Riot is listening

[@KomiWasHere]

Sodapoppin -> complains about league -> plays after anyways = yo thats the entire league of legends cycle

[@dankmemes8254]

Rav did warn him

[@konaqua122]

True. You complain about how bad, unbalanced, broken, buggy the game is and yet you still queue at least 3 times a day. It's like an alcohol. You drink a lot only to get wasted and have hangover in the morning, telling yourself and others that you will never drink again, and say yes to the first drinking party that invites you. And the cycle repeats.

[@StfuSiriusly]

riot must be paying all these big streamers to try league

[@reesebonin9890]

He's also complaining about being sniped in Silver.

[@Bendzsike]

genuinely if you haven't reached that point yet, you either are new, or don't take the game seriously. I have been playing this game for 10 years, and I had multiple friends turn angry over a game of league, while they never had that reaction over any other game during our friendship. This game simply makes you angry, if you take it seriously.

[@piosenki001]

"Everyone is on their 80th account" bro that so accurate and so funny

[@ninocraft1]

i introduced a new player to league and it do be like that, he was a unicorn xD

[@yatoyoboku]

even for him he played in 2022 look it up he isnt actually new. streamers are mostly frauds.

[@levimiller7345]

​@@yatoyoboku2022 is new for league of legends players tbh 🤣 that's around when I started and can't get past silver between having a job and such

[@DW-iv6cc]

genuinely impressed at how accurate his takes were for such a new player. nailed that shit on the head

[@Rare987]

​@@yatoyobokuhe played a little bit for his gf/otk tournament but really didn't understand league fundamentals. This time around he's actually learnt a fair bit and put a lot of effort into improving. He's not a fraud, he didn't know and still doesn't know every champion. He's played even back in earlier league but same as before never bothered to learn the game for more than like 3 games and then quit and never touch again.

[@Joao-Skug]

THE THING IS: Vo corvo, the 60 years old reverse smurf guy, recently got a triple kill against 3 professional players. He has been playing on challenger for so long that he is actually getting better at a really fast rate.

[@samsimmons728]

Maybe the whole mmr system is kinda broke. Riot should hard reset accounts.

[@ardel-4964]

@@samsimmons728 good idea, but if they do do that then for like an entire split, bronze and masters will be in the same game. might cost them an entire split so riot won't risk that. lots of complaining too esp in kor or ch

[@JokaritoIsGaming]

@@ardel-4964 how can you be a master tier player and be stuck in bronze for an entire split?

[@namelesssturdy4676]

​@@WhatInFirenationtrue and not true. In lower ranks u have to know how to play with them to leave them. Also if u do dumb shit it will follow u around all the time. And u will peak at ur rank. But playing with the big bois over and over will make u learn but in the very hard way. Lol. I rather get beaten by chall and learn than losing in bronze and learn stupid things.

[@LazarTheMaster]

​@@WhatInFirenationyou want insanely imbalanced games becouse you're hoping to get carried to a higher rank? Do people who genuinely believe they are at their rank becouse "my team sucks" really still exist? A random triple means nothing, he's giga feeding every game for a reason, get good...

[@mechamedeamigo3984]

The thing about Vo Corvo many people don't understand, is that he doesn't Giga feeds purposely, he just can't play properly, he has multiple sclerosis, and his fingers have limited functions. He just literally CAN'T play better, he tries to, but he can't. And as it seems, dude is just lonely, he's on his 60's and if you look at his face, you are going to notice that something isn't right, and apparently League is one of the few pleasures he has, so when smurfs fucked his ranked games, he then started to reverse smurf to teach them a lesson.

[@loladdict2960]

Also I heard there's some money issues like people don't pay on his stream if he plays in low elo acc considering streaming one of his main revenue sources

[@gtgaminghq1733]

Keep copping with the "smurfs ruin his games"

[@Clbull118]

​@@gtgaminghq1733Bro, low iron accounts go for hundreds of dollars. There is definitely a market from smurfs and crappy grifting content creators doing their next Iron to GM challenge.

[@zenixvampirchik652]

@@gtgaminghq1733 Idk how it is nowadys as i don't play/very rarely now, but a few years back there were iron accounts sold gor higher prices than masters/challengers

[@gtgaminghq1733]

@@Clbull118 ok?

[@chohsena627]

Poor Soda. HE doesn't realize that League is like a cigarette and now it's already too late for him.

[@DW-iv6cc]

league being addictive was a good meme 4-6 years ago, but no new player is getting hooked on league these days lmao. the power creep and the community have destroyed that shit

[@uiu820]

​@DW-iv6cc leagues player numbers are the highest they been wtf are u talking about

[@KappaChiino]

@@uiu820I think viewer numbers, but I think players are falling

[@attilatorok5767]

@@KappaChiino people want the league hit, but they don't want to play. I know that feeling. You want league, but you have an instinctual, primal aversion to the queue button.

