League of Legends

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  1. MartijnS
    Jan 20, 2010
    7
    This game is enjoyable, but as it stands now I will not buy it as a retail product, because one map simply isn't enough, the "worldmap" of the realm where League of Legends takes place has ~13 maps, yet there's only one available. I will stay with the free version for now. The artstyle/graphics is something you can compare to Warcraft and the likes with a little bit of This game is enjoyable, but as it stands now I will not buy it as a retail product, because one map simply isn't enough, the "worldmap" of the realm where League of Legends takes place has ~13 maps, yet there's only one available. I will stay with the free version for now. The artstyle/graphics is something you can compare to Warcraft and the likes with a little bit of cellshade, it should run on most computers quite properly with only a little bit of slowdown when there are *lots* of mobs* (which only tends to happen near the end of a match, at that point you're either winning or losing). Presentationwise this game delivers solid for a title that's free. That aside: The gameplay is amazingly fun and the differences between the champions are something you need to explore before getting really good in the game. Do not be mistaken by it being your average RTS, as Riot calls it, it's a MOBA, a hybrid between RTS and RPG, if that still doesn't ring a bell, compare it to a little WC3 mod called DOTA. It's a rough diamond, one that has potential in my opinion.… Expand
  2. Malasawas
    Apr 15, 2013
    7
    If i went to 7 is mostly because of the main LoL problem: ''the community'' The game is like they say ''addictive as hell'' and they are improving the champions and made pretty good looking skins so far. The mechanics of the game are pretty nice, and you can play for hours. What brings it down is basically the community, there's so much aggressive people who ruins your day. Also theIf i went to 7 is mostly because of the main LoL problem: ''the community'' The game is like they say ''addictive as hell'' and they are improving the champions and made pretty good looking skins so far. The mechanics of the game are pretty nice, and you can play for hours. What brings it down is basically the community, there's so much aggressive people who ruins your day. Also the matchmaking is pretty unbalanced: I found myself being the only one level 30 in my team against a 3 Ranked Silver players (who obv are level 30), totally frustrating. Even the new ranked system, while better than ELO based one, is a mess. You lose 2 matches and you go down 1 division, also when you win in the new one you only get 5 points, that you lose in a matter of matches. The game for these mentioned reasons gets pretty frustrating in so many ways, makes you lose your patience sometimes. It's a shame since the game is so fun and addictive. Not to mention the unbalanced champions, some of them have no counter, some of them get 3 kills and your match is pretty lost in a matter of minutes. Overall a pretty fun game which gets a ''meets expectations'' but is far from ''outstanding''.… Expand
  3. Devil_Man_X
    Mar 24, 2011
    7
    While this game is fun and entertaining it has some major flaws. The game itself is based on the DoTA mod for warcraft III. Essentially it is an action RTS game with tower defense elements. You control a champion and try to push each lane. Killing Minions and other champions while destroying towers. It can be very fun especially when you find a good group to play with. Huge balance issuesWhile this game is fun and entertaining it has some major flaws. The game itself is based on the DoTA mod for warcraft III. Essentially it is an action RTS game with tower defense elements. You control a champion and try to push each lane. Killing Minions and other champions while destroying towers. It can be very fun especially when you find a good group to play with. Huge balance issues bring it down as the same overpowered characters are constantly being played. Other than the excessive amount of characters to choose from there is very little depth in the game itself. Riot as a developer has some major shortcomings as well. Their patches usually cause more problems than they fix. They constantly promise improvements and additions that never see the light of day. There are only two maps that are currently playable(3v3 and 5v5). Though you will still only ever play one of them (5v5). They have been promising a new map and new modes since launch which was nearly two years ago. They even leaked a map last October that still has yet to be released. As a free to play game it is worth the time for installation. However they make up for the game being free by charging ridiculous amounts for characters and skins. A character or skin will run you $7 to $15 each. No those are not bundle prices those are individual prices. With 70+ characters and each character having 4 or more skins it can get incredibly expensive. To sum up it can be a fun game to play as long as you don't expect any real depth. Just be wary of paying for the characters and skins.… Expand
  4. Tdore
    Apr 8, 2011
    7
    League of Legends is a fairly well polished game in that it optimizes team gameplay and coordination. Every aspect of the game requires you to cooperate with your team, meaning that this game requires you to rely on your teammates, however there is enough room for individuals to "carry" their team to victories.

    Many of the champions are fun to play, and have a broad range of abilities    League of Legends is a fairly well polished game in that it optimizes team gameplay and coordination. Every aspect of the game requires you to cooperate with your team, meaning that this game requires you to rely on your teammates, however there is enough room for individuals to "carry" their team to victories.

    Many of the champions are fun to play, and have a broad range of abilities and style. However, Riot spends too much time creating new characters, which are no longer as unique and are not balanced properly. There are much bigger things in the game that can be worked on besides new characters, such as balancing issues and the matchmaking system for ranked games.

    Overall, this game is fun and sometimes it can be a blast, but many times the game can be flat out disappointing. Riot spends way too much time creating unnecessary characters, which are released roughly every two weeks, instead of balancing current characters. Many characters lost their uniqueness because of Riot's overwhelming creation of new champions.    … Expand
  5. oblivion2011
    Jul 3, 2011
    7
    Being a very long member of the LoL community, I would say this game is too heavily reliant on your team (and nothing else). It punishes you more for other teammates' mistakes and less rewarding for your own achievements. But! The premades and friends you make could more than make up for it (maybe...).
  6. SHOTTA
    Feb 19, 2012
    7
    best thing to play for free and best moba for now, also it isn't pay 2 win game, new champions almost every week, patches and fun mod as dominion and worldwide championship.
  7. Daematune
    Aug 18, 2011
    7
    League of Legends is an amazing strategy game for hardcore players as well as new comers. All the characters have a very unique feel and consist on vastly different builds. You'll always have a new experience from going one to another no matter what. The game tactics are often very simple, attack gank or defend and then switch up, theres oddly no room for real tactics. The game itself getsLeague of Legends is an amazing strategy game for hardcore players as well as new comers. All the characters have a very unique feel and consist on vastly different builds. You'll always have a new experience from going one to another no matter what. The game tactics are often very simple, attack gank or defend and then switch up, theres oddly no room for real tactics. The game itself gets boring quickly, one game tends to be easily 40+ minutes. It severely lacks maps and other game modes as well. The updates come quick but are often new characters, nothing really special. I'd seriously like to see some balancing as well, a big batch of characters are far too powerful. Overall, it's great. You'll have a MUCH better experience with LoL if your playing with a friend, or if you've played strategy games in the past. I would have given this game an 8, but some things seriously need to change in the League of Legends.… Expand
  8. BlazeKaiser
    Aug 27, 2011
    7
    League of legends is a successor/clone of Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft 3. the gameplay is much easy to understand than any other DOTA clones, making it easier to play.

    -------------------------------------------- The main criticism isnt towards the gameplay, but rather to the Economy of the game. Each weak 10 champions are "randomly" selected for players to use who havent    League of legends is a successor/clone of Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft 3. the gameplay is much easy to understand than any other DOTA clones, making it easier to play.

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    The main criticism isnt towards the gameplay, but rather to the Economy of the game. Each weak 10 champions are "randomly" selected for players to use who havent purchased. Then each of the characters has to be purchased either using Cash converted to the non-refundable ingame Premium Currency, or through the ingame "free" currency that you acquire through play.

    Neither is a good option, as the Premium currency is roughly $5-20 per item, and with the 100+ characters and skin changes, it costs HUNDREDS of dollars to acquire everything. The "free" currency is gained very slowly and cant purchase the skin changes for the characters. the Majority of characters take between fifty and 100 games played, with each game taking 30 minutes to an hour to complete.

    The developers regularly have discounts on certain items paid with Premium Currency, have only recently made any kind of price reduction for non-cash players on some champions, and then only the oldest. They are making 2 new champions each month, at around $9-10 each.

    Constant changes to the characters abilities make some near impotent in terms of gameplay, until another change comes out restoring them to fighting shape.

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    Overall the developers and business managers of the game seem to hate their audience, regularly abusing the users. Expensive virtual rewards, tedious "grinding" as an alternative, and constant depreciation of items people pay money or time for are what to expect.

    If you play this game, I hope you enjoy it, but bring your credit card.    … Expand
  9. dobserver
    Nov 24, 2011
    7
    First of all this game is Free to Play, which already adds that much value to the game itself. It is basically a spin-off of Dota that uses cell shaded/anime style graphics for the characters. The gameplay is very similar to Dota and emphasizes teamwork and communication. It's a game really easy to pick up but difficult to master, as you will need a thorough understanding of all theFirst of all this game is Free to Play, which already adds that much value to the game itself. It is basically a spin-off of Dota that uses cell shaded/anime style graphics for the characters. The gameplay is very similar to Dota and emphasizes teamwork and communication. It's a game really easy to pick up but difficult to master, as you will need a thorough understanding of all the characters to be considered an expert at the game. This is all the more difficult, since the developers are constantly pumping out new characters and implementing character balances approximately every 2 weeks. The game is in a desperate need of new maps. There are currently 3 maps: Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline and the Crystal Scar. I never really understood why the developers kept building new characters to use instead of making new maps, simply because all the Dota related games follow the format of adding new heroes/champions/characters. Different game modes would also be good. The newest Crystal Scar map is a step in the right direction. I think this game will continue to develop into a better and better game, over time. (Overall: 7+ lots of potential to be a 10)… Expand
  10. Highwind_Hiatus
    Nov 14, 2011
    7
    Fun game, unique characters for the most part, graphics are what you'd expect from a dota/hon type game. A game you can easily pick up and put down at the same time with no real problems. The downside? I guess the lack of support for banning people who actually need it is definitely a problem, if the abysmal community doesn't already irritate you to the ends of the earth. There are alsoFun game, unique characters for the most part, graphics are what you'd expect from a dota/hon type game. A game you can easily pick up and put down at the same time with no real problems. The downside? I guess the lack of support for banning people who actually need it is definitely a problem, if the abysmal community doesn't already irritate you to the ends of the earth. There are also WAY too many characters. So many in fact, that some abilities on one character are found on another. In any case, its a fun game, worth trying. But if you didn't like Hon/Dota before, you're probably not going to like this.… Expand
  11. MusicaX79
    May 6, 2012
    7
    it's a great game it just lacks a couple of things one a tutorial cause starting on your own without friends to guide you is a suicide run and very time consuming. two no microphones League of Legends updates regularly and they keep adding newer characters. but they really need to add a mic system being in a game where at a certain time you need to run for your life. Not type in chat "canit's a great game it just lacks a couple of things one a tutorial cause starting on your own without friends to guide you is a suicide run and very time consuming. two no microphones League of Legends updates regularly and they keep adding newer characters. but they really need to add a mic system being in a game where at a certain time you need to run for your life. Not type in chat "can you give me a hand" makes the game frustrating. as a result you can tell the only time people talk is when nothing is happening. and number three they need a better shop menu navigating through tons of menus is great way to keep things organized, but they need a 'list all' by some rank or name or better yet a search feature. even with all that this game is extremely addictive and a lot of fun.… Expand
  12. Paperl0l
    Nov 22, 2011
    7
    MOBA (Dota) style games are rapidly becoming popular, after playing several League of Legends (LoL) is the title that sticks out for me. The game play is terribly addicting and wonderfully exhausting, the end of each game needs a well earned cool off period, however with matches being fairly lengthy this is not a game you can have a quick match on.

