Hope you're all having a wonderful summer! If you enjoyed the video please let me know :) The next video after this one will be a project I am excited about. Stay tuned for that. Also, ban Neeko in solo queue. GLHF !

Season 5 was without a doubt the most fun season I've ever played. Thanks for the rush of nostalgia

I miss being able to drink expensive tea (mana potions) as manaless champions to flex on people

I'm shocked that Burning Tides and the Gangplank rework weren't touched upon more. It was such a hype lore event that connected so many characters together. All the stories, music, skins we got. Gangplank being deleted from the game because he died is such an iconic part of League history. It was a moment Riot really engaged with us and the lore.

Not only is the season 5 nostalgic, but it is also objectively one of the best in history. The sheer amount of interesting stuff that happened..

never forget "I'm stacking my sated devourer" never gank master yi

Season 5 will always be my favorite, it just felt like every lane could make an impact on the game

season 5 was the season that I started playing and will always be very dear to me. but it was a clusterfuck, and I love that

Exil i swear, i stopped playing league and looking at league content this year as i changed games but i still wait for each and every one of your videos, i love hearing about the history of this game, the evolution i saw when in 2020 i touched the game for the first time after playing some matches in 2014 was wat kept me around while i was playing, and thats thanks to your videos too. keep up the crazy good work, love from italy

I don't know about the rest of the community, but I believe season 5 to be the golden age of the game just because of the weird rule: if everything is op, then nothing is. It was so fun for casual play, and for ranked there were so many changes in quick succession that experimentation and theorycrafting were the way to progress instead of following the meta.

I loved season 4 and 5 so much, I didnt care about winrates or ranking up, it was all about fun and crazy stuff happening every patch or two and I think you nailed why I miss the S4 map. It felt like you were in the clearing of a dense forest and it was really atmospheric, and now its super nostalgic.

oh man this video made me so happy and so sad to watch, Happier times - thanks Exil. Hope Riot can recapture some of this

Oh how Ive missed these long format documentaries. As someone that only started in season 9 I feel nostalgic for something I never experienced

would love that this would be a series, as someone who only started playing in s10 its really fascinating to hear how league worked and looked back in the day

Season 5 will always be hyper nostalgic for me as I started playing the game in early season 5

I remember this season so fondly, how can't I? I peaked in D1 this season and totally swore off of ranked afterwards

Tank Ekko, Yasuo and Fizz were season 6 classics

I started playing league in season 5 while i was still in middle school. It might be nostalgia, but i still think that this is the time that playing league was the most fun. I don't play often anymore (a few games every now and then), but i always come back looking for that same feeling i had back then, and realize its hardly the same game anymore. I wouldn't say its better or worse now or then. Just different

i really enjoyed season 3 and 4 and i was super hyped about season 5 with all the changes and i had a lot of fun back then. Looking back tho its also the time when the game began to get worse. At that time i didnt feel that way but there it all started and upon the changes they kept making changes i really didnt like. Nowadays i play occasionally with my friends, lol is still a "good" game in its own regards but not even close as fun as season 3 or 4

I will never ever forget about Twisted Fate with his teleport as a basic stun and AoE stun, and Heimerdinger being able to have 5 turrets at once and not having to stay near them (and his passive would regen all allies near him, including the team turrets!)

Season 5 was when I played the game the most. They changed the game way too much and I simply cant play it anymore. Im sure its all nostalgia, but still. I just miss when the game had simpler champs in simpler times I climbed from silver to diamond playing nothing but AP ez that season. Good times.

This was amazing. You briefly mentioned the Bot-Lane Mordekaiser rework which IMO is one of the most fascinating and confusing reworks of all time. Any chance you're ever going to do a Mordekaiser history video? Or maybe a video just about the juggernaut rework? I'm with you that this period of LoL is my most beloved by far and I love hearing you discuss it.

I remember season 5 so well, i started playing when Bard got released and it was so much fun, the Bilgewater event is still top 3 events of all time for me (might be nostalgia too) and when i discovered what meta was for the first time and i played smite MF mid. Such a great video!

