OLD League of Legends vs Season 2023: It Was Crazy

Today, let's talk about old league of legends. With all the new changes for Preseason / Season 2023, like the new jungle and jungle companions, as well as ravenous hydra, spear of shojin, and the new jungle rework... it's made me want to think about the good ol' days. This video was written, produced, edited, and voiced by Kellen (Exil)

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Hecarim top lane 2015 Wingsofdeath

Old league of legends winter map:

League tips, using rift herald

Preseason League of Legends new objective

Pinkward Shaco

ARAM league of legends lux

Lee sin jungle

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[mayberry-tyler]

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.

[Smerfaster]

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.

[Zerosenpai]

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

[Zerg]

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.

[PhillipOnTakos]

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.

[dondo]

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.

[Kejmur]

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.

[dillonthomas]

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!

[RedaReda-dqfg]

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.

[seanventen]

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.

[Sweedypoo]

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.

[jakeboston]

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.

[ashryver]

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.

[DustySquitoNM]

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.

[premiumfruits]

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.

[Pukionable]

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

[DNguyenchester]

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.

[shrillexx]

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

[nathanc]

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..

[teruyvu]

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.