League of Legends Had Fun Modes But They're Gone Forever...
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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
Did Nemesis Draft get forgotten again 😔
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.
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.
true af
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.
It's like they're so busy expanding their universe with media and games that they're actually neglecting the main game and community
I like how they also haven't even updated runes/masteries for like what, 6 years? And they used to do it every season.
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
Let's not forget how the map didn't change for christmas and summer this year
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.
@@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.
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.
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*
@@zacman212 They definitely did in Snowdown 2k16, 2k17 and 2k18 as far as I can remember
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
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.
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.
Oh my god odyssey, with kayn as final boss. Awesome.
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.
I LOVED odyssey event it was just great!
i was so proud after i finaly got the odisey ziggs with event frame
Who remembers playing hide and seek in dominion? Oh the good ol days
my oh my, i love it even though the griefing was abunant
@@josephdiaz2182 yeahhh usually didn’t have rule breakers but it happened for sure
@Zodiac I rarely saw teemo, mostly saw a tonnn of Nidalees and Leblancs
Also morganas
I sunk hours into hide'n'seek, then when dominion was cut I was told I wasn't eligible for their dominion player reward >:(
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.
Star guardian event was insane fun too
I dont know about the no one was toxic part. But everything else, hell yeah.
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.
@@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.
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
I miss dominion. I played it regularly. It was a great mode for a guaranteed short match below 20 minutes.
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
with Halloween a lot of people were begging for the return of doombots, Riot: "Naw fam we are working on the next lux skin"
This alone should tell you what Riots MO is. Money, not fun.
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)
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
@@HeroADI1 you beat them, thats the fun 🤷♂️ slacking Will get you rekt 😅
@@xPewz well, taste is taste i guess... I would prefere use that Op abiltiies myself :p
Exil: not sure how Elise, Pantheon or Camille are assassins.
Every ADC main ever: Let me tell ya
the kayle being 100 to 0 dove by the Renek + Elise
Stupid question : As Quinn is an Ranged Assassin champion , does it mean that she can be on the 2 gamemodes?
Elise and Pantheon are definitely assassins.
ADC? Camille is also Bruiser’s god damn Vietnam flashback, girl kicks half my health to the void in *TRUE DAMAGE* .
@@thomasway0320 cho ult every 4 s XD
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.
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.
I miss the circle one that you have to get objectives I was kinda a shaco main at that time
Old TT was great. The new version without top jungle was just not it.
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
@@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...
@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
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.
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.
@@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
@@velosong3396 I want it on league..
They're never coming back. I'm calling it already.
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.
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@@Exil22 hi i for example loved both Doom bots and Odisey, but Asencion was greath but allsou completly out of game :/
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.
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
I would reinstall if either of these became permanent modes
@@mysticfox1663 I'm certain many other players would do the same.
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
Ascension was so good
@@parkerwinton5661 it was the best, and will be forever.
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.
Can we have a moment of silence for Bilge Water ARAM that he forgot to mention. Best ARAM by far
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
@@TiaanTK i forgot how nemesis draft works.
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???
@@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.
I still wish they do something like this for other regions. Shurima map please
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.
Just bring it back once come on😭
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
There was nothing I loved more than Odyssey
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
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
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.
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.
The thing is, TFT is not a gamemode, It is a completely different game.
Yeah true, I have zero interest in learning TFT
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
Yeah called dota auto chess lmao
@@Pipipman2 yep, magic the gathering too. you could even say they made a mobile game to copy a mobile game that copied them too.
@@BrandNewByxor i love tft, that and LOR got my foot in the door when it came to actual league
Never forget playing Hide and Seek on Crystal Scar map. RIP the good ol days
Boomah! Helicoptah!
Damn bro. Me too.
I wilo never forget the good 'ole times and I also still retain those shaco skills.
was waiting to see if he mentioned it. this is the only reason why i miss crystal scar
dude you just brought back such a awesome memory Feelsbad
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.
That would be work.
And work is for peasant not blizzard.
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.
I remember that Odyssey Quest. "Onslaught with only Ziggs or Sonas". It was insane :P
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
I need more Odyssey Quest
it was my favorite with the Star Guardian one
I want them to bring it back. I miss it.
@@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
@@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
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.
Omg yeah just remembered revive was a thing! Revive + ghost was hella fun
@@RaevenRenard for feeding. After only knowing about the game for one day
They bring that back on wildrift. You can legendary kill again in wildrift l
@@acesu5785 but it lost the sense.
It was a pc lol thing...
wild rift is the new spoiled child.
