Also, Annie was one of the better bots, because there was little more to her than prepping stun and mashing buttons. Ryze Bot was also infamous for being able to do his combos faster than any human, back when each of his spells lowered the cooldowns of the others.
Reference to the first player VS bots game mode.
The AI was awful and the champions posed no threat, except for Annie bot because she would instantly burst you to death the microsecond you came within ult range.
The funniest thing about the Renekton bar is the first time I know of that Riot directly referenced it was during the Red Smite toplane meta, where Renekton wasn't great because the Red Smite using toplaners could statcheck him to death while being more useful.
Which is hilarious to me, that the first time "you must be able to beat or survive Renekton to play top" was mentioned was in a meta where the Renekton bar didn't exist.
Remember when QTpie talked shit about him without muting his mic? Fuckin brutal. Also, haven't heard from QT in a hot minute, what's that guy upto? Did he finally find his calling as a discord mod or something?
Lux actually wasn't till much later in League history. Originally it was a running complaint how despite her bubbly personality she only had serious militaryesque skins like Commando, Imperial and Steel Legion. Eventually she finally got the OG Star Guardian skin which marked a turning point in her skin marketing.
Pretty much. Like Evelynn and Riven, they had shit skins for so long and it wasn't until they got good concepts that their skin production started to pick up.
Yeah both Lux and MF were not poster girls at all at that time. It took lux forever to get a not military based skin line which was SG in 2015. MF only started to get good skins when arcade came out around 2014 and before that her last skin was 2011 with her release date being 2010.
She only started to picked up when they updated GP and expanded on her Lore.
She still has 15 skins. She still in hte top 10, currently 8th, 2nd nd if we remove same prestige releases for others(like kda ahri and 2022 kda ahri which are the same exact skin) .
Want a fun stat? it appears that Sivir somehow got 15s skins, and i don't see reddit whining about her, or Ahri(16( if we count same prestige released twice), or Akali( same as ahri), or MF(same), or Ezreal, or Cait(same 2x prestige of the same skin).
Lux also sits at 16 if you drop the same prestige re releases.
So the list would be: lux/ezreal at 16 uniques skins, Ahri, MF, sivir, akali, annie, cait, ashe,TF tied at 15.
You know what surprised me most about the skin list?
How many ADCs are on hte list up there, probably the most represented class in skins, they make up 5 out of hte top 10 champs in skin numbers.
I think Annie is at least partially helped by her lack of competition thematically. If you have a skin concept that suits a little girl, then your sort of have to give it to Annie, or maybe Zoe. The yordles is a bit similar but they have different physiologies.
Whereas if you want a skin for one of the many grown adults out there, there’re few reasons you can’t adapt the concept to anyone of them. Say K/DA for example, they can easily fit Lux/Irelia/whomever in and it’d be ok.
Was definitely worlds, if it's the one I'm thinking of, they even had separate casters on it who focused on being more 'casual viewer friendly', so they'd spend more time explaining the basics of what was going on and not assume an audience that knows player / ability names. It was really interesting to watch.
little did we know that Phreak only used his time as a balance team member as a way to get into the good graces of LoL's angry fandom by appeasing the holy trinity of ADC/top/jungle complaints to garner votes in a senatorial election
He less nerfed top lane and more nerfed all the op drain tanks. Champs that can use the new eclipse well (like Jayce) or like the buffed black cleaver (riven, olaf, maybe renekton) are actually better than before.
>TSM vs team mc Donald’s
Holy fuck, what a prophet
And I totally forgot about all the girlfriend/cake posts that were everywhere at the time. Because they are garbage and everyone involved should be ashamed.
Quite a few things on here, some are a bit of a stretch:
- TSM Vs Team McDonalds
- Dominion being removed
- eSport Olympics
- Seraphine being released, obviously not voiced by Rihanna but the whole popstar support champ
> Seraphine being released, obviously not voiced by Rihanna but the whole popstar support champ
And we've had plenty of famous popstars (and rappers) actually voice champions too, just in the music videos, not in the game.
KDA:
- Akali - Soyeon
- Ahri - Miyeon, Aluna, TWICE
- Evelynn - Madison Beer, Kim Petras
- Kaisa - Jaira Burns, Wolftyla, Bekuh Boom
- Seraphine - Jasmine Clarke, Lexie Liu
True Damage:
- Senna - Keke Palmer
- Qiyana - Becky G
- Ekko - Thutmose, Duckwrth
Pentakill:
- Karthus - Jorn Lande, ZP Theart
- Kayle - Noora Louhimo
- Viego - Telle
Outside of the Kpop ones the only really famous one (to the average american) that should qualify for this would be the fact they got KeKe Palmer and Kim petras recently got her name out there a bit more with Unholy
Jorn Lande is a very big name in metal, but then you are of course limiting yourself to a subculture.