Season 5 is when I started playing and man what a ride it was

Season 3 was my favorite point in league ever. It was chaos. It was heaven.

thanks for the nostalgic trip, from my early middle-highschool days and attending the season 5 worlds. cheers

I started playing league since season 5. It didn't feel that crazy until you brought back all the memories haha. Thanks for the nostalgia

Bro... I can't tell you how much I appreciate you for bringing up those old times. For 12 years now I'm playing this game, and you are the best at bringing up those memories. I sincerely hope you do it more haha

Thank you for the nostalgia Exil. Makes me happy to know someone feels the exact same way about league and it’s seasons.

As someone who started in s4 and played religiously year after year, i love videos like this it reminds me of how much fun i used to have back in the day even though i was trash at the game. I peaked gm this season but have played 2 games these last 2 months and have no desire to get back into it. It just feels like a chore playing it, i miss the days where i would look forward to play it cause there was so much fun shit to do in it.

Thanks for the content, I was just thinking about when was going to be the next time you were gonna drop a video!

I remember the Bard release. I was determined to main that champ after everyone deciding it was the absolute worst. Made it feel like a challenge of sorts. Made an alt account 'only play bard' and never looked back.

im so happy i got to wake up to see a new Exil upload off to a good start 👀

When exil uploads its a pleasure to see his videos

Ty for making this video Brought back so many memories I started just when season 4 ended so season 5 Will always be special

i could watch an entire 5 hour long video of this. brings back so many memories. S4 and S5 were my most favorite seasons.

The minimap UI issue IMO was not that they moved it but that they reduced the size of the actual UI elements. I remeber this update It was SUPER hard to see the values. comapred to before where I would glance and know.

Its crazy to think I’ve played league for more than half my life. Back in 2012, the game felt so novel, and each year up to 2016-17 the hype just kept getting bigger and bigger.

The quality of the video , and the editing from 0 - 30 seconds was very good job

I played through that time and I was thinking "It will never be as crazy as this" and I was astonished by the amount of changes (and quite enjoy the chaos). I'm glab to have been part of it.

Riot killed all the fun in order to make the pro level balanced.

Season 5 was the season where League went over the peak and begun the slow ride down. Honestly with all the changes made since then I think its fair to say We'll never have a season like the first few seasons, with the Mobility creep, the hyper snowballing, Fights being super quick now due to damage creep, the fact now they treat the champs like they are in a fighting game with bad matchups instead of a MOBA with hard counters. Season 5 kind of feels like it was the beginning of the decline. Mostly brought on by incompetance Don't get me wrong Leagues still in a healthy place but its lost that Season 2-4 Magic and it'll never get it back

You know it's crazy to think about it. I started playing after Braum came out 2014. I went to university. I remember, came back from learning. All the doors in my floor were open at the dorm. And I hear an anthem. Opened my laptop and I got a notification about the warrioers cinematic. Man the epicness. And I got to expreience everything Exil talked about in this video, AND it was my first time experience about league. Now I see why I got so hooked up for many many years.

Glad you are back, I missed your videos

Exil. One thing. You do it every time. You treat your community like they were not around, not knowing everything right before you say it. We wer around. We do know. We love the content because we love to remember this stuff. No one starts league now and is like "hehehe i wonder what jungle was like". Btw this was the first video were you legit made me feel like riot made so many mistakes. Did DFG and Brutalizer oneshot people? Yes, very often. Did we all fall in love with Deft and Imp because they could play even though these items existed? Yeah, we did. Until the big shift, players had broken angles, that would switch around every patch. So they had to learn and learn again. With people having to adjust their, mechanics their "weak side/strong side" (/role),. The game was much more then a team game. Faker, Uzi, Flame and Dandy... Players would dominate their role matchup with actual commitment, that resulted in kills. Because it was an option. Yet, teams like T1, EDG and Samsung showed, that you could punish that great great individual skill with teamplay. Today, players farm up. A solokill is a big fault by the dead player. Not an actual great play by the Killer. Where is the wish to dominate? When did pve overcome pvp? What pro gets a job for being confident... instead of being just one of five instruments? And most important.. How can a team game survive, when you need to form a team before you can truly experience the game itself? Good video as always, keep it up.

2015 was the year i startet playing league. 2015-17 was the best time for me in this game. Didnt touched it since 1 1/2 years because its not league anymore, just some fast paced handy brawler.... really a shame.

