I love this game. I just wish I still enjoyed playing it.

I couldn't say exactly when it happened or what caused it but I do not enjoy playing league of legends anymore. I started playing in early season five and fell in love with the game. It was my first time playing a game that consisted of equal parts strategy and mechanical skill. I loved playing a game in which all of my actions and inactions had substantial consequences that effected the rest of the match. And it was a game that I could play around with; I could build AD azir if I wanted to or tank viegar. I have choices....endless choices that I can experiment with.

I'm not certain of what it was that ruined this game for me but i'd like to take a stab at it.

I mained azir as of mid season five. Azir got nerfed, which is understandable because he was really op and perhaps still is. And then he got nerfed again...and again...and then he got changed.... and nerfed again...and a few more rounds of nerfs and we have Azir as seen in patch 6.12 which will probably still be nerfed again.

All the while that my main champion is being nerfed repeatedly and changed, I am looking at champions like rengar and graves who exist in the unhealthy state in which they have been in for months and months now and they are not being touched at all. Riot openly admits Rengar is unhealthy for the game they choose not to change him at all for months now; this is absolutely demoralizing.

An assassin update was announced, stating rengar as one of the champions to be reworked and it is going to come....in six months. It is really crushing knowing that riot jumps on azir repeatedly to get him under control but there are all of these other champions that they refuse to touch.

I think another landmark that depreciated the game for me was when the masteries got changed, introducing keystone masteries. I think it is a cool idea and I enjoy crafting mastery pages but for some reason as soon as key stones were introduced to the game I began to enjoy my games less and less. I think maybe this is because keystones allowed everyone to get stronger: burst champions got burstier, tank champions got tankier and started doing more damage (a lot of damage).

Oh and this one is a real kicker.

Pre-season six rolled around: stealth wards-removed. vision ward trinket-removed. And I would have thought that in removing the vision ward trinket that we would soon see and extra item slot just for pink wards so players can buy them even if they are full build but we are yet to see that and it is patch 6.12.

The juggernaut update was kind of demoralizing honestly. Out of the blue, Riot decides to buff two of the most annoying champions in the game, making them even more annoying.

I'm sure there are other things as well but I'm not sure what they are.

All I really know right now is I want old League of legends back. Maybe its actually me and not the game itself but something tells me if I went back to season five I might enjoy playing this game again. That's what sucks the most; the fact that I love and want to play a game that doesn't exist anymore. It is now League of Legends patch 6.12.