    The graphic style I personally find    MOBA (Dota) style games are rapidly becoming popular, after playing several League of Legends (LoL) is the title that sticks out for me. The game play is terribly addicting and wonderfully exhausting, the end of each game needs a well earned cool off period, however with matches being fairly lengthy this is not a game you can have a quick match on.

    The graphic style I personally find quite charming. The simple textures and bright colours allow for a wide range of PC's to run LoL with no problem and still look great providing you don't zoom in too far. The detail of the maps is good and there no characters that I feel were given less attention visually.

    Match making is simple and easy, you can join solo games with complete strangers that are of a similar level, or you and any number of friends can team up in 5v5 and 3v3. Your progression as a gamer increases over time with each win and loss contributing to your summoner level, a higher summoner level gives you more access to customisation options and buffs for your character, although this means that people higher than your level will be undoubtedly stronger than you in more ways than one.

    LoL is a brilliant and addicting game, but it has it's problems. The biggest complaint for myself and the biggest complaint many people will present is that the community is extremely hostile. Every player seems to be either brilliant at the game, but a horrible person, or very bad at the game and lovely. There seems to be no middle ground of players you either rule or suck.

    Another Problem I have is that although the game offers a huge and diverse selection of characters, there is very little selection of maps. With 2 main maps, a 5v5 (Summoners Rift) and 3v3 (Twisted Treeline) There is colour swapped version of the 5v5 and a special tutorial level that is very small, but other than that there is very little variety. The game is well worth checking out for anyone interested in the genre. And as it's free you have nothing to lose with no obligation to pay. However be prepared for a very unforgiving environment and to have summoners rift burned into your eye balls.    … Expand
  13. kvonbose
    Jan 26, 2013
    7
    This is a pretty good game, but it has one major flaw. For the most part it is a 5 on 5 match. However in about 50% of games one of the team mates will leave halfway through the game. This would be bad if the game ended then, but the game goes on and whoever is unlucky enough to lost a play will lose guaranteed. People put up with it because sometimes you win a 5 on 4 and sometimes youThis is a pretty good game, but it has one major flaw. For the most part it is a 5 on 5 match. However in about 50% of games one of the team mates will leave halfway through the game. This would be bad if the game ended then, but the game goes on and whoever is unlucky enough to lost a play will lose guaranteed. People put up with it because sometimes you win a 5 on 4 and sometimes you lose so it's frustrating, but completely random.… Expand
  14. Mogul
    Apr 22, 2012
    7
    This game is really good, and works well overall. On reputation, it is perhaps the best game in the MOBA genre, although I can't say that I've played any others. I can say, though, that League of Legends is really fun. The main problem with the game, for me, is the fact that the heroes are horribly unbalanced and obviously so. Combined with the fact that you often end up on or againstThis game is really good, and works well overall. On reputation, it is perhaps the best game in the MOBA genre, although I can't say that I've played any others. I can say, though, that League of Legends is really fun. The main problem with the game, for me, is the fact that the heroes are horribly unbalanced and obviously so. Combined with the fact that you often end up on or against a terrible team (especially if you solo queue), and, yeah, many games are just horrible and a waste of time. Still, this game is good enough and has sufficient depth to it that I think it is well worth trying out.… Expand
  15. bosnian
    Mar 18, 2012
    7
    Addicitve and extremely fun when matchmaking works. Probably the most fun I have had in anything PVP. Simpler than similiar games (like DoTA, HoN) but still very deep. It is truly free to play (you can buy everything, but you can use in game currency for everything but additional skins).
    However, matchmaking works maybe 50% of the time. Sometimes a week can go inbetween close games. Few    Addicitve and extremely fun when matchmaking works. Probably the most fun I have had in anything PVP. Simpler than similiar games (like DoTA, HoN) but still very deep. It is truly free to play (you can buy everything, but you can use in game currency for everything but additional skins).
    However, matchmaking works maybe 50% of the time. Sometimes a week can go inbetween close games. Few characers that are constantly overpowered and constantly banned in ranked games. One unfriendly person can ruin a game for 9 other people. Graphics, when compared to DoTA 2 are bad. Balancing of the game is very uneven (especially since a new character gets introduced every 2 weeks).    … Expand
  16. Sofaboy
    Apr 7, 2012
    7
    League of Legends is a game that has been created from Riot Games, who were a part of the developers of DotA.
    With an easier concept and more rookie friendly elements, they started League of Legends.
    Once you started you cannot stop playing it. I cannot tell exactly what it is that keeps me playing it, maybe this: -A Lot of players -The Community is great (regular patches, new content,    League of Legends is a game that has been created from Riot Games, who were a part of the developers of DotA.
    With an easier concept and more rookie friendly elements, they started League of Legends.
    Once you started you cannot stop playing it.
    I cannot tell exactly what it is that keeps me playing it, maybe this:
    -A Lot of players
    -The Community is great (regular patches, new content, events, tournaments).
    -Very good f2p pay system(everything that has influence in a match is buyable with ingame cash)
    -Price of a champion is independend on their power. Every champ has their up and downs.
    Well here come the down sites:
    -Graphics are too comic like. At this point I prefer the current DotA 2
    -A LOOOOOT of flaming kiddies (like in CoD) that will desttroy your fan at the game.
    -Many experienced players create new accounts for 'pwning noobs' which makes it a little bit hard for newcomers to get into the game.
    -Bad reconnect system (if you have a broken connection like me)
    -Too many changes in a short period(in the last 6 months almost every champion/item/mode has been changed) which also makes unbalance the game even more.
    -Elo system for ranked matches in the leaderboard system (you are a good player and always get bad teams....then you are stuck in elo hell like me)
    So overall i really like this game and play it a lot.
    It qualities are not visible in the first view.
    You should at least try it for some matches out because its a free 2 play title.    … Expand
  17. Rayken
    Aug 25, 2012
    7
    League of Legends, one of the "succesors" of the original DotA map for Warcraft 3. Let's start with the good parts. It's a fun game, it's free to play and it's very customizable. There are many different runes and masteries that you can use to make all kinds of builds for your champions. The graphics are pretty good and have a cartoony aesthetic to them. However it's horribly imbalanced,League of Legends, one of the "succesors" of the original DotA map for Warcraft 3. Let's start with the good parts. It's a fun game, it's free to play and it's very customizable. There are many different runes and masteries that you can use to make all kinds of builds for your champions. The graphics are pretty good and have a cartoony aesthetic to them. However it's horribly imbalanced, some heroes being clearly better than others and it requires lots of grinding for IP/XP until you can get into the real core of the game, ranked games. In normal games you will most likely get a leaver/afk-er every few matches, making the game a complete waste of time as you can rarely win a 4v5 game. The community is horrible, full of elitist pricks that will swear and insult you for the smallest mistakes.… Expand
  18. jim109109
    Jul 27, 2012
    7
    The graphics suck and were clearly thought out by amateurs. The gameplay is fantastic as it is a copy of Dota, one of the best multiplayer experiences ever. However, they have taken what Dota was and actually made it worse, downgrading it in many ways. The balance is awful for this type of game, with half the characters being unplayable in tournaments because they aren't as good as theThe graphics suck and were clearly thought out by amateurs. The gameplay is fantastic as it is a copy of Dota, one of the best multiplayer experiences ever. However, they have taken what Dota was and actually made it worse, downgrading it in many ways. The balance is awful for this type of game, with half the characters being unplayable in tournaments because they aren't as good as the other half. Every character feels the same and plays the same as the other. You can only play 10 of the entire pool of heroes per week, unless you pay them money or play excessively long to unlock some. Invisible and different heroes are the awful, because they are so weak as to be made completely useless, to protect the noob players. The game is also so stale and predictable with as few possible elements to make the game complex. In Dota, the game is more about thinking than simply repeating the same maneuver from game to game. You will get bored of this bad downgrade of a warcraft III map.… Expand
  19. arman200
    Nov 2, 2012
    7
    It's free and fun. If you need to kill time without spending money, I'd say check it out. If you have a short temper, avoid at all costs. The game relies totally on the players. It's all about teamwork and strategy, and a great majority of the users take the game extremely seriously and will not hesitate to scream at you for any and all mistakes.
  20. nictimus
    Jan 6, 2013
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have play this game for quite a while... I play it because is a very competitive multiplayer, its a extremely easy to learn, the community is harsh but I think in this new genre this is very common, this is a great game I have to say, but requires a little amount of skill in comparisson with other titles such as dota 2 or Heroes of Newerth. The popularity of this game is due to the way Riot games turn free to play into one of the most succesful type of games. I give this game a 7.… Expand
  21. Hominghead
    Jan 6, 2013
    7
    A very well-done and clean game.
    The developers put alot of effort into the content, but listen little to the community.
    Yet this is also a good thing, that they don't. The community is a living hell and the first reason that makes this game a horrible game. The second reason being their evaluation of the competitive player's performance. It is being counted through an individual    A very well-done and clean game.
    The developers put alot of effort into the content, but listen little to the community.
    Yet this is also a good thing, that they don't.

    The community is a living hell and the first reason that makes this game a horrible game.

    The second reason being their evaluation of the competitive player's performance.
    It is being counted through an individual ELO-Rating that is only based off your Win-Lose factor, however not taken into account that you play a match alongside with other 4 players which oftentimes are just genuine useless anchors, which makes the ELO-Rating a joke.

    DotA2 did it better, your performance is calculated by what you actually do inside a match, as opposed to Win-Lose ratio.

    Other negative Technical aspects:

    - Uses Adobe Air
    - No Replay System for a long period of time. Coming Soon    … Expand
  22. AlanComek
    Jan 8, 2013
    7
    The problem with League of Legends isn't a problem with the game itself per se (although there are quite a few flaws in the system that, although not gamebreakers, do ruin the experience), but rather, with the absolutely terrible community and the design of MOBA's themselves. Firstly, although there are many genuine gamers in the LoL community who are just out there to have fun, and atThe problem with League of Legends isn't a problem with the game itself per se (although there are quite a few flaws in the system that, although not gamebreakers, do ruin the experience), but rather, with the absolutely terrible community and the design of MOBA's themselves. Firstly, although there are many genuine gamers in the LoL community who are just out there to have fun, and at times truly do want to help new and struggling players, the vast majority of LoL players are complete and utter jackasses that are completely self-centered in an entirely team-based game. I keep finding myself playing horrible games where a single teammate will just ruin it for everyone by being a complete dick to everyone on the team. In fact, I find people who dont understand how to play a more enjoyable teammate than one that just completely ruins the experience with his mindless drivel. But, I think this problem stems from the MOBA genre itself.

