Corrections: I forgot Varus and Zyra are Champions released that got released in Seaosn 2. Also, Syndra has been updated recently to make her more powerful late game and give her two charges for her Q. 😗 Zed Ult did get quality of life buff and a season or two later removed 💀 SEJUANI ULT WAS AN AOE STUN Volibear didn't have the bump on his e until later on Zyra old passive was different Old rengar E was point and click 😭
Bro how could you even MENTION Sejuani and forget that... Her ultimate used to be a AOE STUN with the range of the CURRENT AOE SLOW OF HER ULT? It was LITERALLY the most broken part of a champion kit EVER released that took SEVERAL nerfs to get her back to a balanced state. Her win rate at her peak was 61%, still the highest winrate of any champ ever released. It was so bad that even a few years after nerfing her ult to the ground, they had to nerf it again because the slow they had nerfed her ultimate to was too strong and in pro environments, pros had figured out to intentionally miss her ult to use it as a setup to land the rest of their champion's abilities.
When a new champ was released, you had to log in 2 hours before playing because the servers were too full. but the login screen showed the new champion and their theme played. This made new champs much more exciting and added personality. Nowadays you just randomly log in after an update and realize 'oh, the new champion is out?' after seeing someone ban them. 💀
@@PIVfirestarkproducon i started when kha came out, had so much respect for that character because of the evolution mechanic, after a while zed came out and he was essentially the most badass character. I remember when thresh came out he was the first champ to cost 7800 ep upon release. And eventhough yasuo still feels like a new champ for me, i remember that he was also a BIG addition to the game when he came out
It was and still my favourite gamemode in lol. If it is still existed i wouldnt play summoners rift, I would only play twisted treeline. I hope one day we will have it back.
Old Fiora with Tiamat was the most fun I had on League. Also Old Irelia with the original satisfying Q was sooo good! I miss them a lot and would pay money to play an old version of league again.
Idk, I remember she got to a pretty balanced point after some number changes. Also, I just liked the old sunny map. The new was was somehow always cold for me and gave me a weird feeling. I prefer playing DoTA now for that old LoL feeling when some abilities are hillarious and work on entire map etc.
I know it is just nostalgia but I REALLY miss old league, I wish I could play again the old league again, with the old graphics, old skins and old maps. Man... even I felt like players were genuinely more friendly, it wasn't weird or rare writing in the chat "Hello" "gl hf" (before getting flame in the game obviously). Such a good memories
The best part about old league was the honor system: you could honor all your teammates and even your enemies. Now you can only honor 1 teammate and not even honor your enemies. That's one reason for me that made the game too competitive instead of cooperative.
I miss the old client for many reasons, but the best part was the fact that it showed you how many people accepted the match when queueing - so many people would accept last second, and it was fun to watch the bar fill.
I was one of those accepting as the last one :))) Old LoL was more fun....yeah, it was more toxic, more buggy, maybe there were more champions that were either completely trash or completely broken....but the funny thing is the game felt ALIVE. It wasn't that competitive like today, it didn't have a corporation feeling, it felt like this chaotic battleground where people can meet and interact. I mean, people were trying duo top and were succeeding, a lot of strategies used to work, like, troll strategies. Today, the game is built in such a way that if you don't play it exactly as intended, you lose.
@@alexale5488 Yeah ikr I used to love trying out new strategies whenever I played 5v5 with my friends, dou jungle was pretty fun. When playing solo, I enjoyed experimenting with different builds, like AD Ahri or Elise mid and whatnot. League from Season 2 to Season 5 was the best
And the old loading screen would tell you everyone's loading percentage so you could call out that one person who took forever to load and make fun of their toaster. Ahhh... good times...
1:58 being autofilled was what made everyone somehow good in every roles or learn something new about the role and that particular game. Nowadays, most of the playerbase won't go outside their comfort role, unless you're an ARAM player and likes to experiment stuff.
bro, litteraly my day was playing support ... i'm a top, not a sup ! And my adc were too scared to play with me, so all i was doing was chilling undertower ... THANK RIOT x')
Kassadin with 99% ban rate Blue Ezreal Red pot Riven Full AP Tristana Full AD Jarvan Pre-reword Graves as ADC Pre-reword Nidalee as mid Pre-reword Sion as AD top or AP mid Rengar's E was point and click DFG, homeguard boots, sightstone Jesus the list goes on, imagine if we got a "classic" version of League... Such good memories
gotta pour some out for the fallen hommies like jax, olaf, tryndaqueer, mundo, taric kiss of death twinkle stun e, Soraka max ap fucking spam Q, fiddle sticks suck of death, global lux and panth. and then some. Amen, Rest in peace. Oh and crit dmg runes. one shot GP q.....
This makes me sad. Honestly, I'm not even kidding sad. I alnost want to cry at where the time has gone... i started season one but was so scared to play ranked season one that I didn't lol ... I mained Veigar and I remember being a little boy skipping school to go to the internet Cafe to play... the times have changed
My son Draven was born 1 year before the champion released.. people always think he was named after league since I still play it.. but truth be told he was named after my Tekken main, Raven.. though my wife wouldn't let myle name our son raven so I went down the alphabet and once I got to D-raven it sounded perfect.. So yea.. thats the story of how my son was named..
