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I wish I could play in very early season 1, it must have been interesting when meta wasn't formed and everybody played everything everywhere.
My friend played during the very early stages of the game (he said there were only like, 14 champions or so) and everyone would fight over who got Cho'gath.
Back in MY day we had to WALK to base, we didn't have none of this free recall shit you kids have!
Alpha player here. Can confirm. Ashe (or any ADC) mid. Jungle was practically unheard of. I miss the pre-meta days.
I remember reading the description of 
way back in the day and was like, wtf why use 
this silly dot, when I can use and kill most of these guys early. Took me a couple of games to figure out that it didn't work on champs lol.
I also remember 
as the ONLY way to build him.
Ah man, those were the good ol' days lol.
Well, there was no Zed or Yasuo. SO Ashe mid sounds good
Yeah, no meta, point-n-click Blitz hooks, release XinZhao, Jax with max dodge, Gankplank, Katarina, fun fun times.
Season 1 Player here, i remember there was NO META it was you play who you want where you want. there was no jungle. the only uniformity in the game was 2 people top 1 mid and 2 bot lane. i do remember playing mid Ashe and getting thorn mail because that's what rito wanted me to do. there was so much cc and burst lol. and you can never forgot how eve and twitch could stealth for around a minute straight, not op at all.
I know them feels.
Double tops.
Being unsure if you should actually take Smite because Junglers had to work for their gold.
Mid lane actually having a decent rock-paper-scissors interactions between rADCs, Mages, and tanks/offtanks.
Playing Morde 1v2 top lane when you took the risk of a jungler, and then turning it into a 2v1 when you hit 6.
Stacking passives.
#BetaLife
these were the good days
Morganna + Singed bot lane. Ashe Mid. Nunu jungle. Tryndamere top yelling at Nunu because the enemy team didn't have a jungler and the Garen + Annie lane was raping his soul.
Good times.
Jungle was a scary place with pesky walls and cool scenery. Why would you take the long way around? Everything revolved around mid and mid jungle area. Dragon was taken like a trophy if you aced the team, not as a crucial objective. Baron was this ungodly force that you just didn't fuck with. This is all coming from a casual gamer back in Season 1. I didn't really get too into League's competitive side, or even it's try-hard side until late season 3 early 4.
Also...Jax....Jax going 20/2 , Katarina acing your team like it's nothing...sort of like today...yeah. (Yeah, I know, hard CC) Talon was pretty crazy too, I remember him 1v2 ing my team, then picking up another 2 kills right after in another 1v2 and then I just sorta sat behind the inhibitor like "fook dat shiznit".
And good ol'Galio...nice times. AH! Also took be about 3 weeks to realize Kayle was a woman.
Vlad was pretty insane in some games. A mage who was tanky and got more powerful and could literally melt at your feet, cut off your escape and do his entire rotation to nuke your team? Good times.
#IreliaTryHards #NeverForget
Brand was also not even relevant if I remember correctly. Too much mana cost for something so ... meh. Just pick up Leblanc and have at it.