league is like toxic ex lol

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I've been there too. played most of the day, lied to my coworkers and friends when I was late and didnt come at all, cause I was playing League, didnt notice the hours going by until I heard the birds outside and thought "damn, well it doesn't matter now, does it? might as well play a few more" ... and the most important part: at least 70% of the time I hated every second of it. I didnt enjoy myself at all, when I won I felt relieve, but also anxiety towards the next game, since I might lose again, I was stuck between trying really hard and not trying at all, either way hating the game, the other players and mostly myself - and yet I couldnt stop. so I quit for real that time, like 13 months ago. today I am here cause I watched some old magickarpusedfly videos and got that brainworm active again, thought it might be fun and I could take it more casually, but thank god I remembered what I learned more than a year ago and I just didnt do it. videos like these actually helped me too. in the meantime I began skateboarding and if I compare the two: skateboarding is almost as addictive, I think about it every day, I watch videos about it, I spent money on it and sometimes my physical health does take a blow, so there are many aspects about it, that could relate to playing league. but the big differences are: it is always fun, it brings people together in a positive way, it also is a fantastic workout by the way, my progress is entirely dependent on me and noone else, others might help me, but noone can disrupt me, it's fun even when I'm not making tangeable progress and most importantly: it is always so much fun! unlike league, which was a constant source of misery in my life no matter what else was going on, skateboarding is a constant source of joy and self esteem, independant of what else is going on in my life. I do recommend it.

Well researched and narrated. Thank you

Yes I learnt a lot. Thank you!

Listening to this video while in que.

I remember having restless nights and waking up early BEFORE school just so I could grind out one more Olaf game. I remember passing out in Krugs bush top before Krugs were even a thing. I was playing Veigar, passed out in the bush, woke up for a split second, one shot someone walking into the bush, and went back to sleep. I don't remember the end of that game, but I do remember the ridiculousness feeling. I've since removed myself from the Rift after reasoning to myself "I don't have the hardware or personal skill to grind this game, and teammates are too rng." What I really loved from league was playing ADCs, they're currently homeless after getting kicked out of botlane by mage/fighter/assassin duos. I liked the micro and being able to click on so many places with such precision. I've since moved back to my childhood game of Bloons Tower Defense Battles. At least when I lose in Battles, I feel like it was all my fault, and that's really helped my mental.

I struggled with quitting this game for years, the first step that got me off of it was having my account DELETED. After a year I unfortunately created a new account and got it to where I could play ranked again, however after playing it for a month the level of toxicity made me question if it was really worth it go through trying to deal with ragers, feeders etc in my team and the answer was no and uninstalled. If I ever get the urge to play I'll watch a video from Cardrel on RU-vid to see what's up with proplay and then move along with my day. I try not to look back at all the hours I wasted playing that I could have been building something since I can't change the past, but better quit late than never, right?

I thought you will say this but there is another reason that league is so addictive besides the dopamine rush and the desire to climb up the ranks, league with its customization and the way you control a character you choose with other people that choose their characters out of 160+ characters and also the way every single game is different with a different experience each game makes this like a second life that each person is living through playing the game it's not like a fighting game which is 4 mins of fighting another player and you leave it's 35 minutes with 10 other people that you all interact together with your own persona in the game to work together to see who is going to win, making this game a life of its own and this is the reason it's almost impossible to quit league completely, it becomes a part of you as it becomes your life.

I stopped playing when i realized i was never gonna get better.

I enjoyed LoL but it never hooked me. Once my friends stopped playing I stopped as well. Ranked is just so toxic.

I just play when I’m done with all of my work schoolwork and exercise goals. Basically once I’m done with everything that I was supposed to do throughout the day then I played league.

