For the love of the Game

Somewhere between the crazy team fights, 1v1s, baron steals and back-doors we forgot what brought us altogether. That no matter if we were on the same team or opposing, no what matter what champ we mained or what lane we played, we were all bound by our love for League.

Everyone’s journey through league is a personal one, and it all started with downloading that League of Legends Client. Mine started in 2014, it was around the time Braum came out. I remember patiently waiting for the last couple of megabytes to finish downloading so I could jump into a game. I remember having crappy internet in those days, it took me almost 2 days to download the client. Once it was downloaded I was in.

In my rush to get into a game, when asked to pick a summoner name , I just mashed keyboard keys, thinking it would be irrelevant ended up with a summoner name “ akwjde” just bunch of jibberish. To this day I could never find it in my heart to change it, as it reminds me of the rush I had to just get the damn game started.

And so, the game began, I rushed through the tutorial section without paying much heed and jumped right into my first league game, Player vs A.l, and that moment I knew I was hooked for life. The game was everything and more than I ever wanted, it took me in its grasp and never let me go.

Then came the game I hit Level 30, the game had just begun. We all remember the moment we hit level 30, all excited to head into the unknown realms of Ranked Match Making. To get our rank and begin our climb to be Challenger. Through these years, between games won and games lost we forgot to thank Riot for bringing to us this awesome game. Even through “Nerf Irelia” and “ Graves can’t have his cigar” our affection for the game has ever increased.

I am sure whole bunch of us have our whole story, of our first game, the thought of our first summoner name, our first Champ we fell in love with, so post your stories down below.

P.S Thank You Riot and Summoners to make this game awesome.