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team fights are so chaotic!
I know a lot about LoL but I can barely follow random HoN games. THEY'RE THE SAME DAMN GAME and I can't tell which are the players and which are the minions.
Ah, my favorite cognitive bias. Fundamental Attribution Error.
We all do it, I'm not calling you out here. It's like the most natural human instinct for some reason.
it's k dawg, you warned and i heeded
Oh god I could only imagine.
Like who's going to understand what the hell is going on with like lanes and creeping their first time watching?
Try DOTA2 instead, much clearer graphics.
Nah I'm 20. I'll probably continue to be a parasite for another decade at this pace though.
What kind of mistakes are you making?
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Fortunately the good casters do a really good job of explaining the fundamentals pretty much constantly. Rivington is pretty much amazing at this.
Well another thing, particularly when it comes to sports and games, is that much of what you're doing is procedurally learned rather than declaratively learned junk.
Like, you could actually be doing a really smart move, but you're not even conscious of it, you're just doing what you feel like you should do in that situation. You know intuitively what you should do, but you can't explain why outside of the fact that from pure conditioning you know that doing this and this will bring you success.
Whenever you're in an area with open sky, be sure to watch out for falling... fire...
.... I have no idea.
This is just the inverse where we do things on instinct while playing LoL and in watching others we're like OH HOW SKILLFUL because they're pro and that's what we expect.
HOW TO WIN AT LOL IN ONE EASY STEP:
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speak for yourself, scrublord
but it is wing night with the lady
but that icon is right there
but it is wing night
GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN
are you saying you need to get in your zone, but they don't let you get in your zone?
Chica, chill. Make an honest effort everyday and things will improve. You know how it works: your problems aren't infinite so do a little bit each day. Hell, if you need some encouragement, think of your most minor problem and fix it quickly. Small victories to get you going.
EDIT: The most minor problem in my life right now is I need to trim my toenails. They're getting long and the sides are turning sharp. Ew. I am going to clip them while I post.
Right, but the notion of getting your minions to the tower, and having two enemy champions like standing across from each other appearing to ignore one another wouldn't make lots of immediate sense.
Also, stuff like "why did he suddenly decide to kill that other guy?" and "why'd he stop chasing him for no reason?"
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Now I am in my mid twenties and things are looking up up up
Well, for one, hiding my problems from everyone for years and just letting them think I'm lazy made me unable to get almost any learning out of my high school education, which translated into me not getting into a good college.
Then attributing all those problems to another problem I have instead of disclosing my actual symptoms to a therapist made me waste another 3 years of my life, and getting neither problem dealt with.
I make tons of tiny mistakes due to that first problem (ADD) and they've ended in me dropping out of college once and being on the verge of just failing on my first semester this time.
This is sort of how I feel, but I do like having a "general" who watches the map and gives very broad commands. So, like, we're working as a team and have some direction, but each of us are free to play in our style.
kill stealing as a game mechanic
I imagine this whole thing is like completely impossible to understand if you don't play it huh?
Yeah, for some reason I don't often fill that role in LoL. I do in shooters, because I have a good grasp of spatial awareness while murdering the fuck out of everyone.
It's like, can't you just use the force and feel where everyone is on the map?
You don't have to last hit in SMNC right? It's just based on like, if you did damage or how much damage you deal to the minions.
I remember it being pretty fun. Having to last hit would probably be really awful in SMNC
No. If you kill the enemy minion, you get gold. If you do not, but another minion or hero does, you do not get the gold.
Gold is gained through 3 things: last hits on minions, killing enemy heroes and taking objectives (towers, neutral monsters).
In DotA you could "deny" which was killing your own minions so the enemy couldn't, but that led to slower and more boring gameplay apparently.
I find last hitting very relaxing and fun.
Last hitting is the worst, it's one of the reasons i don't play LoL anymore.
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