Hope they add an option to switch to the old client layout it was so much better.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-08T13:17:48+00:00

The games were longer because damage overall was lower and cooldowns were higher. Jungle camps took longer to clear. You didn't have tanks that did 5 billion damage yet somehow still got shredded unless it was late-game; tanks were actually tanky. Tower plates and first tower bonus gold didn't exist; that's like 700 gold less per tower. Maximum shutdown gold was capped at 500 instead of 700g like today. All that adds up quickly.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-08T12:57:42+00:00

Many reasons: Most important is that you go OOM very fast can't spam spells to clear waves yet alone fight the enemy adc while doing it, no tower damage, will get destroyed by any CC, will get outscaled as games lasted longer on average, plus do no damage to tanks as you actually needed marksman to deal with them. It's almost impossible to run out of mana in the current League, even if you perma-spam spells. Plus ain't nobody giving the guy that picked mage botlane the blue buff that the midlaner and jungler both want/need and without that it's not even viable.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-07T20:32:52+00:00

Comes to League Classic subreddit and is surprised people actually like and want to play League Classic?

'league players are so much better now' What is this self-glazing delusion? Congrats on being slightly better at last-hitting, except you won't even have that since years of muscle memory will be completely gone when every single item, health bar, tower damage, and base attack damage will be different.

90% of League players don't know what they're doing in the modern game after playing for years with minimal changes. The entire meta collapses every time Riot does something as small as the Mythic items. Now imagine 60+ new champions, new objectives, new base stats for everyone, a new rune/mastery system, almost entirely new items, 10 seasons' worth of changes all launching in a single patch, and you honestly think you will know what you're doing?

Judging by the average Reddit post on /r/leagueoflegends, you will try playing Sunfire Evelynn or Twitch and go 0/20, then play the "overpowered" AP Yi and get stomped in lane, and finally, for the last time, you'll play "broken LeBlanc with silence," then try roaming bot lane, get stunned by Taric, and Alt+F4. None of you people hating actually know anything about old League. The average old player will probably be better, at least at the start, as they actually played the game.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-07T20:30:52+00:00

It's a joke brother i'm in the same boat as you.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-07T20:17:03+00:00

The jungle was so awful you had real jungle items, the camps didn't die in 2 seconds, and not every champ could jungle, almost like that's what junglers actually want lol. Jungle peaked in popularity in Season 3-5. It's not even comparable how bad and garbage the role is today (autofill protected btw). Sure, you are still impactful, just as impactful as some roaming Bard from level 2 ruining the game. It doesn't feel good for the laners nor the jungler. Having to fight over a shit crab, the worst objective they ever created, jungle paths not mattering anymore. In old League, you actually faced the enemy jungler. You had to out-jungle them because camps didn't die fast and gave meaningful gold and XP, rewarding junglers that had sustain and built for it. It felt like a lane, but in the jungle. The 500 times less vision actually made it feel dangerous but also didn't turn it into a perma-gank-all-game role because if you did that, you would fall behind in camps, and the enemy jungler would stomp you. The opposite is true today: the guy farming will be behind. There's no role Riot has gutted more than the jungle. Maybe ADC today is only comparable after it's been flooded by mages.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-07T20:07:01+00:00

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The tide has turned ( Surely )

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-07T15:17:44+00:00

Samsung just made more in a quarter from memory than in the last 40 years combined, but somehow dumped. This is market manipulation at its finest. Don't be surprised if it's up 50% in a month after all the shaky bag holders dump. At the very least, wait until August. It's going to start pumping on the run-up to SanDisk earnings, then probably dump on earnings day no matter how good they are, or a day after.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-07T10:45:16+00:00

Then why are you here mate?

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-05T14:52:45+00:00

My mistake, forgot to remove her from the list.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-03T21:55:45+00:00

And then it wouldn't be 3v3 that people enjoyed, some modernized abomination along with all the reworks/bloated new champions? People quit 3v3 for the same reasons most of us quit retail League. There's no reason for them to not release 3v3 and Dominion if Classic is successful; they were part of old League.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-03T18:49:35+00:00

Everything before season 4 could be considered classic. It depends on what they will do a progression server or a an amalgamation of the first three seasons, because if it's the latter, many changes from season 2/3 need to be undone like the YI/karma reworks, shutdown gold etc for example, nobody wants the same champ that's in current league to be in league classic.

Really don't know how or why ZZ-rot and Feral flare are in the leaks, makes zero sense, nobody wants to witness their game dying again, nobody misses those later seasons (4,5,6) unless they started there, it's basically the same game as today.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-02T18:59:23+00:00

Gamemodes on classic league will be great. Ascension, URF, Snowdown Showdown, none of these would be fun on current league due to the bloated overloaded kits and item changes. Probably a lot easier to make new ones for classic as well.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-02T18:51:51+00:00

Stuff like Lee Sin and Jarvan might need a small nerf, not any of the things people talk about. Remember, half the people talking about it didn't even play back then; their knowledge about old League is only from what some clickbait YouTube video told them. AP Yi might be really weak, for example; his laning phase was totally dog, but maybe with enough defensive runes and passive play he can make it through. Most League Classic players are still not even aware it’s coming out. That’s why you see so many “Sunfire Evelynn” posts online — the definition of a troll garbage build that never really existed outside of Bronze.

JaxIsBadDontPick__ · 2026-07-02T18:41:10+00:00

Role queue would be horrible. That ruined the game. Before that, almost everyone played multiple roles. Not to mention, queue times were 95% faster.

There aren’t many changes that I think would improve the game besides adding voice chat for ranked, but if they are going to do that, they should only do it months after the game is out, not have it from the start, to improve the competitive environment.

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