    Although LoL has many features to reduce the severity of this problem (no loss of gold on death, lower champion level cap, etc), MOBA's are very, very infuriating to play when you can't play them right. Games usually just boil down to "Who can make the most mistakes first" instead of actual knowledge and skill, and this only increases the amount of anger, which in turn increases the amount of mistakes and creates a vicious cycle only dedicated players can escape from. A lot of people talk about "ELO Hell" and how it doesn't or does exist, and I think that it does exist for some and not for others, mainly because of this. LoL is great for people new to the MOBA genre since it seems to be the most user-friendly of them all (DOTA 2 is VERY punishing towards noobies), but even a benevolent dictator is a dictator.

    TL;DR: Good game if you are patient and willing to put up with ****    … Expand
  23. AdderTude
    Apr 25, 2013
    7
    I wasn't sure what to expect when I was first introduced to League of Legends about a year and a half ago. At first, I thought the play style was bit weird and my brother let me play on his account for a while until I made my own account. This was my initiation into the MOBA world. After gaining a lot of experience with MOBAs through League of Legends, here is my assessment of the game:I wasn't sure what to expect when I was first introduced to League of Legends about a year and a half ago. At first, I thought the play style was bit weird and my brother let me play on his account for a while until I made my own account. This was my initiation into the MOBA world. After gaining a lot of experience with MOBAs through League of Legends, here is my assessment of the game:

    Visuals Anyone who slams League of Legends because of the graphics should go look up the term "cel-shaded" because that is exactly how the game is supposed to look. The simpler style of cel-shading allows Riot more free range on the gameplay without being overly taxing on the average gamer's graphics card. Besides all of that, I personally think the graphics give a good presentation. What I wish Riot would do is update the look of a champion every time the splash art changes. I see a number of champions who look exactly like their old splash arts even though there are a number of distinct differences between the texture of the sprite and the design of the splash art representing the champion (e.g. Amumu and Ezreal). I'm keeping in mind the complexity and time required to do so, but it still wouldn't hurt to make a few updates to a champion's texture model as their artwork evolves.

    Gameplay MOBAs can be difficult to pick up for gamers who are relatively new to action-RTS types of games like League of Legends. However, since Riot designed the game to be more casual than some of its competing games, it is more newbie-friendly than most. The tutorial also points freshmen players in the right direction in terms of basic strategy and the building of items in a particular set.

    Sound The sounds of the game are very well-timed, except there are some instances where some sound clips play out despite the ability getting interrupted part-way.

    Ranked Ever since Riot Games mostly abandoned the Elo system in favor of a new league system. Instead of having one giant ladder, players were divided up in groups and placed in different leagues (complete with five divisions each of varying levels) according to their evaluated skill level. Frankly, the advancement is a joke. Supposedly, the "league points" are divided and distributed based on the team's overall skill level and whether they win or lose. However, in the lower-level leagues it is far easier to lose points than to gain them. Players on the forums have repeatedly complained about progression slowing to a crawl while penalties are unfairly large for losses. I'd hate to say it, but I agree with them. It makes no sense to progress through the ranks if progression slows down while ascending the ladder, especially so if rewards pay out the bare minimum for wins (i.e. one or two league points) for higher-ranked players while penalties grow abnormally large (e.g. 20-25 points per loss). Despite the league system still being fairly new, it still suffers from the same problem the old Elo-based ladder had: lack of motivation. Players felt like they weren't progressing on the old ladder due to the large number of players on one ladder. Even though climbing the ladder is somewhat easier under the new system, several hours or days of progress can still be undone with simply one or two losses, thus defeating the motivation to progress. Although Riot's best intentions for the ranked system was meant to encourage solo players, the ladders as a whole still favor pre-made teams.

    Balancing Balancing the game is tough work. Just ask the guys at Blizzard Entertainment. :D But seriously, the balancing seems a bit unfair for lower-level players, as it appears that the balancing among champions only come by way of internal testing and feedback from the best professional players around the world. Still, it's better than next to no balancing at all (like Heroes of Newerth). Some champions that many players believe have too much power are either left alone or have superficial nerfs while retaining their overall level of power.

    Overall, League of Legends is one of the best experiences in online gaming that I've had (and sometimes the most rage-inducing frustration, but that's eSports for you). It's not perfect, but the game has its merits. Plus, League of Legends boasts the largest number of active players in the world. Not bad for a computer game that's only been out for less than five years.    … Expand
  24. XxNightvHawkxX
    Dec 30, 2013
    7
    This is an honest review of the game. From what I have read, most of the reviews on this site are mostly people who hate the game because they have not played it that long/people that are raging because they don't know how to play that well or people who have clearly not played that many other games and think it's the most amazing game in the world. (There are some decent reviews though,This is an honest review of the game. From what I have read, most of the reviews on this site are mostly people who hate the game because they have not played it that long/people that are raging because they don't know how to play that well or people who have clearly not played that many other games and think it's the most amazing game in the world. (There are some decent reviews though, Hint: Most of the 10/10s are the ones I was talking about being the ones that have not played many other games)

    This game is not bad, but it has a low metacritic average *for a game this popular* for a reason: because it's not that good. No, it isn;t because of graphics, yes there are a few broken champions (Not that many though. I don't overuse the word few. There are hardly any, but they are still there.), but this isn;t why the game is overrated. The combat in the game could be so much better, but it isn't. I'm not trying to sound biased, (not invoking a Dota vs League argument here, just using this as an example) but play Dota 2 for a while, learn how to play, and compare the 2's combat system. Ever notice how League's combat system is not as satisfying? Ever notice how League of Legends is based more around how good you are with a champion than actually being good at the game? This game is also not that hard, anyone who tells you that is lying. I have no difficulty in fighting 4v5s and winning or being ona feeding team and turning it around when the enemy team has the advantage. This game is incredibly easy once you learn the basics.

    The main reason why this game is not so great is because it tried to be an improved Dota (which it could have), but the changes they made thinking they were improvements are what makes this an overrated game that and the combat system is barely above average. Is this game addicting? Yes. Is it great? No.    … Expand
  25. m0skit0
    Mar 19, 2013
    7
    Interesting mix between RPG and RTS, similar to DotA, except that it is FREE. Yes, you can pay to get items in the game, although most of them can be got by IP or points that you win in the game (except skins, as usual in free games). There are A LOT of champions to choose from, and they keep putting new ones. Updates are almost weekly, which means the developers are constantly patchingInteresting mix between RPG and RTS, similar to DotA, except that it is FREE. Yes, you can pay to get items in the game, although most of them can be got by IP or points that you win in the game (except skins, as usual in free games). There are A LOT of champions to choose from, and they keep putting new ones. Updates are almost weekly, which means the developers are constantly patching the game, which means they do care about the quality. Some champions IMHO are unbalanced, usually most expensive ones (and then banned on tourneys, which doesn't make much sense except for getting money). Some champions are really challenging to play with, with very interesting powers. Other champs look like a remix of others, but this sometimes can be interesting. Time to get into a game for coop is around 5-7 seconds, a bit more for PvP (~20-30 secs). You will find a mixed player base, but too much kiddos for my taste.… Expand
  26. voiders
    Apr 30, 2013
    7
    The problem is: THE COMMUNITY
    I never saw so much haters and childs in my life. The game is good, have nice soudtrack, good gameplay, good feeling... But the producers cant tame the users users.
    Generally every match have a lot of swearing. Is hard to get some fun, every one there are unhappy and complains every thing. Even so will you be cursed. So sad, a good game tainted by the    The problem is: THE COMMUNITY
    I never saw so much haters and childs in my life. The game is good, have nice soudtrack, good gameplay, good feeling... But the producers cant tame the users users.

    Generally every match have a lot of swearing. Is hard to get some fun, every one there are unhappy and complains every thing. Even so will you be cursed.

    So sad, a good game tainted by the community.    … Expand
  27. CappuccinoGamer
    Apr 29, 2013
    7
    The biggest downfall so far of this game is the community itself being fairly unwelcoming, and not understanding.
    The game itself however is quite fun to play. The large range of different characters with different abilities keep things interesting, and learning the correct way to play different classes is intriguing.
    Graphics are not particularly impressive, but vibrant enough to be    The biggest downfall so far of this game is the community itself being fairly unwelcoming, and not understanding.
    The game itself however is quite fun to play. The large range of different characters with different abilities keep things interesting, and learning the correct way to play different classes is intriguing.
    Graphics are not particularly impressive, but vibrant enough to be nice. An offline version of this game with AI controlled party members and a potential 'story' to follow would be a lovely way to kill 20-30 minutes when bored.    … Expand
  28. spore1999
    May 24, 2013
    7
    Will blow you away with its awesome game-play,but as well cartoonish graphics.An awesome MOBA game,but yet the graphics seem to be a bit dated for its release date,but that doesn't matter at all,does it?In addition,the community of the game will rage at you most of the time in the game-play,but this is the game someone could easily get in love with.
  29. AJCk19
    Aug 12, 2021
    7
    The community is pretty terrible. And the game design needs to fix what they currently got out. Instead of just constantly releasing new content. Also, don't punish other players for bad team mates.

    Other than that, really fun and addictive. A character for everyone.
  30. teammate2
    Aug 13, 2014
    7
    League of Legends-Free to play MOBA. Hundred plus champions, fun playstyle. So what's the big deal about this game? It is addictive, and it is really fun. Riot is combating toxic players, not just with the tribunal, but with (I think) new ways of matchmaking and designing things that detect a toxic player. So what's the problem if Riot is improving their game? The problem lies inLeague of Legends-Free to play MOBA. Hundred plus champions, fun playstyle. So what's the big deal about this game? It is addictive, and it is really fun. Riot is combating toxic players, not just with the tribunal, but with (I think) new ways of matchmaking and designing things that detect a toxic player. So what's the problem if Riot is improving their game? The problem lies in the community and repetitive gameplay. I rarely play on my own, because I play with my cousins, mostly.

