Season 4 Just Ended Today!
League of Legends has several different game modes with its mainstay being a cooperative five versus five layout. There is a casual game mode and then a competitive version, where every player is ranked according to how many points they earn or lose determined by wins or losses respectively. There are six tiers that start from the lowest tier Bronze, which holds the majority of all players, and goes all the way to the highest tier of Challenger where the top 200 players of any region compete for the number one spot. During the season, many players will practice in the non-competitive mode so as to avoid hurting their rank and occasionally this leads to more advanced players becoming upset with newer ones. In the offseason or pre-season, ranked play is no longer available and whatever a player has achieved for that year will be locked into place, meaning that there is much less tension between all types of players. Changes to gameplay are also in development as they are at the end of every seasons so all gameplay henceforth will put players ahead of the curve. No need to unlearn old methods of gameplay as everything post Season 4 will be fresh to everyone.