Things you did in your first game.

Xilann·1/10/2016, 6:39:23 PM·8 votes·1,577 views

Hi I was just wanting to know what were some mistakes you made in your very first few games, and I don't mean a misclick or a bad play, I mean intentional things that you thought made you better at the game. To better explain I will start.

In my very first few games I thought the /Stealth/ ward was a ward that provided a fog of war, to put it simply I thought it was a ward that emitted a Miniature Nocturne Ult in the area surrounding the ward, so if i was ever destroying an inhibitor i would pop down three /Stealth/ wards then proceed to wonder how the enemy saw me coming as I was spawning back at base. item 3070 Amumu item 3070 Because of that, the Summoner spell Revive became A standard part of my load-out because Flash _Clearly _ was a waste of a spell slot........right?........item 3070Amumu item 3070

So tell me about some of your first matches and misconceptions I always laugh at my past naivety in the game of League so I figure I might enjoy yours as well.

Much Laughs and Many Fun, Xilann Xi

66 Comments

kétchùp chìps1/10/2016, 7:14:52 PM9 votes

All summoner 4 does is displace my champion a few feet? USELESS.

Buying item 2003 at the start (or at all, even) is a waste of gold; I need to save up for items yo.

Thought Jax ult active was a damage buffer for quite a while.

A replicated item build every single game.

Ahristocats1/10/2016, 8:36:08 PM5 votes

used to buy 2 mobility boot to be faster on mordekaiser

in 2010 he was the slowest champ with fiddle

Vesarixx1/10/2016, 7:03:31 PM5 votes

Not muting the ADC as soon as the game started, before level 30 it seems like every ADC has that mentality to blame the team while thinking they're perfect.

Swerzz1/10/2016, 10:06:30 PM3 votes

Lets see...

Took me a while to figure out that the tower kills you while attacking an enemy took me even more time to figure out how to get under tower safely

Thought AD items made every one better, Didn't know how AP worked.

Thought you could jungle without summoner 11

Why buy starting items? i'm now almost 500 gold closer to a full item.

That you could buy items that build into bigger items.

Learning the terms, "What do you mean Gank? What's a Gank?

More boots = MORE SPEED

If you had a sword, you build items that had a sword for an icon. You had a bow, hope you like bow items. "Why would i buy IE on Caitlyn, she doesn't use swords"

Nami doesn't have feet, can i still buy boots?

summoner 13

Regardless of the item, Higher cost = BEST ITEM IN THE GAME

Falling for "Press D to dance"

Thought thornmail was good on Ashe (Thanks LOL tutorial)

Solo dragon = i could solo baron

I refunded master yi thinking he was to expensive and a waste.

Chasing Singed

My Personal favorite So for the first couple weeks, i played by myself while learning the game. Then i started to play with some friends from school. So every time that we were in a game, someone would tell me to use my "Ult". Every time they said this, i hit my "Alt" key. It, legit, took me a month to figure out what they meant when they said ult.

"Hey you finally used your Ult" "Alt?? You mean the R Key ability" "...."

FioraWillCarry1/10/2016, 6:49:53 PM3 votes

I once built only attack speed items on Garen because I thought his auto attacks were way too slow.

I used to use auto attacks as my primary means to fight while weaving in one spell once in a while. It was because I believed spells were too valuable to spam endlessly, especially... gasp*...using two spells in a row. lmao. I wouldn't be caught dead doing a combo because I thought it was wasteful.

Maximum Morde1/11/2016, 2:24:49 PM3 votes

I had fun.

LSmaster161/10/2016, 8:00:15 PM3 votes

Very first game? Ashe with thornmail Also, I used to think that smite could be used on champions and that vayne was bad since only one of her abilities does damage.

Crossette1/10/2016, 7:05:19 PM3 votes

I mained Lux then realized it was a dick move.

It still is.

DU Baymax1/11/2016, 5:53:19 AM2 votes

a long, long time ago I would consistently build anivia with items like phantom dancer and infinity edge, and when I did poorly I thought I just sucked at anivia

spoilers - ANIVIA IS NOT AN AD CARRY xD

Also I thought that it was cheaper to buy items all at once instead of in pieces, so I'd say up enough money to buy items like infinity edge without buying individual pieces first.

