Antifun in League
Defining Anti-Fun as a concept in which a mechanic, champion or gameplay hinders enjoyment more than it fosters positive experience in league of legends, I'm starting to feel as if the amount of anti-fun mechanics outweigh the potential enjoyment a player can reap from playing the game. Or, to re-word it, there is more to hate than there is to love. I'll go into detail, but does anyone disagree with this statement? If so, how would I go about having fun in this game again?
Considering this game balanced, which I'm not saying it isn't, there are obviously champion kits or designs that take away fun from the enemy team. I'll use the game I played most recently before I was angered enough to uninstall the game entirely. I wanted to play Caitlyn since I haven't used her in a while and wanted to practice my CSing, and the enemy team had a Blitzcrank, Kalista, Shaco and LeBlanc. I told my team 5 seconds into the match "oh boy, a Blitzcrank, Looks like I'll feed this game", and I was wrong at first since he expected me to get caught in obvious grabs, and I easily baited them or dodged, or he hit a minion. He landed very few grabs for the duration of the laning phase, and we should have won lane. However, we didn't, and somehow a Kalista who rushes Hurricane outdamages a Caitlyn who rushes Infinity Edge. But by then I was only about 2/3, and my Sona wasn't doing bad.
Then I see LeBlanc roaming to bot, I run back to tower because I saw her, we warded, and had map awareness. Blitzcrank even flash grabbed a minion, and I make it safely to tower, but guess what happens? LeBlanc QRW dives me under tower and Shaco suddenly appears from NOWHERE (behind the tower just outside vision range) and uses his Shiv toss, and deletes the remainder of my health. Riot said in their preseason manifesto that "League of Legends is a game designed around counterplay." What could I have possibly done to counterplay my healthbar getting DELETED? So then I'm 2/4 and our LeBlanc mid, who "won lane" against the other LeBlanc starts raging so I mute her instantly and keep farming. When I get back to lane, Blitzcrank lands the first grab of the GAME because odds are in 30 grabs in 10 minutes one has to land by fluke, and I focus Kalista down after he punches up, which is ALREADY broken levels of cc, and while she runs away as I'm ulting her, Blitzcrank ults, stopping my ult and she comes back in and kills me. Sona even lands her ult on both of them, and I still die. 2/5 now. After more INVISIBLE GANKS regardless of wards and tower diving roams I get to 4/10 and say in all chat "congratulations, you made me hate this game." and I do. But let's say that's not a good example.
Let's instead say Swain support is useless, shouldn't work, and should feed 10 kills by 20 minutes. It didn't. I had the misfortune of going against this in a ranked game, and his bird skill does 200 health at level 1. I also played a ranked game where I counterpicked a Swain with Viktor mid, and even landing lasers and dodging his snare circle (forgot the name) he just presses R and is full health only using 1/3 of his mana. Me having to spam lasers causes me to run out of mana far before he does. What "counterplay?" I played tank Warwick for a game of aram and took "2673 damage in 4.71 seconds," while the other team had a Fiddlesticks who kept me stunned/silence for the ENTIRE duration of me getting killed. Are you serious?
In a game where getting deleted instantaneously and getting perma-locked into being able to do NOTHING other than watch your health bar FADE while the other team and my team has the audacity to say "lmao u fking suck noob git gud" it's no wonder toxicity is so prevalent in this game. How am I not supposed to call my opponents "trash hick sadists" for playing these champions? And of course they'll play these champions because these champions exist, and none of them will ever get nerfed because they are core mechanics of league of legends. (My list of uncounterable champs being LeBlanc, Blitzcrank, Shaco, Rengar, Yi, Jax, Teemo, Heimer, Fiddlesticks, Lee Sin, and Zed have no reason to be nerfed in Riot's eyes.)
So I ask this. Other than waiting for URF, if it reappears, how do I bring myself to enjoying this game again? Is there something people do to not go INSANE after garbage deletes happening? Or did I waste $650 and should have uninstalled years ago? And for the games where I get a kill in lane, see Lee Sin ganking and when he ward jumps and Qs which I predict and run back a second to dodge it, then when it misses he just flash+ults and kills me anyway, how is dying there MY FAULT? No amount of kiting, or clearly, dodging would have kept me alive. And is everyone in this game required by law to be toxic enough to make me want to physically rip a fellow human being apart? Just thinking about this game again makes me angry to the extent of wanting to exterminate the entirety of humanity.
At minimum I'd like to understand how other people, perhaps those of you who don't have anger issues still manage to enjoy this game at all.
