This is not a champion guide so don't downvote the guide for that reason. Hello everyone, and welcome to my hide and seek Summoners rift guide ! I am khoul, I am Platinum 5 and i will tell you how to play this game mode. This game mode is complicated and trust me, you won't ace this in your first game or 2. Alright moving on, this game is about hiding and not being seen by seekers, this game requires good teamwork and skill to win this game. I would highly appreciate upvotes and downvotes. If you are about to downvote this guide, please explain to me what i can improve on. There's always room for improvement. My English isn't that great but sit back and enjoy this guide!

What did they really change in season 4?

Oracle's Elixir was removed
What is this? This is a stupid change in my opinion. This means that I have to permaban some champions like Twitch and Shaco. The bright side is that you can get oracle lens for free which sees stealth units however this item is way too weak for this game mode.
Riot decided to trim the brushes.
Well, this is a direct nerf to Nidalee and a minor nerf to Rengar. Lets talk about Nidalee.

Nerfed abilities.

This really hurts Nidalee's strong mobility because you need to walk on a brush to activate your passive which gives you good amount of movement speed. This also makes chasing easier for seekers since some certain brushes are pretty small in length.

Now let's talk about Rengar

Nerfed abilities

This is a minor nerf to Rengar in fact it didn't really hurt that much on his already overpowered chasing mechanics. Rengar will still remain in the broken tiers thanks to his overpowered chasing mechanics.

NEW ITEMS YAY!

The new items are awesome! these unique items can help hiders to survive and gaining good amount of gold. Also the actives are really good. I haven't really checked these items yet, but i will do soon.

RULES AS HIDERS

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RULES AS SEEKERS

Sorcery should help you get 40% cooldown reduction on your spells, having 40% cooldown feels luxury.


A little survivability is handy. But this mastery sucks. The only reason why we should bother adding points on Recovery is because you need 4 points on the defense tree to aquire Bladed Armor


This should help you kill jungle monsters faster, since you are maxing some utility or mobility spells or whatever, this should help you clear the jungle.


This is similar to Tough Skin ; this should help you jungle faster.


It is a must have mastery, it gives you 1.5% movement speed since movement speed is really important because you have higher chances of escaping.


This should help you with mana problems on champions such as LeBlanc Anivia etc.


Reduces the cooldown of your summoners spells, this is a really nice mastery for Ghost, Flash and etc.


Taking this mastery?! Are you insane?! Well I've put in a point on this mastery if you ask me. This mastery is pretty good. I usually buy Elixir of Fortitude and it helps you with poor jungling mechanics and it can save your *** by instantly healing you for a flat amount. Increasing the duration of Elixir of Fortitudeshould help you jungle.


Taking this mastery will allow you to buy additional items that you cannot afford.

Top it up with a free bank account interest, this mastery gives you an oppurtunity to buy extra 2 Health Potions. Thank you Santander.


If you bought some mana items for instance Tear of the Goddess you get extra mana as a profit so 5% of 250 is 13.5 mana so 250+13.5 mana = 263.5.


Once again, having 40% cooldown reduction feels luxury.


This helps you get away from seekers however, the bonus is lost when being hit by a spell or if you used a spell on enemies.

As a seeker. well choose your main offensive masteries obviously.

HIDERS

Flash is really good, so good that it's a must have spell! Flash can make smooth escapes and you can even go through walls! Not much to add here, Flash is amazing!



Teleport is such a fun spell to use in my opinion, it is so unique in this game. Teleport can be really funny in some circumstances, by juking your enemies when your enemies didn't kill you on time when you used Teleport, frustrating the hell out of seekers can be so satisfying. This spell is so fun.



this spell can help you move really fast and it ignores unit collision so you no longer have to say "GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!" to your fellow minions.



Exhaust is another excellent choice for a spell aswell, the slow is pretty strong and the attack speed debuff can actually save lives, perfect against Vayne Ashe etc.



So if team 2 has heavy, painful crowd control spells, then take Cleanse, this will benefit you a lot.



In this game, you cannot recall, so Clarity will be your friend only if you took a mana hungry champion like Anivia LeBlanc etc.



Heal can be a very fantastic spell only if you took a champion that has no sustain at all. This will benefit you.



Barrier is a good spell, Barrier can soak up incoming damage. Barrier will tend to save your life, but you are not god, you are not Jesus, sometimes Barrier isn't strong enough to soak up the damage. You should time Barrier correctly not use it like a monkey.



Smite and Nunu & Willump have very nice synergy. Double smite?! Oh yes please. This should help you clear the jungle and note that Smite deals TRUE damage. Smite will lose you some utility and mobility however.


ONE PER TEAM
Clairvoyance is overpowered in this map, since riot decided to change the flow of the game and giving all players including supports; limited vision, Clairvoyance has become the charm and well desired as a hider. Having 5 Clairvoyances is way too strong, so one is only allowed per team.

