It's a timesink only if you want it to be, nobody is forcing you to have five full runepages and all the champions.You take a few that you like and get runes for them (which, if you are lucky will mostly overlap), now you should have all that by the time you hit level 30 and from there on you play ranked with your favourite champs or mess around in random games.I don't really consider it much of a grind if i'm having fun.
Also Dakk, just trying out that stuff on Kennen, seems to be working against bots
Everything works against bots.
Attack Speed Kennen works against bots. Singed with Gank Boots+FoN+ZEALS works against bots. AP Miss Fortune and AD Viegar works against bots.
Well, if you're mildly competent. First game of the new rotation, I was trying Kennen for the first time in ages. So, sure, Intermediate bot game to get used to his skills.
I was the only one of our team with a bot-game-like kill-death ratio, with 11-2-2 at 15 minutes in.
The entire rest of the human team was negative. Going by their connection ping and uniform uselessness, it was a 4-man pre-made of absolute retards.
AP TF did dragon alone while the bots pushed mid hard, almost died because he had no spellvamp. I couldn't leave any tower for any length of time because it'd be destroyed the second I stopped paying attention to it.
Ryzebot was Legendary, somehow. I was the only one of my team at level 18, 40 minutes in as they destroyed our base.
It was retarded. My team was retarded. Blargh blargh bad players be bad etc etc.