• I never made a Guide like this before! I have no idea how this coding works and have to get used to it at first!
• This Guide may or may not be hard to read at points, AKA Walls of Text, so be prepared for this!
• I'm german, and as such my Grammar may or may not be accurate, so be patient with my Grammar. After all, you're here to learn something about Dominion, NOT to be a Grammar Nazi ;)
• This is based off my own experience and my own opinion, what i think is good on Dominion, as well as some other Guides i read on the Internet! If your Opinion is different from mine, cry me a f***ing Water Temple feel free to tell me your ideas in the Comments!

What is Meta, and how the Roles work

Skarner

Rammus

Ghost

• The Tanky Melee-DPS (or, as Sauron would call it, "Tanky Derp")

  
  The Tanky Melee-DPS is usually someone with good sustain, damage and/or crowd control. He is deep in combat and dishes out damage to the opposing team. Many Tanky Derps can hold the botlane quite easily and are the best choices to force 1v1's in the jungle, serving the purpose of a ganker if you don't have one (we'll get to the ganker later).
  Examples: Riven, Darius, Pantheon, Volibear, Kha'Zix
  
  

• The Ranged DPS

  
  Also known as the AD Carry. They are very difficult to play in Dominion, due to their squishyness and they need to utilize their range. Normally they're good at poking at an enemy defending a point ( Piltover Peacemaker, Volley, etc.), while waiting for an ally to come and help.
  Examples: Ashe, Draven, Quinn, Caitlyn, Varus
  
  

• The Tanky AP

  
  Before there are any misunderstandings, let me say one thing: Every mage can do at least "okay" if you build him tanky, so you shouldn't think "MUST PLAY Ryze" or "MUST PLAY Swain" or something. Tanky AP just scales better and does better in teamfights. Also, other than Blackfire Torch and MAYBE Wooglet's Witchcap there are almost no Glass-Cannon-AP-Items. Usually a "Natural Tanky AP" has some sort of sustain or natural tankiness due to stats. Depending on who you play, you might wanna focus on building CDR over defense, or defense over actual offense.
  Examples: Maokai, Vladimir, Mordekaiser, Kassadin, Soraka
  
  

• The AP Carry

  
  This is something you should know, but on dominion, only a few casters can afford to go full glass cannon. Usually they have much area damage and some sort of escape method such as Spirit Rush or Distortion and/or Crowd Control ( Cocoon, Mark of the Storm) and have to be VERY careful when going through the jungle!
  Examples: Ahri, Zyra, Ziggs, Lissandra, Syndra
  
  

• The Tank

  
  A Tank is defined by having sustainability and Crowd-control, with crowd control being optional. Their job is simple: Run in and be the one who takes all the CC and the damage. Sometimes they're also good at roaming, making them good gankers (we'll get to this later). Most of them are really good at defending points as well!
  Examples: Shen, Alistar, Malphite, Dr. Mundo, Warwick
  
  

• The Support

  
  Supports always have some sort of heal, buff and/or Crowd Control, or in case of someone like Sona, all of them. Some supports like Taric or Leona can actually consider to go fulltank with a Locket of the Iron Solari for extra resistances for their team. Garrison is REALLY helpful on supports, as is building a hextech sweeper!
  Examples: Sona, Karma, Janna, Lulu, Taric
  
  

• The Ganker

  
  The Ganker is a good roamer with hard crowd-control, sustain and/or damage. His job is to run around in the jungle and go to points where he's needed, help a friend killing an enemy or just being an a**hole and harass and delay enemies who want to, for example, stop a capture.
  If someone wants to take the Storm Relic in the middle of the map, you should sit in a nearby bush to protect him from getting murdered ganked.
  Examples: Evelynn, Rammus, Rengar, Twitch, Nidalee
  
  

• The Botlaner

  
  The Botlaner is usually someone who is good at pushing, has good sustain, can poke/harass quite easily or is good at 1v1 duels. Your job as the botlaner is just giving the other botlaner so much trouble that someone has to come from top to bot, so your top has an advantage. This is acquired by forcing your enemy out of the botlane (so you can push without having to worry) or just out-push your enemy, causing them to give up the point so you can capture or at least neutralize it.
  Examples: Malzahar, Jax, Urgot, Yorick, Karthus
  
