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Returning after 1 year, new account or existing account?

unhappysamurai·2/25/2015, 8:08:45 PM·1 votes·3,369 views

Sorry if this is in the wrong board, i didn't see a newbie board. Feel free to delete or move this if need be.

First started playing LOL early last year and really enjoyed it. I played for about 4 months and got my account to level 20 despite not always having a lot of play time. Then about 8 months ago I quit the game, half due to frustration over the player base i admit, and half due to real life constraints. Alas I have actually been missing this game and would like to start playing again in about 2-3 months when my schedule opens up enough for me to fit in a game every night or two.

My question now is, after only having a few months of experience playing the game, and then almost to a year off. am I better off starting a new account when the time comes so i can relearn how to play, or should i just jump right back on my level 20 and risk weeks or a month of solid crap play at only 1 game every other day or so before I get the hang of it again? This account does have several champions already that i really enjoy and would want to play (and a few i don't enjoy and would never play) but no extra rune pages and only a handful of runes.

Again sorry if this is the wrong board, thank you for your time.

9 Comments

DiamondGames2/26/2015, 1:48:48 AM3 votes

Make a new account, then switch back to your old when u feel ready you can play at the level u were before :)

67chrome2/26/2015, 3:17:01 AM2 votes

new account or existing account?

You'll want to keep your existing account. The 1~30 grind takes a long time unlocking champions takes a long time getting IP takes a long time

Re-setting all of that is sub-optimal, as a very small % of LoL players actually have enough IP to afford everything. You'll probably never get to that point, so I wouldn't take steps backwards.

That said - you can create a alternate account to get back into the swing of things, going back to your primary account after the ~20 or so games you feel you need to get back into things.

REALLY IMPORTANT: if you do creat an alternate account, the question asking about your MobA experience/experience with other LoL games plays a Massive roll in the starting Elo your new account is thrown into. If you check the most experienced box: ~90% of the players you fight will probably be smurfs from level 30 LoL accounts. Usually around silver level in skill and slaves to the meta. If you check the now experience at all box: the majority of the players you get to fight against and play with will generally be total newbs to the game.

Because you haven't hit 30 on your main, I'd fill that questionair out indicating the least experience possible. Worst case scenario you stomp a few games, get your Elo inflated, then pitted against people in the same skill tier.

Mahautsukai2/26/2015, 6:21:55 PM2 votes

100% use the old account. What benefit would you get from using a more gimped account? The only reason I can fathom is if you are anticipating people trolling you for making a mistake and citing your level aiganst you. If that is the case, bad news, trolls will just use something else to attack you, it won't stop their attack, that is the kind of person they are.

Aside from that reason I can't figure one. In your post you say "but no extra rune pages and only a handful of runes." A new account won't have that either. It will also have less masteries and no unlocked champions.

Serevas2/25/2015, 8:47:19 PM1 votes

I'm going to mirror what others are saying, you weren't even level 30, you might as well not suffer the first 20 levels of grind all over again, most of your learning happens after you hit level 30 anyway.

Onegarion2/25/2015, 8:13:15 PM1 votes

I'd say first try your old account. See what comes back to you to start. I know from first hand experience that raising a second account is beyond frustrating especially if you have champs that you enjoy on the old account. If you find that you are forgetting a lot of things I would try bots since very few people care how good or bad you are in bots (i mean I can 1v5 bots with the right champ lol).

If you really want a clean slate though starting a new account is going to obviously let you do that.

Shiroi Kitsune2/26/2015, 2:35:41 AM1 votes

I would say keep playing on your Lvl 20 account, but maybe just start out playing a couple of Co-op vs. AI games. They're low stress and should allow you to quickly get back into the swing of things (just don't linger in Bots too long, or you'll stop improving very quickly)

DestructoDave2/25/2015, 8:51:39 PM1 votes

Keep playing your old account. The leveling really slows down after 20, and its going to take you quite a while to hit 30, especially since you will probably lose a fair amount of your games being new. Even winning it takes a crap ton of games to hit 30 from lvl 20.

Also, you probably have a decent amount of IP and champs to use anyways. And, you arent going to learn anything starting over. There are very few actual new people. All you are going to face at lvl 1 is ragers, banned people, people making smurfs, and teams of people leveling smurfs together, etc.

You are better off where you are at. It takes some time to get to lvl 20, so you wont have near as much garbage to deal with from people rerolling just to troll/waste time/rage/etc.

I know when I tried making a single champion dedicated smurf awhile back, I honestly didn't see how new players would ever stay with this game. I actually stopped making that one and just swapped over to a lvl 25 one I had from a long time ago and leveled that one up instead, thats how horrible low level League of legends is.

Random Task2/25/2015, 8:13:16 PM1 votes

Just continue with your 20 account. You still have time to build until level 30. Unless there's a champion you really want, save up for runes/pages for when you hit 30.

The Chin2/25/2015, 8:36:42 PM1 votes

keep playing your old account