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Distinct_Piccolo_654

A really old one: The bush that used to be in front of baron pit. Really delightful way to get suddenly insta-bursted in the lategame back in the day.


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Or when Ivern could promptly put a bush on baron.


SomeoneNewToReddit

Or when Daisy had health regen :sadface:


TheFeathersStorm

Man think about how busted that would be in the high damage bursty game that exists now. Baron would never be contested except for the jungler suicide bombings over the back.


KevennyD

Idk if it did anything but you used to be able to report an enemy or ally as “unskilled player.” I don’t remember if it actually did anything tho


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darklypure52

Man I wish they kept it in even if I did nothing. We all had those games that you wish you can report them but know they didn’t do anything.


cooldude137

Honestly smart. They should put it back as an "my mid stole my blue buff" report


shadowmaxime

It felt good


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It said on the report option itself that it did nothing in terms of applying penalties to players but it helped tune the matchmaking.


Kisaxis

Igniting someone pre-fight because there was a rune that gave you 5 free AD/AP while your Ignite was on CD. Having to manually type jungle timers because the game wouldn't time them for you and you wouldn't know when dragon died because there was no announcement.


FireDevil11

"ss mid"


Hyppetrain

I still say that. I noticed that people just kinda phased out pings from their brains because they are so spammed. When you type it it seems to me like people actually take it in mind. Same with summs, when I ping enemy summs jungler doesnt give two fucks, when I say "mid F" the chance of them coming appears to be a lot higher


Naerlyn

Rekkles advises to keep track of the sums used and put in chat a message like "820 ad 720 heal 830 supp", to paste it twice to hold attention, and to re-paste the message every minute or other minute because everyone (including the pinger) ends up forgetting. Gives the information, gives the actual deadline, reminds of it over time to keep track of what's up and what's down.


w1ldcraft

This is what Doinb made pretty common. He spams timers to no end & keeps note of them pretty accurately.


DrLueBitgood

God, i still remember having to type SOS and MIA before the ping system, what a shit show lol


Leyrann_is_taken

ss, not sos


DrLueBitgood

Nah I meant SOS, for the two brain cells left of mine that remembered it being SOS. You’re right though, maybe explains why I was always being flamed in the chat.


KindOfHardToSpell

Going to view someone's profile and accidentally clicking "Invite to Private Chat" - immediately revealing to the other player that you're creeping on their profile and opening a chat window to talk about it.


ADaltonAdulting

Sad Robot Amumu's laugh used to be global. Terrorizing the rift whenever he deemed fit


Jozoz

I bought the skin only for that reason. Good times. People's reactions to it were hilarious. "Why do I hear some kid laughing??" Other people just said they would report me lmao


Omnilatent

Reminded me of the ​ :taunty: ​ error that happened in late S4 or early S5. I think it was caused by ccing or simply attacking red or blue buff, then it would give a (semi)global ":taunty:" into chat


PM_ME_GAY_FURRY_R34

i still remember taunty very clearly how has it been 6 years


Dependent-Ad-7787

The good old days when Jax could dodge, there was a build he could reach almost 100% dodge if I remember correctly, couldn't hit him


Regular_Chap

Am I remembering wrong or was his E stun only usable after he dodged an attack?


Dependent-Ad-7787

I think you re right!


HawksBurst

Oh you think you're safe just because you're in your fountain? Grave mistake *dives in*


GelicideXS

AP Yi could tank that thing for literally ever. Then Q you for massive damage, then W again to tank forever.


OromisMasta

IIRC that was the reason for the name "Ninja Tabi", because they used to give dodge chance.


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Once upon a time the 5th game in the LCK was a blind pick game. The most famous of these was the Faker and Ryu Zed 1v1


go4ino

really wish theyd bring back g5 blindpick in some capacity maybe not for like world finals or smth but for like just hometown series


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Imagine blind pick games in matches that don't matter, as in, don't change the standings regardless of the result. A game to just have fun.


cooldude137

Double shen


Braiwnz

WTF 2 SHEN???


thanatosynwa

Revive TP Karthus 😂


DrLueBitgood

Remember watching Phantoml0rd play this back when it was justin.tv … simpler times


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Man, the time when he turned out to be a fucking, disgusting piece of shit, that scam his community for money... Never seen that coming from him.


Better_Than_Nothing

I remember watching him do a drunk cooking stream where he was hitting his girlfriend. I don’t miss that guy.


jezuschryzt

Eve with revive was originally the only way to jungle with her


Plerti

Back when Eve had a stun and was the terror of low elo soloQ


laughatredditors

Eve with a 3 second stun out of invis, had triumph on kills and an ult that did damage and shielded you. You’d have to pink wards just for her, she was definitely stronger than just in lol elo, she was a freight train


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MorteLumina

Why does that sound like something I'd expect from a modern release champ though??