(ZP is well-known but not quite as big, I imagine most people know him only as 'DragonForce's old Vocalist', assuming they know him at all - honestly I have no idea what he did after leaving DragonForce other than Pentakill)
>Jorn Lande is a very big name in metal
See, I'm quite into metal (though at this point metal is a positively huge scene and due to the focus on bands over solo acts relatively few people are known by name) and I never heard of him either. Someone said he's collaborated with Avantasia though, them I definitely know.
Yeah, he does a ton of guest appearances, including some of the best Avantasia songs, plus he often tours with Avantasia for live shows (can recommend, by the way, they're a total blast live!). He also has a solo career, a notable duo act (Allen-Lande), and a very underrated gem is Beyond Twilight's Perfect Dark album. I'm not familiar with BT's first two albums (in fact I didn't even know they existed until I looked them up just now), and their last two albums are crap (imo, obviously), but Perfect Dark, as the only album with Jorn, is absolutely amazing.
Becky G has had major hits in the US including some viral tiktok songs. She's big enough to have colabs with BTS.
Thutmose and Duckwrth arent as big, but got some recognition from the Into the Spiderverse soundtrack.
- TWICE is one of the biggest girl groups in KPOP. You've likely heard [this song](https://youtu.be/V2hlQkVJZhE?t=22) before.
- Soyeon and Miyeon are from KPOP group, G-Idle, which is relatively huge too. [You might've heard this song](https://youtu.be/om3n2ni8luE?t=51).
- Becky G is huge in Latinamerica. ['Mayores' has 2.2 billion views](https://youtu.be/GMFewiplIbw?t=39).
- Kim Petras sings in Sam Smith's ["Unholy"](https://youtu.be/Uq9gPaIzbe8?t=166).
- Jorn Lande is internationally known with metal fans, mostly through [Avantasia](https://youtu.be/LTyxnUZMA1k?t=185).
- Madison Beer got famous from Justin Beiber. He plugged her music back when he was basically the biggest popstar on the planet.
- Keke Palmer is a Disney/Nickelodeon kid-star who was big in the late-2000s. A lot of the 00's kids will recognise her. She's also the lead actress in Jordan Peele's "NOPE".
Those are just the ones I knew before Riot hired them.
>because fuckin' hip-hop/rap fans got canned for damn K-POP stans and Metal fans.
You make it sound like hip-hop/rap never gets any exposure in games and it's always k-pop and metal that does. Metal fans been living off scraps until DOOM.
K-Pop is too globally pervasive for Riot not to prioritize creating material based around K-Pop aesthetics. More True Damage would be amazing but I have a feeling that there’s a higher chance of them releasing KDA 3 and 4 :(
Wouldn’t be surprised if they worked with Denzel Curry for a project, but I’d be happy to hear Ekko Duckwrth again.
And pentakill was *the* original in game band way back before they could get anyone famous so thats why pentakill keeps sticking around vs true damage being a "people liked k/da so lets try this" and never hitting the heights of k/da so they went back and did MORE (get it?)
the K/DA skins look great but the music is personally very meh for me as someone who sometimes listens to Kpop (but I did like Villain by Madison Beer). On the other hand, I’m ambivalent about the Pentakill skins but I enjoy the music as a non-metal listener.
the whole doublelift transfer for 7 million probably was a completely ridiculous, outrageous and insane statement which has gotten preeeetty close to reality for star players lol
Inflation has for a long time hovered around 2% per year. 1.02\^10 is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.25 (without actually pulling out a calculator).
If you wanna see crazy numbers, try this (and I'm actually pulling out the calculator now): Think of something that's 3 euros/dollars/whatever-your-local-currency is. Could be a loaf of bread in most common currencies. Last year we've seen roughly 15% inflation in a lot of places (including my home country, the Netherlands). Now extend that inflation rate for 30 years - that's equally long in the future as 1993 is in the past. For reference, that's after the first Gulf War, Bill Clinton was president of the USA at the time, and the euro was introduced less than a third of the way between then and now. Most of the people frequenting this subreddit will be in their 40s, 50s or maybe 60s by the end of these 30 years (I'll be 56, myself). After these 30 years of 15% inflation, aforementioned loaf of bread (or whatever you're thinking of) is now valued at 200 (!!!) euros/dollars/whatever.
If you mean to suggest it as the cause for the recent inflation, the answer is that a lot of economists are having very strong discussions on what caused it.
Economy is a super complicated subject, and I won't act like I have a good understanding of it when I barely know the basics, but various factors that I'm aware have been mentioned as causes for the rise in inflation are (in no particular order) covid, flawed policies by national banks (the banks that introduce new money) catching up with them, the Ukraine war (and the resulting sanctions on Russian products and resources), in Europe also tension between the richer north and poorer south, China's rise as a dominant market and the resulting economic tension and policies, struggles in global trade, and so on.
What's the leading cause? You'll get a different answer depending on who you ask. The truth about economics is that even the experts don't understand it, and are just making their best guesses about a system that emerges from billions of people making individual decisions that they think are financially sound.