Reminds me of my cousin's baby has a similar name as to a Jewish demon -- Ezekiel something, it's a long story, the father was a big'ish Game of Thrones fan.
its probably my warcraft 3 nostalgia, but old league just has such a cool style to it. i definitely think the current rift looks better from an objective sense, but it wishes it had the soul of twisted treeline
@@Sitback yea clarity / visibility cuz of spells etc , old league map felt always more medieval with the music and the lore lol had back in the time a complete different vibe than todays league
it went from vibrant with lots of contrast with an albeit dated look to washed out and bland, it did need the update, coulda kept the theme similar at least
I first played during September 2012, just before Syndra dropped. My first game was Lux mid, coached by my friends. nearly 7 yaers later, I finally hit diamond in soloQ. God, what a time to be alive. I wish I could go back. RIP Twisted Treeline, you shall be remembered.
i miss old league so freaking much, the map, the pre rework champs, the items, the fun builds u could do, league back then was so different, the game was about having fun and not minmaxing every second u spend in the game.
The ASCENSION mode was the mode that i enjoyed the most back in the day, i don't know if someone remembers it but it was so fun to compete for the ascension by defeating the Xerath that was on the middle of the map
@@piripitiflautico1 I have all the icons, but vandril made a vid showing how it van be abused. Some ppl picked tanks and just disrupted the enemies, putting them in an endless game where the only way out was /ff
My friends n me tried to replicate this in normal drafts. But instead of becoming a raidboss by ascending, we played 4 supports and one hyperscaling midlaner, usually Jax. I still remember fondly one of them playing Soraka jungle (the old one, with mana regen and healing to her teammates) and "reverse ganking" me when I was the raidboss. Basically filling up my HP/Mana so I could keep fighting forever. The jungle buffs were also not shared back in the day and for a really long time, the ability to jungle was determined whether or not you could sacrifice the second blue to your midlaner... God, I miss old League. People say it's nostalgia, but it really was a different game, while still sharing the same core mechanics, it doesn't play the same anymore. League allowed you to have fun back in the day, nowadays it's all about the competition. Same fate has struck CS and gaming as a whole. It's all about a stupid rank nobody gives a damn about.
Rune pages as well as for buying runes on the market. The Tribunal, such a great jewel to punish bad people. The items in the shop, the numbers were 10 times bigger than what we currently have now. The masteries page. Imagine, you are level 1 as Rammus and start with 100 armor points, it was just crazy.
@@raymondjoannette8052 I already recorded one part for the runes. But I didn't have enough time to edit it. Don't worry. I'll make a part two. Because the tribunal was so funny 😭 I can't wait to talk about it
Man I started during 2010 snowdown showdown. Still getting chills when I hear login screen music. I'm very proud that I never got clinically insane from this game. Few times I was probably close tho. People nowadays don't know how to play other roles because they never experienced "pick order" times.
I got the old draft music as my ringtone that's dope because when I get up in the morning I got that lil stressed energy boost I use to get when I Q up on league back in 2013
Old League of Legends was awesome! Pretty much my only criticism of it was that runes were too expensive. It took forever to save up enough ip just to complete 1 rune page. You either had to choose between unlocking new champions, or buying runes. Most people usually just had 1 cookie cutter rune page for AD champs, and 1 for AP champs.
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i miss old league, this video took me back as I also started sometime during s2/s1. How insane are those back to back season 2 champion releases though, timeless designs and kit, to this very day, Syndra has to be the most consistently picked/banned champion at worlds across more than a decade, and a few others in s2 are right behind her.
I started playing when Varus got released, crazy the days where youd type "ADC" to a friend to copy and paste it and then spam paste once you got to champ select lmao what a time to game
Played since beta. The old champions had so much character. Much better identities. Stop playing for a several years because it felt like all the champs I loved were gone.
I'm watching the video right now and my game just found a match at this exact moment 1:56 and hearing the old queue sound as my client popped up gave me such a nostalgia flashback, that timing was kinda scary lol
this video sent me on an unbelievable nostalgia trip. old art style, half of the champions we have today, blue vs purple instead of blue vs red, old removed game modes... i kinda wish League would go back to this for a while. they could at least bring back twisted treeline, it was an interesting concept and something else to play than just SR and ARAM
1:56 Holy fuck I LOVED that sound. We really need a Legacy Mode for the new client cause that loud ass metallic ass shreek it lets out now is obnoxious.
I had my account since between season 1 and 2 of League, I think it was near Shyvana release. For ARAM, I think for a while there was a Proving Grounds custom map which was what people used to play ARAM before Howling Abyss was officially released. It was a one lane map with health relics, no recalls, etc. essentially ARAM beta mode.
Shyvana was the first ever champion spotlight i ever seen man! I didnt play and my friend went to visit me in uni and asked for my pc to watch the video on youtube and i watched along and then started playing.
Twisted treeline was legit the best map they made. The fact they decided it was too hard to balance but decided aram wasnt blows my mind, especially when you put aram on clash
Man, the real ones are still out there. I started February of 2011, end immediately fell in love with League. Miss the old cheese builds you could do like OG AP Sion or AP Warwick.
Can we please have a S1-S2 classic version tho? The game felt so much better back then, and not just because of nostalgia. It was the weaknesses. Every champ sucked in most everything and you had to play around their 1 or 2 strengths. That made the team dynamic so much more interesting. This insane assassin? Yeah, they can't farm to save their life and need to be babysat for quite a bit. That amazing support? Yeah, they deal absolutely no damage whatsoever and have no concept of movement. Overcoming those weaknesses as a team was great. If it clicked in terms of composition and plays, it felt amazing. If something was off, you'd damn well feel it.
