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what playing league feels like right now

lofi n chillhop··18 votes·1,745 views

40% of my games my teamates are so fed that it doesn't matter if I play well or play poorly, I feel like I have no impact on the game whatsoever. 40% of my games, me teamates are so unaware that it doesn't matter if I start out 6-0-3 and try to make roams and etc, becuase they constantly throw the game and no matter what I do I'm trying to win with numbers disadvantage all game.

the last 20% of the game.. are fun for the first 25 minutes, then from there on out it's so on the margin that the slightest mistake turns the game in the other teams favor, back and forth, until the biggest mistake is made and it's game over.

like... I'm not enjoying the game. Honestly every game I feel compelled to leave game because I'm just sitting there for 20-40 minutes of not having fun. I don't of course, I'm not that kind of person, but the game just isn't fun right now, the majority of the time even if I'm doing well I feel irrelevant to my fate. even if I'm doing poorly I feel like it doesn't even matter to affect the outcome.

anyone else feel this way?

anyone have advice on making league fun again?

sincerely,

tilted n00b.

30 Comments

Ravenhale6 votes

Break the pattern and play a few ARAM games. Games are never fun if it becomes all about winning.

Spiffy McBang2 votes

I started playing ARAM for similar reasons (plus the toxicity on SR) and I haven't gone back. It really is a much easier way to have fun in LoL.

1wolfpack5 votes

Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result

take a break from league, play different champions, or just change your mindset when you do play. try something different because at the end of the day this is a game and its mean to be fun.

final thought: you cant win them all, but if your able to win lane, and do better than the champion whose lane your up against you will win more often that you'll lose.

keep getting better and all the best.

Melledoneus1 votes

{quoted}

Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result

So did Vaas.

Glory ln Death1 votes

So did my dad. Except he replaced "insanity" with "idiocy".

Dracocrash3 votes

Wait... So you're telling me... If people make mistakes they loose the game?

Mortikus1 votes

Yeah, and if they play perfect they win.

Touch My Box3 votes

Thats where I am too..

Nami in Bush2 votes

Here's the current champion roster

ADC Caitlyn Jhin Twitch

Supp Thresh Janna Soraka

Top Tryndamere Maokai Darius

Jg LeeSin LeeSin Vi

Mid Ahri Leblanc Katarina

Suspicious Xebra3 votes

wheres the Yasuo ? Banned?

Melledoneus1 votes

Obviously.

Nami in Bush1 votes

Haven't seen a Yasuo in weeks.

LordGeovanni1 votes

If lee sin is 2 times which is ironic because thats the number of eyes he cant see out of. caitlyn should be up there 3 times and jinx at least one more time than twitch

Ben SwoIo2 votes

What I'm honestly sick of, is how you will lose constantly only to win a couple to bring you right back to where you started. Then it's as if riot eventually says, "yeah you can climb now" and gives you competent team mates. It gets tiring hearing "an ally has been slain" over and over the whole freakin match. Then I get out of lane to find a fed team. Sucks.

Blakiepug2 votes

I feel the same way. To be honest, I think it is just this patch feels super unsatisfying, by the sounds of thing balancing should get back on track late January with 7.2.

Spoofghoul2 votes

It's true

Your teammates are a lottery basically unless you premade, this was always the case though and not neccesarily the hearth of the problem

It's just ever since riot decided games can be dragged on for too long they decided to make it a lot more snowbally, this resulted in whoever gets ahead first wins most of the time, even if you are winning lane if your botlane gets shit on its game over.

Jungle has gotten too strong

Turrets are too weak, hell even maokai can take it down at level 7 with 1 minion wave, pls rito this is bs

Damage scales way too hard, once you get past midgame everything gets oneshot, wow such fun very strategy

Keystones are lame, they reduced mastery choice rather then giving any

mostly due to them being very restrictive or simply bland and not really adding to gameplay, take TLD to burst, yea this totally adds to gameplay, i already did burst and now i do more much special Windspeakers only works on ally healing and shielding well that suddenly excluded it's use from like 60 champions and now only 5 can actually use it

Many keystones feel very uninteractive and many champions only have 1 or 2 they can actually use

Resolve tree still feels upside down

Runaans is full retard

Grievous wounds is being silly because it's put on items which are built regardless of the situation like morello's or lastwhisper

Speaking about lastwhisper, they feel more bullshit then ever, invalidating half someone's built with an item which also either cuts sustain or punishes you for having more health either way it's not something which hurts damage output vs building another high ad item so there really isn't a downside to them

Imagine if we had an item which reduced physical damage by 50% and granted you more damage to targets with lower health then you and it gave 500 hp Thats what lastwhisper feels like

Lifesteal stacking is kinda dumb right now too especially on adc who synergize with runaans

Some supports have gotten really overpowered due to itemization, and ofc damage scaling way to hard, lifesteal being dumb af and stupid counter itmization to other classes boosting the adc they are protecting made them stronger as well

A lot of this stuff is very easy to fix though it's just that riot seems unwilling to do so

ZT Xperimentor1 votes

"A lot of this stuff is very easy to fix though it's just that riot seems unwilling to do so" Unfortunately spot on.

