Toxic destroyed the game's senior playerbase
I remember years ago my friend and I were talking about how all of the good players got banned and left the game. I enjoyed playing against people that actually "gave a shit" about the game. Honestly I loved seeing the community bash on players using "shitty" champions. Or yelled at them because someone else isn't trying as hard as they were.
We would play a match and wonder how people even lose certain matchups in mid. Like dying to a Twisted Fate 1v1, or someone getting Yasuo'd. Then I scroll over to take a peek at what they're doing, and it's literally my teammate standing in one spot and letting the other guy kill him with no regards to backing at low health or anything.
Some games we would play and our jungler would legitimately not do anything. Just 100% killing monsters like it was a PVE game lol.
The reason I played league in the first place was mainly for the PvP, you don't have to worry about gear or anything like in World of Warcraft (that game's "PvP" has gone to shit too, especially arena).
The pro scene this year was not interesting to watch at all -no mechanically challenging champions played in the solo lanes -kaisa's damage should have been nerfed, a part of me says this is where game dev's completely ignore the pro's and change things for the better. -finals mid picks lost FNC the games. Irelia into Lissandra, Azir? wtf, Viktor... mid.
Queue times are still fast But doesn't really function well imo. People will always despise the 50/50 winrate system and want MMR to be shown. Pretty silly to see a game rely on a third party website (op.gg) shame on the devs I guess.
On a positive note
More people seem to watch league nowadays than they do play. But I'm 100% positive people aren't watching those streamers for the game.