2:48 Coming from S3, THIS is SO underratedly true and something I wish I realized a lot earlier!! As a result of growing up and playing casually with this system, I put myself in the most auto-pilot death-spiral of "I'll just auto-fill everytime, so I can premptively cover the roles people arent confident in playing here" till like S10. I was so caught up on trying to mechanically master every champion and their abilities, i didn't even learn what macro was till S11 / S12 LMAO
back in the day I remember having to use curse voice just to chat with friends and when that got removed we switched to skype. The loading screens were the funniest too because it showed whos pc was the slowest and showed how bad their ping was, they were always getting flamed
When I was in my first year of uni (like 8 years ago now, man I'm old), we played a 3v3 tournament on TT and it was so good man. Only time I've ever played a Riot approved tournament, such great memories.
important details about draft that you missed. 1. There was no role calling in draft, that was only used on blind pick. In draft people choose their role in the order of the picks, and last pick always got support. People did not respect it at all, “mid or feed” was a recurring phrase, and since that was not enforced by Riot, people could refuse to play in a position without facing consequences. 2. The order was dictated by elo/mmr. The highest elo always got first pick. So one strategy was to duo queue with someone way below your elo and always get the first pick, since the other 3 players would have less elo than you.
i mean by the most part people still enforced it lol, ironic enough people were more toxic in chat but not so much in actual game also still remember carrying games with double jungle ;_;
@@pedronabais1456 Back in S1 and S2 there wasnt so much of a 'right way' People were still just experimenting, and just playing the game. People didnt immediately flame everyone for every little thing, if they did they didnt get banned, and now... idk... I hate it tbh. I wish it was like it was before. The roles and way people play. Ranked is all no life sweats, half of which who suck, and even riot doesnt treat casual games lobby as thought their casual(in fact riot pushed alot of the roll based toxicity because it appeals to foreign markets)
@tandava-089 tbf to an extent, that's unstoppable, as people get better the thrive to get better increases but yeah riot tried for the first few seasons to keep the variety and fun as the main focus but quickly strided to competitive instead, to the modern age where would they would fuck all servers for months bc patches would be balanced and thinked to a specific tournament in pro play
@@pedronabais1456 The change happened EXACTLY when the communists took over the company. Its been all downhill since then, while that isnt obvious because they used E-sports to leverage the good that was already there to go hyper-global..... But the game itself has only gotten worse, with some exceptions for small streamlining, map improvement(which is a mixed bag) and qol features
As someone who started playing League in season 10, The idea that you have to type in chat what role you wanted in rank bogles my mind. The amount of argument and frustrations with role picking/bans would've been insane lol.
@@astrograph7875 old League was a special place. Either the worst most toxic lobbies since COD or meet some of the coolest people. I still have friends I talk to from the old daysb
ay man thanks for reminding me how precious the game was back in the day. This game saved me alot when i was bored. Funny how you started too when you was about to go in highschool.
as someone who is a newer player (started 2020) its interesting to see how old league was, and how much it’s changed since then. The release cycle of 19 champions in one year is nuts
I remember exactly when I joined because it was just as Malzahar got his first rework in 2012. I got Annie by default and was constantly grinding to get this cool purple wizard just to find out I was complete ass with him 😭 I loved the old dominion game! You brought back memories my guy!
For me personally Season 5 was the best and my favorite, that's when I spend most of the time plaing league, and here are some of the most memorable memories: - Mana potion - 35g potions - Old hydra - Moment they introduced Masteries - Katarina/Pentarina ( whenever I felt boring I'd just queue up in normal games and played Katarina ) - AP Shaco - Ekko release and no mana ult - Old Fiora - Blitz and Shaco combo on bot lane ( especially urf ) - URF ( old URF best thing ever ) - Old map - Old client - Old draft mode - Trying new champion for the first time - Gosu voice reveal - Boxbox vs Pink Ward - xPeke backdoor There are many more but those are some of the most memorable moments!
The champ design back then was so much more simple, and in my opinion, fun. Like building 5 rid of ages on rhze and rolling my fingers across the keyboard, with not a single thought in my mind, until someone died was so great. Critplank where you would just press q on someone and they would go down 3/4 hp lmaooo the best.
Thanks man! Good video! I am a OG here. I started first 2 weeks the game came out. Yes, Pre Season 1. :) Still play. Keep it up man! Got my Sub! :) I played Lux my first game and told my friends, "This game looks Awful" and they were like Play it! Second game I was hooked lol. Also, Mordikser was my first champ I got with "LP" as it was called then. :)
bro hide n seek on dominion was god tier. Reminded me of them micheal myers lobbies back in CoD would love to see them bring back dominion even if its just a seasonal thing
I started playing when Darius was released back in 2012 May. I can remember the loading screen and how hyped everyone was about Darius. I didnt even wanna play the game but my friend insisted i try it and here i am 12 years later still playing the game. Ofc i had long/short pauses but the longevity of this game is crazy.