    All in all, good game, but if you want more fun, play with friends or family (cousins, brothers).    … Expand
  31. Lucian-Voltaire
    Jul 11, 2013
    7
    League of Legends is an interesting game down on paper, with some neat concepts and re-hashed ideas.
    The first great thing about the game, is it's basic outlook but complex and indepth potential you can literally just play a champion how you want, and it can potentially work, but if you want to be the best, you can follow some really indepth guides and learn some neat tricks and tips    League of Legends is an interesting game down on paper, with some neat concepts and re-hashed ideas.
    The first great thing about the game, is it's basic outlook but complex and indepth potential you can literally just play a champion how you want, and it can potentially work, but if you want to be the best, you can follow some really indepth guides and learn some neat tricks and tips and I think it's good for a game to have this potential. On this point, I do feel that some champions are a bit too 'cookie-cutter' and that there is only one way to build them, for example you could never take attack damage on LeBlanc. In terms of gameplay, I feel that champion/character balance is somewhat off, and the way in which Riot brings out overpowered champions just so people will buy them, is highly off putting from the start. What's more, is that as new mechanics are added to the game, and new items, we see that older champions become severely broken with bizarre builds and potential ways of playing them, or they just become outright useless (Ie. Old Karma). The game is regularly updated, but there are still several key issues that need addressing, and it seems like they are negating the quality of life changes within the game, simply to push out more 'new' profitable content. Furthermore, I feel that the games community is the worst I have ever seen, and makes the CoD community look like a bunch of flower-sniffing hippies, simply for the fact you get some really nasty abuse even before the game starts, you get people who go AFK and you get people who feed and troll and it's really an unpleasant experience.In conclusion, League of Legends is a game that really requires a lot of practice and patience, and the ability to deal with people who could be toxic follow those rules, and you will have a decent time. PS: NERF IRELIA.    … Expand
  32. ur210
    Jul 20, 2013
    7
    Fun and decent game overall, although it is plagued with poor balancing, graphics, and toxic community.
    The League client is also extremely buggy and unresponsive. Overall doesn't feel like a high budget game.
  33. HasAnyoneReally
    Nov 4, 2013
    7
    The game is great but unfortunately, heavily burdened by its awful community which has legitimately ruined the experience for me. Each champions mechanics feel unique to them and it would be a great experience if it was possible to integrate something to allow the users the ability to never have to hear what anyone has to say besides in game instructions or something like that.
  34. eRemic
    Jul 29, 2013
    7
    Unfortynately for me after i spend some time playin this game i finally why ppl love it and why i started to play this game less and less:
    - graphics of this game is somewhere in 2009
    - the mechanics is so pure, i joined the league when Brand was a new hero and from that time i'vs started bein sad after every new hero. try to count the number of champions that have those skills: 1) ur    Unfortynately for me after i spend some time playin this game i finally why ppl love it and why i started to play this game less and less:
    - graphics of this game is somewhere in 2009
    - the mechanics is so pure, i joined the league when Brand was a new hero and from that time i'vs started bein sad after every new hero. try to count the number of champions that have those skills: 1) ur NEXT attack will deal blablabla damage 2) after u click QWER ur champion will deal X attack with addiotional dmg; 3) deals of hp maxmissing HP of the enemy; 4) sends smth into ur enemy (skill shot) look at Ezreal he is only this point hero, all 4 abilities are the same. RIOT look at Dota pls and their invoker....
    - cant change nameicon, some-why i have to pay for that (lol wut?);
    - when u play a lot u have 100+ heroes that are mixed in pre-match lobby, RIOT look at DOTA and let at least to the players group the champs as they want!    … Expand
  35. Mou7ster
    Oct 13, 2013
    7
    TO ALL LOL players LOL is a fun game to play and i sure would play it everyday if there wasn't dota 2 i sincerly advice you to quit this moba war of and try both. personally i like dota 2 more it's deeper and harder than LOL but sometimes i got sick of russians so i play couple of LOL games
  36. Fogdale
    Oct 9, 2013
    7
    I started playing League of Legends about two years ago without knowing what to expect from it. A few friends of mine said it was good, so I downloaded it and played a few games. I noticed something right in my first few games: The graphics are pretty bad for a current generation game.

    I don't really care about a game's graphics, but League of Legends does looks pretty awful except for    I started playing League of Legends about two years ago without knowing what to expect from it. A few friends of mine said it was good, so I downloaded it and played a few games. I noticed something right in my first few games: The graphics are pretty bad for a current generation game.

    I don't really care about a game's graphics, but League of Legends does looks pretty awful except for a few character's models and the reworked Twisted Treeline map. But don't get scared away from the graphics; League of Legends has one of the most addicting gameplays I have ever experienced.

    Getting started is always a bit slow in MOBAs and League of Legends is no exception, but it is easier to learn than, for example, DOTA 2. What really helps new players is the good UI which makes it easy to find every option or item in the shop. Additionally, you can change tons of options to make the game exactly fit your needs.

    The gameplay is extremely fast-paced and you will need quick reaction times to survive for long, but that ability will come as your general skill advances. When playing PvP games data about your win rate and such will be used to find players who are as good as you, which makes the early summoner levels easy for newer players. When reaching level 30, you can also play ranked games which will put you in a certain division depending on how many of the first ranked games you win. This makes the selection of enemies and teammates even better and is a pretty nice feature itself, but sadly there are always people blocking your way to higher ranks.

    That brings me to one of the worst parts of League of Legends: The community.
    More than 60% of the people my friends and I met in this game are either flaming, feeding kills, going AFK or not communicating with the team. And afterwards, it's always the fault of the people who did something useful. And if you think they would just get banned: They mostly don't because the punishment system in League of Legends is too friendly to bad behaving players. After two years of playing this game my ignore list is filled with more than 1.000 players and I have reported at least the same amount.

    Something else wrong with League of Legends is the game balance. Riot keeps releasing characters which isn't exactly a bad thing, but this makes balancing the game even more difficult and right now I am wondering if they still even try to. Champ after champ gets reworked, changed, buffed and nerfed but there are always champs that are just way too strong for the skill you need to play them.
    Let's compare League of Legends to DOTA 2 here: In DOTA 2 the characters are all pretty damn strong, but they ALL are, so it's basically balanced. In League of Legends there are champs like Lulu, Varus, Xerath and Orianna which take some skill to play, but when mastered, are pretty strong. On the other hand there are champs like Jarvan IV, Kha'Zix, Vi, Gankplank and Lee Sin (mostly melee champs somehow) which have a huge damage output no matter how good you are with them or generally at the game. The base damage of all champs is around the same amount, but some champs just aren't difficult at all and therefore hit more abilities.

    I can only recommend this game to everyone who likes MOBAs or similiar game types, but you need a lot of time and you have to get through a lot of sh*t to play this for long because of the missing game balance and the really bad community.    … Expand
  37. zeluszero
    Sep 25, 2013
    7
    As an avid player of RTS games, I enjoy League of Legends thoroughly.It has fluid game play in the sense that it offers relatively faster rhythm of game flow. While the game isn't as refined as I feel that it could be,it does its job well in ensuring that there is a relatively casual game play section for those who are not serious in the game, and a section for those who want to play on aAs an avid player of RTS games, I enjoy League of Legends thoroughly.It has fluid game play in the sense that it offers relatively faster rhythm of game flow. While the game isn't as refined as I feel that it could be,it does its job well in ensuring that there is a relatively casual game play section for those who are not serious in the game, and a section for those who want to play on a more serious and pseudo-competitive scale.
    Overall, it is enjoyable but some segments of the game need to be worked on, such as optimization issues and game balance.    … Expand
  38. Mercenary101
    Nov 10, 2013
    7
    the character roster is large and fairly balanced unlike a few years ago this was my first MOBA and i still play it has a big E-sport following and is great fun to play....with friends the community is fairly toxic unfortunately and i play on the EU W servers which break at least once a week
  39. MisterShmi
    Apr 26, 2014
    7
    This game is a lot of fun and addicting. I've spent many hours in it. Its hampered by a really crappy community and a terrible game client. For free, however, I can't complain. I bought some characters but haven't spent more than $20 I'd say. And for that price, I definitely got my money's worth.
  40. Tittan0101
    Nov 11, 2013
    7
    Fun to play but to many champions to choose from and it's hard to figure out which is your best also has server lag spikes which get annoying after a while. Overall A great free to play game.
  41. Dawnsora
    Nov 17, 2013
    7
    Fun game but slightly spoiled by the communi. Even in non ranked games theres way top much pressure that when you get a bad match, others will really make you feel like rubbish. I'd recommend playing with a group of friends though so you can enjoy the awesome game
  42. Iluvatar21
    Apr 29, 2014
    7
    HOW I RATE: 10-9 score: perfect or near-perfect don't exist; 8 score: one of the best games ever. Top score; 7-6 score: great but not one of the best; 5-below score: serious flaws.
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    I hate the camera pan and no real autoattack. Diverse hero pool is diverse which is good.
  43. Killua
    Aug 6, 2014
    7
    Good -
    Polished combat and mostly balanced champions.
    Not a pay-to-win, but houses one of the best online markets I've ever seen for a free game It's free Bad - Terrible matchmaking discourages newbies from getting into LoL, due to Riot's inability to control smurfing. One of the most toxic player-to-player environments in-gaming. Trolls will thrive here. Lax punishments for    Good -
    Polished combat and mostly balanced champions.
    Not a pay-to-win, but houses one of the best online markets I've ever seen for a free game
    It's free

    Bad -
    Terrible matchmaking discourages newbies from getting into LoL, due to Riot's inability to control smurfing. One of the most toxic player-to-player environments in-gaming. Trolls will thrive here.
    Lax punishments for leavers, feeders, and trolls. Riot adds a 'file a complaint' system that ends up being pushed under the rug. I know this because I still will go through 3 games in a row where one player is doing poorly and rage-quits = the entire game is ruined and then to top it all off, teams are unable to surrender until 20 minutes in, meaning if it's 1v5, too **** bad.

    Example from my last game - 3 of our teammates leave, making it impossible to cover all lanes. We win the match though because somehow the entire opposing team had pings over 600 so they couldnt control their champtions. I wasn't sure whether to be mad or rejoice.    … Expand
  44. babaganush
    Oct 21, 2014
    7
    lots of these reviews are really old and the game doesnt seem to work well on older computers(every other game it will freeze but i can always "reconnect" to it) and it is free to play, you get new champs to try every week and you also win "IP" points every match to buy new champs with, i have been playing under 2 weeks and have unlocked 3 of the cheaper-ish champs and can use themlots of these reviews are really old and the game doesnt seem to work well on older computers(every other game it will freeze but i can always "reconnect" to it) and it is free to play, you get new champs to try every week and you also win "IP" points every match to buy new champs with, i have been playing under 2 weeks and have unlocked 3 of the cheaper-ish champs and can use them permanently and that was without spending any actual cash. this is also a really difficult game, the main point is to not die, i got my skill up by playing against bots and now i dont "feed"(die alot) to the enemy faction. really hard learning curve but i have played EVE and not gone insane so i can learn this game as well.

    Main point of all of this is, the game is fun with friends, it is difficult even with friends, it is free to play. even though you will want to spend money maybe to get a certain champion faster or to buy new "skins" to make your champ look different. otherwise if you like strategy games, because it takes "strategy" and knowing the proper way to use the abilities of a certain champion. you wouldnt go using a sniper rifle for up close combat in call of duty just like you wouldnt snipe someone with a shotgun. there are certain ways to use certin characters, play it for free, rage and quit, or get better and enjoy yourself, like me currently for free.    … Expand
  45. ForICan
    Jul 17, 2014
    7
    The game itself is really good, RIOT's employees are great and the LCS (pro-league) is awesome. The only thing that made me stop playing this game is the community, honestly it'd be better if there were no chat at all and everyone just communicated through pings. From my experience 1 out of 5 players is nice (personality-wise), 2 out of 5 are not that bad (or don't write in chat at all),The game itself is really good, RIOT's employees are great and the LCS (pro-league) is awesome. The only thing that made me stop playing this game is the community, honestly it'd be better if there were no chat at all and everyone just communicated through pings. From my experience 1 out of 5 players is nice (personality-wise), 2 out of 5 are not that bad (or don't write in chat at all), and the other 2 out of are completely toxic, blaming everyone for their mistakes and calling you words I didn't even know were insults.… Expand
  46. Asha
    May 3, 2014
    7
    Well. This game is really not bad. I playing in LOL by 2 years. Graphics - bad, but for me not most important. What is mostly irritating - community. Really, this game starting to be kindgarten. I am 21 years old and started to feel like another idiot playing it. Just awful flame, no matter how u or someone else playing, if u playing good - no help, if u playing in jungle - not enoughWell. This game is really not bad. I playing in LOL by 2 years. Graphics - bad, but for me not most important. What is mostly irritating - community. Really, this game starting to be kindgarten. I am 21 years old and started to feel like another idiot playing it. Just awful flame, no matter how u or someone else playing, if u playing good - no help, if u playing in jungle - not enough ganks, etc etc, just terrible to play. I playin this game less and less, cause of not fun getting from it.… Expand
  47. ikbeneenpersoon
    May 5, 2014
    7
    Amazing ! I just got 3500 RP code for totally FREE ! Come and download code too

    >> http://RiotPoint.eu/

    this is great and i think this is 150 characters long
  48. Winklemore
    May 27, 2014
    7
    As someone who has played both League of Legends and Dota 2, I can say that of the two I would prefer to play Dota. Now, that does not mean that LoL is a bad game, it just means that I think that Dota mechanics make more sense.

