Things You Miss About The Game But You Know Will Never Come Back?

SääsMann·7/25/2017, 4:50:15 PM·73 votes·6,870 views

For me, it's gotta be toplane being an island.

I left around the time when this trend started dying and coming back now, they've really gone all the way through with it.

Overall, I begrudgingly have to agree with this change. League is a teamgame and especially for competitive play it's great that it's so interactive now.

Can't help being nostalgic about it though. It was you and one dude, minding your own business and not having a care in the world. If you got a kill it didn't really matter too much, you could always come back since your KDA didn't really affect your team until much later, same way the other way around. Oh yeah, also not having to worry about junglers because ganking it would just be so goddamn worthless.

What about you guys?

287 Comments

Zenderana7/25/2017, 5:15:41 PM90 votes

The old bot lane where there wasn't 8 people down there constantly

FantasySniper7/25/2017, 5:37:12 PM61 votes

https://yt3.ggpht.com/-NIlwNFXFKP0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/jhbgxvoNB3k/s100-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg Zephyr

When game stages mattered. Now it's more like: It's early game, then it's more early game with 5 man ganks, then it's mid ga- wait, they're already at our nexus? Every champion has to be lane-viable now because there is no time to recover and make a comeback.

Dani El Pezglobo7/25/2017, 5:11:22 PM39 votes

Leblanc Rengar Sion ap RekSai pre rework.

AND WHAT IM GONNA MISS MORE IS OLD item 3026 , A SITUATIONAL ITEM THAT WAS BUYING KNOWING U LL LOST PART OF UR DAMAGE.

Big Lincoln7/25/2017, 4:57:06 PM35 votes

nothing good about top lane being decided by junglers

Ariel the Cruel7/25/2017, 6:45:41 PM28 votes

Karma

TequilaZombie7/25/2017, 7:21:45 PM27 votes

Champions having viable off-meta builds.

Nielarken7/25/2017, 5:19:34 PM26 votes

Soraka before she became a blood bag. Heart of gold. The item that gave 100% crit. Old taric. Old sion.

lightdragoon887/25/2017, 6:13:55 PM25 votes

The jungle smite bonuses.

Pierce The Veal7/25/2017, 5:01:30 PM25 votes

Old AD Sion.

Melee champions having better base stats than ranged champions.

Force of nature.

Eleisa's miracle.

Zephyr.

Purchaseable wards and no cap on wards placed.

Lack of jungle and support items. Nobody has special class items. Nothing is balanced around some gimmicky item.

ModCaptainMårvelous7/25/2017, 7:36:35 PM22 votes

Tenacity being a counter to long CC rather than nearly every CC these days being a slow, root or knockdown/back.

ModJango Mage7/25/2017, 9:33:44 PM19 votes

Mages actually having AP.

JaxMoonStealer7/25/2017, 9:27:19 PM18 votes

URF

I Love Thresh7/25/2017, 5:20:56 PM16 votes

Deathfire Grasp. How I miss it.

Knoyle7/25/2017, 6:35:11 PM15 votes

Rammus not having a fucking self slow.

Crungus Bungus7/25/2017, 8:31:53 PM14 votes

Draft Pick Urf

RestinChinPiece7/26/2017, 1:28:49 AM14 votes

-Towers. -Late game. -Green wards. Especially these.

The immediate off-the-top-of-my-head list.

ProfDrDeath7/25/2017, 8:48:40 PM13 votes
  • Force of Nature. Enough said.

  • Quinn being Quinn and Valor. It's not to say that I don't like her reworked kit (it is acceptable), but something about turning into a bird and murdering people is definitely missing...

  • ADCs being required to commit a slot for a purely defensive item (Banshee's, GA, upgradeless QSS), instead of being able to go two half-defensive items and call it a day.

Mimr7/25/2017, 11:05:47 PM13 votes

A LoL without Yasuo

Hexs Fortune7/25/2017, 6:14:48 PM12 votes

I miss the Bilgewater event music and GP announcer

Mizaya7/25/2017, 8:30:29 PM11 votes

Old Xerath and being able to hard carry on him.

ADCs not being reworked into becoming mid laners/ junglers. Like old Graves, for instance. And what happened with him after the rework was less than optimal balance-wise...

