Reminiscing the Early Days....

DragonPoet·Feb 20, 2014·3 votes·1,452 views

Or whenever you started. Been playing since just before the release of Miss Fortune and seeing the evolution of the e-sport scene, game play, and art design, I'm remembering some of the funny times and first times of when I started playing League of Legends.

First champion played: Twisted Fate -ran into another Twisted Fate player after I finally bought him and we both were playing the opposite spectrum of each other (I was AD TF and he was AP TF).

First champion bought: Ashe -Mostly out of convenience but after some time I got really confident in those long range snipes on her ult. (Now I suck with them T_T)

First bug encounter: Walking through walls and it even led to my death. Sometimes I got stuck in the wall and had to port back from there.

First Pentakill: w/ Akali and it was technically a Penta-killsteal. I literally stole all the kills with my ult.

First 5-man premade (non-rank): My friends and I literally went against the same enemy team 4-5 times in a row (can't remember exactly) but lost the first one and then won the rest of them. I still remember that one guy calling out praises (biggest brown-noser ever) to KingJoel (supposedly a decently ranked player back then).

First 5-man premade (ranked): Two words, Completely Obliterated. Wasn't even considered a good match. I got the only 3 kills on the team (we had like 40 deaths collectively) and I only got them because I was Swain, in ult form, as the enemy team dove my friends and I through 2 turrets (and two of the enemy still lived)

Most Fun Moment: My friends and I were playing one of our houses and we put 1 song on repeat for the entire night, Das Ist Die Pool Party. Probably one of the best and most frustrating night (at least for my friends that continued to play til 5 in the morning) ever! (I went to sleep around 1 and they kept playing and went into a 4-5 game loss over the course of the night).

Almost 3 1/2 years and still playing. Met a lot of people throughout, great way to get together with friends, and continuously changing. What were you first moments or earliest moments like? Funny story about the Immortal Karthus or the infinite death Yorick? (been a victim of that and its pretty funny when you were the Yorick). Anyone else remember Innerverting Locket? I miss that item T_T What are your funny moments, best moment, or first time impressions of League of Legends?

11 Comments

Sir ArmaMalumFeb 20, 20143 votes

Came in at Voli patch. Still had a decent amount of time to mess around with Machine Gun Twisted Fate ala old SoTD. That was fun.

While not nealry as far back as some, anyone remember Hecarim patch? Oh man were those some interesting bugs. I had one time I played Gragas and to me, everything was fine, but a friend of mine was laughing his ass off because all he saw was a Gragas body that only moved when I used my Q. Weeping Angel Gragas Body, can't get much scarier than that :P

My first pentakill had to be my most interesting so far, as it was my first time playing Vayne in PvP. Yes she was really good at the time, but it was still my first time. Immediately bought a skin for her, which also happen to be first skin. And thus the impulsive RP buying begun!

Yeah....good times, gooooood times

DragonPoetFeb 20, 20141 votes

I remember Football Gragas bug. It would happen when you would body slam really low health targets (I think it had to be one guy specifically to consistently get it) but Gragas would run in his body slam state like running a football. MAKE THIS A SKIN!

Sir ArmaMalumFeb 20, 20141 votes

Lol, I do remember that as well. Oh man, an (american) football skin for Gragas would be brilliant. Maybe a tailgate one would be more appropriate though? His Q = a keg, his W he drinks from a beerhat, and his E could be a drunken tackle. But now I'm getting too close to a Brogas skin.......lol

burdluver90Feb 20, 20143 votes

First Champion played: Poppy Don't recall exactly, but I know poppy was one of my first. I saved so many enemies back then :P

First champion bought: Udyr I didn't even jungle him, but I am into martial arts and birds, so crazy martial artist bear with a bird form was right up my alley. (The first game I played him was the first time I saw an Anivia . OMG WILD ARTICUNO APPEARS YES PLS! Saved up forever for her.

First Bug Encounter: At the time I thought casttime/projectile speed was a bug. I messed up so many combos because I cast them too quickly and the wrong one got there first. Eventually I learned....eventually.

First Pentakill: Not a proper penta, but on Fiddlesticks , I got one kill early then got a Quad at their base tower. Enemy surrendered after that. It was my first major multi kill and I was excited about it.

First 5-man premade (non-ranked): Got invited to a group of 4 by an ingame friend - it was the biggest group of trolls on the planet (I'm female) - the entire game was "Go make me a sammich" "How can you play league from the kitchen" etc. The lot of them went on to become a great group of friends though.

