Things you can do to make duels interesting

Found that duels in arenas can get boring, so I am inventing a random system of stuff that may happen during dueling to help things be funnier.

What I have to the moment is:

- Rune rain.- Each random amount of seconds a random rune appears at a random place of the duel arena.

- Nothing more

So I need ideas, please help vexha

-random placed goblin landmines
-make crates in the arena and some have rune healing (like 100-150) and some have an explosion that does like 50-75
- explosive barrels that can be shot from a distance to blow up a kinda big area to hit others like 200-300dmg
-creeps but they sleep so there not really annoying, but you could wake them up when some1 isnear them :)
-creep lure item (will creeps go to this if there sleeping? that would be cool to stun some1 then place it near them)

thats all I can think of for now

For starters dont make duels just 1v1, make them like 2v2, or team 1 vs team 2 or a ffa, from there you can work in things like ctf, king of the hill, limited visibility, and some other interesting enviroments like mazes or toxic clouds etc

ummm....

Little foggy areas that make heros that are in them miss more.

I'm not a very creative person.... Thats all i can think of for now.

- Fight with 4-5 heroes, not with just one.
- Make them need to support each other, more than just the old tank-heal-curse trinity.
- Randomly moving proximity mines.
- Heat seeking proximity mines.
- Lightning that attempts to hit you.
- Randomly spawning items that disappear again five seconds later.
- Arena traps that shoot fire or spinning blades.

-make a little fireball float around with immolation on it kinda like that 1 mini game in uther party
- make almost the entire floor erupt in flames like every 15secs make there be a timer though, that way you know when to run to the patch of safe land
- make the dueling be elevators that move up/down/back and forth kinda like that mission in the campaign I think it was in ud campaign, might want to make this only for melee heros though or range will own
- make a ring of lava around the area and give every hero a push item that can push them in it
- is it possible to invert some1s clicking? if so do that so it will be all hard to run away like when they click to run 5 feet back they run 5 feet forward

Really nice ideas, keep them going, the more than 1v1 heroes dueling will not be added, to team work fights use the main arena

I like the invert Idea for movement. If you need any help iimplementing it (really doubtful, since your Lord Vexorian, lord of hero arenas), just PM me ;).

Sounds cool.... Almost done with it? or close to realeasing a test map?

is it possible to remove terrain? If so you could remove some of the terrain over time till all your on is a little thing. If its impossible to remove land then just do it with fire have the areana be a big circle and this line of fire goes around in a circle starting from the outside spirling inward till it end up the areana is a super tiny circle. If a player ever touchs the fire then they lose