A player of League of Legends (LoL) has set a new record for account level. He is now level 300. He achieved this in a highly effective and yet boring way.
For years, the maximum level in League of Legends was set at 30. That changed at the end of 2017, when Riot Games lifted the level cap and allowed leveling up. The inspiration here was indirectly the reward structure of Overwatch.
A nolifer in LoL in action
A player named “Nolife Raphael” has already pushed himself to level 300 in the last few weeks. The current second-ranked player globally is at level 244, and the third-ranked player is hanging around at 191.
“Nolife” is a term used for someone who only plays video games, does nothing else, has no job or social life, and channels all their energy into the game. “Nolife Raphael” seems to be living up to his self-chosen name.
He has reached level 300 in the probably most boring yet effective way imaginable:
- He does not play on the standard 5v5 map of League of Legends, but on the small 3v3 map.
- And he does not play against humans in PvP, but against bots in coop matches. So, the PvE/training mode of League of Legends, if you will.
- To that, he reportedly uses two purchasable EXP boosters from the cash shop.
He describes his strategy: You play against “medium bots”, one stays on the top lane, while two others push the bot lane, for example with Tristana and Jinx. That gives about 300-330 XP.
Since everything in LoL is recorded, you can check out and admire his statistics.
8-9 minutes per win, 30 to 40 matches in a row
Nolife Raphael averages just over 8 minutes to take down the opposing bots and secure a win. He seems to prefer the champion “Jinx”. That way, he plays about 30-40 matches in a row until he mixes in two or three normal LoL games for variety.
Reddit users have calculated that one needs about 791,152 experience points to level up from level 30 to 300. This corresponds to 2509 matches against bots and nearly 334 hours, excluding queue time and loading screens.
Riot wrote to him: We need a bit more time to get the rewards into the game that are due to you
Nolife Raphael leveled up so quickly that a Riot employee wrote him an email to inform him that there are no rewards in the game yet for the new level he is about to reach. They will be added later.
When asked why someone would put themselves through so many bot matches, Nolife Raphael said: At first it was boring, but over time it felt good not to have so many toxic players in the game.
A similarly intense grind was experienced by a player in Black Desert:
After countless hours of grinding, the first level 63 player in Black Desert