[@Vex319]

@@uiu820I’m sure riots numbers are very accurate and they have a great way to tell unique accounts from one another

[@jordansrhoads]

people hate on phreak because he's condescending and childish in his responses. Otherwise he's fine. Edit: I completely forgot about the Maokai fiasco. A champion being at a 54%+ win rate for 4-5 patches consecutively is pure incompetence. A balance team LEAD then using said champion to climb to masters for the first time and proceeding to antagonize/brag about it is insulting. (Obviously still doesn’t excuse death threats don’t do that)

[@tropheesy]

exactly. he doesn't deserve death threats, but the way he responds to genuine concerns just doesn't sit right with me. it doesn't really feel professional at all.

[@R3alSt3al]

Yeah same, I know it is not only his idea on what to change ,just simply his way of explaining things are the one which a lot of people doesn't like.

[@tristanwalhain8601]

The thing is, that one clip of Karthus ult that became a meme was really the only time Phreak acted like that. Usually, he is very open, straightforward, and honest with the community. Sure, he's no always POLITE, but I feel like in that ONE moment, he was goaded into responding emotionally and sarcastically. He has been the scapegoat for all the hate, anger, and frustration of the community towards the balance team. Phreak is just a person and a single person can only take so much criticism before they lash out. If anything, Phreak is impressively impervious to all the anger misdirected at him....

[@dankmemes8254]

​@@tristanwalhain8601 and outright telling vel'koz mains you don't know how to play thier champions

[@Maiyukiii]

@@tristanwalhain8601 The Vel'Koz situation definitely didn't help on top of the Karthus ult meme.

[@riccardomereu2044]

"You can just type Karthus Ult" I will not let that sink in

[@batmabel]

Vo Corvo getting international fame, let's go

[@Manco1lol]

SodaPoppin & Forsen playing league? REVERSE smurfing? NA winning a single game at MSI? Idk what timeline this is, but thanks for keeping us in the loop Rival. GL HF to everyone playing some games at the start of Split 2!

[@Rivalrvn]

Rank 1 teemo split 2? ;)

[@activeforce5513]

@@Rivalrvn Rank 2. Cause Rank 1 goes to me and olaf :p

[@ninocraft1]

reverse smurf giga chad

[@Bendzsike]

@@Rivalrvn we all know that will be Pianta, after his Challenger climb

[@wtbskilllololo]

Sodapoppin played league way back and was actually Plat or Diamond but yeah i see a couple streamers that havent done it alot streaming league atm.Probably the crave for hitting a higher rank.

[@petrri323]

It was never about what Phreak said. It was always how he said it. No one would have cared it he didn't take a, "Shut up idiots, you don't know anything." tone when addressing community concerns. He's just not good at PR. Was he lying? No. But did he have to be so condescending about it all? Absolutely not. I would also love to see Bengi get inducted. As Fakers right hand man, and the jungler that helped Faker win worlds the first 3 times. Criminally underrated.

[@Jiroscopio_]

Funnily enough 99% of those who complain about Phreak would probably act the same or even worse if you had to CONSTANTLY deal with idiots crying about balance to justify their inability to climb because they are bad. I'd be fucking pissed of and tired of them aswell.

[@Sylvainjose-satoyumiyato]

​@@Jiroscopio_funfact: 99% of statistics are exaggerated

[@jandjhroco]

@@Jiroscopio_ There are people like Mortdog and August who at least make the audiences feel heard even if they disagree with what the average player is feeling/saying and can back it up with data or are willing to admit when they were wrong and that something should be changed.

[@Jiroscopio_]

@@jandjhroco That's a fair point, I also prefer their approach over Phreak's one. But I still don't think that means he deserves all this hate, some people have more patience as others. We could argue that they should have someone else communicating and sharing the changes and Phreak should just stay balancing in the dark, but I think there's some value to having one of the people involved in the patches comment them themselves

[@jandjhroco]

​@@Jiroscopio_ I agree that death threats and all the hatred is excessive. That said, there is always the option for phreak to not be the face of balance team while he condescendingly talks down to the audience during his patch notes. The "just type Karthus ult" rubs me in so many wrong ways. Not only can you not ping during busy team fights, but I do not have extreme apm where I can type anything i want without disrupting my normal movements. I'm just reminded of how lucky the TFT scene is to have someone like Mort who calmly explains the balance decisions, openly admits when he(or the team messed up), why some technical limitations restrict how/when they can update the game in a timely manner, why certain balance decisions are made(often even including many details I never would have even considered). I'm not sure what the best thing for Riot to do is. This approach clearly works in TFT, though they have an amazing lead who protects his team from criticism, helps the community feel heard, and explains patches in a satisfying way to the community. But the Riot approach keeps getting flak for their balance decisions which at many times baffles be while someone like phreak can explain some unpopular decisions and make himself a perfect target for the community hatred.

