League of Legends Had Fun Modes But They're Gone Forever...

[@Exil22]

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[@_Dearex_]

Maybe NordVPN can sponsor a round of Ascent or something 😅

[@medicinevender]

I recogniced that u used Chilling smite footage for the URF part, i checked the description and i have to say great job on credeting (u got my sub and like with that) (sry 4 my bad eng) ^^

[@skelet8337]

Exil you forgot one mode Where you were allowed to pick the enemy teams champion it was the most fun I had in league where everyone was doing troll comps and builds. I think was around 2013-2014 and was released just twice for like 1 week each time

[@bertaboy9078]

Did Nemesis Draft get forgotten again 😔

[@sspectre8217]

Something cool that riot could do to have many custom modes available is allowing the community to make our own custom gamemodes with reused assets. Like you could rebalance champions, minions, monsters items, put walls and custom buffs. They could feature a custom game mode every patch that would be preinstalled with that patch but with the ability to install others if you want to. If a mode became very popular it’s devs and riot could colab to make some custom assets for it that would in turn be available for other modes. It’s basically the Bethesda approach since you depend on players/modders to fix/compensate an aspect of the game, but it would be really cool tbh.

[@Vandiril]

Been saying this for years, we had much more diversity years ago. In my Twisted Treeline video years back I said they will remove it soon and many didn't believe it, but sadly it is currently gone. League is just boring in this aspect and lack of game modes is bizarre to me - you could have a new game mode every week - even on Summoner's Rift, by simply modifying certain aspects of the game a bit (add more players, remove jungle, change map shape, tighten champion/item pool etc). They just want people to grind rankeds, while ignoring the casual players in the process. To me in particular that's a big no and it's really sad.

[@arthuralmeidabarboza]

true af

[@georgegkoumas5026]

Nowadays LoL's average newbie player has already bought a lvl 30 account, has downloaded applications like Blitz Op.gg and stuff (sry if I am wrong I don't use those) to apply their runes, tell them their enemies elo, counterpicks ,winrates etc. and plays only ranked solo/duo, loses because he refuses to follow his teammates' strategy and last but not least complains about everything, from game design to his team being "bad" thus renewing the Leagues famous toxic community... Riot simply agrees with that because the more "tryhards" their playerbase is, the more they watch professional games in order to have something to talk about to show their "skill" (for example even if they don't understand who Jankos is they will still mention him to sound cool or good or idk what they are thinking) and the more views and popularity riot's competitive game gains which bring more trash toxic people called "players" into the game. I am not just saying that I am pretty much comparing the people I personally know who started the game years ago with those who started it recently and I hate the fact that this might be close to the truth.

[@ThisIsABadIdeaSrsly]

It's like they're so busy expanding their universe with media and games that they're actually neglecting the main game and community

[@krila3978]

I like how they also haven't even updated runes/masteries for like what, 6 years? And they used to do it every season.

[@minimyser9553]

I used to literally only play twisted back in 2018 as a new player i had 500 games on it with 30 on norms I quit for three months because I was pissed. please bring it back riot

[@bungercolumbus]

Let's not forget how the map didn't change for christmas and summer this year

[@pabloporrero1932]

The excuse was that new rift would be harder to adapt... and that really sounds like a lazyness excuse. The other one was "color changes may affect visual clarity and therefore balance problems with some skins"-Same company that bans iBlitz from competitive yet lets it be played in ranked instead of just sitting down and adjust 2 numbers with the model editor. Its amazing how riot creates so good things yet is neglecting in basics that smaller companies have solved easily.

[@vojtazem6634]

@@pabloporrero1932 The funniest thing about that is that some people actually made a working custom Winter map, that was adapted for the Alcoves as well, so it was just a laziness excuse.

[@Jaws1375]

This is the thing that's upset me most the last few years. I love the snow map and play more during those months just because of it, but they can't be bothered to do them anymore. "Dragon elemental changes make it too hard"isn't really an excuse imo.

[@zacman212]

You're lucky to be playing on a region that actually had seasonal changes. They literally don't change the map ever for the smaller regions *cries in OCE*

[@XZagatoX]

@@zacman212 They definitely did in Snowdown 2k16, 2k17 and 2k18 as far as I can remember

[@chloez8504]

Who remembers playing hide and seek in dominion? Oh the good ol days

[@josephdiaz2182]

my oh my, i love it even though the griefing was abunant

[@chloez8504]

@@josephdiaz2182 yeahhh usually didn’t have rule breakers but it happened for sure

[@chloez8504]

@Zodiac I rarely saw teemo, mostly saw a tonnn of Nidalees and Leblancs

[@chloez8504]

Also morganas

[@VocalMabiMaple]

I sunk hours into hide'n'seek, then when dominion was cut I was told I wasn't eligible for their dominion player reward >:(

[@ponglenis9273]

Man, Bilgewater event around the gangplank rework was the best thing ever to happen. The map, butchers bridge, the unique announcers changing during the event from gangplank to miss fortune, and back to gangplank. The removal of gangplank from the game because he was „dead“ the reintroduction with his final visual and audio update, the overall atmosphere from the bilgewater ingame music.. I miss it

[@MayDawn519]

Odyssey was honestly the most fun I've ever had playing League. No one was toxic, everyone just wanted to work together for the challenges and have fun.

[@J1M95]

Star guardian event was insane fun too

[@jozaiahrosado9949]

I dont know about the no one was toxic part. But everything else, hell yeah.

[@csenky]

I've stopped financially support Riot about 6-7 seasons ago, but to be honest, I'd grab my wallet for a permanent Odyssey mode.

[@movedxylophone]

@@jozaiahrosado9949 The only toxic part was the missions that you had to do where all 5 players had to pick a specific comp or run 2 only augments, there was always that one person that refused to do it. other then that I saw pretty much 0 toxicity.

[@cillafawn281]

Truly, I haven't enjoyed PvP in League for quite some time now with how unbalanced everything is and how horrible people can be. I just want the Star Guardian or Odyssey gamemodes back, or maybe even an all-new PvE gamemode :c

[@TheTonodu75]

The PVE gamemods were the most fun I ever had on league, I always played them with my friends for as long as they were up and I've been waiting for their return for over 2 years. I'm not giving up.

[@velosong3396]

Too bad if im not mistaken they officially said they will officially cut off pve mode from league. I think reason for that is they want to or developing seperate game(s) on that type of gameplay with Runetera lore of league.

[@TheTonodu75]

@@velosong3396 tbh if their upcoming games are worth it I don't mind, the problem is that while they are developing the games we have nothing

[@fitmotheyap]

@@velosong3396 I want it on league..

[@kaydenvortex1984]

They're never coming back. I'm calling it already.

[@karolgraus306]

Same, my friend. The PvE modes were the best thing about the League, especially when the League went south with the "if everything is broken, it is balanced" policy they went for. But I still have hope, since quite a long time ago they announced they are working on an action RPG game, which from what I know Is supposed to be similar in gameplay as the PvE modes were, hopefully even better than that, since it is supposed to be a standalone game.

[@EMPCraft]

Exil: not sure how Elise, Pantheon or Camille are assassins. Every ADC main ever: Let me tell ya

[@thomasalberto613]

the kayle being 100 to 0 dove by the Renek + Elise

[@kwinnagares3715]

Stupid question : As Quinn is an Ranged Assassin champion , does it mean that she can be on the 2 gamemodes?

[@shadows_star]

Elise and Pantheon are definitely assassins.

[@thomasway0320]

ADC? Camille is also Bruiser’s god damn Vietnam flashback, girl kicks half my health to the void in *TRUE DAMAGE* .

[@thomasalberto613]

@@thomasway0320 cho ult every 4 s XD

[@Kruukk]

I miss dominion. I played it regularly. It was a great mode for a guaranteed short match below 20 minutes.

