Riot Phreak (David Turley) was with League of Legends from the very beginning – and was once one of the most beloved members of the League of Legends community. His iconic casting and champion spotlights are part of League of Legends history as we know it. But after retiring from casting and moving on to become a game developer, Riot Phreak’s reputation with the community has tanked to say the least. THIS is how Riot Phreak Ruined His Reputation With the League of Legends community.
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People are just bitches
The people that death treat him should be banned even if they not hiding on social media
HAHAHAH
i can t type with caps
One-tricks getting mad at change is nothing new.
He just needs to be more humble
wow lol players being toxic and hateful ? League streamers being stupid and jumpoing on the bandwagon also? Anyone hating on phreak is truly dumb
Most sane League youtuber
So many comments calling Phreak a condescending liar/jerk/whatever. Did it ever cross your mind that this is literally the only realistic option to preserve your sanity when THOUSANDS of players make you the scapegoat of their toxicity and delusions that they actually belong in Challenger but Phreak is personally holding them back?
When it comes to balance, stats are the only reliable metric to use. Yes, your feelings are valid and some champs can be more frustrating than others to play against, but that‘s not something new and something you‘ll find in every regularly updated game. You want the company making the game you (supposedly) love to listen to the community more? Well maybe consider working on your tone and become a less herrendously toxic community.
League changes constantly and has been doing so for 15 years. At this point if you haven‘t gotten used to that and that this will mean drastic changes at times, some imbalances and arguably mistakes, if you feel validated by this to send literally ANYONE death threats or other harassing messages like that, you should seriously consider stop playing the game and seeking out professional help because you‘re immature and incapable of managing your emotions and frustrations. Also it‘s a really fucked up and sick thing to do.
Go touch some grass, hug a tree and breathe some fresh air before you type.
balance issue ? or skill issue ? 🤔
phreak and august are ruining league
So he basically became Ghostcrawler from when he was at blizzard.
He is bad.
league community is worse.
I didint know he had that kinda pull with balance changes. Makes sense considering he abused the fuck out of Janna and maokai support both of which busted for months
Phreak did nothing wrong
Most people don't realize just how toxic the Internet can be. Phreak always had to balance his higher-than-average intelligence and ego against his love for the game and community, but when the community is toxic and sending death-threats, it's easy to see him give up on that investment. Anyone would.
The community has essentially reduced Phreak to the worst parts of himself and have taken no responsibility for it. Whatever Phreak himself is guilty of, the community more than matches. It's an unfortunate and vicious cycle.
SC player here. So Phreak went from being League's version of Day9 to League's version of HotS-era David Kim?
Nice vid.
Would it be possible to talk about the SPYWARE (aka VANGUARD) that has made "tons of damage" to the GAME ITSELF instead of making it more playable and desirable?!
Keep up with the great work.
"Abraços" (hugs) from BRAZIL. =)
Didnt know that people are mad at riot using pick and banrates oftentimes even more than winrates to determine balance.
Pick&Banrates are actually bigger factors than winrates, in most situations.
While the recent balance changes (last few years) to League have been braindead awful, I don't blame Phreak at all. League, at its core, is a terribly designed game and even attempting to balance it is an absolute nightmare.
He likes to lie and he is the one rueined over jng just cuz he got a lost streak cuz of jng this guy is an idiot.
When he said something about seeing some champs in pro play regarding not nerfing a champ, "seeing janna in pro play that would be pretty cool" in combination of forcing malware on my computer im done with league until theres a serious change
Death threats? From a 13 year old kids ? Who plays video games all day in a shitty room ahahahahhahah
Abusing champions you know is too powerful while in the position to balance said champions is extremely scummy. Even if he was not personally involved in their balance, he should know that it looks terrible.
lowkey t1 is the face of league
Phreak is dumb yeah straight up dumb
No mathematical calculations.. No knowledge about the impact of different champions and match ups …
And no idea on builds items + runes who impacted the game… He never ask streamers PROs and specially mains… How would be impacted their champions in the game…
And too much reworking ….
Dota 2 didn't rework so much, they just nerf the damage…
What an absolute IMBECILE …