Ranking the BIGGEST MISTAKES in League of Legends HISTORY

[@themiracleman3684]

>reads title >sees it's 18 minutes long yea sounds about riot.

[@MistSGM]

was... was that a pun...?

[@jiaxihao1847]

XDs

[@Zero-eo8pq]

Nah, not nearly long enough

[@5frogfrenzy]

the day riot does something good is the day all the lol youtubers stop making money

[@princesschennel]

hao pp000

[@vsg297]

Riot be like: "Nobody played TTL". Yea no shit, you removed half of the map and just gave it a new look.

[@Kloqdq]

Not to mention they refused to touch it in over 4 years before they shut it down. Them saying despite their efforts, it never grew in player numbers will forever be burned in me. If Riot actually tried, TT had a chance to find it's own footing. They just never gave a rat's ass.

[@yepyep86]

See the reason I saw that the player base didn't increase either was when I wanted to play with friends on it we ran into so many script bots just leveling accounts on it and we hated it cause we enjoyed capping the points on top of pushing it was different to SR and honestly? I haven't touched League in years

[@DrTomo]

@@Kloqdq The fact that they have put more efforts on TFT and Nexus Blitz than TT in a WAY SHORTER span of time was really shameless

[@Kloqdq]

@@yepyep86 To be honest from my experience, bots became a lot less frequent over time. Still an issue but not as bad as it used to be. Ranked was also a good way to avoid them and my preferred way to play the mode since it had pick and ban.

[@Kloqdq]

@@DrTomo Yeah it's seriously a joke how much effort was put into those newer modes over TT. I understand it was mostly a response to their overwhelming popularity BUT it was also new and a showing of what Riot gets when they put some effort into something. TT was so dead of a mode that I don't blame the community for not playing it - Riot didn't give a shit so why should they. It's a crying shame because TT offered an experience you CAN'T get in League anymore.

[@NickyBoi]

As far as game modes go, Odyssey was probably my favourite. Such a shame they never brought it back, it was so much fun to play with friends, not to mention beating it on its hardest difficulty would reward you a free (for the time) exclusive skin.

[@floraflowergarden]

Didn't expect to see you here

[@phoenixflamegames1]

It was the most fun I had in years and defeating the hardest mission felt like defeating a dark souls boss, cuphead boss or Sans to me. A genuine rush of happiness and excitement. I still use the exclusive icon you get for beating it with 1 augment.

[@Ferkeshu]

The only free skin from missions

[@dizknots9357]

for me my favorite is the Dark Star Thresh gamemode, 2nd is odyssey, the unique runes it had was fun

[@alejandropetit6573]

Odyssey and twisted treeline were really fun, when TT was removed I exclusively played maokai for a week as a memorial of sorts, and I still use the twisted treant icon to this day I really miss those modes

[@LucarioredLR]

Riot then: "our MOBA is different from other MOBAs because ours offers players a big variety of maps" Riot now: "Summoners' Rift 24/7, take it or leave it"

[@DCDsauce]

just jump on HoTS then, the game is vastly balanced due to map variety

[@wakkaseta8351]

@@DCDsauce Didn't Blizzard abandon that game?

[@DCDsauce]

@@wakkaseta8351 kinda did, we still get updates and they're good. Mostly small reworks and balance changes, but the game is balanced overall

[@sandwichmonster7067]

*Leaves it*

[@shaunroberts2037]

@@wakkaseta8351 kinda, they still get heroes and patches but it's best to treat it like a high quality indie moba right now

[@hoozoohleague8264]

League's biggest mistakes, below one hour? Damn no one can say Skooch is padding his videos' runtime. This could've legit been 95minutes

[@DemonLordGamingAC0]

200 Years*

[@hoozoohleague8264]

@@DemonLordGamingAC0 you sir, are a genius

[@voilvelev6775]

Im surprised nobody mentioned s7 assasin's patch. It was so bad and embarrasing that Riot reverted almost all the changes they made back then.

[@hoozoohleague8264]

@@voilvelev6775 or the fact that every champion release since Camille has been an absolute nightmare (Camille included)

[@maidenfreaker2870]

"my skin is $30" it took me a second to realize it's the in game skin

[@Twicken17]

Me too...

[@itsgoldenbaby]

"leagues biggest mistake is league of legends itself" - Mahatma Gandhi

[@ramez2207]

My last brain cell has just been murdered

[@beepboop6033]

As a person who plays league, I agree.

[@hijixincorporated]

How did I know that this comment would be here

[@key1131]

You are a Wise person Fixer

[@ObviOneKenobi]

"My favourite Actor is Adam Sandler" - Ghandi

[@mli3793]

What you forgot to mention is how yuumi fundamentally changed how riot can balance items. She got such a different gameplay mechanic that it's hard to balance items because of her

[@razernaga14]

I miss the Star Guardian event, the Dark Star event i miss so much my girlfriend sees me playing and wants to get into it with me, and i know her well enough to know that stuff being gone is the difference between her loving it and not so... i'm there with you buddy. Bring back fun league of legends.

[@BoostedMonkey05]

Bring back the fun to leage o legeds

[@purplelotus531]

Odddysey with the augments was by far the best pve I ever played on league. So fun with ap jinx, 5 man shield ziggs, 30 enemies ulted with malphite and ulting 20 times with yasuo releasing 100 nados. The best.

[@navatheramenguy3127]

Seems that fun doesn't mean monetizable to them

[@alejandropetit6573]

I remember when TT was removed they gave me the twisted treant emote for having played the map, and in honor of the hours i spent in that map i picked up maokai and only played him for an entire week no matter the role i got. RIP I still use that twisted treant icon to this day

[@voilvelev6775]

I miss the Oddysey map. It was so fresh and unique I couldnt believe my eyes. And they just make lame excuses to not return those maps. Its the worst with Dark Star map though. Its the SMALLEST MAP in the game, with only 6 players, that all play THE SAME CHAMPION. BRUH. JUST RELEASE IT, IT COSTS LITERALLY NO RESOURCES TO DO SO.