  
  A sample Team looks like this:
  • 2 AD-Physical damage dealers, preferably one ranged and one melee
  • 2 AP-Magic damage dealers, an AP Carry/Tanky AP and a Support/Tank, if you will
  • 1 Botlaner
  
  To further make more specifications you want your team somewhat like This:
  • A strong Initiator, for example Jarvan IV, Rammus or Kassadin
  • A tanky Bruiser, like Darius, Rengar, Singed or Kassadin
  • A bursty/sustained Damage Mage, Zyra, Brand or Kassadin for example.
  • And the 4th one could be anything. Another Bruiser, an AD Carry, a Support, or even Kassadin.
  • As for the Botlaner, you want someone who's good at Pushing ( Malzahar), has sustain and/or strong harass ( Yorick), or is good in 1v1 duels ( Kassadin).
    
    More about all this later on in the Guide!
  
  Your team should also not have too much focus on one damage type. If you have much AD, pick a mage, and vice versa. This is a good way of countering guys like Rammus or Veigar

Revive - The Flash of Dominion

Revive

Revive

Revive

Revive

• As the Botlaner, you can go back to lane before the enemy can capture/neutralize your point, even if you died to a Gank, and then you can annoy the enemies by forcing them into having to kill you AGAIN! (not fun!)
• The speedbuff is stronger than Ghost
• Strong for securing the Windmill Teamfight, because if your entire team uses it, they basically have to win the Windmill Teamfight TWICE, effectively making it a a 4v8 (not fun either!)
• It can make up for a mistake, for example being bushwhacked
• The only ways to counter a Revive are using Revive yourself and not being dead
• Allows you to maintain a winning game if you die
• Dying on Dominion is bad, not because you feed the enemies with Gold and XP, but because as long as you're dead, there's nothing you could possibly do to stop them! Revive allows you to instantly skip a 20 Second Respawn Timer to, for example, help your Botlaner who's just getting ganked.
• It allows you to distract enemies by running away from a lost Teamfight to their side of the Map, which may in the best cases result in sucessfully defending or taking a Point
• The other Summoner Spells won't save you out of most Ganks anyways, especially against the meta picks! Go ahead! Flash away from the enemy Kassadin! I guess he will laugh in your face, and you will end up feeding dying AND wastintg your Flash.

• It has a Cooldown of 9 Minutes
• ...that's it.

Revive

Revive

Toplaning for Dummies

• have the ability to get to the Windmill fast enough (like Rammus or Garen) And/or
• lack good ranged poking abilitys, which would be useful at the Windmill in the first place

Revive

Alistar

Maokai

Lulu

Swain

Shen

Ryze

Garrison

Garrison

Rammus

Teemo

Malzahar

Toxic Shot

Noxious Trap

Malefic Visions

Botlaning for Dummies

• Pushing

  
  Someone like Malzahar or Heimerdinger can do this really well. Use your Single-Target-Burst-Skills on the big minion and your AoE Skills on the smaller minions to push the minions. Lasthitting/farming is optional (as said earlier)! At the end you should have piled up a huge minion wave to neutralize and/or capture their bottom point. However, this is easily countered by counterpushing or Garrison.
  
  

• harassing and/or killing the enemy botlaner

  
  Harassment is really important, because harassment leads to zoning and/or having the opponent forced to go back (so you can push safely) or just the enemy botlaner being afraid of your skills, so they can't push. Some champions like Xin Zhao or Katarina just continuously jump the Enemy Botlaner to harass/kill him while ignoring the minions for most of the time (except sometimes to lasthit)
  If you manage to kill the enemy botlaner, immediately De-aggro the enemy minions and head for their point and capture it UNLESS there's a huge minion-wave heading for your point!
  
  

• Zoning

  
  You want the enemy to be afraid to get near your minions, so he can't push because he's...well...zoned...and you have enough time to push. For Example: A sucessful Zoning can be achieved by a Jarvan IV standing next to the Enemy Minions. There's no way the enemy can go in and kill the Minions without getting a Dragon Strike or a Demacian Standard to the face. This works best against melee-champions and may fail against some ranged botlaners. Also, it often requires you to overextend, meaning you're quite likely getting ganked, so this is something to be careful about!
  
  

• Out-Sustain and wait for lategame

  
  If you're Mordekaiser, Vladimir or Aatrox you can simply heal back up, push and outsustain the enemy, so they have to go back, so you can push safely. Or with someone like Ryze you need certain items to be effective ( Archangel's Staff), so you just wait until you get your items, so you can actually DO something.
  