[@bramt2000]

with Halloween a lot of people were begging for the return of doombots, Riot: "Naw fam we are working on the next lux skin"

[@keithgraham8588]

This alone should tell you what Riots MO is. Money, not fun.

[@sandortojzan5409]

Cries in spamming 1 vs 5 intermediates since 3 years, waiting for my time to shine, only for it to never come :( (Seriously, that thing is extremely fun, especially with certain champions and runes. Definitely played it more than TFT, that's for sure)

[@HeroADI1]

I never understood what is the fun with being killed by 5 op bots... In my opinion, riot should allow THE PLAYERS use all that different and imba skills, not just idiotic bots

[@xPewz]

@@HeroADI1 you beat them, thats the fun 🤷‍♂️ slacking Will get you rekt 😅

[@HeroADI1]

@@xPewz well, taste is taste i guess... I would prefere use that Op abiltiies myself :p

[@borosdavidattila]

The thing is, TFT is not a gamemode, It is a completely different game.

[@BrandNewByxor]

Yeah true, I have zero interest in learning TFT

[@Waldo13453]

Yeah I don’t know where this got lost in translation for riot, reusing assets is not the same game it’s laziness 😂 Here’s the irony too, you got riot who says tft is a gamemode when it’s a completely different game and then you have the developers of cod who make the same game every year just tweaked a bit and you spend 60 bucks to play it because it’s a new game

[@Pipipman2]

Yeah called dota auto chess lmao

[@senseifizz4513]

@@Pipipman2 yep, magic the gathering too. you could even say they made a mobile game to copy a mobile game that copied them too.

[@natefoster9703]

@@BrandNewByxor i love tft, that and LOR got my foot in the door when it came to actual league

[@projectrk1347]

Can we have a moment of silence for Bilge Water ARAM that he forgot to mention. Best ARAM by far

[@TiaanTK]

As well as Nemesis draft. One of the most fun I had playing with my friends. Giving the enemy the most mechanically challenging champs at the time and for them to get wrecked by our ADC janna, soraka and/or taric

[@FanOfMinatozakiSana]

@@TiaanTK i forgot how nemesis draft works.

[@sports94freak]

Thats exactly what I was thinking. The Bench that was added to ARAM came from that mode alone, and that has made the ARAN so much more healthy. Instead of spamming NOOOO I WANTED THAT WHY RETOLL BEFORE ASKING TEAM???

[@zacman212]

@@FanOfMinatozakiSana you pick for the enemy team instead of for yourself. There's the option to trade amongst your team as well after all picks are done, but aside from that it's basic summoners rift.

[@deuxiemeelthnerd2969]

I still wish they do something like this for other regions. Shurima map please

[@mateusisraelsilva5934]

I remember grinding odyssey and achieving the last missions was super difficult, and it made it a lot of fun, in the end of the event I was just going into random lobbies trying to help people with their missions, I was really excited for what the next one would be... My favorite PvP mode was by far the thresh one, I think I spammed it the whole event, if they just made some basic ranking like of the modes in TFT, I think it would reach an even bigger player base, and keep a lot more people, because even if you are playing just for fun, there’s that number there that makes you feel like there can be progress.

[@jako3015]

I loved the darkstar event. And it doesnt even have the excuse of additional maintenance. There are no items or stats to tweak, no winrate to consider, everyone plays the same champ. If it was permanent the playerbase would probably be reduced pretty fast, but once a month or at least every other month shouldnt be a problem.

[@ponglenis9273]

Oh my god odyssey, with kayn as final boss. Awesome.

[@Mulletskin]

This! After I finished all my odyssey quests, I used to basically solo the game mode with Yasuo for people who hadn't done it yet.

[@ACbino]

I LOVED odyssey event it was just great!

[@missingno303]

i was so proud after i finaly got the odisey ziggs with event frame

[@VarsVerum]

My word another 45 minute video. We need a Netflix series at this rate xD

[@Exil22]

"Why league of legends is stinky - Official riot games documentary: Producer - Exil"

[@jooie8279]

:D

[@VarsVerum]

@@Exil22 Why NO ONE Plays: League of Legends xD

[@tatzecom]

@@VarsVerum Vars: has a video premiering at 6 Also vars: "zoo wee mama, another 45 Minutes documentary about the League of the Legends? Sign me up!" edit to add: vars commented this 10 minutes before his video premieres. Thats also important to know :D

[@frantisektichy7830]

@@Exil22 hi i for example loved both Doom bots and Odisey, but Asencion was greath but allsou completly out of game :/

[@joshuagentile]

The most fun I've ever had in league was back when the odyssey event happened. I really wish they would put some time into actually making more unique events rather than doing everything nobody asks for.

[@phoenixflamegames1]

Just bring it back once come on😭

[@artlover4444]

This and any other PvE mode, i miss star guardian and even the project one even tho it was pvp, people were so fascinated in playing project they had no time to be toxic

[@SendGanudes]

There was nothing I loved more than Odyssey

[@akkari7246]

Same man, though there were other events that were kinda on the same level for me like the PROJECT one or the dark star, hell even nexus siege as long as they nerfed the pushing champs

[@SpyroX.I]

The augments allowing different style of playing made it the most fun ever. I still remember dashing and kiling everything with one hit as Ap yasuo and using Jinx chompers every 2 seconds shreadding everything around

[@tehawsumninja]

Never forget playing Hide and Seek on Crystal Scar map. RIP the good ol days

[@DamianSzajnowski]

Boomah! Helicoptah!

[@Tacospaceman]

Damn bro. Me too.

[@doctorlevos]

I wilo never forget the good 'ole times and I also still retain those shaco skills.

[@tjelisara4122]

was waiting to see if he mentioned it. this is the only reason why i miss crystal scar

[@Tidom19]

dude you just brought back such a awesome memory Feelsbad

[@movementjesus]

honestly, the PvE modes were the most fun I had with an alternative gamemode because its a completely different experience compared to the other ones, especially odyssey. You had 5 characters to choose from which you were able to customise to a very high degree which made it a lot of fun, tho after you had done all the challenges and completed all the difficulties it quickly became boring, but for the time it lasted it was was hands down the most fun i had

[@Raezra]

I will never, ever, give up on Ascension. One day it will come back and I refuse to believe otherwise.

[@gamerpl4995]

Shurima event when.

[@Insanityin]

my favorite

[@XZagatoX]

Preach, brother

[@jacklepie1133]

Cheers, I’ll hope for odyssey event as well

[@sexylazercatwizard]

Nah man, I wanted it to come back for so long but I bet they don't even have the dominion map coded into the game anymore

[@WeIrDGuY19941]

Before the Hexakill was in the game, if you kill 5 people, then one of them used the Summoner spell: revive, and you kill them, making it 6 kills, it was called: Legendary kill. I was there Gandalf.

[@RaevenRenard]

Omg yeah just remembered revive was a thing! Revive + ghost was hella fun

[@inthebasement2989]

@@RaevenRenard for feeding. After only knowing about the game for one day

[@acesu5785]

They bring that back on wildrift. You can legendary kill again in wildrift l

[@wilhammartins9898]

@@acesu5785 but it lost the sense. It was a pc lol thing... wild rift is the new spoiled child.

[@WeIrDGuY19941]

@@acesu5785 It would probably be called Hexakill tho. not legendary kill.

[@azua4489]

Horror mode where you're perma nocturne ulted and the other team has to find and kill you, and you win by performing tasks or capturing stuff.