It is so funny. I started in beta and played until shortly BEFORE season 2. Back when I started it wasn't even super common to have a jungler in every team. At least not on "common" skill levels back then. 2-1-2 was a valid lane setup in the very early times. There were no jungle items and all that stuff. So jungle was actually pretty fucking hard and relatively slow compared to now. I just recently started the game again after not playing for like 13 years. It is so crazy how much the game changed.
Only note: Zed was changed. His R used to put a shadow behind his opponent. It wasn't until later that they change it to put a shadow where he started.
Corrections:
I forgot Varus and Zyra are Champions released that got released in Seaosn 2.
Also, Syndra has been updated recently to make her more powerful late game and give her two charges for her Q. 😗
Zed Ult did get quality of life buff and a season or two later removed 💀
SEJUANI ULT WAS AN AOE STUN
Volibear didn't have the bump on his e until later on
Zyra old passive was different
Old rengar E was point and click 😭
xerath?
lul its s1 mb im old :(
Bro how could you even MENTION Sejuani and forget that...
Her ultimate used to be a AOE STUN with the range of the CURRENT AOE SLOW OF HER ULT?
It was LITERALLY the most broken part of a champion kit EVER released that took SEVERAL nerfs to get her back to a balanced state.
Her win rate at her peak was 61%, still the highest winrate of any champ ever released.
It was so bad that even a few years after nerfing her ult to the ground, they had to nerf it again because the slow they had nerfed her ultimate to was too strong and in pro environments, pros had figured out to intentionally miss her ult to use it as a setup to land the rest of their champion's abilities.
@@shawnboyett6816 FUCK SHE DID. I Remember METEOS HITTING A 5 MAN SEJUANI ULT ON TSM in season 5
old voli e knock back was added in s8, it was just a slow and minion/monster fear
You forgot to mention being able to see everyones ping in the loading screen and saying potato pc in all chat😂
Elite times
Yes!!!! Mfker would get roasted once the game started 😂
I had a toaster back then 😞 clowned fr
@@ChocoGummies Lmaoo samee
wooden pc
Old 3v3 and Dominion was peak League.
and fucking Hide and seek on Dominion was super funny, most people didnt know about that, but I loved to play that one :D
Dominion music slappedddddd
still salty they took 3v3 away. whyyyy
There was 3v3 ranked
I played thousands of dominions. I was furious and i think even cried when riot removed it
"Top or feed", my fav line back in the day
I remember "Mid or feed" but same thing really haha
supp was like u never bother to type anythnig before actual start of the game
Mine was “take 5” lol cause that was the wait timer if people left lol
People still did that when the new champ selection came out 😂 also for that reason i always like to say sup or feed whenever i felt like playing sup
mid or afk
Don't forget that for Viktor you had to buy specific items that only he had
The old ranked champ select music gives me axiety
Glad Im not the only one!
Shi got me always stressing
In a good way
Haha true, for me generally all ranked champ selects are way too stressing for no reason lol
I miss it so much, wish you could choose between legacy music just like ingame
old league had so much atmosphere back then. I kinda miss these old maps and game modes.
I definitely miss the old art style. It looked like Warcraft only more moody and badass.
Especially the jungle. Actually had a dangerous vibe and the camps looked like real camps vs chickens sitting around trees.
I agree with all of y’all.
I really miss it too. I'm so sick of SR I could puke.
When a new champ was released, you had to log in 2 hours before playing because the servers were too full. but the login screen showed the new champion and their theme played. This made new champs much more exciting and added personality. Nowadays you just randomly log in after an update and realize 'oh, the new champion is out?' after seeing someone ban them. 💀
I remember the Aatrox and Zed loading screens very clearly. Zed's release was so epic, loved watching his login screen.
Damn you unlocked a memory, I miss those days
@@PIVfirestarkproducon i started when kha came out, had so much respect for that character because of the evolution mechanic, after a while zed came out and he was essentially the most badass character. I remember when thresh came out he was the first champ to cost 7800 ep upon release. And eventhough yasuo still feels like a new champ for me, i remember that he was also a BIG addition to the game when he came out
One of my oldest memories of league was logging in and seeing the the newly released Ekko background on the login client
I remember the Ekko loading screen
Seeing the old splash art for the characters on the loading screen is such a blast from the past.
I remember back then, no one wanted to be last pick. Now you want to be last pick all the time.
Reading this while swapping to first pick with my top laner from last pick lol
@@GRATERxOFxCHEESE now adays toplane is all about counterpicking. Back in the day you had more room to show your skills
mid or feed
@@GRATERxOFxCHEESE Good on ya, counterpicks in top lane are extremely brutal.
Yes I miss skill expression instead of endless counterplay boring braindead bullshit
Man old league looks so much more fun. I love the style actually.
That’s what I’m always saying! Old lore art and map were amazing to me
Twisted Treeline was the best RIP
Crystal Scar
It was and still my favourite gamemode in lol. If it is still existed i wouldnt play summoners rift, I would only play twisted treeline. I hope one day we will have it back.
I really miss TT. It allowed me to learn more about the game and was a fun ranked experience.
@@Xerathielhide and seek customs good old days
Yeah I really miss it
Old Fiora with Tiamat was the most fun I had on League. Also Old Irelia with the original satisfying Q was sooo good! I miss them a lot and would pay money to play an old version of league again.
The old irelia 🙏🙏🙏
old irelia was pretty cancerous to play against, that stun was ridiculous
@@Cynsham yea it was broken. She just won every lane
Idk, I remember she got to a pretty balanced point after some number changes.
