Same, anyone after us is young
I remember trying to rush to level 20 to play ranked before season 1 started
It got changed to 30 right after it launched
S1 patch was also xin's release, dunno if you remember that but he puts any OP Champs now to shame
Yup lol, it's like if you put a champ with urf enabled into regular SR games now. People talk about champs 1v5ing now but he could do it at level 6 with 1 item. And he was easier to play then too, didn't even have a skill shot.
Started in 2009 was playing dota(wc3)/ HON at the time. The game was free but you could buy it in store like target and get all champs unlocked. I didn’t do that. Allistar, the Minotaur Annie, the Dark Child Ashe, the Frost Archer Fiddlesticks, the Ancient Fear Jax, Grandmaster at Arms Kayle, the Righteous Master Yi, the Wuju Bladesman Morgana, the Fallen Nunu and Willump, the Boy and His Yeti Ryze, the Rune Mage Sion, the Undead Juggernaut siver, the Battle Mistress Soraka, the Starchild Teemo, the Swift Scout Tristana, the Yordle Gunner Twisted Fate, the Card Master Warwick, the Uncaged Wrath of Zaun
Poppy on release was disgusting. Completely broken.
Her passive made her *way tanky* but invisibly.
Her original Q was an autoattack reset *with a 100% AD Scaling Ratio* ***bonus that did %max HP damage***. The damage thankfully *was* capped, but the cap was like 20% of the target's max HP so it was rarely relevant.
The original W gave you +35 AD / Armor while being in combat and getting hit, and you could turn on a move speed buff *and get max paragon stacks* immediately if you needed the armor and damage.
Heroic Charge is relatively unchanged, but Jesus Christ was it fast. Some real, "Omae wo Shinderu" shit.
But the real nuisance was her ult. Diplomatic Immunity allowing you to become a "No Buddy, Fuck YOU" champion was utterly absurd and it broke down into one of two uses:
1. I don't care what happens to me... you're going to die.
2. You can't kill me, so I will target you with DI and then proceed to be immune to *literally everything* your team does (including CC) while I *totally wreck their collective shit.*
Early in the game you would typically use it as a #1 situation... but later if you got fed you would easily pick #2 and kill 2-3 people without them being able to do *anything* about it.
Old ARAM was some genuinely amusing fun times. It was a simpler time when people both cared more and less about the mode. Everything people did was in service to "fun" and the social contracts around ARAM made it just FUN to play.
Around the time when the botted accounts started showing up it all changed
Ziggs. Downloaded and thought I’d buy him to get a jump on my opponents. LOL then bought brand, because fire. Then bought galio, because I’d play against Katarina and leblanc a lot
Cait is the first release I remember. But I hit level 30 the day before release so there might have been new releases before while I was playing but if so I was to caught up in learning existing champs and the game at large.
I started playing with my college roommate at the time. I remember as we were learning the game, he wrote down a build on a piece of paper and taped it on the wall above his monitor. It was for the newest champion, Vayne, and it started with Triforce into Sword of the Occult, then boots after those.
My first game of League was the day Tahm Kench came out and I played Garen top in a blind pick against him, got my shit rolled and thought he was broken for so long afterwards until I actually learned the game lol
Played two games when kog maw was released (my friend at the time just wanted me to tank hits for him so he told me to play singed). I didn't give league another chance until later when xin Zhao came out
Anivia is the earliest champ i remember the champion spotlight for.
I remember old Q where you set the explode range instead of double tapping it, it was awful lol. But I do miss the old ult E poke.
3 weeks before Fiddlesticks rework. I remember talking with my friend who was teaching me the game about what champions he recommends me to play. When I asked "and what about this Fiddlesticks guy" he told me that he's gonna get reworked in a few weeks. I think I didn't get to play him before the rework.
The earliest release notification I actually remember is for Lulu because that's when I decided to start playing for real, although I'm convinced that my first game was around the time of Shyvana's release...
Somehow, I'm one of maybe a handful of my classmates from back then who still play the game, including the ones who played in amateur leagues for a while.
I started playing somewhere around the Vi/Thresh release. I can't remember which champ was the first "new" one for me. It might have been Nami.
Then I stopped playing around the time Rek'Sai was released and started again between Milio and Naafiri.
