League of Legends: Dominion isn’t just a new map; it’s a whole new game. Dominion takes the best bits of a Summoner’s Rift game and serves them up over and over during an adrenaline fueled 20 minute play session.
Don’t confuse Dominion with some kind of butchered “EM” mode, it’s fast no-farm gameplay that encourages constant fighting and skirmishing.
Forget jungling, forget passive last-hit lanes that can penalize a push, Dominion is a map that takes your favorite League of Legends champions and places them in a completely new environment where the name of the game is “getting in there.”
Health/mana packs and speed boosts sprinkled about the field add a truly dynamic aspect to the match that fosters a permanent state of combat flux.
There are no jungle creeps, dragons, or Nashors, but there is a serious boost available in the dead center of the map for players that seek it out.
Summoner favorite Promote returns to the game for Dominion alongside a new Summoner spell called Garrison, allowing a player to either weaken opposing towers or fortify their own.
The capture points themselves add a strategic element to the game. Towers under control of a team function much like the kind players are used to, with one important difference – towers being captured don’t fire. This becomes an interesting gameplay element for laying siege to towers or taking out players attempting to hide behind them.
The gold trickle speeds up, players start at level 3, and even the items and gear available during a Dominion game have been amped up to facilitate the breakneck pacing. When discussing the capture-and-hold aspects of Dominion, you might hear it dismissed as some sort of Arathi Basin knock-off, but nothing could be further from the truth.
While capture-and-hold point maps are nothing new, Dominion amps things up with sizzle and snap that will leave even the greatest battle-scarred MOBA players coming back for more.
Dominion feels like a true evolution of the genre instead of yet another 5v5 base-battle – and for that, it’s perfectly acceptable to have placed the hotly anticipated Magma Chamber on the back burner.
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