[@PKnight37]

Love that Soda calls the game bad, but its really just the gaming community in general. Homie was just complaining about people, not even the game.

[@Zabazoe]

True, it's not even a LoL specific problem. The same shit happens in WoW.

[@johnnymonsterrrr]

too much damage in the game still exists

[@coasterthekid8867]

It’s the community not recognizing that the game is actually hard to get into. There is so much barrier of entry because there is an overwhelming amount of information thrown at a new player. League has definitely come along way with helping newer players with things like recommended runes, champion specific recommended items, jungle pathing indicators and more in-depth ability explanations, but a new player is still going to do terrible for a while, because there is an unfathomable amount of things that you need to learn through experience

[@Shogun_38]

True the gaming community has unfortunately gotten really shit and toxic and especially league feels shit because it's so difficult to get into and is too anonymous with no voice so people just throw hate and slurs around like it's nothing

[@Spellchecc1OO]

It’s worse in League. Riot game specifically actually are the worst, Val players equally as bad as league players

[@TAWMUD]

Sodapoppins first mistake was playing league to play ranked.

[@Spyderinagourd]

True

[@xviolaa]

Playing ranked without knowing what every champ does is WILD

[@alexbrestowski4131]

@@xviolaa it’s fine just should expect to have many roadblocks in your climb

[@asparrow9876]

@@alexbrestowski4131 Those roadblocks affect the ones who actually took the time to learn. New or old. Ranked without knowing the game is disrespectful ngl.

[@alexbrestowski4131]

@@asparrow9876 you could say the same for people that started playing ranked without knowing how to manage waves, knowing every matchup for their champ, knowing how to track jungler, knowing how to get 10 CS per min, knowing how to play from behind. This is a silly take because at what point should someone be ready to play ranked? Your rank is a reflection of your knowledge and skill at the game, if you are in the same elo as someone that doesn’t even know what all the champs do, what does that say about you?

[@gators2463]

i looked up your name for any news, it said nothing, i refresh my youtube page and youre there 13 seconds ago wtf god sent me a herald

[@Rivalrvn]

You’re got crazy luck today go play soloq insta 10 winstreak

[@mehrezO2]

​@@Rivalrvn i imagine a meme where you are the devil signing a contract to him with that phrase.. jk good content 👍🏼

[@engo999]

rift herald?

[@conconc]

Be nice if Riot would listen to people about Vanguard, not quite on board with that whole addition

[@BoneWalker]

Shills will just accuse you of scripting.

[@jo4ogameplays]

vanguard actually helped me quit the game. best thing that ever happened imo lmao

[@dixiefiend]

I quit after Vanguard mandatory installation

[@user-er1fs3je4x]

@@jo4ogameplays amen brother, same :D

[@sirpotato8733]

Tried playing league after vanguard game now gets constantly stuck at 1 fps guess they finnaly found a way to make me quit league huh

[@LinkinKable]

Soda is right though you got many obvious smurfs that play in low elo, to type ez and uninstall etc. Because they are stuck somewhere in their actual elo and are butt hurt for having a loss streak or not climbing.

[@carljohnrivas5525]

I FCKING LAUGHED SO HARD AT THAT GODLIKE CHOVY CSING

[@Dameionaruto]

Communication is the main and only issue with Riot. Phreak is an example of that, thus he's a "person" that people can project to because before he got on the team, "who's on the balance team?" was a common mystery. Not saying he deserves threats. The lack of transparency on a lot of aspects of the game is what makes it MORE frustrating. Like at least say that you are not allowed to speak on certain things or actually communicate how wild it is to not be able to say much. People would love that and feel like they can be informed.

[@TomatoRei]

Correct. Everyone has been crying about the "development team"'s decision about balancing years back, it's just that recently they have a face to blame this time, and it doesn't fucking help that the "face" is talking like PR is nonexistent in his vocab.

[@iTechGamingLOL]

Petition to replace the wooden spatula attached to his mic to a golden spatula so it is thematically accurate with league of legends.

[@Crusader3454]

"Riot is listening" after ryscus video felt more ominous then it meant to be

[@DexTag]

Phreak was always a decent person and when the outrage with the Karthus meme happened, this was an out of context clip of someone who streams a lot and got constantly bombarded for every little thing people were upset about. Yea, in a professional environment, this shouldn't happen. But with Riot it's different if someone plays the game a lot and is also transparent to attempt to give insight into everything and talk about it. Just imagine you sit there for hours every other day and your chat starts getting flooded by idiots more and more, until it makes up a majority of the chat.

[@mktpolaris]

The title: "We're bringing it back." Me: TWISTED TREELINE IS COMING BACK?!?!?!?!?

