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[League of Legends] New champ, coming soon! info in OP!
Varethius
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Skarner, the Crystal Vanguard http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/news/new-champion-approaches-skarner-crystal-vanguard
League of Legends!
League of legends is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. (Moba(Doba)). In which you play the part of a summoner who can control a champion from a wide selection of characters.
Said characters can be bought for cash monies, or by using an in game currency called Influence points (IP). However, every week there is a rotation of 10 characters that're free to play for that week every Tuesday. Riot try to make sure that there's 2 mage types, 2 tank types, 2 shooty types, etc.
The Tribunal allows any level 30 summoner to decide the fate of trolls and bigots for prizes! Help Riot weed out the foul from the murky at http://www.leagueoflegends.com/tribunal
While Riot doesn't officially support a Mac client for League of Legends. You can find more information here: http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/en/signup/download
If you want to play some games with other PA'ers, please feel free to join us on Vent. The details of which are stickied in the vent thread.
Folks there are very helpful and will always point you in the right direction and give advice, no matter how new you are to the game.
There's also a PA chat room on LoL. To join, click on the chat room pannel in the bottom right hand corner. Then click the speech bubble with the + next to it. Simply type in 'Penny Arcade' then click the gear in the top right of the newly opened window and select 'Autojoin on Startup.'
Helpful links for those who wish to learn more
http://www.mobafire.com/ - A site dedicated to champs and how to build them effeciently. Not really used by high end players (lvl 30), but good for beginners who're trying champs out for the first time and don't want too much complexity in a guide.
http://www.solomid.net/ - A more advanced and polished version of Mobafire. Solomid offers intricate guides on champs that've been tried and tested by the community. Best for more advanced players of lvl 20+
http://www.leagueoflegends.com - The standard LoL website! Info on the game can be found here.
http://youtu.be/3zuBNQTtK-U - A guide for starting players by a guy called Colbycheeze. Someone on the forums linked these a while ago, and I thought they'd be useful. So here they are!
http://youtu.be/e02e7qGhRwQ - A HoN guide. Don't hate me for this guys. But I think /some/ of the points in this video are very useful. As HoN and LoL are quite similar, I can't help but feel that complete beginners will benefit from just watching this once. Though, as I said, this is a HoN guide. And most things can be ignored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggKB98It0Q - The basics of laning and last hitting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxGQ3gWdrM - Shurelya's guide on zoning!
If anyone has any other suggestions for useful sites. Please PM me the link and I'll edit this as neccesary.
http://www.solomid.net/ - A more advanced and polished version of Mobafire. Solomid offers intricate guides on champs that've been tried and tested by the community. Best for more advanced players of lvl 20+
http://www.leagueoflegends.com - The standard LoL website! Info on the game can be found here.
http://youtu.be/3zuBNQTtK-U - A guide for starting players by a guy called Colbycheeze. Someone on the forums linked these a while ago, and I thought they'd be useful. So here they are!
http://youtu.be/e02e7qGhRwQ - A HoN guide. Don't hate me for this guys. But I think /some/ of the points in this video are very useful. As HoN and LoL are quite similar, I can't help but feel that complete beginners will benefit from just watching this once. Though, as I said, this is a HoN guide. And most things can be ignored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggKB98It0Q - The basics of laning and last hitting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxGQ3gWdrM - Shurelya's guide on zoning!
If anyone has any other suggestions for useful sites. Please PM me the link and I'll edit this as neccesary.
A useful list of terms used in game, courtesy of Cantido.
Thing heard in game or apply to things in game
b = back, fall back, they're coming for you
back = fall back, they're coming for you
care = be careful, they may be coming for you
oom = out of mana
lom = low on mana
focus = To target a player. Meaning that as a team you all will all focus on a specified hero to kill first.
top, mid, bottom = the lanes in LoL. With the flip camera option, the top and bottom may be switched for some people.
lane = the road like expanses that contain towers and lead to and from the bases
river = The river which cuts across the map diagonally
jungle = The mass of treeses and paths that exist between the lanes
neuts = neutrals
neutrals = The creep-enemies who live in the jungle
bp, pill, pilling = blue pilling, going back to base
base, basing = blue pilling, going back to base
shop,buy = To go back to base to go shopping
brush = The large grass in LoL which causes your hero to be hidden to people outside of the brush
grass = see brush
sigils = Temporary buffs granted to a player by defeating the Golem and the Elder Lizard. These buffs transfer to the killer in the event that the hero dies with the sigil.
buff = Typically a temporary increase to some stat(s)
passive = An ability which is not activated but helps a character. For example, Morgana's passive allows her to heal a small % of the damage her spells inflict. Passives usually apply only to the hero who has them.
aura = A 'passive' which applies not only to the hero who has it, but also to heroes within the given range for the aura. A shareable passive.
dd = direct damage ability. Typically DDs are unavoidable: Click ability, click target, profit. For example: Annie's Q fireball.
skillshot = an ability that fires a projectile that can be dodged. For example: Morgana's cage, Ashe's ultimate arrow
aoe = area of effect
pbaoe = point blank area of affect. The area of effect is centered around the caster such as Nunu's Ultimate or any aura.
backdoor= To attack the enemies towers and base without the cover of your creeps there
ult = ultimate ability. The R Ability.
unique = In LoL certain auras/passive are unique, meaning they do not stack.
last hit = Getting the very last hit, or killing blow.