[@myaps1859]

when adc's died, it was one of the WORST experiences, because tanks literally took over the game and adc mains were just crying everywhere

[@livingreverie5951]

We got a bit of hope back when the item rework came and things like LDR and Kraken Then it was gone cause the item rework Also made tanks stronger (Do we need to bring back up the Microwave Meta with Sunfire)

[@AuStistic_Lemurr]

agreed, gave up playing after my fav roll (support) was dominated by asssasins or tanks botlane.

[@chriwehl7173]

@@livingreverie5951 I got PTSD of a Cho Gath coming out of the jungle and ignoring cc due to the tenacity rework and just eating me. Then I became the PTSD. That shit was funny as hell, just standing there. 5 people hitting me... Yeah

[@eiden6744]

I had to play Vladimir/Irelia bot lane at that time. It is definitely one of the worst experiences because you can only play Ezreal or Kai'sa at that time. Also, they need to bring back Odyssey: Onslaught gamemode back. That shit was the peak of fun League of Legends.

[@micahcook2408]

@@chriwehl7173 stuff like that still happens now. So instead of building traditional adc items, it seems like its more important to build anti-tank/armor pen items, even if its only 2 tanks on the enemy team. Same goes for Liandry’s Anguish on Mages ... I kinda wish there was tank rework lol

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

Getting rid of rotating game modes.... my favorite part of the game :c

[@ArmoredPandaa]

Unique Game Modes rather. Odyssey and Star Guardian. They said it's not worth the time because people don't play it enough, but they don't consider the people hearing about it, coming back to check it out and then maybe play some normals / Arams / ranked after getting back in.

[@dzello]

@@ArmoredPandaa They do consider it actually. You can easily tell they consider it by their removal of Nexus Blitz which was based on checking this type of numbers. Riot really checks numbers like that a lot so this kind of phenomenon doesn't go past them at all. Sorry, it's likely those modes were just... Doing that poorly.

[@alexandremarton2603]

@@dzello if i recall correctly riot showed the numbers for how much of the playerbase actually played these unique game modes and less than 5% actually played it after the first days of the game mode

[@dzello]

@@alexandremarton2603 Yeah it was really bad and that 5% is mostly due to the fact you could get skins if you ranked gold and such... But there's a lot of idiots on this video who think TT or Dominion had a following.

[@didntaskyou7884]

Once they removed dominion it all went downhill, now you only have 5v5 which is worst map to play on. Smite > League end of story, i have so much unique experiences in smite than i ever had in league.

[@oneofthe12sionmains70]

"Every single champion in the game has to be scared of getting CC'd and killed" -Laughs in tank

[@carnivorze1052]

Imagine grabing Amumu with Blitzcrank ? CC are Amumu's friends

[@DemonLordGamingAC0]

Well tanks are supposed to tank... So they should be an exception

[@heidytran4136]

Until you realized they bought LDR & VoidStaff so your tank stats gets chucked down in 4 abilities. Insta dead... Tanks think they’re powerful and never will die but... thats not the case anymore 🥲

[@Ch4pp13]

Not when I play them. Not when I play anything, for that matter... Last thing I remember about playing against players was getting sent to the shadow realm for daring to kill minions at minute 4.

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

And then comes the sweaty vayne mains condemn and melt full builds with 2 items

[@drenchedinsyrupp6059]

0:50 People telling each other to commit suicide? In the League Community? Inconceivable.

[@aridavid10]

16:20 I agree and disagree. The problem with twisted treeline near the end was that in 10 games I encountered with an average of 6 real players meaning that the other 54 were farming bots. That took all the fun away from the game. If you had more bots than the opposing team you would lose no matter what. Worse part was that they wouldn't surrender in order to maximize points.

[@felixleyo1]

Riot removing underperforming game modes and maps got to me. Even though I dont dislike summoners rift, i did enjoy dominion and TT a lot, and when you start cutting out content you know you're not going the right direction. An argument can be said that they would have to balance the game around 3 maps instead of one, but they can't even balance SR properly anyways.

[@dzello]

Releasing those gamemodes was the mistake they did and they cut them out. Releasing was the wrong direction, but cutting them out was the right decision. Hence.. Why they did it. It's was a good decision to TRY alternative gamemodes but only Aram worked so back to the initial situation.

[@Limrick1029]

Bro I swear to god balance on the Rift got WORSE after they removed the other two

[@dzello]

@@Limrick1029 It's unrelated. The thing is balance becomes less and less achievable the more champions exist in the game. It's a fact alternate gamemodes can never be balanced due to common balance with SR and them not being worth balancing around either, but removing them changed nothing balancewise. And honestly, having played the earlier iterations of League, the game has never been as balanced as right now.

[@riven4121]

The funny (and sad) thing about Dominion and TT is that they were literally left to rot. Riot didn't even bother changing either of them at all. On top of the fact that the modes themselves were infested with bots. Of course they died because Riot did fuck all.

[@dzello]

@@riven4121 Nah, you're not reasoning properly. :) It's not : Riot does nothing -­> gamemode dies It's the opposite. Gamemode dies -> Riot does nothing The reason they didn't bother with it is because people weren't playing the mode in the first place. Take ARAM: people enjoyed it and so Riot took care of it. Basically, players showed low interest in those modes which is why Riot showed no interest either then discontinued them. Riot didn't bother because it wasn't worth it. So yeah, of course they were left to rot: they showed no potential. This is PLAYERS' fault, not Riot's. You're doing inverse reasoning and transposing.

