Season 14 may have its ups and downs, but it’s still a really fun time. What’s more exciting though is the direction that the game is taking towards 2025, which is to keep the game fresh and dynamic. The casual appeal puts League a step above other competitive team games, and this video elaborates on why.
TL;DR: League is healing
Riot PupuLasers tweets: https://twitter.com/riotpupulasers/status/1735931980531781725
Sylas gameplay footage from https://www.leagueofgraphs.com
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that riven is CLEAN!
I have never played a game comparable with such terrible matchmaking
Dota 2 is better
It was the best moment to play league except until today when they forced vanguard. Not installing rootkit malware into my pc
League is a very bloated game. Gameplay wise and tech wise. Vanguard is the icing on the cake. I’m out.
asol has been completely dead with his gameplay, identity, and player reputation all being axed with the second failed rework we didnt ask for. any time following that day has been a bad time to play league for me.
nice try, its obv riot paid u to do this, and they pay small channels to not look sus.. been there from season 4, i know every tactic
Did they remove losers queue? No
Did they get rid of vanguard? No
So league is still trash
shut up
Yeah. Vanguard.
Go ahead, install a kernel rootkit that has access to all your data, all your files, your passwords (even banking details), your camera, your microphone, not only during games, but ALL THE TIME.
And do it only because you are told to do so by some chinese company that's been know to play loose and leak their players data.
There are thousands of methods of cheat detection. Riot doesn't need Vanguard. They WANT Vanguard so they can spy on you more effectively.
I would take fair over fun anyday been playing tekken 8 recently and that game has fun characters but when u start to play ranked u start to see the fun stuff is annoying or basically has no counterplay
terrbly based video my god no ruining competitive intrgty for kids to have fun in a game and feel achieved is PATHETIC play fornite idk how riot is so dire for money going bankrupt but I wouldn't expect less from a genshin impact player to want league to be casual lol you"re a grown man sad ash
LOL being "fun" could be if we only play normal and play what we want, while ignoring (or muting) the toxicity of players who complain about our enchanter top pick or performance.
However, the little chance lf having fun is being ruined by vanguard.
The game was already an E-Drug with its casino matchmaking rigged madness in ranked(and normals but to a lesser degree).
The loved LOL is gone, just like Dominion. You can already feel how awesome LOL was just by listening to the music of Dominion. That era was quite funny, people were different too, chasing other principles. But now, even the people got worse
THEY SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE FRICKING RUNNAN CHANGES 😠😠 (great video btw bro)
+20 social credit?
dont trust this clickbait, league is unballanced as hell, way to much dmg is in the game and the fun is less then ever … getting one shotted by everything isnt casual friendly
Doesnt matter how fun they make it. If i wanted fun I would play normals not rank, just fix the atrocious matchmaking I don't wanna see so many new accounts that don't belong in plat-em games anymore. They can still have a balance game and be fun, they just need their lead designer to have an iq above 120
The fact that you literally can't communicate with your teammates anymore just drives me crazy. I think that the game got significantly worse since they added dragon souls, as you kinda have to contest bot side every 5 minutes if you want to win, which makes games much more repetitive. I don't like the new champion releases too, not because I don't like the champions cuz I fw most of them, I just think there aren't things that make us get actually hyped about new characters because riot markets them the same way every fucking time, and the new champs are mostly old recicled shit mixed with some new elements. Kayn, Ornn, Xayah and Rakan, Camille, Jhin were all bangers in release because they all had unique themes, which doesn't happen anymore and it's natural because there's so much shit in this game already. And I miss old content creators, but that doesn't have anything to do with riot so lmao
Anyway, league is such an incredible game, it just doesn't hit the same anymore and I get legit tired of it after 2 games in a row. The only thing that really excites me about the game is organized play, like some tournaments I played back in the day, but I don't have the time to scrimmage or to practice because my main focus is basketball. Sorry for the essay. Riot should focus more on veteran players too they are focusing way too much in grabbing new players (new skin buyers)
I don't know when you started playing, but this title feels very dishonest. When I started playing, around 10 years ago, the game was full of personality and character. New champ releases/reworks were highly anticipated and very well-teased, (JHIN, EKKO, AZIR, GP REWORK). Some of these champs even had GAME MODES made specifically for their releases. Game modes were fun and much more common, we were getting winter maps without question, and skins were just better, had more personality, and people would complain about league as being a toxic game, but you would RARELY hear people exaggerate the way they do now, and complain about league "not being fun to them". Because what would they say wasn't fun about the Dark Star Thresh game mode where you're q'ing people across the map, or Doom Bots which can ramp in difficulty?