  

• Support your Team with global ultimates

  
  Everyone who has an ultimate which can cover a good chunk of the map like Ziggs, Gangplank or even global teleports like Shen, Pantheon or Twisted Fate can be used to help your team while still keeping some good pressure on your enemy with one of the methods stated above. If a fight commits in Toplane and the enemies see a Mega Inferno Bomb blowing them up, this makes them think "Oh sh*t Ziggs is still there! Must kill!"

Champions - Who's good, and who's bad?

Rank "Breaking the Map"

Kha'Zix
HOE LEE S**T! Kha'Zix reaches a new Level of OP on this Map! Remember the fact that you can be "Isolated"? Okay, When are you Isolated? When you're alone! And on Dominion, when are you alone? almost ALL THE TIME! This is really bad considering his Taste Their Fear deals bonus Damage against everyone who's alone! (however it got nerfed recently) He already deals a s**tload of physical base damage, which means you can actually build him like Darius with a Last Whisper and Defensive Items, like Frozen Heart. This Build is basically the same as Tank- Kassadin, but with AD! His Leap allows him, just like Kassadin, to jump every Wall on the bloddy Map, once it's evolved, and if you try to reveal him when he's stealthed (for example with a hextech sweeper), it will hardly help you, because he's just gonna fight back.


Taric
The best Tanky-Support-Mage you can have on Dominion.
The Season 4 Patch has pushed him WAAAY over the edge with his new passive, which reduces Cooldowns and empowers his Auto-Attacks. Give this guy an Iceborn Gauntlet and he's set.
His huge Teamfight-presence also adds up to that and he really excels at 2v2-scenarios. He's also a really good point defender!


Yorick
"Yorick enters a bar. There's no counter." ...okay enough jokes.
Yorick isn't really good in toplane, because he can't really do much there, but in botlane, DEAR GOD! If you're up against Yorick in Botlane, you're already screwed.
Yorick has his counters, just like any other Champion, but no matter how you turn the cake he will push push push and PUSH like an idiot! His Omen of Famine and Omen of Pestilence will give him high sustain and harassment, and because he pushes so hard he will have almost guaranteed access to the health pack in the middle of the botlane, giving him even MORE sustain. His Omen of Death can turn 1v1 fights into 2v1 fights, and even if you manage to effectively "counter" him, he has basically two more lives with his Omen of Death and Revive.
He will out-push, out-harass, out-damage AND out-sustain you, and there's little to nothing you could possibly do against him! Number 1 Pain to the face for every botlaner!

Rank "Mash Buttons, get Victory"

Urgot
He's basically Yorick with the ability to actually do something in toplane. If you're up against him botlane, he will spam his Noxian Corrosive Charge, and if he hits with just one of them, he will Acid Hunter away over half of your health. "BUT YOU CAN DODGE HIS GRENADES!!!" Of course you can, but while you're busy dodging his abilities you give him free time to push, slowly but safely.
If you're melee, he's able to spam Sheen/ Trinity Force procs for extra damage in your face (if you have a Gapcloser), or kite you like a boss with his Terror Capacitor (if you have no gapcloser), and if you want to kill him, he can use his Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser on you to get free armor and magic resist plus his Terror Capacitor shield. Yep. Balanced, isn't he? He's not much of a problem as Yorick though.


Wukong
I wonder why they didn't tag Wukong as an Assassin up to now, because he definitely is one! The main reason for im being so strong is that with his Crushing Blow he bashes away so much armor that it doesn't actually matter if you stack much armor, if he gets Black Cleaver and/or Last Whisper, you're going to die! His Cyclone also synergizes too well with his armor reduction. Not to mention the Armor reduction of Crushing Blow+ Black Cleaver benefits the entire enemy team, not just Wukong himself!


Jax
Imagine if he had a REAL weapon! Jax counters almost every melee botlaner, with his high damage, especially post-6, when he gets his Master-At-Arms, and he can easily force his enemies out of lane so he can push safely. Toplane he's actually quite good as well, if you build him fulltank with Trinity Force and Atma's Impaler for extra damage. Among the professional Dominion Players he's First Pick Material and sometimes even banned.


Lulu
Lulu is one of the best Supports for Dominion! She offers so much CC and kitability to your team that the enemies will often end up wondering how the f**k their whole team just got murdered. She's also is a really good Point defender as well as a good Point attacker, which makes her extremely versatile!


