You Know, Sometimes I Forget That No One Plays League of Legends RGM's For Fun Shenanigans

Tentacle Advisor·4/4/2018, 2:28:52 AM·2 votes·680 views

Not a rant, just an observation, as well as, a realization I've had recently. I really enjoy the RGM's whenever they come around. Be it Poro King, Ascension, ARURF (despite my slight distaste for the 'random' portion of it), etc. But something that I've come to notice (late as it may be) is that no one seems to wanna play the mode as a kind of 'fun shenanigan' mode.

For example, in One For All, I never see things like Soraka, Leona, Rakan, Mordekaiser, etc. Champions that would generally be labeled as 'losses from out the gate' are rarely seen. (At least, not by me.)

Another example would be Poro King, which is basically just ARAM without the 'R' and with bans. In the mode, I pretty much always see stuff like Jhin, Xayah, Darius, Ziggs, Lux, Xerath, etc. I hardly ever see champions such as Cho'Gath, Shyvana, Elise, Lulu, etc.

It seems everyone seems to only wanna use these modes as a 'deathmatch: who can get the most kills with the most damage built' battle ring. Using the current RGM [One For All] as an example, I've pretty much only seen Lux, Illaoi (if I dont ban her), Darius, Wukong, Galio, etc. Basically anything that's too tanky to fight, especially as a cloned group or anything that does heaps of damage from the beginning of the game to the point where the game ends due to the enemy having no time to scale back or fight back.

It could just be me, and I could just be 'drawing the short end of the stick' with the players I end up with, but it is what I've been noticing.

8 Comments

Did The Maff4/4/2018, 2:39:47 AM2 votes

Just human nature. Nobody likes to be on the losing side. Also, a lot of people define "fun" as getting kills and high dps, i.e yasou players.

I just played a One for all match as Volibear and basically steamrolled a mage caster (dont remember who) and won in 15 mins. Fun for us, not so much for the enemy team.

Also in my opinion, "fun shenanigans" should be something with a small though of actually working. For example playing basketball with an american football or tennisball, and not playing basketball with a watermelon.

Khristophoros4/4/2018, 2:52:29 AM2 votes

There is nothing fun about playing a shitty strategy in LoL because you just get shit on for 15-20 min and finally you can go into another match.

I had a team pick Singed in OFA and we got completely and absolutely destroyed by Vel'Koz. It was literally like 50-2. It was just a frustrating experience. There wasn't anything fun about it.

The fun stuff is when you chain a bunch of Ornn ults or Galio ults or Lux ults, etc... because it's ridiculous.

As for Poro King, a lot of us are ARAM enthusiasts and we drool over the opportunity to actually pick champions in Howling Abyss. We don't get that chance very often so ofc we're going to tryhard 110% when we do.

Birbonius4/4/2018, 7:08:11 AM2 votes

Since when a perma-CC team like Rakan is considered a loss? You just build a spooky ghost ( item 3905 ) and you're guaranteed to block every movement from the enemies.

It was so much fun when i got fed just by spamming Q in that OFA Rakan vs Jinx match and then engaging with W when she was at half health. Full AP Rakan can be so stupidly fun (and easy,i don't even own the champ) but people prefer to go "hey let's pick Zed for the 50th time in a row" and then we lose to a team of Iverns.

Also,you should've tried Ivern. If you don't get a flaming team,it's fun even when you get stomped because everyone tries to talk like he does.

Immaculate Rhea4/6/2018, 1:06:01 AM2 votes

I try to play for fun shenanigans, but everyone insists on going for the "most optimal pick" for something like OFA.

Dead flag blues4/9/2018, 10:29:18 AM2 votes

100% agree with you. I want to play Rakan and Ryze there, but each time, I have to keep my ban for Yasuo and people will either force me to play Lux Morgana Ornn Kaisa MasterYi (aka I push my lane forever and end-up before 10 minute)

TekkenPlayer4/4/2018, 6:30:09 AM1 votes

Generally people that get shit on by those cheesy fotm strats get a kick out of replicating the same misery from when they got shat on.