Why Swiftplay is The MOST Fun you can have in League of Legends

[@angelthecake7440]

getting gold even when you miss the minion is so nice for new players, makes learning how to CS a lot less punishing

[@Darkiller965]

If only they didnt remove level up rewards (capsules) and worse blue essence gains, new players are gonna struggle getting new champions to not get bored of the game

[@JunearkCinccino]

@@Darkiller965 Both of these are confirmed to be mistakes.

[@tinycandleman]

@@JunearkCinccino Nah, Riot fully intended for it to happen to make new players grind the battlepass. They're just backpedaling on excuses because the community is lashing out at them. You can't just accidentally remove all free rewards for players, that shit's intentional.

[@Darkiller965]

@@JunearkCinccino where did they state it, I would imagine it wasnt a mistake, the thing im intrested in are the hexchest though, did they state it too?

[@SwankiestPants]

the really funny part is all the "new features" of swift play have been in the game for years on aram, minions have given gold even if you don't last hit them on aram for as long as ive been playing and ive played since aatrox release

[@mr.creamy101]

Swiftplay is the perfect bridge between regular rift and aram and im all for it. Feels like you can do whatever semi viable build you want and it works.

[@CoqueiroLendario]

FInally, time to unleash my toplane blitzcrank

[@mr.creamy101]

@CoqueiroLendario ad blitz lol.. it has more scaling than ad rell so

[@parasocks1613]

@@mr.creamy101 god I wish I could play rell like a juggernaut

[@mr.creamy101]

@parasocks1613 im seeing alot of success stories of people building ad tank hybrid on rell. It's seemingly playable.

[@JackieM00se]

“Summoners rift with less of the straight up despair” insane player buff. I feel that getting more gold and exp from other sources nerfs the value of a kill, which prevents that first death from feeling like game over as now the enemy is no longer 2 components ahead from that point on

[@Nhatanh0475]

And that's what exactly so wrong in Bot fight. Now they force us to play Wild Rift on PC. True it good for new player. But it's so bad when bot can get 200 armor by 12 minute (Malphite) and we barely deal any damage. Especially when ADC is so weak right now.

[@krakenwarrior3237]

Getting to play VelKoz top without getting reported has been an absolute delight

[@dopeydandoodle]

Swiftplay has been amazing. One of my early morning matches (which tend to be full night owls or night shift workers) was the MOST FUN I've ever had in League. Both teams just shrug off each other through the rift for almost an HOUR, we even did a mini 1v1 tourney in the Dragon's Pit. Just old, friendly and hilarious fun between enemies. Never had laughed so hard in a casual match, truly.

[@dopeydandoodle]

There was a lot of skill levels too. We had an UNTILTED 2/9 Sylas and a Ghost Heal Lux in the enemy support and yet no one ever flamed, neither pinged nor feeded. Hope I run into one of these games again soon.

[@parasocks1613]

humanity is pretty cool

[@LaNoir.]

I get the exact same experience in my rankeds. One time we started betting which 3 bots will win against each other and just watched them beat it out.

[@parasocks1613]

@@LaNoir. pardon?

[@Dontstealmyidentity]

"We are excited to announce that this year's worlds will be played in swiftplay"

[@aspyse]

As an off-meta enjoyer myself, I feel like this (much like Arena) is the much-needed solution to keep silly builds out of ranked.

[@samk3141]

1:42 we just going to ignore this "little" thing coming out the bush? :P

[@TRVPHAUS]

Bro who are you talking to

[@sheepsoka8119]

Chogath

[@niwoh]

It feels like nothing you do matters in this mode but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've been playing Nunu "support" in swiftplay and just roaming and ganking 24/7 after lvl 3, it's super fun and thanks to swiftplay rules I'm staying pretty even in farm and exp with everyone else despite not being anywhere near minions for half the game lol.

[@fish5422]

I've loved this since quickplay got released but seen so many people shittalk it. Thank you for some positive words finally

[@niwoh]

Quickplay was ass, it was just draft but you face the same meta champs every single game because no bans. Swiftplay makes it fun though since you can play ultra off-meta stuff that would fall behind immensely in a real game, but with swiftplay rules your level and items stay relevant even if you get zoned off of farm completely.