[@GigaChimeGigaChad]

Losing Hide N Seek in League was one of the most tragic things and nothing will ever change my mind.

[@jousting]

9:59 "EVERY OTHER CHAMPION IS DOING THE SAME" Gangplank: * laughs in orange *

[@dankg4688]

Olaf: *laughs in Ragnarok *

[@Gbv61022]

Warwick: *laughs in w *

[@jpnapz]

Gwen: *Laughs in hexagon *

[@ApexGale]

@@jpnapz gwen's shroud is a circle, camille's ult is the hexagon

[@seat0_294]

Garen: *laughs in Demacia *

[@CottidaeSEA]

They should've reverted Twisted Treeline back in the day.

[@lester4532]

The Aurelion Sol Mini Rework is one of their worst mistakes. Crippled his sustained damage playstyle.

[@Lianzi_Spl]

Don’t forget how Kalista got the same-ish treatment

[@jofelvicentino3713]

R.I.P

[@speeddemon9616]

yh what pissed me off is some pro guy and high elo ppl where telling riot they love it's good, they played him once for that play test, they dont play him and will never again, they also fucking removed his pass on e and still left it cooldown as long as karthus ult, so he basically just has a q and no other abilities, cause his ult is kinda use less with out w other than slowing ppl

[@WingedDragonWarrior]

If I remember correctly they said the reason why they did the rework was to increase his playrate and his playrate was cut in half on the patch the rework dropped and has stayed like that ever since.

[@Local_commentor]

Inma be honest as a yasuo player I never liked aurelion sol windwall don't kill stars

[@Heightren]

I've said this many time before, the best way for Yuumi to remain in this game is to be able to be hit by AoE damage, even though she's untargettable.

[@DemonLordGamingAC0]

Interesting. Or that stuns makes her fall out of the person she's in

[@Heightren]

@@DemonLordGamingAC0 Yes, anything that punishes her for attaching to the wrong ally. Even sharing damage with the host would be good.

[@majita2320]

@@DemonLordGamingAC0 That would just make her awful to play imo. That would mean that you are basically useless in lane if they have any cc + a lane bully. Adc gets cc-ed, yuumi falls out, they are dead before she can attach back. I like the idea of sharing dammage tho (as the person bellow said). My idea is this: When yuumi is above 50%hp she takes 50% of the dammage her host takes(Using her health like a semi shield). Of course if she takes dammage for you she needs a way to get it back so her e now heals her too but at a cost of how much she heals(significantly less). Her base hp should also be incrased so that her measly 1600 base health can actually tank anything. Tho that would make her pretty ok in lane but I don't know how she would perform on tanks. The problem we face is that Yuumi as a concept itself is completly broken and will probably never be balanced. Even as a Yuumi main i agree that she should have never been added to the game. But she is here and she is here to stay so there has to be a way to make her do more than just press "e" till you win.

[@TheHighLizard]

@@majita2320 Maybe they should put more emphasis on her passive by increasing how much she shields with it (or how often perhaps?) and decreasing the heal amount on e. That way shed need to jump out more thus making her more rewarded for playing well rather than just "hurr durr i press e"

[@tiedyedbeard3439]

If you want to see what yummi should/could have been look up dawngate: Mina. A shutdown moba from a few years ago, did the "attached" champion idea perfectly.

[@sagecho4510]

Said this on the Yuumi can we talk about this and I'll say it here too ... there's a Diamond league player who plays Yuumi with his feet

[@dankg4688]

eat your cereal

[@raidenent4875]

Long story short the dude plays two champs yuumi with feet ashe with hands and reached grandmaster

[@lcdc_azuralie]

@@raidenent4875 from what I've heard he played draven and reached plat. This story has been so pushed around that it's completly wrong now. Better go research before you open it ty

[@user-bg1uc1gm3q]

Madman from Korea played yuumi and adc at the same time, reaching challenger with 2 accounts at 1 time

[@motivatedman5500]

@@lcdc_azuralie no

[@tnttv5360]

There were people that specialized on twisted treeline. People that were so well organized on that map, they'd stomp you within minutes. People that played only twisted treeline ranked. Riot just shat on them.

[@pragmat1k]

This man talks about Yuumi like I talk about my job.

[@destinyj.5432]

I had much more games in Twisted treeline then on summoners rift, when they removed it, I left league for one year and I hardly play it now

[@JimmyJonJillakers]

Ascension was the first rotating gamemode I ever played. Learning that I had missed out on Dominion was a crushing blow. Nowadays I only play ARAM too.

[@zileantimekeeper7464]

Yea it was a fun time and i mean if riot would have just you know updated the gamemode in the many years with was up then maybe others would have played it

[@Ultrox007]

I played since season 1, Dominion was my favorite mode since it was built to be roughly 20 minutes when you play, so I could get one game in before work without risk of needing to leave so I'm not late for work and leaving my team hanging. When League dropped dominion I had to drop League, went to HotS - which I dropped as well when 2.0 came out and changed the game to a lootbox cash-cow.

[@decilence6184]

I remember 1 time waking up at 6 am and instantly getting to a dominion game , literally at the start 2 players quit before we could leave fountain. What ensued was the most epic game , where we somehow struggled until all we had left was 1 point , and then we had all towers , i felt like god and went to school with the biggest smile.