What a great and informative video. I was addicted to league for a long time until i decided to uninstall. It worked ! I did install it again and I get tired and exhausted after one game and even have to force my self to play more rounds so I can climb one Elo higher. I play every day a couple of games and after 3,4 days I don’t want to anymore and play again in a month. Idk how I developed myself to this stage but it’s strange

No seriously , people joke about it but league is absolutely HORRIBLE for your life . I just need you to realize that your rank , performance etc does NOTHING for you in life but impress the other losers who play with you. Not losers because of who they are or what they do. But losers because of how every functional person in society will see them and you once you leave your room.

Ended up cutting my addiction when they switched to the cheat detection , can't play it on Linux anymore

The comments!!! guys its just a game!! just have fun who cares! I just cant believe this no way :P

even if you just play games whole day, its better to invest time in completing single player experiences or even hack & slashes like diablo.

League players don't shower!

Crazy asf tbh cause weeks and months go by and I’m still bouncing back from E4-E3 and it feels so pointless and my whole’s day is gone lmao just to do it again the next day

i play the game now and i don't think im addicted anymore cuz im focusing on basketball fr, but i wish i didnt spend so much of my time playing it when i was younger. i play it since i was 9, now im turning 17 and i wish i had actually spent most of that time hooping. with the amount of hours i have in league, if i spent just like 50% of that trying to get better i might have actually went d1. im getting better now and trying to improve every day but that lost time will never come back man, ill probably just turn 18 and have to abandon the sport. i dont regret playing league at all, im having fun with it nowadays, i made a lot of friends and got lots of life experience talking to people i met cause of it, but nowadays i cant really play more than 2-3 games without getting really fucking tired of the game, winning or losin, so i wish i spent that time working on something that would actually translate to my life

The hardest part to painfully realize is that it will never be just 1 match. There is no stopping point.

Literally just stop playing the game if youre too bad to handle it lol

It makes me sad and happy that I’m not alone with this feeling and realization for this game. I love the lore, the characters, the music, the company, and everything about this game. I truly was addicted. And I’m thankful that my last real run with the game ended after I graduated and no longer had a team to play with competitively. Pro league and solo que are two different games and once I lost one the other never felt good. Solo que is no longer fun. I play aram and a normal from time to time but I’m grateful I’m not playing as much as I was. This game and everything it has given me will forever be a part of me and never forget the good times I had just myself and my friends.

ngl i’m so lucky i dislike almost every champion there is bro, I can’t get addicted cus the only champ i like is kayn top, so fortunately it never works out

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That's y I use akali now.. wins all day

The issue is the community really forcing you to become better at the game as if your life would depend on it. They will say that you suck despite being like Top 1%. It's really a competition

At some point, I was actually gunning for the top lol, I reached the rank 1 rank, or maybe a high rank for my main in my country during the start of season 7 (jhst before Quarantine) and by that point, I literally took a break from the game tbanks to the pandemic preventing me from goijg to net cafes. However, I always come back to it, because of competitiveness mostly.

When i was in high school i heard about lol for the first time this was back in 2012, for the next three years i was going 2-3 days per week at school rest of the time i just stayed home playing lol, non stop, i wake up at 6-7 am and play until 2-3 pm, i was obsessed, i can only thank riot games for all the reworks they've done along the years, this was one of the main reasons i quit the game along with the community getting more and more competitive, forgetting we were supposed to have fun while playing. When it became too competitive, i quit ranked all together and only played casual games, but it wasn't any different, then the Irelia rework came and i just uninstalled and never looked back, best decision ever

I had to quit because my PC got wet with rain from a roof leak and stopped working, in those 2 years without a PC and League; I got a husband, beautiful pets and now I play TFT with my husband and I actually enjoy life unlike before when I played League.

This made me cry like a little kid. So true that It hurts. It's never late to recover your Life, keep fighting for your life

I don't play this game at all, but when I do, I cannot play more than like 3 games in a row. I just feel my concentration vanishing and my performance dropping and then it's just autopilot tilt bs. I have a different addiction though, and I can relate to the reddit post, addiction is something you know is not good for you, but you do it anyway.