    League offers a larger community of players with a gameplay based almost entirely on items. Abilities of the player are made stronger only through the items that    As someone who has played both League of Legends and Dota 2, I can say that of the two I would prefer to play Dota. Now, that does not mean that LoL is a bad game, it just means that I think that Dota mechanics make more sense.

    League offers a larger community of players with a gameplay based almost entirely on items. Abilities of the player are made stronger only through the items that are bought and hardly at all through leveling. The rune system is pretty much pointless until the player reaches level 20 and can purchase the Tier 3s, but even then they will have played against people with an advantage due to their runes and masteries. Plus the player has to either earn enough IP to unlock champions or purchase RP to unlock them.

    In Dota, all of the champs come free to play, and the only items that the player purchases with real money are character sets. In game the character scales based off of leveling. Also, something that League has just gotten around to adding; Dota has had an in-game voice chat since the release and if someone is being toxic there is a mute button for chat and in-game text chat. There are no runes or masteries that give seasoned players any advantage over newcomers, and the game is based more on skill than it is dependent on runes and masteries.

    Overall, League has a larger player base, but Dota has superior gameplay opportunity.    … Expand
  49. cylian3
    Jul 7, 2014
    7
    There are some key differences between LoL and Dota 2 which makes me think League of Legends is a better game (even if the developers are a bunch of massive, censorshipping, controversal cu nts) and I'll do my best to state these below.

    1. The way gold is handled: a) In Dota 2, If you die with any significant amount of gold, you are guaranteed to lose at least 20-50% of it (and even all    There are some key differences between LoL and Dota 2 which makes me think League of Legends is a better game (even if the developers are a bunch of massive, censorshipping, controversal cu nts) and I'll do my best to state these below.

    1. The way gold is handled: a) In Dota 2, If you die with any significant amount of gold, you are guaranteed to lose at least 20-50% of it (and even all of it in some cases) on a frequent basis If you do not seemingly micromanage your shopping through a celluar phone before dying. The mechanic itself is stupid and pays no thought whether the gold being stolen is from someone that has no items at all or minimal income and relentlessly penalizes them by repeatedly taking away the little resources they have. This becomes severely painful if you play a support character since many of the items they need are quite expensive and once you die maybe 1-2 times with 500-1000+ gold, you're majorly crippled for the rest of the entire game. LoL has none of this and you keep every penny even If you die repeatedly as the one who kills you gets a simple bounty.

    b) In Dota 2, there are unwritten rules that It is mandatory for any support character to constantly empty their pockets in order to buy things such as couriers, wards, dust of disapperance/decept and sometimes even excessive tango (healing items). Sure, this makes sense as they do not have the biggest emergency to aquire items. Then.. Having the duty to buy these things and almost never be able to last-hit creeps/NPC's would be a fair point to make the assumption that support characters would have some additional support of income, no? Wrong. Dota 2 spits in the face of anyone who wants to play support by giving them the slowest possible income of any heroes and stomping them into the ground whenever they die, taking all the little gold they have. It's utterly moronic and creates nothing but conflicts in the form of certain support characters wanting a few dibs on last-hitting enemy heroes for quick cash or just trying to farm creeps by themselves. LoL balances this out significantly by allowing support characters to buy certain items that grants them extra gold whenever they're close to a mob dying that they did not kill. While the ones killing do get more gold, It is the best step possible to balancing things for people that want to play a supporting role while also giving everyone in-game free items that create wards, meaning less mandatory cash spending If you support.

    c) In Dota 2, you can buy items at any time and anywhere during the battle and have your purchases delivered to you by a courier. Getting the courier to begin with for gold creates an unnecessary cash-pool for supports to throw money into, renders most stuff like boots of travel extremely undesireable (except for moronic be-everywhere-at-once tactics for certain heroes) and leaves every visit one takes to the town fountain to be due to surviving with 1 hp left from a battle. This mechanic also causes imbalance in the game itself by making strong recovery items be insanely valuable, especially the Heart of Tarrasque which boasts a whopping 80% winrate to whomever manages to purchase it as seen on the multi-million statistical website, Dotabuff. And even with that, you have to consider the dozens of new player who buy wrong items for wrong heroes or just people trolling & feeding and causing intentional losses. It's true stat could easily be 85-90% winrate.

    2. Matchmaking: I'll be blunt. The match-making in Dota 2 does simply NOT WORK. For ANYONE. It more than frequently matches up complete beginners with people boasting 300-2000+ hours into the game and often slaps up groups with people up against soloers. This used to be somewhat bearable as there was an option before the "Give Diretide" incident to disable all grouping in the settings but now It's been removed as the MM is still horribly broken and ontop of that, also very uncustomizeable. While LoL is of course not without fault, It has a much, MUCH more stable MM where the only times you'll meet elites is when you partner up with one.

    3. Balance/Gameplay: The devs in Dota 2 has repeatedly shown their complete and utter incompetence in all matter of balance, be it not properly using their public testing servers or just not giving a damn about facerolling heroes such as Mirana, Drow Ranger, Death Prophet, Pudge, etc whereas LoL has huge tendencies to have gigantic flip-overs in games where one team will immensively be winning (due to some rather seemingly overpowered early-on heroes) just to be overwhelmed later in in the game since LoL allows everyone to really flesh their builds out thanks to no gold loss on death. I've personally lost count on how many times my team wanted to surrender, played 15-30 more minutes and ended up winning by a mile thanks to teamwork and coordination from being repeatedly defeated. LoL also boasts a MUCH better response time in moves.

    Character limit, But TL:DR = LoL is best.    … Expand
  50. VinderiusPX
    Jul 25, 2014
    7
    I have played this moba for 2 years now and consider myself rather accustomed to this game.
    To start off, this game has two ways of playing it: You can team up with random, real people against the AI, or you can play against others.
    League of Legends until now is distributed into 4 maps, but is mainly played on it's most popular map, Summoner's Rift. On this map, you join 4 other players    I have played this moba for 2 years now and consider myself rather accustomed to this game.
    To start off, this game has two ways of playing it: You can team up with random, real people against the AI, or you can play against others.
    League of Legends until now is distributed into 4 maps, but is mainly played on it's most popular map, Summoner's Rift. On this map, you join 4 other players to take down the enemy's Nexus (basically the heart of their base). The game has a wide variety of balanced characters(champions) to choose from each with individual skills and gameplay. Also, before the match starts, runes and masteries help you buff your champion at the beginning or progressively at the end of the game, each game lasting approximately 20-45 minutes. However you need to unlock them one-by-one first. League is a free to play game with micro transactions, however it is not pay-to-win.
    The graphics are decent, although they will be upgraded in a short while. Also, the game has numerous updates, keeping the community entertained.
    Lastly, it has an enormous competitive scene with countless of thrilling tournaments.
    This game can be tons of fun when played with friends in order to take down the enemy strategically and sometimes you can get a good laughter out of it. However, after playing the game for a rather long time, the gameplay becomes repetitive and rather boring. In addition to that, you often get matched up with rude, inconsiderate, flamers (people who use indecent language during the game). This can become a tremendous problem when trying to reach a higher place in the ranking system of League of Legends, therefore causing the game to be tense and not relaxing. It definitely requires patience and good morals to play the game, which in my opinion very few people of the community have.    … Expand
  51. skulldurson
    Sep 9, 2014
    7
    Let's be honest, part of the hate against the game seems to be backed by the fact that many do not know how to build their champions and misunderstand the basic dynamics of the game expecting a non MOBA experience. Hence the distaste towards the game. Its a decent at best good experience.
  52. JohnKristofer
    Dec 21, 2014
    7
    The Game is Fun at times but because of the **** keep **** the chat section,my enjoyment becomes unenjoyable But the game is still good through it's characters and items.The Game is smooth and i have a good time playing the game but the only thing I hate is other people bashing me that I Suck,You're stupid! well **** you! GO GET A LIFE! Im not like you playing games that much I only playThe Game is Fun at times but because of the **** keep **** the chat section,my enjoyment becomes unenjoyable But the game is still good through it's characters and items.The Game is smooth and i have a good time playing the game but the only thing I hate is other people bashing me that I Suck,You're stupid! well **** you! GO GET A LIFE! Im not like you playing games that much I only play games for enjoyment! yeah the community sucks and thats the only thing i really hate about LoL!… Expand
  53. Killerboy2807
    Jan 2, 2015
    7
    The game was executed quite well, and there are many who love it. But personally I really don't enjoy it.

    There are loads of negative and annoying factors in this game. Like being forced to last hit all minions or just go **** youself because you just lost. Only some characters being viable, while others are just absolutely useless. And way more.

    So all I can give this game is a 7.
  54. VideoVillain
    Jan 4, 2015
    7
    Great game. Played the hell out of it. Done with it. It became too esports focused, not that that is a bad thing, but they left behind all the other players. They took away the funny style they had and replaced it with a much too serious tone. They even redid the original characters because they were no longer fitting into the world they'd changed the game to be. They started addingGreat game. Played the hell out of it. Done with it. It became too esports focused, not that that is a bad thing, but they left behind all the other players. They took away the funny style they had and replaced it with a much too serious tone. They even redid the original characters because they were no longer fitting into the world they'd changed the game to be. They started adding too many characters and not caring about the balance of the game. Though adding the new maps and gameplay styles was a big plus and kept the game from droping a few more points in my book!

    I still play once in a while, but I just don't have the heart for it anymore, especially with new MOBAs like Vainglory.    … Expand
  55. xXDrowXx
    Feb 14, 2015
    7
    7/10
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  56. tsakiym
    May 25, 2015
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I do not have to say anything. But i need to write one hundred and fifty characters. i think my score can describe it.................................… Expand
  57. Surma
    May 15, 2021
    7
    I've been playing this game since open beta, so I have a ton of experience of all the changes the game has went through.

    First of, if you are ONLY looking at the visual side of things, holy crap, the game has improved a lot. It was pretty ugly and all the models were very low polygon count. Nowadays it's far greater graphically, map is super nice, spells look super flashy and well    I've been playing this game since open beta, so I have a ton of experience of all the changes the game has went through.

