**OLD THREAD** League of Legends - F2P MOBA (like DOTA)

[hydroponik]

Yeah, I just started ranked play a few weeks ago, but it seems you either get a competent team, or just trolls and failures. "Good" games are few and far between until I guess you get out of this range.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Yeah, I just started ranked play a few weeks ago, but it seems you either get a competent team, or just trolls and failures. "Good" games are few and far between until I guess you get out of this range.

my advice for this is the instant you join the lobby. try to engage everyone and get them to talk. Ask them who they are playing and who do they want banned. Of course make sensible bans esp if you are team captain. If they vote to ban teemo....don't do it.

Also remember to tell everyone not to rage. Raging is probably the most common reason why people start losing. The second someone starts raging your likeliness of winning will drop dramatically.

If someone is feeding or just having a rough time a tip would be to gather your team and stay near him but out of sight. Use him as involuntary bait.

The more you can make your team feel like a team before the game begins, the better your chances.

I just started ranked as well and this has worked very well for me. 5:1 so far *knocks on wood* just hoping that this will continue or at least I get team mates that are sensible even if we lose.

 

[Malak]

Yeah lost a few games. In fact I only have 2 wins so far with ranked. There is always one shit team, and I'm usually on it. I knew at champ select my team was hosed my last game so I went ahead and picked Yi. I actually destroyed the other team early on and was solo taking down towers later while my team took it in the ass just defending one tower. My whole team would just get rolled then we'd lose 3 towers to the one I got.

 

[Firsttime]

I'm so sick of loosing games because of random baddies. I've been playing Lee Sin because it's free week and totally ripping face, 10-3-5 and 17-8-14 in my last two games, both losses because other people can't hold a lane. So dumb.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

were you laning or jungling? Jungling is hit or miss in random solo queue since you're never sure of the laning abilities of your team.

 

[Firsttime]

I was in lane with a Taric in both games. Just gets frustrating when it happens several times in a row. I'm sure it works the other way too, just never seems too haha.

 

[Fallengod]

Anyone experienced tell me which runes/glyphs/blah/blah i should purchase first? I guess I heard youre supposed to wait till level 20 to buy those, but which should I get?

 

[Obsoleet]

If you didn't know, they pretty much put Anivia back to what she was before her nerf and added 1 second to her stun. The only nerf still active is the "time for slow" on her R to enemies. Been this way for a few patches now.

Just played my 1st game in a month or two last night and wow.. this game has changed.. for the better in regards to graphics and just everything.. had a great time playing Anivia.

I've sworn off most of my old standbys that IMO have been nerfed to hell. Not even going to bother with Sion or others anymore. They are making way for the new champs to be purchased.

I would like to see how Sivir is now with all the buffs she's received, and I think the time is right to purchase Trundle. Seems to be a good under the radar champ.. I'm not a fan of the popular champions simply because I'm like that.

 

[hydroponik]

Anyone experienced tell me which runes/glyphs/blah/blah i should purchase first? I guess I heard youre supposed to wait till level 20 to buy those, but which should I get?

The first things I would get would be 9x Greater marks of Insight (+magic pen) and 9x Greater marks of desolation (+armor pen).

For your yellows, dodge seals are good for melee/tanks. For your blues, I'd get the CDR runes.

These set of runes have the benefit of being universally good for most of the champs you can use.

 

[Obsoleet]

Anyone experienced tell me which runes/glyphs/blah/blah i should purchase first? I guess I heard youre supposed to wait till level 20 to buy those, but which should I get?

If you want one page to fit all, and a great place to start as these cannot be wrong, I'd buy-
Marks of Desolation x9 and Marks of Insight x9 (both cheap and both the best Marks for AD/AP respectively)
Seals of Vitality x9
Glyphs of Focus x9
Quints of Fortitude x3
= +15Apen or Mpen, +175HP@18, +6%CDR, +80HP@1

I use most of these runes myself for all AD champions (I just use Quints of Desolation +10Apen, instead).. but with both the Desolation and Insight Marks, you are set for your 2 pages until you can afford a real AP set.
Or, if you even want to. If I didn't have my two sets (a universal mana/energy agnostic AP page and mana/energy agnostic AD page), I would have no problem using the above set(s) for all champs in the game. I'd probably rather have my IP back and buy more champs and enjoy life... not that I'm short on IP. I'd stick with this until you really get sucked into a particular champ or start to really prefer AD or AP champs.

