Meet your nemesis (draft)

[quote=Wayne3100][center][url=http://na.leagueoflegends.com/sites/default/files/styles/scale_xlarge/public/upload/nemesis_draft_finallargecomp.jpg?itok=rWIG7kV_][img=http://na.leagueoflegends.com/sites/default/files/styles/wide_medium/public/upload/nemesis_draft_finallargecomp.jpg?itok=Ketvscyj width=550][/url][/center] [float=left][color=#D1D1D1][size=2]By Fizznchips[/size][/color][/float] [rule] We've just cranked open the Featured Game Mode workshop and rolled out the team's latest creation! This time, you're picking your ENEMIES' champions before making the most of the champs and comps they pick out for you. Here are the main points: [list][*]You pick out your [i]enemy[/i] team. [*]The champions you pick for your enemies will comprise your team's combined champion pool. [*]Battle Boosts are back![/list] Here are some details presented in handy Q&A form! Yay! [spoiler=So Riot, I pick the champion the other team uses? I can give them champs like... Urgot?]Yep, and they can reply with Poppy! But champ select is only a tiny part of a game of League - the rest is all about kicking butt on Summoner's Rift![/spoiler] [spoiler=Oh yeah, that makes sense]Mmhmm. So once you've figured out who on your team's playing who, you'll need to figure out [i]how[/i] exactly you'll win your game. Maybe you've got Blitz, Thresh, Janna, Nami, and Poppy. Sweet - stick Thresh and Blitz together for those ludicrous end of days lantern grabs, set Poppy loose in the jungle, and try out Nami top and Janna mid? Or whatever - it doesn't matter. The point is you'll have a bunch of tools to use together, and it's down to you to figure out if you can chisel out a masterpiece with what you're given, or just derp around the Rift until your Nexus goes boom.[/spoiler] [spoiler=So can I counter... counter pick...?]Yep! Maybe you'll be Nemesis Drafting away, and discover that you're being given some pocket siege comp by accident. Instead of just giving your enemies champs that you just think are weak, why not deliberately give 'em characters who clear waves slower than a manaless level 1 Swain? Again, it's up to you.[/spoiler] [spoiler=Huh. How does champion select work?]Excellent question - couldn't have worded it better myself. In Nemesis Draft, everyone picks a champion for the opposing team, and each team gives their opponents champions [i]from their team's combined[/i] champion pool. For example, if you're blue side, and only Dave on your team has Nidalee, anyone on your team can give any of the [i]red team[/i] guys the crazy cat lady, even if none of [i]them[/i] own her. Does that make sense? I think that makes sense.[/spoiler] [spoiler=Okay, but what about dodgers? DO YOU HAVE A PLAN HERE, MR. RIOT?!]Of course! Wouldn't have added this question into an FAQ if we didn't, duh. Queue dodgers and game leavers might play (or er, start to play) Nemesis Draft, too, so to make sure those of you who legitimately want to play the mode get to actually do so, we're dialling up the queue dodge and game leaver penalties. Check out [url=http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/EZbHLGZY-introducing-the-new-leaverbuster-system]this post[/url] for details on how our detection system, cunningly named LeaverBuster, works! Spoilers: it can detect if you just disconnected because your ISP hates you, which is nice. We also wanted to reward the summoners who play the mode properly, so we'll be sending out a fancy summoner icon to all Nemesis Draft players who play the mode without quitting during champion select or the actual game![/spoiler] [spoiler=ASUMMONERICONERMAHGERD]I know right?! Oh, and speaking of which, it won't actually hit your account until up to two weeks after Nemesis Draft closes shop. Something something manually applied something takes time something patience.[/spoiler] [spoiler=Anything else we should know?]YEP. We're locking Battle Boosts into Nemesis Draft! Stick 125 RP down and you'll find yourself 200 IP richer while your teammates get 100 IP for basically being in your team, and ALL of you'll unlock access to all the currently available skins for the champion they [s]select[/s] are given! Enemy team gives you Veigar? HIT THEM BACK WITH FINAL BOSS VEIGAR AND CACKLE YOUR WAY TO VICTORY. That'll learn 'em.[/spoiler] [spoiler=Ok, cool. So when does this mode end?]We'll wrap Nemesis Draft up on February 23, meaning you'll have plenty of time to find your way around a whole bunch of new champs and comps![/spoiler] [img=http://i.imgur.com/C9cwdBS.png] Source: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/meet-your-nemesis-draft [rule][/quote]

