OLD League of Legends vs Season 2023: It Was Crazy 

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You should bring up the old "hidden" passives, like how "this unit is a flippin ninja" used to reduce your HP by 1 for every other ninja character on your team.

You should do a video on how Evelynn was first looked at as a troll pick, and basically became the greatest counter jungler/ganker overnight simply because people figured her out. The story is fascinating.

I remember the days where when an event or a new champion came out the launcher would have their animated spashart loop alongside their own individual theme songs. I miss these days

I love how you talk about old jungle being way harder. There is an old joke with my friends where, when someone gives an obvious tip in a game, we remind them to use a health pot before drain, because one of us died level one as Fiddlesticks vs blue buff without the health pot.

Trip to memory lane. I play for 11 years now. It's good that someone does videos like that, gives you perspective and brings back memories. Fantastic, keep it up.

I seriously miss Twisted Treeline not for 3V3 but for Hexakil. When they brought Hexakill to Twisted Treeline that was some of the most fun I've had in League. Along with Ascension. Crazy how I think the best variant of those maps were just event game types but man I miss that.

you forgot to mention how smiting wolves would spawn an orb in that jungle blue side and it would follow any enemy entering that blue side of the jungle. the same was with Chikens if you smite them they give you a passive that will show you nearby enemy wards. jungle items had colors to them, blue red some other 2 colors and they have unique effects too. the bushes length changed too.

Biggest thing i truely miss was the old mastery tree and rune pages. SO MUCH combinations of what you could do. Always had that 1% crit chance.

I play since season 1. The thing I remember the most was how many people refused to jungle not because it was a bad role, but because of how hard it was to set up runes, and so few champions could pull off reliable jungle clears. Also support Ward spam. It was absolutely possible to cover up the whole map in Wards.

I started playing in 2013, devoted almost 10 years of my life to this game. God I miss the old league. Dominion, doom bots, sword of the occult, dfg, the old aatrox and Fiora. These will all be forever missed!

I remember when sunfire cape stacked. Rammus with speed boots and 5 sunfires was the second most fun I've ever had playing league. The most fun was Evelyin with 5 sunfire capes, because that was back when she had her old passive. You could just stand near people in lane and they would melt and couldn't do anything about it.

The age of feral flare 4.20 was the most iconic thing to me, if anything. Not just Weedwick, but suddenly so many Champs could join the jungle role.

Old league was great. I genuinely miss Season 1 2 3 4 the most. It was when I was heavily invested in the competitive pro scene, and the community felt like a community, especially high elo. So much all chat banter and friendliness that I feel nostalgic for when I watch old VODs.

You forgot to talk about the unbeatable "Siege Canon" meta when Banner of command was a thing... good ol days

Item-wise, you forgot some really fun metas, like stacking Sunfire Cape on Shaco, since both you and your clone did damage from the cape(s). Or building Lich Bane on Veigar/Ryze, since your auto after casting a spell did 100% AP damage with no cooldown. So unbalanced, so chaotic, so fun.

The laser turrets were a nightmare to dive if you were a new player, and a breeze if you were a pro, so fun

I really do miss how simple champions used to be. Back when my buddy and I started playing in season 2 and 3, it felt like we could pick up any champion and at least have some fun with it. I get all their reasons for adding complexity, but I do miss the simplicity of it.

I think the most obvious things left out were the multiple game modes that were added and removed. ARAM was a custom mode that was later adapted to an official one. Twisted Treeline had multiple reworks and it’s own ranked ladder. Dominion was added early in leagues lifespan and removed shortly after, but it was “fast and fun”. The other maps could probably be their own video tbh.

So i played in 2014-2015 and then stopped for a while after returning around 2018/2019 and it was insane how different the rift felt after (i mean obviously). But this is so nostalgic thank you for the videos

I haven't ever considered old league ugly, infact I thought it looked better in season 3 than it has since s5. I love and miss the personality of old league, and knowing I'll never get it back makes my heart hurt

As a support main, I find the support progression interesting. From no support items, no significant passive gold income and spending half your budget buying green and pink wards, to now sometimes hitting mythic spikes before opponents. Crazy.

