5 Things Riot Games REMOVED From League of Legends 

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i really miss being able to honour enemies. but also being honoured by enemies. it really felt like an achievement.

Getting an honnor from your enemy laner after a game was such a huge deal for me back in the day. I remember making friends this way back in 2014 when the game was in it's prime. Good times. 10/10 feature that I miss daily

It's worth noting that the rune page we have today is accessible and editable from the champion select screen. Back on the old system, masteries were editable on the champion select screen, but runes weren't. This means if you didn't have a page preset for a champion, you would probably go with a worst setup (you couldn't, for example, change MR to hp/lvl in a specific setup depending on who you were going against in lane). That was specially bad if you played something like Akali, who required a very specific rune page for her passive to be active at level 1, so you had to have one page dedicated only to her. Today, you can buy multiple rune pages, but if you don't want to spend on that, you can always reuse the same page after locking in your champion and knowing your matchup.

The Hextech drake is cool but the Chemtech drake is actually just impossible to win against, especially if behind. They get tons of dmg, a guardian angel and full vision control of the enemy jungle so you can't enter your own jungle.

I miss honoring the enemy, it was really cool to honor someone that played fair and you had a great match against ._.

Riot: "We don't celebrate Christmas because it's a religious holiday and we don't identify with any religion" Also Riot: "Yes, we celebrate Lunar New Year every year. Why do you ask?"

I understood them removing Dominion and 3v3 _que,_ but they never should have removed them from customs.

Also a small thing, they no longer do winter themed skins.

Removing 3v3 was the worst thing Riot ever did!

I really miss the winter map... It was SO cozy. I remember playing on one Christmas and all of the players were so nice. And enemy team were winning yet they surrendered to give us the win as a Christmas gift... Man I miss that....

Odyssey was the first limited game mode I played when I first joined, I was rlly sad to find out they would never have another event like it because it was so much fun : (

Really hoping they do end up removing the chemtech drake since it actually ruins games but I doubt it since they're making Rengars passive work with the stealth the map change gives you

petition to bring back winter rift 😔

I remember playing game modes like hexakill and doombots, but my favorite about of all of them was ascension, back then I didn't really know much of league lore and now that I know most of the champion's lores, It's sad that I couldn't enjoy that game mode to the fullest

Winter rift was the best, theres just something about it thats so nice

I kept saying that the Sentinel of Light event would've been so much better if instead of having Ultimate Spellbook, which had nothing to do with the event, have a PVE game mode fighting back the ghouls of the mist and eventually fighting Viego at the end. I was a player that started league in season 7, so I got the Star guardian event, project event, hunt of the blood moon, Doom bots, and odyssey event back to back and thought, "dang is this how it's always going to be? No wonder league players love league so much." Now they haven't come back since 2018 and in Riot's latest preseason update/dev diary, they basically said, "yep, we got no plans on bringing any of these modes back. More summoners rift game modes." :^)

Thier BEST change was by far removing the old rune system. As a new player it took a tremendous amount of in game currency to buy the runes. It was basically P2W, cuz you could just buy them all for RP

seeing the runes made me remember those 1% crit chance times... those 1% crit chance were so clean when they hit

the removal of twisted treeline hurt my soul I loved that gamemode and I even got the icon which makes it worse

You forgot the Aatrox. They removed the Aatrox from the game instead of reworking him :

I was watching so many vids on auto-play I didn't even realise this came out literally a few minutes ago. Love the content my man, watched you when I was in college years back. Thanks

PvE Gamemodes: "They were alot of fun" Me: "Doombots flashbacks"

I vaguely remember RIOT stating they wanted to expand their gamemode options, and then immediately followed that up with the removal of Twisted Treeline. And I dearly remember the unfortunate demise of the Fortify spell. Flash was so broken that it had a 90%+ pickrate, but Fortify got the boot.

God I miss Odyssey. It was so much fucking fun, creating millions tornadoes, jinx ult burning half the stage or malphite ult all enemies in a room😂

nicolai you forgot they removed the champion called aatrox before

I really enjoyed playing the game modes: Bloodmooon, Overcharge, and Odyssey, that 3 right there made me happy while playing league.......sometimes, but still those game modes are enjoyable

1% crit rune gang

Supposedly the opponent honor system was used in Asian servers to mark inters and tilters on the enemy team, leading them to being target ganked in their future games because of their “honor” level

There is a suggestion of Necrit that I liked regarding the chemtech map. Instead of giving camouflage, you can only see inside the fog but not the outside when you enter the zone. It works like Graves W. It will really be more fun and interesting instead of what we got.