Shaco
Why is Shaco strong? Simple: he can very easily defend a point due to his skill kit. Jack In The Box can hinder your movement through the jungle, his assassin-style gapcloser Deceive makes him dangerous and super-annoying as well, and with his Hallucinate he can stop captures while chilling out in the back. However, all of this can be avoided with a little bit of experience, positioning and buying a hextech sweeper/ The Lightbringer, which is why he's not AS strong as other Champions.


Jayce
Jayce is probably the most versatile champion you can have on Dominion! He can botlane, he can toplane, he can attack, he can defend! Even under their own tower the Enemies aren't safe from him, because he can either poke at them with a Shock Blast+ Acceleration Gate combo while being out of tower range or even out of sight, or he can dive in with To The Skies! and then bash your face in while tanking the tower with Garrison and the Mercury Hammers added armor! His good combo of offense, defense and mobility made him one of the most used champions in Season 2!

Rank "Everybody mains something here"

Warwick
You wanna know why i listed him as a "tank" earlier on? Simple. He's often played as a tanky-AP/AD-Lifestealer, and once he gets enough items, he will end up being unkillable and dealing WAY more damage than he should! He gets way too much health back with his Hungering Strike, and his Blood Scent allows him to provide vision in the jungle, so his team can assassinate low-health-champions (or he can assassinate them himself)


Malzahar
Malzahar can't really do much toplane, but botlane he's a monster! Pushing power? He has two AoE skills, a Single-Target-DoT that jumps to another enemy and pets. Check! Sustain? Malefic Visions gives him mana when it kills something with it. Check! 1v1-capability? Nether Grasp shuts down everyone in 1v1 who doesn't have something like Oranges Remove Scurvy or a Quicksilver Sash. Check! Both AD and AP can do really well botlane, and if you want to get started botlaning i highly recommend trying him out!


Rammus
U Need Moar Speed? Rammus is a tank/ganker with really high mobility due to his Powerball, a puncturing taunt that lasts forever (not anymore, WHY RIOT, WHY!?!?!?) and with Defensive Ball Curl he gets free armor and magic resist, as well as returning incoming damage. Give him a Thornmail and a Sunfire Aegis, and he will kill every single AD Carry on your team with his puncturing taunt+ Defensive Ball Curl+ Soaring Slam combo (or at least get him really low). He's a must-ban if you know your team will be very AD Heavy, and he's also the reason why you shouldn't be very AD heavy in Normal Matches!
But then Riot decided for some odd reason that his Taunt is too long...WHY DID YOU DO THIS RIOT!?!?!?!?!? For real, i don't understand why?


Nidalee
Nidalee has great mobility due to Prowl, Pounce and Aspect Of The Cougars added speed-buff. She can also hide behind one of the dozens of walls to land her Javelin Tosses while being out of sight and give your team vision through the jungle with Bushwhack. Really solid pick for the ganker/roamer role! Keep in mind she lacks CC though...


Pantheon
Pantheon is probably one of the best AD Casters you could have for Dominion. He has really high Earlygame Damage, which always is a good thing and his immense Mana-Hunger is solved by the Crystal Scar's Aura and the Heath/Mana Packs all over the place.
His Grand Skyfall might as well have global range due to the shape and map Layout of the Crystal Scar. Really worth trying out, but keep in mind that he's an Earlygame-Champion and he's behind = he's a Minion.


Darius
His whole kit is strong as a whole, he can easily execute squishy damage dealers with his Apprehend+ Decimate+ Noxian Guillotine. Some people argue you can kite him with someone like Ashe, which is true on Summoner's Rift, but the close quarters of the Crystal Scar don't allow much kiting! Also he deals Physical damage, Magic damage ( Hemorrhage) AND True damage, so itemizing against him is quite hard. He's as Derp as a Tanky Derp can be. After his Noxian Guillotine got nerfed lastly, he's not much more of a threat though, making this Champion less strong.


Karma
Karma got a Rework, which turned out to be really good on Dominion, but not on Summoner's Rift. Because she's bad on Summoner's Rift, Riot buffed her...and buffed her again...and AGAIN...and NOW we have a Mage/Support for Dominion who currently runs around in the God-Tier!
Her cooldowns are quite low and she excells at doing absurd Damages at long Range and/or Kiting enemies to death. The Lack of Minions to block a Mantra-boosted Inner Flame makes her strong as well! Or she can use her Mantra on her Focused Resolve to get a ridiculously overbuffed heal.