[@chiiiiie5608]

14:30 not gonna lie, I'm enjoying ARAM more than the entirety of Summoner's Rift combined. I'd rather play aram than suffer on SR

[@hoaxygen]

This has been my experience since day 1, except for the RGM

[@Sasorislovery]

Same. I don’t want to be stuck in a bad game for an hour. I’m so devastated that I missed so many interesting game modes since I started in like, 9.2

[@angrywolfjr7164]

i legit wanna sleep the entire rest of the day after a game of summoner rift, after a game of aram i wanna go write a whole goddamn coding project in a day, aram is care free, fast, adrinaline rushing, and overall great, just like nexus blitz

[@chiiiiie5608]

@@Sasorislovery I started in season 4-ish, before summoner's Rift got a map overhaul. God, I miss casual game modes

[@tamaszsombortolvaj7517]

I started around the time Kalista came out, and the only game mode I enjoyed playing was ARAM. Playing a game of SR makes me sick. My support doesnt protect me, the team pings 24/7, my midlaner is feeding, the enemy jungler keeps ganking only botlane, and the enemy toplaner is already at the second tower at 10 minutes.

[@Ryoland]

I love playing Umi is aram, my buddy hates her, i jump on him and stay there all round. Makes him salty as hell when we win that way. Best troll character 10/10.

[@przemysawszczesny8980]

For me number 1 was the "ADC are dead patch" They literally removed 1 class of champions for idk 6 months?

[@shadowstar2194]

I mained ADC for a few years and once that patch dropped, I stopped playing ADC completely. I have still never gone back, it just has never felt the same.

[@autumneagle]

And it was the most different class in the game which meant people who were good at that class were just fucked because they couldn't easily swap to a different playstyle.

[@micahcook2408]

Also isn’t this meta more tank based than ADC based? Making ADC’s kinda useless until very late game?

[@ducks7015]

@@micahcook2408 that sounds like the last few years

[@aoisora1445]

Once upon a time I was an ADC main, and then the Riot Nation attacked, and eventually Xayah and Kai'sa became the only options and everything else was a loss... in these hard times, I took my Ashe maining self, went Grasp of the Undying with Magic Resistance and null shield and proceeded to destroy Lux in mid lane cause Ashe is a mid laner now...

[@coffee0093]

the crystal scar is weeping loved dominion

[@abayal5814]

looks like most of those kids in his chat didn't ever play OG twisted treeline. Went from a player favorite to trash thanks to riot reworking the whole map

[@Ersilay]

Making the map shorter and adding those dumb autels....

[@chriwehl7173]

@@Ersilay Side objectives never worked. I only played OG twisted treeline twice. And I only remembered it now. I miss it.

[@lemurpaw3230]

As someone who wasn't playing when twisted treeline, could you please explain what it was

[@Verienn]

I didn't mind the rework and altars, I just miss the map

[@TheHighLizard]

That and not updating it for like 3-4 years

[@Hyurno]

I'm an ADC player and the 'Fuck ADCs' patch isn't as bad as ducking Yuumi I love having Yuumi on me cuz its a free janna and karma shield, but Yuumi on the enemy Camille? Fuck no

[@carnivorze1052]

Yuumi is the type of champion you like and hate at the same time depending of in which team she is.

[@peristeronic5520]

except when that yuumi decides "fuck healing, Im gonna build ludens tempest and max q".

[@matilo1331]

I bet three of those mistakes were seraphine, 1 for each skin

[@eVill420]

One More for The Twitter account

[@carnivorze1052]

And 1 more for every Seraphine K/DA stor and ingame quote

[@gemeliho]

and yet another one for being able to charm entire goddamn enemy while not even going in

[@RoastedPheasant]

Controversial statement time: Hiring RiotJag is in the top 5 worst things. Once he came in, the game became less about making a game where all the pieces fit together, and more about a malicious one-upsmanship contest where every designer is desperate to make the most overloaded and broken design possible. He started with Camille, moved on to Kai'sa, and then he completely deleted Aatrox because it wasn't HIS design and he needed people to know it was his work. Then, despite everything, he got upped to being a design head. And it's just gotten worse from there.

[@eonera9282]

Everyone just likes to forget that patch where Riot fucked up Galio's Q scaling and he ended up oneshotting people with barely any items.

[@poijnve3912]

you mean normal galio?

[@shura4254]

That's more of a bug than a biggest mistake

[@poijnve3912]

@@shura4254 how is a bug no knowing how to write % number? because this isn't the first time that happens xD

[@purplelotus531]

You mean the explosive rod or lost chapter power spike into doing 90% of total hp wasnt intended? Riot literally went: lets put this insane ap scaling with %max health dmg. That will help tank galio with the little ap they have do more dmg. Like quoting Tyler1 “How did even make it to live servers?”, really no one in whole Riot said: “wait have we tested this with full ap” or did any calculation on how much dmg it dealt. Like dude

[@shura4254]

@@purplelotus531 sure, how much it last?

[@will666malibu]

If i remember correctly, the patch that killed ADCs wasn't really that it killed ADCs altogether, but killed crit heavy AA ADCs. Jinx, cait and trist pop my mind right now. But it gave place to Lethality Jhin and MF, and those were pretty neat. I had a lot of fun playing Lethality Jhin back then, honestly.

[@astro6492]

I never got the chance to play any of the old event gamemodes, and the fact me and all the others who are newer to league won’t ever get to play them is pretty depressing.

[@Gahanun]

Dominion was the best place to learn new champions and had such a different feel to laning and map movement. Seeing my 100+ dominion games icon still makes me sad.

[@conrax3818]

Honestly, i wish they would add twisted treeline and dominion to the rotating Gamemodes

[@earlsaverson5387]

“You know who else has to worry about getting CC’d and killed? The other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR FUCKING CHAMPIONS” Preach brother 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 (Well, occasionally Olaf doesn’t.)