[@waffleseater]

that would be very cool

[@lucasdantasmolinalucas4601]

Or even better, you are being hunted by a buffed kha zix ressembling predator (with nocturne ult allthe time), and you all need to be together, for surviving against him, untill reinforcements arrive (could be beefy super minions) that lights the way and nerf kha, smtimes one event will happen when the map shines a bit and you can see everything, but this time the boss will rush towards the closest player, so you all need to run and save him, or use him as a bait, but kha gets Stronger at each kill he gets, hope you got the scope for it.

[@chrisedwards3640]

amogus

[@sameerjain901]

Now that;s something interesting.

[@crusadr_4966]

Among us league of legends

[@kamikazezebra]

I think the one I miss most is Twisted Treeline. I wish they'd worked more to develop that into a popular game mode. They did that huge update around, I think Season 3 or 4, where they added the spider etc, but then didn't do much with it after that. It was fun for customs with friends and if you wanted to play something a little less serious than SR, whilst still keeping some of the basic mechanics of a normal game.

[@user-zj4rg9kn1c]

i believe part of that update also removed the top jungle? i used to mundo top/jungle in TT, and it was bonkers. getting wave clear and creep from top and mid jungle put me LEVELS ahead of the other team and it was bad.

[@univerchizelz6715]

I miss the circle one that you have to get objectives I was kinda a shaco main at that time

[@Macejkos]

Old TT was great. The new version without top jungle was just not it.

[@dirtylinny3279]

its hard to say 3v3 was any good considering you literally pick jax every game and instawin like high level high mmr 3v3 games would boil down to whoever picks jax the fastest (or kayn if hes banned) i also dont trust tencent/riot to balance it properly considering how bad arena went

[@matthewford2532]

​@@user-zj4rg9kn1c I used this same strategy on Shyvana. I was like 90% winrare on TT. Could have just balanced it instead of removing it...

[@milanesadearsenico]

The fact Nexus Blitz was supposed to be permanent but Riot did 0 promotion and the play rates were low so it's now just for events...

[@Exil22]

The next video is going to specifically cover this game mode. That's why I left it out. I want to go over both iterations

[@milanesadearsenico]

@@Exil22 it's my fav game mode, it's so sad because people still don't even know what it is or how to play it, and just the last time it got a decent map. Riot complains about the game modes but they barely try to fix them, NB was a bit lucky at least...

[@joshuaford3760]

I was just about to ask about this, cuz I love Nexus Blitz so much its probably my second fav cuz URF is just too fun, But apparently not a lot of people didnt really enjoy it, I remember when it first came out most of my friends hated it and I was like the only one that enjoyed it

[@Siegram999]

@@joshuaford3760 its cause it has rng that picks its winners dont know why the events cant all just be in the center

[@LuizOMenudo]

@@Siegram999 its a comeback mechanic. The events spawn near the map locations of the team whos behind.

[@sidramon44]

When aram, a gamemode created BY PLAYERS on custome games, is actually more popular than 3v3 and dominion created by a team of pros

[@raycuaza71]

200+ years

[@baby0891]

It isn't more popular

[@sebawuba8533]

@@baby0891 it is though, and it always was

[@nik_ms]

@@baby0891 It is, way more popular

[@ugoscandaloso8626]

Is more populated because all the trashcan players when they lose on SR they go to play arams.

[@lucasbortoluzzi9369]

the best part of ascension was those troll playing 5 tanks with sunfire and interupt the channeling while never killing anyone to stall the game forever until the ennemy team resigns. these guys was geniuses

[@asadaduf]

Those guys made Riot change the mod so you can now recall to buy items xD

[@danielleruthhipolito5781]

They were temporarily banned because of this HAHAHA

[@JackXFrost01]

i truly miss Ascension, Poro king, and Overcharge. those were some of the most amazing modes i ever played aside from URF. sometimes i think i am truly lucky and honored being able to try every single game mode explained in this video before i quit league. the amount of nostalgia of experiencing some of the most fun game modes with my friends is something i will treasure forever

[@parkerwinton5661]

Ascension was so good

[@markkiraly5127]

@@parkerwinton5661 it was the best, and will be forever.

[@HyperionFive]

I remember how hard it was for me and my friends to achieve the perfect ascension and earn that summoner icon, which is pretty average looking but it holds a special place because it's mythic and was very hard to achieve.

[@devilix123987]

Honestly, the Star Guardian and Odyssey PVE events were some of the most fun I've had with 'league' even just to have those same unchanged events to play as much as I want with my friends would be amazing. Hell, with Riot making entirely new games at the moment, I don't see why they couldn't keep around these amazing PVE events. Edit: Project was also a great gamemode!

[@fitmotheyap]

Odyssey deserves a come back imo

[@buurzai]

The biggest issue I found with Odyssey was that you found a lobby, and THEN had to agree to a challenge. You wanted to just complete it on the hardest difficulty? Nope! Half the players were up to the challenge where you complete the mission where no-one on the team had more than 3/6 augment slots equipped. If you don't agree to do that challenge with them they will just ragequit at you for wasting their time. If you do you will probably fail the mission.

[@baam25th31]

Indeed it was challenging and fun.

[@Gahanun]

Yeah, I wasn't around for all the PvE stuff and it bumms me out. In CS:GO they still have event mission maps from 5 years ago you can host with your friends. I get that they need to keep the game file size low, but they could allow optional downloads / or even better, keep a snapshot of the version the game mode released on, the way you can select between PBE or regular right now. And it would only let you play custom games. 100% simple solution, almost no coding required.

[@metalassassin8841]

@@buurzai Well, that was solved by actually finding a team over on discord for x y z...But oh well, rather complain and shit instead of finding the solution.

[@WeIrDGuY19941]

Speaking of memories, who remember the " Humiliated " announcement if someone died to minions, instead of Executed?

[@FanOfMinatozakiSana]

Foods to the fish!

[@gflow8357]

I would bring 3v3 back in some capacity. It reduced the toxicity from 10 players to 6. It is also easier to find a team of 3 people that consistently plays together.

[@shadow44productions65]

old twisted treeline were the best times of lol.. it was completely unbalanced but that what made it fun..

[@meganbarnes1391]

I miss 3v3... U could play any champ and it was way less toxic and chill

[@matt3568]

I leveled 1-30 in TT, but the remake was horrendous... I don't get why Riot hates their own game

[@loopygordo]

Late to the TT pity party but God damn I need it back. TT was the only thing keeping me playing and once they removed it I haven't felt the want to come back and play normal games anymore.

[@Mazzinwx]

Played a lot TT with friends when a sixth player was connected. Because 3vs3 was really fun, we could play and improve as a team but enjoy too! harder to have 10 players connected together to practice a longer game

[@Saryan1]

@Exil You forgot to mention one of my all time favorites Nexus Blitz. Also since Ive been around since Season 2 I still remember the Bilgwater Aram event and the Nemesis Draft game modes. I only played TFT during Beta and have not touched it since, so It's very heartbreaking to me to know New modes are not coming ever

[@dracothedrangonful]

Star Guardian and Odyssey was peak LoL for me. Had a ton of fun when that came out.

[@0715-v8r]

Odyssey was really fun , that kayn boss fight

[@DawnMeow]

YES star guardian❤️❤️❤️

[@TheRandomxperson]

100% agreed

[@MrEvan1932]

@@0715-v8r so fucked

[@CxrsairXO]

100% agree

[@itsLilyKitty]

rip you forgot about Snowdown Showdown, imo that was the best gamemode they ever made. Those 2v2s on the ARAM map where a lot of fun

[@Exil22]

I plan to cover this separately along with Nexus Blitz very soon. Sorry for the lack of transparency. I want to make a video talking about why League doesn't have a 1v1 or 2v2 mode and reference the history of it.

[@itsLilyKitty]

No problem at all!! I just remember liking it lots haha, good luck with the video!