[@95shagginwagon67]

There’s a reason that ranked in league feels SO bad in comparison to other games… COD: almost no respawn time No walking to lane Immediate action upon respawn ~10 minute match LOL: As the game gets longer, so do respawn timers, walking back to lane The game snowballs as the enemy team builds a lead and it feels hopeless for 80% of the game. Typically, the enemy Smurf wants to pad their KDA, so the game lasts 40+ mins One enemy can make the game miserable for an entire team LOL is a team strategy game, therefore blame is often thrown around. Most other games don’t have this quality

[@aufkeinsten7883]

Rival can you please cover DotAs behavior score? It's a system that would work wonders for League imo

[@Rivalrvn]

I’ve mentioned it in a previous video! You’re right it’s a good idea

[@kwoltekublai3337]

They will never implement it because in reality the players who make up the majority of ranked games (90%+) dislike griefing/soft inting/boosted players way more than flame and will vote accordingly. As soon as a boosted duoq support player soloqs offrole, griefs then loses behavior score or someone who flames people who are griefing while playing consistently well has a high behavior score, certain sections of the community + advertisers will have a massive issue with this even though it is democratically player decided and reflective of the opinion of the majority. When you take into account that the people who would have an issue with a system like this are likely leagues most profitable users it becomes even more unlikely. Its a great system but will never happen.

[@aufkeinsten7883]

@@kwoltekublai3337 Players not differentiating between performance and behavior is a valid concern, but not one that couldn't be dealt with. You're kind of expecting a very naive implementation, so we'd have to trust Riot to put some actual thought into it. Keep in mind that a system like this has been proven to work very well in another game with exactly the same circumstances.

[@MrNotBot]

@@kwoltekublai3337 Dota keeps chat and gameplay behaviour scores separate, and has like 8 different categories for reporting someone. Meaning someone who just flames will have their chat (and possibly pings) muted until their score improves, while griefers get actual gameplay punishments until their gameplay score improves. On top of that, your chat score is capped at your behaviour score, so if you're throwing a lot you will me muted as well despite never saying anything toxic. It actually works and riot can clone most of the system without any need for adaptation.

[@1ycan-eu9ji]

League already has it, go int a few games or trash talk to get reported, before you're banned you're gonna see how bad your game quality is. League already has a patent that proves that's a thing too, they match badly behaved played vs random groups of played, that's why badly behavior ones are more likely to lose, a.k.a losers queue, if you don't believe me the patents are out there.

[@deansudar5769]

I just turned 17, my peak is 600LP Master, my goal for this season is low challenger and at the end of the year i am confirmed to play in Prime 3 league so im really excited

[@gustavosilveira4549]

good luck mate

[@Raauruu]

Go study man, with 23 years you will find yourself with no team and no studies and no job

[@ark2819]

@@Raauruudon’t listen to this bum. You’re 17 you have nothing but time. Go for your goals if you fail you’ll be alright.

[@gustavosilveira4549]

@@Raauruu wtf, he's still young lol you gonna destroy my man's dream 👽

[@deansudar5769]

@@gustavosilveira4549 thanks mate

[@Jiroscopio_]

Baus is always, consistently, without exception EXTREMELY FUCKING BASED. I love you so much Baus, well said

[@-Tetragrammaton]

quit league, never been happier

[@darkumineru1681]

0:35 the only time i agree that phreak was in the wrong just flat wrong thats thast the hole ping changes (that has still made me lose games to this day) and got even worse fully disserved (just not death threats) when he said "u can type Karthus ult in chat" has its just not something he should have sais has chat is disabled or not able to be done in a fight and even if u had the power to type it the chance of karthus seeing it is so much less likely with the massive chance for chat disabled (making u unable to type or they cant see it) or just not looking at chat mid fight (needing to spam the Q and hitting takes a lot of the visual and mental space)

[@kimberlymoriarity]

Was it Phreak or August that said last year that Malphite wasn't broken because "you could counter pick him"?

[@ImaskarDono]

Is the thumbnail off, tho? What do they bring back? When did they listen? Vanguard is still mandatory and kernel-level.

[@ikhlaas20]

saw the title and hoped that it was about the new mastery

[@blake2861]

The thing that I don't get about the "Oh, Phreak doesn't deserve the flame" is that he's the TEAM LEAD. It may not be how it works, but *he makes the decisions on how it should work, he's in control of it.* If things aren't working, it's because he's failing as a team lead and the team he's in control of isn't doing their job right, and he's doing nothing to change that.

[@arugula517]

Thats REALLY not how that works

[@4aza]

Team lead is just funny name for someone that has to directly report to superiors, ultimately if the whole team agrees it goes, if no one agrees, it doesn't go. He can't pull shit out of his ass regardless.

