Everyone should start playing League of Legends with Friends

Malicious Metal··10 votes·4,655 views

I remember when I started playing League of Legends back in early 2014. Those were different days where I'd mostly just play solo or queue up with my Brother to play some normal games whenever we had some time on our hands. The game felt a lot different when playing alone as you were basically just left alone with your own thoughts and frustration and usually just played the game for one purpose; to win the game and utterly annihilate the opposition to prove you were better.

I got a lot angrier at things when losing and not winning in itself was more than enough to start tilting me but everything changed during Summer 2015, when Riot released the Juggernaut rework.

Some of you may remember the onslaught of Mordekaiser threads flooding the boards, probably pumping 'em out on more than a daily basis. Through that constant stream of threads I got in touch with a lot of people, a few of which have become some of the best friends I've ever had and playing League of Legends with them helped me greatly in terms of enjoying the game, sticking with it for their sake, getting better at it in general, made me finally deal with some of my mental health issues and most importantly, made me actually a better person overall if I dare say so myself.

League of Legends is a team game, and as such it is better enjoyed together. And why wouldn't you want to just hop into call with a few buddies of yours and play some Summoner's Rift? It's some of the best fun I can have in my spare time and it really helped me foster a community of online friends that bonded over more than just League of Legends as a game.

We meme the shit out of each other, and each misplay soon becomes a running joke, where instead playing solo it would have been the most tilting shit ever! It's a known fact that I'm bound to utter the phrase "I should've picked Mordekaiser" at least ONCE when playing something else and not doing too well, while my friend Tidal Tyrant's bound to get overly aggressive on his champions and either emerge victoriously or blame his casttimes get himself killed in hilariously stupid ways. Not to mention my Brother's constant phases of spamming Meme-tier champions like Fiddlesticks, Mundo or Tryndamere to just piss us all off by the amount of cancer he flings around in our games.

So, let me tell you first hand that playing League with friends might be the best way for you to enjoy the game more and actually improve your experience on all levels!

Thanks guys, League wouldn't be the same without you; Tidal Tyrant, Rìcco, Je suis Rubick, Skelenth, Khârn the Bloody, Bee yourself, Tides of Blood, Blood Magicks

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15 Comments

xelaker2 votes

playing league with friends? yea I'm gonna convince people to not only play a moba, but get them to keep playing it once they realize this particular one is a real butt in the balance department...

Z3Sleeper2 votes

It’ll take them at least 300 games before they’re good enough to realize that.

TheRealFam2 votes

It's still a team game whether you're queuing with people you know or not. I honestly can't for the life of me still understand why Riot allows duos to queue in a ranked game. In normals, it's completely acceptable. But ranked? That's silly. It's like playing football with every player on the field being random except one team gets a QB and a WR that have played together before. That's pretty fucking unfair. That's why I don't put any stock in rankings anymore. If I wanted to, I could just queue up with someone, run the Kayle/Yi cheese and win every game. But then I wouldn't have earned the rank on my own, which makes my individual rank completely meaningless because all it does is measure how well I worked with my duo partner not how good I actually am at the game.

Marshbouy1 votes

My best times playing league were during season 6 DQ, carrying my buddies through bronze with AP teemo top. Second best was playing with them in season 5. Sadly they've moved onto other games so I spend most of my time alone :(

Khristophoros1 votes

My friends don't like League

Z3Sleeper1 votes

Play league with friends you make on league that play league then?

Khristophoros1 votes

I do sometimes but it's not the same as irl friends

Kai Guy1 votes

I understand this, I have hommies from back in my Wc3 Dota Allstar days I still game with, 10+ years of being friends and never fucking meet the dudes.

IcyPepper1 votes

Yeah but how do you make friends :(

Z3Sleeper1 votes

You add the schmucks after a game.

Best is fishing with pregame lobby discord links. Discord brings the world together.

Naalith1 votes

The only issue is that all my friends and I got into the game super hardcore in season 2, and they've all quit. I've been here since season 1 and have probably 50 real life friends on my friends list, and only one of them plays anymore with any regularity.

Playing solo all the time is frustrating and not that fun, but unfortunately it's all I have for the time being. RIP to my ability to play Clash.

Z3Sleeper1 votes

Make friends. Almost all my league friends are league friends. The popularity of discord only made it easier and better.

Killer of Night91 votes

Im just wanted to share one opinion... When I started this game in S4 I LOVED it. I just love to try different thing, different role (who didn't had his first jungler experience), play weird thing and work (the best day was trinity+5warmog on volibear) and expecially playing with my friend who teach how to play this game. Actually the game got bored to me because I tough it was just the same. I was never able to play what I want where I wanted . I was playing with the only objective to win. Yesterday i've played with a friend that started now LoL and when I was playing with him (coop) I feel again why I love this game. He wasn't force to play the right thing in the right place. He never wanted to win, Just to play the game and watch what type ot magic trick do his champ. Watching him trying to press random button hoping to do something that could work fell really good. So that's my opinion. Friends Is the best thing in this game because they make you fell that you're not play because you wanted only to win and having new friend in the game is a good way to make this game again fun both for you and your friend.

Nyarlathοtep

Ah i remember the good old days where i played lol with friends. Now i have next to none. 2 of them lost interest and real life got in their way and in a couple of months i will lose 2 others because real life is a fucking bitch. Its a shame that real life is such a pain in the ass.

Z3Sleeper1 votes

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