AP = Ability Power. The stat which boosts the effectiveness of abilities.
miss, mia = Missing, missing in action. Commonly used to describe when a hero is missing from a lane and may indicate to the team that a gank may happen.
juke, juking = When being chased, juking is to fool your pursuers. Typically this happens in the jungle. A successful juke could range from eluding the enemy by exploiting line of sight, or could simply cause the enemy to mistarget a spell.
feed = A player who dies constantly feeds the other team (via the gold reward for killing someone). Being called a feeder is not a compliment. A player who is fed has a lot of kills.
gg = good game.
gj = good job.
ms = movement speed
baron, nashor, worm = the big worm like boss that gives a noticeable buff to the whole team when killed.
gl hf - good luck, have fun, usually an encouraging sportsmanlike phrase said before a game, sometimes sarcastically used "gl solo baron"
push - to gather up a creep wave and attempt to destroy an enemy tower "I'm going to push bottom"
d, defend - to sit at a tower and/or inhibitor and attempt to avoid confrontation while stopping the enemy from killing the objective "I'm gonna d mid"
gank - to go (often with more than one player) to try and kill an enemy, often by surprise "lets gank bottom"
tp - summoner spell telleport used to traverse the map "Ill tp back in"
heal - either the summoner spell, a champion ability, or the act of returning to base to regenerate HP and mana "you should heal"
harass - to annoy the enemy with small bursts of non lethal damage, often forcing them to go heal or be set up for a gangk.
bait - to deliberately appear in a position to be easily ganged so as to lure 1 or more players to be gangked by your team "go bait them in to the jungle"
Disable = A Disable is a debuff that usually prevents some kind of action on the player. Stuns, roots, silences are all examples of disables
Stun = A debuff which prevents any action by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Root = A debuff which prevents any movement by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Silence = A debuff which prevents any abilities being used by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Farm = Farming involves the amassing of gold for player. This is usually best done by killing a lot of creeps and killing them very quickly. Certain Heroes like Ashe and Tristana are great farmers: The first has a +gold passive, and the latter has an AOE passive.
Things heard outside of the game or apply to outside of the game
vent = Ventrilo. It is voice communication software used to coordinate as a team. LoL has its own vent server: See the sticky in the beta general for more information.
build = how a champion and its summoner is built. For champions this may includes the items one buys on a champion, and the order one gets a champion's skills. For summoners, this refers to their masteries and rune selections.
carry = A character who, if played properly, wins late game fights for a team. Typically these heroes are weak early game and require a lot of farming.
tank = Character with a lot of HP and likely armor/resistance. Whose job is to initiate battles with the enemy players/turrets as to draw damage onto himself.
dps = Damage per second. Also referes to characters who job it is to deal damage (As opposed to support and tanks)
burst = A large volume of damage done quickly and typically then very little sustained follow up damage.
support = Characters who job it is to support other characters: Healers, buffers, etc
runes = Refers to LoL's rune system, however this term is overloaded and some players also refer to sigils as runes
talents = A non-canon term for masteries
mastery, masteries = The talent-tree system of LoL
Dota = Defense of the the Ancients. A mod for War3 that virtually launched the moba genre
moba = multiplayer online battle arena
elo = The score a person has in the Ranking system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
leave, leaver = To quit a game before it is over.
raqequit = To quit a game in anger (Being killed, losing)
disc, dc = disconnect from a game.
Bearon = The Ultimate League of Legend Champion. A bear of nobility from Rabilov.
Coral = The color of Adjudicators elected in a fair democratic process. Penny then proceeded to invalidate the election and instead we got dodger blue.
adjudicator = Either an older beta tester, or a beta tester whose skill in game or feedback out of game have been noted.
skin = Items that give a Champion a new look (Costumes, clothes, etc)
champion = The particular character that you as the summoner control
hero = non-canon name for a champion
summoner = Your representation in the game. Essentially you are the puppet master of your selected Champion and you have your own summoner abilities along with the champion's abilities.
deny, denie s= Basically last hitting your own creep. This mechanic does not exist in LoL. In Dota this would prevent the other from earning the gold and experience for killing the creep.
Here is where a list of live streams will go.