[@Jiroscopio_]

I guess you clearly missed the whole part where Baus was also talking about how people complained about the whole balance team for no reason. Phreak being the lead here is irrelevant, you are assuming "things aren't working", but I'd argue having most champs between 46-54% wr in a game with 160+ characters and thousands of possible interactions between them, items, lanes, builds, playstyles... is a pretty good achievement. Just like Baus, I agree you all are taking this too far and blaming balance team for literally anything, probably trying to justify your inability to climb to higher ranks

[@Catswaga]

I love how Soda has played this game so little and yet he has perfectly summarized almost everything about this game. The only thing he was wrong about is that being masters means something cuz Phreak proved that u can just abuse the broken shit at the time and surpass your peak by 200-300 lp. And no, no one deserves death treats but there are so many contradictory things he has said and done and abused things that should have been hotfixed nerfed FOR months, that theres no way I will ever acknowledge him as being good for the game. Same as the balance team their all morons. What this game needs is a balance team of actually challenger players from all roles and servers, not chatgpt balancing the game.

[@galaxybrian8039]

as soon as i saw this video drop i KNEW the forsen clip would be in it. that shit is absolutely hilarious

[@supervillain369]

Fun thing for me is that when they started adjust ranks last time, I started climbing again. Yay. I'm gonna level with folk for a moment. Why the fuck do so many people not play flex queue? Just get a gang and hit the rift, Fill queue it for more fun. It's the best way to improve and have fun at the same time; and it gives you the chance to figure out (for clash and stuff) what your best roles actually are. I know for a fact that I am an atrocious jungler, doesn't matter if I'm solo, 3-man or 5-man, I just don't care for it enough and get tilted. But I've given it a good 100 games across seasons now in these different configurations to make that determination properly. I used to like Support most, but now I'm firmly in the solo lane camp. That happened because I was able to take my time and learn that. Playing 5-man is also the best way to experiment, make your own playstyle whether that is champion or way you play the map. That kinda experimentation is why I've finally begun climbing. Because something I was doing finally needed to give. The community in league's worst attribute is that people don't actually want to improve, they want to perfect (CS, matchup, game knowledge, calls, mechanics), and since it is a team game, that requires the same perfection from their team. But that isn't how you improve. I think many people who get hard stuck and think Riot is holding them back are holding themselves back by subconsciously thinking this way. (But hey, that's just my opinion)

[@bruend6614]

sad part is that lol is a game of a team and for 5 ppl, but all ppl are too focused on solo/duo (i pref that it was only solo) and we have right now the stigma of flex that are new normals, still sad

[@kavvi9605]

I´ve been climbing for this entire season, first time i ever hit emerald, and in that rank i feel like i am still outperforming everyone else. Only issue being that most of the times i get level 30 accounts who played 10 or 20 ranked games, and they lost them all or played them horribly. Many times i get these players who get carried on their first rankeds and the game just places them on the highest rank possible for that, and then they just don´t play like they belong there. Every single game i get these players and its frustrating. Last season i hit platinum for the first time and on this one, i was placed on bronze 2, because i lost the first rankeds of the season, against platinums while my team was full of level 40 accounts that barely ever played ranked. Now the game is gonna place them even higher.. it makes no sence.

[@DedikateSSB]

baus is ignoring why people hate on phreak. he's an annoying and condescending figure in the community who can't admit when he's wrong and having that type of person be the face of the balance team is an incredibly ignorant move on riots end. the balance choices are whatever, in a game as big and especially toxic as league you cannot make everyone happy. the games balance will always be argued about and there is absolutely nothing they can do besides shake up the meta, even if every meta gets hate, it's more important to keep the game interesting because a perfectly balanced league will still be hated by a large amount of the playerbase.

[@BreakingTheGleipnir]

People hate on Phreak because hes condoning the balance changes. Also people dont just hate on Phreak but also on August and other champ designers (of Ksante and Skarner rework for example). While death threats and other idiotic things are way over the top, the critique is still deserved to an extend.

[@Rncko]

5:45 "He missed one CS" Legendary status revoked*

[@zigurath21k]

"Hes now just like us", best frase of the day

[@StereotypicalShea]

I genuinely hope Ambition is inducted into the League Hall of Fame next, just watching his journey as essentially being just one-step barely behind Faker was hella inspiring tbh

[@CrypticKoopa]

Faker deserves an Ultimate skin made in his honor.

[@zerotwo2473]

You're right if I was 0/10 with 5 cs per min it would be my fault im still climbing out of emerald, but when every second game there's some1 on my team that's dying 10 times with 5cs per minute, I'd dare argue that's not my fault anymore

[@gkj3427]

Riot League Team: We listen you Riot Valorant Team: Shutup and buy my skin

[@maartenbondt9600]

5:38 I guess we all started somewhere, but that made me wanna burn my eyes

[@Shogun_38]

I have to agree with SodaPoppin. People don't understand how difficult it is for actual new players to get into the game. In general playing your first Moba is really difficult but people expecting you to know all champions and abilities makes it so much worse. And I don't think new players can learn enough from the bots. As there are always actual long term players in pve games. There should be a tier of bots above intermediate so more new people can actually learn and PVE enjoyers as myself can actually play against bots

[@aft3rlyf3]

Tyler1 should be the 2nd HoF. 5 role challenger from toxic perma ban all the way to what he is today.

