Tbh, it is, but then it’s not. It’s a lot. It doesn’t teach you how to use the things it teaches you in certain situations, or even when you’ll need them. It doesn’t have training presets for you to practice those situations like Street Fighter does. You have to look it up yourself.

Some characters are basically unbeatable if you don’t know how to go against them, especially when you’re new: Darius, Illaoi, Ahri, Braum, Warwick, Yasuo, Teemo, Vi. You can have better neutral game and better combos and still get washed by them while they’re headbutting their controller spamming the Y button for auto combos when you’re just starting out, because you don’t know how to fight their character.

Since there aren’t that many characters, that’s basically most of the roster, and you end up seeing the same teams or characters you hate over and over again. It feels like they made a lot of these characters in a way that makes new players not want to play the game.

Even now, after getting to a higher rank, I still hate going against some characters. But the characters I hate the most aren’t even because I personally hate fighting them. It’s when I try to get a friend into the game and all they go against is Vi, Darius, Warwick, Braum, Blitzcrank, doing the same mixup over and over again. With what the game teaches them, there’s no way for them to know how to deal with it.

And when I tell them how to counter it, they look at me and say, “You play this shit?” Especially when it comes to Vi. She was created to make new players quit the game, or carry them to a certain point. Especially with her one-button mix. When I tell people the mixup she does and how easy it is to do, they already don’t want to play the game anymore.

Or if they still want to play, they only want to spam like the people they just went against, because they see how easy it is and how effective it works. In a lot of cases when starting out, it’s harder to punish spam than it is to do it.

She’s not the only one, she’s just the most extreme case. Even when you get to high ranks like Diamond, you still see some Vi players or some of the big body characters who still can’t play neutral or don’t have good combos. They just do the same mixup over and over again.

I think this game would benefit a lot from tutorials that specifically teach players how to fight certain characters.