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It's really fun how shit early game is for new players, the amount of bots and dodges is disgusting

ComeGankMeBro·2/18/2018, 2:56:02 AM·22 votes·1,831 views

#Play Coop?

Less XP than PVP, roll the dice on whether or not you have poorly coded XP farmers on your team doing nothing but making it hard NOT to lose because of the fed AFK-shoving AI on the enemy side.

#Play PVP?

Blind Pick: No one calls out their picks, no one is willing to build a supp item and fights for farm, pretty much everyone is a smurf because no new people ever really can put up with and stay in the garbage League has devolved into, whoever gets the 3+ man premade on their side wins.

ARAM: Lobby Dodge, Lobby Dodge, Lobby Dodge, You get a game but one of your teammates is a bot, Lobby Dodge, Lobby Dodge, Lobby Dodge, You get a game and see the exact same Champs as last one but this time all of yours are the melees, Lobby Dodge, Lobby Dodge, Lobby Dodge, Lobby Dodge, LOBBY DODGE, LOBBY DODGE, LOBBY DODGE, LOBBY DODGE, You get in a game with TWO BOTS ON YOUR SIDE THIS TIME! WEREN'T THOSE 10 MINUTES YOU SPENT HEARING ALL THOSE JOIN-LOBBY POP-UPS WORTH IT?!

It's actually shameful how awful the gaming experience is, I truly feel bad knowing just how many people queue up for the first time and quit after going through trash like this back to back.

54 Comments

Sir Fuzzi2/18/2018, 2:57:09 AM7 votes

Riot hasn't had the resources to care about early player experience for a while. Their currency update was basically a hosefest.

Skins Project2/18/2018, 4:51:30 AM3 votes

Hmm are you a smurf? Just curious.

From what I'v heard riot's ai is actually pretty damn decent at segregating smurfs and new players.

Terozu2/18/2018, 8:23:20 AM2 votes

You do know that new players are rarely of ever matched with bots or smurfs right? Also, enemy bots cannot get fed. Literally impossible.

Furious Delisha2/18/2018, 9:47:57 AM1 votes

The game is good about determining if you are a real new player or a smurf.

If you are a smurf the fresh account experience is garbage. Too bad. Get over it.

If you are a real new player you WILL get matched with other new players. I've tested this myself. Although some new players are salty to begin with, everyone is truly a newb and you can have a really good time. ONLY if you're actually a newbie though.

Z3Sleeper2/18/2018, 11:39:20 AM1 votes

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pretty much everyone is a smurf because no new people ever really can put up with and stay in the garbage League has devolved into

Not what the statistics say.

MuffledGarbage2/18/2018, 4:25:49 PM1 votes

Quickly, Leave league with me and I know as a fact that Riot will have to listen to us.

If enough people leave, the game will be next to empty and Riot won't be getting skin revenue.

This as a result means that we will have Riot in our hands and ready to actually fix the game!!

KuroCaliber2/18/2018, 4:58:44 PM1 votes

Ok, are you actually new? Or a guy trying to level up a Smurf? Because I've been new, I've watched new players get into game and they don't face those issues most of the time. I've only seen it happen to old players making new accounts, on which case they deserve all that shit because the only reason a player would make a new account is if their first one got banned, or if they want to pub stomp lower elo players because they're tired of losing to people at their own elo.

Yaśuo Main2/18/2018, 7:13:29 PM1 votes

No one calls out their picks

As someone who played 2000 Normal Blind picks (not lying, can provide a picture) I can say this is very invalid, only legitimate trolls and the like will actually not say their call and still lock in. There are rarely 3+ man premades so that isn't really a viable point, there are little to no smurfs (why would there be smurfs in normals other than making OMG!!! 500/0/999 KDA DIAMOND SKILL LEVEL PLAYER WITH MMR OF BRONZIE videos) and it's much more casual and less toxic (and more approachable) than ranked.

And get on your main.

Subdue2/19/2018, 4:23:35 AM1 votes

Actually, having watched new friends on new accounts, I was actually quite surprised at how good Riot's system is at identifying smurfs. They rarely run into players more skilled than they are, at least not to the point where I'd guess those players are smurfs.

Also, I've never seen a new player complaining about fighting for farm, or not having a support. It's a completely player driven convention, that new players wouldn't even know about. The guy complaining about lack of a support is almost always some scrub on a smurf trying to stomp on new players.