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LOCATIONS

When top lane is equaled

When top lane is pushed to their tower.

When top lane is pushed towards your tower

When bot lane is slightly pushed towards their tower

When bot lane is slightly pushed towards your tower

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JUNGLING

Basically farm wolves, wraiths and small golems because they are the easiest to kill in the jungle and they give out good amount of exp, i would recommend jungling at level 4.

You don't know where to hide? Well don't worry, this image of hiding spots will help you choose your desired hiding spot. The cyan shurikens represents good hiding spots.

As a seeker, basically you need to last hit minions in top, mid or bot lane to level up and gain gold in order to buy some items and wards. Wards are so crucial on this map because it gives you good vision for your team and yourself. Once you got to level 6, it is time to hunt. If your lane is pushed towards your tower, then go to your lane and clear the wave. Farming up minions is really important because you will eventually deal burst damage to hiders and counterjungling will affect hiders.

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Seekers job is to eliminate all the hiders. Hiders have 5 lives each, kill them all until they are out in 30 minutes.

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Everyone is draven me crazy!

Banned items for hiders

Twin Shadows is overpowered in every aspect as a hider. The stats wise of Twin Shadows is way too strong for its really low price. Twin Shadows isn't really hard to get really. Twin Shadows gives you 6$ movement speed, 50 ability power and 40 magic resist with the most frustrating passive to deal with as a seeker for 2k gold? Twin Shadows is overpowered at the cost. Twin Shadows isn't really overpowered in normal games but in this... oh boy.

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Banned items for seekers

These snowball items are overpowered in this mode, meaning that you will never lose stacks because hiders cannot generally kill seekers. These items make seekers farm less minions and rush Boots of Swiftness and Mejai's Soulstealer and basically level up. You get free stats and you will eventually burst anyone with 20 stacks which it isn't hard at all. Mejai's Soulstealer doesn't make you item dependant. We want seekers to build their own way not build this to win.

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spells that are allowed to use

Evelynn is the Queen of hiding and always will be. Her Shadow Walk is extremely broken on Evelynn making her an unstoppable running machine. she can walk in the middle of the minion wave, without being seen getting free exp. unfortunatley theres no counter to Shadow Walk. Dark Frenzy costs no mana which keeps her going and going and finally Agony's Embrace gives her a fantastic shield and cc. Evelynn oh god shes broken as fu.

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spells that are allowed to use

Leblanc has many tricks on her sleeves. She is a very fun champion to play as because theres so much potential with Leblanc. Why is she in Ubers? Simple answer; her juking powers are over 9000.
LeBlanc can troll the enemy so hard by using Distortion and Distortion again to return back to her location. Doesn't seem much but it is. LeBlanc can make big jukes and sometimes get away without even trying. LeBlanc has decent utility, her Ethereal Chains help leblanc slow and root the enemy in place! once you get to level 6. LeBlanc can make bigger plays thanks to Distortion and Mimic. Only downside is that her spells cost a truck load of mana, so you can't go full ham and fully troll the enemy. Thanks to 0 mana cost on Mimic this problem makes up for it.

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spells that are allowed to use

Anivia is a niche pick as a support hider. She is low on the good tier for good reasons; she gets demolished by gap enclosers, no mobility and she uses truck load of mana. Anivia does have great spells as a support hider like Crystallize, Flash Frost and Glacial Storm. Most of all, using Crystallize incorrectly would result of killing yourself and your teammate. You should not pick Anivia in first pick. pick Anivia when shes in 2nd or 3rd pick when seekers don't take gap enclosers champions. Overall, Anivia is a good support but vulnerable.

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spells that are allowed to use

Corki has Valkyrie which is strong with good range and low mana cost. The downsides of Corki is that Valkyrie is the only spell he can use. Valkyrie has a stupidly high cooldown. There are better options than Corki.

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spells that are allowed to use

There's really nothing relevant about Akali. her Twilight Shroud is meh and Shadow Dance makes me sick with her kit. Her kit makes me cry.

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Evelynn can just walk up to a hider without being seen and just instagib the hider. Stealth Wards is useless against Evelynn since Shadow Walk makes her permanently invisible and she is so fast with Dark Frenzy. Unfair pick.

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Kassadin at post level 6 he becomes op, his chasing mechanics rises significantly above the scale! Riftwalk is an excellent chasing tool because it is a gap encloser like Flash, even if you use your Ghost, Flash escape spells or whatever, Kassadin will catch up without even trying god Kassadin is so op.

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I hate this kitty, he always catches up to you thanks to his 0 cooldown Unseen Predator, there is absouletley no counter to Rengar, they removed Oracle's Elixir which is a pain in the *** because he scares the living **** out of you when he uses Thrill of the Hunt. Rengar exploits his brushes way too much.

