Destroying the Nexus Destroys Your Life | League of Legends Addiction 

People who created league never thought about what kind of damage a 3 losing lanes game could do to someone

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

League is only life ruiningly addictive if you dont have much going on. It definitely is addictive though. Its a damn good game and thats why. Its managed to carve out a adrenaline filled balance of shitting on or getting shit on gameplay thats a mix of coinflip and personal skill. Its absolutely the best game ever made hands down and it will stay alive because its not just a game. Its an experience that you will never forget. You will go from loving this game, to absolutely fucking hating it. Thats what makes it so fun. Plus its really well polished for a f2p. So well polished that bugs arent a thing in that game. Riot really nailed it with this abomination and I love it.

I stopped this game it ruined my mental health i feel more in peace and more productive

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

Underrated video, I'm surprised this doesn't have more views nor likes.

Never played the game, but your video made it so easy for people like me to understand.

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

Games like LoL and WoW are just as detrimental to your life and health as meth or cocaine. This problem is a ticking time bomb of modern society. There are a lot more people gaming than doing meth (although both is not uncommon with things like Adderall).

Lol is scaryly addictive... From the testimony you share, i have roughly the same experience as yours.... I no longer playing IT... Goodbye Lol....

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.

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 was pretty hooked on this game and one day randomly I just never logged in again. Pretty tight.

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

Im horribly addictied to this game because i used it to get through the hardest times of my life. I try to quit but it just gives me that dopamine i need to get through the day. It ruined my ability to enjoy slower games and puzzle game like i used to. My attention span is shot. Ive been playing for 11 years i wish i didnt play

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 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.

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.

ive uninstalled it before the kernel level anti cheat patch. never looked back

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.

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

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 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?

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

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

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 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 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

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.

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.

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

As an active user I'll play one game in the morning and sometimes 1 at night i don't play ranked that often im iron and don't really care to much. I think im more addicted to the cosmetics i always get at least one skin in every patch.

I quit this game for 3 years and came back lol

I was clinically addicted to league from 7th grade to the age of 21, in the last year I found day trading and it gave me more dopamine that league ever has and that took my hyper fixation away from league. Worked out perfectly, the psychology from league helped immensely with trading (losing a stacked wave after a obvious dive--- being in negative with a proper setup for example) though the time I was peak addicted to league (19-21) I had some of the most poor mental health of my entire life, still play but less than 7 games a week now

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.

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

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

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

Addicted, I aint addicted to league but I like playing it, max 4 rounds a day becouse I have a life. Allways not toxic, plays bad champs for fun, some people even said Im a lot older than I told them becouse they could not understand that playing too much league makes you sink into toxicity, sadness no enjoyment and lastly addiction.

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.

Listening to this video while in que.

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

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

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

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

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

Omg. This story... Exactly like mine. I will quit this game ! I played this game week straight, my eyes hurt, i wanted to rank up, fk this shit

Idk I just started league but I don't find it addictive. I can easily get off at any time. I think it more so goes into if you have a life outside of league to look forward too vs if you use league to look forward to something in life.

A real LoL addict wouldn't wrote such a delicate and touching piece of an story, is way too romanticized to be truth, real addicts talk about the grind and how bland and unfair meta gets for their role, or how busted the game balance is towards shorter games, real addicts Know that they sold their souls long ago when they acepted that Being an OTP was the right way to climb the ranked Ladder and that anything that is out of the normal macro is troll and must be reported, they don't even flinch when they accept their addiction, they just see it like the status quo

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

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

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

max ive played is 5 games in one day. If i lose i just get off

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

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

«… so you don’t feel pleased playing this game, you are only happy seeing text “VICTORY” or “you have slain an enemy“. No fun, only conditional reflex» Confusion ended up a flush of laugh and hilarity. I’ve paused video where guy trolled a group of teen lol players. I went to the balcony, lit a cigarette. Thought a lot, even cried. I didn’t played lol since that time. And I will not. This game just doesn’t exist for me anymore.

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

I would say league isn't too addictive if you have discipline and self control. You can enjoy league without being addicted and ruining your life. Simple. (If you are addicted and you feel miserable playing league then what the fuck are you doing? At that point you should just quit playing and find something better to do.)

