Nostalgia Post - I Miss Being Bronze

I first started playing back when Kha and Elise were the newest champions and Zed was a twinkle in Riot's eyes.

I actually still remember picking Zed after he first came out. I took him bot lane because he was AD and you take AD characters bot, duh. I got my dick literally eaten because I couldn't figure out the shadow thing, I probably landed 1 shuriken all game, and his ult baffled the fuck out of me. I wasn't a big fan of reading up on champions back then.

Like many of you, I had friends that all played league, there were five of us in total that were good friends and played together. I was the last addition to the squad so I had a good amount of guidance coming in. Granted, my friends were all Bronzies and one Silver 5, so it was dogshit guidance, but better than Riot's Tutorial amirite?

I remember watching some guy go like 27 - 0 with Miss Fortune midlane and thought that she was a seriously OP midlaner and I just HAD to learn how to play her like that guy. Turns out he was a definitely a smurf (didn't even know that was a thing then). Also, turns out MF mid is retarded (we're talking AD MF, not magefortune). Luckily, I had my buddies to tell me that I should go bot. One of them agreed to be my support, I bought my first skin, Mafia Miss Fortune, and I was hooked.

We played as a 5-man all the time. MF/Leona bot, Talon Mid, Singed Top, and Xin Zhao or Kha or something in the Jungle. We all had our roles and I was our ADC. They taught me how to farm, how to trade (like bronzies) and how to play the game. Luckily they also taught me not to cancel MF's ult constantly like a fucking potato.

I remember how hard it was for me to learn how to position myself for grouped up fights with the MF ult. I would constantly be too far forward or in some stupid ass flanking position and get myself murdered.

So basically, I guess what I'm getting at here is that I was GARBAGE, and my friends constantly fed and we lost more than we won. However, despite all that, it was a fucking blast.

I've never had so much fun getting my salad tossed in a video game. Those were truly the days where we sucked, and it was okay because we weren't bursting any blood vessels trying to climb or get a higher rank or even pick reasonable champions and build reasonable items. We just had fun together as a squad.

Then slowly but surely, the drive to try and get out of bronze and silver and the rage associated with ranked and trolls and assholes and smurfs and all the other annoying things that seem to plague the league community (and most online game communities really) started to eat away at everyone's enjoyment of the game.

Sure enough my buddies all quit playing one by one for more casual, less lengthy and less aneurysm-inducing games. Now here I am, the last one of us still playing. Everyone else has been gone for at least two years.

Is there a point to this post? No, not really. I miss when I sucked total and complete dick at this game and just couldn't have been happier playing with my buddies. That's how it ought to be and I really want to go back to that.

Feel free to share your funny league stories from being a Newbie and nostalgic memories of the game.

So if you suck, you're happy playing dogshit characters with questionable teammates and weird builds and are just out here lookin for some fun games. Feel free to add me.