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#1 Dec 12 2010 at 1:15 PM Rating: Decent
Haven't seen any topics on this...

Based on DotA, League of Legends is a game I stumbled upon recently while randomly browsing videos on YouTube.

You choose a champion within like at least 60 and fight to gain control over the base of the enemies. They have towers you have to destroy to reach their base, and there's minions spawning on both teams that fight too.

Seriously, great online multi player game and it's free to play too.

Here's the link.


Name's Ikkian, if you start playing.
#2 Dec 12 2010 at 2:49 PM Rating: Decent
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I play it. I've been a long time player of dota, then jumped ship to HoN, then jumped to LoL. Timelordwho, Cestin, and Vataro have accounts, though Vataro prefers HoN.

My account name is Allegorical.
#3 Dec 12 2010 at 2:56 PM Rating: Decent
Thanks for the friend invite. I'm trying to try out characters, but my favorite yet is Kennen.
#4 Dec 13 2010 at 6:52 PM Rating: Good
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Timelordmu, due to thieving name thieves.
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#5 Dec 14 2010 at 8:47 PM Rating: Decent
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Just Cestin for me.

I play with Allegory and TLW sometimes, but I'm only level 18, and they have both been 30 for awhile now. I'm not awful though, and have been getting better, learned some tips from Noxus vs. Ionia the other day.

I'll add you next time I log on Ikkian, I made a thread about LoL like....maybe 4 months ago? At any rate, very good game, would be glad to play with ya.
#6 Dec 15 2010 at 10:54 AM Rating: Decent
Yeah, I saw you added me. I'm pretty much a newb just trying out every character I can find. I seem to like ranged types like Kennen, Tristana, Janna and some others whose names I forgot. Kargath?
#7 Dec 15 2010 at 2:37 PM Rating: Good
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Karthus and Cho'goth had a baby?
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#8 Dec 15 2010 at 5:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Also LoL's community is fairly hilarious.
#9 Dec 16 2010 at 12:21 AM Rating: Good
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I went ahead and got this and am giving it a go. I cant seem to ever join a game where someone doesn't leave 1/2 way through.

The game I just finished ended at 2 on my team vs 4 on theirs. Still won though.

Username --> Bardalicious

Edited, Dec 16th 2010 12:21am by Bardalicious
#10 Dec 16 2010 at 1:28 AM Rating: Decent
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Game says your username can't be found. Are you sure it's right?

I never really had problems with leavers, but I probably just got lucky. IF you climb in ELO rating you will start to see less of them. Unranked ELO is invisible, but you start at 1200, and according to lolbase.net I'm around 1530 ELO and I basically see a leaver once every 25 games.

You should also know that these types of games aren't very new player friendly. That's not to say the community is awful; and in my opinion of the three main games LoL has the most pleasant community. But the nature of the game means there isn't really a training zone or a chance to learn without it affecting gameplay. You kind of have to learn on your feet.

A few general tips for someone who has never played these types of games before.

1. Know where your enemies and allies are. If several of your enemies are missing and you push too far alone, then you will probably get ganked. Pushing alone too far in general is a bad idea.
2. Buy boots sometime early in the game. They probably shouldn't be your first item, but a second or third definitely. It's a huge mistake to get them much later.
3. Don't over-specialize with your items. Ashe is one of the champions on free rotation at the moment. She is best built as an attack damage type character (getting damage items, attack speed, critical hit chance, armor penetration, and more). However you should still get at least one defensive item on her, otherwise she will often be too frail to stand up long in the fight. You shouldn't be a glass cannon, you should be a tempered-glass cannon. Likewise with tanky champions like shen you shouldn't be purely a brick wall, you should be a spiky brick wall.
4. Last hit the minions. You only get gold from the kill if you deliver the killing blow. You gain some gold over time regardless, but it is very little. Most of your gold will come from killing minions, towers, and champions.
#11 Dec 16 2010 at 3:55 PM Rating: Good
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Buy boots sometime early in the game.


And in case you are unfamiliar with games of this type, boots are the base movement speed increase item. Moving faster is just generally useful, and buying at least the basic boots is a must to be able to run away successfully as well as chase down fleeing opponents.
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#12 Dec 16 2010 at 4:48 PM Rating: Decent
Vataro wrote:
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Buy boots sometime early in the game.


And in case you are unfamiliar with games of this type, boots are the base movement speed increase item. Moving faster is just generally useful, and buying at least the basic boots is a must to be able to run away successfully as well as chase down fleeing opponents.
That or be Kennen. <3
#13 Dec 16 2010 at 4:53 PM Rating: Decent
Bardalicious wrote:
I went ahead and got this and am giving it a go. I cant seem to ever join a game where someone doesn't leave 1/2 way through.

