[2021] What is the "Game mode" team doing ? Apart from Summoner's Rift and ARAM we have nothing to do in the game.

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A Rioter who just left the "Modes" team said that they were in really good hands. But so far, we have seen nothing from them since 2018.

Season 7 added :

Hunt of The Blood Moon, Dark Star Singularity, Star Guardian Invasion

Season 8 added :

OVERCHARGE, Nexus Blitz, Odyssey : Extraction

Since then, the team moved on to TFT and left LoL with mediocre rotating gamemode. We had to say goodbye to the 3v3, the way we said goodbye to Dominion. What we got in return ? Nothing.

Events has been underwhelming ever since. When old events got their own gamemode with tied quest and rewards. We've only seen URF and OFA getting pushed randomly in any events. (with the exception of Spirit Blossom who got a custom skin for Nexus Blitz)

They are plenty of other good gamemodes that could be brought back for recent events :

Ascension, Doom Bots, Hexakill, Nexus Siege, 3v3, Dominon

They even dare to release new Odyssey skins without bringing back Odyssey gamemode.

I know there are technical constraints that prevent Riot from maintaining more than 2 gamemodes at once. But this is embarassing how many games with lower playerbase got way more gamemodes and better custom games (OW, Rocket League, DOTA2, Smite...)

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