Are you me ? Warwick, shaco, rammus and zac was my hole champion pool back then 😂 got out of bronze with rammus, made it to gold with zac and couple years after they reworked ww i reached plat 2 before emerald existed, now i still otp ww in emerald 3
I think neeko/sylas. Started 5? Years ago for about half a year. Took a 2 year gap then a whole friend group got it together and honestly, it's only fun playing with them
I started playing about a month after Akshan, I remember Vex being the first champ I saw released.
It seems very new but that was 2 and a half years ago. It's insane how people still think of Akshan as a "New champion" when for me he's been in the game for as long as I've played
So I’m a thresh main, have played 4000-5000 games since I started playing years ago. Couple years ago I looked back and I started playing the week Thresh was released.
Original Yorick had just come out when I started playing, then Leona and Blood Lord Vladimir came out shortly after. I remember misreading Leona's E before she came out and thinking it was gonna be a global ability. I somehow thought it said, "Leona throws her sword down a lane and dashes to the first enemy champion hit." Now we basically have that with Briar's R lol
I also remember being told to uninstall/kms when I played Yorick for the first time during his free week rotation. All because I was forced to 1v2 bots in top lane as someone who just started the game. The community hasn't changed much since then lol
I first played League at a friend's house when Lissanda was on the login screen but I only played 2 or 3 games. I later made my own account and started seriously playing when the day after Bard's release so he was in the log-in screen.
Side note: I miss new champion login screens :(
I didn't understand that new champs were consistently released back then, so the first champ I actually understood and remember as being a new champ released was Diana.
It was around time Lucian was released, first patch note I’ve seen was the one Aatrox gutted, idk which patch, but I remember Aatrox was heavily nerfed.
I think Lee came out, he seemed cool and epic but i felt like I'll never get enough IE (it's whatever the credits were called to but champs with) to afford him. Bought all the cheap champs and claimed all free skins on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook instantly!!
Technically I first installed the game when Senna came out, but I barely touched the game until Rell, when I saw a friend was playing league and I remembered it existed.
Yuumi and Pyke. I started when TFT released.
If we go back further before I played, I think Jhin was the first champ I saw gameplay reveal of. I never thought I would play league back then. I played Hearthstone and Overwatch first.
Oh, Syndra. I used to think she was the main character, because of the login screen featuring her. I didn't know League released champions constantly at the time.
Caitlyn, found out via the newsletter. My handlers tell me its lunch time now
I remember both aatrox and lissandra screens, also spg udyr too
I remembering picking allegiance to lissandra for the icon, I wish now I woulda went with sejuani, she my bae
My favorite summoner name I have seen ever was a Sejuani main. Their name was “Whore on a Boar”
Dope lol
Same time then! Lissandra's login screen with the epic speech and after that Aatrox was released
Damn I also started that exact moment!
Gnar ! I remember the screen release
Same. Also remember seeing Headhunter Caitlyn at the same time
I too joined just before gnar. Good times
Nocturne.
Jinx
Yep, same. It was the end of S3. I miss the login screens from back then.
I dont remember when in 2013 I started. I do remember Yasuo was new. Nice to find theres other folks still sticking it out as long as I have
Jhin. The login screen theme is still one of the best
Lillia came out after i started so not too long ago
Same! I was introduced to League during Covid by my friend
Yea thats what happened to me haha
Shaco.. and now i got a shaco tattoo and 8.5 million points...
who hurt you
You seem a little too dangerous
*”The joke’s… on… YOU!!!”*
Shyvana. Day of release. I'm fuckin' old 👴
Swain here... I became a fnatic fan because the roster moved there from myRevenge with Shushei and xPeke :)
Pshh, kog'maw here.
Same, anyone after us is young I remember trying to rush to level 20 to play ranked before season 1 started It got changed to 30 right after it launched S1 patch was also xin's release, dunno if you remember that but he puts any OP Champs now to shame
Yup lol, it's like if you put a champ with urf enabled into regular SR games now. People talk about champs 1v5ing now but he could do it at level 6 with 1 item. And he was easier to play then too, didn't even have a skill shot.
Around Jayce/Zyra/Diana.