I only started playing in S11 but I've wanted to honor an opponent so many times. They are such fun players some times. I've had ones give me tips when I first time a champ.

The Rune update was SO needed i expected it like crazy and suits my playstyle

Still waiting for riot to refund the RP that I spent on runes back in 2016

I just hope that in the future, when Riot is done making other games that they planned back in the 10th anniversary announcement that we would see more love back in to this game.

spot on chemtech removal prediction. wonder how he predicted it🤔

The removal of the old Runes was the only thing I was happy that got removed.

I miss the winter map. It was just cool to see everything change and updated with the season. I feel like riot slowly started caring less and less about cool little things that made more of an impact than they think.

Riot needs to add a conquest 40v40 mode

I still don't understand why people didn't like Dominion. It was fast, exciting and you didn't have to pick a role (like being forced to play jg or support). Also it had amazing soundtrack which was changing with match progression.

I've been wondering a week ago why we even have to purchase rune pages?? We should be able to have unlimited runes pages just like item customization for certain champions. It's a plus to have prepared runes pages for any champion you play instead of wasting time in lobby

Well, thats a big statement... I had almost every rune and never used real money for them. The real issue with the runes removal was that old players got like 1/4 of the rune's price back, while new players got the whole thing. That felt kinda ugly

nice predict on the chemtech

they make 2 billion dollars a year and youre telling me they can't texture a few rocks white?

In addition to the runes there were also masteries that got changed into some runes we have now (Thunderlord's Decree was changed to the Electrocute rune we have now)

They talked about removing short term updates like the christmas theme and yet they changed the way turrets looked for arcane for month then removed it.

I absolutely loved the "special game modes", especially the odysee one. It was so much fun to have an all - coop game mode. It even made me buy the odysee kayn skin, which I thought was so cool and fun, even though I told myself to not buy any more skins at that time. Odysee was the last great event in my opinion.

I miss the winter rift music.. I wish it was optional to have certain sound tracks like the snowdown rift from riot in game rather than just “Classic” and “Updated”

Mark my words, Axiom Arc is removed before next year

“Come back in a few years so I can talk about the removal of the chemtech dragon soul.” - More like a few weeks lol

I'm pretty sure runes were only purchasable via IP. I guess you could use RP to buy IP boosts, but you could not directly purchase runes with real money.

Excuse me? Runes were something you could only buy with influence points, the currency you couldn't buy with real money. You could buy IP boosts but you still had to actually play the game to earn the IP. You could NOT buy runes with RP. Runes are NOT pay to win. They're just complicated and let people get a free 12 armor or more at level 1 pretty easily. This sounds bad but it's not complicated to stack armor/magic resist or AP/Mpen or AD/Arpen or HP5 and defense depending on the situation.

Runes were incredibly good and healthy though, it was a bit of a grind to work towards (take that as a good or bad thing, it’s both), but HEAVILY worked against smurfs. It was just too much of a time investment to get a versitile account ready for ranked, which is a massive issue today

Also, I loved the whole gifting skins thing. I remember receiving 2-3 of my favorite skins to date from friends or strangers. Friends due to bets or for skin-timidation, (full five with the same skins = can't lose obviously,) and strangers due to just... being nice I guess? Dunno, but the dragon trainer skins were all gifts and I treasure them much more than any skins I've personally bought or rolled for.

Fun fact about the dislike button removal - the video riot made about season 10/11 and saying they are quiet happy with the state of their games had (last I checked 90% dislikes and 10% likes)

I really liked the video, even if I knew everything but the Subway-Giftcard thing. And those runes and especially rune pages were really expensive if you bought them with blue essence. Keep up the grade work :)

8:12 that editing I love it

I'm glad runes are different now, they are usually so easy to remember and change that I don't bother getting rune pages, just edit in champ select

I started playing a year before the big client update, old runes were definitely the most confusing thing ever and I don’t miss them even a little bit 😂

Bring back Crystal Scar. Twisted tree line. Give us more maps god damn it. Fix your client so it can handle it easier

Login screens and rotating game modes like blood moon and project overcharge are all i care for

Subway as payment is no longer a thing. Likewise, the mentioned $5 footlong, which costs around $9 now :

Im happy the all chat is still in game, because I can keep saying ''EZ'' in all chat every time I kill the enemy noob.

