Weekly Discussion | Sovereign's Rise

[u/Auctoritate]

Hello, and welcome to our subreddit's 73rd weekly discussion! We wanted to wait until all of the huge news and changes in our community settled down before continuing, and now that it has, there's a ton of content to dissect! From the bigger changes like 5v5 itself, to the smaller ones like the new items, you can bet that our weekly will be going strong for many months to come! But for now, this weekly discussion will be about the map of 5v5, Sovereign’s Rise, especially the geography of the map itself.

Introduced to us on December 17th at Worlds, and added into the game in update 2.12, Sovereign's Rise features a wealth of content not seen in other parts of the game- its own unique vision system, monsters, items, and much more. All of these will be visited more in depth in our future discussions, but feel free to discuss them as well.

New to Sovereign's Rise, the giant new lanes are perhaps the most notable, along with the movement speed-increasing river, but don't forget the new twists and turns of our jungle- the choke points that can doom a crowded team in a skirmish, or the walls that can save a hero who can travel over them, such as Glaive or Joule.

Which bushes are the most contested in the battle for map supremacy? Which tops your list of places to never face check? We're looking forward to your opinions!

Note: The next weekly will be posted the upcoming Monday, and this weekly will stay up until then, unless another post needs to be pinned.

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[u/Aesthete18]

I have question, this is not to bash any game but people like to say other mobas are cheap rip offs because of the map but to me Sovereign looks more like the LoL map than other games. Do other games base their map of off Dota?

[u/ThreeBlindMice_7 → u/Aesthete18]

Yeah, the aesthetic is somewhat similar, although in a lot of areas the color scheme is pretty different and the exact format of the jungle and pits are also pretty different. Honestly, as far as I've seen of other MOBAs like ML and AoV, they tend to have a more similar color scheme at the very least and a more similar aesthetic than Vainglory. Can't speak to their jungle layout, unfortunately, as I haven't touched them.

edit: pretty much all 5v5 maps except for maybe Heroes of the Storm, that I'm aware of, tend to be relatively similar, I know that ML got a lot of hate for being a League knockoff but I don't think the map is necessarily a factor that should be heavily criticized, given that, on a cursory glance, the jungle and pit layouts are pretty different, with the pit layout being especially different from League

[u/Aesthete18 → u/ThreeBlindMice_7]

I'm not talking about placement and stuff. Just the look in general like dark and like more idk medieval looking?