[@nibla02gamer84]

Thats shit was lit back in the day. Damn i was just a kid back then but i remember it so clearly comming home from school doing your homework and wait 1 min at the login screen listining to the christmas remix of the summoners call theme with lulu singed and sivir and spend my whole day playing 1v1 or 2v2 with a friend

[@ioiwut4874]

remember doublelift vs froggen (2015 all stars) lmfao those snowball-recall deaths were fucking hilarious. i felt so bad for froggen, i love froggen, but that was brutal lol and DL is just pissin himself laughing, which i don't blame him for. NA-eQfTDFIs is the yt ID if anyone's feeling nostalgic

[@erberlon]

@@itsLilyKitty damn straight it was amazing

[@chokeaboe810]

When he mentioned PROJECT: OVERCHARGE I actually teared up. That was the most fun I've ever had with this game

[@jhinkhadavirtuoso5221]

true feels bad man

[@zuri5241]

Overcharge and the Assassin game mode man they were as, if not more fun than urf

[@obiarne]

For me, Bloodmoon game mode and my favorite of all: DARK STAR THRESH mode ! Across the map hooks, the lanterns , throwing people into a BLACK HOLE!

[@HarmevdHaak]

@@obiarne wow completely forgot about the thresh one

[@georgegkoumas5026]

honestly I playes PROJECT: OVERCHARGE, the star guardian PvE event, Doom bots and the Odyssey event when I was a noob and now that I actually understand how to play there are literally no gamemodes except ARURF not even normal URF and OFA from time to time, and TFT which is not even LoL

[@MysticBlueFox]

I cannot express enough how much I enjoyed the Star Guardian game mode and Doom Bots, I know they had their limitations on what they could do, but I've wished both to return ever since they left us.

[@myakuza4366]

I missed the mark by a mile for these game modes, but having arena as a permanant addition makes me hope we could have more permanant or recurrent gamemodes in the future

[@mysticfox1663]

I would reinstall if either of these became permanent modes

[@MysticBlueFox]

@@mysticfox1663 I'm certain many other players would do the same.

[@NinjaJesus23]

Feels good refreshing yt and seeing new exil vid

[@Exil22]

[@xandercloet7467]

The only game youtuber who actually puts a lot of effort in his video’s

[@stamatistsikrikis1228]

They are not "vids" they are documentares at this point

[@wunderer9377]

We need to get the PVE events back!!! I miss them so much ;(

[@Exil22]

Hard hard agree

[@berchisergiu9810]

For me, the PVE game modes were more fun than URF and it was awesome that you had to try and think to win on harder difficulties

[@hajnahortobagyi690]

The Odyssey game mode was the most fun I ever had with the game...

[@JemmC89]

Something SOLO please. Sick of these toxicx

[@spaceglidinmio2388]

I love it so much but... :(((

[@068-B]

Rest in peace Twisted Treeline. Gone but never forgotten.

[@aledro1828]

I used to play only twisted tree line

[@No_Frill]

me and my friends literally quit when they removed 3's

[@wolfmax2371]

ttl was a fun mode. i used to play it with my friends whenever we had a 3man party and dint want any randoms cuz lets be honest... randoms tend to be less fun to play with then playing with only your friends

[@mcwalidify]

Aram will be next.

[@gemfire9897]

used to play TT ranked because we always had 3 too many for solo/duo and flex wasnt a thing i do miss it

[@dyondegroot1004]

Man hearing Dunkey talk about the most interesting thing about overwatch 2 being the co op story mode really emphasizes how much blizzard screwed up saying theyre scrapping it...

[@DarshanBhambhani]

Riot: man designing is so difficult…..here’s the 25167th champion of League of Legends

[@SergioGarridoPaco]

Does anybody remember nemesis draft? I had more fun with it than with any other gamemode

[@asmonull]

My all time favourite - you're given the worst possible team and have to get creative to do the best with what you've got. Sadly, it was probably one of the least popular modes ever.

[@joaonogueira6247]

Exil forgot about that one, eheh

[@asraelgaming8857]

One time we giftet the enemyteam Darius fizz such Champs.... and we only got soraka nami janna usw..... still won at the end, best ever

[@monelmonelmonel]

Lmao Janna was always banned there

[@dracotoy]

You mean support 5v5?

[@links-gut-versifftergrunme1809]

What Riot and Tencent doesn't understand is that having different maps and playing modes online all the time isn't just a additional cost but an investment. New players are excited to see different game modes, try them out and then decide, that 5v5 is their favorite mode (or find another mode that they like).

[@Pihsrosnec]

Not to mention it makes no sense that splitting a server into smaller groups to accommodate different games is a burden when it's already doing that? If you can split millions of people into groups of 10 you shouldn't have a problem with 10 percent of those being on a different map!

[@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz]

The playerbase actually decreases after a game mode ends, it's confirmed by riot. because players remember what fun is and leave if you ask me.

[@Dualities]

Games that only focus on Conquest are things of the past. Lol is only still there because they were first on the MOBA market and because they have Tencent support. true action games and Arena are the future. People forget Conquest aka DOTA aka Defend of the Ancinets was jsut 1 of 10000000 community made maps from Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2 community made maps era. the Genre is called Multiplayer Online Battle Arena not Multiplayer Online Battle Conquest. watch the Kings Avatar animation.

[@locom7657]

Old league gamemodes were definitly a banger! I really miss dominion hide and seek and black market brawlers. I remember when black markets brawlers came out and they introduced neekos now passive and dead mans plate for the first time, those were the golden times of LOL.

[@LowVeigar]

Odyssey was so good, I miss playing it so much.

[@iwalani2697]

I still use my icons cuz I worked for that stuff

[@fis001r]

I miss Nexus Siege and Ascension. Maybe I'm alone with this but I enjoyed them as much if not more than OfA and URF.

[@lefcso]

@@fis001r Ascension definetly was fun. The pve modes were good as well, but it was a bit frustrating that your team screwes up a lot of times and in odyssey you had to convince them to pick specific champs with specific amount of augments

[@fis001r]

@@lefcso I quit league for about 2 years and missed odyssey but I did play Invasion and loved it. I can only imagine how great odyssey was.

[@Rhyolite-hyena]

@@iwalani2697 Yes, the reward of me dodging everything like tohou to rescue 3 teammates, it was a too powerful achievement exp to have. With an optimal plan we still need to have good skill to execute it, so that was a succeed mode. I wish Doom bots had Icon and Ward to reward beating lv100 as well (the ones beat it without Brand Sion pre-fix are cool but left no traits :c ).

[@anghbalahr2971]

Gamedevs today: "Games need to be fun?"

[@thenihilanth3382]

Supergiant Games: *yes, games can be really fun, you should try it out*

[@jex-the-notebook-guy1002]

@@thenihilanth3382 nah. they don't have enough variety it got stale

[@bababba1232]

game devs: 1. game need to be addictive 2. game need to make a lot of money ... nothing nothing ..... 100. game need to be fun

[@sparemobius7430]

@@bababba1232 which is really funny because as someone who went to school for game dev, number 1 thing in class, games should be fun. If your game is not fun, it has failed at the basic definition of what it is, a game. Sadly the devs don't make all the calls, and publishers do in fact only generally care about money.

[@zoroark522]

Remember guys, Riot sees you as a number - how much money you spend, and not as a human. They don't care about their community and have proved that even if it means hurting the playerbase, they will always choose it if it means profit. They aren't the indie company that interacts and creates community interaction, they are a chinese mega-corporation that would happily increase negativity by 20% if it means a 5% increase in profit.

[@afsarahmed6365]

money? isnt league a free to play game with optional micro transactions for cosmetic items?

[@defectiveturret4391]

@@afsarahmed6365 Just because there are no P2W elements doesnt mean theyre good. One can simply see through that by looking at the costume release/bug fixing ratio.

