League of Legends New Player's Guide: Part 1, Page 1
Hello everybody! I'm Umbral Regent, and over the course of the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing out a New Player's Guide to League of Legends, with the intent to help new players integrate into the game and community. And, to start things off, I'm going to have the first couple of posts go over what will be Part 1 of the Guide:
#Navigating the League of Legends Client
This will be broken up into several pages, covering each of the features of the Client; Home, Profile, Collection, Loot, Store, Social, and Play. This Guide will be written with the assumption that players are already well-aware of how logging into the Client works, as well as using the features in the Window Corner (Close, Settings, Help, and Minimize).
Now, onto Page 1 Proper:
#The Home Page
This is the Client Home Page. You'll be brought here every time you log in to the Client, and from here you can play the game, navigate to other pages in the Client, or view what's on the Home Page.
This is the Main Post. Usually, the Main Post will highlight certain posts, pages, or videos that Riot wishes players to see. In this case, it's Honor Explained, a video detailing the recently reworked Honor System, released in Patch 7.13 (7.12 for those in the Oceania Server)
These posts are other News, which include posts or videos detailing new things happening in League of Legends or the Community. Clicking on these posts will take you to their respective web page in your default browser, where you can see the posts or videos in full.
This small section can contain either another News post, though it's often reserved for new Skins released recently, as is the case with SKT T1 ZAC and SKT T1 Nami. Clicking on these skins or other new content will take you to their page in the Client's Store, which I'll cover in a later post. Speaking of...
These are the navigation sections for both the Client as a whole (above; Home, Profile, Collection, Loot & Store), and the navigation section for the given page of the Client you're on. (below; Overview, News, Patch Notes)
You can click any navigation button to peruse the Client, but for now, I'm going to focus on the Home Page, including wrapping up the Overview, and moving on to News and Patch Notes. You may also notice a button above the main post on the Overview page:
This button leads you to the Free Champion Rotation of a given week, which displays what Champions are free to play for a limited time. However, I will cover more details about that later, when I talk about the Collection Page. Moving on...
This is the News Page. Outside of the few News posts on the Overview page, the News Page contains many more recent posts from Riot regarding the game, its development, community, and many other cool things. You can click on the various posts to open up their pages and view the full details, or you can click the See All News link at the bottom right (illustrated below) to go to the League of Legends website's News List page.
And this is the Patch Notes page. Here, you'll see all the information about League of Legends' most recent update, including balance changes, bugfixes, upcoming skins or Champion releases, and even small changes like splash art updates or icon changes. The Summary (above) gives the gist of the most important balance changes in the patch, usually summarized in a casual fashion by the team members of Riot cited.
The Table of Contents (below) shows a uniform list of the Patch Notes' contents, which you can click on any of the contents names (Champions, Items, Bugfixes, etc.) to make the page auto-scroll to the content you want to see.
And, also, to show what a set of small balance changes look like in the Client's Patch Notes, here's an example showcasing changes to Maokai, the Twisted Treant, which include Health, Ultimate Range, and Ultimate Cooldown buffs.
And that wraps up today's guide on navigating the League of Legends Client's Home Page! If I missed anything, or if anyone has any questions, feel free to speak up in the comments, and feel free to check out Page 2, The Profile Page too! Thank you all for reading, and I hope new players find this guide helpful!