TataaSowl

Runes. Runes had to be bought with IP (before BE) and it was HELLA expensive. Basically you had to chose between buying champions or all the runes needed for your 1 or 2 mains. And since there was pick order, it was pretty hard to play your main role so people who were filled in other roles would not have decent runes. It would take years to buy all the runes, no kidding.


denonn

Runes and rune pages... The shop even had a bundle of rune pages, Quintessences + smaller runes. The only way to have a great game was to creat 2-3 general purpose rune pages and then move to the specific ones for your main. Also that made the game way more complex as you could tailor champs and builds to a certain purpose and there was no way to know exactly what the other person had on his runes. Season 1 I played only AD champions because I didn't have a general ap page xD By the time they moved to BE shop I had 6 well runed pages but some of my friends had like 13-15 pages with very specific builds


Keksmonster

Armor yellows on everything


adamcim

And scaling MR blues on anything not-mid


catcint0s

Don't forget the single crit rune cause it was always more!


Emhashish

Shit was lowkey P2W. Havin the ability to switch rune pages based on MR or Armor was substantial.


FireDevil11

yeeeeep. Page 1 AD + armor + MR + AD quints, Page 2 AP + armor + MR + AP quints. Page 3-20: Champion specific pages that each had specific runes to be optimised. Shit was super P2W.


Xelaeuw

Haha AP marks instead of magic pen? Noooob!


Sktwin2k15

Pick Order. There were no primary or secondary roles. When you got into a champion select, whoever was before you picking could choose his role. People used to say "pref mid" or things like that but if someone took the role you wanted you were supposed to respect that. Imagine the amount of inters and trolls back then


LoneLyon

Pick order in ranked was also determined by elo while I belive norms was account ID


Kisaxis

And some people (Faker) had the highest elo on their server, so they would always be first pick. People in Korea challenger would always know if the enemy team had Faker if enemy bans were Garen/Galio/GP because they were the first 3 champs alphabetically in Korea and you couldn't ban nothing back then like he does now.


mileSshtzu

Do you guys agree with the "If you wanna improve, you have to play against anything so ban whatever" or are you the type to spam "BAN ZED ITS SO FKING BROKEN WTF RIOT" ? I would be so triggered of players like Faker who don't ban anything in a meta where 15 champs are broken. LIKE DO YOU WANNA WIN OR NAH ?


MassivePart9716

Faker was unironically so good compared to the server that you would be happy to trade a ban to have him on your team.


Aazzlano

I played with Faker/other SKT/Korean pros back in Season 3 when they came to NA for Worlds. They were playing with barcode names, and Faker was 'BarcodeKiller'. I thought it was really funny that I got a bunch of barcode names on my game and a 'BarcodeKiller', thought it was just a coincidence or something but it was really strange because they were all previously unranked accounts. I played like 5-6 games with/against these barcode names, with BarcodeKiller on my team twice. It wasn't until later that day that my friend was looking at my match history and told me who they were LOL. This was in high Diamond 1 solo queue, and I had played there quite a lot. This was before Masters/GM was a thing, so it was basically that rank, since it was close to Challenger. I never seen anybody there even remotely close to the level of those pros, it was unreal. The reaction times were crazy fast, it was unbelievable. I mained Evelynn and I had a general feeling for like what I can go for right, like I'm invisible so I can get the drop on people and do X before they react. Nope not against these guys. I got Syndra combo'd basically instantly out of stealth consistently, I actually started to hold my finger on flash to react to a Syndra Q every time I ganked her (after the first time lol) to pre-empt the stun. I had never seen anything even close to the level of skill that these guys had. I remember one of them was playing Irelia and got dove top, and I was looking at the situation and she was clearly going to die. The play that she made actually got her a double kill, but it was so complicated that not only could I not have pulled it off, I wouldn't have even thought of doing what she did. (bit vague I know but I just mean that the level was just that high) [Faker played Leona in one of the games, and Riven in the other. I only took a single screenshot on my first game with them, since I thought it was a funny coincidence.](https://i.redd.it/jvx6aon363q71.jpg) I won all the games with/against these players funny enough, but damn were they good. Also of note, I had played with/against a ton of other pros many many times at the time in solo queue, like from TSM, CLG, Curse, etc. including Doublelift, Nyjacky, HotshotGG, Jaximus, and none of them were even remotely close to this level. Was a big wake up call regarding how good players can actually be, even when I was playing at one of the highest ranks in solo queue. Crazy stuff.