[@dolores3585]

They care about the money, and so they won't introduce new gamemodes anymore, it's more profitable to just release new skins. Skins are less effort and more money.

[@defectiveturret4391]

@@dolores3585 Even when they release new gamemodes its to promote skins like blood moon event.

[@thedinoobsaur3369]

This is universal. It applies to any company, or even government.

[@Shikyonaito]

Dark Star Singularity is based off of a mini-mode created on WarCraft 3 "Pudge Tag" - using the hero unit "Pudge" the Abomination (who had the same ability via "Meathook") wherein you were in a free for all or team deathmatch where you were free to zoom around the map trying to hook and consume the opposition. It was meme-tastic and a great time, so if you ever feel like recapturing that feeling of Singularity that's how you can.

[@unpretty7112]

I remember that Odyssey Quest. "Onslaught with only Ziggs or Sonas". It was insane :P

[@2Wayne2bfh]

Wasn't the last mission completing the hardest difficulty with just 2 augments? You needed it to get that gem thingy from which you'd get a grab bag. I remember grinding for that, whenever you'd drop a life in an early stage the team just agreed on surrendering. With full augments it be came quite easy after a while - with things like AP Jinx

[@Merllemon]

I need more Odyssey Quest it was my favorite with the Star Guardian one

[@mangalover0149]

I want them to bring it back. I miss it.

[@zoki3532]

​@@mangalover0149 same but they would need to rethink the quests because odyssey mode was fun to play but it was so hard to start cause everyone wanted to do different quests. I remember that for the last quests i had to search for the game like 5 times and every time i found one person who wanted do the same quest, we added each other and we were searching for others willing to cooparate. Quests are the reason that ppl don't like this mode imo

[@ethanosband1895]

@@2Wayne2bfh I think people are forgetting how toxic it was though, people will spam 2 yasou 2 augs to get their missions down or whatever and if they didn't get that they would afk and not play and ruin it for 4 other people

[@MAMAJUGO]

I sincerely cannot justify Riot for not introducing some sort of Arcade Mode where to dump all their previous Game Modes other than to artificially create hype, when games with way smaller player bases, budget, and development team can do it without an issue

[@poldi160]

I really miss going into a custom game of dominion and playing hide and seek, probably the most fun i've ever had playing league. The OG's will remember

[@Chiyasi]

or football, or even abam

[@FriendofOnas]

Honestly PVE would be the magic bullet that could fix the learning curve of the game, give a story mode to help hook the player, and advertising skins for the main game. Imagine if there was a Arcane PVE experience that taught the player the game while giving more lore (Would have been a great moment to update singed and give him a story) which would have helped translate people interested in the lore into the player base.

[@einhalbesbrot]

That would be work. And work is for peasant not blizzard.

[@Pokemichael]

Odyssey imo was the best thing league ever did. I remember it was out while Hurricane Irma was hitting and all I did was play the mode. Some of the most fun times I've had. It was even some of the first ever videos I ever uploaded. Even if it never returns, I'm still holding out hope for it.

[@vitalyklimenchuk8392]

Nah, doombots, project hunters and dark star were bloody amazing, much better than strict pve

[@zaishijunior9455]

@@vitalyklimenchuk8392 Opinions are a thing you know? All of them are amazing but even I have my favorites.

[@nancyabsalon9436]

@@vitalyklimenchuk8392 ah yes. The All cheese no strategy gamemodes were better than odyssey. The gamemode where you actually had competent team mates all the time. Sure man. Sure.

[@vitalyklimenchuk8392]

@@nancyabsalon9436 League isn't a strategy game. And even if the high-rank games are, at that point the fun factor goes through the floor. This is why URF and other modes which devolve into pure chaos were so beloved. When you don't have to take the game 100% seriously and min-max team comps, you can actually relax and do weird and dumb shit.

[@nancyabsalon9436]

@@vitalyklimenchuk8392 easy for you to say. In any game. Losing is never fun, and when you know that the only reason you didn't win was because 1 team mate didn't do tue right thing. It makes the fun factor goes through the depths of hell. Urf is fun because it's level playing field of BS. Same buffs, same cooldowns. Odyssey is fun because you can't blame your team mates for anything. It's not your fault or your team mates fault that you lost. But every other pvp gamemode it always ends in "you should've done this" or "you needed to kill this at this time." In odyssey, you only have to worry about your augments and team comp. A team of bronze players with only the most basic knowledge of the game mode can beat odyssey and have fun the same as challenger players. There isn't any blame to go around the same as the other game modes. And if there was, it's only "ah i could've done this better." Or just constructive criticism. You don't get that in your game modes. You get into toxic fights that cause one to all five players to play poorly on purpose just to spite the others. Whereas odyssey makes you actually want to help your team do better.

[@justorangethoughts8604]

I miss the star guardian and Odyssey events... they were my fav in all of league.

[@Crabmaster4774]

Rip Twisted Treeline 2020. Here's hoping that they bring it back, even for just a little bit, for the whole harrowing event.

[@VlazeSkylax]

Knowing Riot's greed these days, they won't even think about it

[@kennycashman7491]

Never got to play on it wish it was still around

[@JPLangley_]

@@kennycashman7491 Never played it*. Don’t lie to yourself lol. Twisted Treeline was fun but it had a lot of problems. I personally stopped playing it because of how awfully prominent gold funneling was.

[@kennycashman7491]

@@JPLangley_ I started playing season 10 so I literally never got to play it

[@JPLangley_]

@@kennycashman7491 Ah, sorry. Most of the people I meet generally say that kind of shit when it was always available to them until it wasn't.

[@Fujtajblus]

To add to The Poro King game mode, it allowed you to buy a snack and each snack, if fed to Poro king, it made him cast an ability. There were 4 I think in total. Giant firebreath, some artiliery type hearts that slowed on impact, then shield that made Poro King jump forward and then back, knocking enemies up and lastly poros he would shoot forward behind enemies and if they hit a champion it would push them toward the poro king. Anyways, I have been playing this game since summer 2010, and the most fun I ever had was the Odyssey. It had the augments, the abilities were powered up, Malphite having the ability to push and catch enemies with his ult and stop only when he hit an obstackle. So with a good ult, you were able to gather half of the map and Yasuos then all ulted and killed everything. I am sad that it will never come back. And the reason from the developers was that the engine LoL uses gets regular updates. And for them to upkeep it is just too much.

[@awayinmymind3970]

"You know something that kinda sucks about League of Legends?" I don't know, everything?

[@Exil22]

lmao

[@pohja4552]

@swipes copy dont play it. Me and all my friends that used to play joke and laugh about how shit the game is. We all 12 quit It just makes you addicted and angry most likely.

[@Willowo98]

@swipes copy the game itself is actually pretty good, but the company sucks, the community mostly sucks, it’s addictive, and it’s pretty unbalanced. My recommendation? If you like card games, play legends of runeterra instead

[@ChubbyChoncc]

@@Willowo98 Legends of Runeterra is insanely underrated for how good it is, it does everything way better than League from balancing, gameplay, thematic to the creative modes like PvE and 2 players vs AI

[@makingmusiccrippled9581]

thats the game we play:)

[@aurelcsizmar193]

"Riot's ability to maintain League of Legends is highly questionable" Spitting facts here

[@clover9725]

riot doesnt know what they are doing... the client is the perfect prove of it. one of the most shit clients ever. and they just wont fix. i dont even know if they speak about it. its like if they dont see it then its not a problem.

[@OwnedSphinx]

I miss ascension so much, that and black market brawlers, and the dark star thresh one. Those game modes were just SO FUN and they had to forever disappear into the void... RIP.

