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Well, I started a thread  back in August (https://forums.joeuser.com/411269/) that's seen a lot of activity and actually had quite a few good bits of information for new and old players alike.  I figure it's time to start a new thread and perhaps keep the OP up-to-date with useful information, etc.  Feel free to use this post for any LoL discussion, etc.

Super fast background:  I played a lot of Demigod as pacov/cheesuscrust.  Back in August 2011 or so, I started getting heavily involved in LoL and folks have been kind enough to chime in with tips and links to various sites that have been quite useful to me.  In addition, I've been able to keep up with folks that I've played Demigod with in the past and meet some new folks that play LoL and frequent these message boards. 

Here's some of the things I've learned in the previous thread:

 New Player tips

  • Play the tutorial.
  • Consider picking up the starter bundle.  It's 530 RP (that's about $4).  You get 8 champs unlocked, a 4 win IP boost and a 10 win XP boost.  It's a pretty good deal (used it recently on an alt account).  You can find it in the game store under bundles.
  • Riot gives you 400 RP as soon as you hit level 5.  It's enough to buy some skins, a boost, or a cheap character. 
  • Learn to last hit!  Last hitting is simply landing the last hit on creeps.  If you last hit, you get gold for that kill.  The number of creeps you have killed is tracked in a value called CS.  You can see this number in the top right hand corner of the ui or by pressing tab.  Here's a really simple tutorial re: last hitting if you are brand new - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LheiRB76x5g
  • Read some guides on any character you want to try out.  The recommended builds (what you see when you go to a shop) are not optimal.  The guides include item suggestions and skill orders.  These are very useful in learning decent ways to build characters
  • Use the rune combiner to get level 3 runes prior to level 20 if you like.  You will need 375 IP.  Buy any tier 1 rune that costs 15 IP.  You need to purchase 25 of these.  Click on your rune page.  In the bottom right hand corner there is a button called the Rune Combiner.  If you place 5 runes in there, you can get a random rune that is 1 tier higher (eg if you have 5 tier 1 runes, you will get 1 random tier 2 rune.  Anyway, the math works out such that you spend 375 IP ( buy 25 tier 1 15 IP runes) and you get 1 completely random tier 3 rune.  Some of the quintessences are 2k IP, so if you luck out and get one of those, you just won the lottery.  You can always keep the random tier 2 rune if you end up with something good and don't want to trade it out yet.
  • Consider setting aside IP for tier 3 runes (available at level 20 and above).  You can't purchase them with real money - only IP.  Keep that in mind.

Great site I visit every day for LoL related news - http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends

pacov's misc info

Here's a guide I made

pacov's Guide to Improving at League of Legends and Moving Up in Elo

k - so I'm just going to put down some of my thoughts.  I'm not amazing at this game, but I do certain things that improve my odds of winning in ranked and so far its panning out just fine (bronze 5 to gold 5 in about a month or so).  We all have varied skill levels, so some of this might be useful and some not.  Caveat complete.

Prerequisite- you need to know how to play every single role.  You don't have to be a god at every single role (more power to you if you are - I'm certainly not).  You need to be able to play at a serviceable level in every single role and excel at least at 1 role (preferably 2).  In my case, I'm good at support and adc.  I'm not great, but have serviceable mids and jungles and so so tops.  Knowing what you are good at and bad at is very important.  If you don't know, I can probably tell you - but you really should know...  Anyway, you need to have enough champs to make solid picks in any role and you need to be able to cover any role if it comes down to it.  I'll talk about how to get better at specific roles in a bit.

Champ select advice - Don't be the "fill" guy unless you really feel like you are awesome in all roles.  Call your preferred role immediately when you hit the lobby.  Say "adc pref."  Do this as soon as you hit the lobby.  Some people believe that if you call a role you magically get it.  This is stupid, but if you call something out, folks will often accomodate your request.  If you are feeling wishy washy for whatever reason, call out multiple roles in order of what you want to play - "adc/mid pref."  In my experience, you generally do not want to call support.  It's a very important role, but you want to be in a position to carry every single game if possible.  If you aren't calling out a role, you are hoping that other players can carry you.  If you are hoping that folks will carry you, you don't deserve to win.  You need to know your best roles and you absolutely should request them.

