Riot is listening 

Sodapoppin -> complains about league -> plays after anyways = yo thats the entire league of legends cycle

"Everyone is on their 80th account" bro that so accurate and so funny

The thing about Vo Corvo many people don't understand, is that he doesn't Giga feeds purposely, he just can't play properly, he has multiple sclerosis, and his fingers have limited functions. He just literally CAN'T play better, he tries to, but he can't. And as it seems, dude is just lonely, he's on his 60's and if you look at his face, you are going to notice that something isn't right, and apparently League is one of the few pleasures he has, so when smurfs fucked his ranked games, he then started to reverse smurf to teach them a lesson.

THE THING IS: Vo corvo, the 60 years old reverse smurf guy, recently got a triple kill against 3 professional players. He has been playing on challenger for so long that he is actually getting better at a really fast rate.

people hate on phreak because he's condescending and childish in his responses. Otherwise he's fine. Edit: I completely forgot about the Maokai fiasco. A champion being at a 54%+ win rate for 4-5 patches consecutively is pure incompetence. A balance team LEAD then using said champion to climb to masters for the first time and proceeding to antagonize/brag about it is insulting. (Obviously still doesn’t excuse death threats don’t do that)

Poor Soda. HE doesn't realize that League is like a cigarette and now it's already too late for him.

"You can just type Karthus Ult" I will not let that sink in

SodaPoppin & Forsen playing league? REVERSE smurfing? NA winning a single game at MSI? Idk what timeline this is, but thanks for keeping us in the loop Rival. GL HF to everyone playing some games at the start of Split 2!

Vo Corvo getting international fame, let's go

Love that Soda calls the game bad, but its really just the gaming community in general. Homie was just complaining about people, not even the game.

i looked up your name for any news, it said nothing, i refresh my youtube page and youre there 13 seconds ago wtf god sent me a herald

Sodapoppins first mistake was playing league to play ranked.

It was never about what Phreak said. It was always how he said it. No one would have cared it he didn't take a, "Shut up idiots, you don't know anything." tone when addressing community concerns. He's just not good at PR. Was he lying? No. But did he have to be so condescending about it all? Absolutely not. I would also love to see Bengi get inducted. As Fakers right hand man, and the jungler that helped Faker win worlds the first 3 times. Criminally underrated.

Be nice if Riot would listen to people about Vanguard, not quite on board with that whole addition

I FCKING LAUGHED SO HARD AT THAT GODLIKE CHOVY CSING

Soda is right though you got many obvious smurfs that play in low elo, to type ez and uninstall etc. Because they are stuck somewhere in their actual elo and are butt hurt for having a loss streak or not climbing.

Communication is the main and only issue with Riot. Phreak is an example of that, thus he's a "person" that people can project to because before he got on the team, "who's on the balance team?" was a common mystery. Not saying he deserves threats. The lack of transparency on a lot of aspects of the game is what makes it MORE frustrating. Like at least say that you are not allowed to speak on certain things or actually communicate how wild it is to not be able to say much. People would love that and feel like they can be informed.

Petition to replace the wooden spatula attached to his mic to a golden spatula so it is thematically accurate with league of legends.

"Riot is listening" after ryscus video felt more ominous then it meant to be

I just turned 17, my peak is 600LP Master, my goal for this season is low challenger and at the end of the year i am confirmed to play in Prime 3 league so im really excited

There’s a reason that ranked in league feels SO bad in comparison to other games… COD: almost no respawn time No walking to lane Immediate action upon respawn ~10 minute match LOL: As the game gets longer, so do respawn timers, walking back to lane The game snowballs as the enemy team builds a lead and it feels hopeless for 80% of the game. Typically, the enemy Smurf wants to pad their KDA, so the game lasts 40+ mins One enemy can make the game miserable for an entire team LOL is a team strategy game, therefore blame is often thrown around. Most other games don’t have this quality

Rival can you please cover DotAs behavior score? It's a system that would work wonders for League imo

0:35 the only time i agree that phreak was in the wrong just flat wrong thats thast the hole ping changes (that has still made me lose games to this day) and got even worse fully disserved (just not death threats) when he said "u can type Karthus ult in chat" has its just not something he should have sais has chat is disabled or not able to be done in a fight and even if u had the power to type it the chance of karthus seeing it is so much less likely with the massive chance for chat disabled (making u unable to type or they cant see it) or just not looking at chat mid fight (needing to spam the Q and hitting takes a lot of the visual and mental space)

saw the title and hoped that it was about the new mastery

The thing that I don't get about the "Oh, Phreak doesn't deserve the flame" is that he's the TEAM LEAD. It may not be how it works, but *he makes the decisions on how it should work, he's in control of it.* If things aren't working, it's because he's failing as a team lead and the team he's in control of isn't doing their job right, and he's doing nothing to change that.