[@acsalexandruandrei9377]

Or fed tank

[@smittywerben1849]

And mundo now

[@ethanwells1230]

I was thinking master yi, who is also really tucking easy

[@smittywerben1849]

@@ethanwells1230 yi always has to worry about cc, hes not easy... There are no yi mains above diamond because he is so easy to shut down with cc. Ti literally gets stunned or silenced for a second and he dies

[@ethanwells1230]

@@smittywerben1849 that’s what I meant is that he has to avoid cc. But he’s not in high Eli because he’s bad for that reason

[@Kloqdq]

I just want to mention that I myself was a Twisted Treeline guy. All of season 6 to 8 I played almost exclusively Twisted Treeline. The mode meant so much to me to such a point I actually spent my time in rank. To this day, Twisted Treeline is the only time I pushed myself and I got to Diamond. When Riot announced they were closing the doors on the Treeline - it hurt, it hurt so goddamn much. Knowing that for the better part of 4 FUCKING YEARS they never touched the mode hurt me. That in their minds, they did all they could and there was nothing else to be done. I haven't been able to play league much since. All my drive and love for the game sort of disappeared when they did that and Riot shutting down these fun game modes will never stop hurting. Riot can make fun games but they feel so hyper focused on competitive gaming that I feel they start to lose the charm they used to have. Not everyone is competitive and people want to have fun. Yet Riot seems to believe differently. It's just not the same company myself and many others grew up alongside and that stings. Hopefully they can reconnect with that more casual loving audience because I want Riot to succeed. They just need to see where people are coming from.

[@GlyphxAstraea]

As a casual player, hearing Skooch advocating for us and explaining why so many feel like Riot doesn't care about them was genuinely heartwarming. Doesn't happen hardly at all in a community dominated by "git gud" tryhards.

[@TheDapperDragon]

Followed immediately by "Yuumi's bad because she lets new players in."

[@murud1473]

In my opinion everyone should play ‘ for fun ‘ instead of play ‘to win’. Your victories will only give you a score to brag about and will just be a record sitting on a shelf forever in the cost of ruining your mental health,sanity,behaviour etc.Today’s generation on game developers and gamers have forgot the reason they play anymore.Remember how it was playing halo with friends or doing that mlg in cod mw2 or some really cool teamwork and communication you did with your friends, it was all for fun,you didn’t care wether you won or lost.Of course losing after some dope clutch was underwhelming but you remember those moments as ‘fun’ instead of ‘win’ .All I want to say is play for the sake of enjoyment instead of the desperation of winning because that little bits of enjoyment you have accumulated all this time will be remembered and will keep you happy for the rest of your life

[@GrimmDestiny8]

I really missed the Odyssey event. That came out back when I was first getting into League, and it was so much fun

[@willlawlor2398]

That yuumi rant cleansed my soul. God I needed to hear all of that coherently. I want those 4 extra minutes of rant.

[@solrath3609]

The Aatrox rework and the nerfs that came after

[@d_dayne_e]

You act like Aatrox isn't broken lmao. Grevious wounds doesn't work so he just heals his full hp bar 4 times a fight

[@Disvoidal]

@@d_dayne_e delusional

[@crashbandicooch7045]

Aatrox rework should have just been a separate and new Darkin champion

[@ApexGale]

the ardent censer meta was worse than the juggernaut patch. the entire game revolved around having shield champs, the game literally became push the payload, with the adc being the payload. it was fucking nuts seeing how many shield champs were constantly being picked and banned in worlds. janna, lulu, taric, ivern, just constantly shields everywhere

[@Earadon]

I've been playing alot of ARAM as of late, really fun along with just chilling in draft games, I'd love to play more ranked but people throw so much when they don't get their way in games so...

[@noggenfogger1324]

Seraphine: *mentions she has impostor syndrome* Me: this tells us a lot about amogus

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

Biggest mistake Riot games made? The Ardent Meta. I don't care if you're one of five Twitch mains in this good Earth or the four million egirl enchanter mains, that meta was aids and good riddance.

[@MissChambers]

I actually stopped playing the game for a while after that lol

[@riven4121]

The one year I skipped out on watching worlds because it was that fucking boring. The whole game was which relic abusing enchanter built Ardent first. No other role had any agency because of how busted Ardent was.

[@chillmadude]

dude i know some people who mained an enchanter support at that time that hated that meta fucking everyone hated that meta

[@angelotorres1]

@@chillmadude the meta was who could rush those items first, boring to play and to watch

[@ozthebeeman]

1) teemo 2) not removing teemo in the last 10 years 3) mushrooms 4) have i metioned that i hate teemo? 5) i fucking hate teemo

[@Infillet3014]

i feel like skooch is being sarcastic whenever he compliments chats choice in the tier list lmao

[@CreationsFlare]

Okay, my memory may be bad, but I genuinely remember that for a time when they had their events, that people could get them done using ARAMs and TT. And so Riot disabled getting event rewards from things like ARAM and TT. So not only did you have to slog through Summoners Rift, however those long-ass games would take, but then you'd have to somehow magically have time in the day to then also play TT for funsies because uh oh Riot said I have to play the main mode to even feel like I'm playing the game! Oh no!

[@Yiffbait]

The first time I played yuumi I didn't even read her passive and just stuck to a player all game. Still won bcs she's just unable to die if the champ she attaches to has sustains and is tanky...

[@lcdc_azuralie]

You better get a smurf adc then if you don't want to do shit because adcs are dogshit without a support.

[@motivatedman5500]

@@lcdc_azuralie no

[@mikelator96]

Man I failed a whole year in college because the exams weeks there was Ascension. When Kayn came out all I could think about is how cool would it be to play him in Ascension and ascension never happened again. RIP I'll never forget

[@aisushitai2680]

I remember maining Bot Lane / ADC when I had first installed League, then the fucking ADC items patch hit and I literally haven't been able to muster the will to go back down there since.

