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Looking for good learning materials for beginners

BajungaDustin·3/29/2017, 5:42:59 PM·1 votes·365 views

My brother just installed league of legends for the first time yesterday.

After one match against bots he was like.. I got this.. I have it figured out now.. Lol..

He is in for a rude awakening.

So my brother Is of the mindset that he needs to kill everything. Based on his personality I don't see him playing anything but assassins and high damage ADC.

And based on more of what I know about his personality he is probably going to rage when he keeps getting killed because he is going to be the guy that sees half a health bar and dives under a tower every time cause he will be like "I got this"

So rather than have him realize how far under the learning curve he is and rage quitting when he gets in games with real players I want to flood him with tutorial videos. He said he won't play unless he is playing with me.. Which means I have 4 days to teach him as much out of game as I can.

So I'm looking for good tutorial videos that you guys have found (focused mostly on laning phases and general information than on any one specific character)

Also looking for advice.. Ive never "trained" anyone other than my son.. But he picked up this game faster than anyone I have ever seen and he is only 11.. And now plays fairly well and got his first penta the other day with Jinx in a live match after only a month of pkaying (dad goals amiright?)

I also want to know if it is against the rules to spectate him and give him advice while he is playing (non ranked) as long as I don't give him knowledge about enemy locations that I have access to that he wouldn't in game.. Things like that.

Any advice would be helpful.

5 Comments

BajungaDustin3/29/2017, 6:27:44 PM2 votes

You guys are awesome thank you

Titanium703/29/2017, 5:51:46 PM1 votes

Well no comments yet - but I guess most would recommend streamers and YT tutorials. While somewhat usefull - I don't like them.

Which is why I state: There is none. League has no working tutorials or what so ever.

Let him play - let him loose, and than if he has the compeditive thinking wanting to get better, he will - if not Leauge isn't really his genre and it doesn't matter anyways.

TheHappyReaperz3/29/2017, 5:55:09 PM1 votes

Try getting him to play someone like Kassadin or Nasus. Their weak early game encourages a player to focus more on not dying, instead of going ham 24/7. In terms of tutorial videos, Foxdrop and Phylol to pretty good guides. BrickyOrchid8 does specific champion guides, which could be useful. For the little things, like CS, warding, map awareness, that's stuff you can tell him about, but its something he's going to have to learn on his own.

LostFr0st3/29/2017, 5:59:07 PM1 votes

This is the new-player guide for League http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/new-player-guide#/?_k=nbftno

Of course I don't expect you to hand it to him, but I found it's a good reference to use to make sure I didn't overlook stuff when teaching someone the game.

Until you think for sure he loves the game and it "clicks" it may backfire to flood him with tutorials. He might just get bored; he needs a love of the game first then he'll start digging himself and you'll be there for him.

For role breakdown I'd take a look at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEKKT2W3WVKGjmPz3f1VOGA/featured

This youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/user/ScrapComputer has decent vids on laning, but they are fairly long for what your after.

These vids are on lane control; you might need them later when they understand the jungler coming for their @she https://www.youtube.com/user/jackspektra/videos

As a side note, try to find a way to make minions important. That's probably the #1 thing new players just don't get. Minions can wreck face when aggro'd and they're worth a big chunk of gold.

freeloader253/29/2017, 6:03:31 PM1 votes

on youtube or other websites i only looked for tutorials when i felt that i missed specific information for something. like wave control and so on. i prefer let people play and figure most things out for themselves, but if that is not an option:

you can watch games with him (low elo most likely) and just analyse why people die. what mistakes lead to them dying? imo in the early levels the most important thing is not to outplay and kill enemies with sick mechanics, but learning how to avoid basic mistakes. leave lane when youre low, dont dive when youre not sure you can kill the enemy, dont go for farm that will lead to you losing 50% of hp. maybe if he saw enough of those mistakes from other players he will be more likely to accept them as mistakes as if he did them himself.