Can league of legends be played anymore in NA? Another NA server rant? Jungle Diff?

Been playing LoL for four maybe five years now? I haven't really been here since the beginning and there are people who have played way longer, but I am pretty amazed with the progression of this server in terms of talent, ego, and downright toxicity.

I simply get on this game to play it, win, and move on, I give my 100% every match norms or ranked because who likes to lose? There are people who have a mindset that winning or losing is fine but then why is it those people are the ones that point fingers first? On this server it is almost impossible to play a jungler role because if anything happens its jg diff spam and pings on the jg.

I really don't know what to say because everyone thinks they are some pro player that always thinks they are in the right. You get an individual who flames the jungler for not getting objectives, but the player goes top with ignite and then when Baron is up they go split push bot as Diana, but everything is clearly jungles fault for losing Baron and the whole team dying for it as we try to 4v5... This then repeats itself with Dragons, but it's the jungler's fault in the end.

Trying to confront people is almost impossible because even when they know they are wrong it's pretty insane to watch them try and blame everyone else, I guess it's just human nature for the most part because who wants to be blamed right? One thing I believe this region has issues with is simply reflection. I'm not sure where this post is suppose to go because I just felt like something needs to be said about this.

I feel like if people would just concentrate for about one minute during draft phase in which they think about their picks and bans correctly a lot of issues can be mitigated. I play any role, I am not perfect at all rounding, but I am not also not perfect at playing in one place. This has advantages and disadvantages as I do not know the limits into which I can play champions unless I have played them truly extensively, but I also have a decent general knowledge of all champs. Where I am going with this is multiple times I get into champ select and people just do not pay attention. A lot of people do not ban champions and a lot of people do not ban champions that need to be banned. What I mean by this is why ban Janna over Nautilus just because you lost one match against them? As it stands Nautilus is crazy in the meta, but besides that point people just can not survive the engage especially when the support plays some type of mage or enchanter. For example, I ban any of the really good engage champs and early game snowballers whenever I see they aren't banned. This can range from Lee Sin, Elise, Leona, Nautilus, etc. People have issues with trying to do deal with these champs that engage super well early or can make you get caught out from across your whole monitor, but people proceed to ban things they only simply lost to because of these champs like Sivir or Viktor who only benefited from these hard engagers. Another issue is I can't even count how many times someone on my own team banned a one trick on my team by accident just because of a lack of awareness. I've only played about twenty games this season due to the lack of desire to play with people around me that I find in solo queue this doesn't include the fact that I have to dodge when Darius one tricks get banned out then they pick Yuumi or Blitz top with Ghost/Exhaust (these are two situations I remember very clearly). These become the moments when people tilt and say "We lost at champ select" and they aren't wrong sadly because when the enemy team ends up with Nautilus support, Lee/J4 jungle, and your team has a one trick that got banned and made a troll pick and instantly lost top it's really hard to negate that argument.

One problem with this is that even under all these circumstances I try my best, but sometimes I really am left speechless because I can try so hard but just fall even harder which ends me up in this endless loop of should I even play another one or should I just play half-ass and hope someone carries me? As it stands my main two roles I play mostly are mid and jungle, both have major impact in the game. Playing these two roles together has helped me understand what I need to do whenever I have to play those roles, as mid try and get priority at the right times so my jungler can get scuttles and objectives meaning play champs that have decent wave clear or high kill potential. As a jungler watching my lanes to check their priority limits my area in which I should be able to operate as I can end up in a 2v1 or 3v1 situation really fast if I am spotted on vision and lanes around me have no priority. I understand these concepts, but when will people around me understand them? I find this as simple logic and other people don't which is why I wish people would just reflect a little on their gameplay, but so many people have an ego of that they are in the right simply because they have sustained their lane, farmed well under tower, and have not died even until the fifteen minute mark. Here is the issue with this, they have no lane priority and who gets punished the most... the other lanes that are not using the same strategy and the jungler can get punished the most especially if there is a duo invade and they hard counter jungle or take all objectives. Other lanes can get punished because while they sit under tower and farm cs and the enemy laner ganks another lane then what? Blame the other laner for not being there? Blame the jungler for not being there? But even if the jungler is there you can only do so much in a 2v2 situation especially with a lot of exp changes happening where junglers being way behind in exp compared to laners at times. There also times of just straight up 3v2s in which you can only cope so much with.

