for me it's the will to never give up. I started in bronze elo, than moved up the ladder to silver elo. I have not done ranked since season 4, but it's all just a title. If I can go against plats on norms and beat them, than I feel just as good.
I'm a slow learner and I'm also the kind of person, that when it comes to video games I'll play hours on end until i get good.
Back in the days of halo 3 I played and played and played day after day,month after month and almost year after year. It took a long time, but when I finally got good, i was good. i'd say top 2 on the scoreboard and I've even had people tell me that I was doing good.
Now when I started league, I developed a habit of button smashing, which I still have, but not as bad. For example if I was playing 
, my combo would look like e, qwqwqwqwwqwqwqwqwqwqwqw and just spam qwqwqwqwqwqwq. There were other champs too, like 
. Id press e, than be like wqwqwwqqwqwqqwqw r.
It took me 3 years to learn how to lessen that spamming a lot. I like to play 
, so if you imagine me being near minions in the early game. My combo would probably look something like q,q,e,e,q,r. Or q,q,q,r,aa,q,e,e or something like that.
I still have a problem with button smashing. Like if I'm playing 
and I've used up my combos like, q,e,w, or q,e,w,r and if they're still not dead, than I'd be like qeqweqewwqewq.
Some champions permit button smashing, but I don't condone it. Also when you learn to stop button smashing kills end up being more clean and it feels good to be like "Yeah i got that kill on purpose, not by chance".
I like learning new champs occasionally,trying out game modes(which they need to put hexakill or urf up already),looking at cinematics, seeing if recently released champions are any fun to me. I also like the competitive play. Even though the league community sucks and are full of biased hypocrites, I still try to aim to be the best league player,which will never happen, but if I try at least I'll have fun trying.
If i'm bored with a champ, than I'll try a different one. If I'm bored of top lane and mid lane, than I'll go support or jung(never adc though, my goodness).
