>>750628328
Its free
Thats it
Thats the answer

when i played i was under the delusion that because there are so many characters, that there would be lots of variety in the matches and that i would have to come up with strategies on the fly because you never know what kind of crazy items people are going to buy.

>>750628328
I have friends like that too, their brains are completely fried, they don't even enjoy league anymore but it's all they want to play

>>750628450
What's the truth?

>>750628501
there's only a very very small pool of characters you can play without getting flamed and if you dare stray off the meta you'll get mass reported after the game and get temp banned

>>750628450
desu matches are unpredictable in low elo games because people just do random shit. i quit once i got masters in s7 because every game just became the same, i was on my way to challenger but it became so boring, a routine where you just gamble on which team has the least retards. only thing that changed is the current op champs/items, but the way you play is always the same

No one plays League anymore except chinks and koreans. Riot tried with Classic to bring back the League boomers but after a month they got bored and quit.
Tell your friend to stop being so asian.

>>750628501
it's a mental prison, you're surrounded by all these possibilities but you're trained to ignore it and go with the grain. between patches you will just see the same 10 or so characters in every game buying the same items and having a live mental breakdown if their thoughtless flowchart method of play doesn't work out.
it feels like a psyop.

>>750628328
Gambling addiction, except the jackpot is getting fed.

>>750628501
everyone looks current meta champs + builds so you play against the same 10 for a patch

>>750628420
Well back when it released it could also run on a toaster. That was a huge factor in jumpstarting it's success.

>>750628328
>make it to masters after years of playing
>due to how apex ranks work, you need to play an average of 1 game per day forever or else you derank due to decay
>"fuck this shit, this is like working a job. i will just give up on meaningless ranks and play normals instead"
>queue up for normal, 20 minute wait time
>normals also have elo/MMR now that mirrors your ranked MMR
>uninstall

you need some level mental clarity to truly give up
they have utterly fucked up normal queues and introduced a new non-sense quickplay mode that has even further diluted normal queuing (and requires a new balancing team to maintain, since different pacing requires different types of nerfs/buffs on scaling champions)

the point is to drive the cattle into ranked games, where they can get their dopamine hit from seeing LP going up or down
fun is no longer a factor, it's all about larping and imitating the esports scene
you will never be a streamer, you will never be an esports celebrity, you will never make a career out of league (and if you had the slightest chance of doing so, it would be due to being an engaging and enteraining person, not because of your rank)

>>even buy them other game
Why not tell them you will suck their cocks to play other games since youve gone this far

>>750628658
the magic is already lost and desu no one misses it. shame with the dozen other popular early 2000s games

>>750628328
i played league with friends but always feel like there's nothing to do compared to dota. its a shame, its so bare bones as a game. can't stack, can't pull, no neutrals, no buybacks, no interesting items that change the gameplay like force staff, glimmer or blink dagger. no real way to turn around games when they are a stomp. its funny because they even tried to copy the visual painterly look of dota 2 but didnt take any of the actually interesting elements of the game.. you don't even have high grounds just stupid bushes.

>>750628328
>how the fuck did this garbage ass game even get so popular
It was good
For a short period of time
Like season 1 and then 3 it was actually good
Then riot started overbuffing adcs and enforcing meta and favorites
>ADCS ARE WEAK YOU DUMB-
Yes, thats why they have the best itemization, base stats and every time they go to another lane they stomp until another adc brings them down, right?
You have to be a shitter to underperform as adx

>>750628943
>no interesting items that change the gameplay like force staff, glimmer or blink dagger
i hate how many other mobas 'summoner spells' infected, honestly one of the worst part of the game.

>>750628975
What's funny gramps, is that everyone agrees people were shit back in the day. We all have improved so much that a gold shitter today would be high elo back then.

>>750629080
>is that everyone agrees people were shit back in the day. We all have improved so much that a gold shitter today would be high elo back then.
You can be better at the gamecor worse at the game
If the game aint fun or dynamic anymore, whats the point?

>>750628975
>For a short period of time
yeah, before the first season when supports actually had ap values and the only abilities that scaled with physical attack were gangplank pistol and spartaman.

>>750628328
introduce them to deadlock

>>750629173
Before it develops a set in stone meta and faggots optimize every second of it

>>750629173
>no lolis

>>750629173
I am league addicted. I played Deadlock for two matches and was done with that shit. It's also a sunk cost fallacy thing. You really want to spend years of your life learning this thing again?

