{"id":224,"date":"2017-11-07T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/?p=224"},"modified":"2017-11-15T20:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:27:50","slug":"week-of-october-29th-the-leaguelegend-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Week of October 29th: The (League)Legend Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Worlds 2017 wrapped up(no spoilers! <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nrWGZ2fV_-U?t=1623\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the start of the opening ceremony before the games), it&#8217;s time to talk League of Legends.\u00a0Recently, my friend group and I have gotten back into League of Legends. We&#8217;ve certainly played League off and on since we all stopped playing it competitively as a five man ranked team 3 years ago, however, with one of our newer members starting to learn League, we&#8217;ve dived back in head first. As with Minecraft, I&#8217;ve decided that if I ever got back into League I&#8217;d play it for the purely casual aspects of it, enjoying the experience and avoiding unnecessary stress from trying to climb on the ranked ladder. As a result, it&#8217;s been a much more enjoyable experience, and our skill from playing competitively before has stuck around through thick and thin, albeit a bit rough nowadays.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I certainly can&#8217;t play as fast as I used to, think as fast, know as much about the meta or new champs, but\u00a0in terms of overall skill I&#8217;ve still got it\u00a0after my hiatus into other eSports like CS:Go or Overwatch. Games are no longer &#8220;What can I do to win this game&gt;&#8221; at every step of the way, but &#8220;How stupid of a play can I get away with my mechanics? let&#8217;s find out!&#8221;. The game, in moderation, has become enjoyable and exciting once more, trying to figure out what&#8217;s changed since I&#8217;ve last played, who&#8217;s been nerfed(reduced in effectiveness\/power), who&#8217;s been buffed(increased in effectiveness\/power), and what the meta has shifted towards. I&#8217;ll probably never go back to playing 8 hours a day like I used to in high school, especially with adult responsibilities and other obligations now, but I\u00a0<em>am\u00a0<\/em>enjoying a once beloved game again, passing on my experience with the newest member of our group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Worlds 2017 wrapped up(no spoilers! Here&#8217;s the start of the opening ceremony before the games), it&#8217;s time to talk League of Legends.\u00a0Recently, my friend group and I have gotten back into League of Legends. We&#8217;ve certainly played League off and on since we all stopped playing it competitively as a five man ranked team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553313,345055],"tags":[377106,690938,568577,604190,567820,567512,567365,690936,927,503,17414,110584,110586,568428,569081,568970,28519,1489,169047,690937],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casual-gaming","category-weekly","tag-casual","tag-casual-gaming","tag-competitive","tag-competitive-gaming","tag-counter-strike","tag-e-sports","tag-electronic-sports","tag-esports","tag-friends","tag-gaming","tag-knowledge","tag-league-of-legends","tag-minecraft","tag-overwatch","tag-rzaney","tag-rzaney-gaming","tag-skill","tag-video-games","tag-video-gaming","tag-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/rzaneygaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}