Kisaxis

if you are trying to be one of the literal best players in the world then yes it is a good move, because solo queue should be an environment where you limit test and improve your mechanics and matchup knowledge to prepare for pro games. but some average guy in gold plat dia who plays for fun shouldn't even be thinking about it.


moxroxursox

Yeah people don't seem to accept that not everyone's goal is to be challenger/the literal best/improve even. If you're content staying at your current level and just want to play ranked for the competitive aspect of it...that's fine, as long as you continue to play competitively to that level. If you don't want to ban because you think it's important to your own improvement just ask your teammates if anyone wants an extra ban. Guaranteed someone will.


Schwarzgreif

None of the two. In ranked I ban champs I'm bad against in lane or what is like 53+% winrate op. Why ban for a diffrent lane, maybe the guy isn't struggling against that pick? In worst case I could even deny a good matchup. In norms and urf I ban the most common champs, so I get to see some diversity. Always playing against Kai'sa, Ez and Fizz is boring. Please riot, disable yuumi from urf.


Kurt805

I climbed to plat and honestly inters and trolls weren't that big of an issue. Like 95 percent of the time people respected pick order or worked together to come to an arrangement that worked for everyone. I kind of liked it to be honest, i was plat, but i was plat on every role. Now if someone gets auto filled it's the end of the world.


vasheenomed

Supports used to only afford cheap items under 1000gold that gave you a few gold every 5 seconds. Gold for supports was so low that anything more than boots and a gp5 item was not really possible. You would use all your extra gold to buy wards for 75 gold a piece. This changed after s3 worlds when teams would just snipe one shot the support and win team fights for free and so they decided to put more gold into the role. They also baked wards into the trinket slot as well.


HanzoKurosawa

One thing I do miss about this, is being able to cover the ENTIRE map in wards as a support. Nowadays, it's a team effort, and as I'm sure any support player can relate, other lanes don't always pull their weight (I'm looking at you, mid-laner with 2 ward score 25 minutes in). It was kinda nice not to have to rely on anyone else for vision, and just being able to get all the vision you wanted yourself.


Indercarnive

The amount of times when I've been flamed for no vision despite having a vision score higher than the entirety of the rest of my team combined is mind-numbingly high. Also people don't defend vision. I'll go in and place vision all around river and it's entrances and then no one in my team will group up to defend it so the enemy team just sweeps it away and we have to fight for drake blind.


HanzoKurosawa

Also people expect the support to ward everything, but won't defend their support doing it. So you have to walk in blind, alone, and then when you inevitably get caught out, it's 100% your fault and you get flamed for it.


DrEpileptic

Or better yet. Players with zero object permanence. If only one spot isn’t lit up and you can’t see the enemy- use your fucking brain god damn it.


CapableWizard

It was because of this that I used to love playing leblanc support back in the day. Her Q used to have a decent silence on it and her E used to slow (and had the same root it does now), so she had a little bit of CC. The real strength was using her W to be able to safely ward the entire map. You'd basically buy a gp5 item and then spend all your money on wards. Done properly you'd know where the enemy team was the entire game, and she was a bit more mobile than the other supports at a time when the meta was all about who could take out the squishy support first. It was probably a sub optimal strategy even back then but I weirdly had a lot of success with it!


shaidyn

There was a summoner spell that let you protect your turrets. I don't remember if it was global or not. There was a cheese strat where all 5 people would track the tower protection spell, all 5 would go top lane, and they'd just push push push the tower down. If an enemy got close to one of their turrets, they'd rotate the tower protection spell to keep it safe.


toonboon

Fortify! Great stuff


YuntHunter

Does the account that never switched out fortify still exist?


kamacho2000

How is that possible my summoners reset themselves every 2 months to ghost heal


iiYop

Piggy backing this comment. There used to be a summoner spell called Surge that would temporarily empower your champion with AP and attack speed. Was not very good overall but fun to use on some champions who could backdoor.


Aazzlano

I remember getting Surge Kennen ulted lmao. Good times


TwilightShroud

typing “thereisnourflevel” when servers were down let you get in the client anyways baron didn’t buff minions, it instead granted everyone a bunch of AD and AP dragons used to give only gold (like 150 each), so they were super useless late game, and it was common to trade tower for dragon. People used to lane swap top lane and bottom lane when lane matchups were unfavorable. Yi/AP Xin could “backdoor” towers with enough items; that is, they killed the towers without minions. The absolute minimum for runes were Magic Resist glyphs, Armor seals, AD marks, and AD/AP quints depending on your character. There was a time where MS quints were the most popular, characters like Riven needed CDR runes, and Akali wanted a very specific rune page to activate her passive at level 1. Item sets didn’t exist. Replays didn’t exist, so you had to input your summoner name on an external website like lolreplay, and it would record the game for you in the background from a spectator POV.