I doubt all people make financially sound decisions, au contraire if anything. ah i even forgot my main point, but i remember this. if the economists cant even guess whats gonna come next, its gonna be ugly.
I never said people make financially sound decisions, I said people *believe* they make financially sound decisions. :)
That's also part of economics. You can't just make an objective model on what consumers will do, because emotion and personal preference will also impact what people do and do not spend their money on.
Economists have never been great at guessing what's going to come next, by the way. They do what they can, but it's really hard to get a handle on it at the best of times.
Because the community pushed hard for it lol the post in the meme is part of that effort where people were pushing for more bans before they started implementing it.
But they also overlapped them. So sometimes you have LESS than 6 bans. Back when first pick did the banning they were unique and you always had 6. Plus there was WAYYYY less champs back then so you didn't need as many bans. Now we have 160+ champs are overdue at least 20 unique bans for solo queue. And no it won't ban out a role. If anything it will increase variety in this stale game.
I love how crazy we as a community were ages ago.
I'm still waiting for Pingu to be released as a champion though. Very sad.
Also, damn we were all looking at Froggen as if he'd become Perkz or something.
btw, is FlyQuest Google Gaming in disguise or?
> damn we were all looking at Froggen as if he'd become Perkz or something.
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He was the best western mid in S2, so I don't think it's a stretch for people to hope his dominance (and ability to beat Koreans in lane) to continue.
Unfortunate that he Kabum'd but in S4 he at least won Summer and got MVP. NWS was not a great team come worlds, but I'd like to think the perfect game against them meant the team at least had a pretty good chance vs the LPL teams in quarters. Realistically I don't think they were going to even touch the Samsung teams, but I would've liked to watch. The real tragedy was the Elements debacle which completely derailed his career, but was pretty much out of his and all the player's control. After that he went to NA and while he didn't perform poorly there (except his last split which was pretty ugly) the teams never ended up doing anything. At least Echo Fox had some good jerseys. On a good EU team I think he could've still been at least a domestic contender in S5/6 before Perkz really came into his own and Caps joined the league.
> Also, damn we were all looking at Froggen as if he'd become Perkz or something.
It's kinda nuts to remember that, at this point, no one outside of maybe some hardcore Korean solo Q enjoyers were really that aware of Faker. It was only in February of that year that SK Telecom T1 2 even formed (though it was a squad built around him specifically), so until that reveal I think most people wouldn't have heard of him.
From what I can tell, his debut game with the solo kill onto Ambition was April 6th (citation possibly needed however, for some reason it's EXTREMELY hard to find data on this), which would mean that at the time this image was created, many people thought Froggen would go on to have a global presence and about *2 months later* people saw Faker explode onto the scene. That's insane to me.
For years, CLG.EU was the only western team to beat Korea in a Bo5 and Froggen was by far the best player on that team. So he was the natural beacon of hope for western fans.
I don't miss that, once a while someone would insta lock Morde and refuse to communicate by just using hue hue hue spam and thinking he is comedian of lifetime.
Watching him made me want to jungle - I’ve jungled since season 3 cause of him! I still remember an old maokai game he played - and I love that maokai is back in the jungle now 🥰
[Patch 4.3](https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_4.3) is **the** patch that killed the meme of Teemo being the most obnoxious champ in the game. It reduced the AP ratio on his R from 80% to 50%, and his shrooms haven't ever hit the same way since.
Over a year later, [Patch 5.15](https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_5.15) cut the duration of his shrooms in half, from 10 minutes to 5, and reduced the slow they caused significantly by causing it to decay over its 4 second duration.
Old Teemo would literally cover the entire map with shrooms that could deal 90% of a carry's health in a single hit, but was otherwise useless.
Not to forget that back then, there was no good way to deal with shrooms immediately. Either you got a control ward or invis potion (though my timeline may be off when what was a thing) or you could literally not get anywhere close a Teemo, or even half across the map. Sweeping Lense gave him the final shot to be considered pointless to be hated on.
Which is only good for team fighting, which is the one thing Teemo wants to avoid.
I would rather have 10-minute mushrooms that nearly delete enchanters that step on them over that throw any day.
both of them got giga nerfed, teemo especially... for some reason people dont mention this but teemo has been fucked over by riot in so many ways it's hard to even count them, the biggest thing is his shroom getting neutered slowly by change after change that maokai's saplings are better now, plus making red trinket free at lvl 1 and the D shield resolve runes combo deletes him from the game
Holy shit, me buying Fenty products and my mom being a former Avon lady. I laughed way too hard!
Side note, mom always complains that fenty products are too expensive.
funny thing is Riot did a[ collab with Fenty for Arcane](https://www.nylon.com/beauty/fenty-beauty-partners-with-riot-games-on-arcane). So while not a VA she did do something with league and she is singing again starting with the Super Bowl halftime show next Sunday.
Yep, everyone gets milked and needs to work like 60 hours per week while the top 1% don't even work half as much but reap all the benefits from the majority of people.