My general advice is to avoid damage specific runes (resists/dodge).. build your champ in-game as you observe their builds, depending on if they're building AP or AD. Go HP before you buy resists. If you want/need/desire resist, I prefer to adjust my Masteries accordingly to make up for any weak spot. It really does the job in my experience, if you're trying to accomplish a difficult jungle or perfect a build. At least when I'm trying to make someone jungler better, for example, I never have to dump IP/RP into runes to accomplish my goals (with my runepages that is, it would be more difficult working with just 1 universal page).

But this is the frugal man's advice, I do penny pinching on the IP. If you play a lot or spend money on the game, then I'd disregard my opinion. But unless you're building specifically for a single champ that you love (which I wouldn't do as nerfs/buffs are frequent in these games), I did 2 general runepages and was done with it.

 

[Rhoxed]

I have 6 pages and feel it isnt enough. - but i play ~35 champs frequently (yes i play all 35 any chance i get)

I have enough runes to fill ~11 or 12 pages, so when i feel like playing a certain type of champ, i just go in and i use my 6th page as my for-champ page and customize it how i want.

 

[Fallengod]

Ok sounds good. Well, two peoples advice saying to get the same type of marks. So 9 of each of those is pretty typical for normal lvl 30 players etc?

What do you mean by "afford a real AP set". What would be better to do? I guess I dont know exactly how the rune pages work. I havnt looked at it much, maybe couple of minutes heh.

Anyhow thanks for advice.

 

[Rhoxed]

speaking of, i would like to see every ones favorite champs - or who you play the most

mine are

AD - Twitch, Sivir, MF, Caitlyn, Ashe, Yi, Noc, Lee Sin, Gangplank

Bruiser - Garen, Irelia, Jarvan, Nasus, Olaf, Renekton, Trundle, Urgot, Xin

Hybrid? - Akali, Katarina, Jax, TF

AP - Brand, Cassiopeia, Heimerdinger, Kennen, Ryze, Swain

Tank - Alistar, Amumu, Galio, Malphite, Mordekaiser, Maokai, Shen

Support - Karma, Lux, Morgana

^---- those are the champs i use regularly.... i left out any champs i dont have skins for 😛

 

[Obsoleet]

Ok sounds good. Well, two peoples advice saying to get the same type of marks. So 9 of each of those is pretty typical for normal lvl 30 players etc?

What do you mean by "afford a real AP set". What would be better to do? I guess I dont know exactly how the rune pages work. I havnt looked at it much, maybe couple of minutes heh.

Anyhow thanks for advice.

If you take our advice, you really can't go wrong. HP runes are universal, and good at that. That extra 80HP from the quints is good for any champ, anytime. Can make the diff between living or dying for sure.

Everyone goes x9 or x3 on the runes/quints. It's pretty laughable to see a mixture. You usually want to optimize for the particular champ and focus on a certain skill set you want to improve on like Apen or Mpen, what not.

Afford a real AP set because the runeset I posted above is good for everyone, and could easily be a dedicated set for all AD champs.. but I use a balls-to-the-wall all AP/Mpen set for my AP champs. Again, I'd use the above that I linked on a champ like Anivia.. or a champ like Xin Zhao.. doesn't matter, and once you figure out what you want, you will never regret a set like that. I'd buy those or similar and keep playing the game till you get deep into some specific champs and really get intense about it.. even when you do those runes are tops.

 

[Obsoleet]

speaking of, i would like to see every ones favorite champs - or who you play the most

mine are

AD - Twitch, Sivir, MF, Caitlyn, Ashe, Yi, Noc, Lee Sin, Gangplank

Bruiser - Garen, Irelia, Jarvan, Nasus, Olaf, Renekton, Trundle, Urgot, Xin

Hybrid? - Akali, Katarina, Jax, TF

AP - Brand, Cassiopeia, Heimerdinger, Kennen, Ryze, Swain

Tank - Alistar, Amumu, Galio, Malphite, Mordekaiser, Maokai, Shen

Support - Karma, Lux, Morgana

^---- those are the champs i use regularly.... i left out any champs i dont have skins for 😛

I've been out of the game for a month or so, and having read all the patch notes I missed I'm highly disappointed and in a state of rebuilding my "stable".

