Going to say that's partly the reason I "gave up" on the game. I still play here and there only because a friend invested a lot of money into this game for me (tried to pay her back, but due to some shit happening I was basically pushed out from "friends." That's another story entirely though).
Anyway, was an Ashe main until I hit a wall and moved on to Lux. Didn't do much with her until I came across Ahri who has been my pick to try and raise my personal skill ceiling. Eventually, I plateaued with her to the point where every match felt the same. Tried a change of pace by going support until 5 man bot lane ganks pretty much made the lane unplayable.
It was the same every game: start, 5 man bot, lose tower, proceed to run around trying to get control again which, often, never happened. Along comes a fighting game by the name of BlazBlue which I said "well, I sucked at street fighter/found it boring, might as well give it a second chance." As I was learning, I felt the rush once more of picking up Noel Vermillion, seeing all the combos she could do and how every fight opening was never the same, it was amazing to have a goal to achieve.
I was/am still terrible at video games, often being a joke that it took me a year to beat the Elite Four in pokemon red and would constantly have my older brother help me beat the first boss in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Anyway, still having trouble against bots, but every time I take a little break, take a breath, I find ways to do better and improve. Unlike League which, after a certain point I feel, becomes pretty "standard," fighting games do not have items, masteries, runes, all sort of outside changes to determine who has the better start.
It's a game of mechanical and mental skill that make me drool <3
Hoping that the next time I pick this game up seriously again, I could find ways to have a ceiling that I can break. When I stopped, I had nothing that I could really learn without investing a heavy amount of time to get the IP to purchase runes. That's one of the major issues of this game, personally, in that the amount of time to try something new is not worth it when you've put it into a single character/roster. 2 and a half years for 100 champions, half of that time grinding for 3 decent rune pages and if I want to play a role that is not an AP mage mid, AD carry bot, AP mage support, or a Tank Support, I'm going to have to play some 200-300 games, win every single one of them with a FWotD bonus to afford a decent setup.
That and people don't like off-meta picks. What I used to do for a change of pace was run Ashe mid and Ahri top. With the way things are now in that the early game being the deciding factor in a lot of cases, I can't do these as well as I used to. On top of that, some of the other champions I want to play are unviable due to item and balance changes. These include Taliyah, Riven, Sivir, and Katarina (side note, tried to play Kat, I often found myself hard-camped to the point of making the lane a 3v1 so I gave that up).
Just my thoughts, mini-rant, tldr is game felt pretty much the same every match unless I wanted to try something new which resulted in either A) Enemy team camped my ass, B) My team flamed me all game or C) My team dodges. Now with all this yelling and crying, I can't pick anything apart from the standard 20 that pros play if I want to "enjoy" the game, even in normals.
You forgot the period.