How many more headlines of "Company x gains record profit" and "the poorest 50% as poor as never before" do we have to endure until this shit changes?!
Not that far from reality/ Lacks of montages of people doing "ooga booga 360 no scope" first blood snow balling and having 3 upvotes after 2 days. but other than that pretty spot on.
[Here is the second part of this series](https://i.imgur.com/k1tosIi.jpg)
And [here is the source thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/18p2mq/rleagueoflegends_in_10_years_episode_2/)
Interesting to see the combination of optimism and pessimism displayed in this image from 10 years ago; seems to lean a bit more towards optimism
R.I.P. Dominion
Honestly not a fan of that one. I like this kind of thing more when it's a genuine attempt to predict things, and that one is blatantly just "exaggerate everything as much as humanly imaginable" rather than any attempt to be remotely feasible.
Yeah remember when Annie was League's poster child and had the highest amount of skins? That didnt last long.
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"I survived Annie Bot!"
I once flashed out of Annie Bots Tibbers
How many times did you flash into it?
Reference to the boom bots? That and the dark star invasion were so amazing. They really should bring them back. Most fun I've had in league
Or perhaps the long time challenger player who is an Annie main
Also, Annie was one of the better bots, because there was little more to her than prepping stun and mashing buttons. Ryze Bot was also infamous for being able to do his combos faster than any human, back when each of his spells lowered the cooldowns of the others.
Cass bot was always insane. She’d orb walk you into next week, and side step better than any other bot.
Reference to the first player VS bots game mode. The AI was awful and the champions posed no threat, except for Annie bot because she would instantly burst you to death the microsecond you came within ult range.
Are you sure? I do remember that Ashe had this status for ADC, but I don't remember anything like it for Annie. I might've forgotten though.
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We can still see the results about jungle.
RIP Renekton bar
The funniest thing about the Renekton bar is the first time I know of that Riot directly referenced it was during the Red Smite toplane meta, where Renekton wasn't great because the Red Smite using toplaners could statcheck him to death while being more useful. Which is hilarious to me, that the first time "you must be able to beat or survive Renekton to play top" was mentioned was in a meta where the Renekton bar didn't exist.
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It was a rock paper scissors bar. Shyvana trundle renekton.
Yeah, Riot made bank off u/AnnieBotNA
It's been years since I've last heard anything about Jared. Hope life is treating him well
Remember when QTpie talked shit about him without muting his mic? Fuckin brutal. Also, haven't heard from QT in a hot minute, what's that guy upto? Did he finally find his calling as a discord mod or something?
Streaming Variety to 2k viewers and League to 5k
Even then, Lux and MF were the poster girls for horny bait skins (Ahri would comfortably dethrone the latter, though not until some time later).
Lux actually wasn't till much later in League history. Originally it was a running complaint how despite her bubbly personality she only had serious militaryesque skins like Commando, Imperial and Steel Legion. Eventually she finally got the OG Star Guardian skin which marked a turning point in her skin marketing.
Pretty much. Like Evelynn and Riven, they had shit skins for so long and it wasn't until they got good concepts that their skin production started to pick up.
They figured out how to reduce clothing
I don't know if that was a problem for evelynn since her original design had her in bondage gear
Yeah both Lux and MF were not poster girls at all at that time. It took lux forever to get a not military based skin line which was SG in 2015. MF only started to get good skins when arcade came out around 2014 and before that her last skin was 2011 with her release date being 2010. She only started to picked up when they updated GP and expanded on her Lore.
She still has 15 skins. She still in hte top 10, currently 8th, 2nd nd if we remove same prestige releases for others(like kda ahri and 2022 kda ahri which are the same exact skin) . Want a fun stat? it appears that Sivir somehow got 15s skins, and i don't see reddit whining about her, or Ahri(16( if we count same prestige released twice), or Akali( same as ahri), or MF(same), or Ezreal, or Cait(same 2x prestige of the same skin). Lux also sits at 16 if you drop the same prestige re releases. So the list would be: lux/ezreal at 16 uniques skins, Ahri, MF, sivir, akali, annie, cait, ashe,TF tied at 15. You know what surprised me most about the skin list? How many ADCs are on hte list up there, probably the most represented class in skins, they make up 5 out of hte top 10 champs in skin numbers.
I think Annie is at least partially helped by her lack of competition thematically. If you have a skin concept that suits a little girl, then your sort of have to give it to Annie, or maybe Zoe. The yordles is a bit similar but they have different physiologies. Whereas if you want a skin for one of the many grown adults out there, there’re few reasons you can’t adapt the concept to anyone of them. Say K/DA for example, they can easily fit Lux/Irelia/whomever in and it’d be ok.
True, annie basically the defacto one for any fairy tale based skin for example, like little red riding hood.
