League of Legends new player experience accused of being “the worst”
MOBA games are among the most notorious for being overly complex, with a relatively dense ruleset and an extremely steep learning curve. As one of League of Legends’ new players, it can be very tempting to pick whoever you think looks the coolest and jump straight into a match, but here’s why that might not be the best idea.
League newbie, Malicharo, has been quick to bemoan the on-boarding of new players, saying he and a friend jumped into the blind pick game mode – one of the very few available to new players. For those that don’t know, when you create a new account of League of Legends, most of the competitive game modes are off-limits until you level the account up. Blind pick has the same objectives as a regular game of Summoners Rift, but the pre-game phase is a bit more… chaotic. Nobody is assigned a role before the game starts, with people nabbing roles by typing in chat what they want (this isn’t always upheld, or even understood by new players). Everybody picks their champion at the same time, with the ability to have multiple versions of the same champion, unlike the regular draft pick mode.
From here, the user’s experience seemed to degrade pretty quickly. They go into how their first game had a leaver within the first 4 minutes, and how the enemy team had someone smurfing with 20 kills by the 12-minute mark. Their second game then has yet another leaver, as well as what what sounds like a bot – a Teemo that just followed the user around the whole match.
The rest of their games allegedly went in a similar fashion, each one seemingly impossible to win, especially for a new player, and none were without controversy. Trolls, flamers, bots, AFKers – this new player ran the entire gamut of sportsmanship in their
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