Also, I would never buy starting items because I wanted to save the gold and thought starting items were nearly useless.

oh and I feel horrible about this now, but one time a longgggg time ago I was like level 14 and surprisingly this was the first time I'd found myself going top lane solo with a jungler on our team instead of a duo top lane. I was against a duo top, and I was so pissed at the jungler. I thought he was trolling me, I flamed him and got so mad at him.

I feel so bad about that now I was such a freaking retard, but I never really did a whole lot of paying attention to top lane (I mostly went bot lane back in those days) so it was legitimately the first time I had ever been top lane solo.

FioraWillCarry1/10/2016, 7:20:39 PM2 votes

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All summoner 4 does is displace my champion a few feet? USELESS.

LOL yea. I used to think the same thing too. I used to run only TP and heal every game in every lane on every champ, even well after hitting level 30 and even when I started ranking.

Also: All summoner 14 does is take a little bit of health from an enemy champion ? USELESS.

lol fond memories......

Bard Rock1/10/2016, 11:42:11 PM2 votes

I remember playing Teemo bot lane alot. my build would look a little somthing like this item 3078 item 3078 item 3078 item 3009 item 3009 item 3009.

Chibi Templar1/11/2016, 2:44:32 AM2 votes

Pre-season 1 superstar. First item built on Ashe was item 3046. I'm gonna gank this Warwick/Alistar lane by coming from behind, we'll pincer them in and get a kill! I thought Volley damaged structures. I thought Enchanted Crystal Arrow damaged structures.

Yeah.

LadyRenly1/11/2016, 2:58:58 AM2 votes

I was never good at killing champions, but I took pride in being able to kill minions, as though they are an enemy to be defeated rather than just a means to farm

I had no concept of lanes, I just went wherever someone told me to when the game already started. All I knew was "The enemy Nexus must die" so I would try to skirt my way through the jungle and "infiltrate" the nexus but got so mad because I always got caught in the jungle and died on my infiltration missions at the start of the game

I sat on my money until I had enough for a full item because I didn't want to "waste" gold on inferior, weaker items

trash sion1/11/2016, 4:50:45 AM2 votes

Bought Shaco because this guy in my precalc class said he was good, refunded him because I thought he was ass.

Questioned anyone who brought ignite because it was only a bit more damage.

Built IE, Triforce, etc. on Garen because more expensive = better

Same build every game

Brought smite in lane, took me days to realize smite didnt work on champions

Didn't know what calling a lane meant and just roamed the map killing a few creeps here and there

No idea what ability power was until level 25 or so because I played almost exclusively Yi and Garen. (Yes i built AD annie a few times)

Attempted to kill dragon at level 1

Attempted to kill baron as soon as it spawned

Datomix1/11/2016, 5:37:54 AM2 votes

Garen mid

Bought Wriggle's Lantern for Yi top. Surprisingly, I won quite a lot with this and didn't know why they were saying smurf

Thought duo top>jungle... (it may still be viable)

Took heal and smite to jungle for the longest time and was not good at using flash

Health and mana pots were gold sinks

MANY PHANTOM DANCERS (bought like 4 for Fiora this one game)

Bought both AD and AP items to balance the champion

Melledoneus1/11/2016, 8:12:54 AM2 votes

Never completed a full item, and I thought that "Ability Power" applied to all abilities. I thought, "hey, so I buy this book and my Alpha Strike does more damage!"

The bots never minded.

Catastrop1/11/2016, 1:18:25 PM2 votes

I built Sunfire on everyone thinking, "It's free damage for just standing near my enemies, plus it gives armour and health, that's like so OP." I like everyone, tried Smiting champions. Refunded Ashe....sigh, such a stupid child. Lost a total of five times to Beginner Bots and 20 to Intermediate Bots. Built Ionic Spark on every champion just because it looked cool. I also didn't have much grasp on lanes, so I ended doing weird stuff like Fiddlesticks top or Taric mid. Using summoner 12 to get faster to lane. summoner 13 summoner 7 Supporting is easy.

Who Fed Ahri1/11/2016, 1:23:04 PM2 votes

I once hawk shotted my enemy trying to damage them. I died that game.

