Faces of League: Pax East Day 3

“If I could describe our bot lane, I’d say we’re very reserved until we’re not. We try to stay focused on farming until some breaking point in the game where we change our minds and want to engage. It either goes horribly or it doesn’t, but usually it goes terribly wrong. Sometimes we get lucky, though.

We’ve played League for five to six years and we usually lane together when we’re playing. I’m a horrible, reckless ADC and the only reason I succeed in lane is that he’s always spamming heals.”

“It’s nice to have someone in an online game that you can rely on. He’s still a bit of a wild card, but it’s a wild card I can predict.”

Jesse and Zac - Warwick, RI and Milwaukee, WI

“I remember a couple of my friends on the same floor as me were playing and they introduced me to the game. At first I wasn’t really into it but the more I played with my friends, that’s when it got really fun.

Our style of humor is constantly making fun of each other, so we’re always ripping on each other, like “Why did you do that?!” We also love to troll, but it’s way better to try and troll but win. We did a full support team just for the hell of it, with a Soraka Jungle, Sona Top, Taric Mid, something like that. That one we lost, but that was so much fun.

I’m a senior now and I’m really looking forward to graduating. It’s two weeks away. It’s been a little stressful. I study a lot and then I play League to relax a bit. I should be studying right now for Finals so it’ll probably be a late night tonight."

Gary - Boston, MA

"I met my first League friend from a Flag Football tournament. He was way better than me and I wasn’t as good at League as I was at Football. I quickly realized there was more to the game than get into lane, kill someone, that’s that. There were so many more intangibles that were needed, all these things that forced you to not just play for you. You’re playing for this group of five individuals to work together better than the five individuals you are playing against.

It took someone in real life to make me realize that. He understood that I was competitive and his level of play motivated me to get better so that we could play more together.

After three years of playing and going out together laughing about League, we’re gonna be roommates. He’s moving in next week."

Dan - Woodbridge, VA