League of Legends
Think of it as an RTS where you only control the heroic commander. You have your pick of the beefy, the sneaky, the kind that sets up turrets and hangs back. Your aim is to destroy the enemy's HQ and intervening towers. The AI sends out waves of minions to act as cannon fodder and will give you delicious gold when killed, which is used to buy items and customise your champion in all manner of ways.
It's free to play; but champions are unlocked with real money or in-game points.
The Tribunal is here! Now any level 30 summoner can 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 does not officially support a Mac version of LoL they have made a beta version of the client that you can download
here.
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Helpful links for those who wish to learn more
leagueoflegends.com, the game database provided by Riot (who make the game).
leaguecraft.com, there are a lot of fan sites out there with general information and builds. This is just one; and, it is slow and full of ads. Regardless of where you look for builds keep in mind, most of them make assumptions that are not clearly conveyed and there are a lot that are just plain bad. Tread lightly.
KillerCodeMonkey's wiki, add your brilliant shit to it.
Game mechanic shit, stuff like how attacks and magic and things work.
Rune break-dancing, good info about what runes you should buy.
Here is a list of live streams. They are quite nice for picking up tricks and build orders. My personal favourite is Guardsman Bob.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND REAL CASH DOLLA MONIES FOR CHAMPIONS
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!
Here is a list of all the champions available. Not for the weak of bandwidth.
Valiantine has a lovely spreadsheet that you can add your summoner name to. It is horrifyingly large.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ap5qFqD3oLKndHNfOGJ1VFNZVVZ6c1NtZVktdXpsTVE&hl=en&authkey=CJPuh4wG#gid=0
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So in prev. thread, was asking about hints/tips on playing Brand. Or any ranged AP carry in general. Halp?
So any news on when Leona is coming up? I thought she was all ready and they were just waiting until the server was stable.
Edit: The most important two things in any carry I think are getting a good cs by last hitting and learning how to position in teamfights so you can do maximum damage while not dieing. Beyond that its mostly item builds and learning how to rotate your skills and use stuns and aoes to their maximum benefit.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
The three times I died were literally only Annie. All three times she basically gibbed me. Because her AP ratios are perfectly fine and her abilities do average damage.
A lot of it boils down to farming like a champ then restraining yourself to generally stay in the back lines of a fight
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
go team troll
EDIT: Orinana should go to hell and stay there.
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I think I have to work on the positioning mostly. I was usually too far ahead. And didn't really pay attention to my heroes location, just which foes I could get into range of fireballs.
as far as Brands skills are concerned I'm deffinately in the know about what skills to use when and how. Slapping a foe with E then Q for a stun. Or a W and E for aoe. Or a E then Q then W for a nice nasty damaging combo
But yeah, last game I went 3/13/??. It was horrendous and I'm ashamed
still went 7/3/whatever so I know I had nothing to do with it at least
the enemy's 12/2 annie totally had something to do with it though
would anyone kindly join me for a game league of legends?
That's exactly what's happening.
However, for reference, EU hasn't even gotten the latest balance patch yet, because they need the server stabler.
We're really hoping for that soon. I expect it'll be after the EUwest and EUEast/Nordic split.
And that's happening "soon" aparently.
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I am going to start playing LoL.
I've played some DotA but never any LoL before. I have a group of friends that play so I'll learn with them, but someday, I may be one of you........
because i love my friends! they are all great people. but god they are so bad at league of legends
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on a side note though, dance with dragons is out tomorrow
I know what you mean Interr. My friend tanked Cho'gath as annie. a lvl 15 annie vs lvl 18 cho..... you can imagine how that went.
Good to hear. Reading your earlier posts, I was afraid you had gotten the utterly wrong impression about this game, but didn't have the ability to post at the time.
Excellent, welcome aboard!
It might be! We don't know yet. They haven't given any indication that she is doing so for sure though.
my friends are just wildly inconsistent
like one match he'll be in a zenlike state and the next go 0/9 as if someone else was playing that game
I am that person. I hate that about myself.
It's like clockwork. Say I've been playing Malz for 10 games. If I pick Tristana back up, I will have 1 amazing game with her. The second game I will feed to no end. The third, fourth, and fifth games will be mediocre. After that I'll be great again. But if I change champs every game, then I just fuck up even more.
Just played against a hilarious Garen. He and Fiddles would just hide in the bottom bush all game long. They never farmed at all. Invariably, they were able to kill Lux or I whenever both of their Flashes were on CD, but otherwise, they just sat in the bush for the first 20 minutes of the game, letting Lux and I farm away.
Lux and I made careful precision to farm, but die as little as possible, and never kill Garen or Fiddles. Twenty minutes hit, we both go B. (So far, we only bought Doran's items, hiding how much money we had, because we figured if they were too stupid to farm, they were too stupid to look at our CS). Suddenly, we bust out of the river, me with my Deathcap, her with whatever shit Lux does, and absolutely annihilate them.
Suddenly their shit talking stopped as we pushed their 2 bottom towers in 3 minutes. Game ended with Garen having a CS of 13, and 3 kills from early game. Fiddles had a CS of 21, with 2 kills from early game.
Seriously? "The season is over but not over."
He's a fun champ but I just can't spend any mo money on this game at the moment
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I do love me some free Vayne week now that she's not OP. New Vayne's don't know how to use her.
time to be all like silence lolololo
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how does that even
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they should just be titled noob boots
I get boots three sometimes on certain champs if the enemy team doesn't have much CC.
Maybe they're gearing up for something big to start Season 2 with, and it got delayed or whatnot being Best Online Technical that they are. Like observer mode! Where is it? Or Magma Chamber? Or something else that I have probably already forgotten because they mentioned it such a long time ago?
I think this also means if you don't have Kayle purchased she will automagically show up in your stable with that free skin. That's how it's happened in the past. Also, seriously? The season isn't over after the championships?
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Well at least I also plan on buying renekton and I would like to see if that will be a wise decision so win.