Most of the points you're making are relating to gameplay, and the average league ranked/draft game, which I understand, because that's the core of the game. But there's so much outside of that that players just don't know about, and it looks like people are forgetting. This might be one of the best times to play League of Legends in recent years, but definitely nowhere close to what it was at its previous peaks.
Thanks for putting out original, unique thinkpieces like this though! It's rarer to hear dissenting opinions on this game day to day, and to come out and say you like the direction the game is going might have even been stressful for you. Keep up the good work 🙂
EDIT: (I've been playing this game for longer than I thought….)
Yeah, when they nerfed battlepasses renetlessly, juicing people for money by adding content nobody asked for, or when skin quality has never seen worse than ever before, but at the same price or more than before… it's the worst time to start playing.
This dude's clearly clout chasing w controversial titles.
I mean the game isn't bad, it's just that it's so unfriendly to new players as a result of the community being absolute dog shit. I love the actual "game" par tof the game as much as the next person, but I would never recommend it to anyone looking to get into something new, honestly. The community is so bad that the only way you can actually play it and stay sane is legit by muting everyone, and even then you end up with people just trolling for fun every once in a while. I don't know, I kinda agree that the game itself is in a pretty decent spot but the community man, it's so bad that I genuinely do not think it's healthy to play the game unless you have some friends to play with. Just look at the streamers, there's very few streamers left that haven't talked about how absolutely awful it is to play it because people are just so toxic and unfriendly.
Getting Vanguard on your PC is not bad, but there's a TINY chance of it ruining your online life.
If an outside party gets access to it or someone at Riot decides to secretly act naughty, they'll be able to take over anyone's digital life. That means losing access to anything you use on your PC. Any progress in any game, any bank or PayPal info and any e-mail or social website account (which you might want to use for account recovery).
That being said, same is true for every other always-on kernel anti-cheat. You might already have one installed and waiting for such an accident.
Ideally, have a gaming PC separate from any e-mail logins and credit card purchases.
Man you literally didn't say anything in the video to explain the title xD
Watched 1 minute of the video, heard "It 'might' improve" and stopped. I would say my hope died, but I never had any in the first place lol
I agree, i havent played seriously or consistently since s10, but completely dropped the game only in s13 have been clean of league for 5~ month now, but recently my friend asked me to fill in Aram clash, and i played it, and it was very fun. I believe as a party of 5 experience, league currently is a good game, fun and exciting, looking forward to playing it with my friends more, NOT SOLO
this is the best time to play league because it's only getting worse from here
League: about to implement the most invasive anti cheat in the market
Clueless league youtubers: this is the best time to play League of Legends
The game was trash for the longest time and we all still played it to get that old league fix.. eventually some like me quit for awhile. U check here and then. After mythics removes, ur excited. Took a bit to relearn all changes but.. game is far better than it was for like 3 years i cannot lie. Riot, u idiot company.
it is never a good time to play league of legends
right now with the ff culture i dont think its worth playing.
Don't be a quiter. – Angela Merkel
By the way guys.. You all played valorant and never complained about Vanguard but now its a big deal cause your favorite game is getting it.. And league was never shit if you weren't an ADC player literally. The game was only fucking dog shit for adc mains all other roles had it pretty easy and fair in the game. And no the game isn't the best it was that was probably around season 3 – 5. I probably have over 10,000 hours played on league and i can safely say the game is just probably just gonna get worst from here.. Just adding new champions with over tuned kits stupid premium events every 2 month.. autofill? what the fuck is up with that?? i rather wait 10 minute for a game than play 30 minute as a filled roll that i will just int with anyways. They add a new rank but they do nothing to reset the MMR or even look into the matchmaking system because now every silver is in emerald and diamond players get placed in silver(bcuz Emerald/Diamond 4 is infested with rebards) LOOOOOL!!!!!! its so cancer. Good job RIOT at least you can constantly release skins very week at a lightning rate you never missed one fucking skin release or event but you sure missed a lot of important core things. Anyways it is free at the end of the day and for a free game its pretty damn solid and have genuinely good customer service and punishing system. And yea the game is worth getting into still but just know the golden days of league are lone gone.
