Why are they so prominent as a statistic? They give the most personal score, they're one of the only 2 stats shown on the scoreboard and they're always shown by default in spectated matches (so we have to toggle to see K/D/A).

It's ridiculous that a stat so completely meaningless is made out to be so important. There's no reason to display this statistic anywhere at all, it's that meaningless. In fact, I'd argue that Dominion gameplay would improve without it, since chasing caps and multicapping is often detrimental to the team. Caps can give the illusion of doing well when you're actually doing badly (such as failing bot and recapping repeatedly).

Capping turrets is something that should be done strategically and sparingly. Caps are not there to be hoarded. Even if they give gold, having one person chasing caps while multiple enemies recap actually feeds the enemy team gold.

DEAR RIOT: Remove captures from the score screen and from spectated matches (you can keep them for personal score because that entire system is pointless anyway) and remove the gold reward from captures. Increase ambient gold gain to compensate. Dominion is now better. You're welcome.

I agree. I really hate it when i know we have the point capped at top after a teamfight and 3 guys with 10% hp stay and assist in capping instead of B'ing and ganking bot or getting stormshield or not getting ezrealed. Ffs i cant count how many towers ive lost because people refuse to stop capping and just back off.

You know why, the scoreboard is for people just joining dominion - they need it repeatedly shoved into their face that captures are good, and capturing at turret (well, at least having a turret come under your team's control) is more important than kills.

I wouldn't mind if RIOT removes scores all together

I agree, who actually gets the cap in the end is usually less important than what was done to get it in the first place. Sure, sometimes good play might result in a backcap, but most of the caps are not all that important who did it.

I have a buddy who zones enemies from points while allies caps. This usually nets him low Capture Assist numbers and even lower Captures. Would i have him play any different? Hell. ****ing. NO.

It's all a conspiracy to keep POOTERSS in check!

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The hate is not on capping points. The hate is people who pointlessly stick around to help cap a node which is secure when they could be off doing something that's goddamn more important. Or on people who clump together then one guy doesn't split off to try and zone the other team from stopping the cap.

Then when they're called out on their poor decisionmaking "Well I got the most caps"