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League of Legends: Dominion Launches Today
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Riot Games has sent word that the Dominion expansion for League of Legends will officially launch today, Monday, September 26th.
Dominion brings several key features to the game including "capture and hold" game play, 20-minute game play sessions, and a new map called the Crystal Scar. Dominion is free to all players.
Find out more about League of Legends: Dominion. Leave us your impressions of the new features in Dominion in the comments.
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Awesome!
While I love classic sometimes I don't have fourty plus minutes to spend.
Dominion is a nice quick 15-25 minute map. Get in, get out.
goodtimes.
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Worth checking the game out again if you did not like the classic mode. This is much different and better in many aspects.
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I've played it a couple more times and it grows on you. Its completely different though and certain heroes are too effective in it. Being a 3v3 player mainly I like the option of an even shorter match mode.
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Good mod, Dominion has a diferent "meta". It is a great short game.
Gameplay is awesome! It is VERY different than standard, but still fully enjoyable.
I know other similar games have attempt to move away from the "DOTA" map layout and have all failed. This attempt has been great so far!
Not only is the map different, the gameplay is really fun. If you got bored last hitting creeps for 20 min before the real action started (in some games anyway) you'll never see that here!
Woot! Can't wait to get home!
Although my fiancee may need to grab me for more premier shows....hmmmm....I'll have to think of a clever way to get some dominion games in. 15-25 mins sounds exciting btw!
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i think dominion works better than lets say a simillar control mode in bloodline champions.
Its terrible. You just play the most OP carries and win because of the amount of gold you get.
I don't like it at all. It's mostly running and nothing else. Team fights are a waste of time. 1 vs 1 is more excioting in standard mode for me. Overall some will like it propably I will stay away. If I have 20 min to play I prefer to play co-op in standard mode tbh.
You get the same amount so what's stopping you from building an awesome item to start with yourself? Also OP carry does not equal win if you know their weaknesses or just plain gank them, poppy can be another matter all together however.
What you said doesn't make much sense....
Best game mode ever
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Mode is very fun to play, but I agree with demonic. You will never see players play support classes for example soraka.
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I've seen sorakas and sona's dominate pretty hard in Dominion, precisely because they can now easily accumulate gold as well. In Summoner's Rift, there's a huge gold gap between carries and tanks/supports, which is what makes carries so powerful. In dominion, everyone receives much more equal amounts of gold, lessening that gap.
I'm not saying all champions are balanced in Dominion, because they're not, but not for the reason demonica stated, and it's not the traditional "carries" who are super powerful. Bruisers and champions with high sustainability and mobility seem to be the best currently.
This game mode is sooooo much fun! @_@ ; Fast paced and no worrying about farming ftw!
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Wrong, and in that example x2 wrong. She is an amazing AOE pusher that can easily interrupt tower captures, silence people, and heal! I've seen her hold off many people!
But generally you've got to play really heavy hitting high HP classes to survive this mode.
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I enjoys it.
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It looks neat but not sure if or when I'll get around to trying it. I play Sona main and it looks like a map that is good if you want to die a whole lot as Sona ;P
Its a lot of fun and a different dynamic than the classic game.
This just came out so the meta-game hasn't settled down yet. I doubt it will anytime soon, even SR still has stuff to sort out.
At the moment, range AD carries are good. Tanky dps like Udyr, Heim, Jax are also good as well.
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Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
Anyone have any thoughts from having played the format for a few days?
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4 champs are insanely good if you want to carry your team.
Heima-something can defend a turret all by himself for 30 secs or more.
This map was built for Rammus with his 'tanky dps' + mobility
Since Jax and Akali scales insanely well, around 12-13 mins in, the two will just go and wreck the other teams.
Udyr, Pantheon, Ashe are all good char as well but not as strong as the 4 mentioned above.
While you do get fights constantly, it isn't a team 5v5 fight. Mostly it is 2v2 or 3v3.
This means lane chars like Sona or Annie is fairly weak.
Mobility and defense is king right now but that could due to the meta-game not being as mature enough.
Super super fun though!
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
To add to this:
It's nice being done ~20 minutes with a match, and if you communicate well with your team moving from the 3v3 battle to help flank a stalemate 2v2 by moving across the middle of the map is NICE! It just feels right.
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