For me, it wasn't that hard to quit League, because I prepared myself for this scenario. When I started playing League it was out of a joke. My friends were playing like, and I was like "It can't be that hard", but that joke and the mind to prove something threw me into the abyss. Now I see almost all the red flags that were handed to me in my early stages. Veteran players not wanting to really explain what I was supposed to do, but also complain why I'm throwing so much. Then people tried to explain the different lanes to me, but it became a bad joke: everyone explained things differently and scolded me for things others told me to do. That stage ended with me getting too annoyed to ask for help and I just started creating my own play style, especially with me coming from another competitive game, CSGO. I knew, I wasn't able to solo-carry anything until the end. I always knew, I needed a team to really be able to perform, but that seemed like the biggest insult to other players. Random players will give a fuck about you most of the time, but if your pre-mates decide to not care and abuse you as a child or to lower the mmr... That was disgusting. Being treated like a sacrificial lamb was way too disrespectful. The drill to get better became higher every time, just to prove that I wasn't useless in the game, and it took way too much time to reach that point. So I arrived at a weird crossroads: When I kept playing with the veteran players, I just got hella beaten, but when I played with friends in my elo, I just decimated the enemies, because I was used to harder matches. It wasn't fun and it wasn't entertaining. I don't like that kind of games, where the odds are predestined and not even at 50:50. Yet I kept playing just to try to climb the ladder. Just from Iron to Gold. That was my goal and became misery. Every win was followed by three loses, and even asking the community for help became pretty useless. There are too many people in it, who think of League like the holy grail. I don't want to go too deep into that part, because it still kinda triggers me, yet I want to share that part: I was told, that every lose was my own fault. Even if I played a perfect game and lost because of two trolling teammates. It was supposed to be my fault. They started blaming me for mistakes of other people, and that was crazy. This experience became one of the final nails in the coffin for my time playing League. The second followed shortly after, when I got insulted as one of the worst persons, who ever lived on Earth, just because I asked a question. In the last stages of my time with League I saw so many red flags and also felt the consequences. I realized how the game messed with my mental-health and brought the worst things in others and me to the light. Even my body started to tell me to stop playing, and these two aspects were the last nails in the coffin. I quitted League so that my health would not suffer unnecessarily. Of course, I tried to find a reason to return in the first days after my last game. This made me realize: It's an addiction. I never really had that much fun with the game and logic said I have no valid reason to return, and I haven't since and don't intend to. The first two weeks showed me how much time I had wasted with League and I dedicated my time to return to my backlog of games. Since I quitted, I feel more balanced, in general I feel way better, and I'm slowly recovering to a place, where I feel I belonged all the time. I had to travel through the abyss to see what I need in a game and in life. With some mental help, I could return to other hobbies of my past. Every time I'm in a call with my friends, who are still playing, I also realize two things: they are getting closer to the abyss and are standing on razor's edge. The second thing I noticed was that I did a pretty good job on my lane, because almost every game they are complaining about the randoms, who now play my role. This makes me laugh every time. I may have not reached my goal in Ranked, but I reached a not planned goal with me being an important team player and a pretty good laner. I left a mark and that's enough for me. Not only that, but I also learned to care more about myself and my mental health, and that was the most important lesson. I don't know who and how many people will have read this story, but I just wanted to share it to release some weight. Thank you to everyone who read until the end. Have a nice day and do what you think is the right way for you

League is a great game and you can have a healthy relationship with it. Addiction to it is your own problem and not the games. Get stronger mentally

League players don't shower!

Ah, so im addicted

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.

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.

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

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No eres Vander de la ESAT verdad? Jajaja

I'm sorry but this is kind of idiotic in my opinion. League of Legends is ONLY addictive if you have an addictive personality. IF you have an addictive personality, and you recognize your relationship with the game is unhealthy, it is then a matter of willpower and self control to maintain a healthy balance, as is EVERY SINGLE LEASURE in life. You CANNOT simply blame what it is you're addicted to, you are 100% responsible for your behaviors, because if that is your logic then why enjoy anything that provides you with intrigue if you simply cannot control yourself?

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