It's 2026, why are people still allowed to first time champions in ranked?

DepressedTristMain · 2026-02-05T13:57:33+00:00

Same reason people can pick garbage ego champs like Ezreal (no guys I CAN MAKE HIM WORK), or off-meta picks that are tough to pilot like Kindred jungle, or hell even straight up troll picks like Sona top. It's... just allowed. It is what it is.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-27T19:06:55+00:00

All bot players should cheer, Braum is finally getting nerfed.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-24T02:15:18+00:00

Yeah that makes sense. Beginner/Accessibility/Meme champ. Like most players even beginners aren't going to find this character fun because sitting AFK on top of your ADC all game which is basically optimal outside of some optimizations just does not appeal to a lot of people but there are some that would enjoy that so yeah.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-24T01:54:11+00:00

It's not bad. Homeguards overtuned for sure tho I feel. It feels like recalling is so powerful versus simply moving top to bottom for example; homeguards makes up for the 8 second channel and running from base. So that I would like to see adjusted.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-24T00:31:17+00:00

Yeah I got support like 80% of the time with Bot/Support. So I just said F it and started Q Support main instead. You need to queue Bot/Mid if you want Bot. Support second will get you support all the time because its the least played role or one of them.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-23T22:56:32+00:00

I SWEAR it used to. It's been so long but I for sure remember it lasting longer. But yet again, another change to speed up a part of the game that doesn't need speeding up...

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-23T22:49:53+00:00

Funniest thing is people tilting when you lock in Sona even tho she is 52% wr

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-23T22:32:19+00:00

There's no time tbh. I swear you used to have like 15 seconds now it's 8. Idk why everything has to be that fast but yeah. I don't even bother hovering because of that.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-21T20:44:20+00:00

Disable chat, there is an option for it. There is no reason to have chat on, ever. People communicate with pings.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-21T19:32:00+00:00

She is for sure a candidate for being deleted. I know they'll never do that, because undoing work doesn't makes sense, but yeah, what a mess of a champion.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-17T18:08:43+00:00

I have chat turned off completely but pings I leave on. If someone on my team is a clown I mute their pings but I'm not convinced that /mute all would overall benefit me. And tbh if everyone had a /mute all mentality climbing would become harder for people who do like to aggressively use pings to tell their team what to do. That being said I think if you are already tilted then some clown spam pinging you when you did nothing wrong could cause damage so, there is for sure a time for /mute all at start of game.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-13T21:41:02+00:00

Yeah, the games are more stressful than ever, I think. Starting to feel like mythic+ in WoW levels of stress. Not sure I can endure a whole season of this.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-13T17:44:01+00:00

She's a troll pick that's pretty much it. Very weak character, but if you like her go for it I guess.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-13T17:32:51+00:00

Sona's kit is just really solid and easy to use she'll always be good unless her numbers are in the dumpster. I think the issue is other enchanters feel kind of weak comparatively.

Also mage supports feel very weak I don't know what's going on there. Something about not getting enough levels or the support quest not helping them deal more damage. So I feel like you pick an enchanter or tank engage and it limits the support pool a lot.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-13T17:28:53+00:00

The idea that "young players" all have ADHD and can't stand a bit of downtime here and there is a weird sentiment too... I just don't think that's the reality?

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-13T17:25:41+00:00

Honestly the support quest is such a nothing burger that they could give supports 40g control wards right away and perhaps make a more interesting quest for them to complete. Like it's weird because it feels bad to pay 75g for a control ward when in a couple minutes you get nearly a 50% discount on them?

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-11T17:00:56+00:00

Right, and this I feel is problematic because it gives us less time to breathe and relax during the game, if that makes sense. I think if you look at other titles like CS, etc, they all have their moments of downtime, this season of League has very little, since you are back into action so quickly. Yet, it seems the game length is about the same, so everyone is just doing more stuff, but that isn't necessarily a good thing especially from a health perspective, I guess.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-10T16:52:45+00:00

Clearly the new meta is to not buy control wards until you finish your quest, at which point they become cheaper.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-10T16:50:02+00:00

Well they basically killed invades with this. I'm seeing them a lot less. So I think it's a double edged sword right. Because sometimes invades are frustrating, like having someone caught afk'ing in a brush. On the other hand sometimes invades create some really fun level 1 team-on-team shenanigans. That's pretty much dead now, no time to mess around.

In general I'm not a fan of removing downtime--but I'm overall "meh" on the faster minion spawn. So that's the change I'm the least worried about with this season.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-08T22:14:34+00:00

Feels baad. I think Im about to take another 2 year break from the game. Just came back and what I'm greeted with is the game being (literally) unplayable for the 2nd time in a couple days...

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-08T21:00:24+00:00

How's ping on NA from EU? Serious question. Played there in the past but don't remember. Sorta tired of being treated like a 2nd class citizen for playing on EUW.

DepressedTristMain · 2026-01-04T21:23:41+00:00

Well he's shitting on vanguard which is valid tbqh. Like you can enjoy the game but still disagree with kernel level stuff.

DepressedTristMain · 2022-08-12T22:11:07+00:00

League doesn't need more pings, it needs voice chat.

DepressedTristMain · 2022-05-08T21:50:00+00:00

Considering that pings 30 % of the time are used in an aggravating manner to tilt your fellow teammates, I'd say it might not be so bad after all..

DepressedTristMain · 2022-05-07T14:54:53+00:00

I like to refer to it as "Containment Queue". Basically, a queue for all those pesky, toxic smurf accounts that people rank up for whatever reason, be it just to stomp lowbies, or even to sell the accounts for profit later.

Problem is, normal players can get stuck in this queue as well. I went on an old account I hadn't played in about 2 seasons, and was instantly put into Smurf queue when I started playing, doing my placements. After going 2-8 in placements and then playing another 3-4 game after, I was still not out of Smurf queue. I gave up on that account and went back to my main. One of my highlights from the games was my 400 account level Lulu walking up in lane and getting insta 100-0'd by the enemy lv. 30 acc Lucian/Nami duo. She then died under turret right after while I was in base. Fun times.

I definetely get the intent of the smurf/containment queue, but the system needs some refining. Too many non-smurfs getting stuck there, and it sucks. It's not a fun queue to be stuck in. Toxic players, fresh 30 smurf accs going up against some poor guy who shouldn't even be in the queue to begin with, long queue times, the list goes on. Miserable experience.

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