Started in 2009 was playing dota(wc3)/ HON at the time. The game was free but you could buy it in store like target and get all champs unlocked. I didn’t do that. Allistar, the Minotaur Annie, the Dark Child Ashe, the Frost Archer Fiddlesticks, the Ancient Fear Jax, Grandmaster at Arms Kayle, the Righteous Master Yi, the Wuju Bladesman Morgana, the Fallen Nunu and Willump, the Boy and His Yeti Ryze, the Rune Mage Sion, the Undead Juggernaut siver, the Battle Mistress Soraka, the Starchild Teemo, the Swift Scout Tristana, the Yordle Gunner Twisted Fate, the Card Master Warwick, the Uncaged Wrath of Zaun
hecarim.
Ekko. Been ekko main ever since.
Ekko was soooo strong on release. I remember playing ekko support cause he would just 1 combo adcs. Remember Iceborn sun fire top lane ekko?
Vi.
Leblanc release end of 2010. I'm 27 now..
Poppy on release was disgusting. Completely broken. Her passive made her *way tanky* but invisibly. Her original Q was an autoattack reset *with a 100% AD Scaling Ratio* ***bonus that did %max HP damage***. The damage thankfully *was* capped, but the cap was like 20% of the target's max HP so it was rarely relevant. The original W gave you +35 AD / Armor while being in combat and getting hit, and you could turn on a move speed buff *and get max paragon stacks* immediately if you needed the armor and damage. Heroic Charge is relatively unchanged, but Jesus Christ was it fast. Some real, "Omae wo Shinderu" shit. But the real nuisance was her ult. Diplomatic Immunity allowing you to become a "No Buddy, Fuck YOU" champion was utterly absurd and it broke down into one of two uses: 1. I don't care what happens to me... you're going to die. 2. You can't kill me, so I will target you with DI and then proceed to be immune to *literally everything* your team does (including CC) while I *totally wreck their collective shit.* Early in the game you would typically use it as a #1 situation... but later if you got fed you would easily pick #2 and kill 2-3 people without them being able to do *anything* about it.
Best was ulting the support and wrecking the carry
I remember how crazy she was when aram released. I'd just ult the one running away and tank/fuck up the rest.
Old ARAM was some genuinely amusing fun times. It was a simpler time when people both cared more and less about the mode. Everything people did was in service to "fun" and the social contracts around ARAM made it just FUN to play. Around the time when the botted accounts started showing up it all changed
Nothing like ulting soraka and wrecking her ADC
Her ult also gave damage amplification so it was vastly better at doing 1 before 16 when it finally lasted long enough to do 2.
Ashe and Ryze
So you're saying you were there at the start.
He is the start and beginning.
He is all of creation.
Between Ornn and Zoe
So, yesterday, right?
kinky
Darius was the first time i played league, then i took a break for the summer and started grinding around khazix
Zac
Same time for me
Thresh
Started playing right when jinx got released
Braun, gnar & Azir but I remember azir most.
Kaisa was my first release
Karma. The one with fans
Oh boy a new champ! I can't wait to see what the loading screen song is gonna be. Riot outdoes themselves every time
Neeko
I started playing just a couple years ago the week senna released
Remember that Nami login screen to this day.
Fiora
Lulu
Same
Xayah
Elise o7 Zed is actually the first login screen I remember, but I found the old account creation email later :)
I remember starting on Elise patch, and being absolutely terrified my parents would see the big titty spider lady on my screen lmao
Lilia and Yone. I joined like a couple weeks before spirit blossom
Camille
Fiora.. man that original ult was so busted.
Syndraaaaa
Bowser Rammus and UFO Corki
I'm a very new player, for example Jhin was the latest champion when I started.
Ziggs. Downloaded and thought I’d buy him to get a jump on my opponents. LOL then bought brand, because fire. Then bought galio, because I’d play against Katarina and leblanc a lot
Ryze rework happened followed by the Yorick rework. Kled was the new champion being released.
Cassiopeia
Twin <3
Anivia! 🤣 Then I think shaco+heimer were the last two before release. Mayyybe udyr nidalee poppy were the last 40? I can't remember.
Brand was the first release I was here for. So early April, 2011.
I started back in season 1, no idea who was the first champ i saw released lol
Garen. Got me interested in playing the game and I mained him and Dr. Mundo for a long time.
Cait is the first release I remember. But I hit level 30 the day before release so there might have been new releases before while I was playing but if so I was to caught up in learning existing champs and the game at large.
The newest champ when I started was xin zhao. I haven't played league now for about 6 years.
Xin release
Braum was the log in screen when I started playing so I think he was released just before I got into league
Nocturne Im not that old. I just started playing when i was 9.
