One of the most prolific League of Legends, known for his humorous and creative gaming content, announced his return to the title after more than two years of hiatus.
Bricky previously gave up playing League of Legends after making “So you want to main Swain” video, as a part of his “So you want to main X champion” series. The reasons cited were that he wanted to end his League video series on a high note rather than see it slowly dwindle down in quality, and the game was no longer fun for him to enjoy his time playing and making content out of it anymore. Judging by the time of massive changes to the rune system which greatly impeded the flexibility of rune selection, marksmen roles were nerfed to the gutter, lethality abusers were at large because of the unreasonable Draktharr buff and the release of Zoe, it is understandable that a sizable population of League of Legends fans had to give up their long time passions.
On why he made his return to the currently most played game in the world, Bricky brought up the fact that the game had been changed for the better over the course of the season 9 and early season 10. Lethality, Ardent Censer and Tank meta are gone, hypermobility champions were appropriately nerfed for the sake of the balance of the game, the music and visual design team had been making tremendous progress, better and simpler but still effective and fun to play champion designs like Sett and the Volibear rework, and The Rise of the Elements patch which updated the functionality of Dragons, giving the game more objectives to play around.
While the “200+ years of collective experience” meme is raging among League’s fanbase, it’s undeniable that Riot is attempting its best in balancing the game, both to bring more new players and to cause its old fans to relapse back to being addicted to the game 24/7. Bricky is just an example of a handful of Youtubers who are coming back to the game because of the favorable game environment changes – like how the dolphins are coming back due to the absence of human activities which eased the effect of pollution, thanks to COVID-19.