Solo or duo in ranked? - Well, my 1st thought here is that you should solo.  If you solo, you have to rely on yourself.  IMO - its a much bigger test of skill to play solo and win than to duo.  Do you want someone to carry you or do you really want to know that you are actually good?  That said, provided you have the right duo partner, you can increase your odds of winning quite a bit.  The simple math is that instead of having 4 teammates as unknown quantities, you only have 3.  If you have a good duo teammate, you know what you can expect.  When you duo, you get the most bang for your buck by having complimentary roles.  Support/adc is good; jungle/mid also works.  Even if you don't have direct symmetry in roles, if you are an amazing mid and I'm an amazing adc, our odds go up quite a bit if we both get those roles.  Our odds go way down if we can't get those roles and are forced to play out of positions that we are weaker.  For example, Bryff is a good mid.  If he duo's up with me, the only way he will get to play that role is for me to call mid, take it myself, and then put myself into a position like support where I can't carry out of (I'm always 1st pick, Bryff is always last pick when we duo)... that and I have to show the mid I'm picking at the start which means Bryff gets hard countered.  In short, we can expect that we will be a disadvantage when duo queuing.  Now, if Bryff queued up with someone at a lower elo than himself that was solid, he'd likely be 1st pick and be able to get mid and have a better chance of carrying the game.  Anyway, you need to keep in mind where you end up in pick order when duoing if you aren't looking to go adc/support.  If you want that, you can usually get it. 

How do you get better in roles that you are not good at? - Well, here's what I do.  And this is really what I do on a regular basis.  I think about what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.  For instance, I realized that I don't play any hyper carry ads.  So, I read up on hyper carries like vayne and kog maw.  I look for guides on how to build them (most adcs are the same btw ), I look for vids on how people play them (eg how do I all in with a specific champ - is there a combo - when do I all in - what's the best way for me to burst - how should I behave in lane with this champ).  Then, I fire up a custom game and try out the mechanics of whatever champ vs AI.  Usually I learn a few tricks during that custom on how to position myself, etc.  Then, I'm off to normal games where I'll request the role or character I'm trying out.  Now, people still report your for being awful in normals, but it really is where you need to try out characters to see if you are any good or not as the bots are useless for proving your skill level to yourself.  So, fire up that normal and ask to play a role (again - after you've tried out the champ against bots).  If you don't know anyone you are with and you are quite awful, I suggest muting everyone at the start of the game.  Then, do your best.  Continue with this until you feel like you have a serviceable skill level in whatever role.  And keep in mind what you need to work on.  For me, I noticed I didn't really have alot of mids for ranked, so I started practicing some with gragas against and karth.  That way, I'll be able to get the job done if I need to play mid.  The next thing I need to do is put more time into being better top lane. Again, because while I prefer adc/support, I might need to play top for the team.  So, best to be ready for it.  Put your time in and practice roles. 

One last thought - there are certain things you can generally expect in ranked.  1 - if you are 1st pick, you generally can call whatever you want.  Common knowledge, I'm sure - but I'll add - CALL WHATEVER YOU WANT.  2 - if you duo queue, you generally can lock down both adc and support.  It works best if your adc is 1st pick, ofc.  I've bumped into like 10 random dedicated supports in all of my games of LoL.  People generally aren't going to call support. So, if you are 1st pick and duo'd, just call adc and then your duo partner can almost always get support.

 

Lol King profiles for ranked tracking

I'm not going to update this regularly, so just consider it a snapshot (I'll add a date when I update them).  Anyway, I enjoy seeing folks progress through ranked and keeping tabs on that sort of thing from time to time. 

Snapshot updated 05/28/2014

 Character guides

Mid Ziggs by cow - http://www.lolking.net/guides/7906

Comments (Page 83)
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on Jul 15, 2012

blah....fix Xerath first you fools!!! 