Also, I just liked the old sunny map. The new was was somehow always cold for me and gave me a weird feeling.
I prefer playing DoTA now for that old LoL feeling when some abilities are hillarious and work on entire map etc.
For example, I can play Enchantress support but become such a bully that I become another ranged carry of the team xD
There was also a Global Chat in the Client, you also could spectate high elo games that are currently being played.
Good old times man..
Oh yeahhh, I could use this in the sequel ‼️🫡
Dota has that
@@yiroij6296 lot of games have that
@@yiroij6296 Dota doesnt have a surrender button :)
i was on that a few times and i got a bunch of friend invites and sometimes people would whisper me in game and tell me i was playing like a boss
I know it is just nostalgia but I REALLY miss old league, I wish I could play again the old league again, with the old graphics, old skins and old maps. Man... even I felt like players were genuinely more friendly, it wasn't weird or rare writing in the chat "Hello" "gl hf" (before getting flame in the game obviously). Such a good memories
Community was way friendlier back then...only bad times were during holidays 🤨
The best part about old league was the honor system: you could honor all your teammates and even your enemies. Now you can only honor 1 teammate and not even honor your enemies. That's one reason for me that made the game too competitive instead of cooperative.
@@charlestrinidad1731 you can honor your enemies doe
I miss the old client for many reasons, but the best part was the fact that it showed you how many people accepted the match when queueing - so many people would accept last second, and it was fun to watch the bar fill.
I was one of those accepting as the last one :)))
Old LoL was more fun....yeah, it was more toxic, more buggy, maybe there were more champions that were either completely trash or completely broken....but the funny thing is the game felt ALIVE. It wasn't that competitive like today, it didn't have a corporation feeling, it felt like this chaotic battleground where people can meet and interact.
I mean, people were trying duo top and were succeeding, a lot of strategies used to work, like, troll strategies. Today, the game is built in such a way that if you don't play it exactly as intended, you lose.
@@alexale5488 Yeah ikr I used to love trying out new strategies whenever I played 5v5 with my friends, dou jungle was pretty fun. When playing solo, I enjoyed experimenting with different builds, like AD Ahri or Elise mid and whatnot. League from Season 2 to Season 5 was the best
Yesss I would always wait the last second like a little menace lol. Fun times.
@@alexale5488exactly
And the old loading screen would tell you everyone's loading percentage so you could call out that one person who took forever to load and make fun of their toaster. Ahhh... good times...
1:58 being autofilled was what made everyone somehow good in every roles or learn something new about the role and that particular game. Nowadays, most of the playerbase won't go outside their comfort role, unless you're an ARAM player and likes to experiment stuff.
i do when i get new skins from reroll xD
bro, litteraly my day was playing support ... i'm a top, not a sup ! And my adc were too scared to play with me, so all i was doing was chilling undertower ... THANK RIOT x')
vel'koz is still a brand new champ in my heart
Like aurelion
@@ccp94791 Ao Shin*
Gnar is still new in my heart cos that's when i started
Still remember, it was also the patch that scuttle crabs were introduced
I began to play lol when vel'koz came out.
Kassadin with 99% ban rate
Blue Ezreal
Red pot Riven
Full AP Tristana
Full AD Jarvan
Pre-reword Graves as ADC
Pre-reword Nidalee as mid
Pre-reword Sion as AD top or AP mid
Rengar's E was point and click
DFG, homeguard boots, sightstone
Jesus the list goes on, imagine if we got a "classic" version of League... Such good memories
league was water down from dota xD
dfg full ap poppy... with her old ult dfg was able to one shot everything. tiamat was stalking which was broken on kayle, fiora & old Aatrox.
correction, pre-rework urgot as unplayable
@@xchronox0 yea I meant Sion
the feels
R.I.P Hide and Seek custom games on Dominion, R.I.P Twisted Treeline, R.I.P all the old champions
loved hide and seek :(
Miss the good old days
Donger Dash, PepeHands
Teemo was always banned on Hide and Seek, but sometimes even Kha'Zix, Rengar and Kassadin were also banned
gotta pour some out for the fallen hommies like jax, olaf, tryndaqueer, mundo, taric kiss of death twinkle stun e, Soraka max ap fucking spam Q, fiddle sticks suck of death, global lux and panth. and then some.
Amen, Rest in peace.
Oh and crit dmg runes. one shot GP q.....
This makes me sad. Honestly, I'm not even kidding sad. I alnost want to cry at where the time has gone... i started season one but was so scared to play ranked season one that I didn't lol ... I mained Veigar and I remember being a little boy skipping school to go to the internet Cafe to play... the times have changed
My son Draven was born 1 year before the champion released.. people always think he was named after league since I still play it.. but truth be told he was named after my Tekken main, Raven.. though my wife wouldn't let myle name our son raven so I went down the alphabet and once I got to D-raven it sounded perfect..
So yea.. thats the story of how my son was named..