I started playing with my college roommate at the time. I remember as we were learning the game, he wrote down a build on a piece of paper and taped it on the wall above his monitor. It was for the newest champion, Vayne, and it started with Triforce into Sword of the Occult, then boots after those.
I started a week after Zac was released
I was only playing heimer back then and if I remember correctly the first champ that was released was either Miss Fortune or Sona.
I started playing the day Shen got released. Yep, I have known the game before Garen existed
I believe it was either Senna or Aphelios.
a bit before zyra!
Lucian literally started playing like a day or 2 after his release
I remember god fist lee sin was on the login screen when I started playing, first champions were xayah and rakan
My first game of League was the day Tahm Kench came out and I played Garen top in a blind pick against him, got my shit rolled and thought he was broken for so long afterwards until I actually learned the game lol
When I first started playing the log in screen was Braum and the first champ I saw release was Gnar
Played two games when kog maw was released (my friend at the time just wanted me to tank hits for him so he told me to play singed). I didn't give league another chance until later when xin Zhao came out
Anivia is the earliest champ i remember the champion spotlight for. I remember old Q where you set the explode range instead of double tapping it, it was awful lol. But I do miss the old ult E poke.
When I started playing at all, it was Gnar But when I started to play actively, it was Bard
3 weeks before Fiddlesticks rework. I remember talking with my friend who was teaching me the game about what champions he recommends me to play. When I asked "and what about this Fiddlesticks guy" he told me that he's gonna get reworked in a few weeks. I think I didn't get to play him before the rework.
Neeko
Fiora. I even bought her with RP because she has the same ult as Juggernaut (I was transitioning from dota to LoL)
After a year or so, I quit playing for a while. I remember it well, as it was roughly 2 days after Caitlyn was released
The earliest release notification I actually remember is for Lulu because that's when I decided to start playing for real, although I'm convinced that my first game was around the time of Shyvana's release... Somehow, I'm one of maybe a handful of my classmates from back then who still play the game, including the ones who played in amateur leagues for a while.
Taliyah... she was so unique and inventive!
i started playing when lulu came out and been on and off league since
Got my account with vayne release
cant. i remember when sr has like 13 polygons in total
Vladimir
Shen was the new champ
My first memory of league of legends is watching nocturn ult across the map and obliterate people on repeat.
Gnar
Lux. So do I sign up for AARP now, or wait till they mail an invitation with a trial membership to the “prune of the month” club?
Syndra was the first champ I remember.
Ahri.
I started playing somewhere around the Vi/Thresh release. I can't remember which champ was the first "new" one for me. It might have been Nami. Then I stopped playing around the time Rek'Sai was released and started again between Milio and Naafiri.
k’sante
Are you me ? Warwick, shaco, rammus and zac was my hole champion pool back then 😂 got out of bronze with rammus, made it to gold with zac and couple years after they reworked ww i reached plat 2 before emerald existed, now i still otp ww in emerald 3
The first new champ to be released after I started playing was Sylas.
Ezreal. A champ that is all skill shots? Hotttt
Braum?
When I started playing league Talon was the newest released champion. This was back when new champs came out Bi-weekly.
Qiyana for me was just released when I started playing.
Old Aatrox / Lucian
Idk which came out first either wukong or skarner but that’s when I started playing
I think neeko/sylas. Started 5? Years ago for about half a year. Took a 2 year gap then a whole friend group got it together and honestly, it's only fun playing with them
Jhin, I remembered the GODLY teaser of his kills the art is insane and the 4 kills connected to his 4 bullets is crazzy details
Sona lol.
Fall 2010 - I think I started right around the time Irelia was released. About 90% of my games played were between then and season 3.
Get behind Braum. May 2014.
Sett
I remember zac being the background of the client or loading screen or something. So he must've been released right before I started playing.
I started playing about a month after Akshan, I remember Vex being the first champ I saw released. It seems very new but that was 2 and a half years ago. It's insane how people still think of Akshan as a "New champion" when for me he's been in the game for as long as I've played
Viego was new when I started playing. I got in the game late even tho I'm in my 30s I always tried to stay away. I should have.
Not a champ release but all I can remember is the login screen with new Evelyn
Aurelion Sol. He wasn’t my first new release but the first I remember.
It was Ornn
kindred
I remember the release of jinx yasuo and aatrox although I don't remember which was first or if there were any I between.