[@fish5422]

​@@niwoh i liked quickplay over blind pick, not draft

[@hashinemiretsien9920]

@@fish5422 Yeah cause each one is an upgrade of the past one. Swiftplay > Quickplay > Blind. Blind was ass because if you got bugged or had a bad net, gg to your lane, and not only that but at times even if you won the lane, people still threw tantrums and went to your lane anyways. Quickplay got a little better, you could choose your lane and all preemtively and you would mostly get it, but just as Blind, still had the same rules as ranked or the other one, which made the mode that was intended to be more of a casual mode, be exactly the same, or even worse on mirror matchups (Or matchups that were unluckily unfavorable to you). Swiftplay's rules truly made the mode casual, allowing for more off meta which was unheard of with the classic system, since everyone played meta cc garbage, and making it genuinely faster.

[@JoaquinHurtado-zb7gp]

finally, TF2 made into a moba

[@haryok8940]

Finally, Turbo from Dota made its way to League

[@cayerok223]

This made me want to try and learn Azir again as trying it last time was truly a painful experience I would not wish on my mortal enemy. The toxicity in swiftplay truly is way less then in any other mode (even ARAM for some reason) and I hope tryhards and toxic people don't ruin the mode.

[@BitcrushedMozart]

ARAM is toxic because you sometimes roll bad comps against a really good one so you are forced to dodge or suffer for 15+ minutes

[@cayerok223]

@@BitcrushedMozart Yeah thats true... Getting destroyed cause of comp you have no control over sucks. But also I feel like people in ARAM get toxic over builds wich I do not understand.

[@faselfasel2864]

​@@cayerok223because often times you could have a shot at winning or at least a fun near equal matchup with the enemy comp, but people actively choose to lose to shopkeeper and therefore straight up lose you the game because they wanna stick to their fun grey screen simulator build.

[@cayerok223]

@@faselfasel2864 that is why I think that swiftplay is better cause someone having a reallly bad build screws your chance at winning but not your chances at having cause you can still fight equal fights but in ARAM the nature of the map means team fighting 4v5 the entire game

[@WanderingRainier]

Swiftplay has saved my mental in league and i find myself consistently enjoying my thresh games now thanks to it

[@LukeA471]

This video convinced me to try it. My feeding laners got to full build and still played like garbage. Some things never change!

[@saiffxv]

This is one of the best addition to the game because having fun is the best way to play

[@Townc11]

I 100% agree with you, i have been playing league for 2 years now having the option is a huge deal, especially because i have been getting tried of the ff15 mentality and newly the fb feat of strength, a place where i can just play the game and have fun with my friends is all i ever wanted playing this game

[@Lyrune]

Swiftplay is super fun! I ended up staying away from it soon after it launched due to the Atakhan bugs, but now that's fixed, I'm sure it will become a legitimate alternative to draft! There's a lot to be said about comeback mechanics potentially harming the competitive integrity of the game. (You're a Tekken player, you KNOW what I'm talking about.) But I feel like Swift Play is the epitome of a well designed set of comeback mechanics. Mostly because it's tied to Gold, the primary resource that players use to get stronger. You simply lose less of it when you mess up. But because most of the extra gold comes from things like missing minions, it means no matter what the situation is, playing better will ALWAYS reward you more than playing poorly. It's not like bounties which are tied to a single mechanic, which can be manipulated by gaining gold through other methods.

[@LaNoir.]

3:09 "I save you, I save you.....SAY SIKE!!!"

[@llamonardo]

LITERALLY LMAO

[@Raetron]

riot: makes game faster riot: makes nexus tower respawns 💀💀

[@MrMannerless]

Swiftplay is hands down the most fun I’ve had so far. The daunting slog of ranked where shit teammates ruin everything consistently is replaced by meaningful plays and genuine pressure when you do things right and gain an advantage. It’s so nice winning the games i deserve to win for a change.

