The second category includes advanced sections that cover specific tactics and strategies that allow for awesome plays in League of Legends. The third category includes game mechanics — the things that make the game work and how you can take advantage of them. That said, take some time to look through the highlights for the cool stuff you may not know about that can help you succeed. Since I first wrote the e-book, the tournament scene has become a larger and larger reason for new players to join.
On top of this, my own role as an analyst on the pro scene has offered me deeper insights. For long-time e-book owners, you may notice the e-book has been a little lighter since the 12th edition. League is Alive League of Legends is an evolving game, with constant updates and changes designed to improve the experience for players.
There are two methods by which I make sure this e-book remains relevant: 1. Each new edition attempts to update details that may have been changed, such as items, map mechanics, or stat changes. Small details may occasionally become outdated between new editions, especially as it relates to items and map mechanics. I strive for accuracy. That said, please feel free to contact me if you notice any outdated information, especially if a detail remains outdated after a new edition is released.
In very limited cases throughout this book I use images and text that are copyright Riot Games Inc. I have done so after studying Fair Use cases and settlements. This work is complementary to League of Legends and is not in competition with it. This work only uses content from League of Legends where it directly aids and benefits the user's understanding of the game.
Images are used so players can more quickly identify important objects in the game client. The amount of copyrighted material used is insignificant, both in relation to their work and to this work. As Judge Posner said in Ty Inc. Publications Int'l Ltd. That said, if Riot Games Inc. This would not be an ideal situation as I believe the images I use are important referential markers and are completely protected under Fair Use, but I would prefer to keep working on new guides for my fans than get into a legal battle.
Sections Overview Getting Started - A guide through your very first steps, from setting up an account and downloading the game to understanding runes, masteries, and the matchmaking system. Where You Belong The Meta - This section covers what is expected from many players in the early levels, including what types of champions are played in which areas of the map, as well as the reasoning for this.
League of Legends has four primary multiplayer game modes. The first, and by far the most popular, is Summoner's Rift. This game places up to five players against a group of human or AI opponents with the goal of overrunning the opposing team's base. Twisted Treeline is a smaller game mode with similar concepts and a maximum of three players on a team. In late a new game mode called Dominion was introduced.
This is a 5v5 capture-and-hold game type, and usually involves much quicker matches. Though less popular than Summoner's Rift, Riot has put significant development work into making sure it is polished and ready for players who are interested in playing it.
At this time, this guide focuses primarily on the Summoner's Rift game mode, though nearly all concepts translate to Twisted Treeline and Howling Abyss. This can be different from your account name, and you can change it later if you choose to.
Once you're done, choose an icon to represent your Summoner. Choose an Expertise Level You'll be asked to choose between four different levels of expertise. Be honest about these choices, as it will directly impact the experience of the human opponents you're matched against. The Tutorial Game Play it.
The tutorial is a fantastic way of learning the most basic concepts in the game. Battle Training Play it. The Battle Training against bots is another fantastic way of learning the basics of the game. This is set on the popular Summoner's Rift map which most of this guide focuses on , and the tips and messages throughout the game are genuinely worthwhile to read and remember.
You won't necessarily remember everything from Battle Training after you're done, but it is still worth the experience. After playing through the Basic Tutorial and Battle Training missions you have two choices. You can explore the game client, check out the news items, use the Riot Store, or poke around the champion pages.
If you need help with some of the basic functions of the game, the '? Of course, the more fun choice is just to dive right in and play another match. Click the red 'Play' button at the top of your screen, and then jump into a new match. At the very least it will give you some things to think about.
As always, last hit, last hit, last hit! It's one of the hardest and most important skills to master. Practice early, practice often! Next to this is your profile button. Once you click this you'll see several tabs.
Red Mark ; Primary or Secondary status based on slot. It is available to players who are level 20 or higher. Yellow runes are Seals, blue runes are Glyphs, and the large slots are Quintessences.
Red Mark runes can only be placed in red slots on a rune page. Greater Mark of Strength is considered a Primary rune, meaning it grants a strong bonus to its stat physical Attack Damage.