@@wolfskymoons actually insane coincidence 😭
Reminds me of my cousin's baby has a similar name as to a Jewish demon -- Ezekiel something, it's a long story, the father was a big'ish Game of Thrones fan.
but its not draven, it's d-raaaaaven
that warcraft 3 style graphic got something magical game sphere. Miss all those effects, sound, everything. And the 3v3
its probably my warcraft 3 nostalgia, but old league just has such a cool style to it. i definitely think the current rift looks better from an objective sense, but it wishes it had the soul of twisted treeline
@@proxy6330 both the maps were way more cooler and fitting for the lore. The current maps are meant for clarity 😞
@@Sitback yea clarity / visibility cuz of spells etc , old league map felt always more medieval with the music and the lore lol had back in the time a complete different vibe than todays league
yeah it looked like shit, warcraft 3 was also ugly as hell but damn I love its aesthetic
it went from vibrant with lots of contrast with an albeit dated look to washed out and bland, it did need the update, coulda kept the theme similar at least
I first played during September 2012, just before Syndra dropped. My first game was Lux mid, coached by my friends. nearly 7 yaers later, I finally hit diamond in soloQ. God, what a time to be alive. I wish I could go back.
RIP Twisted Treeline, you shall be remembered.
i miss old league so freaking much, the map, the pre rework champs, the items, the fun builds u could do, league back then was so different, the game was about having fun and not minmaxing every second u spend in the game.
Man idk why I got so much nostalgia even tho I started in Season 4, great video gang earned a new sub.
The ASCENSION mode was the mode that i enjoyed the most back in the day, i don't know if someone remembers it but it was so fun to compete for the ascension by defeating the Xerath that was on the middle of the map
@@piripitiflautico1 I got the Ascension icon 😫
@@piripitiflautico1 I have all the icons, but vandril made a vid showing how it van be abused. Some ppl picked tanks and just disrupted the enemies, putting them in an endless game where the only way out was /ff
i still flex the perfect ascension icon, i went to a bronze friend house and we did it ;D crazy times man
Same! I always play Teemo and Wukong so OP.
My friends n me tried to replicate this in normal drafts. But instead of becoming a raidboss by ascending, we played 4 supports and one hyperscaling midlaner, usually Jax. I still remember fondly one of them playing Soraka jungle (the old one, with mana regen and healing to her teammates) and "reverse ganking" me when I was the raidboss. Basically filling up my HP/Mana so I could keep fighting forever.
The jungle buffs were also not shared back in the day and for a really long time, the ability to jungle was determined whether or not you could sacrifice the second blue to your midlaner... God, I miss old League. People say it's nostalgia, but it really was a different game, while still sharing the same core mechanics, it doesn't play the same anymore.
League allowed you to have fun back in the day, nowadays it's all about the competition. Same fate has struck CS and gaming as a whole. It's all about a stupid rank nobody gives a damn about.
I never thought a video like this would make me cry. I also started back in season 2 and the nostalgia this video brought me hits different.
Rune pages as well as for buying runes on the market. The Tribunal, such a great jewel to punish bad people. The items in the shop, the numbers were 10 times bigger than what we currently have now. The masteries page.
Imagine, you are level 1 as Rammus and start with 100 armor points, it was just crazy.
@@raymondjoannette8052 I already recorded one part for the runes. But I didn't have enough time to edit it. Don't worry. I'll make a part two. Because the tribunal was so funny 😭 I can't wait to talk about it
114AD Fiora Level 1
@@NowWeJustWinIt 100 ad lvl1 Sion was even better.
@@NowWeJustWinIt WHY DO I REMEMBER THIS NUMBER
I don't remember the numbers but I do remember making a page to specifically have both Akali passives at level 1
Man I started during 2010 snowdown showdown. Still getting chills when I hear login screen music. I'm very proud that I never got clinically insane from this game. Few times I was probably close tho. People nowadays don't know how to play other roles because they never experienced "pick order" times.
I got the old draft music as my ringtone that's dope because when I get up in the morning I got that lil stressed energy boost I use to get when I Q up on league back in 2013
The old music was so so good.
Old League of Legends was awesome! Pretty much my only criticism of it was that runes were too expensive. It took forever to save up enough ip just to complete 1 rune page. You either had to choose between unlocking new champions, or buying runes. Most people usually just had 1 cookie cutter rune page for AD champs, and 1 for AP champs.
full gold runes gogogogogo
@@TheSaival Gold runes lol XD
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i miss old league, this video took me back as I also started sometime during s2/s1. How insane are those back to back season 2 champion releases though, timeless designs and kit, to this very day, Syndra has to be the most consistently picked/banned champion at worlds across more than a decade, and a few others in s2 are right behind her.
I started playing when Varus got released, crazy the days where youd type "ADC" to a friend to copy and paste it and then spam paste once you got to champ select lmao what a time to game
Played since beta. The old champions had so much character. Much better identities. Stop playing for a several years because it felt like all the champs I loved were gone.
I'm watching the video right now and my game just found a match at this exact moment 1:56 and hearing the old queue sound as my client popped up gave me such a nostalgia flashback, that timing was kinda scary lol
this video sent me on an unbelievable nostalgia trip. old art style, half of the champions we have today, blue vs purple instead of blue vs red, old removed game modes... i kinda wish League would go back to this for a while. they could at least bring back twisted treeline, it was an interesting concept and something else to play than just SR and ARAM
Call fo Duty and League player veteran, never mess with this guy
Imagine how many kids he edcuated that he b*nged their mom 😭
2012 is when I played. My buddy and I played a ton after high school soccer practice. Just now getting back into it in 2024 and I still love it.