The title: "We're bringing it back." Me: TWISTED TREELINE IS COMING BACK?!?!?!?!?

love the riven gameplay on the background i was paying more attention to it than the news xD

Baus is always, consistently, without exception EXTREMELY FUCKING BASED. I love you so much Baus, well said

as soon as i saw this video drop i KNEW the forsen clip would be in it. that shit is absolutely hilarious

Fun thing for me is that when they started adjust ranks last time, I started climbing again. Yay. I'm gonna level with folk for a moment. Why the fuck do so many people not play flex queue? Just get a gang and hit the rift, Fill queue it for more fun. It's the best way to improve and have fun at the same time; and it gives you the chance to figure out (for clash and stuff) what your best roles actually are. I know for a fact that I am an atrocious jungler, doesn't matter if I'm solo, 3-man or 5-man, I just don't care for it enough and get tilted. But I've given it a good 100 games across seasons now in these different configurations to make that determination properly. I used to like Support most, but now I'm firmly in the solo lane camp. That happened because I was able to take my time and learn that. Playing 5-man is also the best way to experiment, make your own playstyle whether that is champion or way you play the map. That kinda experimentation is why I've finally begun climbing. Because something I was doing finally needed to give. The community in league's worst attribute is that people don't actually want to improve, they want to perfect (CS, matchup, game knowledge, calls, mechanics), and since it is a team game, that requires the same perfection from their team. But that isn't how you improve. I think many people who get hard stuck and think Riot is holding them back are holding themselves back by subconsciously thinking this way. (But hey, that's just my opinion)

I love how Soda has played this game so little and yet he has perfectly summarized almost everything about this game. The only thing he was wrong about is that being masters means something cuz Phreak proved that u can just abuse the broken shit at the time and surpass your peak by 200-300 lp. And no, no one deserves death treats but there are so many contradictory things he has said and done and abused things that should have been hotfixed nerfed FOR months, that theres no way I will ever acknowledge him as being good for the game. Same as the balance team their all morons. What this game needs is a balance team of actually challenger players from all roles and servers, not chatgpt balancing the game.

After a couple splits of kicking around in low plat/low emerald, i hit diamond on a 60%wr this split and master+ players that used to seem super terrifying feel really beatable to me now. Gonna try for master tier this split, feeling really confident I can make it up there.

I have to agree with SodaPoppin. People don't understand how difficult it is for actual new players to get into the game. In general playing your first Moba is really difficult but people expecting you to know all champions and abilities makes it so much worse. And I don't think new players can learn enough from the bots. As there are always actual long term players in pve games. There should be a tier of bots above intermediate so more new people can actually learn and PVE enjoyers as myself can actually play against bots

"Hes now just like us", best frase of the day

I´ve been climbing for this entire season, first time i ever hit emerald, and in that rank i feel like i am still outperforming everyone else. Only issue being that most of the times i get level 30 accounts who played 10 or 20 ranked games, and they lost them all or played them horribly. Many times i get these players who get carried on their first rankeds and the game just places them on the highest rank possible for that, and then they just don´t play like they belong there. Every single game i get these players and its frustrating. Last season i hit platinum for the first time and on this one, i was placed on bronze 2, because i lost the first rankeds of the season, against platinums while my team was full of level 40 accounts that barely ever played ranked. Now the game is gonna place them even higher.. it makes no sence.

Really hope reverse smurfing becomes a big thing since riot doesn't want to do anything about regular smurfing at this point. If smurfs want to ruin low elo games, then they should ruin high elo games. Its no surprise to anyone that you will have at least ONE smurf per game in plat or below. It is getting sad, really sad.

the only way phreak will ever make a good balancing decision, is if he got invaded IRL and replaced by a doppelganger

Tyler1 should be the 2nd HoF. 5 role challenger from toxic perma ban all the way to what he is today.

Faker deserves an Ultimate skin made in his honor.

He really said just adapt to the game while showcasing Rivn XD

A year ago I was Gold III I believe, mostly because I only played rank for the skin at the end of the year, but in the split 2 of last year I wanted to test how high I could climb by myself, no duo and not really studying to improve, just straight up playing and seeing how it went. Right now before the split 2 of this year I'm at Diamond III, and I think it may be the time to really start learning some theory stuff if I want to keep climbing. My goal is to reach master before the end of split 2

You're right if I was 0/10 with 5 cs per min it would be my fault im still climbing out of emerald, but when every second game there's some1 on my team that's dying 10 times with 5cs per minute, I'd dare argue that's not my fault anymore

I might try for master if I have the time. I finally reached diamond this split and it was mostly an issue of playing enough so I’m a lil excited about seeing how far I can go.

they're always listening, but who will make the best decisions? the consumer with individual opinions and addiction to fan service who spends money on digital skins, or the guy who has a degree and gets paid to make the game good?

