Any Day 1 Summoners?

What, like the first days of open beta?

There are still a few around like Kristopherous or however you spell his name.

I've been here since just before Season One started, so I missed out on a lot of the really absurd beta nonsense.

Everyone used to have innate crit chance scaling. Jax used to be able to dodge towers. Ez's Essence Flux originally healed allied champions hit. Release Xin could 1v5 teams if he got rolling. Release LeB deleted you and there was ziltch you could do about it. Release Udyr was hilariously overpowered. Sunfire Capes used to fully stack (I still hold Sunfire Eve was the funniest thing ever). Last Whisper only applied to auto-attacks, not to spells even if they did physical damage. Koggy's W did physical damage and doubled his bonus AD for one patch. Teemo couldn't store mushroom charges, but they had absolutely disgusting base damage and scaling damage. Hourglass/Deathcap used to effectively be one item. Dragon used to spawn before minions did, leading to epic level 1 dragon battles. Release Vlad, oh God that was awful. Amumu and Galio's ults both lasted significantly longer, leading to a rather crazy AoE meta that lasted for a while.

What else am I forgetting?

Like back when Phantom Dancers stacked and gave dodge, Kayle passive gave bonus ap for ad and vice versa... Trust me the game has gotten much better, though the community has a ways to go (not that Lyte and his crew have not done some awesome things to help, really kudos to them.)

I thought summoners didn't exist anymore.

I joined early season 3. I'm sorry.

I have a friend who's been playing since beta release and he's more of in the middle of how things are now like how the game is improving, yet the company is making poor decisions lately. Now me I've been around since preseason 2 and all I have to say is that those were the golden days of league back then when there wasn't a messed up meta and almost all games were enjoyable, but as time goes on things change.

Probably the most OP thing ever, was when Archangles staff could stack. So you would often see a ziggs get like 5 tears of the goddess, then a deathcap. If they EVER got to late game, you were pretty much guaranteed to die from 1 spell.

I played since day 1. Some things are better and some are worse IMO. Lot's of funny stories like twitch and eve perma invisible would stack 6 sunfire capes and stand beside you, watch you die for no reason in a matter of seconds without knowing why, haha XD Champs were simple and everyone was noob, we were all learning together. Those things made it fun. New op champs with insane skill caps and far more viability than the classic champs is kind of a downer for me. As with a few other games I played since day 1, it makes me feel nostalgic seeing and talking about those crazy old times, and I miss those times; but the game is still good :)

I haven't been around long but depending on how new you are I was around during the release of like feral flare or some crap like that. You think yi and warwick are op now, but wait till you see what they were like with the release feral flare.