@@acesu5785 It would probably be called Hexakill tho. not legendary kill.
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...
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...
I will never, ever, give up on Ascension. One day it will come back and I refuse to believe otherwise.
Shurima event when.
my favorite
Preach, brother
Cheers, I’ll hope for odyssey event as well
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
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.
that would be very cool
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.
amogus
Now that;s something interesting.
Among us league of legends
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...
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
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.
old twisted treeline were the best times of lol.. it was completely unbalanced but that what made it fun..
I miss 3v3... U could play any champ and it was way less toxic and chill
I leveled 1-30 in TT, but the remake was horrendous... I don't get why Riot hates their own game
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.
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
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...
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
@@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...
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
@@joshuaford3760 its cause it has rng that picks its winners dont know why the events cant all just be in the center
@@Siegram999 its a comeback mechanic. The events spawn near the map locations of the team whos behind.
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.
The twisted treeline was really nice. Only required 3 players, so I would often play it with my 2 brothers and it was a blast.
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
Those guys made Riot change the mod so you can now recall to buy items xD
They were temporarily banned because of this HAHAHA
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!
Odyssey deserves a come back imo
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.
Indeed it was challenging and fun.
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.
@@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.
i started playing league when i was about 8 years old and it is the one game that i keep going back to, i have played all of leagues game modes but have forgotten some of them since. watching this video gave me so much nostalgia of me, my brother and my cousins playing league all throughout our childhood but as we grew older we forget or should i say keep the memories on the back of our heads i just wanted to thank you for making me remember those cherished memories that made my childhood worthwhile
Man, I loved Nexus Blitz and the Odyssey event. So many great memories of those game modes
When aram, a gamemode created BY PLAYERS on custome games, is actually more popular than 3v3 and dominion created by a team of pros
200+ years
It isn't more popular
@@baby0891 it is though, and it always was
@@baby0891 It is, way more popular
Is more populated because all the trashcan players when they lose on SR they go to play arams.
Speaking of memories, who remember the " Humiliated " announcement if someone died to minions, instead of Executed?
Foods to the fish!
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.
"ARAM is easier to understand"
Me, sitting there, nearly having an aneurysm trying to understand what's happening with all the effects and sounds constantly being thrown at me before all colour is lost due to dying to something that I have no clue what was due to all the other shit currently happening on my screen.
I almost cried remembering that i had no friends to enjoy some of those game modes but i ended up enjoying them a lot anyway. Odyssey was something else, just like Exil said, with some more time, it could be a very popular game mode
this modes made me add friends after almost beating the mode to play again, i cant remember the last time i added a random on summoner rift
Odyssey was actually amazing, games like Diablo and Hades are good but something about Odyssey with the augments and strategy was so awesome AND it hardly got old. Even when the optimal ways to beat it were shared around, I had so much fun running through it in different ways. It's like Exil says, if it was tweeked slightly from time to time (like buffing weaker augments/builds or nerfing winning strategies) and the content was renewed every so often like TFT, I think the players would stay with it basically forever.
Odyssey was wonderful I made a lot of friends just for playing it! More than I've done playing soloQ in my 4 years in League.
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
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.
No problem at all!! I just remember liking it lots haha, good luck with the video!
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
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
@@itsLilyKitty damn straight it was amazing
that thresh game i forgot about makes me wanna play it again - was fantastic
dominion is where many custom game modes were made to include aram, there was no reason whatsoever to delete the custom map, you could remove it from the queue but that's it.
Edit: For those who don't know as well, hide and seek was very popular as well, basically one person would seek and kill the others, everyone else is allowed to use stuns only but not damage the seeker and also could not go back to shop but the seeker could. This continues until the seeker wins so you just try to live as long as possible with 2-3 lives.
Hide and seek was the most fun. Play zil and kill seekers with your CC to get away hehe
Feels good refreshing yt and seeing new exil vid
The only game youtuber who actually puts a lot of effort in his video’s
They are not "vids" they are documentares at this point
imagine if they gave the community the tools to create different gamemodes for custom games, not only would we get some lost gamemodes back but also so many new things
The game code isnt made for it. It would take hundred of man-hours to make it possible and it would be still super buggy
@Tesla-Effect that is just a stupid excuse, if a new game get popular hire the developer and make it an official map, blizzard was greedy and dumb, valve bought team fortress counter strike and dota and made a lot of money, while blizzard killed warcraft 3 reforged world editor before the game was launched with that change in policy
@@devforfun5618 They recently stopped a fan-made project called Chronoshift(i think) that brought back old league of legends.