[@afelinecarcass]

Haven't touched League since that patch. Too scared to face the eventual trauma itll give me. 😂😭

[@saintyoo]

Runes Reforged. It's not singularly the worst thing that happened but it marks a change in Riot's design philosophy that still negatively affects the game today.

[@catelyntully9494]

Remember the patch when they introduced TFT for the first time? That had to be the biggest bug fest ever by far in the story of the game, should be at least an honorable mention the game was unplayable.

[@MattHatter360]

They somehow managed to make the client even worse lmao! But seriously why does TFT not have its own client?

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

@@MattHatter360 cuz they want lol players to start playing (spending money) on tft and to tft players to start playing league

[@Gamemaster13000]

I will always remember the time I metva Fiora player who, after having quit League for a long time, came back when Pool Party Fiora came out. Her first experience coming back to League in god knows how long was laning into Darius having no knowledge of the juggernaut update. I don't think she's coming back to League after that.

[@emekim8545]

I just read the title and I'm here to say that the whole ass game is THE biggest mistake

[@Foxfire7772]

I'm glad seeing Skooch explode over that Dev talk about Yuumi. I've had people bring that up article to "um actually :(((" and I just, could NOT respond

[@lautarodesimone54]

The thumbnail with Seraphine, bravo, still milking that horror.

[@chewee517]

The other really insulting thing is that they did this sloppy as fuck dragon patch last year to make summoner's rift feel different and not the same each game. Fun fact! I KNEW that as soon as that patch was released that we will never get a new cool as fuck summoner's rift event skin because they don't need to. They took away the awesome skins, that they could have even sold if they wanted to, and gave us a half assed slapped together barely map changed(visually) all the time.......fantastic move Riot.

[@pumpkinprincess3786]

As a yummi main, I’m here to witness world domination

[@anathema7813]

Hmm, understandable. Have a nice day

[@ozshoujo]

Hello brother. I wish you the best, so your adc's let you hit the Q's and your shields don't get popped early

[@Shulkify]

That moment at 4:07 when I thought Skooch is going to casually rewind my video to the beginning

[@BloodmoonPyke]

I'm on the boat since S9, so I can't tell for any earlier "desasters", but Seraphine....man, this is a bigger mistake than I am.

[@standjob9161]

"Every other champion in the game has to worry about getting CC'd and killed" Me: *Laughs in Olaf*

[@BS-se4yg]

1st: patch 8.11 2nd: the patch that made IE crit damage be 240% 3rd: the patch that made IE crit damage 210% and base crit damage be 175%

[@Heavy_Blues]

I love how Skooch gestures with his hand AND his mouse cursor when he's talking.

[@jackyn5294]

Removing the 3v3 mode broke my heart

[@pyromania2667]

I miss Dominion and all the other rotating game modes we haven't seen in years. I remember back then, I'd ONLY play dominion because it was so fun

[@devforfun5618]

that cc argument about yummi dont even makes sense, leaving the champion to take the cc instead of the carry then hide after the cc pass is a valid strategy, yummi is not that fragile because she can chose when to be vulnerable

[@neocalamity3459]

*No* shes just a living buff to her allies that goes untargetable and I kill at every stage no matter the risk with a level 3 1000 true damage cho ult because apparently thats the only way we can actually fight the enemy fairly. I hate yummi with a passion but I never ban her because no matter what happens if her champ dies or she gets caught out imma use flash to make sure shes well and truly dead. On the other hand if she attaches herself to a HYPER HEALING JUGGERNAUT CARRY WHO WILL LITERALLY NEVER DIE BECAUSE OF THEIR COMBINED HEALS... least to say I get very triggered. Thornmail, sunfire and demonic embrace are my babies because thats the only way I can have a significant impact against such a lethal combo. Edit: she does take SOME skill to pull off and I admit her whole tanks cc to protect an ally is very good but again what good is it if the cc is aoe? Just saying.

[@BRAZILIAN_MIKU]

I don't think you'll ever be cceing her when she resets her passive in high elo because most of the time you'll have a tank between her and your cc

[@neocalamity3459]

@@BRAZILIAN_MIKU Me playing with Sunfire, Demonic embrace and thornmail on Cho'gath vs any tank with a yummi attached: Our battle will be legendary! Challenge absolutely accepted XD. But on a serious note Sunfire on Cho, especially late game, is brutal due to the whole cinder scaling with health and the 12% increase per tick. The normal 10 or 11 stack cho has about 60 - 70 burn scaling to over 100 DoT tick damage and paired with thw anti heal of thornmail, burn of demonic and damage increase per stack of feast on his e he is a monster.

[@devforfun5618]

@@BRAZILIAN_MIKU i said she can take cc on purpose, in place of the carry, im not talkg about the passive

[@BRAZILIAN_MIKU]

@@devforfun5618 ok sorry, i misunderstood

[@MrWingwes]

I wouldn't say Yuumi is the mistake so much as the way Riot handled balancing her after release. Honestly I main Yuumi (before it was Sona). She is nowhere near Akali/Qi's difficulty. Yuumi's real challenge is convincing the person you're attached to not try a 2v5.

[@tehrik0020]

"When it come to the game itself Seraphine wasn't bad" Uhhh... you sure? Best WR champ sitting at 58% in mid and sup for months after her release and still a top-tier in sup with no chances of her getting lower because she's busted?

[@Bamboocchi]

lmao imagine talking about wr when the topic is clearly league pc

[@tehrik0020]

@@Bamboocchi right, forgot that WR doesn't mean Win Rate anymore but Wild Rift in LoL slang.