Runes can only be purchased with Influence Points IP. This is a fairly important point because it means your selection of runes is limited primarily by your games played, as well as your success within these games. Quintessences provide their full stat bonus regardless of type in other words, there are no Primary or Secondary Quintessences. For whatever reason, Riot does not currently tell you whether a rune is Primary or Secondary when purchasing from the Riot Store.
This is frustrating, and I recommend taking the time to check particular runes before making a big investment. To do this, you would buy Seals, Marks, and Glyphs of Resilience. You'd probably notice something when you were purchasing or putting these into your rune page: Even though both the Mark of Resilience and Glyph of Resilience are 'Secondary,' the Mark of Resilience provides more Flat Armor.
It's ok to use Secondary runes in a lot of cases, but it's usually not a good idea if it's a third tier Secondary rune, meaning it provides a significantly lower return than other Secondary runes.
Not all bonus stats you receive from runes will help you on every champion. In some cases, such as with Endurance runes which provide a percentage bonus to your health , they'll rarely ever be a top pick for any champion.
Yellow Seals: Flat Armor Resilience. Quintessences: Flat Health Fortitude. These are staples. Most of the time there may be a bit better way to build your champion, but this will be good enough.
This is an especially helpful set of runes to have if you want to try out a lot of new champions or test the champions that are free in a given week. This is also a good idea if you really don't want to get a lot of rune pages. Rune Pages Runes are placed onto a Rune Page. Rune pages unlock new slots based on your level, with all slots unlocked once you're level You will gain Quintessence slots every 10 levels.
In other words, you're never going to be penalized for using your runes Masteries If you've used talent or perk trees from nearly any other game, especially modern MMORPGs or RPGs, this is the same concept. You'll get new points to spend every level and you can place them into any of 24 Learn the League the available perks.
Once you've spent enough points in a tree, a new set of perks in that tree will become available to you. Unlike Rune Pages, these don't cost you anything. Also, if you know you need to make a change to your masteries while you're in a game lobby, you can quickly edit and save them before a game starts. This is a relative ranking system, meaning the system attempts to place you at a rank in relation to your peers. Only games against human players are rated.
When matching you against new opponents, the system will first try to match you against opponents of similar MMR and party size. If this fails, it will continue expanding its parameters until it finds the most suitable opponents for you. For this reason, matches that take an unusually long time before they're found have a higher likelihood of being imbalanced either for or against you, as this can mean that the parameters for acceptable opponents have been significantly broadened.
Players are assigned different MMR ratings for each different type of queue. For example, ranked 5v5 matches are separate from normal 5v5 matches, and solo queue ranked matches are different from arranged team ranked matches. MMR is hidden.
In normal games there is very little you can do to determine your actual standing, though there are some websites that attempt to approximate this number. In ranked matches, MMR helps determine your standing on the ladder, though the specific MMR is still not shown publicly. League of Legends, like other competitive multiplayer games, can be an extraordinarily frustrating game to play if you wind up with the wrong teammates or opponents.
I want to help mitigate that by giving you a heads up on some things to expect and how to deal with them. Worry about the stats. That said, the recommended items are great guidelines and you are rarely going to have a tough time by following them. In other words, you will only gain that particular passive bonus from one of the items.
The other bonuses from the items still work fine. Fourth and finally, at some point every player will buy an item and immediately regret their decision. This changes the color scheme on the mini-map and on health bars. Prefer Your Mini-Map on the Left? For this reason, I recommend you wait until you're level 20 before you purchase expensive runes. This is when all of the best runes become available to you, and any runes you've previously purchased are likely to be a wasted investment.
That said, Tier 1 runes are very, very cheap. It is certainly possible to play and enjoy the game without spending any money. That said, Riot Games has a very successful business model, and there are real incentives to purchasing Riot Points RP. If you're willing to invest some money into the game, I strongly suggest doing so. The fact that you're reading this guide means you want to get involved with the game on a deeper level, and having RP is a big help towards that.
Here's how: 1. Influence Points IP can be used to purchase champions. However, it is also the only way to purchase Runes, which have a big impact on your in-game performance. With limited runes, you will not be able to play the game as effectively or with the same flexibility you could, so consider purchasing any champions with RP to put your IP towards runes; 2. The per-win boosts do stack with the time-based boosts ex.
