User blog comment:Commander Marko/Ranked Mode for Dominion/@comment-5342720-20130917035717

"With enough range, you can force enemies to give up a capture point and continue towards the path to victory."

Long before you poke them down significantly they will either engage on you or gank bot. In fact, most of the time you won't even get to poke them. The higher up you go in dominion the less frequently you will see people sitting on a point, waiting for a fight to start. They will be in the jungle, being human wards and imposing on the enemy team the constant threat of an ambush. Poke is important, but it does not win games (nid spear exception, due to its exceptional range, damage, and being impossible to dodge when shot from fog.) In the game you described, a Vi and Rengar should have been ganking bot/ambushing or skirmishing in jungle extremely often, as both are very good at it.

As for the tier list, Ziggs and Xerath are strong picks (xerath more so imo) but nowhere near god tier. Yi..I haven't played in a game with him post-nerf, but he was tier 1/god pre-nerf. Orianna is tier 2-ish imo, but definitely tier 1 if she synergizes well with the team. Xerath, Lux and Aniv are too skillshotty and don't have much to fall back on if they miss, tier 2/3. Pantheon I think is tier 1, but I am biased 'cause I played him a lot.

Btw quickfind.kassad.in, a website which can give an estimation of your hidden elo by averaging the elo of both teams, consistently put me at 1500-1600 elo in dominion so I am fairly confident in what I say.

Also, dominion should definitely get ranked but not before the map balancing is done.