[@Bamboocchi]

@@tehrik0020 oh shit mb you phrased your sentence saying "best wr champ" so i automatically assumed mb mb

[@frednicht1]

gotta agree on that casual mode point.. On the removal of TT, I completely dropped the game and even stopped recommending it to friends who enjoy the genre. It would cost them close to nothing to just keep the maps and gamemodes in the game to play, for custom games only, while dropping ALL patches for those gamemodes. That way they won't have any development cost for the gamemodes, cause they are not updating them anymore. While still giving the casuals who enjoy the maps a way to play them, in custom games. They may even still make money if they did it that way, cause those of us who stay for the casual maps would probably buy skins...

[@Iznikroc]

did not watch the video yet but im going to say selling a controlling stake to Tencent

[@Zurenza]

I'd have put the ADC one at number 1 tbh, the reason is that Bot-Lane is the MOST important Lane in the game. Hands down. If your botlane ints, you might as well FF at 15 because that shits borderline impossible to comeback from. During that meta you, as a jungler(Me being a jungler) had to litterally BABYSIT botlaner's, and if the enemy team got Kai'sa, well you probably lost regardless. Now, tbf, i felt like ADC's deserved to be put in the dumpster for awhile. Despite being the most important lane in the game, the only lane where 99% of the playable champions in that role are a singular class of champions and despite being the only class in the game that doesn't have any counterplay behind it. They'll still bitch whine and moan about getting one shot, or their lane sucks(even if it isn't the worst role in the game at the time.). Sorry but, like, YOUR CLASS IS THE STRONGEST IN THE GAME HANDS FUCKING DOWN BRO! What other class can just point and click, 0 counterplay one-shot you? If you say assassins, your dumb. Like, an entire other class, assassins was created for the SOLE PURPOSE of creating a counter to Marksmen. And marksmen "suck" get tf outta here with that non-sense. Not to mention as a jungler i have to babysit botlane like it's my first born son irregardless of what state the lane is in because if i don't i straight lose. Damn i hate bot-laner's.

[@m.muradbasic4186]

The biggest mistake Riot has ever done with League, for me at least, was hiring CertainlyT and keeping him a lead Designer for so long. CertainlyT is infamous for creating *THE* most annoying, toxic and overall OP Champions since Darius. I mean, look at his design record: - Darius - Zyra - *Yasuo* - Kalista - Zoe - Aphelios - Mordekaiser rework - Akali Rework Seriously, that guy creates magnets for toxic tryhards. And the worst part is, ever since his creations became actually popular picks, other designers try to replicate his work which leads to creations such as Irelia Rework, Samira *and Yone.* That man is one of the biggest pillars that caused League to go from a funny unique Moba to the Mainlands of sweaty tryhards that are by nature toxic af.

[@crashbreaka]

Lol this is what I was thinking going into the video! Nicely summarized.

[@LucianoLoues]

You forgot to mention, worlds 2015 had gp and morde 100% winrate, but when the only game were gp and morde where on opposite teams, the game crashed and they had to remake the pick/ban

[@adventuresinleagueoflegend2480]

honestly i hate how they literally deleted aatrox and made him a new, worse riven. i miss my old darkin buddy ;-;

[@anathema7813]

I was never around during his prework, but I hard main him now. They should have made current aatrox a new darkin. They did just delete old aatrox for no reason but I'm madly in love with the new one. Should've been a different darkin doe

[@chriwehl7173]

They did the same with other champs too. OG yorrick, may he rest in peace. New Yorrick is interesting too, but they just changed him. I mean, he was broken af, but just reworking him was not nice.

[@adventuresinleagueoflegend2480]

@@chriwehl7173 yea but at least most of those champs kept some of their kit. aatrox kept healing and free rez and lost his rez

[@nightmaregats]

Same

[@ProfessorPyrowise]

Look man, I haven’t played League in ages; but I’ll tell you now that some of my fondest memories was doing custom games of Hide and Seek on Crystal Scar. It was jank and niche but man those were some good times. Shame about that and Twisted Treeline.

[@therussbuss5314]

I love that half of this video was just ranting about Yuumi and casual modes.

[@pepijndouwma6816]

As someone who has played a lot of Yuumi. The champ is really easy to play but only after you played multiple games because if u suck or play the laneing phase wrong the game becomes really hard to win.

[@JaceGarrdok]

In order of gravity: Removing Dominion Removing Twisted Treeline Adding Zoe Feral Flare Warwick

[@genericuser4611]

I am one of the people who miss ardent meta. Ardent meta was my gateway to becoming a suport main. A time where you feel like the torch bearer of the team and not a spark which dimly lit adc potential. The fallout of ardent meta made shields so weak you might as well not have them. I miss that time when im expected to stay backline so i can help and not got head first and sacrifice myself for a chance of winning that fight. I just miss it man.

[@milanesadearsenico]

As a supp main ardent meta was the worst, most enchanters do nothing and win

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

Zoe's existence

[@themisdemer]

I love the wii golf music in the background. Skooch being a man of culture as well.

[@yobe5559]

They say it's hard to balance the rotating games Ok but wtf are you gonna balance in dark star thresh's mode It's just thresh hooking into the nexsus

[@cookiesyruplover]

I think at this point Riot is spitting out random word jargons as they lie about the real reason they do anything, it's always just about money. Rotating game modes are fun because it's broken. It's all about playing the game in a fun mode where the champions feel OP. Everyone gets a shot on having a good time and the games don't last long too. But that means we have fun fast and stop playing soon after, once we get that buzz we sated the Lol addiction for the day. That's what they don't like.

[@newfire2280]

I could just imagine how horrible ascension could get now. Imagine a yuumi killing the xerath and then just hopping on a super tank garen

[@henrysilva3359]

Honestly, I feel that some reworks were the biggest mistakes that Riot made. Reworks like Aatrox or Mordekaiser, that changed the gameplay too much, making them not feel like being the same champions.