    First of, if you are ONLY looking at the visual side of things, holy crap, the game has improved a lot. It was pretty ugly and all the models were very low polygon count. Nowadays it's far greater graphically, map is super nice, spells look super flashy and well created.

    But the gameplay has taken... ummm... a slight downturn. I never understood the necessity of bushes but I let that go since you were always able to put a ward down.

    Nowadays every single lane has like 3 bushes, so there's never enough actual vision you can achieve to protect yourself from ganks. In old days when you got ahead or got ganked, you purchased 75g ward and were relatively safe. Now you buy pink ward and you're burning that ward out with saving maybe a second or two from an individual gank. Ward gets taken down and you can't do anything.

    Now if you have AFK teammember, you no longer are able to go to soak lane or go to jungle, in case something went wrong in champion select. You're FORCED into a role and the system has been tweaked so hard to not allow any variety. I cleared red, blue and frog with Graves without smite and I was still level 1.

    Also there's a lot of champions that got weaker over time for no good reason. Talon used to be amazing assassin who could delete opponent. Now he's much slower to gank and his burst does far more damage than a single Leblanc Q+W. Maybe he's gotten little safer to escape after ganks but I liked the old kit where he was able to 1v5 when fed.

    Xerath used to have a cool unique technique that was fully counterable by strong initiate, that got taken away while he still retains the strong burst and range. I miss the old Galio who could play as support. Now you're pretty much forced mid because you can't survive 2v2 without very specific set of runes and having ultra aware ADC, enemy who over extends etc. There's just so many champions that can do better than him.

    This game needs to go back to its roots (mechanically) and take some steps to make each champion to have an unique Strength rather than having every new champion overloaded with 10 different mechanics.

    I mean it's cool to play them, but you're pretty much forced to one trick champion nowadays if you attempt to do any climbing, and playing one champion is ULTRA boring. I miss the time I could just pick something wacky like Sion support and just spam stun and shield explosion, use money to buy wards and roam. A place where we could experiment new things. Now you're pretty much forced to babysit ADC because all your money generation items require having a teammate next to you.

    I think the community took huge dump downward in season 3 and forward and nowadays you cannot go a single game without someone getting blamed for trolling or intentionally feeding or just asking to report for no reason.

    I still play it because I like the game, but I feel it has now far less skill expression due to how much less vision you're able to give to your team if you're not support, or if you're support, how little you're allowed to roam, how easy it's to die when behind.

    Oh I almost forgot the extremely high snowball due to how much damage s10 and s11 have wrought with first the rune rework (everyone was complaining the damage was too high) and now s11 where the main core items get given in full strength, easily doing an additional 200 damage boost from abilities, or/and leaping character forward.

    I guess the items could be good buy there already was summoners which were supposed to be these ultimate rescue items. Now you got Jhin with Heal who speeds up, flash, slow due to trap and 2nd leap with item, and you literally cannot catch this immobile champ anymore, and it's supposed to be its weakness.

    Baron buff is way too strong now and dragons give permanent buffs that are impossible to be gained. Rift Herald was cool at first but should have been severely nerfed. Jeesus, if you have some champs with ability to kill towers fast on a solo lane, and you get killed by ganks, you might lose all towers and even the first tower in core. It's just too much.    … Expand
  58. Wiebe
    Feb 26, 2020
    7
    Fun game to play with friends, but a toxic community, still the best moba out there.
  59. CromaColors
    Feb 11, 2016
    7
    Fun, addictive , quite content to which you will have enough hours , promotes competitiveness and encourages decision-making satisfactory experience ... but empty, it's a shame it as Flapibird , really missing the story , he produced no innovation and toxic community detracts many points.
  60. clickityClank
    Feb 3, 2016
    7
    I have a love hate with this game. Its a lot of fun, but the community is like herpes. Everything is fine, good game good game, then you get the flair up. Troll city, out the ass. They do a good job of adding new content for a fair price. Every patch cycle they nerf some champions and make others completely op. Instead of updating ass old champions like Urgot and some other ones they keepI have a love hate with this game. Its a lot of fun, but the community is like herpes. Everything is fine, good game good game, then you get the flair up. Troll city, out the ass. They do a good job of adding new content for a fair price. Every patch cycle they nerf some champions and make others completely op. Instead of updating ass old champions like Urgot and some other ones they keep throwing new **** out that's basically the same thing as all the other people just mixed together. But ive been playing this **** since it came out a few years ago nonstop basically, so that tells you something.… Expand
  61. OrbitalDefDrone
    May 21, 2016
    7
    Not the best MOBA ever, but has a few good characters. I do feel that it can be annoying playing the same map over and over again. Again like every other moba, this game has a toxic community. It just seems to come with the genre and maybe from the latest generation of gamers.
  62. GutiOut
    Nov 28, 2019
    7
    A decent moba with a deplorable community, recommended if you want spend time with friends in a simple game. PRO: f2p - a lot of champs and players - fast bug fixes . CON: is the cancer of online gaming communities - quality is behind than other games .
  63. dislexicpotato
    Jul 30, 2020
    7
    League of Legends gets so many things right, from the wide range of interesting and likeable characters to the satisfying and rewarding gameplay, however the experience is held back by its toxic community, lack of game modes and very poor champion balancing.
  64. AkiMao
    Sep 14, 2016
    7
    If you want to learn french, get flamed and reported for everything what you do and like to throw out tons of money for skins, than is LoL the perfect game for you!
  65. Fikthenig
    Jun 18, 2017
    7
    League in its entirety is a great game. Nice mechanics, great characters with a nice background, a fairly sufficient gaming community. The problem with this game is that it isn't something you should play with by yourself. Just like Super Smash Bros., you kind of need friends to play alongside with otherwise it gets old real quick and the players tend to be jacka**es. The payment for theLeague in its entirety is a great game. Nice mechanics, great characters with a nice background, a fairly sufficient gaming community. The problem with this game is that it isn't something you should play with by yourself. Just like Super Smash Bros., you kind of need friends to play alongside with otherwise it gets old real quick and the players tend to be jacka**es. The payment for the characters as well as some of the in-game items are fair but sometimes it can be a little overpriced. My advice: don't pay real money for this game. People are getting way too addicted to a game that is just SUB-PAR. Good Luck and Good Clashing!!!!… Expand
  66. ZeoN
    Nov 28, 2017
    7
    Uno de los mejores juegos competitivos actuales sin duda alguna.Mueve grandes masas.Tecnicamente no es gran cosa pero ofrece mucha diversion y competitividad.Ideal para jugar con amigos.
  67. Forsakenboy1
    Dec 27, 2017
    7
    É um bom jogo, você certamente gastará horas jogando - até porque as partidas duram entre 30 e 50 minutos - e de fato não chega a ser um fator negativo. Há uma grande variedade de campeões, distintos, com habilidades únicas, porém eles não são muito bem balanceados entre si, enquanto alguns morrem muito fácil, outros são imortais, e eu nem estou falando dos tanks, fator esse que prejudicaÉ um bom jogo, você certamente gastará horas jogando - até porque as partidas duram entre 30 e 50 minutos - e de fato não chega a ser um fator negativo. Há uma grande variedade de campeões, distintos, com habilidades únicas, porém eles não são muito bem balanceados entre si, enquanto alguns morrem muito fácil, outros são imortais, e eu nem estou falando dos tanks, fator esse que prejudica na experiência do jogo. Outro fator negativo é a comunidade, muito tóxica, com muitos trolls, e que pouco é feito contra eles. Porém um fator positivo é a facilidade de ganhar itens sem precisar pagar por eles, campeões, skins, icones, sentinelas; tudo ganho em baús ou como forma de gratificação por bom comportamento, bem diferente de jogos que para ganhar você tem que pagar. Uma dica importante é mutar o chat para todos, você joga sem se estressar com jogadores que querem o seu mal.… Expand
  68. hallllloo
    Feb 6, 2018
    7
    Ein sehr kompetetives Spiel, welches sehr hohen Wiederspielwert mitbringt. Jedoch gibt es einige bugs die meist zwar nicht spielentscheident sind aber einfach nerven. Des Weiteren sollte man sich bewusst sein dass wenn man keinen Helden spiel der zuzeit Meta ist sehr schwere Karten hat.
  69. davekinf
    May 20, 2018
    7
    it is my favourite competitive game, if i don't calificate ii with a 10, it is because it has the worst player comunity.
  70. Vitor007
    Dec 7, 2018
    7
    Its gameplay is addictive. League Of Legends, a world fever since your launch, has a plot nothing original, however, the more "right" than others that use the same base. His characters are your high point.
  71. Zeratex
    Feb 11, 2019
    7
    A deep MOBA game, famous for its high learning skill curve, its well developed with a lot of champions with different style to choose from.
    Game has no story since its multiplayer game.
    The lore is fine. Gameplay is fun with friends and even alone, Riot also adds mods once a while to keep the interest for non competitive gamers. Biggest problem is the game is not new player friendly    A deep MOBA game, famous for its high learning skill curve, its well developed with a lot of champions with different style to choose from.
    Game has no story since its multiplayer game.
    The lore is fine.
    Gameplay is fun with friends and even alone, Riot also adds mods once a while to keep the interest for non competitive gamers.

    Biggest problem is the game is not new player friendly and suffers from a very very very bad tutorials, the community is toxic but that is irrelevant to the quality of the game.

    I like this game but it doesnt have a high potential like other games.
    7/10    … Expand
  72. SonOfSakuraTree
    Jun 4, 2019
    7
    this game is good and very lovely but requires some game modes and riot is stingy!!!
  73. Slashchat
    Nov 13, 2020
    7
    random free to play game like dota2, little better here and there, but the same random gameplay and fx.
  74. Miroslavek
    Mar 24, 2020
    7
    +hra je free to play
    +hodně postav na výběr
    +dobrá hratelnost
    +dost good grafika ne moc naročná hra
    +zmého pohledu zábavná-mám tam nahráno cca 120 hodin
    -client je za bugovanej
    -toxic hrači
    -micro transakce-ne moc drahé ani užitečné
  75. Yggdraszil
    May 16, 2020
    7
    Une victoire sur ligue of legends est la plus belle chose une défaite une tragédie et l'une des pires choses qui puissent vous arriver. Pensez-y avant de le télécharger.