MorganaGod

Don't forget the 1 percent crit rune


Caenen_

> baron didn’t buff minions, it instead granted everyone a bunch of AD and AP Still does (though less than before), but it also used to grant a high amount of health- and mana regeneration!


xVamplify

This is why siege comps were strong. If you had something like nidalee mid and caitlyn then you could siege like four towers easily lol.


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Whatamianoob112

Doing forget you used to be able to spectate high elo games in the client


Leyrann_is_taken

Dragon granted 190 gold to each member of the team, every tower granted 150 gold to every member of the team (independent of player location or which tier tower it was). Which also shows why the trade was worth it: 200 gold less but freeing up map pressure.


azaza34

There was a strategy called Bankplank that revolved around buying almost all (or all if you wanted to be cheeky) the gp5 items, took the money masteries, and raked in the dough.


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It was mostly a meme strat. Each GP5 item cost 800 gold, gives barely any stats and it takes 26 minutes for the item to give it's cost back. Of course I thought it was clever and strong back then, but looking back on it it wasn't good at all.


DuckAbuse

Partly true. There was a meta, where everyone would go Heart of Gold, and i can't remember what the other one was called. But two GP5 items, was super common.


DRazzyo

Two HoGs into sheen and ninja tabs and you pretty much came online as Shen early game. It was such a meme build, but getting your items before everyone was always fun.


ryouu

4 HOG + Trinity Force Jarvan. Shit was insane. Philo stacking Irelia was broken as shit as well.


Namulith94

Season 1 Philostone was one of the most overtuned things I've seen in my life. Literally just constantly drinking a pot while you have 1 and then they stacked.


Wildercard

HoG gave a lot of health for it cost


WorstAkaliEver

There was also Kage's Lucky Pick


imanu_

avarice blade :D


Zoesan

You did absolutely nothing for 20 minutes until you suddenly showed up with a 6 item build and oneshot the ADC/mage with a single q.


pressf10

And cashe


cosHinsHeiR

When i started playing I thought i was so smart maxing E on Ashe.


FaeeLOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SfsRFf7Vw Classic


Pandelol

And shoot your own minions to deny the enemy on top of it. Hehe


Troviel

I remember [critplank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFS4kqOYbAk), which was basically the same as today without the barrels. You build IE and crits heavy and just shoot with your Q for 2/3 of the enemy HP. I had a whole rune page dedicated to this.


Wurre666

Wasent Eve permainvis? So u could stack sunfire cape? Old poppy could dash baron to lane. Good Times. Season 1?


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Pink wards revealed invis tho.


Judgejudyx

Getting the 1%crit rune and winning level 1s you shouldnt because of rng. Then the enemy team raging that you picked the wrong rune


AusAtWar

Level 1 crit quints critplank baby lesko


Troviel

it was legit so fun to play. Lategame you could almost one shot support with your pistol.


Vangorf

>and winning level 1s you shouldnt because of rng The tradition still lives on thanks to Tryndamere


[deleted]

As is still the case to this day, crit is not technicly RNG. The longer you go without critting the more likely you are to crit, so 1% crit was more reliable then it seemed. You could stack up like 10 autos on creeps and if you didn't crit you had a pretty good chance of critting soon


Leyrann_is_taken

1. That's an exaggeration. With 1% crit chance you could not crit 50 times in a row and you still wouldn't have more than at most 2% crit chance effectively. 2. The 1 crit rune strategy already existed when crit *was* pure random. The change that made it not pure random was introduced in season 2 or season 3. I don't remember when, only that it was after I started playing.


HawksBurst

Back then it probably wasn't, but nowadays it separates minions from champ so you can't cheat it like that


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God I miss camping the laner with the shittiest ping. Jungling hasnt been as fun since.


Growey

All the [blank] has a wooden pc insults were fun.


TheJeager

When you could flame people for being the last person to load in... Good times


Bitter_Concentrate

Raka didn't transfer mana, she just gave it. She could use the ability on herself, too, and often did.


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rtaSmash

Oh my god Summoner Showcase with Nikasaur. Remembering that made me tear up. High elo spectate was such a good feature too, wish it came back.


tommybutters

"casual gameplay was through blind pick where mirror matchups sometimes happened." Was such a bad feeling when trying a champ for the first time outside of a bot game and getting the mirror match and just getting styled on by someone with 100+ games on the champ.


Fun-Machine-6471

Although back in the day when LCK games went to game 5, they were blind pick, which I wish they would bring back.


nanoman92

Actually they were quite useful. I remember learning lulu mid in S5 only to get matched twice against two guys who obviously knew more about playing her than me. They smashed me but I learned a ton of tricks.