I play for fun only, i dont give a shiet about rankings. Being diamond or silver doesnt change nothing in my life. I like mastering difficult champions, like yasuo or irelia. It feels really rewarding. I play 1 or 2 games in a day, not everyday tho

"Blah blah blah i hate this game but im addicted" No you are not you are just angry at your lose streak

i was defenetly addicted but just quitting after a single loss just really helps not getting sucked into it so much

The thing is, I genuinely enjoy the game. Player toxicity doesn't affect me because I'm perma mute all However, the thing that got me was the climb (or lack thereof). Even telling myself I only want to net +1 win for the day, if game 1 is a loss, I now need to win 2 to get +1. And if after 13 games I'm still negative, then the next day would have to make up for it The end of ranked season was my annual reality check to chill the f out. But until the due date I was always grinding

i have 2 friends who are addicted to the game, they play it all day long. i ask them please can we play something else? some apex legends, some cs:go, some valorant. NOPE, THEY STILL GO SOLO PLAYING LOL! I'm a gold player and i barely got any time to play during the year, especially after the vanguard introduction that is another system restore pain. i focus on college most of time and i arrive home tired. my friends skip courses and some other classes and play lol instead. after 10-14h of college i arrive home and if i still got energy i play a match or two, followed by sleep. i went to a summer school recently, all this time friends played lol. the saddest and most frustrating thing is that friends don't play anything with me ever! they refuse to play flex and say that rank doesn't matter, we're not eligible to play with each other in solo/duo(gold, emerald and master player). i wanted to play some dark and darker, some old Narnia game, some starcraft, age of empires 2, some minecraft, terraria, or even roblox. asked one of my friends to buy dead island 2 to play, said i'll pay for it just to have someone to play with, but no luck. HE STILL GOES AND PLAYS LEAGUE OF LEGENDS! all the time i can spend with him is by watching him stream his game on discord. he even refuses to go outside. both friends say it's a waste of time to have fun or to go outside. why? just why? they used to play with me while i was in school, but now they refuse to play with me unless i reach diamond league to play lol with them. i'm not a skilled player by any means, on the contrary even, every player in a match begs me to uninstall and play something else, as i'm so bad at the game that i can't even farm(miss 4/6 minions/wave and every single cannon). dodging skillshots seem to be impossible, i can't get used to looking at minimap, i have no gamesense and i always lose my lane no matter what i play. i'm in summer vacation now and i got time to play(i usually play lol and valorant(can't play due to anticheat) during this time), but how can i get even keep up with my friends when i barely played 3 matches of lol a week when my friends played about 15 matches a day every day? so what should I do? getting new friends seems to be very hard, as people got lives, relationships, they go in holidays, they go work etc. I'm not interested in any of these, i don't find parties, drinks and smoke and drugs fun, they seem like a health risk i'm not willing to take. parents tell me to relax and have fun, but how do I do that?

As someone who's been on the fence with quitting this game for a long time I think it's finally time. Between Vanguard and all of the other issues I've been having recently I've come to the conclusion that I'm just better off without it. This game brings the worst out of me, and I have fun maybe 1 in 4 games. No matter how well I think I can play some variable can always come in to strike me down, make me unable to even go to a lane and farm safely, let alone win the game. It's just not worth it anymore.

And i thought i played too much with at most 1-2 games a day.

This was me…. 9:30 so many lost hours and days playing work of Warcraft. Thank God I don’t play any computer games any more

this League retrospective, as many do, reminds me of my experience of playing DotA2 on release. I think this will be comparable to LoL's early days, too, although I didn't play the game during it's "golden age" of seasons 1-7. when DotA2 (beta) released, there was no ranked ladder. you'd just queue up in a lobby and play the game. you didn't play for rank, you played the game of MOBA for what it's supposed to be - destroy the enemy base. and, as i'm sure is the case for old league, the game was much less team-reliant, as in 1v5, or even 1v9s were much easier to accomplish, due to the game's core gameplay mechanics not yet having been balanced around teamplay. instead of ranked ladders, your winrate would be the sole thing to matter. if u had i recon 65%+ winrate on your account, you were a good player. so people just played to win, not to get some rank. this also means they weren't aftaid to lose, each game would last till completion. of course some ppl abandoned or went afk, but still. people tried their best until the very end. now i play both, and in both i notice the rising sentiment of ff15, we lost on draft, "dog team" in allchat, etc. the sad state of MOBAs