Man thanks bro this video took me back to them old days
Dudeeee i just got back into league like 3 weeks ago and was so shocked at how much it changed. This video brought back SOOOO MUCH NOSTALGIA!
1:56 Holy fuck I LOVED that sound. We really need a Legacy Mode for the new client cause that loud ass metallic ass shreek it lets out now is obnoxious.
3:42 ahhh the sound of match found😢
We need a old league gamemode
remember calling your lane and the first one wrote "mid" is midlane? we had macros on keyboard to spam as first hahaha
I had my account since between season 1 and 2 of League, I think it was near Shyvana release.
For ARAM, I think for a while there was a Proving Grounds custom map which was what people used to play ARAM before Howling Abyss was officially released. It was a one lane map with health relics, no recalls, etc. essentially ARAM beta mode.
That was later, S1 did not have that for sure. Plus of the custom game was that if someone trolled rest would just quit the game and it was over
Shyvana was the first ever champion spotlight i ever seen man! I didnt play and my friend went to visit me in uni and asked for my pc to watch the video on youtube and i watched along and then started playing.
Man old volibear, old akali made me sad man I miss them so much
Twisted treeline was legit the best map they made. The fact they decided it was too hard to balance but decided aram wasnt blows my mind, especially when you put aram on clash
Twisted treeline was also dead for years. Just bots played
Man, the real ones are still out there. I started February of 2011, end immediately fell in love with League. Miss the old cheese builds you could do like OG AP Sion or AP Warwick.
Can we please have a S1-S2 classic version tho? The game felt so much better back then, and not just because of nostalgia. It was the weaknesses. Every champ sucked in most everything and you had to play around their 1 or 2 strengths. That made the team dynamic so much more interesting. This insane assassin? Yeah, they can't farm to save their life and need to be babysat for quite a bit. That amazing support? Yeah, they deal absolutely no damage whatsoever and have no concept of movement. Overcoming those weaknesses as a team was great. If it clicked in terms of composition and plays, it felt amazing. If something was off, you'd damn well feel it.
As a support main i barely had any problems in champ select during the early seasons but i still remember watching the chaos unfold every single game
2:48 Coming from S3, THIS is SO underratedly true and something I wish I realized a lot earlier!!
As a result of growing up and playing casually with this system, I put myself in the most auto-pilot death-spiral of "I'll just auto-fill everytime, so I can premptively cover the roles people arent confident in playing here" till like S10. I was so caught up on trying to mechanically master every champion and their abilities, i didn't even learn what macro was till S11 / S12 LMAO
back in the day I remember having to use curse voice just to chat with friends and when that got removed we switched to skype. The loading screens were the funniest too because it showed whos pc was the slowest and showed how bad their ping was, they were always getting flamed
0:01 i love how you added that detail in xD
bro season 2 brings back so many memories playing with my friends while i was in university here in Canada. I enjoyed the video all the way trough
Classic league game mode would be awesome
in my head, champs like "ekko" still feels like "oh that new champion", i feel old.
This video dropped the same day I dreamed about playing seasons 3-5 again lol
When I was in my first year of uni (like 8 years ago now, man I'm old), we played a 3v3 tournament on TT and it was so good man. Only time I've ever played a Riot approved tournament, such great memories.
I started playing in 2009. I hated the game then but I was already addicted so a nice 15 years later I am still freebasing the game
Dudeeeeeeeeee, i also started playing Lol back in November 2011. It's like you went trough my memories to make this video, What a nostalgia
important details about draft that you missed.
1. There was no role calling in draft, that was only used on blind pick. In draft people choose their role in the order of the picks, and last pick always got support. People did not respect it at all, “mid or feed” was a recurring phrase, and since that was not enforced by Riot, people could refuse to play in a position without facing consequences.
2. The order was dictated by elo/mmr. The highest elo always got first pick. So one strategy was to duo queue with someone way below your elo and always get the first pick, since the other 3 players would have less elo than you.
i mean by the most part people still enforced it lol, ironic enough people were more toxic in chat but not so much in actual game
also still remember carrying games with double jungle ;_;
@@pedronabais1456 Back in S1 and S2 there wasnt so much of a 'right way' People were still just experimenting, and just playing the game. People didnt immediately flame everyone for every little thing, if they did they didnt get banned, and now... idk...
I hate it tbh. I wish it was like it was before. The roles and way people play. Ranked is all no life sweats, half of which who suck, and even riot doesnt treat casual games lobby as thought their casual(in fact riot pushed alot of the roll based toxicity because it appeals to foreign markets)
@tandava-089 tbf to an extent, that's unstoppable, as people get better the thrive to get better increases
but yeah riot tried for the first few seasons to keep the variety and fun as the main focus but quickly strided to competitive instead, to the modern age where would they would fuck all servers for months bc patches would be balanced and thinked to a specific tournament in pro play
@@pedronabais1456 The change happened EXACTLY when the communists took over the company. Its been all downhill since then, while that isnt obvious because they used E-sports to leverage the good that was already there to go hyper-global.....
But the game itself has only gotten worse, with some exceptions for small streamlining, map improvement(which is a mixed bag) and qol features
Started in season 2 baby. Still rocking the christmas wreath icon. Can't believe ive been playing for 12 years
As someone who started playing League in season 10, The idea that you have to type in chat what role you wanted in rank bogles my mind. The amount of argument and frustrations with role picking/bans would've been insane lol.
