it'd be a lot more fun if the average player understood that they're just a silly little guy playing a silly little video game instead of throwing a tantrum that you're bad or not playing optimally or whatever. Just let me play my silly non meta shit in peace and not scream and cry when you lose
I'm a super casual player who only ever plays to hang out with friends, so I have no idea how to enable the team chat and have no desire to find out. If they get mad they can just scream into the void idc
Without it we’d still have server browsers as the primary avenue for game finding, and you’d just find a community of people that you jived with and have fun, building community bonds and having fun without worrying about your ELO or whatever.
For me it's about a players ability to adapt, if they can't begin to understand I'm going off meta by doing something silly like holding gold/bot lane with a hefty and mobile tank with no boots, and we need a healer and MORE battle cruiser (in the mtg, specifically edh, term) style tanks and they refuse to help, then I'm sorry, they earned their bronze medal.
I've done mm exp 'top', mm roam 'support', mid mm, split pusher roam, Gold 'bot' tank, jg tank, split push mage roam, jungle hunter/kneecapper roam(my old fav that's gotten harder but still fun, works really good when enemy team has bad teamwork and coordination and better when they tilt and chase [I've built so much move speed, they can only catch and kill me with a dash and some kind of rooting effect]. It usually comes down to player attitude, ability, creativity, knowledge, and fluidity of playstyle
I miss runes instead of whatever the fuck the rework is. I had all pages and most runes, too. At least they refunded the blue currency. I still haven't spent it all and I ended up buying every champ. I can buy new ones as they're released. I think I'm like 100k short of that one skin that comes out every year for like 1 mil blue.