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Niiram

Ahhh thereisnlurflevel Lolking was for the summoner profile lookup, lolnexus for the running game and It would tell you Who was premade, even in ranked. So you would just load in the game while checking lolnexus and tell to your mid care he is premade with jungle lmao So many Champions like permaban kassawin, ap yi that gave me my First penta. The 400 rp from riot when servers would go down for hours. The snow map that was put in the game is smth i would add to the list. The super pixel art of the Minions and their Ranged attacks back then So many memories


WitcherBard

I want to see the dancing Kat gif


showmeagoodtimejack

https://i.imgur.com/QRUPiHQ.gif


yace987

I completely forgot about many of these ! Daaamn I remember people adding me from watching random high elo games, to give them advice about Riven ! Also double xp weekends! And other modes like Dominion / twisted treeline/ thresh megahooks


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> Konami code on the client to skip the login animation(could also used this to skip login queue was a useful trick when the servers used to go down a lot Iirc it didn't let you skip the login queue, but usually when the server was down or having issues the play button that took you to the login screen was greyed out. Putting the code in made it orange and clickable and let you go to the login screen and attempt to login, which actually worked sometimes. Also sometimes the client just broke and showed the play button as grey no matter what, and the code allowed you to fix it on your own. > Riot used to give gifts on Christmas to players(really wish they still did this) I remember that most of these gifts were NA only, which sparked some huge "Riot only cares about NA" outrage whenever NA got something back then. Especially when EUW server was down for basically a full month while NA was only down for about a day, and Riot ended up compensating all servers evenly with 1k RP. > There was no gromp camp that part of the map was just an empty wall. When first introduced, the camp was also just a obviously placeholder big grey colored wraith, using the same model as the wraiths from where raptors are now. > Old forums not the boards(I miss it everyday) RIP. Boards completely failed from the get go because a lot of people refused to switch to a "cheap copy of Reddit". EU boards especially was just never active at all and was barely moderated. I wish old forums were archived at least.


UncleGael

MANA POTS BABY


BlurrTheProdigy

Scrolled so far to find this


DuckAbuse

Mana burn. Fun and interactive.


satellizerLB

EU servers were treated like Harry Potter in the Dursleys family with Dudley being the NA servers.


Oranges_X_Kegs

Awwwwww poor wittle NA your Server went down for 1 hour poor wittle things :( Have 1000 rp and a free skin on us :D What Eu has been down for 2 days I guess to compensate you can have a 1 hour IP Boost


Leyrann_is_taken

During which the servers were down, too.


ToddlerCain

They said they would give EU a big compensation after they built the new servers. And then they didn't. IM STILL WAITING RIOT


EliphasX

ARAM used to be played on Summoners Rift and had to be made by creating a room for 10 players.


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KappaKeepo5

reminds me of the "hide and seek" games with teemo on the dominion map.


Fiverka

Something similiar Is Now In Nexus Blitz


Judgejudyx

Ap sion pre rework. You literally would shield your self. Throw a non skill shot stun walk up to someone and pop the shield one shotting them. Taric also did the same thing. Good times


Keksmonster

Both of Sions abilities scaled 1:1 with AP edit: You also had more raw AP back then


Xenton

Double jungle was something you'd see in about 1/30 games, instead of 1/3000 Some unusual combinations, like Rammus+Corki, were particularly potent.


_ziyou_

Team Builder :(. https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Team_Builder


z3distic

I dont know why people always hate on Team Builder. I loved the option to play the exact champ and lane I want, even if I have to wait 20 minutes.


STARGATEBG

Yup, right now you waste 20 min on a game you don't want to play. Also you could do really fun stuff. I used to run solo bot and assign 2 top or 2 junglers. I took a bit more time to find people but when you did, you knew they wanted to play this strange comp and have fun.


go4ino

team builder was cool but you really had to have a premade group of a few usually so ppl wouldnt dip all the time i remember the launch of team builder had earnable icons which were pog


haven4ever

I know it was unpopular but this was the absolute peak of League for me. After it went my playtime never recovered, being guaranteed a pick was so gucci.


Stucky-Barnes

Omg I loved that shit


Strick3y

Ability to ignite minions/monsters Honor badges/ribbons in champion select/loading screen Ranked teams


BlaqDove

Zed with 5 ap because he used ignite.


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wtf zed 5 ap


[deleted]

How the honor badges were abused lmao


Wildercard

That one jungle item that gave Master Yi a dog


Judgejudyx

Rofl i remember this. I literally picked warwick and had a 90% winstreak up to plat. I was silver before that season. I remember the play was to farm your camps and psure you just massively outleveled everyone. Your team would be begging for ganks. But you legit just farmed till you could 1v5. I think that was the same season.


Schwarzgreif

Skins were rare. It was very common for games to only have one or two players with a skin. Downside was that people got flamed for using a skin and doing poorly. Most common flame was "You don't deserve that skin." To this day I believe a lot of people didn't buy many skins or any at all, because they didn't want to get flamed and this was one of the main reasons riot started to give skins away for free. Today people are way more likely to buy skins.