People hate on Phreak because hes condoning the balance changes. Also people dont just hate on Phreak but also on August and other champ designers (of Ksante and Skarner rework for example). While death threats and other idiotic things are way over the top, the critique is still deserved to an extend.

I don't think I've ever seen someone miss 12 last hits in a row.

Phreak was always a decent person and when the outrage with the Karthus meme happened, this was an out of context clip of someone who streams a lot and got constantly bombarded for every little thing people were upset about. Yea, in a professional environment, this shouldn't happen. But with Riot it's different if someone plays the game a lot and is also transparent to attempt to give insight into everything and talk about it. Just imagine you sit there for hours every other day and your chat starts getting flooded by idiots more and more, until it makes up a majority of the chat.

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

League is hard because your not JUST fight 5 enemy humans, You also fight your teammates mental, so its 1v9 at this point.

Both Baus and Soda were speaking facts. Was kind of funny to see him requeue, but majority of what he said is true. The game is beyond unfriendly to new players. People are so out to ruin others experiences as well. Smurfing is a massive issue.

Phreak only copped so much heat because he was condescending to the entire player base. It was a fuck around and find out moment. If he never made the dumb comments about typing things out, he wouldn’t have gotten 90% as much flak.

Baus is just delusional lmao

I genuinely hope Ambition is inducted into the League Hall of Fame next, just watching his journey as essentially being just one-step barely behind Faker was hella inspiring tbh

Oof I wasnt ready to get roasted like that

Paperthin Hymn - Anberlin

I mean... Soda isn't wrong and banning smurfs like Dota2 does would help league tremendously. Of course, it would also prevent the classic new account zero to master videos and cut into people buying skins multiple times so Riot is never going to do it.

“He’s already just like us” 💀💀💀

looking jacked rival 🎉

cant wait to duo in master actually. gonna make the big climb to gm more enjoyable.

4:28 finished masters this split, aiming for chal next split

I think the biggest short fall of riot is that they dont give the balancing team a chance to balance the game. When you constantly change items, add new skins with different effects, change existing items, remove items, constantly add new champs, it begins to feel like pointless task. I think riot needs to cool it on the releases to give the balancing team a chance to actually find a cohesiveness between the champions and items. I also think that it is a massive short site to ignore things like mmr resets when it would help yo strengthen that idea. Opting to just ignore it does seem "lazy" in a sense even if other things are being worked on. While it might not be a situation where they arbitrarily pick and choose champions that get buffed and nerfed its easy to lose site of fair selection when there us a champion you inherently enjoy. Riot can pretend they dint pick favorite's but when kayne was op for like two seasons straight and only got nerfed once everyone blamed that kayne riot employee I knew what was up lol. All in all I think ya phreak has gotten a lot of hate he shouldn't have. But that doesn't mean the way the balancing of items and the game is monitored is alright. There is many things that get left untouched for years and there is things no one asks for that gets shoved down our throats on the regular. I'm tired of pointing fingers at one specific area at riot. End of the day they are a team if they cant come to a mutual agreement on how the game should be run its not gonna last. My fear is its the side we don't want to see succeed that has more power and say at riot.

ngl that sounds like a thread after vanguard

i climbed from bronze to plat 1 last season and this time i was placed gold 1 and then lost streaked all the way to silver 1 @_@ so im hoping to get back up

Bro, from the thumbnail, I thought they were bringing back twisted treeline😭😭😭😭

I personally don’t like that there is no demotion protection anymore because I liked that after I went up a tier I could have sort of a rebreather and always had that one game where it didn’t matter if I lost since I’d be at 0 lp. I went from g3 to e3 this split and hope to reach diamond next split, although I don’t play much ranked.

I just wanted to say that i hit D4 before the end of the split again, this is like the third time due to decay but feels good haha.

Baus has shit take while playing his new INT pick for the month. Didn’t read

Soda is so real for that. People have no fucking clue how hard it is to start playing league in 2024. Even the average bronze player has 10x your game knowledge when you've played for weeks just because there's so much stuff to learn about champs and their abilities along with everything else.

I made Emerald on Shen Supp. First time ever being above Plat. Big climb this year!

Activated the bell and I don't regret it love your videos

5:45 "He missed one CS" Legendary status revoked*

The thing is what Sodapoppin is saying about being new is true. Back then getting your account to level 30 was a slog, it took so much time. By the time you could play ranked you had the more experience. Today it's so much faster you don't have time to learn as much before hopping into ranked

Took me two minions to realize that he was joking about "Chovi like csing" XD

Its still a wonder to me where tons of people who finished s12 in gold or silver, magicly got to platin or emerald with 40% wr

I thought this post was here to tell me lethal tempo was coming back and i got so excited why did youtube recommend this 2 days late im actually so sad

That last rant is spot on! 😂😂😂

Is the thumbnail off, tho? What do they bring back? When did they listen? Vanguard is still mandatory and kernel-level.