[@jamessoth1479]

Dominion was such a fun like 10 minute quick game mode. Back when an average league game was an hour long thing, and arams were closer to 30 minutes, dominion hit that sweet spot for the “one more game” type of mode. The mode when you’ve had a tilting day you and your friends just end the night on a dominion win.

[@robinzaratecastillo2240]

I think dominion was a great way to show new players the importance of objectives. Nowadays every game below gold just treats SR as "how many kills can I get"

[@sexp1stol]

Dominion was the best mode, hands down. Even twisted tree line was super fun

[@DeeMulaah]

And Twisted Treeline really nailed it into people's heads how important a good team comp and being able to team fight well was

[@uncletrashero]

and every game above gold is just "Do the meta and nothing else"

[@biskitt1000]

Yeeees. 9 out of 10 junglers I meet will completely ignore objectives, and it’s infuriating, so I always prefer to have a premade with me. They’ll neglect all the drakes and only gank when they see they’ll be able to get a free kill out of it, not to push or help the lanes. Sure, you’ll end up with many kills, but that attitude will leave your team hopeless in the long run, especially in teamfights. Then when enemy team has claimed all the drakes, including soul, elder and baron, the jungler will blame the rest of the team for losing the game, because they themselves believe that farming kills makes them the carry.

[@DasLandShark]

I still miss Dominion to this day. So much fun.

[@quicksilver2711]

I never played it but your feeling for dominion are equal to mine for twisted treeline

[@superghost6]

It was fast, it was fun

[@superghost6]

@@quicksilver2711 same

[@georgegkoumas5026]

@@quicksilver2711 exactly what I was about to say

[@szakic]

I would even pay for them to play 1-2 Dominion games 😄

[@Agent_Alpha]

I was addicted to Doom Bots back in the day lmao. It was so fucking hard to win but seeing Cho'Gath with 5 Viktor's laser arms on his body and his Q is the whole lane, i just can't get enough of it.

[@sunghyunyu6596]

Doombots was a shit storm, but an adrenaline fueled shit storm. I enjoyed doombots for what it was. Maybe one day they'll bring it back

[@Agent_Alpha]

@@sunghyunyu6596 yeah, i really hated the Devil Teemo doombots, it's just not the same old Doom Bots i was used to ...

[@Shirathedragoness]

I have never played it before but it looks so fun and challenging.

[@jackerrocker2235]

I remember 5 smite and Anivia wall just to hold lv.100 teemo

[@tady_en]

This vid's such a massive throwback, and it reminded me why I've stuck to this game way longer than I'd ever imagined to. These days it's just the ranked grind and honestly, that's very stale and depressing. The random gamemodes that come and go bring so much life and colour to the game for everyone - hardcores and casuals alike. This makes the game feel alive and popular for everyone that ranked itself feels worth playing because the game as a whole is. With all that gone, the game feels dead, which is sad...

[@mrMarioLink10]

25:21 My baby, Nexus Siege, my favorite mode. You look as beautiful as the day you were gone, *Cries in nostalgia*.

[@mastermati773]

I'd pay $ to play Siege one more time :(

[@Mardook23]

Mine too. Most people didn't even understand how to play it, and had 80-90% win rate with almost only adcs. Too bad we cant play it anymore

[@superdarktimes4924]

mine toooo :(

[@frostyausti]

Man... I was so bad at it.. But at the same time.. it was so fun..

[@LadyTsunade777]

New video idea: The History of cosmetically alternate maps and why Riot stopped doing them Like when they used to have a Harrowing map each Halloween, or a Snowdown map each Christmas, the Bilgewater ARAM map, the Blood Moon summoner's rift, and my personal absolute favorite: the Arcade summoner's rift.

[@_nainportequoi_7032]

They stopped doing it because of the souls changing the map, sadly. And I can imagine its hard giving them a theme without making it u clear what soul it is as an event that will go away, though maybe having SR maps as a cosmetic would make it work since you can know which soul is which and have them all around the year

[@gabrieljoseozanan6989]

@@_nainportequoi_7032 I always assumed that they stopped doing it because their code is so spaghetti that even something as minor as changing the map color to slightly whiter with snow would actually cost a lot of money due to the hundreds of bugs that would surely follow and unlike skins, they can't charge to make up for these costs.

[@AraiiarA]

I genuinely miss the feeling I got when playing URF for the first time. It was such a magical experience and I loved every second of it. Until about game 10 and then I just went back to draft pick with my friends.

[@MinaB-o2n]

Odysee extraction was the best gamemode riot ever made, change my mind. I played a lot the entire month and we tried about 20 times with a premade group to get the 1 augment onslaught difficulty. The fun part of this was that you had to play AD Ziggs and one healer Ziggs if I remember correctly

[@Rawrpuppeh]

Anyone else remember Hide and Seek on the old dominion map? Good times.

[@AlexDan-mh3wo]

Good fucking times, playing catch on Dominion. 1-5 players running from 1 player. The ones to be catched couldn't attack, just use escape/dash/etc. abilities to run. The game ended when the catcher kills one of the other players(explaining this for new players that didn't experience it). One time a friend of mine tried to catch us for over an hour with WW haha. Good times, I miss that...

[@Sam-jv8iv]

teemo was my pick and to this day still havent been caught 😂

[@zacman212]

I made a comment about this before I scrolled down. YES HIDE AND SEEK WAS DOPE!

[@sombra-damn8656]

The Odyssey event was incredible

[@sirtangerine1465]

Ahh Odyssey, That was a fun mode. And Nexus Blitz was great too.

[@SmugHomura]

The solution to all these problems is just add an arcade mode like Dota does. Dota has endless PvE RPG maps with meta progression and more. Sadly Riot isn't too fond player created content.

[@freshlymemed5680]

My thoughts exactly. While Dota has its fair share of problems it definitely gets community interaction right. Crowd funded tournament prizes and pve events with rewards. Arcade was probably the best thing they brought back though, they paid homage to World of Warcraft 3 and its endless community maps and game modes, some even being based off of Dota itself. Its probably time consuming to moderate the different game modes (and then theres copyright but Dota seems to be fine) but the game itself has proven to be capable of making these work. If only Riot would actually mean the word community and not just toss it around for brownie points.

[@nananakeson]

Riot knows how capable the community are and they're affraid of people not consuming the official product anymore, you can see that from the custom skins that they basically "banned" when it was getting popular

[@Zuranthus]

given that LoL sprang out of a DOTA mod community i wouldn't be surprised that they are scared the same thing could happen to them by basically incubating their own killer

[@isaacbejjani5116]

@@freshlymemed5680 yea, I only played Dota for a few days, but I remember the instant feelings of jealousy and wonder when I saw all the different modes they got. Makes me sad to remember that was 5 years ago, riot has had plenty of time

[@tyrantofcans465]

I played the new twisted treeline like crazy with my friends when I first joined. I remember I joined just in time to see Warwick reworked. It was glorious, and I loved the gamemode despite the que times. I wish they would bring it back sometimes...

[@hellboy3129]

HOLY SHIT NEMESIS DRAFT HOLY SHIIIIIT I NEARLY FORGOT... PEOPLE WOULD ALWAYS GIVE YOU THE OLD YORICK AND URGOT OMG HAHAHASHA DUUUDE NOSTALGIC AF😭😭😭

[@MeitanteiKevin]

It was one of the best modes ever :D Still waiting for a comeback :(

[@skelet8337]

Yes and he forgot to mention it sadge

[@Jyxero]

I got old Urgot twice... God damn I still miss sexy mananune Kirby Urgot

[@ioiwut4874]

@@Jyxero full arm-pen urgot .__. oh how i miss thee

[@Jyxero]

@@ioiwut4874 Who is Ezreal? Blue Urgot was the $&#! master

[@lakejizzio7777]

Most fun I had in LoL was in Ascension mode.