Wow.. what a time to be playing League. This is so nostalgic. Great Video!

I love the nostalgia for me in this year- you present it well!

Outstanding video brotha!

I started playing league in season 4 but like one or 2 days a month with friends. after worlds in season 5 I really started my grind on league and fell in love with the game. I got so much nostalgia from this video I also loved playing sona with axe and purple smite in jgl that was so fun.

the amount of nostalgia you just made me feel is indescribable by words

This was back towards the end of my time playing, feels like yesterday! Thanks for the memories.

No wonder I still recall to these days, you made me remember lots of stuff. League was so funny back then haha.

Season 5 has so many good memories for me. I also remember the turret shields for when you were getting stomped too hard lol

This makes me come back to my first year of League. So much fun moments. Amaizing vid

Nice video, great work !! (That moment i saw Paw on Ahri reminds me so many things !

I have been playing since 2011 on/off and i can literally remember all you talked about, such a great trip down memory lane

Season 5 was my very first season. Oh how things have changed. Great video!

this was a great video man. Nostalgic for sure. ABOUT TO INT TURN UPPP

Was actually just talking about cinderhulk the other day with my buddy, used to take it at bot lane as Soraka, could build warmogs right after, and just tank and heal anything the enemy dished out. I miss those days.

i was randomly watching ur video and just realized that ur exile or exiled riven how time flies crazy

This is when I was a few months into the game and addicted. I’d be playing while watching qtpie stream. Man, the good ole days.

Devourer with rageblade's passive, tier 2 turrets giving shields, Avarice blade GP farming the sh*t out of top lane, machine gun Ryze rework Man that was a WILD season, but it was fun as hell

my god i started at the beggining of s5 thank you for this video much love

Bruh the BG music for Buther's Bridge...slaps hard! I remember listening on it on repeat while playing Summoner's Rift. Good times!

I started league right around azir's release (and warriors', I get chills to this day listening to it) so I didn't know I was witnessing the beginning of an era. Old summoner's rift makes me so nostalgic, the jungle monsters, old items and splash arts make the game feel kinda spooky and from a different genre. While I was hearing about the things mentioned in the video (like ww being broken and all the crazy metas) I didn't experience most of them in my games since I didn't even understand many parts of the game, although I became a skarner main 1 month before his rework and when the changes hit live I actually played worse than before while wondering why the hell everyone was saying he was broken lol. Season 5 was a blast because I remember trying all the champions and learning the game.

Season 5 was the season I had downloaded League for the first time. It was right after I saw the New Dawn Cinematic video just by chance on KZfaq. I still remember the Bard Screen when loading the client as it was his release. Ahh, good times.

From around the A New Dawn cinematic to pretty much January 1st 2016 is the golden age of League for me. I was actually making a script for a video on it before stumbling upon this. Burning Tides is the only thing I have to say to get people who played then feeling extremely nostalgic, still the best even they've ever done.

Mid-season 5 is when I got into League, and seasons 5 and 6 will forever stay my favourite. Especially the whole Gangplank rework event, and when Ekko came out.

excellent content as usual! I just happened to take a League break during that season xD

Glad you're back best league vids on the entire platform

The quality of this guys videos is insane, keep it up

I started playing in pre-season 5. It was a WILD introduction to league. Things ever changing, etc. It was a blast.

"Warrior is the most iconic song riot ever made" Rise:"am i a joke to you"

I remember right after the jungle rework, I was just bored doing ranked and got jungle, which I never really played. So I figured I'd play WW just because it was my first time with him and knew he'd be easy to play. I carried so hard that game I decided to keep at it, and it was the first time I ever hit gold after being hard stuck silver since season 3.

Bro, that year, along 2014, was my best league year, and especially for Kikis and UOL. I was a udyr and off meta jungler player, and that guy made me look and see my playstyle viable on pro play! For the first time i wanted to really learn the game since S2

Ah nice an Exil video for breakfast. Season 5 was my first real season of league too, awesome subject material!