I played since S3 but i also know that S2 was refered as the 'Warmog Season" and as ADC main I will love old Phantom Dancer + Stattik Shiv combo. One of the BIGGEST changes and huge NERFS for Nidalee was how the damage of the spear was calculated, before it was by difference between you and the hitted target and idr when it stopped being like this, the huge damage we see today or some earlier seasons was like 1/3 of how it was before. DFG, Sword of the Occult, Philosopher stone (even tho i didnt start playing that season), the Unholy Athena Grail meta w/ Mordekaiser perma banned at Worlds 2015, the Lantern jungle starter bs item w/ infinite stacks making Yi and Shyvana godtier champs, AP Yi, QSS removing things like Zed's R; LB's Silence, TF's E was his teleport, Cassio buying boots, Elise and K6 nerfs to the ground. I remember a time where almost everyone runned Thunderlord's Decree Mastery. The Assassin meta, The Tank meta.. But for me a huge thing that IMHO lowered the ceiling skill was timestamp addition(s), the times of writing things like "f 503, r 330, b 435" in teamchat to note and know when to attack the rival was a skill, now it's gone. One of biggest ARAM changes was the removal of Oracle, controversial as heck when it happened. In esports back in season 2-3 games were a bloodbath finishing with a score of 33-35, then it became games of even LESS THAN 10 KILLS.

When I first started the game in Season 2, I have built an Aura Support Sona back in those times. When we had CD reduction, Manaregen, Spell Vamp, Lifesteal, AD,AP Armor and MR items as AURA items, and as a Sona, who's abilities provided an AURA buff for the team, this was a really funny and strong build. You just went to the side of a glasscannon Katarina, and suddenly she became a lifesteal hybrid, hypermobile bruiser.

Crazy to see a 20 min video talking about old League and it being just the tip of that iceberg. So much history in such a short amount of time

Lets not forget that in 2011 or 2012 as a jungler, you could NOT do blue buff or red buff before hitting lvl3 and buying some items because they were that strong. I remember doing jungle from golems into 2 ganks and soaking some exp, then wraiths (now raptors) into another gank or two. Jungle was not easy like it is now lol

Old league was crazy bro. Had a Yi with 450 Ad and 1.8 attack speed carrying us. He stacked the youmus ghostblade like his life depended on it. I also remember Garens spin having crazy crit stacks. People used to run him with three sunfires and IE lmao

Speaking of potions I remember where you would buy the strength potion lvl 1 on certain champs like Riven or Lee Sin toplane. It was risky because it only paid off if you got a kill during the duration of it

I would love you to talk about the moment when jungle monsters had spirits when farmed, like the wolves would spawn a ghost tracking enemies in your jungle and giving you vision upon them. It was the most fun age for jungling, created a lot of counter plays, room for tactics decisions and I was pretty upset when Riot deleted this mechanic

I played LoL PC back in 2011-2015. Really enjoyed the game during its early years. It was just fun. Today players will just complain to you about anything, whether you made a bad pick, bought weird items, etc. Back then playing LoL felt like freedom.

As someone that constantly gets nostalgic about season 2 and 3 this video feels right up my alley. Old galio west best galio btw, he could be a monster when built ap and Mr, changing his ult got rid of that viability for the most part unfortunately.

Soon I've been playing for 10 years, so this was a fantastic nostalgia trip, and a lot of things I had completely forgotten about.

It's astonishing how league changes A LOT every season

The old Urgot with his guided cruise missiles was absolutely wild. People who started after that would not believe it was ever a thing in this game.

I loved the smite effects! The little ghost that spawned when you smited wolfes, the poison on hit of grump... good times

The thing for me that I miss the most is Revive, because I was a Karthus main way back. Revive TP on Karthus allows me to use my passive twice on one team fight, or I'll use my passive to get them low, revive *then* ult.

In the old clients, the "home" page was significantly different. It would always show high elo games that were ongoing, with an option to spectate them. Videos from content creators were very often highlighted. Sometime you had polls or popular forum threads showing up. Most importantly though, the custom games could be publicly hosted and we had a custom game finder. This is the single worst change Riot ever made. In custom games, you could host games on defunct maps, chose starting gold and level and change rules (# of team members for exemple). Back then, alternative player made game modes with made up rules were THE thing. Hide and Seek was hella fun. Today, you have to browse the web and find specific Discords just to hope to enjoy a fraction of what custom games used to be. The old maps were removed, finding custom games is hard, hosting is different, no more rule options, etc..

The thing that surprised me the most is how old Herald is, in my mind it's always been this new'ish thing. Also, the first dragon rework with the stacking buffs, I remember how first dragon was essentially the only one people cared about.