[@goncalocardoso2486]

The most fun game mode of all of them! I miss it so fking much, comeback 2015

[@Yordlevi]

Ascension was a masterpiece. Unfortunately even if we get it back some day i wont get to spam pre rework AD evelynn

[@ioiwut4874]

man i spammed the shit outta rammus with ghost and mobi's first item. i had about a 90% wr with that mode lol. people chasing kills im farming relics. i know that might not sound as for-fun but as someone who's always loved rammus, and specifically going VROOM, this game mode was my bread and butter. i literally never played on the rift, nor aram, as long as Ascension was available.

[@gabrieljoseozanan6989]

One of my fondest memories was ascending as the Old Swain and being perma-bird all the time!

[@ascvb3]

The origin of the terror that is tank Zilean... There were so many innovative builds in that mode; easily my favorite.

[@somedude1880]

EXCUSE ME, I loved dominion, when I started playing it was like s2, just wanted to say here that hide and seek on the dominion map the crystal star was amazing. It was the perfect map to do it because nothing happens in the crystal star if you dont cap the points, lots of bushes and all close together. I still miss dominion daily, it wasnt the best but man it was dominion.

[@rodneygong8226]

I adored Dark Star, Odyssey, and Star Guardian events. They were absolutely the most fun i've ever had in the game.

[@kagenxekkios8540]

It was funny for me to watch my bronzie friends die repeatedly to doom bots :]

[@LCST237]

Riot is the embodiment of the "snap back to reality" meme

[@yesimsure9975]

Well, we have Arena now and Swarm soon, so although most of these old modes won't be back, we are now getting new ones again.

[@kawaiicookie1674]

Playing hide and seek/tag on dominion with all my friends were some of the best memories ive had playing this game. Playing speedy champs like Rammus or Hecarim to outrun the seekers or juke heavy champs like Leblanc or Lee Sin. When it got removed I was so gutted and league was just never the same anymore for me.

[@hades2097]

I loved hide and seek on dominion. Best time i spent playing league

[@EvilFrosty2U]

That Yuumi stacking at 17:35 was the most terrifying thing I've seen in a long time in league since doombots

[@thenoze5767]

“If the enemy stacks armour, there’s almost nothing pantheon can do about it” exil doesn’t watch rossboomsocks i guess

[@kermitthefrogsgreenmememac6453]

Man, I loved Nexus Blitz and the Odyssey event. So many great memories of those game modes

[@w00t277]

Seeing odyssey brought a tear to my eye..

[@senkotatsu6640]

I miss twisted treeline so much, my chest tightened when I watched the footage.

[@BONKwhatup]

"You know something that sucks about League of legends?" *wips out 500 page essay*

[@kagent1270]

This made me laugh haha

[@justanuff]

Yeah its hard to just point the finger at one little thing these days, the game just fucking sucks in general.

[@sports94freak]

Personally, my top favorite game modes in league history are: 1.) Dark Star Thresh 2.) Ascension, and 3.) The Poro King. (Although, 1 and 2 are nearly equal in terms of which was my favorite.) - All of these games felt balanced, were highly engaging, short, and fast. No time to be bored, and felt incredibly balanced, even when someone was ascended because the most exciting part was EVERYONE just going for the last hit/kill-steal, then RUNNN!!! And it was SO satisfying when you were able to get it! - With dark star thresh, every game was unique and skill based, and the heals and saves from the lanterns thrown on someone about to die, just made it feel so rewarding, because you could both save others and be saved by others, and it was just high skill expression, and just plain fun. - With Poro King, the game was highly engaging, and also highly rewarding, not only did it employ the "upgrades" from bilgewater, but it also introduced snowballs, which are an AMAZING addition into ARAM to make melee champions finally relevant against poke, ranged carries, and control mages! I also loved the fact that the bilgewater event added the bench of rerolled champs into ARAM! Imagine asking someone for their champion just to have them reroll it and lose it forever, just felt so punishing and unrewarding. The changes with the addition of the snowball (aka mark/dash) and the reroll bench of champion options both came directly from these rotating game modes! I think the real reason why these were so fun is because every champion felt good in it's own right, while every new game in these modes continued to present a challenge. Despite this, you could still work to get really good at it and feel like you are continuing to improve upon skill and consistency. The rewards were always worth pursuing because of what they gave you when you FIANLLY got them! They just gave such a mental empowerment and confidence where everyone could feel powerful and in control and "fed" for a brief period of time all the while maintaining all sorts of built-in come back factors. The fact that these buffs, such as from Ascension or Poro King, and even the healing from the lantern were: Just LONG enough to have fun with, but Just SHORT enough to encourage getting them again, and Just STRONG enough to be absolutely broken All of this was, simply put, amazing game-balancing, and the fact they happened multiple times per game gave many chances for you to experience it. For those who didn't play those modes, I'll put it this way, it truly felt as rewarding (if not more rewarding) as getting a Pentakill. There were all the elements of personal satisfaction, pride, and something for you to remember and look back on as well as truly relish-in it and treasure each moment. Simply put the power of nostalgia. (It was also kind of like playing the lottery, but a controllable one.) Just imagine every single game, 10 people each working hard to last hit the elder dragon after a 50 minute back-and-forth game, where no one has a smite, Nunu eat, or Chogath feast. It was just that rewarding. Furthermore, what was equally awesome in all of these 3 game modes was the mere presence of the mini side quests: - The pillars in ascension (for those crafty and highly rotate focused or who wanted to avoid fights and still get enough points for their team to win); - The hitting 10 snowballs, was a mini game in itself, and fit perfectly with the "dodgeball" feel of ARAM and skill shots, and - The scuttle crabs/teleport pillars in the Dark Star Thresh game mode. All of these were like mini objectives that absolutely added a core element to the game OTHER than just "only fighting, all of the time." Sadly, a lot of the other modes felt like just "only fighting, all of the time." With no real value added in focusing on the overall macro of the game. Lastly, they all really encouraged/forced a level of teamwork and comradery, and were highly rewarding for those who had good teamwork. I genuinely wish Riot Games would bring these modes back, because they were just plain fun, so much less toxicity, short game modes, all for-fun, and often with friends. And still rewarding, EVEN IF you lost. Exactly as a game should be. PS: I would even go as far as to say that honestly I would be willing to pay for a sort of pass or subscription to be able to access game modes like this on a more routine basis. Go with me for a second here: Imagine those who paid say $5.00-$10.00 per month would be able to access these exclusive game modes. Those who would pay would get really good at the games, OR they would take them seriously, OR they would quickly balance out the skill level and queue times would be rather short, because the game modes are so short,(and because if people are paying for them, they are going to play them). Imagine if you could have a "league+" monthly (or annual?) subscription to have access to play game modes like these? They already have the game/season passes for in game loot and cosmetic content such as emotes, how difficult would it be to have that season pass also unlock access to exclusive game modes, or even an additional pass for those who are not interested in the cosmetic content, and actually appreciate the gameplay and would pay for better in-game content? Being a part of the community for going on 10 years now, I am absolutely sure there would be enough players, and enough demand and revenue generation there for Riot to consider it as an ongoing option, and they would truly be able to assess what the players wanted, and earn money doing it. And then players just stop paying for the subscription when the game modes become unbalanced, boring, or if a new rotation of game modes comes through there is less demand for. And naturally, it wouldn't be a pay-to-win system, it would be a pay-to-play or pay-to-access system, where it would be like fully supported and funded by the "stockholders" and the consumers of the game. Instead of doing the stupid cookie-cutter season passes and merely changing the colors of the seasons to squeeze every last dime out of those still playing this game, make it actually something worth paying for, by meeting player demand with a product that is worth paying for, that's more that simply cosmetic, but more of an experience and a form of exclusive access. Be honest, would you be willing to pay a small subscription fee if it meant you were going to be able to play these game modes again? Even for just a month? Exactly. Just about everyone would. That's my point.