TheDonar7/25/2017, 7:17:17 PM11 votes

I miss when Sejuani was just a hate tank shit kicker and a half. Not this mini-Braum she has become.

The Whamboozler7/26/2017, 5:58:05 AM11 votes

Things You Miss About The Game But You Know Will Never Come Back?

Enjoying it.

Terozu7/25/2017, 9:09:35 PM9 votes

Old kat splash. When drag was just drag.

The Dark Star7/26/2017, 5:39:37 AM9 votes

When the game wasn't (for the most part) decided by the 8 minute mark. When people played the game and actually cared about trying to win, rather than throwing in the towel. When trying new builds wasn't an immediate report by your team. When people didn't immediately hivemind spam the FOTM champion. When Rito made decent decisions about how to balance a game (% max health damage on assassins.... what.) When Nunu was played more than once in every one million NORMAL games.

I could go on.

FilDaFunk7/26/2017, 10:15:40 AM9 votes

I like when League had little mobility - mid lane was much more fun and we actually had to manage mana. Also, no Yasuo Zed

FireDrizzle7/25/2017, 5:46:18 PM8 votes

Playing lifesteal tank Yorick with Warlords bloodlust , Anivia with E R, DrMundo When he wasnt puny, Zac before his kit was broken.

Bob the Toastr7/26/2017, 1:58:23 AM8 votes

Tribunal and turrets actually doing damage.

OldDirtay7/26/2017, 6:38:36 AM7 votes

fights lasting more than 1 second

games lasting more than 12mins before a definite winner was decided

late game

wards (never understood why they nerfed this...yes i say nerfed because i was the only one warding before, to encourage it riot gave out free wards.....to people who had no idea how useful they are or where to put them....as if theyd use em now even tho they are free...Meanwhile looking on the map and seeing only mine now=awesome change in my book)

oracles/pink wards.....before, you could put a pink ward in river and see evelynn in the river, not she just walks up to your ward and kills it and waits...many other examples

2nd class champions/offmeta builds......i remember back when you could actually have fun and put up a GOOD fight with champions having troll azz items.....anyone ever get fkd up by a top lane taric/ap missfortune/ ap sion (granted he was broken af) etc.....but now its like your either one of these 10 champions or you are 3rd class or below....there has always been meta champions but they were like 10/10's against 9/10's and maybe an 8/10...but now its like your either 10/10 or 7/10 or below....

idk, call me old fashion, but i loved s3 where people could ward for themselves if they were smart enough to spend gold on it, where you could fight your lane opponent and not get dove by their whole team......or shit, just having turrets, remember when we had those things? people wouldnt want to die you because they would get killed....now? LOL have you even seen rift herald? there goes instantly half or ur turrets hp, in s3 how many successful dives happened at lvl say 3? how bout now? by level 6 even an adc can tank a turret for like 4 shots, its a joke lol

URF.....because lets not put it out more than twice a year for 2 days because people enjoy it to much and might get sick of it.....really? whoever made this statement and agreed to it on riots behalf needs to be fired....just read the statement again, we WONT put out GAMEMODE because PLAYERS LIKE IT TO MUCH......dumb isnt even the word

many more, i mean shit i been playing since s2 and im STILL waiting for matchmaking/smurfs to get better.... i have this account that ive had since the very beginning and only one time i got higher than silver 2 which was gold 2 in an off season....new season started up (think s5 or s6) and i did my placements again, won 6 or 7 out of 10 and got bronze 4...... from gold 2 (in promo's with one win already completed) to bronze 4 for winning over half my placements........

so i said fk it and made 2 other accounts and got gold 5 in under 40-50 games on each.....did my skill dramatically improve? some sure but enough to warrant being in bronze for2-3 years then hopping on 2 smurfs and getting it on 2 accounts in under 100 games between both accounts? no, while i cant sit here and say i played perfect or didnt make mistakes, im pretty sure on a fact standpoint i can say that the 10 afks i got in my first 8 games on this account literally decided my next 2 yrs on the account....Meanwhile i can make a smurf and get there in under 50 games lol, how bout we make a ladder where you start at the BOTTOM and work up, so you know....people who are new dont get thrown into a game with people already 2/5's up the ladder

wtb s3 league and fire all current employee's =/

Frozenplayslol77/26/2017, 4:44:57 AM7 votes

ApShen AdMalzahar Team Builder

TurquoiseYoshi7/25/2017, 8:45:08 PM6 votes

I like forcing top lane into an island still. I've been doing it quite a bit lately, with mixed success. Telling the rest of the team to force around Dragon and bot lane while I have a good time up top. It's my philosophy that because I'm terrible in teamfights, I'll force the game into a 4v4 where everyone else teamfights and I nullify my lane opponent.