10:08 You forgot to mention the darius tp pull back into his fountain bug, that was hilarious.

i forgot so much about that time, like the homeguards boots omg thanks for that video

I still remember first learning Nami, seeing guides saying "We know it's weird to build a midlane item on nami, but trust us you need to build athenes unholy grail"

As a jungler it would be cool to do a whole retrospective on jungle changes because it's crazy how different it is. One of my favorite old things was the smite buffs where smiting a large monster gave you special buffs and you could do krugs topside, smite for the heavy hands buff, gank the top laner, and take the tower super easy

bro old league was amazing. stopped playing when i hit dia in season 5. just picked it up again a few weeks ago (mistakes were made) and it‘s flabbergasting how much it‘s changed, it‘s almost a different game now

I started playing League of Legends my Junior year of high school back in 2012....I'm 28 now with 3 kids. It has been the only constant in my life. Yes it changes from time to time but the fact that my friends that still play from back then are still my friends to this day but all of my other friends from my past have moved on says something about the enigma of a game that is League.

a couple of things you couldve touched on was how absurdly long games used to be, as well as how riot actively wanted to make support a more impactful role and made it overtuned, and maybe a quick take on the "League of Assassins" meta where everyone took thunderlords and there was assassins in every role. this was during the first rune rework lol

One of the craziest things to me back in the day was that Azir's w could directly damage turrets...

I remember old league fondly. I remember fiora pre-rework and Vladimir when he was first released. I remember heart of gold and force of nature. When AP Yi was the leading cause of cancer among mid laners. When Irelia needed to be nerfed. Hold up, some things don't change.

Learning the game and champions was the highlight for me. The old support Nunu was my weapon in climbing the ranks, perma bloodboil and point click slow haha. got me to 1500 elo

Ryze having an auto attack toggle back in the day and towers not having magic resis led to near instant tower destruction with him. Or back when Wit's End had mana burn. Or when Twisted Fate's had a global slow built into it.

I miss the 2014 map; it was more vibrant, it was still pretty detailed, felt more traditional fantasy, and its very nostalgic.

11:17 you forgot to mention the range/damage cap on nidalee q. She used to not have one, damage scaled infinitely with distance. And distance was calculated when based on distance from target to where you ARE, not where you WHERE when you threw it. So you could amp the spear damage by walking/couger jumping/flashing/thresh lanturning/etc away from your target after throwing the spear

remember old league when there were no cap limit to how many wards you can place? You see your support having 0 items but just packing on wards, and still winning games. That shit was crazy.

i play since season 3 and this was a nice recap of what League looked like back then. Brought back some good old memories.

“The players? Stinkier” Bold of you to assume League players started improving their hygiene over the years

You should talk more about the old support items, like the ancient coin, face of the mountain, the ghost item that tracks nearby enemies and slows if hit, or that one traumatizing moment where ardent censer was the meta. I just feel bad sometimes that the support role have the tendencies to be forgotten by the community.

I remember bits and pieces, since I came into the picture when rift herald got his visual update

You should do part 2 or just a dedicated jg video like “historyof jg in league and why it had to be changed over 100 times” lmao, I think it’s an interesting topic and especially with the jg it is never a boring subject to hear about and also be a good trip down memory lane.

You should talk about the entire DFG era, as well as 6x Sunfire Evelynn. Also, dagger (or sword I don't remember) of the occult and Mejai's on the Akali or Ezreal. Anyway, great video, as always

My favorite OG lol elements were Poppy's ult (only let you take damage from one enemy) and Atma's Impaler. You should def split this up into a series to talk about the different parts (jungle, champs, items, runes, etc). I remember being so jealous of my friend because he had 4 move speed Quints which were removed from the shop by the time I started playing.

Stacking all the gold generating items on a gangplank is the most iconic nostalgic thing I remember in this game

Wow. I can't believe how much I forgot about league over the years. Such a nostalgic video.

You and GBay99 make some of the best League of Legends Documentaries. The quality never dips. Thank you for the entertainment over the years, I remember when I used to watch you for Riven guides, man this is way better.

I thought you wouldve mentioned how people used to buy multiple items that gave gold, like Philosopher's Stone, Heart of Gold, The blue little dagger (ive forgotten the name of the item) simply to reach the end game easier. Also how Evelynn for example used to be invisible and could stand next to you with sunfire cape XD

The things I remember the most from very early League are things like AP Master Yi and one shot AP Sion aka broken stuff.

Seeing all of this made me realize how much I miss old league, being excited for events and champs being announced every few months along with mana pots being my best friend in the mid lane as certain champs

At 5:19 What kind of mods or visual effects are being used to make the background white and the fog whiter? The visuals look more clean and I am trying to replicate that.

Statik shiv was probably the most badass favorite item in league back in time because sword goes *lightning*

As someone who started on the tail end of Season 2 and had seen everything since...you're right. I fully forgot about the Herald change. If you do another video like this, my hope is that you could do one on the old lore. The lore behind the map and how the players themselves were canon in-universe.

Season 5 will always be my favorite time of League, the jungle item rework really opened the game up to new possibilities and also paved the way for many non-conventional jungler's we still see today. Maybe a part 2 is in the works?

my man pulling out the darius pull clips and didn't show the 5-man pull into fountain

I'm so sad you didn't show the Darius Tp+E bug that gave him pentakill. But that was a great throwback video, thanks a lot for your work

Season 5 in the thumbnail being considered old really hits hard.