[@theAAtiger]

The fact that they even forgot the Pool Party map and Winter Wonder map already say it out loud

[@shadows_star]

We never had a pool party map did we?

[@theAAtiger]

@@shadows_star it's not really a map, just some change with the minions and the jungle camp, but it look pretty neat tho

[@devforfun5618]

did he mention nexus ? the game mode that actually has a time limit, and ends with both nexus walking to the middle of the map

[@TinNovaKiin]

@@devforfun5618 He keeps it for next video

[@demonkeeper2450]

Unless I missed it, I didn't see you bring up Nemesis Draft. I played that game mode once and it was great. Getting to pick champs for the enemies and they chose for you. It was a fun mode

[@tamagoyaki56]

Omg this!!!

[@farfromirrational948]

That sounds dope!

[@qwerty1233787]

There was a pic in the intro of the vid but that's it

[@markawesome916]

I can’t even comprehend how I spent so much time on a video game that at the end of the day just felt like a waste of time

[@conradbr11]

Same played since season 1 gave up about 2 years ago. I look back in disappointment seeing the greedy developer Riot has become

[@xandercloet7467]

I’m probably one of the few people who actually have a good laugh while playing the game. Me and my friends just mess around

[@vnXun]

@@xandercloet7467 this game is super fun when you have friends, espacially when you can fill a 5 people lobby

[@dan-k-doge1960]

@@xandercloet7467 exactly the reason i dont play unless my friends tell me to log on, idc if they are bad i just wanna have fun, i get lots of giggles by watching them missplay and they get lots from seeing me missplay, we bark at each other and its super fun, it really shines in the videos i have on my channel of us playing. But playing alone? is just a headache

[@aruetii2355]

i belive if you enjoyed a large portion of your time it wasnt wasted. i mean of course you could have done something else no question. but if you truely enjoyed playing league for at least a few years then it was well spent time

[@nofun.8376]

tbh the most fun ive ever had in league was doing all the quests for the Odyssey event with a sibling

[@Exil22]

I want to give a special thanks this video to the 'Sources' section of the description. Without the source footage from all these game modes, I'd really have nothing to show on screen (since the modes are removed forever lol). Please check out the creators and go support their content!!

[@AxxLAfriku]

I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear ex

[@Star-ef6dr]

I spy Disco Heat footage

[@Zgodas]

What about draft nemezis normal 5vs5 but u pick champs for enemy team

[@justsomerandomdudethatyoud7806]

Exil did you forget to cover nexus blitz? It was my favorite mode aside from urf D:

[@skelet8337]

@@Zgodas yep he missed it i comment on it

[@laranitaloca6913]

This made me realize how much i missed and how boring the game is now

[@sirtangerine1465]

The boringness lies in how long and unrewarding the matches are.

[@YskarAlbumLuna]

@@sirtangerine1465 That's not it, if it becomes any faster it'll become a free for all COD game. The boringness lies in playing the same thing over and over again.

[@greaterdog601]

"the mmo, the one thing they may not actually screw up" Legends of Runeterra : "Am I a Joke to you ?"

[@Zedempremier]

yes

[@i-plow]

Its kinda of a bullshit that you can not play for long

[@Icekia1]

Knowing Riot, it might be a Gacha game which you have to dedicate your entire bank account to have a 5 star kaisa

[@wereblount4522]

@Zodiac god i would be so fucking pissed

[@alex4593]

The mistake they did with Legends of Runeterra was releasing it way too late. The optimal release date should have been when Hearthstone was still popular

[@raphiki4780]

The sad thing is that we are not even allowed to use old maps (Dominion or Twisted Treeline) and/or the special gamemodes (Odyssey excluded because it needed augments pages) in custom games

[@greekboy2057]

He forgot to mention nexus blitz one of my all time favorite game modes. literally so much better than regular league and i feel like it’s one of the more popular ones too. i’m not sure about the exact statistics but still fun as hell

[@camilobregon]

yeah it was weird that it didn't even get a mention, it was played on the last All-Stars and has a little bit of every alternative game mode.

[@bomi5825]

Moreover, Nexus Blitz was designed to be a permanent game mode (if it would gain enough popularity) and was really close to achieving it. In that regard, I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video.

[@GGG_gaming]

@@bomi5825 nah it would of been lynched after a year if it was "permanent" i promise that and remember they can monetize tft and hit the mobile market with it

[@tekumeku2244]

As i just posted, he missed 2 more. Nemesis Draft and All For One

[@IAmWeax]

@@tekumeku2244 he talked about one for all

[@fogdragon23]

I'd personally rather have modes tailored for events than auto-chess.

[@Infinias]

Never got this auto-chess obsession. What skill is involved in a game mode that is 90% randomness (there are some like Hearthstone Battelgrounds that, depending on character are up to 99% random)? Of course on the money side it does make sense: low investment, easy to adapt and therefore a simple way to get a maximum of money,

[@mightyfera4466]

@@Infinias Isnt random at all. Play with a Challenger, it will beat the shit out of all your friends in 95hp.

[@SMILE53335]

@@mightyfera4466 hahahaha

[@justasydefix6251]

@@Infinias I would like to downvote that. TFT is about whoever has the ability to use what he gets(lucky or not). You also have to be aware of what your enemies are buying from the shop, If some people are buying the same champs you might end up in trouble as odds might be against you when you refresh the shop. Sometimes you have to know when to win and when to lose. You have to be good at economy management and try to invest on the right champ. You have to play the strongest board from the random shops you are getting. In Short TFT is mostly about flexibility.

[@lennartknaak6714]

@@justasydefix6251 and also i don't think it has relevance in this debate whatsoever. TFT has to be seen as another game by riot put into the same client.

[@gumi_matryoshka]

The most fond memories I ever had playing League where going with my old High school friends into ascension games and just messing around

[@KatelynKate]

Literally same :

[@juliam8758]

1 year later...Ultimate spellbook, ARURF, Ultimate spellbook, ARURF again. No doom bots last year, no christmas, no summer maps. **Little** revamp for ultimate spellbook star guardian.

[@Razsac]

playing healer ziggs in odyssey is hands down the most fun I've ever had in this game

[@dantimdan193]

My theory before watching this video is that scarcity makes a gamemode feel special , thus making you want to play more while it's active.

[@Raiko01]

Yeah im sure they just havent re added Black Market Brawlers, Nemesis draft, OG doombots, Dominion, to make them feel special and theyll readd them eventually COPIUM

[@dantimdan193]

@@Raiko01 nah ,I mean so they feel special in the moment , not that they will necessarily add them back

[@hajot2582]

Supply and demand.

[@xxOnigiri99]

Honestly if ARURF was permanent I would play it way more. This last iteration of ARURF felt the most fair because everyone is broken, and games finish fast. Even if the enemy team has a annoying team, there was a chance to win or at least move on quickly to another match Riot should keep a few alternative modes, because there will always be players for those

[@akkari7246]

That would be true if they actually brought it back from time to time, we've literally only ever gotten OFA, URF, and Nexus Blitz for as long as I can remember

[@irritatingperson7882]

Man, I loved blood moon and odyssey so much. I have so many great memories of it, I remember at a sleepover me and my friends stayed up till 7am playing it and we managed to beat the 4th difficulty, and blood moon was so fun to play solo because I loved assassins back then, it was one of the reasons I stuck around :(

[@UberDragon]

Nexus blitz just completely forgotten, feels bad man.

[@sisco47]

Ionian boots be like." So my event was a fucking joke to you ?"