For now, here's the only stream I actually watch.
http://clgaming.net/live/1201 - Guardsman bob!
Again, any suggestion for what to put here would be great. Just throw me a PM and I'll update as neccesary.
If you're going to spend money dollahs on champs. Please take the following advice, courtesy of Zoelef.
zoelef wrote: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.
Cutfang wrote: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!
Lunysgwen wrote:Gents,
The glorious 'Newbie Friday' events are in full swing every Friday at 6pm PST once again. If you need to improve your game, or need advice with a new character, this is the time for you to sign on and join us. We'll be doing In-houses all night and coaching individuals on how to play. Just be in the Penny Arcade chat channel in game and ready to go when I sign in.
Another small bit of advice, is for new players to avoid bot matches (Vs. AI games). While I agree that bot games are useful to learn to last hit and how to jungle, or how a certain champion works. However, playing it excusively will only weaken you in the end game as you'll learn allot more from making mistakes and paying for them in PvP games than you would in a PvE game where the bots are, well, bots.
Have fun, and good luck, summoners!
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Okay well I know where the rune stuff is but it's in my head
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Visually I find LoL more confusing but that's more simply because I don't know the heros, I just stick to the same 10 I bought a year or two ago.
I haven't really tried to play this since Saturday or so... it's b-b-b-broken!?!?
it's just...not a solid item build. plenty of times morgana barely breaks even in lane with a catalyst, i can't imagine how you can go without one
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Never an even or balanced match, just stompfests.
This.
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old thread is right here dudes.
:bz
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I miss the days when you would get bonus IP for crushing the enemy team in zero seconds flat.
Edit: Also, grundlestiltskin or any new players, if you're learning the game, I'd highly recommend playing with PA people. Join the Penny Arcade chat channel in game, or sit on the Penny Arcade G&T ventrilo server and ask for games. You'll learn 10x more grouping with people who've already played a while and are willing to teach than just doing solo games. Especially if they're bot games.
I was so confused. I thought the mods were going to run in and start hitting us again ._.
Thank god were getting a server split tonight.
It's time to be impolite >:-). Anyone who doesn't think AD Zilean is the best character in the game is the silliest goose :bz .
Not only are they bad at maths, but it just makes it harder to damage someone since all your damage is loaded onto the spell that's hard to hit with. The only real benefit is the minor movement speed buff, and that's not really that amazing compared to absolutely destroying somebody's HP.
I've been playing a lot of Soraka and just started playing with Alistar. I'm at level 11 so far, so not super far.
they don't it be like it is but it do
Holy shit this game has some amazing and underrated champions.
Her E puts you in a dangerous range to everyone. If you focus her dots first, and imo Q isn't that hard to land it's just like Karthus or Urgot's shots, you safely damage someone without having to get all in their face. Yes her E is awesome. But early game you're giving alot of ground to get that extra E. It's mainly just a difference in playstyle. I enjoy chipping away with harass at a much larger range with her Q and W early game. Focusing E too early leaves her squishy weakness wide open to a counterattack.
IMO anyway.
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You get rune slots every time you level. At level 30, you end up with 9 red rune slots, 9 yellow rune slots, 9 blue rune slots, and 3 quint slots. You can buy runes in the store for IP only (the free currency). Red runes are good for attacking and give you things like Armor Penetration or Attack Damage or Ability Power or Magic Penetration. Yellow runes are good for surviving, like Health or Armor or Dodge or Mana/5. Blue runes are good for utility and good at Reduced Cooldown or Magic Resist. Quints give you special abilities you can't get anywhere else or beefed up versions of normal runes. Most runes can also give you things they're not good at, but at reduced effectiveness. IE, it takes two armor blues to be good as one armor yellow, and two cooldown yellows to be good as a cooldown blue.
Going against Mid Kennen as twitch was one of the most frustrating match ups I've ever had.
Especially since you don't really need to chase that hard if you've led with W and your opponent is slowed.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I'm confused why did you put AP in front of Udyr and Amumu, as they both build fine.
Early on as Cass you wont be able to burn someone down with E unless they are dumb, and yes with the range you need for it you will prolly take just as much damage as they do. Also it will absolutely destroy your mana. Unless you are running all Mp5 runes (which is dumb on cass) you cant keep up. Or unless you took a ton of mana pots, and then you will prolly die.
Q is good for farming and harrassing safely. Unless the opponent does something moronic you prolly arent getting a kill pre 6 anyway.
QEQWQRQEQEREEWWRWW all the way
yes E does lots of damage
Q does lots of damage too
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q lets you safely and easily farm the caster creeps, which means q and e BOTH do more damage twenty minutes in
Played with someone who had the guts (troll guts?) to play eve, it was pretty horrific. We thought we were going to lose to their 6/0 annie but she never touched me until I already had my build rolling
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
The only people ever in it are Italax and I.
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