You know, league can still be fun

Linna Excel··2 votes·758 views

Recently I decided to start playing league again. So I've been jumping into ARAM to get back into the swing of things because I think it's a fun format and I think's it's a fine way to just get used to league again. Anyways, I've been having fun. Sure I've been in a bad team comp or two. There have been losses. Yes I've dealt with a toxic player. But I've been enjoying myself too and I've even got a crazy amount of chests. I almost never got a lot of S ranks in the past and in the past week I've gotten 4 S rankings. One was on a champ I didn't even own. That was just weird. I'm still trying to figure out how I went 15/5/15 on Ryze of all champs earlier. Doing well on a champ without a great ult for that map was still cool though, don't get me wrong.

So while league has its problems, I still think there's a fun and playable game here as well, even if the meta is a bit wonky or a class need help. When hasn't the meta been wonky? How often has a class of champs been OP or UP in the past? Don't let the boards get to you. Fun remains.

3 Comments

Anatera1 votes

Why are you talking about "fun" in a game mode that you're not supposed to take seriously anyway by definition of how it's designed?

AugustHeatHaze1 votes

i agree i still have lots of fun even in the regular format

Sairek Ceareste1 votes

The thing is, the design problems of League currently still shines through heavily through ARAM.

Until very recently, people were literally one-shotting each other in ARAM with dark harvest. It still happens, it just takes longer and sometimes games are over before that point.

Assassins generally rule ARAM in most cases from my experiences, because the assassin can still get in with mark/dash, completely gimp someone, and then get out easily, leaving the opposing side constantly in a 4v5 situation. Especially true if there's a lot of AP on the enemy comp for the assassin, because the only real counter for AP champions have for them is still just item 3157 , and the armor by that is usually shredded by item 3071 . If not assassins, there's characters like Yi or Jax who will hop in 5v1 and still take down two or three people by nearly insta-gibbing them before they go down.

Then of course, there's still the problem that poke comps are still just rapid firing machine guns, and the only counter to them is "dodge all the bullets, hyukhyuk". Get hit by two or three of them, and you're dead.

I'm not saying ARAM can't be fun (because hell, it's the single only reason I still have the game installed), but it's usually still more often than not a complete stomp and the reason the stomps happen is almost always because of both team's compositions rather than any actual skill between the two teams. This was always a thing of course, but now it's more prevalent than ever before.

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