If you make another "episode" like this, you should definitley talk about Old Turrets and that you were able to toss around Nash with Poppy /Syndra etc

One thing I actually liked was the little flag that appeared beside your health bar indicating that you were fed. Also, clans

does anyone remember that one support item that fires an ice missile that ither just passes you to slow but stuns you if you are hit in the aoe at the end?

Minor thing that was left out was shown in the video briefly but not explained. The inhibitor turrets wouldn’t shoot a shot every second but rather would shoot a laser beam that would constantly deal damage. Also I wonder how much tankier/how much more damage the turrets used to do compared to them now. I know now they have a exponential damage curve that caps out but I forget back in the early seasons how much damage they would do.

As someone who has been playing since S2 and watching eSports as well. I'd love to watch a video talking about how the pro meta has evolved with the game. I saw glimpses here and it made me want a dedicated version for each year, complete with throwbacks to the crazy days of no jungle or Alistair jungle to dual jungle and funnel strats, and of course the unbelievable spectacle that was faker's riven.

I remember when dragon used to spawn earlier there was a strat where you could duo it at lv 1 with sion passive

I don't remember the year but when I started playing, Twitch had a 60 sec stealth. literally go from bot side to top lane while never losing stealth.

You should do a series based on the Meta for each season. Like, "What was season 2 of league really like?" or "The season 3 meta".

I remember learning how important itemization was when I was playing fizz back in the early seasons, It was either lichbane rush or Abyssal scepter rush, and I noticed if I didn't do Abyssal scepter I couldn't kill the backline minions with one E. Made me realize how impactful resistances were.

Not so long ago we remembered when Nasus with Zz'Roth Portal was a thing and seeing that basically Bel'Veth has somewhat the same effect if she kills a void monster is intresting

Back in the days, if you wanted to know if the enemy took drake, you had to look into the pit to find out because there was no global announcement about the drake being killed.

As a jungle main I gotta say people these days have it soooo much easier than back when I first started playing league in 2009. Jungling back then was like being forced to play Chess while everybody else was playing checkers.

Having played since 2013, a lot of this is very nostalgic. I built Athenes on Azir for a long time, but then again, he was still a buggy nightmare, but I loved him for it.

16:00 , dark mane once said "herald and kumar" or somewhere along the line of that

Remember when everybody had a base dodge chance? We're talking really early days here, but that era of the game was wild

Started playing League when Aatrox released. Between seasons 3-5 I honestly had the most fun not with just the game but with the content that was coming out like old Trick vids, Stick figure spotlights, Summoner Showdowns

Darius' E had a bug where if you were in the cast area when Darius pressed E you would be pulled no matter if you flashed away or not. Such bug was also on Cho Gath's W, if you were in cast area when Cho pressed W, you would receive the damage and the silence no matter if you flashed or not

I really thought you were going to talk about jg camp buffs such as raptors giving sweepers or crugs giving stun

bruh, you just unlocked a deep hidden mental trauma of 20 min buff shelly. omg that was a horrible experience

League player since season 3, I remember everything from this video. In next video you should mention jungle from season 4 or 5? Where smiting different camps would give you some kind of buffs for example oracle elixir on smiting wraiths, stun on camps when smiting golems etc. From champions Nunu used to have bonus effects like + % max HP when eating camps.

As a new player, it's fun to learn more about league history. Been looking for a video about the history of champion releases but couldn't find one. Keep it up!

ah miss the old times, quit in 2017 and came back some weeks ago out of boredom. So much changed, but this vid is a good throwback. I mean its been 5 years, but still

I play since 2013.. and i really miss those times with all fun gamemodes what was in game ...

In the next video, may be you could do some crazy bugs past and present? Stuff like Dominion draft dodging having no penalty for like half a year or more, clairvoyance letting people capture turrets at the start of match on the first patch of Dominion, and then some of the more remembered ones like moving Tiamat causing the game to crash.

Awesome video, brings back a lot of memories as I started at the end of S2 when Kha'Zix was released. The memories, especially the jungle changes put a smile on my face as I've been mostly observing League's evolution from inbetween the lanes stalking prey. Is there hope for a part 2 as there's so many oddities and stuff worth mentioning, like League of Cleavers and DFG for example.

Played league from 2013 through 2019 crazy how many changes have happened through the years

Who would forget the old support banana lady that can just spam Qs like a madman

I feel like rek'sai has a very weird history as a champ. It has probably been one of the biggest balancing nightmares for riot to the point that she is still getting nerfed now with 0 pro play pick rate and a kit that doesn't allow you to completely take over games when ahead. I think comparing current rek sai to her release version is a really interesting topic especially considering she was a tank along with having no extra dash built into an item