Great nostalgia trip and history lesson. Thank you

I started playing during S5 and this was such nostalgia! Thank you 🙏

For me, after watching and enjoying the qualities and truths this video uncovers.. Conclude you to be the Top G of League of Legends Documentaries. (Great editing (visual articulation/point conveying))

I started playing the game at the start of season 5, this video was so nostalgic holy crap

I remember one of the absolute favorite builds I've ever played, Blue build Ez. Build all items that are blue (especially the jungle item that gave a mini red buff) with smite on Ezreal. Such a fun time Season 5 was.

Always good to see an exil upload, hope ur doing well big dog

OH Maaaan I really miss those times; that's when I started league, touched the lowest point in Bronze V but was a loooooot of fun, seein that old WW hahaha i'm in tears yo TY.

I honestly would love to see a video talking about twisted treeline, i loved that game mode when i first started playing league and im sad its gone

The Thunderlord's Decree pic in the thumbnail makes me laugh since to this day I still remember pressing tab during a S5 game and see everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, running TLD, including Janna. It was the most busted rune in existence for a time. Literally there was no other option 🤣

Loved that mordekaiser...the q bonks and dragon minion was glorious

My first game of league was season 5, but I got really into it season. I remember it being so much more fun back then too.

19:45 s5 pro mata in midlane is so fun to watch. faker pawn godv⋯ having around 40 different champs picked in midlane is so insane

I started playing league at the end of season 4, did my placements during preseason and played most of the year in gold 5 I'll never forget how amazing this game felt back then, how hooked I was, how incredible it felt to progress even a little bit. Every little thing I learned, when I applied it in game, I had solid evidence that I was getting better almost every day. Lee sin kicks were like Cod6 quickscopes. When you outplayed a 1v2 or more with a champ like vayne, everyone went crazy in voice and all the moves were named after players. Insec, vayne spotting or gosu moments, madlife hooks, doing an xpeke, trick2g udyr, boxbox riven, the sense of community was there and everyone had fun. Now you go into games and everyone knows all the mechanics a champion is capable of. Hype moments are few and far between and require true perfection, and even this the reaction is 'clean' and that's it. No names are mentioned, nobody calls a backdoor an xpeke, you're more likely to be called tyler 1 for flaming in chat and that's about it. The reward for improvement? Clown games in higher elos with even more broken, miserable and quite frankly delusional teammates than the lower ranks could ever muster , nobody wants to improve, they just want to make you feel bad when they win, and not feel bad themselves, addiction is a hell of a drug i guess The pro scene feels like its in its dying embers, maybe not in the east, but they've always had a different system more suited to brutal efficiency of play, the fun from the game is gone, western players thrive under unique novelty, our best results were when we played creative picks and new strategies, there is nothing new left in league, we'll simply move on to different games which havn't been solved yet. If I could go back and do it all again, I probably would, and maybe I'd be slightly less toxic to my teammates, maybe if we all did that, the game would be different now.

this is the year i started, freshmen year of highschool with new friends and all of us playing League. this is always the game i remember when i think of League of Legends.

that occult dfg mana pot picture just speared my heart send help

It's crazy how I started in season 5, never saw old league, but did see all these changes, pretty much. I remember the bilgewater event fondly, and have my own strong opinions into the direction league has gone afterwards. I'm cautiously looking forward to the removal of mythic items next season.

Omg time flys. I play League since 2012. I know play that game since 11 years 😅 Thanks for the nostalgic trip 😊. You have also grown a lot Exil still remember your old Riven Videos 😂.

Have barely started the video and god, i always come back to the bilgewater event as the coolest mode they ever made, i fucking loved all the experimental items and the ability to legit customize your minions

Ah Season 5 the most and last fun season of League... Exil my friend thank you so much for the nostalgia!

Its so strange seeing this being the "old" league. Been playing this game for so long that the release version is old to me and season 5 is still the "modern" version. I still miss twisted treeline and dominion and many fun game modes that have been removed over the years.

There were a few items introduced with the Butcher's Bridge's second(?) release too-I remember one of them being a special type boot that effectively worked like Kayn's E

I started playing during the God Kinf event, i remember voting for Garen and losing LOL. But i felt so involved in the league community back then and was really cool for a new player

The nostalgia. Haven’t played league in years but I love remembering this time period. I LOVED release kalista.