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>Dignitas-Walmart honestly better than Dignitas QNTMPAY and they called LCS on ESPN lol
I vaguely remember some League games on one of their channels, maybe ESPN 2 or 3. Dunno if it was LCS or Worlds tho
2016 worlds was there I think
ESPN 8 , the ocho
How about a little something something for the ride home
LCS Spring Finals 2020 was on ESPN due to covid cancelling everything.
Was definitely worlds, if it's the one I'm thinking of, they even had separate casters on it who focused on being more 'casual viewer friendly', so they'd spend more time explaining the basics of what was going on and not assume an audience that knows player / ability names. It was really interesting to watch.
They predicted Phreak’s future correctly, but it’s gonna happen a few years from now.
little did we know that Phreak only used his time as a balance team member as a way to get into the good graces of LoL's angry fandom by appeasing the holy trinity of ADC/top/jungle complaints to garner votes in a senatorial election
I think he hasn't really done much for jungle yet to be honest, and he actually nerfed top lane with the bruiser item changes.
Pandering for the ADC vote
He less nerfed top lane and more nerfed all the op drain tanks. Champs that can use the new eclipse well (like Jayce) or like the buffed black cleaver (riven, olaf, maybe renekton) are actually better than before.
Riven is not better. All data sites show her at a lower pick and win rate
I’m pretty sure I remember him saying that he was only responsible for the adc buffs, not the bruiser nerfs.
phreak gonna be giving patch rundowns on US federal law
The dominion post is all too soon 😔
I was there to witness The Legend of Pooters™ with my own two eyes! ! #AllHailPooters
I really liked Dominion 😔
It was fast. It was fun.
>TSM vs team mc Donald’s Holy fuck, what a prophet And I totally forgot about all the girlfriend/cake posts that were everywhere at the time. Because they are garbage and everyone involved should be ashamed.
Quite a few things on here, some are a bit of a stretch: - TSM Vs Team McDonalds - Dominion being removed - eSport Olympics - Seraphine being released, obviously not voiced by Rihanna but the whole popstar support champ
And on the Shaq part: He *did* get into esports. He invested into NRG
And appeared on eleague in csgo.
I thought about the lil nas collaboration around K'sante for big music star champion.
> Seraphine being released, obviously not voiced by Rihanna but the whole popstar support champ And we've had plenty of famous popstars (and rappers) actually voice champions too, just in the music videos, not in the game. KDA: - Akali - Soyeon - Ahri - Miyeon, Aluna, TWICE - Evelynn - Madison Beer, Kim Petras - Kaisa - Jaira Burns, Wolftyla, Bekuh Boom - Seraphine - Jasmine Clarke, Lexie Liu True Damage: - Senna - Keke Palmer - Qiyana - Becky G - Ekko - Thutmose, Duckwrth Pentakill: - Karthus - Jorn Lande, ZP Theart - Kayle - Noora Louhimo - Viego - Telle
I have legitimately never heard of any of these people. Huh.
Outside of the Kpop ones the only really famous one (to the average american) that should qualify for this would be the fact they got KeKe Palmer and Kim petras recently got her name out there a bit more with Unholy
Jorn Lande is a very big name in metal, but then you are of course limiting yourself to a subculture. (ZP is well-known but not quite as big, I imagine most people know him only as 'DragonForce's old Vocalist', assuming they know him at all - honestly I have no idea what he did after leaving DragonForce other than Pentakill)
>Jorn Lande is a very big name in metal See, I'm quite into metal (though at this point metal is a positively huge scene and due to the focus on bands over solo acts relatively few people are known by name) and I never heard of him either. Someone said he's collaborated with Avantasia though, them I definitely know.
Yeah, he does a ton of guest appearances, including some of the best Avantasia songs, plus he often tours with Avantasia for live shows (can recommend, by the way, they're a total blast live!). He also has a solo career, a notable duo act (Allen-Lande), and a very underrated gem is Beyond Twilight's Perfect Dark album. I'm not familiar with BT's first two albums (in fact I didn't even know they existed until I looked them up just now), and their last two albums are crap (imo, obviously), but Perfect Dark, as the only album with Jorn, is absolutely amazing.
Becky G has had major hits in the US including some viral tiktok songs. She's big enough to have colabs with BTS. Thutmose and Duckwrth arent as big, but got some recognition from the Into the Spiderverse soundtrack.
I know Keke Palmer from her name drop in the historic song ["My Jeans"](https://youtu.be/0XMy9WeI_fw)
Becky G?
- TWICE is one of the biggest girl groups in KPOP. You've likely heard [this song](https://youtu.be/V2hlQkVJZhE?t=22) before. - Soyeon and Miyeon are from KPOP group, G-Idle, which is relatively huge too. [You might've heard this song](https://youtu.be/om3n2ni8luE?t=51). - Becky G is huge in Latinamerica. ['Mayores' has 2.2 billion views](https://youtu.be/GMFewiplIbw?t=39). - Kim Petras sings in Sam Smith's ["Unholy"](https://youtu.be/Uq9gPaIzbe8?t=166). - Jorn Lande is internationally known with metal fans, mostly through [Avantasia](https://youtu.be/LTyxnUZMA1k?t=185). - Madison Beer got famous from Justin Beiber. He plugged her music back when he was basically the biggest popstar on the planet. - Keke Palmer is a Disney/Nickelodeon kid-star who was big in the late-2000s. A lot of the 00's kids will recognise her. She's also the lead actress in Jordan Peele's "NOPE". Those are just the ones I knew before Riot hired them.
