Well I think I've given up.

I've had this account for almost 8 years now. Rarely played ranked at all, but I'm definitely not a god; I would say I am a fairly average player. I've been toxic, I've dealt with the toxicity of the community. I've gotten people into LoL and I have outlasted most of my friends that used to play. I have played all the maps, all the game modes. I've been excited for URF weeks in advance and been sad to see Ascension for the umpteenth time. I've been excited for LCS and Worlds and also stopped paying attention to it completely until I found out who won after. Overall I have been through a lot with this game, but so much recent stuff in the games (players, changes, etc.) have taken their toll and I think it is finally time to uninstall (which is probably finishing as I type this).

The game just isn't what it used to be and the players seem to just keep getting worse (in both attitude and ability). The changes for everything are all over the place since the Runes and Mastery changes with some of the runes almost never being taken in most games and some that almost every single champ will take half the time (you know who you are "Manaflow Band" and "Triumph"), champ balance is all sports of messed up with even champs recently reworked not being balanced remotely properly even after "testing" (examples Swain getting his big rework to be even worse then before and then the Nunu changes changing him from the 2nd lowest win rate of any champ to top 10 highest in the span of about a day), and some items that were in such good spots are getting removed or reworked for reasons I don;t even understand while the whole time this is happening they seem to be worried about how people who join a party together can talk to each other as if 90% of people don't use Discord, Skype or the like to do it already. I'm just gonna skip over the unlucky fact that they have pretty much destroyed 90% of the characters I loved to play since that is my personal problem and not and overall problem.

The final straw that broke my back was my recent ARAM games, both alone and with a friend. TO precede this, I have played a lot of ARAM last time I checked after a game it was somewhere around like 890 wins and 840 loses or so and, to be honest, I didn't usually care if we won or not since it was ARAM. I still tried to win and not give up, but it is just a game within a game, no point getting mad at it. But something that bothers me too much is peoples just inability to both play any character they are given as well as have any human decency to each other. It all started with a game 4v5 game I won as Xin Zhou. Our Lulu was playing just fine, but when she flashed into the other team for a greedy kill, didn't get it and wasted her ult before dying she just quit the game and never game back. We still won, if for nothing else just cause I was a fed Xin Zhou and they have little to no hard CC or disengage. I was actually happy after a game for the first time in a long time until I looked at the chat in the post-game lobby and saw my 3 remaining allies telling the other team to kill themselves, calling them retarded and the n word just for losing that game and saying they should have never been born and how ez the game was because they were so stupid. All the pride of winning went away seeing the other people on my team become some of the worst scum of this game and that was one of the few times I reported my entire team (needless to say not a single one of them was or will be punished, but still felt like i should).

From that point on was just a string of terribly toxic games with even more AFks on both sides and more toxic players. I know since my highest rank back when I played ranked was only Silver 2 and I haven't played ranked in a long time so my MMR has probably fallen even lower, but this was just a new level of people to be playing with. Eventually I invited a friend to play in hopes that more people I knew and could talk to would stifle some of the toxicity in the game, but it only partially worked. We played about 7 game with the first half of them playing out with almost the same or worse toxicity then before,but the back half was different. The back half was like we were put into low priority queue. The queues grew so much longer, from a minute or 2 to 1 queue actually being 13 minutes long. And then when we got into game it was like everyone on our team were new players. There were little toxicity, which was nice, but the player level just dropped. In one of the games there was a full crit Garen on the other team and he would just walk straight at our Nami, Lux, and Anivia and they would all just spaz out and through their cc at the same time and miss all of them (on some occasions they even threw them in opposite directions) and this would just continue to happen. No landed bubble or ult from Nami, no landed snare or slow from Lux and no stun from Anivia along with almost no even attempt to wall or ult to slow him. It was like they were new or playing with 1 hand. It was so bad after the game looking at damage to champs Anivia specifically had only 16k damage in a 30 minute game. The full tank Galio on the other team (the lowest damage champ on their team) did almost 3 times as much as her.

The game as a whole has just gone down hill and it is no longer fun to play, even with friends. I always saw those videos about how "League is Dying" and how even pro and top tier players are turning away from the game in massive numbers, but I didn't really get it until now. It was fun, LoL community, Riot Games, but I gotta say bye. I apologize to anyone who wants more info, but I am logging out of the board permanently too. I tried to give as much as I could with out rambling, but I still went on for too long... Good bye League and good by thousands of hours of my life and hundreds of dollars of my money.