League of Legends v27

[Chubbs]

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[B][U]Latest Champion:[/U][/B]

[B]Quinn and Valor[/B]
[URL="http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3179698"][img]http://imgkk.com/i/inur.jpg[/img][/URL]
[URL="http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/news/new-free-champion-rotation-season-three-week-5-0"]New Free Champion Rotation (Season Three: Week 5) [/URL]
[URL="http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/news/patch-303-notes"]Latest patch notes (3.03)[/URL]

[B][U]What is League of Legends?[/U][/B]
For those not familiar with DotA, the gameplay of League of Legends can best be described as a session-based action RPG. The developers of LoL classify it in a new genre entirely, as a MOBA or “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena”. You start the game at level one, with a small amount of gold, and no items. As you play, you receive experience and gold. This allows you to level up and purchase items, which increases both the power of your champions abilities, as well as their core stats. The main goal of every match is to destroy the opposing team's "Nexus", a structure found at the heart of their base. To get there, you must first fight your way past hordes of computer controlled monsters, also known as minions, which continuously spawn from the enemy base. The base itself is protected by structures called turrets, which also must be destroyed. Whichever team destroys the other team's Nexus first, wins the game. It's truly a team oriented game, and you need to work together to succeed.

[release][B][U]Why should I play League of Legends over DotA?[/U][/B]
*New and original playable champions.
*Built-in surrender functionality.
*A new in-game interface, with controls designed for this style of play.
*Account-level progression, adding out-of-game strategic depth and customization, known as the summoner system. This includes Runes and Masteries.
*Regular updates with many more features to come!
*An improved mini-map that shows your champion's pathing.
*Multiple maps, (Summoner's Rift, Summoner's Rift: Winter, Twisted Treeline, The Proving Grounds and The Crystal Scar)
*Easier to pick up and learn
*[highlight]Did I mention the game is completely FREE?[/highlight][/release]

[B][U]Game Mechanics:[/U][/B]
[B]Summoner Spells[/B]
You are allowed the use of two Summoner Spells in any match of League of Legends. You can choose from a large variety prior to the start of a game. They are all unique, and can easily alter the game in your favor if you use them correctly.

[B]Masteries[/B]
You can put up to 30 points, which are gained upon leveling up, into three categories of masteries - offense, defense, and utility. Some of the more advanced masteries require investment in lesser masteries. Summoner masteries are not set in stone; depending on the champion that you want to play, they may be changed to better suit your needs. You can even set them while selecting your champion before a match begins, so if your favorite champion is taken, you can change your masteries to better suit another.

[B]Runes[/B]
Before queuing for a match, you can make use of "Runes" to increase your champion's power. There are four types of Runes that you can use: glyphs, marks, seals, and quintessences. Before a match begins, you can choose from one of up to nine different rune configurations you have previously set in your Runebook. This allows for maximum flexibility in choosing a Runebook that is best suited for whatever champion end up using. You CANNOT change these while selecting your champion, so choose wisely before entering the queue. Even if you are unsure of how you want to build your champion, you should always select a rune page before entering the game. Runes can only benefit your character, and are never detrimental.

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[URL="http://www.leagueoflegends.com/champions"]Here is the official list of all the champions in the game[/URL]

Every champion has a role to play. Here's the general archetypes of champions found within the game:
[B]Assassin:[/B] These champions specialize in taking out other champions. They are usually pretty frail, but make up for this in increased mobility with blinks, teleports, jumps, and even stealth abilities. These champions (a la their namesake) get into the action, burst down an enemy, and walk right out.

[B]Tank:[/B] They have the most health, the most armor, and the most magic resistance. These are the champions that initiate team fights and soak all the damage. They don't generally get as many kills as other champions, but they are great at getting assists. Some of them can force champions into attacking them, some of them can stun, while others have forms of "crowd control" that affect the entire enemy team.

[B]Attack Damage Carry (ADC for short):[/B] These champions are ranged and specialize in dealing damage damage consecutively. They are usually found behind the tanks and rely on attack damage, attack speed and armor penetration.

[B]Ability Power Carry (AP carry for short):[/B] AP Carries are capable of extreme burst damage and rely on items that give them ability power and magic penetration. AP Carries can be sorted into sub classes but they generally deal a lot of damage in a short time frame and then have to wait for cooldowns.

[B]Support:[/B] These are the champions that help the team in other ways besides kills. Supports typically help the team stay alive via heals, shields and aura items. They can also help the team get kills with their crowd control.

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[B]Q: Is it difficult to unlock champions?[/B]
Not really. For one thing, Riot selects ten new champions every week. For that week, the champions they selected are free to play. However, if you want to purchase a champion forever, you can use the Influence Points you earn while playing the game. Champions cost various amounts of IP, from 450 IP all the way up to 6300 IP. Winning a game, on average, nets you around 80-120IP. If it's your first win of the day, it's usually around 250 IP. Losing games even nets you around 60 IP. The free champions give you a taste, whilst IP is primarily used to unlock the champions you really liked when they were free.