Rengar
Rengar is a ganker and counter-ganker through and through! His Savagery combo gives him really high damage so you can actually build him with some flat Armor Penetration like an assassin. Thrill of the Hunt is, of course, his main engagement tool and gives him and his team vision in the jungle. You don't play rengar as an assassin or bruiser or teamfighter, but when it comes down to the ganker-role the enemy can't do much if the rengar player is playing intelligent and patient.


Nautilus
You need Sustain? You need a defender? You need crowd-control? He's your guy! With his FIVE(!) different types of CC ( Staggering Blows snare, Dredge Lines wannabe- Rocket Grab, Riptides slow and Depth Charges knockup+stun), he's arguably the best defender you can have! I've actually seen a Nautilus together with an Alistar defending the Windmill against five, and for quite a long time as well! Give the windmill in this guy's hands and they're gonna have a bad time! The only drawbacks: His cooldowns are anything other than good, and he is soooooo sloooooooooooow... However, this is easily compensated with the Mobility Boots+ Moonflair Spellblade Tank build i created.


Caitlyn
Caitlyn is a strong AD Carry for Dominion. In the Windmill Teamfight, she can just sit on her Yordle Snap Traps and fight them while the Tanks and Tanky DPS-Champs take all the damage. Enemy Wukong jumping in your face? Shoot yourself away with 90 Caliber Net at the Moment he uses his Nimbus Strike and he gets stuck on your Trap.
Fun Fact: I've seen a Caitlyn getting a Pentakill on Dominion once. And believe me guys: If someone like Caitlyn gets a Pentakill on Dominion, your team has done a LOT of stuff wrong!


Kayle
Due to her range and Splash damage, Kayle can often build Glass Cannon and even get away with it! She's one of those Zone-and-kite-Botlaners, where she's quite decent. Is the enemy Botlaner in range? Reckoning into Righteous Fury. Is he running? Keep fighting him! Is he trying to fight back? Kite him with help of Divine Blessing! Is he actually a match for you? Exhaust him and/or Intervention yourself!

Rank "Can't find glasses while wearing them"

Tryndamere
Tryndamere is a Lategame-character who needs a lot of farming to be effective. On Summoner's Rift, there's this little rule: If he starts badly (and starting badly on Dominion as a lategame-character is quite likely), he will probably stay this way unless he can figure out how to procrastinate and stall the game until he gets enough gold.
Dominion compensates this weakness by giving you more free gold, so he should be good, right?
NOPE.
Keep in mind he doesn't just need gold, he needs ENOUGH gold! And he needs to find a way to stall the game until he has his Infinity Edge, and that's the exact problem: Dominion can't be stalled!
If you lose a game, the clock is running against you and with each second passing by, your Nexus loses health! Saying "Let's wait until our Carry has enough gold and then let him murder everyone 1v5" is basically the same as saying "Let's waste 400 Nexus Health in 10 minutes and then hope we can pull a win out of our *** with a Tryndamere who just only bought his Infinity Edge".
On summoner's Rift, it's a matter of how to carry Tryndamere into lategame and not getting murdered in Laningphase. On Dominion, it's literally about not losing before this phase even hits! So don't pick Tryndamere thinking "I'm gonna carry this game with all the free gold i get!" because this is the complete opposite of what will happen.


Cho'Gath
Cho'Gath is a very odd pick for Dominion. If he manages to land his Rupture, he's just as good as any other Tanky AP Champion. If he misses it, however, he's pretty much useless. Also, on Dominion there are no scary Towers under which he can wait for his Cooldowns to refresh. And then there's the problem with stacking Feast. I've seen some successful Full-AP-Cho'Gaths going botlane though!


Aatrox
Judging by statistics, he does really well on every Map other than this one, and i can clearly see why: He needs Minions for Sustain and to stack his Passive up, His health costs on his Dark Flight and Blades of Torment are too high and said skills are hard to land due to the Speed Shrines. If you try to go Botlane with him, you're quite likely to get zoned by champions with ranged poke like Cassiopeia or Karthus because, well, you're Aatrox...WHY are you Aatrox anyways? However recently Riot removed the Global Healing Debuff the Crystal Scar's Aura was giving you, so how did that influence Aatrox's effectiveness on Dominion?? ...He's...not...as useless as before? Mabye?