[@theunarmedbrawler3546]

Skooch: every other champion in the game has to watch out for cc Riot: But what if this new guy didn't

[@a1steak129]

as an akali main I am so hurt they claim YUUMI is as difficult as her and qiyana who is probably more difficult than akali. shut up riot and please play the same game we are.

[@Tuskor130]

As someone who's mained support since season 3 and got Mastery 7 on Yuumi before realizing how boring she can be, I'm mad at the *implication* that Yuumi takes as much micro-managing as a champion who literally needs to walk away from someone to perform a melee auto attack and has like 50 buttons to press in a teamfight.

[@MrTCrist72]

A museum could be made with the title of this video

[@Steel_Prophet]

I love playing Yuumi and here's the thing: skooch is right, she is EZ mode for League. I primarily play assassins mid and pyke as support, and LET ME TELL YOU, I play yuumi when I wanna sit back and relax lol.

[@KingAram99]

I play Yuumi when I feel like watching KZbin or Netflix but god damned you’re screwed if your adc isn’t that good

[@risingdawn6510]

True, when your a jugnle main and just want to relax but your friend still wants to play, I just play yuumi. But, truly screwed when the adc just straight up int himself and I have to go down with him despite trying my best to get the enemy adc's abilities out so that my jhin won't have to get killed so much. but nah, ints himself and the ezreal becames a problem later on.

[@riven4121]

Friendly reminder someone managed to get themselves to plat on two accounts by playing ADC on one computer and Yuumi on the other simultaneously.

[@Gravlti]

playing yuumi is such a leap of faith, shes not hard, but she is the only champion in the game that cant exist for herself, if your adc doesnt know how to play with a yuumi, youre both going to feed

[@AuStistic_Lemurr]

I was a support player, and when that meta fucking ate it, heal-based supports were gutted, as their items were fucking trashed. and the only thing that was viable was stacking Sunfire passives. I quit, and I haven't gone back. it pissed me off to no end that assassins became the support meta. plus with the deleting game modes I dropped out of League a long time, I rejoined back a bit after the Mordikiser rework. then yumi came out and I was in heaven, cuz it put low stakes on the table. (that were missing from the other absent game modes) URF came back around and Yuumi was the best Heal-bot ever, took a break, cuz I stopped caring. then that URF right before the item changes felt like the end of an era, a small era where I for a moment, enjoyed Leauge again... Afterwards I gave up. any and all champs I cared for weren't playable in the roll I enjoyed playing. (support) it's not even worth mentioning Yuumi the community demanded she was to be burned at the stake, and she was. Then there's Seraphin.... she never made me want to quit, but there was a lot I hated about her, I felt that she should have been a Sona replacement, like what they did to Aatrox and Sion. it didn't help anything that the one cool thing she had going for her was how she got her powers. but why did that cool bit of lore have to be put on that playable advertisement? Ever since.... iv uninstalled and never looked back to playing it, but it's interesting to see that all the things that made me drop from the game with Yuumi being the only real light in the darkness, I liked playing aram's with friends in the past, but since everyone, I knew moved on.... but wanted low stakes again (and the cat gave me that). I'm happy to see that all the compounded things that I hated about this game the very things I dropped out of from were listed in this tier list. Ty scootch for being down to earth enough for a filthy non-ranked casual can relate to you.

[@danielshaptore7759]

am i the only one that doesn't play ranked? do casual players even exist in this game?

[@annieteamfortress2]

Not even PBE is safe from competitive zombies.

[@faceless8424]

Nope. There are lots of casual players.

[@chillmadude]

honestly I've played ranked like once, and then went straight back to norms and aram

[@freedfg6694]

Twisted treeline was my falling out point. I was on the outskirts of playing league where I wasn't enjoying ranked or even quickplay summoners rift. So removing it literally made me not play anymore. And I havent really played since.

[@GwyndOwO]

When Evelynn was nerfed so fuqing hard that playing her (even though she was my main) got my first account banned

[@laureal3659]

When ?

[@shadowstar2194]

I main Ahri, they tried to buff her a long time ago and ended up indirectly nerfing her pretty hard. Before pre season, she was the definition of a Glacial Augment GLP spam bot, that's all she could do, late game even with all 6 items, she could barely one shot squishies. Idk what they did to Evelynn, but I know the pain. She's WAY better now, but god, how did they screw up a "buff" so hard.

[@GwyndOwO]

@@shadowstar2194 just search up "Evelynn nerfs pre rework" The bonked her numbers down so badly and removed half of her features, she was just a ward that gave you 200gs fir killing instead of 30. Peope got reported and banned for picking her, "because picking eve is griefing'

[@Notoriouslydevious]

I started playing league in 2017 around the end of the arcade event where there were arcade themed turrets and minions and base etc. Then there was the summer event when the summer themed minions, base, turrets, etc and THEN there was the Star Guardian event. I LOOOOOOOOOVED the Star Guardian event and it is STILL my favorite event to this day. I thought to myself, "wow, so this is what league of legends is going to be? No wonder so many people play." And now: missions and mission rewards are no longer free, you have to buy a mission pass no hunt of the blood moon, no invasion onslaught, no odyssey game mode, basically no new event themed game modes no winter map, no twisted treeline, All the things I enjoyed about league? Gone. I hardly play anymore except for the occasional aram. I'll admit, Spirit blossom was a step in the right direction and got my foot back into the door of league... but then riot was like, "nah, no more events like this. Wrap it up, boys" and slammed the door on my foot.

[@happysideoffear777]

The biggest mistake in League of Legends is history is the fact that they balanced everything around the spell flash

[@AceOf_Diamonds_]

"Yuumi's mastery curve is more in line with champions like Akali and Qiyana" meanwhile here I was playing Yuumi literally with one hand because I had an accident and couldn't use the other one, still getting S in most of my games yeah I believe fan vote number 1 being Yuumi is fair