[@raybex7689]

love the riven gameplay on the background i was paying more attention to it than the news xD

[@ToasterBath1223]

Really hope reverse smurfing becomes a big thing since riot doesn't want to do anything about regular smurfing at this point. If smurfs want to ruin low elo games, then they should ruin high elo games. Its no surprise to anyone that you will have at least ONE smurf per game in plat or below. It is getting sad, really sad.

[@SalmonShrk]

I think the biggest short fall of riot is that they dont give the balancing team a chance to balance the game. When you constantly change items, add new skins with different effects, change existing items, remove items, constantly add new champs, it begins to feel like pointless task. I think riot needs to cool it on the releases to give the balancing team a chance to actually find a cohesiveness between the champions and items. I also think that it is a massive short site to ignore things like mmr resets when it would help yo strengthen that idea. Opting to just ignore it does seem "lazy" in a sense even if other things are being worked on. While it might not be a situation where they arbitrarily pick and choose champions that get buffed and nerfed its easy to lose site of fair selection when there us a champion you inherently enjoy. Riot can pretend they dint pick favorite's but when kayne was op for like two seasons straight and only got nerfed once everyone blamed that kayne riot employee I knew what was up lol. All in all I think ya phreak has gotten a lot of hate he shouldn't have. But that doesn't mean the way the balancing of items and the game is monitored is alright. There is many things that get left untouched for years and there is things no one asks for that gets shoved down our throats on the regular. I'm tired of pointing fingers at one specific area at riot. End of the day they are a team if they cant come to a mutual agreement on how the game should be run its not gonna last. My fear is its the side we don't want to see succeed that has more power and say at riot.

[@shadows_star]

Both Baus and Soda were speaking facts. Was kind of funny to see him requeue, but majority of what he said is true. The game is beyond unfriendly to new players. People are so out to ruin others experiences as well. Smurfing is a massive issue.

[@ryancox1808]

The best meme title for a league video.

[@Hunedpcl7]

Paperthin Hymn - Anberlin

[@ellis20022]

honestly the sodapoppin rant+the other new players struggling is so real. i started in season 11 and i binge watched a lot of content to improve and i have played a lot since then (currently plat, planning on grinding to dia). i have irl friends who have tried to get into league but they quit very quickly bc the barrier to entry in this game is way higher than any other competitive game.

[@sammigs34]

KEEP MAKING THESE VIDEOS FOR US WHO DON'T PLAY ANYMORE PLEASE. IF IT DOES FEEL GOOD TO COME BACK AT SOME POINT I WANT TO KNOW.

[@xananax21]

I really hate the derank LP loss based on MMR. I've had my account for years and it was my first MOBA I didn't know what any of the terminology meant. I didn't know there was a huge community that could help me. I was relying exclusively on MOBAfire for advice on specific characters. All this to say I started off TERRRIBLE and so my MMR suffered. I've gotten a lot better since then but the first few hundreds of games learning to move with right click, what IE, PD, CDR, BOT (as a lane and not AI bot like most other games), Leash JG, and JG pathing, counter ganking, invading, rotating to objectives. You get the idea. I have a 70% winrate but I'm gaining 18 LP while losing 29 LP. Part of me really wants to just make a new account but I've put money and time into my current account and I have Mastery on dozens of skins and HUNDREDS of skins and I'd really like to not start that shit over...so like if they reset everyone's MMR then yeah sure make the change. Honestly considering how old a lot of accounts are, maybe a FULL MMR reset wouldn't be so bad anyway.

[@Lsir]

League is hard because your not JUST fight 5 enemy humans, You also fight your teammates mental, so its 1v9 at this point.

[@DraphEnjoyer]

Baus has shit take while playing his new INT pick for the month. Didn’t read

[@Ouro44]

6:06 a little more than just help with build, 650 DMG to champions at 28 minutes is a crime 💀

[@munaspador]

A year ago I was Gold III I believe, mostly because I only played rank for the skin at the end of the year, but in the split 2 of last year I wanted to test how high I could climb by myself, no duo and not really studying to improve, just straight up playing and seeing how it went. Right now before the split 2 of this year I'm at Diamond III, and I think it may be the time to really start learning some theory stuff if I want to keep climbing. My goal is to reach master before the end of split 2

[@nillnoir]

I am not a Phreak hater, but framing all the criticism towards his conduct as people being bad at the game so they are looking to blame someone is incredibly dishonest. From what I've heard peoples criticism towards him is directed at him not being able to control his ego when communicating with the community in a smug and condescending way, misinterpreting statistics, as well as selectively being slow to balance some things or flat out not nerfing things he admits are overpowered. The reason why I don't think he should be hated on is because it is a tough job and we should have a level of tolerance to his mistakes. As long as he keeps trying to improve his skills as a balance lead and the game.