First 5-man ranked: This season actually. I am captain of an AHGL team for my work and so we practice when we can (conflicting schedules and ranked queues being disabled does interfere). We're currently 2-0 for the season though :D

Most fun moment: Sion/Malzahar lane back in season 2. The stun was a death sentence. Super lolzy. - also over 1k AP on AP Sion - the nukes

DragonPoetFeb 20, 20142 votes

If there was ever a champion I had wished to have started to master it would have been Poppy. I too have saved too many people with that charge and sentence myself to death.

AbiwonKenabiFeb 20, 20142 votes

Came in at....Shyvana patch? I think? A lot of good champions were released during that time. Some of my favorites.

First Champ: I believe I played Kassadin...which was a mistake because he has much too high a skill cap for a beginner. >.< Should probably try him again now that I actually sorta know what I'm doing.

First Champ bought: Annie Annie, I really liked her at the time. Of course, I stopped playing her after a while and ironically have fallen in love with her all over again now that support Annie is a thing.

First bug: I can't remember encountering very many bugs honestly, but there is one where Fizz can be like catapulted into the air if he gets knocked up while Playfuling. Not sure if that still happens, but he was like gone for the duration of his Playful.

First Pentakill: Jinx Yeah it took me that long. I don't count ARAM Pentas either, they just aren't as good, ya know? Couldn't have done it without my lil bro on Malphite either ;)

First 5-man premade: honestly can't remember my first 5-man normal, I was almost always playing with friends when I first started (Why didn't they tell me to not try Kass first?!?!) But the first ranked team I ever joined was really close to a tournament--IPL? I can't remember...--and during breaks all they would play was requests for music videos. They played almost exclusively K-Pop, and Bubble Pop was like the majority of the songs. So we named our team Bubble Pop. XD I'm still on it, I don't have the heart to disband it...

Most Fun Moment: Plenty of fun moments, but one in particular, my friend was trying to convince us in an ARAM that Amumu and Diana were practically the same. To this day I still call bouts of Amumu vs. Diana Amumu "Diana vs. Diana" Diana

Met a TON of fun people playing this game, and it's a great way to spend time with previous friends too. Been playing for...3 years? And I plan on playing for many seasons to come. Also, remember when they used to name patches after the champions released in them? I miss that...

DragonPoetFeb 20, 20142 votes

I remember the old patch naming. They just don't put out the same amount of new champions anymore (which I think is kind of good. They were bringing them out really fast). Also, you mentioning your first pentakill on Jinx reminded me that I got one with her and need to update my pentakill success sheet (just personal data on personal achievements).

AbiwonKenabiFeb 21, 20141 votes

I'm glad they don't machine gun fire champions anymore, too. I remember it was like "Oh man Ahri Ahri OP I'm totally gonna save up for her...wait Sejuani giant pig lady? I'm in-- Ziggs A YORDLE!?!? YES, I will-- Lulu SUPPORDLE!?!?! O.O"

It was like that every other week, you had to learn a new champion. I have no idea how Riot cranked them out so fast. I still miss the named patches though. It gave more personality or something, but it just doesn't make sense to do it anymore.

DragonPoetFeb 26, 20141 votes

Ya. I have finally made it to the point I have all the champions unlocked and tried each at least a few times (a minimum of 3 games at least once I can play that champion in champ select). I definitely know my strengths and weaknesses and it was so hard to keep with the champs coming out that I really wanted. There were quite a few that came out back to back that I wanted to play so badly but couldn't get right away and had to wait for free wee (which was brutal because then everyone played that character and people whined when the didn't).

azulcat500Feb 20, 20142 votes

I started playing League the day of Lucian's release and I immediately became addicted to LoL. ** First Champion Played:** Sona Sona was my first played champion. I was playing a custom with my Level 30 friends and they told me to play support as Sona. I randomly used abilities and everything it was the weirdest game ever.

First Champion Bought: Ashe My friend's main was Ashe for practically 4-5 months. I absolutely sucked at playing her so I hardcore gave up on her.

First Bug Encounter: So basically I tried to E a Nami (I was playing as XinZhao ) and my E goes off literally 5 seconds after hitting the key >.<

First 5-man Premade: So I was probably about Level 12 at the time "One For All" game mode came out and my Level 30 friends wanted me to play with them. So we played as Jax and was just blown to bits. I still suck at playing Jax.

Most Fun Moment: I played a custom game as with my Level 30 friends and I had to go AFK for something. When I came back, I just sat and watched them kill my while at base. That whole game was pretty fun mainly because it was my first time playing as Heimerdinger.

I've been playing for 5 or so months and I'm well on my way to be Level 30~

AbiwonKenabiFeb 21, 20141 votes

It's good to see newer players loving the game. Hopefully one day you can give stories about how you came in when Lucien came out 100 champions ago or whatever like us old geezers >.<