ZephyrDrake2 votes

so in other words... league right now feels the same it has always been... gotcha

6Sfool2 votes

So, you can't carry hard enough, but you can carry so hard that your teammates can be monkeys. Not contradictory at all. The only thing I don't like right now is how fast teamfights end.

HoboBacon121 votes

The exact same thing is happening but for me its 60% of the time I am doing good but my teammates just decide to go 0/13 even when I try roaming.

Ben SwoIo1 votes

I second everything you said. It has not been fun lately. Plus the pre-game crap of people dodging / not clicking "accept" is really frustrating. I'm not sure what the average age group is that play league, but a lot of players seem to lack basic team work skills. They seem to have an "all about me" attitude.

VoraciousX1 votes

It feels like bot lane is the deciding factor of the game, whichever bot lane loses lane, is the team that is going to lose in most situations. So if you're not playing in bot lane, it makes sense that you feel powerless to affect the outcome. Sometimes I do too, though I played Karma top lane with all the heal+shield items, locket, and an AP item and it seems to help a bit, since you can enable your ADC and poke, and poke, and poke, and barely ever die.

vOmvbrawfU1 votes

I think a big factor contributing to this is that they halved the XP required to play ranked. So now, old level 20ish players are playing in silver ranked games. It's just a gamble of who gets less of them. Also, there is no punishment in place for the dude that got autofilled support so he trolls the whole match.

Basically, League is slowly taking away the competitiveness of the game. Used to be that norms were for fun and rank was for trying. Then people that wanted to test their skill could play ranked and have fun playing that way, while people that wanted to dick around could play norms and have fun that way. But now, there is no difference. There's nothing wrong with playing a champ you've never played before as support because of autofill, and trying to take every cs, not warding, trying to 1v2, and just generally being a massive dick in terms of gameplay. Nothing wrong whatsoever. That's where the game has gotten worse. It leads to the toxicity everyone is crying about. Because being in games like you mentioned, where it's a total crap shoot as to who gets more feeders, is just not fun for the type of people that used to enjoy playing ranked games.

zaire901 votes

tbh that last 20% is what i live for in my games those were always the most fun to me

TBNP1 votes

Make league of legends great again

Chelore1 votes

Sorry you're having this problem :/ I'm kind of in a similar boat... The way Im trying to resolve this issue for myself is trying to find friends or people that are entertaining to play with because if they're not good at the game or they're having an off day at least they're still entertaining. that's just my opinion :P

Good luck out there!

TheHypeGoku1 votes

Maybe you're diving in too hard when you're fed and your team isn't comfortable enough to follow you in. You can't force 4 people to just follow your lead. You have to accommodate them better and give them a sense of security that the play will work. They may see something you don't or maybe they feel a certain type of way about something because they don't think they can pull it off. If your team doesn't follow you in a for a dive the first time, don't dive again. Change how YOU play. The only variable that you can control in any game is YOU. Getting sick and tired of people pointing the finger at other people for not doing what they want them to do.

DeathBot6661 votes

Whenever I get bored with the game I do the following steps:

  1. Go into NORMALS (Never do this in ranked)
  2. Pick something off meta (EX. AP blitzcrank mid, Full attack speed gnar top)
  3. If your team seems toxic in champ select, mute them.
  4. Try to win, but have fun with it.
  • This is the most important step. It doesn't matter IF you win, but still try to.

The thing with strange, off-meta picks is that they are FUN! To me, there is nothing more satisfying than 100-0 someone when you're playing a champ in a role they don't normally go. Full AP blitz mid, people always go to aggressive LVL 1, easy hook under tower. Full AP KogMaw (riot nerfed it IDK why) but it can 1 shot ranged minions with his E late game and still has great AA poke. This works especially well if you have a group of friends you can get together and have a game with. There are tons of fun combos you can bring bot lane (Thresh Blitzcrank , Lux Morgana to name a few.) Even if you lose lane you're going to have a good time. The key to it though is to not troll while doing it, however. It's all good to pick something off meta if you are going to try and win the game, but if you just want to ruin the game for the rest of your team, go and quit league now, cause your not going to have fun playing for a long time. Just remember, you are playing a game, games are meant to have fun with. If you don't at least try to have fun when you're playing, you aren't doing it right.

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