After playing 300+ games in Dominion (mostly solo queue) I've come to the conclusion that it's much too complicated for the average player. I mean sure it's just the same basic King of the Hill game type most of us have played in a zillion games before and not to mention as kids outdoors on actual hills... But, I still feel it must be too complicated for the average players because how else do you explain:

- Running around in the jungle all game (The jungle being that part of the map that doesn't require capping/defending)

- Chasing kills that your teammate obviously has on lock down just to better your own precious score when there's a tower sitting there that you know, you could be capping (Last time I checked tower capping was somewhat important in Dominion, although after my last few games I'm wondering if that's still the case).

- Not capping the tower while your teammate is fighting under it and taking damage from both the tower and enemy champ (not that neutralizing the tower would help your teammate take less damage or anything, hell he's probably taking tower hits and fighting that champ just for luls and you know, not so you can cap or anything).

- Running past a neutral tower so you can join in a team fight your team is already winning (and even if they're losing i'm sure you dying or killing an enemy or two is a much bigger help to your team then having towers...)

- Picking nothing but the squishiest champions available (even though you can clearly see your team already has the required 1-2 squishy's and no tank, tanky dps or support, but hey what are the chances you'll all get blown up right?)

- Fighting off point (Pft who needs the extra damage from the tower, what could that possibly help? Besides you're a big man and you don't need no stinky tower help takin down these scrubs right? It's either that or you don't think it's fair for your team to have an advantage in any fight so you refuse to accept the towers help).

I'm sure there's many many many more things that point towards Dominion being much too complicated for the average player, but it's late and i'm tired.

OP is just venting his anger. Nothing to see here.

What the OP is describing is why Dom is "immature" right now. So many people don't know how to play it, and if Riot were to flip the switch right now, the results would be less than satisfactory.

Dominion is imbalanced because Riot fixes champs based on how they perform in Summoner's Rift. When champions who have trouble farming in Summoner's Rift get items HANDED to them, they become too strong. And that is why Tanks are way too imbalanced in Dominion, they get their items too quickly and can plummet through squishy champs who can farm easily.

if dominion is too complicated for someone, they can ask for help. theres plenty of people willing to help out. if they cant do that, i dont really want them on my team anyway...

SR had a year of riot focusing all their time to making it ready for ranked.

dominion hasnt gotten riot' attention since day 10 or so when the pro's stopped playing. dominion was a publicity stunt that failed.

honestly, we dont need ranked. i could care less. everyone uses jabebot anyway. all riot has to do is not screw it up and we'll be fine. when they decide to focus on dominon, they can come to us and ask us how to do it. but for now, let them worry about SR. i'll take my smaller community over their giant one any day