The thing is for me i used league more as an excape of bad personal life. I moved regarding a job offer to a different country but because i played from season 4 to season 9 at some days i was thinking about it. In season 13 i picked the game up again. I play now regularly but i dont play most of the time if my girlfriend is there. Been honest a lot of time the game isnt fun but in though times it helps to relieve the negativity. I think for other people the game destroyed way more of there life. At some points i played 20 games a day because of wanting to get better. And i lvl one new account while watching a series with 3v3 games. In the end i had a Sprained hand leveling an account in 7 days to lvl30. I tried some jobs back then but never a fit. Also the friends that you know for over 10 years are bringing you also back to the game. Some in master, some in grandmaster. Playing flex in diamond is fun. If you play solo that i did most time, is like a Constant battlefield. Im happy to made a 3 year break but sometimes life is getting taff and we need to distract ourselves

All I know is I can win 1 game of counter strike, and the equivalent of that feeling in league of legends is a 10 game win streak. Valorant that same way imo as well. Getting 2 frags holding site as ct, is the same feeling as getting 3 aces in a row while playing Valorant. That's just me, and the majority of the people I know that play counter strike though. It just rarely feels like I earn the win in League of Legends. It always just feels like enemy team suckks or dosen't know how to play that gets me a win and it's boring after awhile, but it's very addicting game design of getting rewarded on every last hit all game long. I feel the majority of people I'm in game with are just watching youtube and last hitting not caring about what's going on not paying attention and there is no voice comms so it's kinda just a shitty hostage feeling scenario most of the time as well.

I have to take almost year long breaks of league when dealing with toxicity of other people becomes so taxin mentally y starts affecting my daily life.

I thought this video had at least 200k views, underrated video, hope you blow up soon

Yeah it took me a while to realize this. At the beginning of the year I uninstalled because I finally realized that I was wasting 6+ hours a day on average on a game I wasnt even enjoying. A game I complain about constantly. A game I despise the monetization of. Seeing my 2023 stats say I was in the top 2% of playtime globally that year was a wake up call. It also helped that I wasnt going to install kernal level anti cheat that is now required. I enjoy the lore and memes, but cant play anymore.

i dont think league would be that addictive if just people find some other works to do.but most of them are just a bunch of failures who are scared to change their lives and just play league normally.cause its the only thing that they are good in it.kinda. i was one of them too but i found my way and now i just play 1 or 2 games a day at the nights that im chilling and just wanna do sth untill bed time

League players aren't inherently toxic the lack of VC makes people want to grab others through the screen and choke them cause you/teammates can't communicate properly. In CS:GO even if your teammate was shit you would flame them, they would flame you back, maybe everyone would throw a slur here or their or someone would scream into their microphone, or everyone buys some weird gun and rush their spawn to go behind them and probably losing the play, but it would still be an enjoyable experience, in league you chat one "bad thing" with no bad words and every single person in the lobby reports you and you get muted for 2 weeks making you hate the game even more. Also what in the #14 burgerking foot lettuce is this video, it's boring and not engaging, at least crop some people smoking league from a crack pipe, the pacing is too slow the script sounds like you wrote most of it and then told chat-GPT to add to it. I can see you put in a lot of effort and I'm not discrediting you cause you did some good work, just hoping to give some constructive criticism. PS This video doubled my league addiction didn't give it to the next person.

I can totally feel that testimony, as someone that has never been thaaaat addicted to it, there are some weekends in which one just does what that dude did

I quit this game for 3 years and came back lol