[@ultimate1450]

honestly i am looking forward to all the weird picks in my swiftplay games such as jungle blitz I want to see it happen in a gamemode where it doesnt matter and doesn't make anyone mad :D

[@daniilzavadin5076]

I think that swiftplay is truly the way to enjoy league. There is a caveat that if someone feeds in your team, the opponent is **capital F** Fed, and that usually discourages most players a lot, which means ff15 is much more common. I think I have, to this day, had destroyed an enemy nexus or had mine be destroyed only like once or twice over ~20 games of swiftplay

[@Aquamarine8955]

I didn’t really like swiftplay when I first tried it because the game phases were progressing so much faster than what I’m used to and it was weird for me. Hearing you talk about it more in depth makes me want to try it again and see if I can look at it in a different way. I also love the point you make with swiftplay opening up a better environment for people to try champs in different roles 👍 I’m too nervous to try off meta builds in normal games but maybe I can do it in swiftplay :)

[@kevinhowe543]

I played a swift play match last night as morde into an urgot, had some frame drops level 2 which caused me to miss a Q that would have killed him and ended up dying. Decided to double down on the aggression and had some good roams to help cover grubs and herald but was still getting smashed by urgot. At one point my team was hard losing, everyone funneling one by one into the urgot for that juicy shutdown. I noticed NO ONE had touched bot, urgot was 2 levels on everyone and i was an additional 1 level down beyond that. I split for about 5 minutes, isolating the JG to ensure we got the smite on Atakhan and jumped so far ahead of urgot with just a couple of picks that i ended the game 2 levels up on him and an entire item on him

[@NameMachineBroke]

Excellent, good to see this on my feed today.

[@aceoflames2410]

Played in a swiftplay game with you in the last hour or so gg you made it really fun ty

[@CryoBeat]

Can I ask which champ you were? Played quite a few.

[@teekameeka6423]

this is a good development for league. Some of the things that always annoyed me were champion bans (gone in swiftplay and less annoying than the old blind matches) and knowing you can no longer impact the game after making too many mistakes. meaning you would be stuck for a undefined amount of time until your team loses. Time was also a big factor. 40 minute matches for a non ranked game felt draining.

[@FokaAlighieri]

I haven't played in a few months, sounds like a great opportunity to come back!

[@MarkTheViewer]

I'm enjoying swiftplay for the most part, but I've noticed a massive increase of level 15-30 smurf accounts of high diamond-challenger players in my games. With this season being so snowbally it feels really bad and it's genuinely starting to ruin the game mode for me. Really wish Riot took a harsher stance for smurf accounts :/

[@gamedierepeat3351]

Hello, its me, the new players who like swiftplay. I have a lot of time in other mobas, never really clicked with league. Swiftplay is a big part of what makes league enjoyable for me rn. Eventually I'll go back to my usual blend of smite hots and dota, but for now learning different characters in swiftplay is really fun.

[@Zancibar]

I just came back from a swiftplay game in which I was playing Ashe and had a Teemo support, against Lux-Orianna. It went about as well as you can imagine playing an inmobile adc with a support that only works against autoattackers against a duo that landed one AoE ability and killed me from full HP since lvl 6. Still, for better or worse I managed to start farming eventually, landed a few good Rs from across the map and while I didn't enjoy that game all that much, I didn't actively want to end it all after it was done, and yeah, we ended up winning regardless and I got honored by my midlaner. Overall not the best experience playing League, but definitely the best "I got destroyed early and there was nothing I could do about it" experience playing League. I even got to 4 items and got to splitpush a little and had a few game changing plays. I feel like the biggest reason I didn't enjoy that game was probably the fact that I wasn't expecting to be able to play anymore so I started to auto-pilot. When I managed to have an impact I was a numb to it and when I realized I was actually able to play this game we were already taking baron for the win.

[@dariusfilip4695]

not readin allat vro😢😢

[@chittasticchitta1164]

3:50 ULTRAKILL LAYER 7 MUSIC SPOTTED.

[@DemyrNox]

Oh this seems genuinely very fun! Can't wait to play Hwei jungle

[@hellome_ani]

Swiftplay made playing support akali (even with building tank) super fun. I love how even if i just fall off due to her obvious early game weakness against ranged characters, i can always catch up and still delete the adc mid game. Thanks riot for this.

