League is disgusting to play now, even when all I'm trying to do is have fun I get stressed out...

This is why most people who play league with real life or mental issues or illnesses snap so hard and get themselves banned. The game is NOT fun unless you're playing with real life friends who you trust and have a strong bond with. Anything else is klingon pain sticks. Aka torture. The very few exceptions are people who greatly enjoy using a certain champion and get pleasure from it (like landing double damage Q's with karthus or somethiing), and who just /fullmute all every game and treat your teammates like advanced AI bots.

That stems some of the silliness from mentally ill teammates but not from the stomp syndrome.

It's best to find something to play that you actually enjoy. There are a LOT Of games out there now. Many trash, some excellent, most "standard fare.".

I feel you. They completely turned this game to shit this season.

There is barely any strategy or skill expression in fights anymore. Just an overbearing amount of damage. You get seen/hit first, you die. You get outnumbered? You die. Strategic teamfights left for three seconds of button mashing. The calm aspect I absolutely loved about this game completely vanished.

I'm out if pre-season doesn't feel A LOT better. I will leave after six years and I loved this game with all my heart for five of these years, but season 8 is simply unbearable. It is frustrating Riot refused to listen for a whole year now.

The most stressful shit ive had so far is a sion being able to take a whole base with only 2 items, couldn't even kill him without having 5 people. Game is so far gone its pathetic.

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

winning is not fun anymore and when i win i feel frustrated and tell myself: holy fuck i won this? I WON THIS!

Im searching for new game to go for. this game is no longer the game i knew years ago. it no longer has soul and who balance it have no idea what they are doing.

even many times when im not enjoying the game i chat with the enemy instead and they as well reply knowing the game is boring mess and clown fest when it comes into team fight.

without many of the good community in this game i would have cut myself from this game entirely for now

See, at this point, I feel pretty safe in automatically assuming that whoever claims "winning is not fun" is just a big fat liar. Winning, by human nature, feels really fun, and those who actually win don't go to the boards to complain about winning.

I press the button to get into queue, and my motivation to play League completely goes down the drain

The worst part is that I have no other games to play, so on occasion I tell myself that its going to be a fun game, but it never is

Then I get sick of it and do something else to waste my time

I just got permanently banned, and I'm honestly glad I did.

I've been feeling identical to you for about a year now, and I am overall very unhappy with how Riot has turned. What kind of company they've evolved in to.

I can now quit, without any kind of temptation to come back. I don't expect League to exist past 2020.

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Losing is such a mind-numbing process, especially when the enemy is practically nothing but the highest tier champs and you get stuck with "people" that don't even know how to press their buttons correctly let alone understand what a hopeless game looks like.

And winning is just a chore because most of the time you end up stomping the enemy team so hard it's basically just a shooting gallery with 10 second reloads as you wait for your "combo" to refresh, or you end up with that one player on your team that has no idea what they're doing so things just drag on and on because it's always a 4v5 and none of your good players has an opportunity to catch someone out.

It's so bad that I don't ever have a chance to enjoy myself because most of the time the enemy are either so fed that they just shrug off and ignore everything I can desperately spam out before they kill me in 2 hits or they're so far behind that we just spend the entirety of 20 minutes slowly whittling down their base because nobody wants to damage their precious KDA with a sacrifice to finally put an end to the fiesta.

After 9 years, LOL has become a "Roll a dice" game.

Whos gonna get the troll/feeder/inter/afker/leaver? me or the enemy team? <<

Doesnt matter, ranked or normal. [zombie-nunu-bummed]

The way I see it, the current problem league is facing right now is the ridiculous abundance of early damage afforded by keystone runes leading to severely one-sided mid and (god forbid) late games. I'm not saying that there weren't some silly builds with the old rune system. The new runes are undoubtedly better in concept and execution, but in their current state, some of the keystones are so superior to all other options that they have really centralized the game.

Specifically, Electrocute has allowed assassins to stack on a staggering amount of scaling adaptive damage. Unlike arcane comet which can still be dodged, this damage is instantaneous, allowing certain champs who's kits naturally allow them to pull off the 3 hits needed With 140 champions in the game and more to come, there will always be champs who drift into higher viability, but when all of those champions fill the same role in the same way, the game becomes dull with matches coming down to who was able to get their 3 hits within half a second.

