I play alot of Skarner. With this new patch 5.16 i played him 7 times and every game someone in my team types "wtf is that" (and pinging on the altars). One game my top laner picked Darius and then types "wtf, my q takes forever to cast, was Darius changed or something?" (his alternate pick was Garen, and he asked to go top lane) All that in ranked queue gold 1
Totally understandable that people don't read the patch notes. But, especially something like the juggernaut updates, how do you not at least hear about it? Normal patches with some like slight balancing I get it. Slight changes, who cares? But major changes like this? Come on guys.
I had a match where someone on the other team was still trying to use Runeglaive on Ezreal mid 2 patches after they made it only work in the jungle.
Every so often my team would type "Oh Ezreal..." in all chat and he was so confused
Riot should really implement a "soft" forced read of the patch notes. Something like you see in EULAs where you have to scroll to the bottom before clicking away.
Sure, most people will just read 1-2 champs they like or just scroll and skip it all together, but at least it says "Hey! There are new changes. You should read these for the same of you and your team."
i had a team rage at me for playing mord bot..... i tried my best to carry but we still lost.
jesus this.
I had my top lane 
feeding the crap out of fiora about a week back because he had no idea about the 
rework. he was ust straight up trying to duel her and several times just played "rock em sock em boppers" with her after she ulted him. HE didn't know about the %health damage, the heal, the anything. we lost hard after she went on the carry and crush everyone else.
also had a game last night about my brother picking. he kept whining saying " top and mid are taken morde." "morde we need adc" "morde they're taken. go adc"
he had no clue morde is numero uno bot lane now.
I played morde bot and 2 people were calling me a troll
I once had a 
in my team and he was really confused that his passive isn't damage over time anymore.
I played with a Sona who hadn't played for a couple of months and it was like watching an infant crawl through the world for the first time
That so true about EUNE!!
Yesterday a flaming Wukong to Gangplank :
: NOOB! Sell skin (Captain Gangplank)
: LOL! bilgewater man
: Why buy skin when u cant play him NOOB
: ...
People don't even notice major events with rewards, yet alone patch notes. So people like you are at an advantage. I mean there is gold star next to the mode, do they go in blindly in to the mode, not reading about anything?
Riot cold make news about changes to pop out more in the client, But on second thought they don't have to. For so many of them all that is labeled under "BORING". Imagine a 12y old, just came from school; He is not gonna read shit! He will be "Lets crush some noobs!" He is there for fun doesn't care for the particulars, doesn't want to do the math of the changes, he just wanna kill everything on the rift right away. For most of them even if you give them the link to the notes they wont bother at all, maybe only if they get a free skin for reading the notes they'll try to read it.
All I play is ARAM and I still read the entirety of the patch notes. I may need a life. Or a good book.
I feel you, had a horrible game today where my support was AFK as bot lane morde so I had to ask the jungle to come to lane with me to which he flamed me for not sololaning vs Jinx and Sona, even after I repeatedly told him that I really couldn't solo lane as my main source of sustain and mobility were linked to another person, as well as only one of my abilties (Not counting R because it was pre-6 and not counting w because I had no support) were ranged he flamed me more and told me that he plays morde all the time and that I was retarded for not casting on minions and that my q does huge AoE effect damage.
When I asked him if he knew about the rework his friend chimed in and said that he tested morde on pbe and that morde should totally be able to solo lane vs a a duo bot lane.
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Not like you're literally stopped from playing LoL while it updates while the patch notes are right there or anything like that. Not to mention the Juggernaut update in particular has been on the home screen for what, 2 weeks now?
haha, i know man. i played a game with my teams 'coach' and i picked morde bot lane. and he's like, wtf? had no idea how any of his changes worked. and he was a COACH, and a gold 1 player. after the game i promptly left the team.
If you're just playing Normals, then ignoring patch notes is fine.
If you're playing Ranked though, then you really should be aware of the state of the game, and what has been buffed or nerfed. Not only does that massively effect your team and your picks, but it gives you a distinct advantage over players who aren't aware of patch changes. In a game mode that's all about getting advantages and advancing in rank, there's really no sound reason not to use that free knowledge.
There was one time about, a month ago, where I was playing howling abyss and one person got nidalee, Then he asks "did they change nidalee??" it was hilarious.