Scenario Kayle (bans Tryndamere) top versus Renekton (bans Rumble) top Xin Zhao (bans Lee Sin) jungle versus Elise (bans Olaf) jungle Syndra (bans Yasuo) mid versus Leblanc (bans Zoe) mid Aphelios (bans Draven) adc versus Senna (bans Ezreal) adc Lulu (bans Blitzcrank) sup versus Nautilus (bans Leona) sup

In this scenario these bans are not bad, most are meta champions or champions that snowball insanely hard. The problem is that the first team plays a whole team with basically no mobility while the enemy team has insane mobility and even long range cc setups. This is one of the matches that I stare at myself thinking why can't people just think about their champs a bit more. This team is not impossible to win with, but this requires more mechanical skill that people simply just do not have. Kayle has to use her ult at the right time which has a long cooldown to survive the insane hard engages. Xin Zhao is the same as Kayle. Syndra has to time her E almost flawlessly to push enemies back. Aphelios is a sitting duck unless Lulu has insane ult times and polymorphs. Now the other team is just plug and play basically. Renekton E through targets and stun with W. Elise long range cocoon stun. Leblanc W into E root. Senna long range W root. Nautilus insane engage kit with insane range and hitbox (lol).

This is a typical game that I enter and all I can do is watch things crash and burn sometimes. Typically I play Xin Zhao jungle because early game is where most of the issues lie and his strong early game helps set things up. If I had to be honest the best early game junglers I can think of are Lee Sin, Elise, Xin Zhao, Gragas, J4, and Vi. One reason is because they have hard cc and dash engages. But this can not matter for when one champ has a dash another champ can also have a dash. Playing Xin Zhao most of the time I stare at mid lane and hope Leblanc uses her W offensively, but any smart player would not use it if they are pushed up into the lane to much or unless they see me somewhere else on vision. So hard to gank mid. Kayle early game insanely weak especially compared to Renekton, hard to gank top when he can dash away fairly quickly or even commit harshly into 1v2 against us and going 1 for 1 or getting both of us because Kayle is just so weak early. Bot lane is horrendous because Nautilus goes through and next thing you know you have a bot lane that is sitting under tower all game away from waves because they respect the Nautilus hook insanely and hard lose for it meaning they are down exp and down gold. So what do you do? Kayle is never going to get priority over a good Renekton until atleast 11 (still a maybe), can't get a Rift Herald and he might even duo invade with the jungler into my top side jungle (happens many times). Leblanc does not out clear Syndra, but because most people just love to shove waves in they go past the mid area of mid lane and become easy ganks with Leblanc setup plus Elise and they play immobile champs (which proceeds to people saying jg diff). Try bot lane? Well because they play so passively they are down 1 or 2 levels, behind a couple hundred gold from cs difference and they have no vision control because they prioritize items over consumables because they are simply trying to sustain the lane. So now what? Well all I can try to do is make desperate plays. Best place to try is mid because Syndra has hard cc and strong solo damage with her ult, but Leblanc can also just double dash away... Try top because Renekton is a bit less mobile? Get comboed by Renekton and possibly die insanely fast before Kayle can even react or other way around. Try bot? Tank Nautilus with a semi support adc Senna to sustain with an Aphelios who is behind with a Lulu that is most of the time afraid to move up and is also behind. None of the scenarios even include the problem of having the enemy jungler counter gank. At this point I sit and watch objectives get taken over and over because due to these circumstances I just can not do anything. So you try to make any desperate plays, you die. You get pinged, you get flamed, so wait for the game to finish and rinse repeat the process in the next match?

There are a couple more things I could add to this rant, but sadly as I read this to myself for proofreading I slowly just think maybe I should move onto another game even though I have committed so much to this game over the years. I know there are people who have the same issues and I admire them for having the tolerance of not posting about this and I admire the people who know how to just walk away even. There are going to be people who disagree with me about a lot of these points and I know there are things I can do to improve my own gameplay, but I am trying step by step and can only do so slowly (one of these solutions includes learning new champs).

This whole rant has just been an accumulated experience over the past 2 or 3 seasons mostly because when I first started playing the game the community just truly wasn't as bad as it is now sadly.

Thanks to anyone who fully reads this, you had no reason to, but I appreciate you in doing so even if you disagree with many things.

[sg-soraka]