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Can someone explain something to me?

Omen46·5/17/2019, 6:58:21 AM·5 votes·7,630 views

What am I playing league for?

I've heard answers that vary from "showing off your skills" to "participate in a team oriented game".

I just don't feel like that's something for me, so forgive me if I sound off. I've come from games with clear scripters, rotten bad mouth teammates, the wonderful encouraging 'ggez' spam and through all of it, what's supposed to be fun?

I assume I'm just here to abuse my enemy lanemate and make sure I never once fight my friends because it's the WORST feeling to be on a losing side. I am not high elo, I don't want to climb, I don't care who's what I honestly want to play the champions I like, to see them move and play gracefully, show off the soul of the artists who spend SO much time trying to make the champion someone special. Something unique. I also love how riot makes references to everything else, like sly cooper or Guren Lagaan.

The game doesn't feel fun to watch, many of the plays you see in high elo you see in low elo, just not perfected with amazing precision. I keep referring back to a match with a jungle J4 camping and repeatedly diving a Varus botlane to keep them from really being in the game. I don't find that entertaining, it doesn't look fun, but that was a BIG HIGHLIGHT. It was repeatedly painted out and yelled over how j4 just stomped and tracked and made sure this varus' life was a literal nightmare to the point I think they would have dc'd if it wasn't an official match.

So if that's how it's played in high elo, and so much hype is placed there and weight and attention, if high elo is what we ALL strive for, why am I playing? I liked playing Gnar when he was supposedly bad, played Kindred after their nerf, got into Vlad before buffs too. (A talent for the BEST selections.) I like playing for the joy of playing and seeing the champs do whatever, I personally don't like playing, 'Like the pros', and I'm sick of trying to look at the builds to try and see what I have to consider a threat at all times because it's easiest and most meta thing to do.

I don't have time to do everything asked of me, I'm tired of getting 1 shot, flamed, talked down to, told nasty things that make me want to dc. I'm tired of being taunted, of watching people clearly scripting, or people who are clearly smurfs tired of their own tier backlash.

How do you have fun with this game? How am I supposed to? I like a good puzzle or number crunching, I like math as weird as that sounds, and I don't even mind fast pace. I don't like this, I don't like the one-sided nature and the expectation for perfection at all times.

Why am I playing league?

18 Comments

zPOOPz5/17/2019, 7:06:11 AM4 votes

sounds like you need a little break from League (temporary or permanent) and find other games to occupy your time with. Never forget that this is a video game meant to be fun. If you no longer find a game fun, play something else.

The game doesn't feel fun to watch, many of the plays you see in high elo you see in low elo, just not perfected with amazing precision. I keep referring back to a match with a jungle J4 camping and repeatedly diving a Varus botlane to keep them from really being in the game. I don't find that entertaining, it doesn't look fun, but that was a BIG HIGHLIGHT. It was repeatedly painted out and yelled over how j4 just stomped and tracked and made sure this varus' life was a literal nightmare to the point I think they would have dc'd if it wasn't an official match.

This sounds like a pretty damn good game for the team with the J4. The objective of the game is to win. This is how you win. One team MUST lose. That is a law of the game. There is no draw unless loss prevention happens. You may feel bad for the varus lane, but one team MUST lose, only exception is loss prevention. If seeing a damn good jungle J4 annihilated an enemy bot lane to the point they became irrelevant made you uncomfortable, maybe this game is not for you because your team deserves someone who would cheer that J4 on if he's on your team.

IFeltLikeAGringo5/17/2019, 9:35:39 PM3 votes

For fun. If its not fun, dont play. Thats why im rarely on unless friends are on. Its just not so fun rolling the dice getting matched with random people from around the world with completely different tastes and personalities, moods, skill levels, etc...

Psybicilin5/17/2019, 2:31:35 PM2 votes

The only high I get out of League anymore is winning games and climbing the ranked ladder. Every new addition to the game makes me want to throw up. I guess Riot needs that money though.

knobblez5/19/2019, 4:35:56 AM2 votes

I took a break and learned how to code in Unity. Learned a lot and I can always open a project in there and play around. It's great for playing around with physics and playing with numbers. Unreal Engine is more node based and allows you to jump right in to templates.

Idk if programming interests you but I played around with Visual Basic for a year or so back in 2005ish and stumbled on Unity a couple years ago. It's not itself a game but you can make a game and I find it very fun and challenging to learn and play with.

Just throwing it out there buddy. I totally feels you

IF you do get into it and need help, feel free to add me and DM me. I'm happy to help you out on discord or something with guidance and even models n stuff.

Blender is another great program but be prepared to be overwhelmed with that one lol

BackdoorPrincess5/17/2019, 4:59:29 PM2 votes

Free game that my friends and I have owned long enough we have pretty much every champ, I run with a few aram groups when I feel like playing without dealing with 20 minutes of a lane losing so hard I can feel our nexus preemptively detonating, lack of vision, etc. It's fun enough when you play those fun gamemodes like ARAM OfA URF and the like, but loses pretty much all appeal when draft/ranked comes around and I have to figure out who I want to play in what position, who I don't want to play against, roaming, cs'ing, trading, harrassing, warding, tracking jungle, I'm here to have fun and play a game with friends, not babysit people who are gonna tilt/throw games

XJ999999999999995/17/2019, 7:07:09 AM2 votes

a lot of people play it simply due to time and most important of all, money, invested

CloudVega5/20/2019, 3:11:56 AM1 votes

You shouldn't be playing league, guy. Nobody should.

Everyone that's ever been banned in this game got flamed first. DCUO had the same problem, and it's dead now. Don't do it, LoL..

Bad mods are highered by bad admins who are highered by bad creators. Best to get out now - Once you've found a reason to quit, you can assume the creator of such made a mistake - You don't want to associate with a corporation who makes mistakes...people are fallible, people make mistakes...corporations do not...so to engage with a mistake making corporation is poor marketplace behavior and you'd just be fueling a fire.

Jennifer4205/17/2019, 5:27:55 PM1 votes

wait riot made a reference to sly cooper? it might be because im german and played german sly and german league, but what reference is there to one of my fave ps2 games of all time?

FeederIee5/19/2019, 12:07:23 AM1 votes

The only purpose of this game is to troll as many people as you possibly can while avoiding banns summoner 14