[B]Q: My friend and I want to play in the same game. Can we?[/B]
Of course! If you're new, you might want to stick with the practice mode before you move onto the normal or ranked mode. People in the normal and ranked modes know what they are doing, especially the players in the ranked mode. You and your friend can practice against bots and get a feel of the game itself in practice mode.
The only catch is [B]you have to be on the same server as your friends.[/B] Most people will want to either play on the North America, [url=http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/eu-west-and-eu-nordic-east-country-list-0]EU West and EU Nordic & East[/url] servers. If you're Australian play on the North American server. There are other servers that are exclusive to specific countries like Korea, China, Turkey and Singapore.

[B]Q: I'm amazing at DotA and everything else DotA related, why should I bother?[/B]
Riot is passionate about the competitive scene in LoL. They hold sponsored tournaments all year long which build up into a grand finals ladder. The prizes of these tournaments are nothing to scoff at. If you have the ability to play well then competing in LoL could be for you.

[release][B]Q: I'm signed up. Now what?[/B]

*Start off with the tutorial! It will teach you the basic controls, game play mechanics, and the objectives of the game.
*Once you have a good handle on that, start a practice game and add bots. Practice mode allows you to explore the map and try out new champion,s without having to worry about playing well. The Bots aren't very difficult to beat, so don't expect them to be on par with actual players.
*The Co-op vs. AI mode puts you against harder bots with a team of real players. Great way to practice working together with others.
*Look up character guides on [URL="http://www.solomid.net/guides.php"]solomid.net[/URL] or ask us here. We can, usually, give good advice for any champion.
*When you feel like you're ready, join a Normal Game with solo queue![/release]
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Helpful Links[/U][/B]

[URL]http://www.leagueoflegends.com/[/URL] - The main website.
[URL]http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/League_of_Legends_Wiki[/URL] - Wiki-style website for LoL, lots of useful articles here.
[URL]http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/[/URL] - Official forums.
[URL]http://www.lolking.net/[/URL] - The most frequently used site for anything related to statictics. You can look up player profiles and champion statictics such as win rates, how frequently they are played, what items are usually built on them and how often they win against certain champions of the same role. You can also view champion models.
[URL]http://championselect.net/index.php?r=champions/index[/URL] - A good website for looking up who counters or gives your champion a hard time.
[URL]http://www.solomid.net/[/URL] - A website for one of the top teams of LoL. Guides written by pros.
[URL]http://www.lolpro.com/[/URL] - Another good website for guides written by pros. The guides are more up to date than solomid but are slightly lower quality.

[B][U]Terminology Section (and other useful stuff)[/U][/B]

[B]General useful information:[/B]
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[B]Terminology:[/B]
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[B]How to join the Facepunch chat room (NA/EU)[/B]
1. Press the two chat bubbles on the lower right. 2. Press the chat bubble with a + sign. 3. Type in "Facepunch". 4. Click on the gear in the chat window. 5. Set to auto join on start up. From now you will always be able to create matches and chat with people from Facepunch.
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[URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7548755/FPLoLOPUpdatedAshxu.txt"]4th of Feburary 2013 OP (Cleaned and updated OP by Ashxu)[/URL]
[URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7548755/FPLoLOP.txt"]Thread OP.txt (actually V26's OP because I'm a lazy)[/URL]

If someone else had the OP reserved then I'm sorry, but there wasn't another thread posted for ages after the last one ended I figured I'd make one.

[Shoopiwoop]

elise 2 op

[Katsuie]

Playing AP Tryndamere makes you an unique snowflake

[Chubbs]

Should we make it a rule that the person who gets the previous thread locked is the OP of the next one?

Would probably sort out any confusion.

[RidingKeys]

uggh threads close too fast

[Vomitself]

[url]http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=35356351[/url]

you guys

[binkow]

I've been recently playing Zilean, and man- he's underrated. He's the ultimate trolling champion. Bomb- CC - bomb.. They can never run away.

[dual elites]

I decided to splurge and buy some RP to play Taric and get his ~fabulous~ skin. Hero owns, skin owns, random homophobes in chat own.

Does this game work like Dota where you need to be in a certain range to get assist gold?

[Dominicus]

Reposting my post from the last thread for the people who missed it because of the ridiculous 1000 post limit.

The "Journal" for the new champion:
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Looks a bit like the 'ghost' from Battle Bunny Riven:
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More information can be found at [url=http://www.surrenderat20.net/2013/03/zaun-amorphous-experiment-development.html]Surrender@20.[/url]

[Shoopiwoop]

[QUOTE=dual elites;39834618]I decided to splurge and buy some RP to play Taric and get his ~fabulous~ skin. Hero owns, skin owns, random homophobes in chat own.

