I guess the memes are dead: League of Legends isn’t literal brain rot degeneracy after all. A new study has shown that playing League can actually improve your brain function. If anything, it’s brain healing. Brain sustenance.
The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China wasted its time looking into League of Legends players. I often wonder why there are so many funded studies that are not needed. Studies show that cheating makes people mad. Studies show that men like characters with big boobies. Who is wasting their time looking into this stuff?
Anyway, this study compared League of Legends with the strategy game Legends of the Three Kingdoms. Over 30 weeks, researchers studied how the games affected players’ attention spans, memory, and executive function. To our surprise, League of Legends had stronger and longer-lasting impacts on the brain.
Than a card game, but still. It’s a good thing.
League of Legends Study Supports the Grind
The study from China included 68 adult participants. These were adults with very little prior gaming experience. Normies. Good idea, since we could then see how rotted their brains got after grinding League of Legends.
However, a study of spatial attention, working memory, and other important brain functions found that players of League of Legends showed significant changes in their brainwave patterns, which researchers interpreted as an improvement.
League of Legends was shown to alter the brain (in a good way) through its cooperative elements and the quick decision-making required to respond to opponents’ moves. It apparently stuck in participants’ minds longer, producing stronger effects.
The study wasn’t suggesting you drop everything to play League of Legends, however. Playing the game for 30 weeks straight is probably not a great choice for those who aren’t getting paid to play it, either by an esports organization or team of researchers. You still need some balance in your life.
I mean, there’s also Marvel Rivals to play.