1. Don't buy champions randomly!
LoL has two currencies: Riot Points (RP), which are bought with real money, and Influence Points (IP) which are earned solely by playing games. Champions can be bought with both, but every week there will be ten free champions to play with. Play
these champs instead. Get a feel for each type of champion and see which you find more fun. It's far better to do this as opposed to buying a champ randomly and ultimately being unhappy with it. Also, (it's rumored) you can get ONE refund opportunity for (I believe I read) up to 3 RP purchases. After that, it's your own fault for spending RP.
2. Don't buy Tier 2 Runes.
They are pretty much a waste of IP. Buy Tier 1 and save up for Tier 3. Or, if you're baller like Hargaad, don't even buy Tier 1. Wait to hit level 30, then buy all the Tier 3 runes you need.
3. Do queue with friends.
Playing with randoms is a crapshoot, and playing with an armordillo or two can put the odds in your favor. Play complementary champs and request feedback on how you did in each game (even if you won). Likewise, you can offer advice to others you saw having trouble in a polite manner (because if you aren't polite, you're likely to get flamed).
4. Do learn the champions
When a new rotation occurs, it is wise to play a few games with each champ. Knowing what each champ is capable of will be useful even if you hate how they play and never intend on using them. For example, Karthus has a skill that does damage to every enemy champion, regardless of location! If you know this, then you can be a jerk and take Soraka.
5. Do read guides.
There are multiple ways to play a champion. This combination of skills, runes, masteries and items is called a "build" and are the general strategies for any champion. The recommended items in the game store are not always accurate, and the order you level skills can have a big impact on how the early stages of the game play out. Sites like
Mobafire and
Solomid offer builds for just about every champion. It's cookie-cutter, but a great foundation for new people. Once you learn the ins and outs, you can tweak a build to better serve your playstyles or as a reaction to enemy or ally players.
6. Do be polite and do report
Sometimes people will suck or do shit wrong. It's a game, so try to keep that in mind when things get a little unhinged. If you insult or yell at people, even if they DID do something wrong, you're likely going to get that person defensive and things break down. Instead of focusing on the game, you focus on hurling insults at each. Stay calm, and politely offer advice when needed. And yet, people are jerks. It happens. Simply /mute them and quietly report them after the game. Taking their bait is probably what they want you to do. Do not give them the satisfaction! Keep your cool.
7. Buy skins
Having a skin for a character is a great way to say "Hey I'm fucking awesome with this champion so get the fuck out of my way." If your team is using more skins than your enemy team, you basically have already won. If you're playing as , you've won the awesome award.
8. Check out The League, premiering its 4th season on October 11th on FX!
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It's true because, 18 months later, you are all still using them.
Took me forever to rip out all the Riven references.
One is "studio daily
" done by one of the forumers. Gives great advice.
The other is sykkuno . He's by no means the best at the game , but he's very fun to watch. Chill, plays for fun, but gets very excited. He talks about why he's doing or doing wrong, and will even sometimes point out mistakes by other people , but totally not a dick. It's more "I don't know what Xxxx is doing, but its all right we got this guys"
I watch these guys on my lunch break and I think I've learned some things by watching, and they're entertaining.
Mid/top came along to help with blue then didn't leave. Went back to their lanes and Olaf came tromping in at level 2 to harrass the crap out of me. I swear he didn't leave my jungle the entire game and neither top nor mid would help me dislodge him. Ended up falling behind in levels by quite a bit.
Top nid complains I'm not ganking her lane, while her Darius opponent was at 100% health because she didn't want to waste her glorious spears poking him or something.
Fuck it all though, I was Hecarim and still came out of it 4/1/14 (The one death was to the Olaf who jumped me at level 2 while he was 3, with my stolen red buff, right next to mid and our Kat just went derpderp and didn't do anything til I managed to leap into mid lane right next to her.)
Jungling is rough. Even the smallest things can set you behind if your opponent is aggressive and your lanes will almost never help it seems.
On the other hand, still great being pony.
My Backloggery
Meanwhile I was having a pretty super time bot
We had cake and everything
Edit - There are a whole bunch of really big pictures in there, I promise I'll go through them in the morning, I can't stay up any later.
463kb
LoL: 2SANG, GW2: eesang.4316
All I remember adding was a chibi Ezreal, Riven, and Ahri at the top and the "come at me" picture in how to play the game.
My penta being in the OP for all eternity is more than enough to represent the penta potential of the 2012 Elementalors
Also what is this game and what are all these items
LoL: Nerf Love
Steam: TIFunk
and it was with BONECLAW shyvana
Oh Twitch, your guile charms and your smelly exterior make you fun to play to no end
And katarina?