Reaching level 30 -- again, on the assumption that you also care about being a good player -makes the XP boosts valuable as well. Like IP boosts, win-based and time-based boosts stack. Not everyone wants to be a great gamer by any definition. But of course, you want to spend as much time enjoying your MMO as possible while still taking care of your real life responsibilities.
If you are a spouse and parent and want to maximize your leisure gaming time, it can be done using similar techniques that the successful endgame WoW raiders use -- which are really just some basic real world project management skills. I'll translate them to non-business terms: Plan your non-leisure time: You don't have to block it out on a schedule, but you do need to make sure that all work, errands, meals, etc. Captain Obvious says you are not being a great anything if the refrigerator is empty and your rent is past due.
But also, if real life is well taken care of, then it's much less likely to interrupt your game time. Schedule family time: Scheduling specific time with your family that you show up for without fail is extremely important -- daily if your work schedule permits, but weekends will do. Active, fresh air activities are the best for counteracting all of that sedentary gaming you want to do.
But watching Nerd Night with your teens would be a good activity, too. And if they're old enough, there are a lot more benefits than you are probably aware of to playing your favorite MMO with your children.
Schedule your game time: Consult your children's schedule as well as your spouse's. The best time is when your children are asleep, but you can arrange daytime playing with your spouse's consent and cooperation. Post your MMO time schedule where everyone can see it, so the rest of the family knows you are unavailable except for emergencies -- just like if you were in a bowling league, only more accessible. Do not play outside your schedule: Your family will be much more likely to respect your game time if you respect non-game time.
Plan your in-game activities: When you have some free thinking time, say during a commute, make some decisions about how you are going to spend your precious MMO time. Which MMO will you play? Which character? Where will you hunt? You get the idea. If you decide these things ahead of time, you can get straight to playing.
Respect your spouse's leisure time: This is a biggie. That game time schedule you made? Your spouse's leisure time must be equal to yours. I don't care if you do consider yourself the main breadwinner. Stay-at-home parents do not get the leisure time they need during the day, so don't suggest that time spent watching the Backyardigans with the kids should be equal to a half-hour of wearing a cape and tights.
Of course, if your spouse is a gamer, too, you're in luck. Playtime when kids go to bed can also be together time. I think that Terenas had its first 10 man normal Lich King kill on Wednesday.
I'm not saying he's wrong. I do echo the comments by at least one that the 'every raid has a and mode' almost seems to cheapen the experience.
While the ability to buy a full set of 'Tlite' cheapens the overall WoW experience, as an insignificant raider, I like the ability of being able to run admittedly a ton of heroics to be able to pick up baseline gear to be welcome. Click to expand Moredhel said:. All I was saying is that you can get Tlite without having to set foot in a raid. If it enhances your raiding experience, then good! But it removes the need to raid at all for decent gear.
What if they colored the lowest quality of each tier blue? Blizzard balances gear against the time required to acquire the item. A full clear of ICC takes probably 6 hours probably even less once things are on farm and nets you 25 Emblems of Frost or 26 if Arthas gives you extra. There is also the option of gaining 5 more from the weekly ICC raid quest. Running 1 Random heroic a day gives you 2 Emblems of Frost, and generally takes less than 30 minutes. There's also the weekly raid quest which is another 5 emblems, and probably takes no more than 1 hour.
For roughly the same amount of time spent as a full ICC clear, you get almost the same number of Emblems of Frost. One thing I appreciated is that Ciderhelm really didn't touch on loot at all in his article, except to briefly mention that Blizzard has done a most excellent job of balancing effort vs.
I'm not saying that the risk-vs-reward isn't balanced around perceived time. I think it is. But from a former hardcore raider perspective, I can look at the current structure and say, "Gee, I can go into random heroics every day and get frost emblems without having to deal with twice or five times as many crotchety people to get frost emblems with I won't begrudge the fact that you can indeed get that uber gear because I intend on taking advantage of it being that I'm not in a regular raid group at all right now I can, however, see it from the perspective of someone who only wants to raid and only wants to see tier gear in the hands of "real raiders".
There are some people who truly feel that Tlite is not earned. I might feel that T9 lite isn't earned, but we're one content level past it.
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