I started playing when the new runes system was just released. To this day ( I have quit near the middle/end of s10) I still think there should be more intresting options in terms of smaller runes. It just feels limited as hell. But it is alot better then a near p2w system I must say.

I wouldn't be surprised about Riot hating Christmas. The last released Christmas skins were Santa Draven, Ambitious Elf Jinx & Poppy, which came out in 2017, 5 years ago. The last winter skins? Neeko, Soraka, Mundo, Twitch & Yi came out in 2018, 4 years ago. But Riot has enough money in their back pocket to release 2 sets of skins (10 skins) for chinese new year. (Shan Hai scrolls-Lunar beast last year and then Porcelain-Firecracker this year).

Not only we don't have anymore a Christmas map but we don't have anymore Christmas skins. And the theory behind the Chinese gov is bcs recently they started to became really vigorous about these things, censorship in a lot of games, even Chinese games like Genshin. So we think that's why riot isn't making anymore Christmas skin and events. But now we have two lunar revel skins set.

I still personally like the older rune system, because even with them- champion matchups were 1:1. If you're against a Nasus and you have no early game, Nasus will win. Period. Some flat stats early won't affect it as much as current runes do today. The older runes with the current Mythic items would be so healthy gameplay wise- as those runes would focus on flat or scaling stats. You could make sure you had what you needed for early, with your mythic purchase completing you- or you could play for late and have your mythic passive and runes scale with you. Now it's just nothing but mini abilities, which feel like bargain bin knives for other champions. Rumble *still* doesn't have a proper damage rune.

well, that damned dragon is now ready to be removed so that video will feature it for sure.

Genuinely do not understand the idea of revamping a new runes system in 2018. 2018 was the year that started the bs broken ass meta we had for 3 years. Inspiration secondary, Precision and Domination combo(waited 2 years to finally nerf taste of blood), lethal tempo being irrelevant because not a fitting runes, so on. But I do agree it was a fresh start with brand new features and gameplay. Unfortunately, the game just get worse and worse with how unhealthy the gameplay is. I don’t expect champions to be equally strong or equally broken, but I also never expect specific champions to be THAT broken like Yone, Aphelios, Viego, basically the new 20 champs that got released after preseason 2018. My question being why didnt Riot make the old runes free to purchase? I thought buying runes and pages for high prices of IP limited our gameplay experiences as newbies. Was it to stop all the smurfs? I fucking loved when we were given choices to utilise the runes according to our own playstyle like bringing 3 armor with 16% atk speed on adc. But to afford the runes with few champions. Man

the runes weren't close to pay to win. they were only available by ip, which was, as you said, essentially blue essence.

I love you man, merry Christmas and New Year. Keep up the good stuff :D

*They still not remove the minion block, i hope they do in a future, it's annoying :I*

I faintly remember when League had a road map where they planned to open more maps. But it only had summoner rift, twisted tree line, Aram, and empty spots for more maps.

I sttill miss the obligatory random 1% crit chance rune. And most of my other meme rune pages. Full CDR, Full Armor Pen, Full Crit Chance/Damage. Just so much stuff to do.

I miss PvE events so much :'(

im play league of legend when yone release i dint know league have winter mode

I played from season one to the release of Tali, and I miss the old school rune pages. xD It felt like an honor to have bought every rune and rune page with my blue essence xD

I'm one of those players that wishes they brought back honoring your opponent. Sometimes your own team is trolling or being a jerk to you, and it's not toxic or pay back to honor your opponent instead, it's just being honor. Sure players can abuse that, but that is a given for anything in Riot. Also I never played on the Christmas map - I want Riot to celebrate Christmas again (they can make a story mode for it just like they did with Star Guardians instead of scrapping it completely). Or maybe just add some Christmas elements, like santa hats and decorated Christmas trees in the jg, but otherwise leave the map looking like normal with some Christmas music playing.