    PS : Ce jeu rend fous.
  76. TrueAnalises
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    Nem perde tempo baixando, essa merda vai te viciar muito, sim é uma merda, n da pra parar de jogar...
  77. GishiMD
    Aug 4, 2020
    7
    I started to play lol in 2016 because my best friend was playing, and told me that was a fun game. When I began to play, took me a few days to begin to enjoy it, but after that I was very surprised about how rich the game is in content and possibilties.
    You take a few days (or months) to understand the basics of game. But, to be really good, you have to play in the ranked mode, because    I started to play lol in 2016 because my best friend was playing, and told me that was a fun game. When I began to play, took me a few days to begin to enjoy it, but after that I was very surprised about how rich the game is in content and possibilties.
    You take a few days (or months) to understand the basics of game. But, to be really good, you have to play in the ranked mode, because normally is harder than the casual game. All the matches last at least 15 minutes but it is possible to extent to 50 minutes or more. And it is very stressful when you face a better enemy than you are, or have a newbie teammate.
    The launcher has a lot of technical problems like when the game crashes, or have a slow loanding screen. But with all this problems I still love the game. You have tons of content about the game on the internet, guides of how to play, vídeos to watch, cinematics and minigames. And this is for me the incredible part of this massive game.
    You can play with your friends or random teamates, you have a lot options to choose your style of how you will play the game or the skin of your Champion. It has a huge comunity and a lot of regular players. 4.5 / 5    … Expand
  78. MrPajamas
    May 27, 2021
    7
    It's been many years since I first ventured out to try one of the most popular mutliplayer game titles - League of Legends. LOL has left me with a dozen memories, as I've spent hundreds of hours there. Unfortunately, that was back when the game still contained a max level of 30. It wasn't until later that they added the ability to level up, and that was back when I wasn't playing, butIt's been many years since I first ventured out to try one of the most popular mutliplayer game titles - League of Legends. LOL has left me with a dozen memories, as I've spent hundreds of hours there. Unfortunately, that was back when the game still contained a max level of 30. It wasn't until later that they added the ability to level up, and that was back when I wasn't playing, but that's beside the point. Back to LOL itself. The game caught my eye right off the bat. The simple graphics here just appealed to me, and the game is ultimately a lot clearer than Dota, which I only played for a few hours and was absolutely lost. But here, after a while, you pick up what and how and that makes the game more accessible to more people. It didn't take long for me to tell my friends about LOLku back in I think it was 2015, and they subsequently downloaded the game and we started playing together regularly. The rules of the game are pretty clear. Two teams of five players and both teams have an inhibitor they have to protect and they have to destroy the other team's inhibitor, only to get to it they have to go through towers that start giving you damage and so you die after a while. So the only way to get to the enemy inhibitor is to destroy these towers and this will make the game longer and in the end one game will take around 30-50 minutes. You can still kill the dragon, which will give your team advantages. To top it all off, you still earn goals during gameplay. For killing enemies, for destroying enemy towers and so on. You can then buy items with the coins, which give you upgrades in the form of damage, HP and so on. The player gets into it pretty quickly, and the biggest obstacle is perhaps just the lack of knowledge of the characters' abilities. Once you get into it, however, you're in for hundreds of hours of fun doing the same thing over and over again, but for each match you get a Blue Essence (still an IP then, but now it's Blue Essence) and you can then unlock more champions with that currency. On top of that, you also level up, so the game doesn't lack a sense of progression. There are also skins or the ability to unlock a champion right away for real money, but so some of those microtransactions are already expected in a F2P title and personally I think League of Legends is not a pay-to-win game. On top of that as I mentioned the game is free, which is fine. Overall for me it is a good game and if you don't know what to play with your friends, League of Legends is such an obvious choice. Just beware of the community, which is perhaps the most toxic I've ever experienced. I've never seen so much swearing and I slept with your mom type stuff.… Expand
  79. RockerKR
    Nov 17, 2020
    7
    lllllllllllllllllll Fine Game lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
  80. tensioly
    Jun 6, 2023
    7
    Puede ser un juego muy divertido para jugarlo, pero tiene muchos problemas relacionados sobre todo con la comunidad que lo juega y se puede hacer hasta frustrante por ella. También, las partidas son bastante largas y quizá eso hace el juego algo menos accesible para la gente. Eso si, el juego tiene requisitos muy bajos y casi todos los ordenadores lo soportan perfectamente. Hay muchosPuede ser un juego muy divertido para jugarlo, pero tiene muchos problemas relacionados sobre todo con la comunidad que lo juega y se puede hacer hasta frustrante por ella. También, las partidas son bastante largas y quizá eso hace el juego algo menos accesible para la gente. Eso si, el juego tiene requisitos muy bajos y casi todos los ordenadores lo soportan perfectamente. Hay muchos personajes y miles de formas de jugar, aunque entrar en el juego se hace un poco difícil por todas las variables de características que hay. La interfaz del menú es algo complicada sobre todo al principio, aunque luego se pueda llegar a entender. Si este juego no te acaba provocando adicción, acaba siendo una opción muy disfrutable que siempre te va a mantener entretenido cuando no sepas que hacer. 6,9/10
    (08/2019)    … Expand
  81. GodfatherHiro
    Aug 28, 2021
    7
    In short, toxic community, (I know its hard) about every season is there another misbalance, and it needs more time to be put in than any other game (, but i think thats normal for mobas). But in the end, if you play with friends it can be much fun.
  82. Alex1525
    Sep 4, 2022
    7
    I've been playing this game for 9 years, I have enough experience to describe what this game is really like in words:
    Prós: Overall, it's low on bugs, it's lightweight and works well on the most modest of computers, it has constant updates, and it can be fun playing with friends, it's free;
    Cons: In the vast majority of matches, the player becomes a puppet, where a win or loss is already    I've been playing this game for 9 years, I have enough experience to describe what this game is really like in words:
    Prós: Overall, it's low on bugs, it's lightweight and works well on the most modest of computers, it has constant updates, and it can be fun playing with friends, it's free;
    Cons: In the vast majority of matches, the player becomes a puppet, where a win or loss is already defined before the start of the game, placed in a time where most will play very well, or most will play poorly, and not the end, they are matches that the player will really be able to have a good experience;
    The producer doesn't care about balance, in the end what makes money are clothes and new champions.
    Basically, this defines the game.    … Expand
  83. THRAAKOS
    Oct 25, 2021
    7
    As a game it's very good designed, but it has two big problems:
    1.Community ( specially EUW)
    2. Riot balance team (nonexistent)
  84. XabiXroSS
    Feb 5, 2022
    7
    This game sucks, but it's addictive as hell so please don't even try to download it.
  85. matheusdolci
    Jul 3, 2022
    7
    só dou nota media pois eu jogo o league E O JOGO TEM MUITO A MELHORAR tipo os evento de skins de crossovers(ou campeão crossover tambem conta) que 500 milhão de mobas tem isso fora os monte de problema que o lol tem
  86. Satsoku
    Jan 4, 2023
    7
    Been playing since 2012. The game is constantly evolving and updating while still remaining familiar to what it has always been. However, as everyone knows, the community is, and always has been extremely toxic.
  87. Lythium_Nashor
    Nov 23, 2022
    7
    Excellent game, balancing not always efficient and fast, the community is extremely toxic.
  88. VelkozMain
    Mar 21, 2023
    7
    Although LoL has come out with many rotating game modes over the past decade, with some becoming permanent branches of the main game, I am only focusing on the 5v5 game played on the Summoners Rift map, which used to be LoL in its entirety. On the Summoners Rift map, each player is put into a pool with four other players unless they are playing in a premade game with friends, which wouldAlthough LoL has come out with many rotating game modes over the past decade, with some becoming permanent branches of the main game, I am only focusing on the 5v5 game played on the Summoners Rift map, which used to be LoL in its entirety. On the Summoners Rift map, each player is put into a pool with four other players unless they are playing in a premade game with friends, which would lessen the number of random players in the lobby. The different roles in LoL are the Top, Jungle, Mid, Bot/ADC, and Support. Each roll has a specific job within each match, with many players tending to specialize in only one or two roles in their entire history with LoL. Once players have their roles, they pick a Champion to play as. LoL has over 140 Champions to choose from, each with unique abilities and playstyle. However, each Champion can usually only fit one or two class styles: Assassin, Fighter, Mage, Marksman, Support, and Tank. Each Champion also has the same default controls, with the player views them from a 3rd person perspective, looking down on them from above. The game is typically played with a mouse and keyboard.
    The main objective of Summoners Rift is to destroy the opposing team’s Nexus. However, the base is guarded by powerful stationary, stone turrets protected by constant waves of minions. The main gameplay is to kill opponent minions and Champions to gain experience points (XP) which are used to level your Champion and gold to buy items. As a Champion gains levels, their base stats increase, and they can improve one of their abilities, with the max level attainable being 18. Gold is used to acquire items in the shop at a player’s base; items increase a Champions base stats and can give additional abilities. There are over 200 unique items in LoL, but the maximum amount of items a Champion can hold is 6. When a Champion is killed, they have a revive timer, depending on if the game is in its early, mid, or late game stages.
    Communication can be the most enjoyable aspect of the game when playing LoL with friends, sitting in the same room with you, or chatting on a voice call. Warning your friend about an approaching enemy, playfully teasing them when they make an outrageous mistake that leads to their Champion’s death, or just bursting out in laughter at them landing a killing blow against the odds is what can make playing LoL a timeless experience. However, when playing with strangers online, that same teamplay aspect can make LoL a painful experience. Even though LoL doesn’t have a voice channel for casual play, there is still text chat. I have often made just one simple mistake, and suddenly my entire team is belittling me, calling me slurs, and demanding I uninstall the game. Opponents can also be quite toxic towards you and put you down and call you “trash” and the like.
    LoL’s gameplay can be very entertaining, especially once you get the hang of at least one Champion and start showing off your skills. However, LoL’s steep learning curve does hinder most beginners. It took me around 2 years to get my head around the mechanics within LoL, and my primary motivation was playing it so I could bond with my older brother more. Without an underlying reason to master the game, many players trip over its mechanics and end up being kicked by some toxic player and call it quits there. LoL excels when played with friends as they can act as a cushion against the struggles presented by the game in its complexity and the potential heckling of the other team. However, without the safety net of friends, the LoL community is just not a welcoming place that has often made me quit a match in disgust, or even though we might end a game with a victory, I’ll end up feeling less than myself.
    If one can get past the toxic community of League of Legends, the game itself is delightful to play. Each match doesn’t take excessive time, and proving to your opponents and teammates your successes within the game can be a thrilling experience. Learning a new role, class style, or Champion can be an exciting challenge. Experimenting with building different items on a Champion can be a journey of creativity and problem-solving. Working with strangers to complete the common goal of destroying the enemies’ Nexus can be a fulfilling endeavor that bleeds into working with others in your day-to-day life. I ultimately come back to LoL because I can bond over something familiar with my brother and friends. But even without them and facing the toxicity of my teammates and opponents, LoL is still a fun game to overcome complex challenges.    … Expand
  89. GamerReview79
    May 19, 2023
    7
    Arcane was the only good thing about this game series. Playing League has made me lose so much blood. I punched seven wholes in seven walls. This Game makes me want to jump through a ring of fire and eat eighty extra glazed donuts. I am so sad when i play. My heart spills out of my body every time I play. I wish I never played. I lost the love of my life because I played. But its fine.
  90. sorinsorin
    Dec 30, 2009
    6
    lets be fair, lol is far from being a game, its just a mod, nothing special about it, the engine is bad since it consumes many resourses. besides, the game is... kinda expensive for a game
  91. Edge363
    May 31, 2013
    6
    Very fun game. It has a variety of strategy's that have IMMENSE ways to potential for better playing, and a better tutorial for new players that could instill better habits early on. I also wish there was a way to punish people who you play with and against for trolling, and raging. For example, maybe a player reveiw score for players. That way you can lower there score if they troll,Very fun game. It has a variety of strategy's that have IMMENSE ways to potential for better playing, and a better tutorial for new players that could instill better habits early on. I also wish there was a way to punish people who you play with and against for trolling, and raging. For example, maybe a player reveiw score for players. That way you can lower there score if they troll, using things like player in game quoting for advanced features. Just right now there isn't a good way to defend yourself against ragers. I cant just NOT play with them like in real life since its all based on random solo queuing. Though this does promote a environment where people who can tolerate the different ways of abuse and frustration can excel even without mechanical skill.

