Dominion is Live and um... interesting.

Dominion ... League of Legends new map type. Its well interesting. It is not exactly what I expected. I got some good exposure to it during its limited beta and some playing after it went live. This mode definitely helps promote teamwork a lot. So much that it seems to be impossible to carry bad people with 1 or 2 really good players. The fact that everyone needs to be on a similar skill level for a really challenging match makes well solo queue leaving something to be desired.

I notice a lot of people looking to fight champions when we have 2 or less points captured. I think that is my #1 reason for loosing a match. People who do that non-stop. Taking the points from under them then killing their champions is a much better idea. In fact we get next to nothing for killing the champions with out 3 points anyways. Also it usually just ends up with my teams bottom 2 or 3 players feeding like no tomorrow. Which doesn't help our cause at all.

Summoners Rift can be pretty one sided. But then again you can actually carry it with one or two good people as the others just defend the towers. In dominion that can't happen anymore. Also I am pretty much let down with how good casters are in dominion. A few excel ( aka kassadin) but most really don't cut it. The maps really small and there is very little space to move around in. It's not ideal at all for a caster. If you get jumped by talon or akali that's pretty much it. Its over. Plus the expensive AD items are so much easier to acquire. That early game advantage as AP doesn't matter in dominion. Also some of the key good items for casters are essentially useless now: rod of ages and archangels staff. They also didn't even add any new AP caster items. Physical and auto-attack champs got some new goodies. Tanks did too. Casters got nothing. Honestly doesn't surprise me though. A lot of the new champs have been ad or tanks or tank dps. Seems like a lot of the AP mage players have been forgotten.

All in all dominion isn't all bad. With a few friends queuing up, a lot of the problems go away. Except for the AP thing. It is quite competitive with the right team vs the right team. Its never over until the end too. Its not like you know you'll loose at 10 min in or whatever like you could guess on summoners rift. You can pull victory out from under a cocky enemy team. I really like that.

Also tanks are really over powered on dominion. That is all.