The problem with Riot is that they're transparent, let alone boast about how transparent they are. Eye other games like Fortnite and Overwatch- 9/10 if some question keeps coming up or is brought to their attention, it's addressed. Meanwhile it literally takes half of each region to convince Riot that Yorick needs a hat, just for them to acknowledge it and give a half ass response as opposed to looking at what *can* be done about it.

Thank god there is some thing like KillerSkins and custom mods, where you can still change your map into the Winter's Rift. My whole League of Legends experience in the last 2 years is based on these custom mods only because Riot don't know sh*t about how to design their own game properly. I am playing with the old Winter map, old items from season 10, old masteries and with season 5 HUD and life is great. The game seems fun. I like to play League actually now.

Keeping All chat definitely helps with reporting, players can ask during AND after games for a legit report, I always ask or tell why to up their likelihood of getting more votes if they are truly problematic

Old runes system was flawed with Blue Essense. But it was also much more diverse and allowed to do stuff like +ad +ap +armour at the same time making last hitting easier and so on. Same goes for old masteries, sure lvl req was dumb, but again it was more unique. F Dominion and Twisted Treeline though. Also F for a lot of reworks(imo the only ones that actually stayed the same are Swain and Mundo, other champions were basically deleted and might share similar concept)

10:16 HMMMMM, delicious aged like fine wine 🍷

Consume and never boycott, enjoy the souless game

1. Fun 2. Balance 3. Report System 4. Originality 5. Happiness

I don't understand why riot is thinking that removing all chat would stop toxicity. Wouldn't it be better to just reward players more for not being toxic. I mean the honor lvl 5 rewards are so bad nobody trys purposely to get them, because they are so shitty. Maybe they should add the possibility to get a free skin u really want every season!?

Billion dollar company can't bring back the winter rift. What a fucking joke.

Where is 3v3 and dominion remooval

I really miss the honor enemy system and the old runes. Good times.

Old runes were the best. Being allowed to customize always have the player more options. And they became 1 point in cost each at the end so- anyways they took runes and masteries and deleted runes and then just called the new masteries.. runes….

Runes changing and dragons are one of the best things riot has actually done

The only most important thing riot has removed is their brains out of their balance and design teams. It's hard to believe that this huge ass company is there, yet they design their game like a toddler playing pretend and remove anything just because of mood swings. None of these changes mentioned here even benefited the game to begin with, if anything it made it worse.

Man i still miss 3v3 and dominion , my most remembered moment was a 3v5 dominion , we stalled and got stomped on , until we came back , we only had legit 3 points left and managed to drag them from 250 to 0. We also got honorable enemy in that game. Also remove Chemtech dragon , what a pain in the ass that is.

Funny how you say that they stopped using the winter map because they don't profit from it like winter skins, when Riot doesn't even make new winter skins anymore

game sucks, play something else

Having the Red tie on the loading screen was so freaking amazing honestly, miss that SO MUCH

Honestly I gotta agree with them removing the winter map. Not just the Christmas skins, considering how many blue/white color based skins there are and how they're pay-to-win in aram, I wouldn't want to experience the same thing in summoner's rift

imo the old rune system was better. But this is coming from someone who played the game a lot and bought all of the collector's bundles for champions, (3 were available depending on when you checked, and 2 all the time. 2 are still available but they have been cut down from 20+ champs to about 5). The biggest thing for me is IP. IP was a resource you could generate any game. Wins gave more, and first win of the day gave a crap load (like 400 IP). Where this really benefits you is that you could play the same champion over and over and still buy more runes or champions. With blue essence, you gain essence a lot slower, and to really optimize your setup you should basically have a medium-sized champion pool. With a small champion pool you won't earn enough chests per season, and with a large champion pool you won't earn enough keys per season, so only with a medium champion pool can you really optimize this system. That type of control isn't something that used to be in the game and it certainly wasn't required for you to continue progressing your account. Just another meta that Riot has implemented for players.

Merry Christmas Nicolai!

people brought up runes a lot to defend pokemon unite but people have to realize how cheap League's runes were you earned so much more "blue essence" back then. By the time you could play ranked you would have all the runes you would ever need, and quite a few champions unlocked

i fucking hate how they dont care about winter map and pve maps i lpve all of them