    TLDR: 1 Make a way to defend yourself from random ragers. 2 Love the champion variety and complexity. 3 Wish there was more ability to make up for bad team comp, or that team comp wasn't as important.    … Expand
  92. Stealthgear
    Jul 13, 2014
    6
    I'm not sure how you are able to play this game when you die in 1 or two hits from players that seem to be way more powerful. This is not really a fair strategy game. Its not incentive for new people to play. Also there was not much communication going on in the game. The game is also full of text everywhere which is completely overwhelming for a new player. The shop at the home base andI'm not sure how you are able to play this game when you die in 1 or two hits from players that seem to be way more powerful. This is not really a fair strategy game. Its not incentive for new people to play. Also there was not much communication going on in the game. The game is also full of text everywhere which is completely overwhelming for a new player. The shop at the home base and the spells are pretty busy. This has similar problems of a typical RPG except it isn't an RPG. There is some cool fighting going on with similar movements to other RTS games, but the core gameplay doesn't seem to be much. You go in and get decimated by powerful players. End of story. Lastly I refuse to play a game that bans me for playing, and then having to bow out of a match. Games seem to be very long, longer than a physical game would go without any break. Overwhelmingly I can't see why someone would spend longer than 20 minutes getting into this when there are faster action games to play, and better strategy games out there. But its at least playable and runs well on old hardware, unlike DOTA. So its better than DOTA, but I can't say this game is fun at all. You'd have to be kind of retarded to think this game is fun.… Expand
  93. VisiOn
    Aug 24, 2013
    6
    Keeping this simple:

    Game concept is cool, love the characters... balancing issues run very high... so much has been done to the game and I can safely say I've never seen it anywhere near balanced, whether it be team comps or matchmaking... Ratings: Graphics 6/10 Characters 9/10 Gameplay 7.5/10 Balancing 4/10 Community 0/10 (by far the worst community I have ever seen) The    Keeping this simple:

    Game concept is cool, love the characters... balancing issues run very high... so much has been done to the game and I can safely say I've never seen it anywhere near balanced, whether it be team comps or matchmaking...

    Ratings:
    Graphics 6/10
    Characters 9/10
    Gameplay 7.5/10
    Balancing 4/10
    Community 0/10 (by far the worst community I have ever seen)

    The game is only really fun when you have 10 competent people playing against each other... ONE bad person turns the game into a show with at least half the players turning to trolling for 30 mins... no one is ever looking to help you... no one ever cares about bettering anyone else... the game ends and all that happens is blame and pointless trolling, it disgusts me... its a norm for people to demean each other in that game... I rather play on a server where an experienced player is given admin and can ban people for days for acting the way they do... like in the good old CS days... shame people only act civilized when they are under a threat...    … Expand
  94. Illuminated
    Mar 31, 2011
    6
    League of Legends got great potential, its really addicting game, but the lack of balance is really great problem.There are still champions that are OP like leblanc, annie, etc and champions that are UP like ezreal, cassiopea, kennen, which Riot seems not to see.
    Also if you want to share this at the forum you will be just downvoted and your thread will be closed.
    Other thing is that Riot    League of Legends got great potential, its really addicting game, but the lack of balance is really great problem.There are still champions that are OP like leblanc, annie, etc and champions that are UP like ezreal, cassiopea, kennen, which Riot seems not to see.
    Also if you want to share this at the forum you will be just downvoted and your thread will be closed.
    Other thing is that Riot fails to free the game from leavers/feeders.
    I really enjoyed this game before, but i cant play it anymore, because its only making me nervous.
    Every game 4vs5 or got feeder or noob..
    Riot really must think about that and start concentrating on the problems of the game,not the content.    … Expand
  95. Ming120
    Apr 27, 2013
    6
    A co-worker of mine introduced this game to me. For the first few days, I was hooked. The design of the gameplay is dangerously addictive, with plenty of different ways to play it depending on what characters you unlock.

    That said, the game does get repetitive after a while. The community is also annoyingly toxic, and every other game, I would encounter at least one player on the    A co-worker of mine introduced this game to me. For the first few days, I was hooked. The design of the gameplay is dangerously addictive, with plenty of different ways to play it depending on what characters you unlock.

    That said, the game does get repetitive after a while. The community is also annoyingly toxic, and every other game, I would encounter at least one player on the team who would throw insults at you whether you are at the top of your game or not (and for the most ridiculous reasons too, like getting a top score on the board, or not helping them when they die). It's a real shame this isn't managed a little better.    … Expand
  96. vahn
    Sep 19, 2014
    6
    I will say that I was very unfair with this game when I first reviewed: I didn't exactly play a lot and I admit that it had some fun factor into it: me being a dota 2 player I didn't expect much, but I've been playing it lately and I've been enjoying it too.

    So what I'll say is, the game is good and fun, and the fact that it's not as hard as dota 2 make is even more enjoyable sometimes:    I will say that I was very unfair with this game when I first reviewed: I didn't exactly play a lot and I admit that it had some fun factor into it: me being a dota 2 player I didn't expect much, but I've been playing it lately and I've been enjoying it too.

    So what I'll say is, the game is good and fun, and the fact that it's not as hard as dota 2 make is even more enjoyable sometimes: losing a game of dota 2 usually means lots of swearings, while here it's much more toned down and even when it happens, I just feel more relaxed here than in dota 2, with constant complaining.

    But I still have the same issues as the last time:

    1)The Champions/Heroes Design: I've checked all the characters available and, aside for a very VERY few, all of them are really bland and just flatout "uninteresting". Personal opinions aside, most of the characters jus tlook similar and/or just uninspired, even when they had the chance to be unique! For instance, Garen's the most generic kind of "paladin" you could see, Jinx is a copy of Cammy (no kidding, her hair is the same, and the face is almost identical) and Akali is the most generic sexy ninja you'll ever see.

    Oh right, the game has a lot of fanservice: almost every female in the game is made to keep the guys "interested" in the game, to the point of making them completely boring: giant boobs, revealing outfits, sexy moanings when they die, sexy skins. Really? Well I guess people do love seeing a sexy character once in a while, but AT LEAST make them interesting!

    If I have to pick some favourites, Twitch, Yasuo, Hecarim, Nasus, Shaco, Leona and MAYBE Lucian remain my most favourite looking heroes (I repeat, LOOKING, not skill wise) of all. They at least look different enough than most...

    Oh, Soraka is a Draenei. That's all folks!

    2) IT'S TOO EASY! I've played mostly two to four champions so far, but I really didn't feel any challenge at all while playing them: what was challenging was to get a group that wouldn't constantly die and feed the enemies. I play as Sona most of the times and even if we are able to push our lane, one or two people are dying so many times and feeding the enemies, resulting in a loss.
    I just don't feel challenged in the end: it's a matter of who kills more at the start. And if your enemies are fed, you can basically kiss your match goodbye, because even an entire team can't stop him/her!

    As a result, the hard part is to find a good team more than actually learning the champions themselves (which is also needed too, I'm not saying the opposite). However, considering this is an online game, bad people can constantly join in, and for bad people I mean people who think of themselves of being supreme beings above humans who think that they're the best.

    While in the end me, the support, has the most kills...

    In the end, It's a decent game and nice if you want a relaxing game.

    But I still think Dota 2 is better in terms of challenge and skill.    … Expand
  97. siveZ
    Apr 10, 2014
    6
    Another DotA with expanded and...dulled gameplay. No denies, no easy/hard lane, middle is not fun at all - no reasons to roam without runes and 2-1-2 laneup, jungler is mandatory, no courier. etc. Instead of deep mechanics DotA uses, you get some doubtful gameplay expansions like runes, masteries and additional passives on heroes. Most of items do not have active component at all, graphicsAnother DotA with expanded and...dulled gameplay. No denies, no easy/hard lane, middle is not fun at all - no reasons to roam without runes and 2-1-2 laneup, jungler is mandatory, no courier. etc. Instead of deep mechanics DotA uses, you get some doubtful gameplay expansions like runes, masteries and additional passives on heroes. Most of items do not have active component at all, graphics whistle and fart, i can't recognize any action heroes do during teamfight. It's just a prolonged tutorial to Dota, with some stuff missing for easier understanding.… Expand
  98. Seraphix
    Nov 11, 2013
    6
    LOL can be entertaining. Biggest complaint from me is the inability to play any hero from the start. You need to pay for heroes or play a lot of games for points to unlock them. This will require a lot of time. There are also full skins that are obtained by paying. Learning curve is smaller than Dota 2, but feel that Dota 2 is more entertaining to play and to watch.
  99. Zelosfan
    Jul 1, 2012
    6
    This game is really easy to learn compared to other "DotA-like" games. The game is more chance than skill based which destroys the game experience for me directly. Manipulating games outside of the real gameplay with masteries and runes and expensive Heroes destroys the game for me.I don't think that this game has a capability of being played in e-sports since the games are not 100% even.
  100. Claytality
    Jul 10, 2014
    6
    I decided to update my review after I've been away from the game for awhile. I began playing in 2009. I thought it was amazing and quickly became addicted. Over the next 4 years I put well over 1000 hours into the game. I finally uninstalled it in fall 2013 and haven't looked back.

    This game WILL anger you. This game WILL frustrate you. This game WILL end up wasting a lot of your    I decided to update my review after I've been away from the game for awhile. I began playing in 2009. I thought it was amazing and quickly became addicted. Over the next 4 years I put well over 1000 hours into the game. I finally uninstalled it in fall 2013 and haven't looked back.

    This game WILL anger you. This game WILL frustrate you. This game WILL end up wasting a lot of your time. Whether its the queues, ragers who throw out games, or the fact that you're locked into games for a solid 30+ minutes, there's a LOT of time that goes down the drain. Out of my 1500 hours I probably sat around wishing I wasn't in a particular match, or waiting in queues, or being extremely frustrated for about 200 hours. This is a generous estimate btw, it was most likely more time.

    After I finally uninstalled the frustration in my life cleared up. I get along more easily with people and I no longer feel like I'm wasting time when I'm playing video games (even though it technically is a waste, haha).

    The game is fun, but I believe the MOBA genre is too new, it needs to be refined.    … Expand
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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 37
  3. Negative: 0 out of 37
  1. GameCritics
    Aug 5, 2013
    80
    I find that with League of Legends, Riot has cultivated one of the most unique spaces in gaming history—mostly for good reasons but also for some awful ones, and in the gaming museum of the future, League is sure to have its own wing.
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  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Nov 15, 2011
    85
    League of Legends handles well the worst problem DOTA has: its autistic n00b-hating elite players. Thanks to match making, now we weaklings dare to play. [Nov 2011]
  3. Thunderbolt
    Feb 1, 2011
    70
    Improvements are constantly being updated and although team mates make or break many matches, there is genuine fun to be found.
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