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[League of Legends] Hargaad has the new form! Painhouse is about to get majorly revamped!
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New Player Guide
1. Make an account: NA EU (West) EU (Nordic & East)
It is worth noting that referring new players has perks, so I would ask for a referral link in the thread rather than a vanilla account.
2. Download the client: Right here
The official Mac client has been discontinued.
3. Play the tutorials! New User Guide
The game can be a bit overwhelming, and I highly suggest you play the tutorials OR find someone willing to do a few vs. AI games with you.
4. Join the "Penny Arcade" Chat Channel to find helpful people and people to escape solo queue with! Click the little double speech bubble looking thing at the bottom right of your screen. Click the + speech bubble right above it. Type in "Penny Arcade" and introduce yourself. Not everyone you see in the thread will be there, as not everyone plays on the same server. You can ask these people how to play champions, we pretty much have someone who plays each kind of Riven, whether it be bunny girl (broken tier), crimson elite (garbage tier) and every kind in between.
(Hargaad felt this should be more stressed because of players like Arivia...who CHOOSES to solo queue, which is a terribad idea in the first place. <3 )
5. Play vs. People
Do it, damn you. As said above, the AI is not going to give you the legitimate LoL experience. You don't want to hit your 20s solely from bot matches.
6. Get yer free champs.
Subscribe to Riot's Youtube and get a free Alistar skin! Includes the champion! Free Tristana if you're into the Facebook thing. Promo skins always include the champion if you never bought it.
The Dos and Don'ts of LoL
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Game Stuff
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Meet the Team
Like any group activity, stuff is usually broken down into roles. It's worth noting that champions don't always fit neatly in categories. A champion's role in the team may depend on what build has been chosen, and sometimes you may fill several roles depending on the group composition. When picking champions, it's a good idea to see what people are doing and fill in any holes.
1. The Carry: If your team is a car, then the carry is the engine. It's what makes the team function. The carry, when doing its job, will be able to easily destroy the whole team. But, just like an engine is useless without any other parts of your car, the carry relies on its team to get the gold necessary to buy the items needed to kill swathes of enemies. Early on, carries tend to be more vulnerable and weaker than other champs. LOTS of people pick carry in random, because it's the star character that generally gets all the kills. One of the reasons Caitlyn is so great is that she can carry a team since her AS ratios are amazing and she can easily carry and dominate fools.
2. The Tank: Following the car metaphor, the tank is your steering. It'll guide the team into battle, and in many cases will be the one starting the fights. Tanks are there to absorb damage and lock down the most dangerous champions on the enemy team so you can position yourselves to win the fight. Some tanks do this with CC, whereas other tanks have some damage and will soften up the enemy team instead. Tanks still tend to need the rest of their team to back them up. Rammus is probably the most boss at doing all of this, and with zazz.
3. The Support: I guess support are your tires or something? Maybe the AC. Either, support help the team out with buffs and generally shields or healing. Healers tend to assist the carry by allowing the carry to stay in the lane longer through said healing or shields. Unlike, well, just about everyone else, Support don't rely so much on gear and thus will purposefully AVOID getting last hits so that their lane partner can farm gold faster. Because of their reduced need of gold, support should also be buying and placing wards when needed. It's worth noting that EVERYONE should generally buy wards, but as a support you can afford to take the financial hit. FEW people pick support in random due to how hard it is to influence games. You have to be very proactive to make up for bad teammates as a carry. Veigar commonly supports the enemy team to their graves.
4. The Jungler: Jungling is a more advanced concept, and you won't see it until higher summoner levels. This is due to runes and masteries allowing for more efficient jungling. It is still possible on a few champs, even at Summoner Level 1, but very uncommon. As the name implies, the jungler sits in the jungle and kills neutral creeps. This benefits your team by creating a second solo lane (top lane), resulting in more experience and gold for your team as a whole. Once the jungler hits a certain gear/level point, they look for opportunities to gank enemies. This is generally done via strong CC abilities, such as Warwick's ultimate or Nunu's slow coupled with his speed buff. Skills such as these will enable the jungler's teammate in that lane to easily assist with the kill. When not ganking, the jungler will return to the jungle regularly to keep up in terms of gold and experience. Due to their roaming, the jungler has plenty of opportunities to place wards for its teammates. Riven can do this and she's amazing. Only, Rammus can do it faster, and still have plenty of juice left in his zazz-tank.
This is a very simple guide! There are other roles in teams, but this is a rough outline of the basics. Roles can easily overlap, and a champion can fill more than one role! Experiment and see what works and what doesn't.
Thursday Night Painhouse!
Join channel "Painhouse" to play!
Hargaad made a NEW Summoner info form for Painhouse. Please only fill it out if you plan on playing or coming back to Painhouse.
Summoner Info Table for the summarized info you just filled out.