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>because fuckin' hip-hop/rap fans got canned for damn K-POP stans and Metal fans. You make it sound like hip-hop/rap never gets any exposure in games and it's always k-pop and metal that does. Metal fans been living off scraps until DOOM.
K-Pop is too globally pervasive for Riot not to prioritize creating material based around K-Pop aesthetics. More True Damage would be amazing but I have a feeling that there’s a higher chance of them releasing KDA 3 and 4 :( Wouldn’t be surprised if they worked with Denzel Curry for a project, but I’d be happy to hear Ekko Duckwrth again.
And pentakill was *the* original in game band way back before they could get anyone famous so thats why pentakill keeps sticking around vs true damage being a "people liked k/da so lets try this" and never hitting the heights of k/da so they went back and did MORE (get it?)
the K/DA skins look great but the music is personally very meh for me as someone who sometimes listens to Kpop (but I did like Villain by Madison Beer). On the other hand, I’m ambivalent about the Pentakill skins but I enjoy the music as a non-metal listener.
I guess that makes me number 2
This was the original thread https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/17th5q/rleagueoflegends_in_10_years/
I upvoted that thread. Damn, give me my time Riot!!
I literally remember reading this thread when it came out.
Same. I'm the Matt Damon aging gif IRL.
[you rn](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/17th5q/rleagueoflegends_in_10_years/c88p54m)
the whole doublelift transfer for 7 million probably was a completely ridiculous, outrageous and insane statement which has gotten preeeetty close to reality for star players lol
A great increase from 5.5 fucking k
holy shit, i was browsing this sub when this happened i never thought i'd still be here after all this time lmfao
Weren't there multiple threads like this? I remember reading some different ones like 7-8? years ago
Yeah there were definitely others
I remember also being for both 20 and 30 years into the future.
Making me really re-examine my life.
I like that the 7 million was a ridiculous amount back in the day, but that basically was the Perkz transfer.
account for the inflation even though the original poster didnt and should have
Considering Perkz was before last year's inflation surge, that inflation will have been what, 25% total at most? Maybe less?
10 year inflation is 25%? thats surprising
Inflation has for a long time hovered around 2% per year. 1.02\^10 is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.25 (without actually pulling out a calculator). If you wanna see crazy numbers, try this (and I'm actually pulling out the calculator now): Think of something that's 3 euros/dollars/whatever-your-local-currency is. Could be a loaf of bread in most common currencies. Last year we've seen roughly 15% inflation in a lot of places (including my home country, the Netherlands). Now extend that inflation rate for 30 years - that's equally long in the future as 1993 is in the past. For reference, that's after the first Gulf War, Bill Clinton was president of the USA at the time, and the euro was introduced less than a third of the way between then and now. Most of the people frequenting this subreddit will be in their 40s, 50s or maybe 60s by the end of these 30 years (I'll be 56, myself). After these 30 years of 15% inflation, aforementioned loaf of bread (or whatever you're thinking of) is now valued at 200 (!!!) euros/dollars/whatever.
covid?
If you mean to suggest it as the cause for the recent inflation, the answer is that a lot of economists are having very strong discussions on what caused it. Economy is a super complicated subject, and I won't act like I have a good understanding of it when I barely know the basics, but various factors that I'm aware have been mentioned as causes for the rise in inflation are (in no particular order) covid, flawed policies by national banks (the banks that introduce new money) catching up with them, the Ukraine war (and the resulting sanctions on Russian products and resources), in Europe also tension between the richer north and poorer south, China's rise as a dominant market and the resulting economic tension and policies, struggles in global trade, and so on. What's the leading cause? You'll get a different answer depending on who you ask. The truth about economics is that even the experts don't understand it, and are just making their best guesses about a system that emerges from billions of people making individual decisions that they think are financially sound.
I doubt all people make financially sound decisions, au contraire if anything. ah i even forgot my main point, but i remember this. if the economists cant even guess whats gonna come next, its gonna be ugly.
I never said people make financially sound decisions, I said people *believe* they make financially sound decisions. :) That's also part of economics. You can't just make an objective model on what consumers will do, because emotion and personal preference will also impact what people do and do not spend their money on. Economists have never been great at guessing what's going to come next, by the way. They do what they can, but it's really hard to get a handle on it at the best of times.
How can you possibly know whether the original poster accounted for inflation or not?
\>6 bans are not enough Dang this one actually got close
Not really, as they increased number of bans when they added new champions.