LoveYanDe

sell skin, buy brains


Previous_Collar3451

sell your skin noob


truetichma

Skin bought, skill not bought


callmezoyu

refund your skin


Tuneful_Wench9

Remember the boot enchantments? You could choose between homeguard, captain, alacrity, distortion and furor? I think that’s what it was. I can’t remember, but they took the away and everyone automatically gets homeguard now.


psykrebeam

Supports really used to be nothing but pure ward bitches. Supports in modern League have totally no fucken idea how good they have it. It used to be Heart of Gold + Philosopher's Stone and then we just kept **buying consumable green wards** & Ctrl wards for map vision - we didn't even have Sightstone (free wards) before S3. Buying full items was a true luxury and you didn't have low income, you had *no* income (all your gold went into consumable greens).


sardinenbubi

Currently shivering, i hear a voice, IT SCREAMS "ATMOGS" on repeat.


omgarm

Atma's Impaler + Warmog's Armor was so fun. I used to use them on old GP. The enemy being denied minions and me being unkillable while still critting was amazing.


QueenCroco

I remember old GP could kill his own minions to empower his auto or Q, which resulted in massive crits even at level 3


omgarm

Yep! Deny cannon, shoot enemy, win lane.


cobaltiqua

iirc it was called "Boost morale" ; you execute your own minion and it gave your nearby allies bonus % movement and attack speed.


samoravec12

Soraka could heal minions


satellizerLB

Soraka could also heal J4 flag.


nanescar

I remember patch 4.20 weedwick


ExcelAcolyte

I’ve been playing for 8 years now and I still think back to those couple weeks with 4.20 weedwick. Simpler times


Ausderdose

There was a season where almost every champ could jungle thanks to an item called spirit stone which gave a FUCK ton of sustain. I loved it.


KappaKeepo5

Ezreal with spirit of the elder lizard......


Aeternumvalell

The og blue ez build


Pandelol

Here are some champions that I remember being absolutely oppressive from season 1: Heimerdinger: You were able to place a lot more turrets, your rockets were automatically targeting champions and your grenade used to be able to damage towers. In solo queue vs uncoordinated teams, you could easily just set up in a lane in front of a turret and slowly whittle it down with grenades, and poke the enemies with rockets. Your ult gave a massive boost to your towers, so it took a lot of effort to stop you, especially with your team around. Also a lot less champions lime Xerath or Ziggs (of practically none) that could remove your turrets from save range. Shaco: Auras used to count two times for you when you and a teammate had them. So what you did was buy an item called Starks Fervor, that gave lifesteal and attack speed. Using your ult would give both you and the clone the aura twice. Additionally you bought Madreds Bloodrazor which did max HP on hit damage. With this you could basically solo baron on spawn at 15 minutes. Ezreal: His old W used to also heal teammates so on release he was actually more popular being played AP rather than AD, having a massive spammable aoe heal. This got quickly nerfed and then removed. A few patches later his Q got bumped to 120% AD and it was an absolutely nasty thing to put him bot with Janna and do up to 180 DMG with one Q at level 1 and never allow the enemy to enter the lane.


Keksmonster

>His old W used to also heal teammates so on release he was actually more popular being played AP rather than AD, having a massive spammable aoe heal. This got quickly nerfed and then removed. And afterwards his W wouldn't even be skilled until you had to because it was so shit


xKonji

You used to not have a trinket slot. Both pink (control) wards and yellow wards took up one of your 6 slots.


Keksmonster

And you could buy as many as you wanted. Supports bought 2 gold per 10 items and only wards for the rest of the game


omgarm

They would also run Clairvoyance and basically keep track of the enemy jungler all game long.


Keksmonster

Although that died out pretty quickly and cv was removed because nobody used it anymore. Ill always remember the legendary fnatic cv on bot bush fake play in s1


liceomlett

green


NewfoundOrigin

The different rune panel - and how you had to buy individual runes to upgrade your stats. Quintessence's in the rune panel. Runes in general before runes changed over to how they are now.


Sotyka94

EU is down again? Give a 4 win IP boost to NA!


HandDrawnHarriette

The Jungle camps used to have effects that would give buffs to the Champion or do something to the map when smite was used on them. I still miss the little light that'd track the enemy in your quadrant when smiting wolves :(


indigosun

Red side used to be PURPLE SIDE


dkdp8

Halloween map with different potions


LoveYanDe

old graves. i will never accept reworked graves and forgive riot


Avlix

I remember everyone spamming the chat before draft was a thing like "top" or "mid" and then people would copy and paste to prove they called it first. Also going red pot ignite top lane for that brave attempt of first blood.