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ah Master Yi the grand noobstomper in bronze and silver elo. It appears that Master Yi is broken in this map because his chasing mechanics level is over 9000. Master Yi requires no skill, just press Highlander and Alpha Strike to win because he gets a movement speed steroid with immunity to slow and a gap encloser while dealing tons of damage at the same time.

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Twisted Fate is alot stronger in this mode than dominion because Twisted Fate is a lot less predictable in Summoners rift than dominion. Twisted Fate can easily foil their best hiding spots using Destiny which gives intense vision making hiders constantly running around like chickens. Twisted Fate's combo Wild Cards and Pick A Card would 2 hit hiders with some ap items. Twisted Fate, god i hate him.

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Ashe was once in the broken tier but got moved down to ubers tier and Twisted Fate took the throne. It was a good reason to move her down. Ashe is in very high ubers and here's why: she gets a free Frozen Mallet build into her kit, she has a strong vision spell; Hawkshot and Volley is really hard to dodge and it slows you?! Ashe doesn't really need her ultimate, let her auto attacks, Volley and Hawkshot do all the work. However you can drained the mana cost of her Frost Shot if you are careless.

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possible the most overused champion as a seeker. Lee Sin is just so strong, his damage output is insane in early game, so he's not so item dependent. Sonic Wave and Resonating Strike is a very strong gap encloser and you need some skill as a hider to avoid it, if you took a champion that is weak to gap enclosers then you will cry. Cripple is a stupid slow, 60% is insane, making it easier to land Sonic Wave. Sonic Wave Dragon's Rage and Resonating Strike combo deals so much damage. No wonder Lee Sin is overused.

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Nocturne can really shine in level 6, his powerful long range gapencloser Paranoia can close the gap and go all in on the target. Unspeakable Horror is a strong cc giving Nocturne free basic attacks on the target. His chasing mechanics is really strong and Shroud of Darkness can absorb any cc spells making Nocturne a scary seeker. Duskbringer leaves a trail of dusk that gives him extra movement speed and damage making him even more scarier to face against. His mana costs do tend to get annoying.

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Akali is weak in pre 6 but when she gets to level 6, she gets 3 gap enclosers. The only reason why shes in ubers is because her damage output is extremely scary later on in the game and her 3 gap enclosers just makes her a terror.

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Nunu & Willump is extremely annoying to deal with, permaslowing you by using Ice Blast, which slows you drastically and it has a low cooldown, making it extremely spammy. Blood Boil makes his chasing mechanics even better and Absolute Zero deals massive damage and pretty much one hit the seekers if its fully channeled.

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Once Quinn gets to level 6, you are all fish food, tag team gives her whopping 80% movement speed making her extremely scary to run away. Heightened Senses is a strong vision spell but it is not as strong as Ashe's hawkshot.

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Rammus is a beast, Powerball makes him super fast and using a taunt that lasts for 3 seconds in max rank and Soaring Slam with your teammate would annihilate your victim. There are counters to Rammus; Stealth Wards and just juking Rammus is his weakness but juking is pretty hard to do against Rammus but it would be useful if you did it right.

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Shyvana has a fine kit, her chasing mechanics are alright but the problem is, she doesn't have any cc except Dragon's Descent but it's rather a weak one, she gets bonus movement speed by Burnout but she gets outclassed so hard by LeBlanc and Kha'Zix. Shyvana is a good pick because she deals great damage and she uses no mana!

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Singed's damage is really bad in early game without any items, Singed is really item dependent, but once he gets items, Singed shines bright like a diamond. Poison Trail is an moderate damage tool and Mega Adhesive is one of the best slows in the game, yes Wither does have 90% slow which is 15% more than Mega Adhesive but this is aoe so it classes as the best slow in the game. Fling is a burst damage tool that flips the target up behind you. However, Singed is really mana hungry at early game. Insanity Potion makes him a monster. Overall, Singed is in high good tier

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Diana is good based on skill. Diana has a decent range gap enclosers and her full combo just wrecks hiders. Moonfall is an excellent knock back tool and it even slows the target. I do find that aiming Crescent Strike is quite difficult, since the range indicator is shaped like a crescent moon and her mana costs are quite stingy, completely putting her off the flow of her combo.

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In conclusion, this mode is fun because this mode requires skill and teamwork and i really like to test my skills on this mode. I will keep updating this all the time if there's anything that needs changing for instance, adding in more champions in tiers. I will keep testing the ones that i haven't tried with. If you like or hate this mode, give it an upvote or downvote because it will make me happy. Give me your opinion of this mode if you want to, if there's any flaws in this guide, don't be nasty to me, just tell me what to improve on. If anyone trolled or broke the rules, inbox me and i'll add them in blacklist. Now, the closing ceremony.

I will add the bad tier seekers and the worst tier because i need to play them first to see if they are really that bad.