a good enough lead. We need something more versatile, like choosing any bush to respawn in that you don't have vision of, or a small ring around the map where you can spawn where you choose.

I'm guessing this will be a very assassin and fighter happy map, not a lot of fun for ADCs.

Casajus8/30/2015, 1:28:51 AM1 votes

It would be nice but that would be a hard gamemode to make. There would be so many exploits and I don't know how that would work on any map that exists right now. summoner 31 item 3070