Okay, League of Legends is a [vidurl="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKd7uuehlw"]DotA-style game[/vidurl] and it's FREE. The community is known to be a little less harsh than the standard DotA/HoN ones; but, you will still run across a fair amount of mouth-breathing silly geese. If you hang out with the PAers, though, we're usually pretty damn inviting (and so fucking cool, especially MooMan). AND IT'S FREE!!! Well... mostly. Here's the skinny: They have 10 free rotating champions that you can choose from, if you want to 'buy' champions permanently you can do that with Riot Points (RP) or Influence Points (IP). You get RP with real cash dollars, and RP prices are usually lower than IP prices. You gain IP for just playing game, when you finish a game you'll get IP points based on how well you did in the game. You can also purchase Runes. Runes and Masteries are applied before the game and make your champions stronger, this is referred to as the Summoner meta-game. You gain levels as you play as well which opens up the ability to put more runes and masteries to work for you. That's the quick and dirty of the game. If you're completely new to this style of game,
check out the new player stuff on the Riot site.
Here's your standard, wiki-stolen background:
Two main designers for the popular Warcraft III custom map, Defense of the Ancients: Allstars (commonly abbreviated as DotA), Steve "Guinsoo" Feak and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon are involved with Riot Games in the making of League Of Legends: Clash of Fates[6]. Guinsoo created DotA: Allstars from the original DotA, created by Eul, by adding his own mix of content, including over 40 heroes, numerous items, and various gameplay changes. Guinsoo then passed DotA: Allstars on to its current developer, Icefrog. Pendragon, who is the Director of Community Relations for Riot Games, helped create the DotA: Allstars website along with its forums, and is still currently working on League of Legends: Clash of Fates.
SIGN UP HEREHANG OUT IN THE PENNY-ARCADE VENT TO GET GAMES!!! It's the easiest way to get going with us, just show up and ask if anyone is looking.
If you can't find any there check out the LoL vent (
https://beta.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=6) and you can probably scrounge up a pre-made.
People that are playing, and that you might also want to play with:
PM me if you want to be added to the list, I'm probably not going to be able to pick up every in-thread request.
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Q: I am trying to login but the server status is "Busy"
A: This will happen often during busy hours. However, the servers may still be accessible. With the launcher window in focus, press the arrow keys 'up' 'down' 'left' 'right' 'up' 'up' 'down' 'down' to bypass the launcher and go to the password window.
use the code if you get servers are down/busy message (amumu/blitzcrank)
make sure the launcher window is your active window
press up, down, left, right, up, up, down, down on your keyboards arrow keys
it'll switch it to teemo
If you're going to spend real dollar monies on this game
Drop $20 for the Retail Box (Amazon, Best Buy, GameSpot,
Newegg, Target, and Wal-Mart typically have this) It gives you $10 in Riot Points, take those, then buy $10 in Riot Points and $5 in Riot Points. Spend all of them on the second champ pack.
That's $35 for 40 champs permanently unlocked; none of the post-40 have ever been in a bundle AFAIK.
Q: How can I get champions and save money?
A: You won't have to spend a cent if you simply play games and earn enough IP to buy them all. If, however, you wish to hasten the process you may buy champions with real money. The most cost effective way to buy champions is by purchasing the two bundles on offer.
For $45 you can buy 6380 Riot Points, which are used to buy champions and skins. 3900 of those points gets you the Digital Collector's Pack, which contains 20 champions and includes 1380 Riot Points (huh?). If you were to buy the champions individually it would cost 37800 IP or 9620 RP. The Digital Collector's pack can also be bought in stores or online as a boxed copy, which may save you a significant amount of money.
3410 Riot Points gets you the champions bundle. This contains some more expensive champions. Bought individually they would cost 60750 IP or 14350 RP (ish).
This leaves you with 450 RP, enough to buy yourself a single skin!
Also, here's a picture of BigWah's adorable kid that he may or may not have had considerable disagreements with in the past:
Long live the Bearcock!
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Because you will never play them in ranked
she's looking so dejected
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I got to play Heimer once in a ranked game.
I bet the guy who was in charge of bans on the other team will never make that mistake again!
I was the last person to pick and I was going to get Shen. Kind of unbelievable.
I yelled at you once!
And I apologized for it.
I went to the Museum of Natural History, and look what I fucking found:
It's motherfucking Warwick's skeleton!
One hero I was surprised to see banned quite so often was Taric. Seen him banned more often than Heimer and the new guy.
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lucascraft bans Ashe
team chat: WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Which I didn't play when I could.
Hmmm.
Malzahar can be good.
Corki is like... "sup OHMAHGAWDI'MDEAD"
Does not compute
Since I'm venting, this is a good place to mention the afkers. Three games, THREE, just today alone, where we are clearly dominant until someone (always the mid solo carry) comes up with something like 'LOL grandma got pizza brb' and is then afk the rest of the game until our bitter loss. I really don't know how they could implement an afk tagging system without it being used to grief, but goddamn.
Thiese are typical games for me. I really really can't win these last few days
TF: Stop shooting me Tristana!
Me: Stop standing in front of my bullets.
Basically all I can recommend is to stop solo queuing.
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It's the only way to single queue
melk is nice to me.
sometimes he yells at me for dancing in front of enemies or trying to kill 4 mans on my own, but we homeslices.
My issue with shaco is that he has a:
Blink
Stealth
Pets
Fear
Ranged Nuke
Ranged Slow
Blind
A Clone that stacks all item effects which also acts as a nuke.
You can solo Barron at 14min in with pretty much no items.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiHa6KUqWWE
Ok so Bloodrazor isn't really "no items" but you can farm that up while still being bad early game. Its not like he had a Bloodrazor Bloodthurster Starks all at level 14. One Aura item, the starting item for starks and a bloodrazor.
I don't really play many tanks (besides singed, but I got sick of playing him all the time) so this will be quite a change.
Anyone have any recommendations towards builds?
So far I have this:
1. Doran's Butt (shield)
2. Ninja Tabai
3. Heart of Gold
4. Thornmail
5. Randuin's/Aegis?
6. Frozen Heart
After that, if there's even a chance to get more, I'll go for Guardian or Force of Nature.
For his abilities, priority goes like W>E>R>Q? I tend to put a point in Q or E first, then max out W and E, then finish up Q.
He should not have been able to double dip with things like Sunfires and Starks
Just not double madrids
shutup fgt shaco player.
help me with rammus.
Yesssssssssss.
Oh hey we can in house now.
I lost a 5v4 because our Corki force-fed himself to the other team while being a useless piece of shit everywhere else.
Old video, this was nerfed.