[quote=SadowHero9]Love the battle boost idea. Pulsefire Ezreal FTW![/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]So toxic. Don't recommend unless you're playing with a full team of friends that you can trust won't be afkers. The Eve and Swain claimed bot lane, promptly fed and then just said, "lel, it's only nemesis, you are all try hards lololol going to watch footy, cya". [img=http://i.imgur.com/KuD9Kjq.png][/quote]

[quote=LevasK]^Pretty sure this belongs in the QQ Thread, also I've played 2 games in Nemesis and both times no one took it seriously and neither side had ragers/afks, so maybe you just got unlucky.[/quote]

[quote=sirell]Not that anyone really took it seriously in my games, but there are some FUCKED up picks from my team. 4 of us are picking them supports and dedicated tanks, so they wouldn't deal much damage and then there's one jackass who picks the enemy team a [[caitlyn]]. Frigging wrecked us the whole game.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][quote=jhoijhoi]So toxic. Don't recommend unless you're playing with a full team of friends that you can trust won't be afkers. The Eve and Swain claimed bot lane, promptly fed and then just said, "lel, it's only nemesis, you are all try hards lololol going to watch footy, cya". [/quote] That sucks. My experience with the new mode (diving in solo) has been good overall other than either rolling or getting rolled (mostly rolled). So far haven't had an complaining about the champions people have been given and my teams have just tried to make it work with admittedly varying degrees of success (not sure how we got matched up with two plats the one game xD). People are slotting in mostly where they will work. E.g. one guy in champion select asks if [[Gragas]] can still jungle and I said yes, so he grabbed smite and slotted in as jungler. I mean who doesn't love getting a chance to do [[Skarner]] support alongside [[Nautilus]]? That game was not quick as we gave the other team all tanks, [[Maokai]], [[Braum]], [[Nunu]], [[Galio]], [[Taric]]. [[Galio]] was stomping our [[Twisted Fate]] and just generally becoming an unkillable terror, until TF switched to AD and I sold [[Iceborn Gauntlet]] and [[Wit's End]] for [[Blade of the Ruined King]] and [[Trinity Force]] and then we were able to get some things done. Yeah, it went that long. xD[/quote]

[quote=ArgusGaming]I think nemesis (draft) is a cool game mode. But the thing is that often people will flame and you will disagree with each other on where you guys are going to play. The reason is because often you get a champ you don't know where to play at. And first of all you don't know what champ you will get so you can't call out roles at the beginning. Anyway I think the game mode is interesting. Played it alone one time which was kinda fun, but a lot better when I played with my in real life friends on Skype. The this game mode turns into something much more awesome. - Argus[/quote]

[quote=moniky]This is the best gamemode for me due to the fact that most of my mains are the ones considered "Bad" (Evelynn, Viktor, Urgot Etc.)[/quote]

[quote=utopus]From the One game i played, I didn't experience too much toxicity. I got nautilus, and went AS/tank. It was my first time playing him, and I thought it was so funny to watch low health champions try and flash away from me, and then I would just finish them with the [[depth charge]]. I had all these clever one-liners like, [quote=utopus]My Depth Charge is like ELO hell - there's no running from it.[/quote] [img=http://i.imgur.com/L4V3KVq.png][/quote]

[quote=sirell]Well, I think I've played about 10 games and have thoroughly come to the conclusion that it is probably the worst alternative game mode that Riot has come out with.[/quote]