[@AcaciaAvenue]

9:45 "faster games and toxicity go hand in hand", i mean, URF is the testimony to that. That's the main reason I think that one's the worst gamemode ever, all the games I played there were a flamefest and I got bored of it pretty quickly.

[@AxolotlDreams-u-]

You tricked me into playing league of legends again. unforgivable

[@toastydehmer]

As someone JUST starting out, I very much loved Quickplay and am loving Swiftplay just as much. I *hate* playing sweaty games and much prefer being able to try silly stuff. Coming from TF2, that should be no surprise. I will never touch Ranked and am super glad there's a more casual and laid back option where I can learn against real people without getting turned into a mop for the floor.

[@cyvaultwrath]

I enjoy swift play, my only complaint has been that it's on summoners rift. I can already feel the affect it has on my ranked and normal draft games, making them feel like they're dragging on, when in reality they haven't changed

[@mash5a]

After the travesty that was blind pick, Quickplay was the best thing Riot ever did to the client. A mode that lets you play what you want while skipping A LOT of game setup, allowing you to just get right into the game. Replacing it with Swiftplay is... FINE, in fact, it's probably the best for most players period. However, I was already hooked on Quickplay! Swiftplay is fun, but I'm going to miss skipping draft to play the only non-ranked "normal" SR mode.

[@rubicschizo2456]

my one and only complaint on this is; i've repeatedly had games where i get matched up with team mates who appear to be playing their first ever real game of league and the opposing team is filled with people all level 250+, while there is nothing wrong with learning the game ofc, skill based matchmaking should probable get a bit of a tweek. idk it's my personal experience ofcourse

[@torri776]

I adore Swiftplay. It's a great way to take a break from the tryhardery that's been going on as of late. Unlike its predecessor Quickplay, you're not always fighting scripters, hard smurfs, and tryhards. Normal people want to play for fun, and it shows. I'm spotting way more mistakes in these games which indicates that about 50% of the people playing Swiftplay don't take it too seriously.

[@evanyoungs7663]

I started playing at the tail end of s12 and I’ve only played ARAM because sr knowledge check was so intimidating to me. With swift play coming out I’m excited to try and play and maybe eventually transfer to sr once I’m more confident

[@G3ntle]

Conceptually I'm all for it, but in execution and experience so far, I'm on the fence. It's definitely a "my experience" moment but the amount of toxicity I've seen in the mode has remained about the same as average. My first match in it I had a Caitlyn support who spent the entire game stealing my farm, then the match immediately after I had a Morgana support who took one bad death, typed "GG," muted, and started running it down mid. League players are still gonna be League players, and that leads into my other main gripe with it: Swiftplay doesn't have anything that actually makes it "swift." In League, the pace of the game is dictated by the people playing it, especially in low elo where players just don't know how to end games. A game that takes 45 minutes in normal draft is still gonna take 45 minutes in swiftplay. I've already had a couple of those. Also you're forced to select at least one priority position to even be allowed to queue for a match, which I personally feel kind of defeats the entire purpose of the mode, being jump in fast and just play. If I have to queue for a role I don't want then get put in it, I'm not having fun.

[@Tabako-san]

Took long enough, welcome back Heroes of the Storm

[@TheCosmicAstro-]

Because its more designed around having fun rather than the obsession with min maxing "skill expression" everywhere possible regardless of how unfun it is.

[@АндрійСергійович-ф5ж]

I agree with everything, but I have some thoughts about the gold balance. Imagine that your team loses to one or two players on their team. Their value is very high, but you can't kill them because they are strong and have stronger items. The bounty on your head is small, so you don't have to feed the enemy even more, but you try to kill someone and kill a player who only gives you 50 gold because he is weak and asks you to finish him off. At this point, the bounty for you becomes normal, the strongest player on their team comes to you and gets a good bounty. So it turns out that the weak players on their team are not feeding you, they are feeding their strongest player, updating your bounty for him with their deaths and not giving you a normal bounty for themselves. This is my subjective opinion, I don't know how much it really works as I described, but I noticed a very big difference in gold in such situations (about 12k vs. 20k)

[@SkyyWalker2137]

The snowballing from noxus season is basically entirely placebo

[@TrillianXIII]

It’s a nice mode for my friend who isn’t as good at the game, to play summoners rift and not just aram without all the pressure of SR

[@WolfBergMenace]

"You get even more gold wheb youre behind" THAT should be a base mechanic instead of giving the winning team more advantages

[@furret8456]

i see so the 1.7k backstab crit shaco snowballing is still viable here

[@hangry3102]

Are they going to have different balancing challenges for this mode now compared to regular play?