>>750628850
>you will never be a streamer, you will never be an esports celebrity, you will never make a career out of league (and if you had the slightest chance of doing so, it would be due to being an engaging and enteraining person, not because of your rank)
truthnuke. being masters as a teenagers and having dreams of this was the only reason that kept me playing

>>750628975
it was entertaining. AP yi, AP poppy, AP yorick,... finding out niche overpowered builds and annihilate people in rank was fun. then Riot got sold to Tencent and they decided that no fun allowed and the rest is history

>>750628603
>s7
stormraiders surge ezreal jungle at the end of s7. red buff into spam gank till the enemy ragequits. take me back. i think it only lasted a month but this was the most fun i ever had with league

>>750628328
>>750629349
>>750629278
>You are punished for lane swapping or even ganking other lanes in league
IS THIS TRUE? HAHAJAHAJ HOLY SHIT

>>750629248
who cares about that, the problem is there's no shortstacks or even hoodwinks

>>750629278
>i played 2 matches
you may have adhd. i played like 10 matches before i went from 'this sucks' to 'its kinda fun' and 100 matches before it started to click

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>>750628975
>Yes, thats why they have the best itemization, base stats and every time they go to another lane they stomp until another adc brings them down, right?
i can still hear his voice

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>>750628328
How the fuck does ANYONE still install this shit when there's a Rootkit that has a 1 in 5 chance that it will LITERALLY murder your expensive computer AND steal all your data for the CCP. League fucking died with Vanguard and anyone that still plays it it is a braindead crack addict.

>>750628328
its a brainrot time killer, your mistake was trying to get them to play new games that involves learning new games.

>>750629004
always wondered why their okay with balancing the whole game around flash

>>750629420
>no shortstacks or even hoodwinks
proper skux

Based leaguechads sticking with the best game ever made

>>750629080
otherway around, people back then actually played to win nowadays its always retards who get tilted over everything. a gold shitter today would've been like bronze or silver back then because people were actually trying to play to win.

>>750628328
are you a jungle gook or something

>>750629395
yes
100%
depending on the role selected if you switch with someone else the turrets become indestructible and auto kill all minions in the lane
the game literally holds your hand and tells you "play this way or fuck off" and after the game you get a soft 24 hour ban

>>750629205
icefrog is pretty good about consistently destroying metas.

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>>750630054 >>750630060 >>750631678 >>750631981

>>750628328
genuinely if you are only half decent at this game you should get into coaching. a friend gets around 30 viewers per stream because is he a one trick, he got into coaching and now makes hundreds a month from just a few discord calls. and again he only gets around 30 fucking viewers, if youre willing to grind the social media shit you can easily make a living from it. just sound smart and make every little thing as needlessly complex as possible and autists will think you are their ticket to making it as a big esport guy

>>750629420
what the fuck? you have to be joking. why don't they redesign the whole game if that's true?

>>750629720
when did they implement this? sounds like it would make the game even worse and result in even more boring one sided matches.

>>750629860
>he a one trick
being a one trick is literally the easiest way to get good at any moba imo. Truly mastering one character puts you well ahead of 90% of players

>>750629860
>just scam and feed retards bullshit
I hate modern society.

>>750628328
Who the hell still plays League outside of Asia? we all moved on to Deadlock instead.

I really, really hope some talented hacker group is breaking into Vanguard soon and unleashes hell on Riot and all its customers, be it trojans, viruses whatever. Fuck Riot.

>>750630120
Riot going down in flames wont bring your 2 friends back, anon

>>750629997
implemented it last year since people were switching lanes with each other during draft

>>750628921
The main reason I quit is the automod that picks up words as "hate speech" and bans you, and the fact that it doesn't work on the NA server with chinese characters means that the server is filled with chinks trying to "boost" while throwing out slurs towards white and black people.

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>>750630054
true
was stuck at emerald/low-diamond for years trying to be a smartass and do things like counterpicking or picking things compatible with my team comp

got to masters within a couple of months of playing nothing but lux

>>750630471
>Riot literally called one of the ways to counterplay Yasuo
>Switch lanes with your other solo laner
>now he has no counter

>>750628328
>pendragon nukes the dota forums to funnel players into league
>pendragon steals fan made dota hero designs and puts them in league
>dumbs the gameplay down
The only reason it took off was because it was released when Dota was still a mod for WC3 and you had to find someone to host matches while league had matchmaking

>>750628328
It was really fun back when it was new. Easy mode dota with only one character able to deny kills that I knew of.
Since the game got really bad after only a few years it's almost hard to believe it's still popular 2026

the whole "freedom" aspect of dota 2 is the reason why the chinks can't play dota btw
literally too advanced of a system for their small minds

>>750629429
after I found out I started playing toplane and now I'm even stronger

>>750629989
not every game needs to be heckin accessible/braindead easy/play like everything else, nigga. it's called acquired taste, something phillistines cannot understand

>>750630581
That's amazing. I always throw games with Lux since she's so powerful early but by late game she's so worhtess most fo the time. But if you can actually close out your games she's good.