Others:

Sheen giving AP, I enjoyed going Iceborne Gauntlets Nidalee top and destroying AD lane opponents with one item. This was up until the Sheen changes, and it was so nice.

A sick part of me misses a lot of jungle items. I miss lane Runeglaive being insanely strong on so many random champions. I miss lane Cinderhulk making bruisers out of many champs. I miss Devourer because it was fun, until you remember how it actually felt to play against it.

I miss the old jungle, because I still cannot figure out the new jungle and miss the days of just clearing camps from Gromp to Krugs. Also Trailblazer, because that helped a lot.

Mostly, I just miss the old days. I miss when I played Morg just roaming around the map and tossing out bindings and seeing if it worked. I miss seeing Hecarim in LCS, thinking he looked really cool, and maining him for months. I miss learning about all the champs and their abilities as I played them, slowly getting to learn what every champion does and can do. I miss being stupid any buying Runaan's every game on ranged ADs, Will of the Ancients every game on APs, and Hydra every game on melees because the waveclear and/or healing felt good to use. I miss tank metas, assassin metas, mage metas, support metas, marksmen metas, and bruiser metas. I miss seeing Jinx every game, and I miss when I literally never saw Syndra. I missed Braum/Alistar metas, until they're meta and I miss Karma/Nami/Lulu metas. I miss Graves' satisfying autos even though I played him twice pre-rework and actually like his rework. I miss Poppy's old ult even though it felt like ass to use. I miss Avarice Blade even though Kircheis Shard is a cooler item to upgrade into Shiv and I miss Brutalizer even though the split stats on Dirk and Warhammer are way more interesting. I miss buying Poacher's Knife on Nunu and trolling around the enemy's jungle for the entire game, screaming "WINTER IS COMING" whenever someone walks into a bush that I've been prepping ult in. I miss buying Zeke's Herald when my team is stupid and goes full AD.

Things are changed for a reason. It doesn't mean that we can't miss them, and miss the days when these things were things that you could do. At the same time, at some point in the future, we'll miss these days too. Some of us will miss using Stoneplate and becoming unkillable. Some of us will miss stacking Lethality on marksmen and being able to burst people down. If and when any current champ, item, or meta is changed or removed, a portion of the playerbase will miss it.

I took way too long writing this. Fuck you.

THE RlVER KlNG7/25/2017, 9:20:29 PM6 votes

balanced bot lane

Duchess Katarina7/25/2017, 7:13:21 PM6 votes

Mana manipulator, Soraka's ability to give mana to allies and mana pots. There's a theme here... hmmm...

NaRingMaster7/26/2017, 1:20:29 AM6 votes

When teamfights lasted a while. I recall back in season 2 a teamfight broke out mid and it lasted for ages. I was healing as raka support, between heals spamming starcall to help out. fun times. Nowadays it's a popathon.

Castanean7/26/2017, 2:32:08 AM6 votes

Oh there's sooo many things. I miss when games weren't decided entirely by the junglers and early snowballing. I miss when everything didn't all insta-gib squishies. I miss when I could just jungle and not have to constantly worry about not affecting all three lanes all at the same time.

But most of all... I miss when Sejuani's E wasn't such a chore to use, I miss when Sejuani was a reliably potent pick without at least two other melee champions on your team and I miss when Sejuani didn't need to be at Lux distances away from the enemy to get the AoE functionality of her ult.

Statikk Succ 7/26/2017, 5:25:56 AM6 votes

Old graves. Was my main adc now he's a jungler, my least favorite role. RIP

G4LLOWSC4L1BR4TR7/26/2017, 5:41:00 AM5 votes

Season 3 warding. Lighting up the map like a goddamn light bulb was my favorite thing about this game, and playing support hasn't been the same since.

Divewing7/26/2017, 2:23:42 AM5 votes

item 3361 item 3649 DFG.

Mid lane being a place where you went to test your skill rather than just wating for the jungler to show up and win lane for you