Does this game work like Dota where you need to be in a certain range to get assist gold?[/QUOTE]
You need to have attacked them atleast once to get assist.

[Hoboharry]

Wow, i used to think Rengar was useless and underpowered, but then i tried AP rengar.
Seriously, this is the most fun way to play Rengar, i encourage everyone to try it out.

[Shoopiwoop]

i was jungling against a rengar as maokai.

lmao it was easy

[Kondor58]

Anything is easy jungling against rengar

[zerothefallen]

i played fiddle jungle

2/15 and 0/14

i havent been that bad since level 10

[MShinigaki]

[QUOTE=Hoboharry;39834719]Wow, i used to think Rengar was useless and underpowered, but then i tried AP rengar.
Seriously, this is the most fun way to play Rengar, i encourage everyone to try it out.[/QUOTE]

Is AP Rengar still good? Didn't it get nerfed a lot or was it just by like a .1 or .2 ratio?

[polarbear]

i hope the new champ is a hellish abomination

[Ninny]

[QUOTE=polarbear.;39834983]i hope the new champ is a hellish abomination[/QUOTE]

with tits

[Feralicous]

[QUOTE=zerothefallen;39834797]i played fiddle jungle

2/15 and 0/14

i havent been that bad since level 10[/QUOTE]

this is almost a mirror of my fiddle escapades yesterday

[Ogris]

Fiddlesticks is so hit and miss.

Either you are an unstopable rape machine destroying everything with your ultimate, or you're a fear bot.

[Flipschtik]

[QUOTE=Ogris;39835110]Fiddlesticks is so hit and miss.

Either you are an unstopable rape machine destroying everything with your ultimate, or you're a fear bot.[/QUOTE]

fear bot is stll good

the problem is that you disappear in half a second without any hp items

[Bicko]

Gladiator Draven reminds me of Kratos when he puts his axes behind his back.

[Hoboharry]

[QUOTE=MShinigaki;39834964]Is AP Rengar still good? Didn't it get nerfed a lot or was it just by like a .1 or .2 ratio?[/QUOTE]
It didn't get nerfed that much i think, never really heard about AP rengar being nerfed anyway.
Either way it's much more efficient than AD rengar in my opinion.

[Blueplastic]

[QUOTE=Hoboharry;39835391]
Either way it's much more efficient than AD rengar in my opinion.[/QUOTE]

That doesn't say much considering AD rengar is utter shit right now

[Hoboharry]

[QUOTE=Blueplastic;39835545]That doesn't say much considering AD rengar is utter shit right now[/QUOTE]
Both are assassins but AP rengar enables you to be more than a squishy assassin which charges in and dies as soon as he's made a kill.

[Mellowbloom]

whenever I queue on my own, the team I get put with is exactly the same

1 support (me)
1 player that goes afk
1 player that acts like the team leader for five minutes and then whines that we've lost
1 player that is silent the entire game but doesn't really contribute anything
1 master yi player who carries the shit out of everyone

[polarbear]

[QUOTE=Blueplastic;39835545]That doesn't say much considering AD rengar is utter shit right now[/QUOTE]

fuck this bandwagon shit, rengar isn't bad, he is a good top laner (his jungle is bad, dont do it) and has great damage output throughout all stages of the game.

He falls off lategame sadly, a bit too hard compared to a lot of other champs, but I mean people take this "falling off lategame" shit too seriously. It's like saying renekton or pantheon are shit lategame - They have most of their power during early/mid game but if you're a good player you will pull your weight as much as anyone else in a team.

Rengar isn't easy to play effectively too, he's no longer "jump on people, spam W lolgg". His win rate in plat/diamond games is decent, hope that's worth mentioning.

[editline]7th March 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=Hoboharry;39835698]Both are assassins but AP rengar enables you to be more than a squishy assassin which charges in and dies as soon as he's made a kill.[/QUOTE]

with the new items, AP rengar is pretty much inferior to AD rengar if you want to talk viability

[Katsuie]

[QUOTE=Hoboharry;39835391]It didn't get nerfed that much i think, never really heard about AP rengar being nerfed anyway.
Either way it's much more efficient than AD rengar in my opinion.[/QUOTE]

I'll just go ahead and presume you're Bronze V?

[editline]8th March 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=polarbear.;39835877]fuck this bandwagon shit, rengar isn't bad, he is a good top laner (his jungle is bad, dont do it)[/QUOTE]

Rengar jungle is fine, if not better than his toplane

[Flipschtik]

rengar is still shit

unless you build sotd on him

[Katsuie]

Please no.

[Flipschtik]

[QUOTE=Katsuie;39836261]Please no.[/QUOTE]

but its fun