>>750630527
>while throwing out slurs towards white and black people.
good for them.

>>750628328
All team based competitive games are the same in that they're fundamentally skinner boxes, League just happens to be the most popular one at the moment. Maybe you got a bad team this time, but maybe the next game will be better, who knows? Having poor performing teammates isn't even a bad thing insofar as it lets you pin your own failings on them too.

It's a genre for cowards who are too intimidated by 1v1 games, but still want a competitive outlet with lots of meat shields for their ego. This is the primary appeal of the genre, and also why so many people continue to play despite giving all appearance of hating the experience.

>>750629757
nah dota has been carry 1 and support 5 since wc3

just wait until that gets forced into deadlock and you're now not allowed to farm unless you're haze/geist/wraith

>>750628328
>how the fuck did this garbage ass game even get so popular?
it's designed to make you addicted, just like any moba a skinnerbox made for addicts.

>>750628328
There's a lot of stuff to learn which is fun. Mostly I don't actually like the summoner's rift 5v5, I just liked playing certain champs in it, then Riot literally took them all and murdered them and replaced them with clones that didn't play the same or serve the same purpose or weren't strong in the same periods of the game so I quit.

>>750628328
>OP is THAT guy in the friends group forcing everyone on the new friendslop and other shit they all play once

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>>750629860
>he got into coaching and now makes hundreds a month from just a few discord calls. and again he only gets around 30 fucking viewers
>few hundreds
the average workers makes 3k after taxes, how do you survive on a few hundreds you retard

>>750631678
why is posting a cat basically a badge of retardation?

>>750631678
maybe read the whole post you nigger

>>750631771
not reading some league tranny babbling

>>750629860
Could a diamond player do that? I always hear shitters call us low elo

>>750628328
>golden age of lol, from beta up until the end of season 2
>things are good, game is allowed to be its own thing, playerbase makes animations, funny gameplay series, song parodies, everyone is happy
>season 3 occurs
>game explodes in popularity due to previous word of mouth of the game when it was good combined with a MASSIVE marketing blitz, as well as capitalizing on the new esports bubble and beginning of livestream culture (yes I know livestreams were around since late 00s or early 10s but they were still fairly fringe)
>everyone is perpetually angry because the game is now purely about ranked, esports, and EOMM
>riot lyte coins the phrase "toxicity" which spreads its tendrils throughout all society (he was a sexual abuser btw)
>more development effort goes into keeping hooked whales stuck with the game than actually improving it, from gacha mechanics to EOMM and pavlovian responses so fine tuned they'd make any psychology phd blush

Getting out was the best thing that ever happened to me.

>>750628328
By people talking about it. All the fucking time. The game has been dying/dead, according to 4chan and other fags fro 2013., and yet it seems bug people are more than keeping it alive to the point they can afford multi million losses (such as a Arcane, and the fighting game), while not giving a single fuck about it and still earn money hand over fist.

Like Skyrim that people bitch about, and yet every single day there is at least one thread about it that's filled. Stop playing it, but you won't. Nobody will. And thus it will keep on coming, so accept it.

>>750632424
>and yet it seems bug people are more than keeping it alive to the point they can afford multi million losses
Riot has fully endorsed the bugman gacha mentality. New skins are sold for $50 USD upwards. Several times in recent years we've seen skin releases that cost FIVE HUNDRED dollars. Some are only unlocked via lootboxes. And chinks and gooks will gleefully slurp it up because that's just their culture.
It's honestly amazing that people will pay any amount of money for something as minor as a 96x96 pixel .bmp of their favorite character. Or something which only costs the art team a few thousand dollars to make a lazy splash for and rig up a couple palette swaps in the model editor.

>>750628328
They are addicted duh

>>750629248
Not yet. It'll come, maybe.
>>750629420
>No shortstacks or Hoodwinks
Absolutely sublime taste, and true.

>>750628328
>how the fuck did this garbage ass game even get so popular?
teens got into it, introduced their friends, it's crack, lives destroyed, so sad
deleting my account was the best thing i did can't imagine how much money i've saved

>>750632538
it makes even less sense than the skins that actually have "value" like cs skins since you can sell them through a secondary marketplace

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Clicking things is fun. I've been bronze/iron for 15 and the game still has fun and new champions that make me reinstall even if they ruined the old ones I liked

>>750632538
>chinks and gooks will gleefully slurp it up because that's just their culture.
insane racistbabble; WoW pioneered that shit with the $25 celestial steed