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I can't play League of Legends.

Beachdude67·3/9/2015, 6:47:45 PM·2 votes·1,600 views

I'm not sure why, but the game is just too difficult.

It might just be me, but the game appears to expect that

players understand the mechanics of every single champion in the game
players spend long hours on champions in practice games learning to last hit
spend hours watching videos of pros playing
somehow track 10 people at once in a chaotic melee while it goes on, and target one specific person in the middle while standing on top of 3 other pixels

...and my list goes on.

To make matters worse, new champions seem to be released with ever more complicated abilities. Kalista, for instance, seems to require that the support understand her abilities even if he hasn't purchased the champion. If you don't research it and someone picks Kalista and expects you to support, plan on getting raged at.

I'm a casual player and I don't have time for all of the stuff that riot apparently expects of players. And it's too bad because while I'm completely horrendous at this game, I have a lot of time and effort wrapped up in it and I do like to play.

12 Comments

Drunk Rummate3/9/2015, 6:50:09 PM6 votes

Join me in ARAMs my friend, where nobody cares how good you are, how much you know, or whether you can last hit.

Join me in ARAMs and truly enjoy yourself. ARAMs are where the real game is, Summoners Rift is just that wonky competitive thing that people play to solve their testosterone overload.

OhOkYea3/9/2015, 6:54:14 PM3 votes

target one specific person in the middle while standing on top of 3 other pixels

Don't worry. If you target the wrong person, the other 4 people on your team will be there to motivate you by telling you how much you suck.

Señor Karthus3/9/2015, 7:00:45 PM1 votes

ARAM is good for new players because it is random and crazy and the skill gap gets reduced. There is a lot of 5v5 teamfights tho, but at least it will provide you chances to try new champions (because you will be stuck with them like it or not) and the more champions you play with, the better you will be able to play against. I understand how it can be really overwhelming at the beginning. I still don't totally know how all the skills of every champion work. I usually just look it up in the wiki if I have doubts or I am facing a particular one that I don't know much in my lane. Game after game, experience after experience, you learn what every champion usually does and get better at fighting them or fighting with them.

MasterofSFL3/9/2015, 7:22:33 PM1 votes

I see just a lot of complaining here for no real reason.

You can learn every champions Basic setup in ~60 minutes (http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/League_of_Legends_Wiki)
Last hitting is essential to the game, you can't last hit, you can't get gold. (You're complaining about playing the game at that point)
No.
How is this different from any other game?

As I said, this is just a post filled with complaining for no real reason, you are in every essence going at length to tell us that you want to play this game, but you don't actually WANT to play this game. If you claim casual status, that's still not an excuse, the game has plenty of modes (Bots, Dominion, ARAM) that are easier to digest and give you a ton of experience and knowledge from just playing them. The League Wiki solves every issue of "Not knowing" you can possibly imagine. Riot releases AND LINKS videos in their Client under the Champion's Profile Page, allowing you to know exactly what they can do.

That's just laziness, not casual. Listen to these folks, play ARAM if your concern is about the Floor being too high.

Killstrado3/9/2015, 7:57:43 PM1 votes

Mobas are hard to get used to but if you think it takes that much then I'd hate to see how you would handle Vanilla World of Warcraft 40 man Ragnaros fight

DrCyanide3/9/2015, 8:29:25 PM1 votes

Thankfully I'm on the other side of the learning curve now, but I agree that the game is not noob friendly.

Riot continues to leave it that way by making the Death Recap inaccurate and hard to access at early levels (you die, it's available for 2 seconds, then it's gone. Hope you've got a photographic memory). If the Death Recap worked, then you'd at least have a better way of learning how to go against foes.

I think you're 100% right about Riot expecting you to watch videos of others playing the game in order to understand it, and don't think that's the right approach.

BlazinHot63/9/2015, 9:37:39 PM1 votes

A lot of these systems have been staples of the RTS genre for 20 years now. Last hitting is new, and thats not something that comes overnight. There are tricks to learn with them. Thats the whole point for the grind to level 30 is so you can get a good understanding of it all. If I thought you were going to stick around, Id try to steer you towards some guides. It takes about 3 months to get an account to level 30, and a little research per week plus the play time. You should at least not be a FNG by that point.

bad arcade kitty3/9/2015, 11:13:31 PM1 votes

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players understand the mechanics of every single champion in the game

not really, you just should remember that if it's flashy and flies to you it will hurt and possibly slow/stun. i recently returned after a long hiatus and could play not knowing what those new champions do, the only problem it was when kalista ulted me and i dashed into the wall, lol. well, i still lost a lot of games since i completely lost all mechanics

players spend long hours on champions in practice games learning to last hit

are you going to care about numbers, i mean ranked rating, which will give you nothing if you are not the very top? if not, don't bother

spend hours watching videos of pros playing

only if you like stream chat, it may be amusing

somehow track 10 people at once in a chaotic melee while it goes on, and target one specific person in the middle while standing on top of 3 other pixels

heh, i recall that old macro with a dog who says that despite years in lol he still doesn't get what's going on in a teamfight