@@astrograph7875 old League was a special place. Either the worst most toxic lobbies since COD or meet some of the coolest people. I still have friends I talk to from the old daysb
it was really funny because last pick always usually always support
Made my life as support main easy
Last pick was always support. You just accepted it at some point
@@Blubking1 maybe but support did end up being fun in the early days even if u wanted to strangle the adc on occasion
ay man thanks for reminding me how precious the game was back in the day. This game saved me alot when i was bored. Funny how you started too when you was about to go in highschool.
Gimme old xerath back: 3k hp, 200 armor, 60% magic ignore, perma Ghost, 4k hp burst, 2 second Offscreen poke,
this was a sad trip down memory lane, didnt realized how much i wanna play dominion now
Underrated channel 🦾
you did NOT miss with this video. Twas indeed like falling in love. i miss s3 and on forth so much
7:21 I remember my beginnings in this time period and Darius was my first character bought and often played in the second and a half season.
as someone who is a newer player (started 2020) its interesting to see how old league was, and how much it’s changed since then. The release cycle of 19 champions in one year is nuts
I remember exactly when I joined because it was just as Malzahar got his first rework in 2012. I got Annie by default and was constantly grinding to get this cool purple wizard just to find out I was complete ass with him 😭 I loved the old dominion game! You brought back memories my guy!
This was special and i always thought I started in season 3 but it turns out i started in 2 on the Elise patch xd
For me personally Season 5 was the best and my favorite, that's when I spend most of the time plaing league, and here are some of the most memorable memories:
- Mana potion
- 35g potions
- Old hydra
- Moment they introduced Masteries
- Katarina/Pentarina ( whenever I felt boring I'd just queue up in normal games and played Katarina )
- AP Shaco
- Ekko release and no mana ult
- Old Fiora
- Blitz and Shaco combo on bot lane ( especially urf )
- URF ( old URF best thing ever )
- Old map
- Old client
- Old draft mode
- Trying new champion for the first time
- Gosu voice reveal
- Boxbox vs Pink Ward
- xPeke backdoor
There are many more but those are some of the most memorable moments!
Nothing was better than building full AP sion and literally nuking anything you wanted
Such a nostalgic trip of a video, only two minutes in but subbed and liked, awesome work man. Sitback and enjoy type shi
seeing this in a sunday night hurts, but god now how happy i was and i will be in near future
The champ design back then was so much more simple, and in my opinion, fun. Like building 5 rid of ages on rhze and rolling my fingers across the keyboard, with not a single thought in my mind, until someone died was so great. Critplank where you would just press q on someone and they would go down 3/4 hp lmaooo the best.
Seeing old league made me smile. Still miss 3v3 so bad.
I'd love to see a rotating "vanilla" league game mode
the old champ select theme was goated
Thanks man! Good video! I am a OG here. I started first 2 weeks the game came out. Yes, Pre Season 1. :) Still play. Keep it up man! Got my Sub! :) I played Lux my first game and told my friends, "This game looks Awful" and they were like Play it! Second game I was hooked lol. Also, Mordikser was my first champ I got with "LP" as it was called then. :)
Crazy video! Really brings me back. Very well done, Sitback!
Loved this video man! Definitely laughed at the humor you brought into this vid with the nostalgia! Keep up the great work!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO !!! I MISSED IT SO MUCH OMG
I started around 2013, i think it was season 3, Fiora was strong as fck, the double dash and the master yi ahh ult was deadly.
I started playing LoL in season 1, i moved to Dota 2 in 2013 til now (still a noob). You unlocked a lot of good memories, thank you!
Hide and seek was peak league of legends experience for me. Still chasing that high I got from playing it with a large group of friends
this video put a smile on my face especially the sound effect of "accept queue" but somehow it got melancholy..wish we could turn back time
bro hide n seek on dominion was god tier. Reminded me of them micheal myers lobbies back in CoD would love to see them bring back dominion even if its just a seasonal thing
I started playing when Darius was released back in 2012 May. I can remember the loading screen and how hyped everyone was about Darius. I didnt even wanna play the game but my friend insisted i try it and here i am 12 years later still playing the game. Ofc i had long/short pauses but the longevity of this game is crazy.
I started playing right after the release of aatrox I think that was season 3. Amazing memories great video
i remember when you could get custom league skins and change how you look on your own client
It is so funny. I started in beta and played until shortly BEFORE season 2. Back when I started it wasn't even super common to have a jungler in every team. At least not on "common" skill levels back then. 2-1-2 was a valid lane setup in the very early times. There were no jungle items and all that stuff. So jungle was actually pretty fucking hard and relatively slow compared to now. I just recently started the game again after not playing for like 13 years. It is so crazy how much the game changed.
I miss the old League really bad it gives me kickbacks of my old life
Only note: Zed was changed. His R used to put a shadow behind his opponent. It wasn't until later that they change it to put a shadow where he started.
I know its a minor note. On Ahri they removed her damage bonus on her E. Charmed champions used to take an additional 20% damage.
Also Q didn't give movement speed. Ahri was more of a burst mage.
@@MrCmon113 ahhh forgot about that one... Old ahri was so good :(
Old ryze was the most spectacular investment in history
Wow dayum, seeing that twisted treeline got me nostalgic :/ i really liked 3v3 as well