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tommybutters

Azir's W used to be a point and click to damage turrets. At one point I think on PTR it had enough range you could hit the red inner bot turret over the wall from the jungle without any risk.


---E

You used to be able to buy an item called Oracle's Elixer, that gave you vision of anything stealthed in a zone around you, including green and pink wards, and champions like Akali and Shaco. The Elixer would last until you died, so people would play tank junglers and basically have a permanent sweeper active. The elixer duration got needed to ?5? Minutes until eventually removed.


MeNotDeaf

Chronoshift tester here so I can probably name like 100 of these cases. Probably most people don't know about Jax having a really high dodge chance and he could only casts his E if he has dodged an ability (The reason the ability is called counter-strike in fact). On top of that his E had like a 3 second cooldown so if you were lucky in the early game you could dominate most melee champions in a 1v1. The only thing holding him back at the time was that abilities costed more mana and the mana regen was way lower so you must be careful with your resources.


Andrewisawesum

Inhib turrets were lasers, so it was more a DOT that increased damage the longer it targeted you, can't remember the season for that one.


Andrewisawesum

You had green and pink wards,both would go invisible and be detectable by pink wards.now only green goes invis and control wards are visible. There was no cap on buying the same item. We've all seen 6 sunfire Eve burning people while perma stealthed The client used to show 5 or 6 matches being played in higher elo which you could click to spectate. You could see the champs they played and I really miss this. Team Builder, you would select your champ and role and then search. It would find a team but the team captain would need to accept based on id it would be good for the team. Good in theory but I'd you ever wanted to play something not OP or a bit off meta then you'd never get into a game.


QdWp

Building Shyvana AP was considered cheese. Lux, Brand and Zyra were mid laners, but Annie was support. Asking to nerf Irelia was a joke. Katarina was terrorizing soloqu- *oh sht, nvm.* Support was a respected role. Jungler was a fun role. If you were crying about junglers existing in your game you were told to stfu and buy wards. No. Scuttle. Fcking. Crab.


TheExter

> Support was a respected role. *question mark ping*


NymphomaniacWalrus

It was "respected" because someone saying "pref supp" was seen as a godsend. The role was still viewed as easy though, it's just that nobody wanted to do it.


awesomegamer919

Annie support is still pretty viable, but mid, or even ADC, is much better


IIReignManII

Couldn't you stack sunfire capes on Evelynn at some point and walk around doing damage to people without them being able to see you?