[@HopeArk]

if they re-add the seasonal mastery rewards (thats not just bpxp). if they add back the seasonal mastery chests then I'd play swiftplay a lot more, playing some of those champs would have a purpose

[@AxolotlBaiken]

Maybe I should try it again. I don't know why but I've only encountered the most toxic evil vile people playing Swiftplay.

[@melon284]

that jg blitz patch was so fun i was so sad they removed him

[@justcri]

"oh no, i died once to my laner, it's over" is SO REAL if you play mid or top 😭 you get killed once and that's basically it, game's over, you fed them too much and now you have 0 chances of winning a 1v1 (yes i know this is totally my skill issue)

[@fumokaze]

I am still mad about the thing where skins are no longer as easy as they were to get like before but I am willing to redownload league and give swiftplay a shot

[@P1EMASTER]

Honestly my main complaint about swiftplay is the lack of bans. I have not jungled against an udyr in a year and i will be damned if i willingly do so again

[@camthorn2088]

I want to play this so bad but i live in Australia and its not out in OCE. No clue when or if it will come which sucks because it is the perfect mode for me :(

[@jvzn]

Haven't played it yet because it always requires me to select Jungle as one of my two roles.

[@RealWind]

the pjsk background music is driving me crazy

[@PizzzaMozarella]

I played swiftplay: picked Draven, enemy team fed, enemy flame us, got money idk where from, started oneshotting everyone with Draven, enemy team blames jungle, we won. 10/10

[@leele_]

Time to install LoL again, love the vids!

[@khanhvan8011]

I think you didn't mention this, but the prices of items also are decreased in Swiftplay as well!

[@lynasan8657]

It is better, the problem it's the feats of strength thing, enemies take the first blood, then the new boots with 70+% winrate, and then you are screwed up.

[@s4sausage135]

i thought ruinus was the more action version of atakan and the red one was like the less fighting spawn

[@JS-yo1ff]

2:46 You got it the other way around, Ruinous spawns in more active games.

[@arved1014]

I believe Swiftplay greatly favors champs that scale hard, but not over time (e.g. Kayle, Kassadin), so champs that get lategame powerspikes from levels, rather than some sort of stack mechanic. Mundo is also a great example for this. I feel like early game champions greatly fall off, after only a very short period of time, with the snowball mechanic kinda being deleted, I feel like the early game champs that rely on snowballing (e.g. Draven, Tryndamere) tend to fall off even if you perform well in the early. Lmk if you agree or not.

[@DarkAsasin16]

I wanted to try yuumi support the other day and my first match I had a katarina as ADC, we went like 10-1 and won the game, it was very fun

[@raccoonwizard]

7:49 Respect for calling “red kayn” Rhaast.

[@syiniydethepotatoe9486]

The game actually isnt more snowbally, it just feels more snowbally.

[@juanin200]

I feel like regular Rift should in some capacity be like this, at least the comeback gold. You manage to stomp the enemy team and snowball like hell with the new objectives? Good, now you better find a way to use that snowball to close the match within 25 minutes, otherwise the enemy team will be rewarded for managing to survive your snowball and will start catching up.

[@Peacerequiresfreedom]

Good video,good job man.

[@zianitori]

i play AP ashe in aram and even though it's usually not the biggest threat and functions as a weird support, people start tunneling me right away because of how annoying it is so i was never able to get mastery chests on it lol

[@BowserGlazer]

Ok, most of this is great, but why did they reverse the ff changes quick play had? It was the quick for fun mode that was easy to leave if it was no longer fun. Why would they remove that here?

