u/Initial_Carob2755

I only started a few weeks ago. And got these from 2 collector packs. How lucky is that.

AI picture, would be so funny if someone made this.

Thanks for all the feedback on my 4-team ARAM concept.

The first post got way more attention than I expected, and a lot of people brought up good problems with the idea, especially minions, dogpiling, backdooring, and how the game would actually end.

So this is an updated version of the concept.

Mode name: ARAX / ARAM Crossroads

Players: 4 teams of 5, 20 players total

Map: X-shaped Howling Abyss

Lanes: 4 lanes only, one for each team

Towers: 3 towers per lane

Main fight zone: center crossroads

The map should stay simple: only 4 main lanes. No extra full lanes added.

Minion idea

Each team still only has one physical lane leaving their base, but their minions can split through the center toward the two neighboring teams.

Example:

Blue can pressure Purple and Green

Red can pressure Purple and Green

Purple can pressure Red and Blue

Green can pressure Red and Blue

This means every team has two natural enemies to worry about, but the map does not become a mess of extra lanes. The center stays important because that is where waves, rotations, and fights overlap.

Backdoor protection

A big issue people brought up was: “Why would my team ever leave base if another team can just walk in and backdoor?”

One possible fix is a temporary Base Defense Gate.

When all living players from a team cross into the center zone, a gate closes behind them for a short time. Enemy champions cannot instantly run into their base and backdoor during that window, but minions can still push and the gate would have a cooldown.

The goal is not to make bases permanently safe. It is just to give teams permission to actually go aggressive.

Destroyed tower bridges

Another idea is that when a tower falls, small bridges between nearby lanes unlock.

This would make the map more chaotic over time:

Early game: simple 4-lane X map

Mid game: more rotation paths open

Late game: teams can flank, rotate, and punish turtling more easily

So the map slowly opens up as towers die.

20-minute boss event

A lot of people also asked for a Baron/Dragon-style objective.

At 20 minutes, everyone could be teleported back to their base. Then a portal opens in each base that sends teams to a temporary frozen boss arena.

Think of a giant ice arena with a massive Freljord-style raid boss: part Volibear, part Anivia, part Ornn. A huge primal frost creature.

The boss could give:

A large point bonus

Empowered minions

Temporary tower pressure

A comeback tool for teams that are behind

This creates a big late-game event instead of everyone just turtling forever.

Win condition

I still think there are two possible versions:

Last Nexus standing

Point-based system from kills, towers, center control, Nexus damage, and boss objective

After reading the feedback, I think a point-based system might honestly be healthier, because it makes teams fight for objectives instead of only waiting to backdoor.

Main goal

This is not meant to be perfectly competitive. It would be a chaotic rotating fun mode, like URF, Arena, or Nexus Blitz.

The dream is simple:

4 teams.

20 players.

One X-shaped Howling Abyss.

Pure ARAM chaos.