Talk:Dominion/@comment-3358335-20110804212018/@comment-3213322-20110804223549

Someone linked a preview article which made me more optimistic about the balance issues. The points which it seems would make backdooring not a big problem in general:

-the capture process is faster depending on how many champions are capturing the node -the node capture process seems to be in favor of the defense. The nodes act like turrets and attacking champions interrupts the capture process.

If I was to make a prediction, I wouldn't say that backdoor champions are not going to have their uses, but there might be more of a demand for champions which can feasibly hold a turret against 2 or 3 champions. In other words, don't leave your Veigar or Ezreal to defend bases. Have them go off with your assault squad and leave a single tanky dps who specializes in wasting the other team's time. Or alternatively, maybe have like a Nidalee not actually defending the turret champion-to-champion, but dashing in with harass to break the capture and troll-pouncing away.

I'm very excited to see how the new strategies for this mode pan out regardless.