[@cashianw5377]

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[@darkness5440]

they're always listening, but who will make the best decisions? the consumer with individual opinions and addiction to fan service who spends money on digital skins, or the guy who has a degree and gets paid to make the game good?

[@nhojpodge]

I mean the shear ammount of champs and items, objectives, and interactions is a wall to climb. (Then it becomes a big reason why i still play, because i feel like i know so much about the game...) Getting only like 40% (if that) of knowledge while leveling an acc.(there are still people who dont know autoing in brush grants vision that have played 10+ years, people that do not know you share more gold letting a teammate kill a ward you sweep. Both the sweeper and the ward killer get the money. Then further still people who dont understand pathing for ganks, and signs of bait.) But he is right though. I only saw like 50/60% actually new players when lvling up my alt 3 accounts with maybe another 30% of those ever sticking with the game til lvl 30 and a good deal of them never picking it up again after that. Each of my alts are to learn more about other roles. Id say my hope for split 2 is hit diamond again on main then get each alt acc to emerald. Only got one other acc other than main to emerald this season :/ rest stayed in plat...

[@amysakalov6915]

I mean... Soda isn't wrong and banning smurfs like Dota2 does would help league tremendously. Of course, it would also prevent the classic new account zero to master videos and cut into people buying skins multiple times so Riot is never going to do it.

[@Salaryman_]

Phreak only copped so much heat because he was condescending to the entire player base. It was a fuck around and find out moment. If he never made the dumb comments about typing things out, he wouldn’t have gotten 90% as much flak.

[@ericsoplet2068]

Soda be poppin' with that quality interpretation of what to expect as a new player. Gold-Diamond is more about getting people to go for an involuntary grass touching session. Prolong a game to get a death count to auto-trigger a ban, smite a cannon, fuck a wave. The biggest battle isn't even knowing how to play the game, it's about finding personal centre so as your teammates can't personally affect you and your time.

[@ericsoplet2068]

Also that read on the Phreak situation by Baus is probably spot on. I'd wager $20 that giggle was thinking about the terrible things that people he knows have said. Some people are born and they hate.

[@straight-outta-jutta]

My rank goal for this split is gonna be grandmaster. Maybe if it's going great even chall. Currently I'm silver but that's just because of phreak

[@jasonbaeten1703]

I love how Soda nails the Smurf problem. If only Riot cared....

[@SoratiosIV]

what my ranked goal is for the split : none, i dont play ranked, 12 years religiously going strong

[@epicshadowboy9338]

Took me two minions to realize that he was joking about "Chovi like csing" XD

[@kylelacey1212]

The balance team has always had a scapegoat. Back in the day it was Morello. "Better nerf Irelia" was a Morello thing (this was back when Irelia was trash and pre-rework, yet she'd still get nerfed every patch). Then it was GhostCrawler. Now it's Phreak. The issue with Phreak is he's an OG who was very popular during his days as a shoutcaster and face of the champion spotlights. Now he's still prominent, but has a condescending and arrogant attitude towards people criticizing the balance changes. I think it's mainly his response to things that make things worse, but anyone who's played league since 2009 remembers this is a recurring trend as Baus said, but it's not "the balance team", there's almost always a face to go with it.

[@riddlydiddly666]

After a couple splits of kicking around in low plat/low emerald, i hit diamond on a 60%wr this split and master+ players that used to seem super terrifying feel really beatable to me now. Gonna try for master tier this split, feeling really confident I can make it up there.

[@TheMickus]

I find it hilarious that sodapoppin is new to League (I don't know how new) and already has a complete understanding of what the community is.

[@theomorrison1099]

Master+ duo changes means that riot needs to make the decay system better. If you get an account to GM or Chal, then let it decay to Masters, you can duo for a few games with insane LP gains and then repeat the process. Theoretically, you can duo so that you get challenger MMR, and then solo push with insane gains (in previous seasons you could abuse MMR for +40/-8 LP up until rank 10~)

[@cosmichaze1482]

My ranked goal as always is Gold, no more no less thats what gets me the skin the fastest 👌🏼

[@lukawho8503]

"He's already just like us" LOL also, you do like a news video on league every week? I just randomly discovered you and really like this concept.

[@alejandrohe08]

Riot should let players read enemy champion abilities while on game and also read what killed them, this is possible in dota and would make the learning curve easier in my opinion

[@Seven-xl5zw]

I'm D4 last split looking to get at least to GM this split . It's not like a huge jump for me i think it's definitely possible because i generally don't play that much ranked games like last split for example i only played around 100 games with a 60% WR . I do watch alot of pro players/streamers and i watch the pro scene as well i feel like i can do it if i play more and have the right mentality/mindset towards the games it won't be easy but hopefully i can do it i will finish my exams around the 10th of June and i would be free to achieve that goal afterwards

[@Blitzkit]

best they could do on rank promotions is just have like 5-6 wins, no more 1-100 LPs and stuff, just simplify the whole rank stuff you just need 4-5 wins to get promoted and have 4-5 wins + an extra promotion series for your promotion. they should just put the LP stuff on masters and above.

