League of Legends - What.. Why.. Where.. HOW? (Part 3) - Featured game modes.

Hello! Welcome in third part of my post about how to play LoL. Let's go.

So.. You were about to say about special game modes.

Riot sometimes pushes out a Special (or Featured, as you want) Game Mode to League servers. They are just normal games with some modifications. There's what Riot has shown us until today. 

• URF - Ultra Rapid Fire, the most loved, the most wanted. - Game mode made for April Fools' Day. Type of Queue is Blind draft - first you ban as in draft, then you all pick in the same time, as on Blind pick. Here's the buffs we get in 2015 edition:
  - No mana and energy costs.
  - Blood Well (Aatrox's Passive), Fury and Flow generates two times faster.
  - Health costs are reduced by 1/2.
  - 80% reduced Cooldown for Spells, Summoner Spells and items.
  - 2x  more attack speed for melee champions, 1,5x for ranged.
  - +60 Movement speed
  - +25% Tenacity
  - +25% critical strike damage
  - 5x more gold income.
  - All Health pools and damage dealt are multiplied by 1000.
  - On death recap you can see TONS damage except of xxx(for example; 548 damage).
  - Level cap increased from 18 to 30.
  - Decreased healing by 50% at beggining, increasing by time, 1% per 30s up to 100% in 25 minute.
  - Most of shields are reduced by 50%
  - Banned Khartus. Just imagine why.
• One for All - Game mode with Queue type such as Vote Pick. First, Capitains from each team bans 3 champions each. Then every player votes for champion he wants to his team play. If there are 3 or more votes for the same champion in one team, it gets the majority and is automatically picked. If there is no majority champion is picked randomly, every champion has 20% or 40% chance to be picked (depending on that one or two players voted for him). If it's picked, every 5 players in this team have to play this champ. No more changes to gameplay, except.. Well, there are some exceptions..
  I mean, Khartus and Teemo are banned and some effects are stacked up to 3 times, so not every Cassiopeia can poison one Zed. Next change is Stacked buffs and effects to allies. There can be 5 Akalis in one Twilight Shroud (W). And One Lux can deal damage from other 4 Luxes' passives.
  
  Awesome Login Screen of Awesomely Awesome Logging - Click
• Ascension, in other words - How for God's sake do I left fountain?! - Game Mode with classical Blind pick queue type. Game plays on modified Crystal scar with only points and Jungle, without Round lane from point to point. First of all you need to teleport to one of your allied points (2 nearest to your base and top point for both teams). Then, the battle starts. You need to get 200 points with your team. How?
  - Killing enemy champions (1 point)
  - If killer is Ascended, he gains 2 points for his team.
  - Claiming Relics of Shurima (3 points each) - they are small capture points in jungle and have 4s time of capturing. They looks similar to shields on the middle of map in classical Dominion.
  - Killing Ascended champion (5 points)
  - Killind The Ancient Ascendant - Xerath in middle of the map (10 points, gives killer an Ascension)
  After killing Xerath, champion is in stasis mode (similar to Zhonya's hourglass) for about 5 seconds. After that time He comes out from stasis, gets fully Healed, about 20% enlarged and knock away surrounding champions for about 600 units. Ascended chamnpion has no mana and energy cost, bonus Health, AD, AP, +15% magic and armor penetration and +15% Cooldown reduction. Ascended has halved healing effects and is still visible. Small tip: If Azir kills Xerath, he can put a turret with his passive in place of boss. :)
  
  Here You can watch trailer - Click 
• HEXAKILL!! I mean.. Hexakill. Just Hexakill. - If Pentakill is not enough emotions for you, you could have try next time, when Hexakill will be available to play it. The only thing has changed is everything.. Oh, wait, that's Apple's new ad of iPhone 6s. Nevermind. There has changed only two things:
  - You play 6vs6, so 12 players per game
  - You can earn HEXAKILL by killing SIX champions in small amount of time.
  That's all.
• Snowdown Showdown - Merry Killmas everyone! Snowdown was a 1vs1 or 2vs2 featured game mode played on Howling Abyss. There are few goals, Getting any of them gives you victory.
  - Killing an enemy (in 1vs1) or two enemies (in 2vs2)
  - Getting 100 lasthitted minions
  - Destroying enemy turret.
  Queue type is Blind pick.
  
  Snowy, Snowy Login screen - Click!
• Legend of the Poro King - It replaced 2013's Showdown in 2014 and 2015. It's played on the Howling Abyss. Goal? Throw poros and win!
  In this mode you have only 2 summoner spells - Poro thorw and To the King. The first throws a poro for long distance. If you hit a champion, it counts on your team's account. Hitting 10 points summons Poro king, Tanky siege minion who throw poros and don't let you get hit by enemy poros. When you hit an unit with poro you can dash to it. Second one - to the king works only when Allied poro king is summoned. It just dashes you to it.
• Black Market Brawlers - Shh, Do you want to buy some cool death fo enemies? - Featured game mode where you can hire special minions and buy special items and upgrades for gold and Krakens - special money.
• Doom Bots of Doom - Even more scary than Lollipoppy.. Oh, OK, I lied.  - OInly featured game mode with no PvP and just the CooP vs AI. In this mode you play against Greatly overpowered bots with changed skills, effects and tons of damage. Only Lollipoppy is more scary. You can choose three difficulities. 1 bomb, 2 boms, and.. Jesus Christ, 5 bombs. Just imagine a 5 bombs difficulity mode. Do you know why it's description is "Good Luck. ^_^"? I know. Doom bots can kill dragons, Doom Blitzcranks will laugh at you when you will miss a skillshot, holy mackerel, what a world..
• Nemesis Draft - Noooo, I have no idea how to play Udyr! - A regular draft, but only thing has changed that you pick a champion for your enemy and your enemy picks a champion for you. 

So.. I told you everything about Featured game modes, It's a bit long post, so about other things I will tell you in the next ones. See you soon in the next posts! :)

Source of Data: League of Legends Wiki
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5
Link 6
Link 7
Link 8
Source of image: Image from Link 3

//TheTamamario