Dude they are actually sueing the people who made "LoL Classic / Vanilla".
@Tesla-Effect at least dota 2 has custom player made game modes + other official modes
no joke the ionia noxus idia you mentioned is the best thing ive ever heard!!!!!
i enjoyed the odyssey mode the most it was absolute fun to play and figure out new kinds of builds like enchanter yasuo or atomic boom rightclick malphite by just switching between new augments
I started playing league in June 2012, Draven was the recently released new champion. Watching this brings back sooooo many memories I'm having a nostalgia overload. During the Black Market game mode in 2015 I stopped playing for some reason and wouldn't come back to the game for a short period until ARURF was going on. I only played that game mode then once it left I left too. I'm not currently playing league but I will if URF/ARURF or OFA comes back.
When he mentioned PROJECT: OVERCHARGE I actually teared up. That was the most fun I've ever had with this game
true feels bad man
Overcharge and the Assassin game mode man they were as, if not more fun than urf
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!
@@obiarne wow completely forgot about the thresh one
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
Star Guardian and Odyssey was peak LoL for me. Had a ton of fun when that came out.
Odyssey was really fun , that kayn boss fight
YES star guardian❤️❤️❤️
100% agreed
@@user-qi2ld3rm5l so fucked
100% agree
There was like a week or two that they changed the ARAM map to a Bilgewater theme. Maybe when gangplank was reworked? The turrets shot Fishbones rockets, you could see the ship port below the bridge, and everything was full of life verses the classic cold and frozen ARAM Freljord (which thematically I like but it gets old and kinda grayscale after awhile). Ima 3D artist so I know how flippin' long it takes to make assets like these. That's why it always has blown my mind that they would make maps and game modes to only be used for a short time then never seen again. Great video too
remember All for one starting as an underground mode. One day after school a friend of mine called me and said they had heard of a bug that lets you all have the same champion in a custom game. So we spent the whole afternoon doing that until it was patched the next day. Still probably the most fun I had with league by a long shot.
We need to get the PVE events back!!! I miss them so much ;(
Hard hard agree
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
The Odyssey game mode was the most fun I ever had with the game...
Something SOLO please. Sick of these toxicx
I love it so much but... :(((
Gamedevs today: "Games need to be fun?"
Supergiant Games: *yes, games can be really fun, you should try it out*
@@thenihilanth3382 nah. they don't have enough variety it got stale
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
@@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.
I’m glad I played the game during the fun period and got to experience all of those game modes, I feel a little sad for anyone who missed out cause they were all fun. I’ve always been someone who likes the more fun modes especially pve modes where like it’s said in the video, can be more OP and just unique. Take Legends of Runeterra, I pretty much only play the lab of legends (pve) mode rather than pvp because it’s just way more fun and chill. Rest In Peace fun game modes in league. You will be missed. Also I remember one that wasn’t mentioned here which was nemesis draft where you got to pick the champs for enemies to play.
Thanks for making this video! it really made me remember the good old days and made me nostalgic but happy I've been playing for over 10 years, i do love the game how it is now, there's really frustrating things about it and people are still toxic but you gotta take the good with the bad and i accept that! ❤️🔥
Rest in peace Twisted Treeline. Gone but never forgotten.
I used to play only twisted tree line
me and my friends literally quit when they removed 3's
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
Aram will be next.
used to play TT ranked because we always had 3 too many for solo/duo and flex wasnt a thing i do miss it
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).
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!
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.
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.
tbh the most fun ive ever had in league was doing all the quests for the Odyssey event with a sibling
Some of my most fun LoL experiences were dominion and Ascension. Just figuring out that champion that does exactly what you want to do in the mode is amazing. Regular ranked league I've since long abandoned, playing either the rotating game mode or aram if there isn't one.
Riot: man designing is so difficult…..here’s the 25167th champion of League of Legends
Odyssey was so good, I miss playing it so much.
I still use my icons cuz I worked for that stuff
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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 ).
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.
Interesting retrospective thanks!
game modes I loved.
Nexus siege, it was fun trying to decide or balance between champs that could push hard and champs that could defend. it made champ select more interesting for me.
Dark star, never forget pudge wars.
Any PvE mode. I loved them all and couldn't get enough of them.
least liked,
One for all hands down, mostly because you get hard countered even harder and when youre friend only wants to play something super low in the meta of that game mode you just get curb stomped over and over again.
nexus blitz, the powerups were too oppressive and swingy but also snowbally. you win the first and probably win the rest A because the buff was probably really strong or B just by winning you get more gold which will make you win again. which is too bad because some of the events were a blast.