Weathered1/11/2016, 2:19:08 PM2 votes

These are just general misconceptions I had. Jax E apparently stuns. Took me a while to find out why the enemy kept stopping. Amumu Bandages are in fact, not a tongue. I still call in a tongue. MasterYi is not a botlaner. Took me a while of being frustrated that the enemy kept thinking I was worth a 2v1 because I was playing an OP character or something. summoner 14 Doesn't stack damage with other ignites. item 3085 is melee only. I was told by someone to stack attack speed on Yi so I just built two of these because they (used to) give the most attack speed. ^ passives stack Thought AD items ONLY increase aa dmg and AP items ALWAYS increase all abilities dmg.

THERE IS AN UNDO BUTTON IN THE SHOP

Colgate Gator1/11/2016, 4:03:34 PM2 votes

Not my first game per se, but I remember that the first Champion I ever played was Vayne and I liked her, but the week ended and so did her free week, so I picked Morgana and figured I'd put AD on her as well, seemed like a good idea at the time.

Jugales1/11/2016, 4:58:05 PM2 votes

I didn't use abilities because I didn't think they were important. After buying items I thought I had to equip them because I didn't see the item visually on my character. I bought 3 of the same boots because I thought I moved too slow. It took me 15 games to get a kill against beginner bots.

Blumpkin Nation1/11/2016, 8:16:44 AM1 votes

Bought melee items on Sivir lol.

Kan Eh Dien1/11/2016, 11:50:26 AM1 votes

The amount of game I played Fiddlestick without leaving my jungle or backing to buy items because I tought the jungler role was just to hit max level asap by farming the jungle camps. Now I learned you just don't play Fiddlestick :(

Randomonium1/11/2016, 11:54:25 AM1 votes

Refused to buy any of the sword items on Ashe because she's an archer and why would she need a sword?

IsmokeOregano1/11/2016, 3:56:04 PM1 votes

I was SO NAIVE back in the day that i actually bought tier 1 (and yes i admit) tier 2 runes as well.

forresto1/12/2016, 7:21:09 AM1 votes

didnt understand how champs worked so i bought a bunch of ad on ryze cause i wanted more damage. how far I've come XD

Lovely Pants1/11/2016, 1:41:57 PM1 votes

Stacking Madred's Bloodrazor on Kassadin because attack speed was the best offensive stat on everyone.

One of the very first guides I read said you should pick summoner 11 on Alistar to help you kill minions in lane. (This was before the duo support/adc meta had been established in a big way, to slightly lessen the levels of awfulness that advice would be today.) A couple of my more knowledgeable teammates raged at me and convinced me never to do that again, but I'll have you know I totally won my lane and the game. Of course, newborn summoners are easily convinced to ride Alistar's headbutt back under the opposing turret.

ADepressedLeona1/11/2016, 3:37:36 AM1 votes

I built AD Kat...

She had swords, I instantly thought Attack Damage lols

Ackelope1/11/2016, 2:08:31 PM1 votes

I built Statikk Shiv and Seeker's Armguard every game, on every champion. I don't remember exactly why I thought it worked, but I did...

XIII Vanitas1/11/2016, 4:52:52 PM1 votes

I bought more than 1 pair of boots on Chogath because I felt slow af.

Athenes Lulu1/11/2016, 5:44:21 AM1 votes

Fed the beginner MF bot.

She was 12/0 at one point.

Dead Echo1/10/2016, 9:30:15 PM1 votes

Trying to chase low health champions and not realizing I didn't have my E active on. Warwick

arcinex1/11/2016, 6:10:48 AM1 votes

Using flash/ghost to get out of fountain quicker. Thinking smite could be cast on champions for the damage it did to minions/monsters. Buying hydra on Kog'Maw

Losing games that could have been won easily: One of my first games of league: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1680221462/226866899?tab=overview

AgentBlack1/11/2016, 6:32:56 AM1 votes

First Champ was Twitch. Thought throwing a W and instantly E was the perfect poke. What's oom?

Rossendale1/10/2016, 7:23:29 PM1 votes

Back when I was still a noob, I didn't understand the concept of how some champions are better in particular scenarios than others. I found it unfair that I could not 1 vs 1 Tryndamere as Amumu