League Of Legends || Help me with buying || #ImSoNew

ChampionBossFTW·Jul 21, 2016·1 votes·711 views

Hey everyone, I am new to League Of Legends and wanted to ask a few questions about buying to improve in-game and make sure I am not wasting any gold.

When you are buying components that go into an item, do you have to purchase the actuall item itself aswell? Is there an in-game difference between buying all of the components for an item and buying just the main item without the components? Excluding the fact that you won't have to wait longer to save up enough gold to purchase the item.

That is it for now, I will be adding questions to this discussion as I think of them, thank you!

8 Comments

QuantumPantherJul 21, 20161 votes

-yes, you still need to purchase the actual item

-buying components vs the actual item full out is usually about 2 main things: pushing a lane advantage or keeping up in a lane and the game. For example, as an ADC, if you farm well (and it's very important that you farm well in this game) and get a gold advantage in the lane, you can buy a stronger item than your lane opponent and continue to push them in and put pressure on them. On the other hand, if you are being dominated in lane, you need to buy what damage you can get to be able to contribute somewhat meaningfully to a fight. If the jungler comes to gank for you, you want to be able to contribute something to that skirmish, and having a Pickaxe is gonna be better than just having a Doran's because you're waiting on the gold for an Infinity Edge.

Sidenote: when buying components for items, you want to prioritize differently for different types of champions. Rule of thumb for me has always been buy the largest components first. they usually have the most damage (those are the 1300 gold items for Attack Damage and 1250 gold for Ability Power)

GLHF and I hope this helped

redfeenixJul 21, 20161 votes

Add me friend, I'd like to play with you. It's easier to teach throughout the game as I can see how you're playing and offer advice on positioning, mechanics decision making etc.

Cheers welcome to League, I recommend always playing with premades :)

ChampionBossFTWJul 23, 20161 votes

Yeah, thanks for offering the help, I will be sure to add you! =D What is your summoner name? Is it 'redfeenix'? I have added a user by that but I want to make sure it's you. Thanks

redfeenixJul 23, 20161 votes

Yes just drop me a msg, I might've accepted you already

CubíxJul 21, 20161 votes

So when you purchase an item, the items that build into something lower the full price. Lets take the sunfire cape item 3068 as an example.

The total item cost of Sunfire is 2900 gold, but it builds from bami cinder item 3751 and a chain vest item 1031 , so if you were to purchase bami's cinder , which cost 1100 gold, it would drop the price of sunfire cape to 1800 gold when you purchase it. Basically the item cost a few items + gold.

ex: item 1031 + item 3751 + 1000 gold= item 3068 , which is the same as 2900 gold.

HyperiönJul 21, 20161 votes

Normally, you should never sit on more than 1500ish gold, that is kind of the rule of thumb. Unless you a pushing objectives, or completing an item. Sitting on gold is a very bad thing to do, because it takes away any lead you might have over your opponent.

KiharonJul 21, 20161 votes

In terms of total gold spent, there is no difference between buying the components of an item and then buying the finished product or just buying the finished product from nothing.

You do have to purchase the completed item at some point. Buying all the components does not automatically grant you the completed item. Some items have the exact same components (boots being the prime example), so it wouldn't really work to have an automatic upgrade like that. You will also notice that the total price is greater than the sum of the prices of the components. This additional cost is referred to as either the combine cost or recipe cost on various sites and in the patch notes.

Remember that when you buy a finished item, any components you have in your inventory will be removed. This means that if you want to buy another item using the same component, you will have to buy the component again. For example item 3031 item 3508 item 3072 all have item 1038 as one of their components. If you want to have all three of those finshied items in your inventory, you will have to buy three BF swords along the way. You do not have to explicitly buy each of the individual components of every item you want. If you have enough money to buy a completed item, the game will effectively "buy" the components for you and instantly combine them into the bigger item. This becomes very relevant later in the game as your inventory starts to fill up and you would not have room to hold each of the components while you are building the item.

As a side note, items being removed from your inventory is different from you selling an item. Selling an item does not give the full gold cost back, but the full gold cost of an item is counted against the total cost of an item, as Cujix explained in his answer. Do NOT sell a component when you are ready to combine it into something bigger.

There is one major advantage of buying component items along the way to a finished product. You can get some of the stat boosts now and get the rest later. So if you want an item 3031 but are back on the fountain with only 1300 gold, go ahead and buy a item 1038 and get 40 AD now and upgrade to Infinity Edge when you get another 2300 gold to get the rest of the 70 AD + 20% crit chance + 50% crit damage.

This advantage does come with one possible downside. You can only hold so many items, so if you start building components for several different finished items, you may run out of space and have to accumulate a large amount of gold before you can continue upgrading. In the end, you will have the same stats for the same total gold, but along the way, you will have a period of time where you are weaker because you have a lot of unspent gold that is providing you no bonuses yet.

ChampionBossFTWJul 23, 20161 votes

The forums for League of Legends are honestly amazing!

Thank you all for the glamorous support you have given me, I will be adding questions to this discussion over time, let's see if we can keep up all of the magical support. Thank you all so much!