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[League of Legends] 08/21 PAX 5v5 tournament announced!
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08/15 New Dominion Site http://dominion.leagueoflegends.com/
08/16 Healing nerfs? Discussion here http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1102898
08/16 Retro Spotlight video featuring Blitzcrank! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmMC23DdT0
08/18 $5 Million Prize Pool for Season 2 http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/league-legends-season-two-feature-5-million-prize-pool
08/19 IEM stream: http://runeterra.com/forums/index.php?topic=1137.0
08/21 Pax Tourney Info [url\http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/pax-prime-needlessly-large-paysafecard-tournament[/url]
League of Legends!
League of legends is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. 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) that you get just from playing the game. Unlike other microtransaction nightmares you can enjoy the game at the same level as the whole community pretty quickly regardless of whether or not you pay, the only real difference is how quickly you unlock new characters. Every week there is a rotation of 10 characters that're free to play for that week every Tuesday. Riot tries to make sure that there's 2 champions of various roles such as tanky, magicy, hitty etc.
Check out their site here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com
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.'
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.
Pro Streams!
http://clgaming.net/live/1201 - Guardsman bob!
http://www.own3d.tv/TreeEskimo - Treeeskimo!
http://www.solomid.net/livestream.php?s=38853#38853:SoloMid.LoL - TheRainMan!
http://www.own3d.tv/TreeEskimo - Treeeskimo!
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Penny Arcade Streams!
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/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!
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/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!
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.
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.
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I had a great game! Went as Singed after two terribly, terribly bad games (Amumu, had trouble with my skillshot, always turned my despair toggle off when getting near (I'm used to pressing ability buttons when near. >_<, then Jax, had a d/connect and a really bad start.)
I got 9/1/5. I was laning with Raiden333. He was Nasus. He had a pretty good score too, something like 5/4/9. (We were pretty consistent, hehe).
At first, I was a bit nervous because we were laning against Master Yi and Singed. I mean, I was afraid I once laned against a Singed/Nocturne team and got murdered thanks to his fling. So, you know, Nervous and, with the luck I had, I had good reason to be nervous. Before the game, I asked for some advice in the channel and followed it, investing in Fling before Toxic gas. It went exceedingly well. The Yi ended with 12 deaths or so and Singed probably died around 4 times, at the least. The guy was a lot more cautious... However, he was not very talented as a Singed. What was pretty great is that he died at least two times from both of us flinging the other. It was like something out of a samurai movie. I got the hang of Singed. Be Audacious, Be Fearless, Be Insane. I also learned that singed is great with people who tend to over-extend. Let's just say Yi dies 12 times because he chased me a couple times too many and also because he never learned that Nasus' stick is massive.
Also, I finally got around to using potions. This is something I'll try to invest in more often.
TL;DR: 2 Singed entered, flung each other, 1 Singed died. I survived and laughed.
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I definitely wanna try jungle nasus when the patch drops, I've been having a lot of fun building like an AD carry. I think it'll be hard to get your Q farmed up quite as much as you normally would in a solo or +support lane though.
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And then they buff him to kill more. I approve.
Oh hey, new thread, I'm reposting too. Wish you could still delete posts.
Hey, my score for that game was 9/3/3! One of my best yet!
Seriously, we made a fucking awesome team. The second one of the enemies in our lane would over-extend even a little bit, I would slap a wither on him, 21st would throw him behind us, and we'd dogpile him to death in a few seconds before they could run away. Good fucking times.
fuck this game forever
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Glad my advice helped you out
Fling is so good for first bloods, generally I go E,Q,Q,W,Q,R, etc
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Yeah I didn't quite understand his ult changes
So like, if they flash away while you're in the air, you just land where they were? Or something?
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that's what it sounds like
the ult used to track to where if your target flashed while you were mid-jump you'd follow them and land on their new location... which admittedly was probably unintended, but god it was so funny.
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His tower diving ability just had a major buff.
d-did this happen if they blue pilled???
I JUST LEARNED THAT YOU CAN PRESS S OR H TO MAKE YOUR DUDE NOT ATTACK
AMAZED
i... i honestly don't know
now i have to find out
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That was pretty much always Yi, though. The guy was always overextending and I get why, Yi can be a beast and sometimes, you forget how squishy you are, especially if you're coming from a game where you were going wuju -> highlander -> alpha strike -> highlander -> Alpha strike and just killing people left and right, meditating the the middle of battle to restore a bit of health...
It's like the gas cloud is invisible to some people. They don't realize and then they drop dead.
Also, dogpile. Hilarious.
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and "Cataclysm will now create the ring of terrain regardless of whether the enemy can be targeted or not"
So how could you use Cata if they aren't targetable?
Everyone packing Flash already made Cata not that great, but this sucks
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I'm Jarvan, and I'm helping.
That sounds pretty great. I almost never want to go where they flashed, it usually ends up being trouble for j4.
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They should make Cataclysm suppress it's target for a short duration, really. As it is, it's just too easy to escape.
then your akali or kassadin or whatever flits around with impunity causing mayhem
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Cataclysm is a really effective allied-player trolling tool, if you're into that.
I had a guy Cataclysm right next to me and just leave me stuck in the terrain tanking turret shots until I died. Everyone except me thought it was funny.
Well, if you can autocast cataclysm now, that means that it has a second, awesome use as an anus entrapment, like Trundle's, but way better. People would have to run around it's pretty large diameter(in comparison to the penis pillar), and it would be tough to flash away to safety, and not end up in it or in a pretty similar or worse situation than one was in.
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Can't believe they're buffing Tryndamere even more. I realize he's underplayed at high levels, but he's already such a monster in pubs....
Wait no, that isn't awesome at all.
I thought a Lot of people thought malhazar was OP
Imagine how nice it would be if it was actually listed in the command list.
Haha, what?
At least he gets kills. It's not like a Singed who refuses to extend, run around or do any crazy gambits. Or a singed who decides to fight the other team's singed and keeps getting killed.
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