I miss the star guardian and Odyssey events... they were my fav in all of league.
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
or football, or even abam
First, thanks SO much for creating this video. Just seeing and reminiscing about those old game modes like hexakill and doom bots with your video gameplay took me back to fond memories I had with my friends when we got in a group and played all of them. I do understand from a business standpoint that TFT is where the "money" is at with league. But they could just throw out those previous game modes once a year when they release skins such as blood moon, project, or star guardian. It cant hurt them too much to do that I would think, even if there isnt anything new with them
I still remember the satisfaction when we cleared both Star Guardian and Odyssey on their highest difficulties. Man I miss those days. Hoping for Riot to put them back even just occasionally.
Does anybody remember nemesis draft? I had more fun with it than with any other gamemode
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.
Exil forgot about that one, eheh
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
Lmao Janna was always banned there
You mean support 5v5?
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
6:19 Good old crit'Plank... I miss you so much... T.T
The power trip we use to have with 1x Infinity Edge, 2x Phantom Dancer, 3x Bloodthirster and the assort Critical Rune page...
Also, Twisted Tree Line was the mode we played the most with my friend around 2011-2013.
You forgot Bilgewater Bridge but nice video, i remember really enjoying playing ascension in my early teenage moments with all of my geeky friends, what a sweet era...
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!!
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
I spy Disco Heat footage
What about draft nemezis normal 5vs5 but u pick champs for enemy team
Exil did you forget to cover nexus blitz? It was my favorite mode aside from urf D:
@@Zgodas yep he missed it i comment on it
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.
Nah, doombots, project hunters and dark star were bloody amazing, much better than strict pve
@@vitalyklimenchuk8392 Opinions are a thing you know? All of them are amazing but even I have my favorites.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
my favorite custom 'gamemode' was Death Race. Where you would hug the wall and as a team race around the rift, using abilities to tank towers. team who laps the most, with the most wins.
I used to play a load of dominion, just in custom games
Hide and seek was my favourite minigame and when dominion got taken away, it died and it just didn’t work on any other map
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.
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"
Dominion was the best mode, hands down. Even twisted tree line was super fun
And Twisted Treeline really nailed it into people's heads how important a good team comp and being able to team fight well was
and every game above gold is just "Do the meta and nothing else"
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.
I came for the nostalgia but got way more, modes like the Blood Moon i would have never remembered otherwise. Great video, thumbs up!
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
25:21 My baby, Nexus Siege, my favorite mode. You look as beautiful as the day you were gone, *Cries in nostalgia*.
I'd pay $ to play Siege one more time :(
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
mine toooo :(
Man... I was so bad at it.. But at the same time.. it was so fun..
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.
money? isnt league a free to play game with optional micro transactions for cosmetic items?
@@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.
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.
@@dolores3585 Even when they release new gamemodes its to promote skins like blood moon event.
This is universal. It applies to any company, or even government.
Odyssey was my favourite non SR/ARAM game mode that has ever been released. League + teamwork + that classic wave after wave of enemies style game was awesome.
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.
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.
"Riot's ability to maintain League of Legends is highly questionable" Spitting facts here
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.
18:00 About yasuo. Do you remember the old cloud dragon? Ultimate cooldown reduction dragon. A Turkish UA-camr got bored and did something interesting. He made 3 second Yasuo ult and managed to keep his opponent in the air until he died.
My friends and i still miss dominion to this day.. fast, fun, good for training with new champions 😩
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.
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
@@sunghyunyu6596 yeah, i really hated the Devil Teemo doombots, it's just not the same old Doom Bots i was used to ...
I have never played it before but it looks so fun and challenging.
I remember 5 smite and Anivia wall just to hold lv.100 teemo
Rip Twisted Treeline 2020. Here's hoping that they bring it back, even for just a little bit, for the whole harrowing event.
Knowing Riot's greed these days, they won't even think about it
Never got to play on it wish it was still around
@@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.
@@JPLangley_ I started playing season 10 so I literally never got to play it
@@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.
"everyone just throws their abilities at each other and sees what happens" is the most accurate description of ARAM
I remember one for all all started because an exploit was found that allowed players pick the same champion. Several custom games were made and everyone tried joining them. Great fun
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.
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
@@_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.
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.
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.
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
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
@@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
The most fun about the 2 PVE modes were the missions you could optionally do. The content itself was rather easy, but beating an event with 5 yasuo's was something different but rewarded you with some (nice) cosmetics