Formerly I was using
AP carry- Anivia
AD carry- Sivir
Support /Twisted Treeline- Zilean
Tank/Jungle- Rammus
AD carry / support- Sion

I've pretty much dumped Zilean, Rammus and Sion now from my gameplay. Nunu who was already off my list but a longtime favorite, I stopped playing when they buffed Dragon.

Now I'm looking at focusing on Anivia and Sivir, and picking up a few other new champs to replace some of my older ones. Probably looking at using-

Jungle / AD carry- Olaf
Support / Twisted Treeline- Trundle
AP carry- Anivia
AD carry- Sivir
No tank because Riot has made it clear this game has no place for a true tank, they're too powerful. Since they are also less fun to play, I've decided to stop using them altogether. We can all play DPS squishies.

I dont own Olaf or Trundle yet. I always liked Trundle, a lot, but am hesistant to actually pick him up because he seems to be universally unpopular and I loved him on release.

One thing I'm trying to move away from on champs, are late game carries. I'm very tired of playing an amazing game personally, working very hard, then having the rest of the team not hold lanes and fall apart. I'd rather just enjoy playing a early/mid game champ and if we fail I didn't have the added stress of a 2v1 lane since no one will expect me to do it.

 

[Malak]

I've been playing a lot of Maoki lately, not sure what my favorite is though. Maoki isn't much of a killer, but he harasses easy and tanks pretty well.

 

[crownjules]

AD - Ashe, Xin, Corki
AP - Lux, Vlad (Cho)
Support - Taric, Sona
Tank - Rammus, Malphite, Cho

Those are the ones I play the best and use in ranked games. Though I haven't played Xin since the last patch so I'm gonna have to readjust to the nerfs and changes to HoG. 🙁

 

[Malak]

You know the games I lose in with ranked always comes down to the team captain. My game last night as retarded. He didn't ban Rammus for the last pick, so you'd assume as first pick he'd grab him.. but no. So the other team gets him, and of course rapes us at every turn. What does the captain grab? Malzahar. Yeah.

I keep seeing stupid bans, like Teemo. I saw the other team ban Eve once. I also don't understand the Noc ban. I have maybe died to Noc once ever.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I only play Anivia. All other champs are crap! 😛

Ok so I play also play Rammus, Heimer, Noc, Maokai and Jarvin on a regular basis.

 

[Obsoleet]

I only play Anivia. All other champs are crap! 😛

Ok so I play also play Rammus, Heimer, Noc, Maokai and Jarvin on a regular basis.

3 of those 5 are newly released champs. Riot succeeded in getting the old champs nerfed out and the new crew in.

 

[Malak]

I only play Anivia. All other champs are crap! 😛

Ok so I play also play Rammus, Heimer, Noc, Maokai and Jarvin on a regular basis.

I used to love Anivia and I'm seriously considering changing back to playing AP champs. I'd have to change all my runes though...

 

[Malak]

Fiddle + Karthus = LOL

Surprise, you are all dead!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Fiddle + Karthus = LOL

Surprise, you are all dead!

haha just flash in with karthus?


btw my ass is sore from riding my bike today, so i'm game for the rest of the night basically if anyone wants to play 😀

 

[Malak]

Got my first leave today 🙁

I played Karthus and went mid. By the time the 2nd wave of minions hit, I was at 10k ping. My internet died and I went to power cycle the modem, which fixed it. When I came back I was behind and they had lost 2 towers, which seemed odd. I knew I could catch up though because Karthus can move a lane fast, but after a few minutes and noticing a couple of comments I realized our Rammus had rage quit while I was gone and was chilling at base. Apparently he wasn't afk though, he was talking trash to our team. I asked him why he wasn't playing and he said it was because I rage quit... which is ridiculous since I had no reason to rage quit, had zero deaths and had even said in chat before I disco'd that I was lagging. He decided he wasn't going to play anymore so I just left, had better things to do and I was getting tired of the nonsense.

 

[Obsoleet]

I got a leave from an internet outage a while back. It really bothered me at first, but once you get over it, you no longer fear a net outage. 😛 I've never left on purpose, but now I'm unafraid to if frustrated enough since I have the 1 leave already.