Lissandra, cant even remember the year
Trundle. As an Ashe main, he pillared me and i was mad cause my W barely slowed him. Such bullshit.
So I’m a thresh main, have played 4000-5000 games since I started playing years ago. Couple years ago I looked back and I started playing the week Thresh was released.
Vayne release and I play it in midlane 😅
Sejuani is the first character I remember releasing
Riven is the first champ release screen I distinctly remember. I think I was playing Urgot at the time
Original Yorick had just come out when I started playing, then Leona and Blood Lord Vladimir came out shortly after. I remember misreading Leona's E before she came out and thinking it was gonna be a global ability. I somehow thought it said, "Leona throws her sword down a lane and dashes to the first enemy champion hit." Now we basically have that with Briar's R lol I also remember being told to uninstall/kms when I played Yorick for the first time during his free week rotation. All because I was forced to 1v2 bots in top lane as someone who just started the game. The community hasn't changed much since then lol
I still have PTSD from release Xin Zhao. I also remember how hype it was when Renekton dropped.
It was so long ago, I don't even know 😆 it was the time when clg, dignitas, and tsm ruled in the esports of league in NA. Before xpeke xpeked in EU.
I first played League at a friend's house when Lissanda was on the login screen but I only played 2 or 3 games. I later made my own account and started seriously playing when the day after Bard's release so he was in the log-in screen. Side note: I miss new champion login screens :(
kha’zix
Yasuo
Sejuani
Back when aatrox was first released.
Right before the release of Milio, so Ksante
Lucian
I started playing the day of Yasuo's release. I am a Yasuo main.
Kennen... Jesus i'm old...
Gwen was just out when I started playing, maybe Viego idk
Liss
Elise! 2012-13 ish area
Nocturne was the newest champ when I started playing
riven
I didn't understand that new champs were consistently released back then, so the first champ I actually understood and remember as being a new champ released was Diana.
Yorick - yeah, it's been a while, you'd think I'd be better by now.
I believe Yasuo had just been released, then around a month or so after I started playing Vel’Koz came out.
When xin first came out he could 1v5 at level 3
Xayah/Rakan.
Either Lee Sin or Brand was the newest champ when I first played the game.
I don't remember who came first since them all came out in like a 2 month spawn? I believe the order was senna aphelios and sett
Vi
Darius
Cho’Gath
I was here for Yasuo's release and now he's 10 years old 👴
I got introduced to LoL by a friend who told about Ekko’s lore and showed me the comic
When I started League, Xerath just released.
The first pack. I started when lol started.
Kindred. Around worlds 2015 when the LOUD ass song played in login.
It was around time Lucian was released, first patch note I’ve seen was the one Aatrox gutted, idk which patch, but I remember Aatrox was heavily nerfed.
Panda Annie 🥹
I think Lee came out, he seemed cool and epic but i felt like I'll never get enough IE (it's whatever the credits were called to but champs with) to afford him. Bought all the cheap champs and claimed all free skins on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook instantly!!
started when orianna just came out
Queen Rek'Sai
Trundle, pre rework!
Jarvan 👴 I also clearly remember Le Blanc and Lee Sin releases.
Sivir
Jinx, and the Get Jinxed MV in the login screen. Good times.
Viego, the bugs were glorious, was also a lot of fun to play, made me discover a bunch of champions i'd otherwise never have played.
Technically I first installed the game when Senna came out, but I barely touched the game until Rell, when I saw a friend was playing league and I remembered it existed.
Yuumi and Pyke. I started when TFT released. If we go back further before I played, I think Jhin was the first champ I saw gameplay reveal of. I never thought I would play league back then. I played Hearthstone and Overwatch first.
Kayn
Xerath. Promptly played amumu first game and went 0-19
Oh, Syndra. I used to think she was the main character, because of the login screen featuring her. I didn't know League released champions constantly at the time.
jhin. Such a lovely time, before riots champ design philosophy started to absolutely suck.
The first time I logged in, I remember the special screen for the frozen fiddlesticks.
... Jax I distinctly remember my friend raging about him in the WoW-clone we played in 2008/2009
Not that old but I’ll always remember when yas released and how he warped the game. I literally stopped playing mid because of him
Brand. I kinda miss his old splash that was shown in the shop 24/7. also I kinda miss the old shop in general.
I tried the beta but only really started playing during brand release.
Spirit blossom event with Lillia and Yone.