Who’s your go-to Dominion pick?
Now that Dominion has been live for a few days, I’m sure people are settling into some comfortable champions and team compositions. I’ve actually been taking the opposite approach, picking a new champion in nearly every game. I’ve doubled up in a few places, but for the most part I’ve just been trying to see what works (note: Veigar is awful).
There is one champion I’ve been enjoying above the rest, even though I think I’ve lost every game in which I’ve played him: Sion. Sion has always been a little bit of a letdown for me on Summoner’s Rift. He’s great at pubstomping as an AP toon, but by late game he’s really hurting for damage. Attack damage Sion never seemed to cut it, mostly because of his movespeed, attack range, and the sprawling nature of most teamfights on Summoner’s Rift.
On Dominion, though, attack damage Sion has been a blast. Like I said, I’m pretty sure I’ve lost every game I’ve played with him, but they have been so much fun I don’t really care. Attack damage Sion is one of the few champions in the game that can legitimately overturn situations that are stacked against his team’s favor. With enough damage, his ultimate starts to heal for massive amounts, even with the debuff on the Crystal Scar. Thanks to the early and consistent gold gain from Dominion, Sion can reach that point fairly quickly.
Who has been your go-to pick on Dominion? Have you been jumping around or sticking with one champ?
I akways pick kog maw, he has a pretty long range and deal tons of dmg.
Ill start with the obvious one, Rammus. He is already a must ban in draft pick and its perfect for the new map.
I also notice, maybe its just me, but playing a defender will assure u a win, or it will make the chances of winning better. Cause in this map all i’ve seen is people ghosting to capture and fighting alot, but if u can secure and defend the 2 towers next to your base its half the way through to win the game. From my experience u need at least 2 defenders like amumu, singed, jarvan, etc 1 ninja like rammus, eve, yi… and the other 2 champions should be fighters like irelia, gp, jax or even xin. I still think that most ap carries suck in this map
I keep wanting to try Nasus, but since everyone’s picked already, I’ve done a lot of Sona. Which, honestly, is pretty fun when you’ve got a lot of AP.
I came in second post-game and, with a friendly Blitzcrank, helped carry the game.
My successes have been with Udyr, Eve, and Annie. I’ve also seen the use of silence as a HUGE winner in DOM. Loving trying out forgotten characters.
Vlad is not good a AP, only HP build.
Best games were with Rammus (obviously) and Teemo is #2.
Sona was a lot of fun as was Rammus.
I got in 8 straight games yesterday
I agree I think defense is really important and I find myself frequently buying defense items just to stay alive even though it’s such a fast game.
With WW I built merc treads and that significantly helped against the silence and CC, which seems to be even more pivotal in dominion than SR. I built magewick one game and that went well but tanky WW seems to be better with merc treads, frozen mallet etc.
Oh anyone else guess what the Martyr +xx bonus points are?
It’s obviously when you die, but I’ve received 10,20,30 and I think 40+ pts.
I’m guessing that it’s when you die trying to save an ally (I received it away from a cap point), or when you die defending a cap point and it’s “enemies killing you = points x 10.”
Hawat, I’ve seen the martyr thing a couple times but still have no clue what it is. Seems like the defending thing makes sense though, which is kind of strange. I’m not sure it’s the best use of a champion death to try to protect against 4 enemies but the respawn timers are short so who knows.
Spec, I played a game against Jozrael (a rioter) on Thursday. He played Blitz and absolutely crushed us. I think he also had a Poppy on his team, who is just filthy broken on that map.
Udyr (no surpise). I play with in everything though
Nunu is ridiculously fun without having to deal with crumby lane/jungle farm. I build AP and nuke suckers. SO GRATIFYING
Just got in another two games….
I told my team at the beginning of the game to IGNORE the opposing two bases. But an insistent renekton constantly tried to take their base. I guess this is like a throwback to SR when people think they can ninja backdoor a turret when no one is looking and fight it if they show up? Well three times in a row he died or sometimes 2 of them would die, which would leave me alone at TOP, then going 1v3. Which means they get the windmill constantly = we lose. People really need to learn this new mode faster!!
I’ve lost now 6 of the last 7 games. I can saw unequivocally thats its because people try to push bot into their base or someone tries to take the top enemy base after getting top with me. Its okay to quick ninja an enemy base if youre teemo/rammus/yi but GTFO if anyone shows up, dont sit and fight.
Also my teammates have been obssessed with getting kills instead of getting cap points = we lose. Many of the games I’ve lost my team has had more kills than the other team. Ridiculous
(currently 8-0 in dominion) I just go bot and and play defensive. I push when I have my Promote up and then fall back if any1 trys to stop me that i cant 1v1
(controlling mid and abusing the quick heals make it really easy to 1v2-3 bot with Udyr)
I played a 5-16 Garen; I don’t think KDA scores matter as much, but I can tell you who I know I WONT be playing next time I get on Dominion
Rammus and Jax for me; both are super OP in the early stages, though people are starting to see past the Rammus speedy Windmill cap strat.
Jax gets ridiculous quicker than he did in SR obviously, and I’ve pulled out quite a few double and even triple kills on turret with him.
Ez is also someone I’ve enjoyed in Dominion just due to the ult, and also his mobility. He has issues against Xin and other dash champs though.
My friend claims that caitlyn bottom pushing and farming is amazing, but he might be a newb