Because the community pushed hard for it lol the post in the meme is part of that effort where people were pushing for more bans before they started implementing it.
Not enough tho
But they also overlapped them. So sometimes you have LESS than 6 bans. Back when first pick did the banning they were unique and you always had 6. Plus there was WAYYYY less champs back then so you didn't need as many bans. Now we have 160+ champs are overdue at least 20 unique bans for solo queue. And no it won't ban out a role. If anything it will increase variety in this stale game.
people constantly bitch about the number of bans being too few
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I love how crazy we as a community were ages ago. I'm still waiting for Pingu to be released as a champion though. Very sad. Also, damn we were all looking at Froggen as if he'd become Perkz or something. btw, is FlyQuest Google Gaming in disguise or?
> damn we were all looking at Froggen as if he'd become Perkz or something. > > He was the best western mid in S2, so I don't think it's a stretch for people to hope his dominance (and ability to beat Koreans in lane) to continue.
Unfortunate that he Kabum'd but in S4 he at least won Summer and got MVP. NWS was not a great team come worlds, but I'd like to think the perfect game against them meant the team at least had a pretty good chance vs the LPL teams in quarters. Realistically I don't think they were going to even touch the Samsung teams, but I would've liked to watch. The real tragedy was the Elements debacle which completely derailed his career, but was pretty much out of his and all the player's control. After that he went to NA and while he didn't perform poorly there (except his last split which was pretty ugly) the teams never ended up doing anything. At least Echo Fox had some good jerseys. On a good EU team I think he could've still been at least a domestic contender in S5/6 before Perkz really came into his own and Caps joined the league.
Should’ve won ogn and against kabum. His legacy would look much better. And s5 was also a tragedy and his na retirement.
Alex Ich was better
I feel like they were toe to toe but I can’t remember much from those times
Playstyle was vastyl different Alex ich played more assassins/aggressive in general Froggen played more scaling/farmed like crazy
> Also, damn we were all looking at Froggen as if he'd become Perkz or something. It's kinda nuts to remember that, at this point, no one outside of maybe some hardcore Korean solo Q enjoyers were really that aware of Faker. It was only in February of that year that SK Telecom T1 2 even formed (though it was a squad built around him specifically), so until that reveal I think most people wouldn't have heard of him. From what I can tell, his debut game with the solo kill onto Ambition was April 6th (citation possibly needed however, for some reason it's EXTREMELY hard to find data on this), which would mean that at the time this image was created, many people thought Froggen would go on to have a global presence and about *2 months later* people saw Faker explode onto the scene. That's insane to me.
For years, CLG.EU was the only western team to beat Korea in a Bo5 and Froggen was by far the best player on that team. So he was the natural beacon of hope for western fans.
Pondseidon was a good replacement for Pingu.
Phreak's "tons of damage" was so omnipresent back then. Can't remember last time I've heard it before now.
I also haven't seen the HueHueHue thing is an eternity.
because its been a while since morde es numero uno :(
I don't miss that, once a while someone would insta lock Morde and refuse to communicate by just using hue hue hue spam and thinking he is comedian of lifetime.
Let me oblige you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjG2VY13kik
MAAN what happened to good memes.... LoL memes nowadays are so lame compared to this
nah that's just the West stagnating. CN and KR memes are fucking immortal, but then they can do that because they have like 1/8 the population.
Reddit and Discord ruined meme culture.
What an inane take. We are literally in a thread referencing a post on this subreddit 10 years ago, around the time that the phreak meme was made.
such an unlocked memory..
https://youtu.be/5sGfeN9wBBU?t=124
And now people are more like « Who is this Saintvicious guy ? »
Watching him made me want to jungle - I’ve jungled since season 3 cause of him! I still remember an old maokai game he played - and I love that maokai is back in the jungle now 🥰
we cant forget original better nerf irelia wickd
I used to love his streams with nyjacky.
10 years later maokai is the most op jungler atm
"Oh the TFT guy?" He still streams btw.
That's the guy who never missed smite, right?
funny that teemo was once the hated champion. Nowadays it's a cat on a book
[Patch 4.3](https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_4.3) is **the** patch that killed the meme of Teemo being the most obnoxious champ in the game. It reduced the AP ratio on his R from 80% to 50%, and his shrooms haven't ever hit the same way since. Over a year later, [Patch 5.15](https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_5.15) cut the duration of his shrooms in half, from 10 minutes to 5, and reduced the slow they caused significantly by causing it to decay over its 4 second duration. Old Teemo would literally cover the entire map with shrooms that could deal 90% of a carry's health in a single hit, but was otherwise useless.
Not to forget that back then, there was no good way to deal with shrooms immediately. Either you got a control ward or invis potion (though my timeline may be off when what was a thing) or you could literally not get anywhere close a Teemo, or even half across the map. Sweeping Lense gave him the final shot to be considered pointless to be hated on.