[@mortygazeboo1959]

you know you're the goat when you're in the HOF while you're still playing.

[@thomaspereira1545]

The thing is what Sodapoppin is saying about being new is true. Back then getting your account to level 30 was a slog, it took so much time. By the time you could play ranked you had the more experience. Today it's so much faster you don't have time to learn as much before hopping into ranked

[@Miksu__]

Soda is so real for that. People have no fucking clue how hard it is to start playing league in 2024. Even the average bronze player has 10x your game knowledge when you've played for weeks just because there's so much stuff to learn about champs and their abilities along with everything else.

[@xSwagnarok]

Soda talking about league and new players while being a WoW nolife is actually insane

[@nootnoot3453]

aiming for unranked 🗣️🗣️🔊🦅🦅🔊🔊🔊🔊🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bappo795]

4:28 finished masters this split, aiming for chal next split

[@BigPapiDanimal]

LOL that clip of Soda is perfect

[@ninocraft1]

yep ❤😂

[@ayalallama]

I'm in plat, I've played for ten years. the higher you go in ranked the more you'll find players abusing whatever is op. But that's what happens in every competitive ranked later. The problem with leagues ranked though is that there's too many op characters and not enough bans. Making all of your solo queue games feel like they're determined by 2 kinds of luck. Luck of teammate skill and luck of champion pick.

[@magg2711]

i love hove he says ' He's already just like us ' that was so funny 8:30

[@matthewhamblin5327]

What I would give to have level 30 take ages again so that new players DID KNOW THE CHAMPIONS AND GAME before going into RANKED PLAY. 'It blows my mind' that people sign up for a competitive game mode that aren't ready for that level of play and get upset at those who are upset with them. New players putting expectations on seasoned players to "understand" when all the seasoned players want is for the new players to "understand."

[@ssccvvsscc]

I think everybody who is still playing since the early seasons are either complete nutcases or overcome the trauma which is league community and unironically still enjoy the game even though it's a mental challenge.

[@ihrstan]

you mostly find the OG's playing Aram or RGM's. You almost never see accounts over 5 years old in ranked anymore sadly.

[@ihrstan]

I say sadly since most of those guys are actually somewhat intelligeble about the game even in lower ranks

[@HardeHugo]

@@ihrstan I still play on my main account, i dont need more, i have 2 alts but almost unused, also i like that i have all accomplishments on my main account, skins, rank etc

[@ssccvvsscc]

@@ihrstan true.

[@CJManning86]

I made Emerald on Shen Supp. First time ever being above Plat. Big climb this year!

[@Shadysu1]

Iroincally I was playing league when soda was WoW main, now Im WoW main and soda is league main, times have changed

[@gmyrek31]

Phreak for sure doesnt deserve to be killed by single dogshit patch, but death threat is just how this community works like first time league?

[@tadihotado3518]

“People hates phreak for no reason” 2 words, karthus ult

[@sindrosa]

Wild Rift, is like exactly like this, the rank system works like tiers, makes me think, they want to head into a direction where cross platforming is a thing. It honestly looks like that’s the direction they’re going. Wild Rift had mythic items removed, and still had a lot of the items that have been added into normal League, and same other way around. It unironically seems like in about a year or so, we might have cross platforming in a year or so I bet. League will be mobile and pc, just wild rift league.

[@DirtyDan764]

Reverse smurfing is the most hilarious thing I've heard

[@iamthemanhuehueheu]

i have chat muted only arranged is on. however. i once wrote "fgt" in arannged chat. they banned me from going into ranked. i explained that it makes no sense but they didnt get it lol. "it is against our rules to flame others" yeah no one is in arranged chat. so i had to my buy a new acc. so fuck this game i buy a hundred smurfs and wish more people destroy it

[@jakoby3409]

Its still a wonder to me where tons of people who finished s12 in gold or silver, magicly got to platin or emerald with 40% wr

[@kimberlymoriarity]

Yeah, I don't play much anymore (not enough time), but I still try to get the victorious skins. I finished last split in Gold 4. I did my provisionals last week, won 4/5, and got placed in Plat 4? So now I'm on a 5 game losing streak lol. At least I only have to ruin one more game to get enough points for the skin!

[@JackDaniel-yl6hl]

I thought this post was here to tell me lethal tempo was coming back and i got so excited why did youtube recommend this 2 days late im actually so sad

[@lilcherrypye]

Deft should definitely be a hall of famer. I know hes not as successful as Faker but man i love him

[@dreirxge]

Why ahri Faker should be sitting on a Zed throne. It was the most memorable.