The game I just finished ended at 2 on my team vs 4 on theirs. Still won though.

Username --> Bardalicious
Yup, username doesn't works.
#14 Dec 16 2010 at 5:32 PM Rating: Good
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If I can find how to add people I will add you guys.
#15 Dec 16 2010 at 6:31 PM Rating: Decent
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Bardalicious wrote:
If I can find how to add people I will add you guys.

Adding friends seems borked at the moment, but normally there is a person shaped icon in the lower left corner that you manage friends.

Alternatively, you could just spell your username correctly in this thread and I could add you.
#16 Dec 18 2010 at 2:14 PM Rating: Good
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Allegory wrote:
Bardalicious wrote:
If I can find how to add people I will add you guys.

Adding friends seems borked at the moment, but normally there is a person shaped icon in the lower left corner that you manage friends.

Alternatively, you could just spell your username correctly in this thread and I could add you.
more like I got username and charactername confused.
#17 Dec 18 2010 at 9:27 PM Rating: Decent
Ok kids, stop fighting here and fight over there!
#18 Dec 24 2010 at 10:58 PM Rating: Decent
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In other news, Shen is a whole new take on the game, and I greatly enjoy playing him.

I sometimes play carries, the only true carry I own is Ryze, but it just seems like that whenever I'm not playing a tank, I feel too squishy. I think it has something to do with morale, because I oftentimes do die more when I feel like I'm not going to perform top-notch, because I'm so unused to DPSers.

Also, does anyone here play Twitch or Teemo? If you do, I hate your guts, please die, etc. Those two **** me off the most out of all of the champs.
#19 Dec 26 2010 at 4:19 PM Rating: Decent
I learned to enjoy Teemo, hate me?
#20 Jan 07 2011 at 7:35 PM Rating: Good
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I occasionally play pentakill twitch. But I enjoy suicide Karthus and Malz a bit more currently.

Edited, Jan 8th 2011 11:32am by Timelordwho
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#21 Jan 08 2011 at 3:00 PM Rating: Decent
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Timelordwho wrote:
I occasionally play pentakill twitch. But I enjoy suicide Karthus and Malz a bit more currently.

Edited, Jan 8th 2011 11:32am by Timelordwho


I'd like to try out more builds but the only rune page that I have even semi-properly filled is my Tanking page, so I don't play carries and stuff too often.

Duke Ikkian wrote:
I learned to enjoy Teemo, hate me?


Probably not, because I'll probably never go against you. :P
#22 Jan 09 2011 at 3:13 AM Rating: Good
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CestinShaman wrote:
Timelordwho wrote:
I occasionally play pentakill twitch. But I enjoy suicide Karthus and Malz a bit more currently.

Edited, Jan 8th 2011 11:32am by Timelordwho


I'd like to try out more builds but the only rune page that I have even semi-properly filled is my Tanking page, so I don't play carries and stuff too often.

Duke Ikkian wrote:
I learned to enjoy Teemo, hate me?


Probably not, because I'll probably never go against you. :P


Woah, slow down there. I love playing with people who play only tanks. It tends to mean they are good at them.
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#23 Jan 09 2011 at 3:57 PM Rating: Decent
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Timelordwho wrote:
CestinShaman wrote:
Timelordwho wrote:
I occasionally play pentakill twitch. But I enjoy suicide Karthus and Malz a bit more currently.

Edited, Jan 8th 2011 11:32am by Timelordwho


I'd like to try out more builds but the only rune page that I have even semi-properly filled is my Tanking page, so I don't play carries and stuff too often.

Duke Ikkian wrote:
I learned to enjoy Teemo, hate me?


Probably not, because I'll probably never go against you. :P


Woah, slow down there. I love playing with people who play only tanks. It tends to mean they are good at them.


Not an expert, but I've been playing tanks since I was a wee little summoner. I think the one time we played together, the first time anyway, you were Cho'Gath, and did well, though I don't know how truly tanky Cho really is. Oh and you played pure AP Karth, I remember that too.
#24 Jan 09 2011 at 4:16 PM Rating: Good
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Heimerdinger foreverrrrr!
#25 Jan 09 2011 at 6:50 PM Rating: Decent
Kennen! <3
#26 Jan 09 2011 at 7:37 PM Rating: Decent
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I Shen me some shen shen while I shen a shen. Comphreshen?

Yeah, this is a vlad post.

Edited, Jan 9th 2011 7:38pm by Allegory
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