You're clueless. This game became worse than it was in season 13, which I don't know how it is possible but here we are.
your opinion is an opinion to make content very very far away from reality. allfallacies inside fallacies.
Too bad Riot decided to put a pacifier in all chat, and if you say anything someone might be offended by, you get fucked.
I was literally chat restricted for saying "Yone just stood there farming krugs instead of killing them (the enemy team", and there goes my honor and chat for some days. If i have to play the game without using chat, i'm much better off playing Heroes of the Storm
Vanguard is a rootkit that runs even even the game isn't
Riot Games is owned by Tencent, a huge chinese conglomerate
If the CCP wants any information from Tencent, they will receive it
It's well within the realm of possibility for your social media or worse to be hijacked through a keylogger for a CCP PsyOp
Being the CCP, they'd face no consequences if that were to happen
League is good right now if you don't give too shits about your identity money or privacy. before you install the game. know that Riot games will monitor everything you do 24/7 as long as you have the game installed on your PC it is the ultimate spyware now. and all your info can be used at any point if they feel like it. also! if they get hacked the hackers can use Riot to hack and get all your information not only limited to your credit card but also your passport etc. so if you are prepared to risk all of that to play a stupid video game by all means go ahead. but don't tell me I didn't warn ya.
PS: Riot got hacked last year and the hackers said it was embarrassing how little protection they had.
voce mencionou sobre o brasil por 01 segundo então estou marcando minha presença, apesar das legendas traduzidas confundirem um pouco o sentido da ideia.
-agora entendi o video, mano o brasil tem uma das rankeds mais memes do mundo so procurar videos como maphite from brazil e varias plays em mundial, as pessoas do challenger aqui são tão boas pq eles literamente fazem 1 vs 9 e carregam são a imunes a qualquer burrice do proprio time, aqui só tem os piores dos piores na parte competitiva, o courtasy é uma das coisas que salva, aqui no brasil league é o jogo mais falado mais todo mundo que joga odeia.
its not the best time but its still better than past seasons. idek why this video is recommended to me. i dont even play league anymore. i didnt even watch the video. i will leave a like and comment. have a nice day
im glad youre getting clowned in the comments so much because ??????? you really read a tweet that said "league will be playable next year we promise guys!!!" and you just believed them like they havent been saying that for years and years now
Pure copium. Almost none of the people that made LoL good are still in the RIOT. The one that stayed are smug cucks like Phreak who have no idea about the game and balance it around their own lane and champions.
did you really compare league to overwatch and r6?
nah bro, just pick adc and confront this "best time", in my whole 10 years journey (im master-gm most of the time) it is only second time where i took break longer than 1 month, 2 years earlier riot destroyed jng for me (less stomp potential, canceling the kiting thing etc etc, played fraction of games untill now on jng – i don't mean viablity i mean fun) now i felt like adc was in the worst place where it has ever been, the introduce of grubs just made adc like a 15 min farm simulator just to get enemy malphite oneshoting you as a tank, tbh the competetive adc was also looking hilarious where it was always way better than in soloq (obv reasons).
I get it that runnan changes are cool (trust me i play this game for fun at the end not lp seeker, ww supp, alistar jng like i really try to get all from this game) but IT'S NOT the best time to play league, promises are at the end just promises…. i will play league for sure but… not for now. The new supp item is a joke, at this point jng and supp have SO MUCH audacity compare to other roles.
I dont ask for complete balance, but time when there are 3-5 VIABLE adc is a huge joke, smolder was op just to be dunked to the ground x). So guys don't be delusional, league is NOT in the good place
Just had a massive layoff, just killed all of the lore (again), trying to push vanguard, killed forge, no more prime rp, runeterra is dead. Getting into league now is just going to be watching your new favorite game hang itself over the next 5 years.