Riots problem is that they have the what i like to call "popular champions". ahri, darius, lux garen zed you get the idea. so what they do is they buff what is "popular" cough cough irelia even though she didnt need a buff same as lucian. you can even see it biased in their videos and community videos and the tutorial for new players. darius ahri yi mf and the others . lucian gets a skin. buff him so people buy the skin. rengar gets a revert. give him a skin(i main rengar). which is why the statement that the game is decided in pick phase because the team with the op team wins 90% of the time while you try to play off meta actually fun champions like corki or anyone who isnt pop. Another one of leagues problems is that they try to give players freedom in which you can play anyone any role any lane any build. it is in their ticket page that they will not punish people for 'bad games' or 'trying new builds or roles' so that when your soraka mid feeds she doesnt get punished whatsoever. the problem with them letting people do whatever they want creates imbalance because there is no CONTROL. GAREN IS A TANK. GAREN ALMOST ALWAYS TAKES IGNITE DUSKBLADE STORM RAZOR AND KILLS YOUR ENTIRE TEAM BECAUSE HE IS STILL TANKY DESPITE ONE TANK ITEM.

darius is a tank that gets up 4K health with moderate defenses. darius also gets the base AD of around 6 when he maxes his stats... close to or more then an assassin... darius makes you bleed and his E at max gives him 35% ARMOR PEN. so we have a 'Tank' that heals from Q. Slows with W and E. GAINS SHREDDING STATS THAT BELONG TO ASSASSINS. GAINS DAMAGE FOR HITTING YOU. and has an execution. and thats not even bring up the true damage he gets from conq which is also imbalanced.

AP items have to high stats that people who are mostly Full AD take AP simply because it scales higher. such as AP rengar one shotting entire teams when it was still good including tanks.

Riot needs to control stats and not give us the ability to be a darius who cant die but does the damage of a 50/0/1000 zed.

simply put. you dont see actual fun champions because of the clearly easier more op choices. why play fun ryze when you can be leblanc and w and one shot someone and go back and never take damage.

why play skarner and have fun dragging victims under tower when you can just play volibear and never die because of passive but still do loads of damage

why play rengar when you can be zed and do a un-avoidable combo and escape with 75% health then go right back in

why play corki when you can play MF and 100 to 0 someone with a Q auto

you can see what im getting at im just as pissed as you are. i dont know if RIot cares or if they even listen. i dont even think they will learn that they have to CONTROL stats so we dont have garens running around tanking 5v1 and getting a penta simply because he has base tank stats ignoring his scaling abilities.

despite the hundreds of things they have to balance i think they just slack. im sure balancing is pretty easy especially when you construct the game.

Regardless, they spend so much MORE time on skins for champs who dont need them and waste time on small patches that give some champions slight buffs that change nothing or make them OP.

I've played on and off LoL for many years since season 3. I can tell you the community has become much worst becoming more about allowing kids to play the game rather then supporting the community overall. It's all about them new players and how much attention they can garnish while trying to keep everyone in a safe space. I've almost never had a ban on chat and in the last two months of playing I've had two. If you don't want to deal with people, and most don't at this point, just use the mute all feature. It is the only reasonable way to play anymore because riot has given up on trying to handle the infinite amount of new players and trolls that get banned. Want to FF at 15 mins in norms because your bot lane went fiddlesticks and mundo. Well too bad because top and mid don't agree even though you are 10 kills behind and every lane has lost a tower already. Want to leave well guess what you will be punished with longer wait times. Want to discuss it with people like an adult well too bad because then you actually have to talk with someone and if they disagree with everything you point out you will be reported and temporary chat banned for flaming. This happens so often I don't even bother climbing rank or playing norms seriously.

There is nothing stopping me from playing the game, but I will make it my life mission to make as many people quit the game within the rules because anything is better then the community riot created with these policy's. Not like they were handed a good community to begin with, but I'd rather someone tell me what I'm doing wrong happen then someone just say I'm inting or I suck and just scream REEEE reported!

People don't even know what those things mean and that just might be from eating detergent packs or a lack of knowledge in general. Everyone acts like an entitled pro and no one admits mistakes. Don't point out their mistakes because riot can't handle facts and those facts might hurt their feelings. It's one big old safe space for childern to play in and no one can seem to bridge the gap because it might hurt a little.

it's probably due to the fact that games are shorter or who in the fucking team fed or is nonexistent. life was much better during season 4 or 5

I think you touched on a really important thing when you claimed about protecting KDAs in lost matches. I recently caught myself doing that as well. Apart from wanting to climb, I realized that if I can't, for whatever reason, I might as well have a good KDA, cs/min etc to show for my efforts.

I can lose games for many reasons. I played badly in a game, I got disconnected/high ping, my team was just stupid most of the time etc. I can't control my lost games most of the time, but what I can't control is having a good KDA to show for it in my op.gg.

Honestly, I'd rather be Plat 5 with a 4 KDA on Viktor, rather than being Plat 3 with 2.

The problem is that your trying to play a MOBA and relax/chill. You can't. The genre has always been extremely competitive and asks for you to keep trying your best.

If you want to relax i suggest playing a single player rpg.