Xerath
People keep telling me that he's counter to several OP Botlane Champions, but i don't see it, or feel it. I always murder Xerath Botlane when i'm against him because he has to build Damage to do Damage, unlike several other Champions. He also needs the proximity of a scary Tower to hide under, which Dominion doesn't have. You're not safe at all under the towers, especially when they have Garrison. Toplane he's also quite useless, for the same reason i just said about Cho'Gath: he has to land one of his two Skillshots Arcanopulse or Arcane Barrage to trigger the stun from his mage chains to be useful. Buying a Rylai's Crystal Scepter helps this guy a lot though! Let's hope his soon upcoming Rework will do better on here...


Fiddlesticks
Riot, WHY DID YOU NERF HIS FEAR DURATION!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Before this huge nerf to his Terrify he was at least OKAY on Dominion for his ability to lock down single targets, but due to this change he's become pretty useless now...
He also has other drawbacks, like Fog of War Reveals and spammable Gapclosers being all over the place. Riot, you should have increased the Cooldown rather than reducing the duration IN CASE OF ANY NERFS to his Terrify! WHY RIOT, WHY?!?!?!?!?!


Hecarim
I'm really not impressed by his cooldowns. Several patches ago, the long cooldowns on Spirit of Dread and Devastating Charge got nerfed, making them even longer! He falls short in 1v1 Situations due to his long cooldowns, so enemies can just outfight him with ease, and his kit doesn't let him do much more than any other Tanky-DerPS-Kit.


Anivia
Anivia has mana-problems Early-Game and survival-problems Late-Game, and several major problems with Gapclosers. Also, her Rebirth is pretty much useless on this map. However she gets some bonus points for how much damage she can do if she catches someone in her full combo, and with Liandry's Torment she has a chance against Tanky-DPS-Champions.


Thresh
Thresh might be OP and the most-banned Champion on Summoner's Rift, but due to the Map Layout, his Kit is rather Subpar. Riot KINDA fixed the Problem with his Soul Mechanic in the last patch, but he's still not that good on Dominion, due to the lack of Souls to collect.

Items - The Crystal Scar's new Weapon Arsenal

Summoner's Rift Items you can't use in the Crystal Scar

• Stealth Ward and Vision Ward
• Scrying Orb, Sweeping Lens and Stealth Ward, as well as their upgrades.
• Elixir of Fortitude and Elixir of Brilliance
• Hunter's Machete and all items it builds into
• Doran's Blade and Doran's Ring
• Sightstone and Ruby Sightstone
• Sword of the Occult and Mejai's Soulstealer
• Needlessly Large Rod and all items it builds into
• Enchantment: Homeguard
• Banshee's Veil
• Warmog's Armor
• Ohmwrecker
• B. F. Sword and all items it builds into
  
  Say goodbye to those Items and say Hello to a new arsenal of Items you can use on the Crystal Scar!
  
  

  Crystal Scar-Items which are unavailable on Summoner's Rift

  
  Oracle's Extract
  Rest in Pieces, Oracle's Elixir... However, since Oracle's Extract does the exact same thing as the Elixir for a cheaper price, it won't be an issue. Good to counter Stealth-Champions like Twitch or Shaco. But there are some better Items for that, i'll cover these in a second.
  
  Prospector's Blade and Prospector's Ring
  The Crystal Scar Versions of Doran's Blade and Doran's Ring. They build into nothing and picking them up at the beginning is kind of nice, since they give you great Early-Game-Stats, but they're not totally necessary, just like the Doran's Items. I mean Prospector's Blade gives you the Stats of a Phage plus Lifesteal for only 950 Gold!
  
  Grez's Spectral Lantern, The Lightbringer and hextech sweeperHextech Sweeper
  All of these Items are just great! They allow you to detect a nearby Noxious Trap or Jack In The Box, so you can safely destroy them without triggering them (if you're ranged, of course) and the Stealth-detecting active of these things give you Vision in the Jungle, allow you to check bushes and/or make an enemy retreat because you know he's here and he can't surprise you anymore. With the lack of Stealth Wards and Vision Wards you need more vision, and these provide you with it. Their stats are quite good as well...at least before Riot decided to nerf the stats they provided... The Lightbringer was a good item, WHY did you weaken it's Stats? I can understand that with hextech Sweeper, this thing was really strong, but The Lightbringer? COME ON!!!
  