The balance team has always had a scapegoat. Back in the day it was Morello. "Better nerf Irelia" was a Morello thing (this was back when Irelia was trash and pre-rework, yet she'd still get nerfed every patch). Then it was GhostCrawler. Now it's Phreak. The issue with Phreak is he's an OG who was very popular during his days as a shoutcaster and face of the champion spotlights. Now he's still prominent, but has a condescending and arrogant attitude towards people criticizing the balance changes. I think it's mainly his response to things that make things worse, but anyone who's played league since 2009 remembers this is a recurring trend as Baus said, but it's not "the balance team", there's almost always a face to go with it.

The best meme title for a league video.

I think everybody who is still playing since the early seasons are either complete nutcases or overcome the trauma which is league community and unironically still enjoy the game even though it's a mental challenge.

The Final boss is the Penguin

Riot should let players read enemy champion abilities while on game and also read what killed them, this is possible in dota and would make the learning curve easier in my opinion

Wanted emerald. Got it 4 hours before end of seaaon

Phreak for sure doesnt deserve to be killed by single dogshit patch, but death threat is just how this community works like first time league?

riot is listening is a very ominous title.

Master+ duo changes means that riot needs to make the decay system better. If you get an account to GM or Chal, then let it decay to Masters, you can duo for a few games with insane LP gains and then repeat the process. Theoretically, you can duo so that you get challenger MMR, and then solo push with insane gains (in previous seasons you could abuse MMR for +40/-8 LP up until rank 10~)

I'm D4 last split looking to get at least to GM this split . It's not like a huge jump for me i think it's definitely possible because i generally don't play that much ranked games like last split for example i only played around 100 games with a 60% WR . I do watch alot of pro players/streamers and i watch the pro scene as well i feel like i can do it if i play more and have the right mentality/mindset towards the games it won't be easy but hopefully i can do it i will finish my exams around the 10th of June and i would be free to achieve that goal afterwards

where is the part where riot is listening?

duo in master is a disaster

Funny how proud I was when I hit emerald or plat for the first time and after maximum a week I was already thinking I’m pisslow that is no achievement

I really hate the derank LP loss based on MMR. I've had my account for years and it was my first MOBA I didn't know what any of the terminology meant. I didn't know there was a huge community that could help me. I was relying exclusively on MOBAfire for advice on specific characters. All this to say I started off TERRRIBLE and so my MMR suffered. I've gotten a lot better since then but the first few hundreds of games learning to move with right click, what IE, PD, CDR, BOT (as a lane and not AI bot like most other games), Leash JG, and JG pathing, counter ganking, invading, rotating to objectives. You get the idea. I have a 70% winrate but I'm gaining 18 LP while losing 29 LP. Part of me really wants to just make a new account but I've put money and time into my current account and I have Mastery on dozens of skins and HUNDREDS of skins and I'd really like to not start that shit over...so like if they reset everyone's MMR then yeah sure make the change. Honestly considering how old a lot of accounts are, maybe a FULL MMR reset wouldn't be so bad anyway.

I mean the shear ammount of champs and items, objectives, and interactions is a wall to climb. (Then it becomes a big reason why i still play, because i feel like i know so much about the game...) Getting only like 40% (if that) of knowledge while leveling an acc.(there are still people who dont know autoing in brush grants vision that have played 10+ years, people that do not know you share more gold letting a teammate kill a ward you sweep. Both the sweeper and the ward killer get the money. Then further still people who dont understand pathing for ganks, and signs of bait.) But he is right though. I only saw like 50/60% actually new players when lvling up my alt 3 accounts with maybe another 30% of those ever sticking with the game til lvl 30 and a good deal of them never picking it up again after that. Each of my alts are to learn more about other roles. Id say my hope for split 2 is hit diamond again on main then get each alt acc to emerald. Only got one other acc other than main to emerald this season :/ rest stayed in plat...

I thought this was a video about Vanguard, judged by the title

My rank goal for this split is gonna be grandmaster. Maybe if it's going great even chall. Currently I'm silver but that's just because of phreak

what my ranked goal is for the split : none, i dont play ranked, 12 years religiously going strong

Hit masters the first time a few days ago. I'm going to try to repeat it.

Riot League Team: We listen you Riot Valorant Team: Shutup and buy my skin

i mean theres gonna be so many duo qs in masters with insane mmr. challenger lobbies will be full with them.

Emerald 3 atm, started silver 4. Have not played in a few leagues. Looking for diamond next split.

honestly the sodapoppin rant+the other new players struggling is so real. i started in season 11 and i binge watched a lot of content to improve and i have played a lot since then (currently plat, planning on grinding to dia). i have irl friends who have tried to get into league but they quit very quickly bc the barrier to entry in this game is way higher than any other competitive game.