 

For being based of artillery funny how lot of champs have more range than he does....Im looking at you Ziggs.

on Jul 15, 2012

I'm off to bed.  Uploading a vid of carbon's "time to shine" as twitch from our last game.  Check the youtube channel in an hour or so if you want to check it out.  Night all and thanks for the games!

on Jul 16, 2012

I'm off to bed.  Uploading a vid of carbon's "time to shine" as twitch from our last game.  Check the youtube channel in an hour or so if you want to check it out.  Night all and thanks for the games!

 

on Jul 16, 2012

on Jul 16, 2012

-Ue_Carbon
blah....fix Xerath first you fools!!! 

 

For being based of artillery funny how lot of champs have more range than he does....Im looking at you Ziggs.

 

... he is getting fixed. They are making his damage circles appear at the beginning of the cast timer rather than after the cast timer. 

This should result in giving the player going against Xerath .2 seconds more reaction time compared to what he was 3 patches ago, but the damage would be applied at the same time. The reason for this whole mess was because the damaging part of the ability was bugged because it applied damage as soon as the circle appeared rather than giving the opposing player time to react it was "lol btw everything in this circle took damage". There was no effective difference between a point-and-click ability and Xerath's ult in terms of the time it terms of counter play (unless you flashed the 2nd/3rd ult circles before the Xerath player casted it). And that's not how the game designers wanted the ult to work. 

 

Xerath players are still happy because their timings are back to how it was originally. People playing against Xerath are happy because they get .2 seconds of warning that they need to flash "right the fuck now" if they have a Mage Chains on their head. 

on Jul 16, 2012

Thats not the fixes I was ranting for. lol

 

 

on Jul 16, 2012

CPU fan gave up the ghost so I may be out of commission for awhile Hoping the new one arrives by Thursday so I don't miss out on both game nights. Of course this had to happen after I bought Crusader Kings II and Warlock on the steam sale...

on Jul 16, 2012

AragornV
CPU fan gave up the ghost so I may be out of commission for awhile

aw... that sucks.  Could always suck it up and buy 1 locally somewhere I'd think.  Anyway, hope you are back in commission soon.

So, that "dat janna" clip has hit right around 1,500 views since I posted it 12 hours ago.  Crazy.  other crazy things... I've been saving IP to get malz... methinks I'm losing it.  Anyway, 1 game away from 4800 ip.

on Jul 16, 2012

Don't get Malz...

get Heimerdinger, his rework looks boss

on Jul 16, 2012

KrdaxDrkrun
get Heimerdinger, his rework looks boss

I have him already.  And that rework falls under the category of "God knows when it will be released."  All we have is some leaked info.  Riot has said nothing publically on this, so it could be a long way off.  Certainly not this week.

on Jul 16, 2012

2.500 views... people liked this one more than sugar piss... ridiculous. 

Hoping on in a few to play some games.

 

on Jul 17, 2012

I think we all agree that peter's ad malz is inferior to pacov's amazing ad malz - hands down.  In all honesty, I should not play ad malz before or after the changes (shh I will play him after the changes for sure).  If peter contests this, I will release seedy video of peter playing awful as ad malz.  It's my only defense (outside of carrying as support ali). 

2,700 + views of "dat janna" now.  I'm at around 4,200 views for vids in about a week.  From what I've learned, quirky, kinda funny clips (peter singing sugar piss for instance) get some interest (<500 views based on where I post).  I have a HUGE crowd for clips where there are awesome escapes/ganks/game changers.  If its a good clip, apparently 2.5k can be expected to view.  I shall grow the league of pacov following.  I wouldn't be incredibly surprised if a few of you start getting pal invites from strangers in a couple of weeks at this rate. I'll keep growing the audience as long as we have interesting content. 

 

on Jul 17, 2012

they snuck out some pbe changes last night.  http://i.imgur.com/dBfay.jpg

Could mean a release is imminent. 

on Jul 17, 2012

Love that you are getting some views! 

Pretty sure the new fan will arrive tomorrow, so I should be back in business soon! I don't actually have any good computer stores near me and if I want specific parts, I either have to travel quite some distance or get them shipped. Super lame I know.

on Jul 17, 2012

dat Canada. 

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