[@TheAutumnSkye]

I miss Quinn Bot, this might make me try it again

[@supportisfun2043]

Honest question: do you miss blind pick? for me personally that was my favorite gamemode with most playtime and quickplay was the saddest announcment ive had since. swiftplay is nice addition but i personally think they should bring back blind pick as well since it was so much faster and easier to queue up

[@fuchschrafter8512]

my swift play selected champs are ungodly XD but fun and suprisingly effectiv... support eve is insane there

[@dimondsi]

swift play has all but replaced normal play for me. I usually play aram cuz normal games turn sour too often, but in this case I don't mind at all

[@Ecliptor.]

If playing well matters so little, I feel like it removes all motivation to play. But idk, maybe it's fun for friends of varying skills and new players.

[@chadowsrikatemo4494]

Or so you say, but i got 2 deaththreats in swiftplay yesterday, cause i wanted to try building tanky on evelyn xD Alas still more fun than ranked

[@CreePPiP]

For me Swift play is the best way to play league solo. I hate Summoners rift and only play it with friends, and last year I played too much Aram, so I’m just sick of it Swift play just gives you so much emotions because you can play how you like and who you like and still win For just yesterday: I won lane as Braum against Kayn; won game as mid full ap Yuumi reconnecting for the first minutes of the game and ending having more farm that enemy adc; won the game when 2 my teammates were afk League never was that fun! Great job, Riot!

[@gringusbringus432]

My problem with swiftplay is that that the bounty system is huge a problem

[@mehmetesatguler8457]

Wise words fellow league enjoyer

[@Wiosnaaaaaa]

League players yern for WildRift

[@nekimarun]

its just wildrift on pc XD

[@unkownshadow3542]

yea the only problem i have with swift is that everyone just picks broken meta champs and still snowball easily so nothing really changes

[@BooelGaymes]

i got every type of sup top, melee dual bot, a lot of jg champions laning is this the meta...

[@Armagedoen]

Aram in Summoners rift and you get to choose 2 champs to play

[@Aiikun_]

"pick something from valorant, add it to lol, count it as new year content" ahhh update

[@tilianOP]

I think swift play is great the game mode, along with the fun of watching Los Ratones, has gotten me to play league again. However I will say swift play ADC is unplayable. In NA at least I've noticed due to being required to queue a "Priority" lane a lot of ppl that get support just run it down to get it over with and ruin their partners experience Edit:Its fine if you have a duo that will support you willingly. but out of 10 games, 9 of them had supports running it down

[@Infillet3014]

very cool i wish its available in our servers here in South east asia though

[@spidericktehdarkandstuff7417]

Swift play seems fun but im paranoid riot vanguard is what broke my wifi driver back when i still had lol in my pc

[@_IceCold_]

No wat dexter memes has found its way here

[@christofferovergaard6328]

I didn't even realize swift play had different mechanics perhaps i should detox from ranked

[@phaeriesteps]

haha I always play for fun, even in ranked! Just don't take it that seriously :3 I do like the new swiftplay though, it's a nice improvement over quickplay~

[@besc0bar]

you get in the pool of blind pick players which prob has the lowest game quality afks or 20/0/x 0/20/0. the snowballing nature is great in larger parties tho

[@bolt6572]

death timers are still long which ruin the exp

[@basementweeb7448]

i accidentally put fiora as an adc durring a swiftplay game and won

[@edenhasclawsyouknow]

we dont have swift play in my region?

[@zardthedragon1896]

I feel like swiftplay would have been better if they had done it way sooner. It’s just unfortunate timing because with the new noxus changes it’s become more toxic because people take first bloods and objectives a lot more seriously.

[@FemboyFrankenstein]

Swift play feels like HotS to me (this is a compliment)

[@SlippyLegJones]

When you start playing a new mode, your mmr will be "default" AKA you will get queued with the most toxic smurfs imaginable. If you can play enough to move your mmr up or down it should increase game quality a ton. Sort of like how new players complain about bots/inters in ARAM, but I haven't seen a bot/inter in ARAM in honestly a decade.

[@SlippyLegJones]

also holy christ the UI is annoying.