Well
Well that's a different story
In my mind, your post was narrated by the Bastion narrator. The last three lines especially.
Thinking of replacing my Amumu (always banned) and Rengar rune pages with a Warwick and Fiora one. They are both really fun to play this season.
That would make my jungle 'roster' based on rune pages:
Mundo
Brolaf
Warwick
Fiora
I probably need to set one up for Lee Sin to but I haven't played him in forever for some reason. I keep trying to make Eve work but I think we are going to have to break up.
League of Legends: Glacys
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The best League OP was the one where hat or someone had replaced every word with Skarnar. I snapshotted that because it was the best.
There was period of 2 days last year, where you edited in like 5 riven pictures and were evangelizing your bunny riven campaign.
Understandably so.
First clear I get awfully low no matter what I do it seems. After that I really need ganks but for some reason I fail at them a lot. Most junglers I do ok with ganks. With Eve even though it should be pretty easy because of her stealth I just can't get the positioning to get the kill before they are safe under tower and at that point I've wasted time.
For ganks, take advantage of red to stick early. Once you hit 6 you have your ult. I like building spectral wraith into dfg so you can counter jungle hard.
League of Legends: Glacys
Ranked Streaming LoL: Silver II and climbing: http://www.twitch.tv/Tortalius
LoL Blog: http://elohellandyou.blogspot.com/
Updated at least twice a week. Come by and comment.
I'll try the AP quints. I think post-6 my problem is hitting my ult to initiate. I started doing that due to the change to % current health (which is a crappy change btw).
WolfMini's LOL Stream
Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?"
26:05.
http://www.own3d.tv/blog
I spoilered it below.
own3D and its management, having evaluated the future of own3D, have decided to cease operations on January 31st, 2013.
As the first livestreaming portal for gamers own3D had a turbulent start with unexpected growth. We have tried to drive the company into profitability but due to the capital intensive nature of our industry and increasing competition, we have not been able to reach it despite our best efforts.
This is a difficult decision for all of us at own3D. However, after much deliberation this seems to be the best course of action despite the impact it will have on all the employees, clients and partners who helped build this business.
We are grateful for your support as our pioneering ride comes to an end. The own3D team has always aspired to provide the gaming community with the best tools for sharing their gaming experiences and growing their projects. We therefore hope that you have enjoyed watching a few epics over the years.
The day has almost arrived when professional gamers are as recognized as other athletes. We hope to have shown what is possible for the future of eSport and competitive gaming.
The gaming revolution will not be televised - it will be streamed.
Your own3D team.
On the own3d thing, they basicly ran out of money and were unable to pay streamers and were often late with payments. They failed to raise any more VC money. All the streamers are moving to Twitch right now. Which aside from 1 or 2 smaller stream sites currently has the monopoly on streaming e-sports. Youtubes stream system has great infrastructure and because its owned by google it does not suffer when 100k people are watching a youtube stream. However youtube live streaming is not as robust in features as Twitch.
Azabu announced they'd be doing their own platform and likely with the backing of KR Venture Capitalists, It should be interesting to see how it works.
How To Stream on youtube
1. You need to create a Google+ account. (if you don't already have one)2. Click the hangout button
3. Click the create a hangout button
3. Once that loaded you need enter in a name of the hang out
4. Click the box labled 'on air'. It will confirm that this will go to your youtube channel.
5. Start the hang out
Scratch that, this Doesnt stream very well.
'Wirecast for youtube' is what you use. Which can be found at this link(its a link to an exe).
WolfMini's LOL Stream
RE: Wukong, I like him mid a lot, though there is such a great roster of AD champs with gap closers to mid so I only do it if I think my team will benefit more from his ult than the raw burst of say Kha'zix, Fiora, Talon, etc. Top he's honestly not all that great, if only because he doesn't really have any matchups he utterly dominates. Like he can beat Jayce, Teemo, etc., but if you pick him first for top Lee Sin, Darius, Garen, Olaf, and some other will just crush you.
I've not tried him in jungle since S2 when he was pretty bad in the jungle, but I could see it working much better now that single target junglers have it much better. I may have to try it.
It certainly sounds reasonable to me, but I'm not seeing any trace of it. :<
What I am noticing is that this game used to be brought to us by Tiny Angry Crab and Sampsen didn't have to remove anything except the chibis.
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
Turns out it was ChaosHat
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/159381/league-of-legends-its-something-to-do-when-diablo-3-is-down/p1
Meh same thing.
Delphin Twitch Stream:
You should try Wukong! EVEN I CAN DO IT. His stealth into lane ganks are brutal, especially after level 6
Shaco: People hate him, and he is tricky.
Jax: No idea on this one, he's pretty solid.
Sejuani: Lasting stigma from her release.
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