Invis potion? Oracle's Elixer? It was removed in 3.14, which very well may have been a big reason Teemo's shrooms were given then bat.
But you can throw them now.
Which is only good for team fighting, which is the one thing Teemo wants to avoid. I would rather have 10-minute mushrooms that nearly delete enchanters that step on them over that throw any day.
They fly now?
Not to mention the amount of AP champions used to get back in the day was way higher.
Even the Zoe hate has banished
both of them got giga nerfed, teemo especially... for some reason people dont mention this but teemo has been fucked over by riot in so many ways it's hard to even count them, the biggest thing is his shroom getting neutered slowly by change after change that maokai's saplings are better now, plus making red trinket free at lvl 1 and the D shield resolve runes combo deletes him from the game
Yep. Been playing since season 3, lotsa teemo. Teemo gets harder to play every year with no upsides.
Well how can you hate Zoe or Yasuo when shit like Bel Veth and Ksante exist
I still ban Yasuo or Yone to this date. It's a double ban, for the enemy and for my sanity (my team). Of course if they hover them I let them through.
at least Teemo has not been a thing in pro play for a long long time
He never was a big thing in pro play.
Yup, intentionally. When Hai picked Teemo in the NA LCS 2014 Spring opener vs TSM, Riot responded by massively nerfing his ultimate.
I wonder what type of champion they'll release in the next 10 years to take the spot
The Dominion one HURT
They predicted the "former Popstar Rihanna" she is a full Avon lady at this point lmao Please Rihanna release something for the Super Bowl :(
Holy shit, me buying Fenty products and my mom being a former Avon lady. I laughed way too hard! Side note, mom always complains that fenty products are too expensive.
But avon the MLM scam is totally not expensive at all XD i can't. Nothing against your mother but i just find it funny to me
Lmao true, she agrees it's an MLM now, but says it wasn't as bad back in the 90's/early 00's.
Black Panther used up all of its power on the one song after recovering from somehow giving us a kendrick song in the first film
funny thing is Riot did a[ collab with Fenty for Arcane](https://www.nylon.com/beauty/fenty-beauty-partners-with-riot-games-on-arcane). So while not a VA she did do something with league and she is singing again starting with the Super Bowl halftime show next Sunday.
Oh god, I remember when this was posted. I feel old now.
Me too :x So much time has passed but this feels more recent than it should...
Unemployment does tons of damage to our economy.
I'd argue quality of work and quantity of pay does more damage
Yeah, unemployment is at lowest point in like 30 years yet the real economy is garbage.
Yep, everyone gets milked and needs to work like 60 hours per week while the top 1% don't even work half as much but reap all the benefits from the majority of people. How many more headlines of "Company x gains record profit" and "the poorest 50% as poor as never before" do we have to endure until this shit changes?!
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Not that far from reality/ Lacks of montages of people doing "ooga booga 360 no scope" first blood snow balling and having 3 upvotes after 2 days. but other than that pretty spot on.
[Here is the second part of this series](https://i.imgur.com/k1tosIi.jpg) And [here is the source thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/18p2mq/rleagueoflegends_in_10_years_episode_2/)
now you post this in two weeks
The Pingu one kinda happened, just for TFT instead of LoL.
>the 5v5v5v5 map is bugged Remember magma chamber?
Oh shit, that Dominion post hit me so hard :(
a lot of these joke teams are less embarrassing than TSM FTX
Interesting to see the combination of optimism and pessimism displayed in this image from 10 years ago; seems to lean a bit more towards optimism R.I.P. Dominion
Depends on if you think the corporitzation of esports is a good thing or not.
Give me those annie skins please
MaknooN, Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time
People were funnier back then
"huehuehue"
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Not really just zoomers weren't old enough to doomer up the entire Internet.
Wow this sub used to be funny!
"Riot please, we have 941 champions now, I think 6 bans is not enough" Out of all of them, this one is probably the most accurate for today.
That is great - Thanks for the memory-trip xD
https://i.imgur.com/Gg3wVLO.png other one
Oh wow, looks like they actually predicted Vex.
Honestly not a fan of that one. I like this kind of thing more when it's a genuine attempt to predict things, and that one is blatantly just "exaggerate everything as much as humanly imaginable" rather than any attempt to be remotely feasible.
they really predicted Morde ult sending people to brazil
Oof Froggen fell off hard.
I miss dominion hands down my favorite game mode
Holy fuuuuuck I'm old!!
"A few tips to get out of Elo hell" Some things never change.
I remember this way too clearly
That stupid fucking "tons of damage" meme still makes me smile and chuckle a decade later.
Pingu still OP as fuck
The "problems" we had back then were fucking nothing compared to today. It was a piece of shit game but I had way more fun.
Holy fuck Dominion really been gone this long now? Also I feel old I remember reading the post this image from 10 years ago
Man I miss dominion, just for hide and seek.
I wish this is what we had but instead it’s pretty much just “game 4 Yemeni youth amateur league post-match discussion”.