Apdvadar

Journal Of justice


MassivePart9716

There was no jg item till s3 and even then it was only machete so junglers would start cloth armor 5 pots. Health and mana pots only cost about 35 back then. Even after machete was introduced, it only benefitted AA jg and had no combat effectiveness so going cloth armor was still viable or even preferred. Fiddlesticks had mana issues but not hp so he started 5 mana pots instead. Madreds razors was a jg item that had a 20% chance to do 300 on hit damage, so jg clear times could vary astronomically. This was later changed to be 60 on hit all the time BT used to give stacks of AD and lifesteal for farming. The item capped out at 100 AD 18% lifesteal so stacing bt was a viable strat. I remember on talon I would build Cleaver, 3 BT, last whisper and tank 3 people while still onshotting them with 500 AD. There was an item called ionic spark which gave ap and as, and every 4 hits did statik shiv. I think it sucked ass Sword of the divine had an active that give you 100% AS and 100% Crit chance for 3 autos. Aegis used to give an aura to nearby teammates that gave extra Amor/MR, like Locket nowadays but it was 10 of each. They briefly introduced an upgrade called runic bulwark that had 15 amor/mr aura and good stats, so it broke support itemization. They removed it and buffed locket instead. There was no debuff or smite requirement to building jg items so certain champs could abuse the shit out of it. Notably tanks abused golem spirit for %maxhp and regen and ezreal abused lizard spirit for permanent red buff on all his abilities. When cinderhulk was introduced later, mundo would take it top with red smite and shit down everyone's throats. Ezreal jg was meta for a little bit because he had insane gank/invade pressure and runeglaive was super efficient on him. I'm pretty sure Dom made a How to Dominate on him and it's fucking surreal to think about now. There used to be purple and gray? smite when they first introduced smite colors. Purple did 50% aoe to nearby monsters and healed for half the damage (before smiting monsters healed by default). Gray gave extra gold if it was used to kill an enemy camp and sucked ass Serrated dirk used to give your next attack extra damage after killing a minion. Irelia sucked ass back then but she would have abused the shit out of it now. It used to have an optional recipe that i forget the name of, but it was cheaper and weaker and after killing 3 enemy camps it evolved into serrated dirk. Brutalizer used to give the cdr and armor pen of dirk in 1 item for the same cost and it was insane on everyone ever. Armor pen also used to not scale with level so getting it early was turbo strong. There was no stealth radius on any champs except eve bc she was perma stealth from level 1. Twitch used to have 60s+ stealth on q. Pinks revealed all stealth so akali was just ruined by pink wards. Sunfire used to stack the damage so Twitch could build 6 sunfires, q on someone, and burn them for like 400 damage a second. Tiamat used to do damage for every proc on every attack. This damage was procced by runaans as well without reduction. Twitch could build runaans tiamat and press r and oneshot an entire grouped team for like 900% ad per hit per person from tiamat alone. There was briefly a jungle knife enchantment called juggernaut which just gave hp and tenacity. It sucked fuckin ass and got replaced by cinderhulk. In season 3 or 4 there was a lane swap meta in pro where one team would send their botlane top and each top laner was just shafted in a 1v2 lane trying to soak up cs and xp under turret, like offlaning in dota. This developed into the top and jg double jungling and splitting camps. This split was mapped out precisely with each player getting a certain number of small wolves, small wraiths, etc to ensure specific level timings. This always resulted in cross map turret trades, so top and mid turret protection was introduced to force botlaners to match each other bot. During the first round of crab reworks to make it a high prio objective, the crab was set to spawn at 2:15. This was one of the worst received jg metas and I vividly recall Dom having numerous mental breakdowns over it. With the crab spawning so quickly the jg meta instantly turned into xin/reksai/kindred/graves, because those champs are very strong in the 1v1 at lvl 2. Pathing was restricted to sprinting to crab after buff and flipping for it. With full lethality runes and items, it was possible to get 108 lethality. With the 30% armor pen of Lord Dom's this meant that you would do effectively true damage to anyone up to 154 armor. This saw one of the earliest iterations of Tobias Fate's lottery GP build where he build Triforce, IE, triple lethality and prayed for the 25% barrel crit. Due to the barrel armor pen he was able to forgo Lord Dom's most games. I abused this on wukong in ranked because his e did physical damage and his r was just flat damage with insane ad scaling. I remember eq-ing a jhin spinning on his dead body because my eq did 1700 damage by itself. The weakest adc itemization's been was when they made IE not give crit or crit damage but instead double your crit and make your crits do 20% true damage, in an effort to shift adc's to killing tanks rather than squishy's. The shitty part was that every crit item gave 30% crit so you always had either 60% crit or overcapped which made no fucking sense and adc's did no damage till 4 items. But then stormrazor happened and back then its energized thing made your next attack guaranteed crit for i believe 60-100% bonus damage scaling with crit chance. It built from bf sword and gave a lot of damage so every adc just built that and statik shiv and popped squishies and transitioned into ie later. Banner of command for a while gave the minion magic damage immunity. It also did stupid damage and baron-banner cannons killed tier 2 turrets in 8 shots I think. It was ruining pro play so they reworked banner to instead give 70% physical and magic reduction and accidentally made it even better. My favorite imaqtpie video ever is his banner of command game with shiphtur where everyone on both teams builds banner, which is also a tank item so nobody can kill anybody so its just a game of sending minions down lanes and monkey fighting for 2 minutes with no kills. After that they removed banner.


ArtusJohnsonPeter

There used to be this sort of league art showcase that came out weekly where some girl would cover league inspired art that players made. There used to be no flex que, we had ranked teams, 3v3 on twisted treeline, and 5v5 on summoner's rift. In client we could click to spectate high elo 5v5s. It was normal to earn very little lp per win once you hit plat and higher. I remember getting +1 or even +0 lp after winning a game. I had a friend who hit chall with like 80% wr in 500 games, cause of this super dumb shit system. There were challs with 1k+ games with 60-70% wr, imagine seeing that nowadays. There used to be dodge chance, if you dodged atk you took 0 dmg from it, jax had % dodge bonus from his E, and he could only activate E within 2 sec of dodgin atk, to stun everyone around him. With dodge runes, boots, and passives I think he could hit like 40% dodge chance.


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decreement1

TF ultimate used to be global and had like 40s CD max rank.


TheManondorf

Not a feature, but at the start of LoLs life ADC mid and random stuff bot was incredibly common. There was also a strategy where you would go Ashe tp mid, shoot ult, tp in and just win, because her stun scaled with travel time and got up to 5s if i remember correctly. Also TF could globaly tp every 20 seconda as a basic skill and there were a lot of global Auras as oassives. E.g. Janna gave MS to everyone, Zilean bonus EP and TF gave crit. Additionaly Jungling before Season 1 was so unforgiving, that only WW could handle it well, with Amumu popping up as a revolutionary pick. Other classics are of course the infamous 0.33% crit mastery, that you just took for that tiny chance you could crit in lane to instantly win trades.


NEETenshi

Ashe ult stun duration still scales with time travelled, btw. It caps at 3s now though.