  Blackfire Torch
  Say Hello to your new Deathfire Grasp! Okay item stat-wise and a great active for every Burst and GTFO Mage. I miss the old Blackfire Torch however, it was a really good (if a bit overpowered) item...
  
  Crystal Scar-Exclusive Versions of Rod of Ages and all Tear-Items.
  You should know those items from Summoner's Rift. On Dominion, there are versions of these items which stack faster, which is a great thing due to the faster Pace of Dominion, this was needed a lot!
  
  Moonflair Spellblade
  LOVE! THIS! ITEM! In my Opinion it's the best Crystal-Scar-Exclusive item!
  Before it's removal it was a pretty underwhelming Item, so it got removed, and then again added for Dominion and the Twisted Treeline, and when i read this thing's new Stats, my Jaw hit the floor at how strong this thing is! Giving you a little bit of Ability power, good Armor and Magic resistance make it a great Item, and to top it all off this thing gives you Tenacity, which means you can buy boots other than Mercury's Treads, for example Sorcerer's Shoes! And all of this for only 2600 Cash!
  You're a mage and need defense? Moonflair Spellblade.
  You're a Tank and want a bit of damage while still remaining tanky? Moonflair Spellblade.
  You're a Tank and can't decide whether to buy Mercury's Treads, Ninja Tabi or Sorcerer's Shoes? Moonflair Spellblade and Mobility Boots!
  
  Wicked Hatchet and Lord van Damm's Pillager
  Those things got added to Dominion with the Season 4 Patch, and BOY are these good. Wicked Hatchet is a really good Piecemeal Crit Item to buy on guys like Jax Earlygame and upgrade it into Lord Van Damm's Pillager Late-Game, and Lord Van Damm's Pillager is basically an Infinity Edge, but easier to build, due to the fast pace of the Crystal Scar, if you have to save for a B. F. Sword you sit around with nothing you could shop (except for maybe some Health Potions LOL). Wicked Hatchet fixes this problem! The small DoT it adds to your crits is pretty nice too!
  
  Wooglet's Witchcap
  Is there anyone out there who remembers the item Zhonya's Ring? This thing is basically a combination of AP infinity edge Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. This addition was really needed since buying both Rabadon's Deathcap AND Zhonya's Hourglass is not worth it most of the time. This item makes up for this disadvantage for Mages.
  
  Sanguine Blade
  A Mini- Bloodthirster which gives you some nice damage and Lifesteal which stacks the more you auto-attack something. Good for increasing your Damage output, and an interesting counter to Yorick. Stacking Lifesteal with Vampiric Scepters makes you get more Health back than you lose by him. More on that later.
  
  Odyn's Veil
  Dominion's Response to Summoner's Rift's old Banshee's Veil. It builds from a Catalyst the Protector, which is a good item, it's not SUPER MUST BUY ZOMFG good, but pretty decent. Odyn's Veil basically reduces Magic Damage, both with Magic Resistance and it's passive reduction, and after taking enough Magic damage, you can activate it to go WTF-BOOOOOOOOM deal damage to surrounding Enemies by the amount of magic Damage you've taken! Great Item if the Enemy team is very AP-Heavy or the enemy LeBlanc goes crazy, as it's the best Item when it comes down to reducing Magic Damage!
  
  Entropy
  It's basically a Stronger version of Phage, kinda the opposite of Frozen Mallet. On top of high Damage and a Phage-Speedbuff it gives you a nice Active which causes your auto-attacks to deal Bonus True Damage, and any form of True Damage is strong! If you're a Squishy DPS Champion, for example an AD Carry, this Item is a good addition to your kit. It used to be VERY expensive, but then Riot made a great decision in removing the B. F. Sword component and replacing it with a Pickaxe. REALLY good Item now!
  
  Dervish Blade
  And, finally, as Mercurial Scimitar had to go as well, Riot is giving us...this...thing...whatever. Dervish Blade is an item which you can upgrade your Quicksilver Sash into. However when it comes down to stats, it's not really a good item, because there are only a few Champions who could make good use of the combination of Attackspeed and CDR, and on those you shouldn't be building Quicksilver Sash in the first place. It's only worth upgrading your Quicksilver Sash into this thing as your last Item when you have everything else finished.