Wanna play with other PA people in a cutthroat (but still fun and casual) FIGHT TO THE DEATH? Every thursday night at 8 est. we draft up players for Promptu (the opposite of impromptu) Inhouses that are known as PAINHOUSES. Please put your info down so we know why we should invite you!
Summoner info form. (defunct, but still fun to fill out)
Summoner info table. (old info, not used, but still fun to look at)
Useful Stuff
Websites!
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Stuff You Should Know
-Yes, a promo skin will unlock that champion for free.
-Promo skin codes generally work once on each region. If you have used a code for yourself, don't toss it out! Make a post here and give it away or swap it for another skin.
-Buy Wards
-Buy Wards
-When in doubt, take Promote/Flash
List of helpful LoL terminology.
Removed the huge list of terms in favor of the LoL wiki of terms. Hargaad kept a copy of the old list, though, if anybody really thinks I am leaving some pertinent info out.
Previous thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/159381/league-of-legends-its-something-to-do-when-diablo-3-is-down#Item_3987
And because we're a group of failures and spent a good 10 minutes looking for the fucking link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al8wcjKN9tZLdDNkTWdheE4xazFyZ21pMWxwWW0zUkE#gid=2
(@schuss - give more privileges or be here Thurs!)
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edit: wait, it's a different taric now
Thoughts? Numbercrafts?
I got made fun of for using it a few games ago
unless you're yorick
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Unless you're playing Ezreal top and going bruiser, I guess.
Also, I think someone numbercrafted a while back and proved that Phage was a better DEEPS increase than Sheen, 'cause Phage increased all your autos and has the slow proc, but you should be building both on your way to Triforce anyhow.
Win boost OP!
I didn't even know that was a thing...
This is the kind of coddling we do to AP / AD carries. We glorify last hits and damage output over initiation, tanking, and supporting. It needs to end now. Unless, of course, I get a penta. Time to start playing Sona and Nunu more.
Well, that's my specialty: Supports. I can run Blitz, Sona, Soraka, Taric, Ali, Lulu...I know I'm forgetting a few, but pretty much all of them.
Yeah, I see people preferring top (or extra normally-top characters for other lanes) because they want to be the tanky bruiser who wins duels and 1v2s. Mid is next-most popular, followed by ad and support -- again, basically determined by dueling capability.
I've been playing mid almost exclusively for the last week and a half, and I VERY rarely have competition for it. Meanwhile we often end up without a ranged ad carry, and supports are super-rare. Which might not be insane; my winrate is way up since I started playing mid instead of support. With how scattered games at my level in blind pick always are, having an extra duelist bot might actually be better than having a Janna.
Someone was using it during draft and telling someone what mid champ to use because they had a better win rate with them... It seemed kind of goosey.
But I like stats so its still cool to look at. I... I am a bad mid and jungler.
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I had one guy in ranked link to his page on that site, saying that because he had a fantastic win rate with one champ then I should pick them. Not even to swap, just that I should play them. Weird as hell.
I do this whenever I play ranked!
Of course, Ranked likes to laugh at me and put me in charge of bans and first pick while playing support
It's a thing.
I'm still flabbergasted by Riot giving me 2k RPs for having one rune page vanish and reappear four days later.
Spare Scrolls for trade
Edit: Nevermind, it's back.
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Yea but it both leads me open to a counterpick bot lane and doesn't give our team a strong champion off the bat. I don't care about the latter in solo q, but the former hurts somewhat as I'm forced into relatively safe supports rather than ones that can be negated by enemy bot lane/team comp.
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
LW. People build armor, and you want to be cutting through that armor on top of the extra damage from Kog's W. IE, PD, LW, BT, and a defensive item would be the order I'd build in, though you can build PD first too if you want to abuse W with the attack speed early. MBR would have to have its cost destroyed to compete.
She's fun, but yeah, there isn't really a reason to choose her over Nocturne, Nautilus, or probably some others too.
Mundo's probably the obvious better pick. Faster clear, better ganks, better tank, very similar kit.
For, you know
anyone who's playing at 9:44AM
Yeah, I was thinking Mundo is probably the most comparable one, I just don't play him much because I pretty much can't keep myself from picking Nocturne, Nautilus, or Maokai when I jungle. I actually want to play him more, but yeah, it's hard not to choose the ones I already love playing.
To stay on topic, one thing I like about Shyvana is she can actually lane pretty well too, where many of the other junglers are bad or just outright terrible at it.
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Better? Don't be silly, Sivir is really, really good if played properly.
2) Get really good with Alistar. Ali's a very strong support, though he can be counterpicked easier than Janna.
3) Get really good with Leona. Same reasons as the above.
4) Get really good with Nunu. He's different to the others as he's more of a buff/debuffer with limited peel ability, though.
5) Before making your pick, as who wants AD carry and which support meshes best with their playstyle.
6) Profit and get tons of friend requests.