Going to be fun seeing the game alongside the perspective of a fresh pair of eyes
What advice should I give him?
He said he stumbled upon some vids suggesting nocturne as a good champ for newbies.
He described nocturne as a snake like creature. Ah the good times of being a newbie..
First time I got karthus ulted I thought the light was the game celebrating me for doing something awesome and then...dead lol
Tell him to buy thornmail on Ashe until he figures it out.
He shall feel what we felt
You should advise him to uninstall.
Best advice you can give him is to remember to have fun because at the end of the day league is a game.
Unpopular opinion, start off in aram. Me and my younger brother were absolute dogshit even after some bot matches, so rather than try to learn all of SR at once we just spammed aram. We learned more about champs that way and since it was basically a death match our mechanical ability shot up real quick. Completely alone, aram is not great for learning, but with someone else you can cover for each other.
make him play these champs their all easy champs for a reason and 1 for each lane advice for hi/her will be stay away from the enemy and kill minions Top: Garen JG: Master Yi Mid: Annie Support: janna adc: ashe
Push through and ignore the toxicity in lower elo/level. Don't let the toxicity get to you
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Nocturne was my first champion too but I didn't know how to jungle and jungle is a bit of a hard position to start with. I started with Sona support and that was super easy to get the hang of. Support and ADC are usually the best to start someone new off on because then you can duo with them in lane and teach them things and give them advice while being right there with them. I always love bringing new people to this game but I always feel that there's a huge learning curve! Good luck to your friend
start him out on an easy champ to teach him the basics, then try to get him to pick a champ that interests him.
i always tell new friends to pick the champ that looks coolest to them. whether it be based off abilities or pure looks. i dont like the idea of pushing "easy" champs on people, because 95% of people will be able to learn any champ with enough games played. i mean, almost all champs now are skillshot based. better get them used to skillshots early
Win lane, win game, or don't and quit.
Tell him to stop playing immediately and move on to something better!
OK, for a serious answer if he really wants to start:
should be a good roster list for him to choose from and start getting to know the roles, see what he likes (Most of them are also pretty cheap for BE or RP).I played Tryndamere and always vertical jungled because I thought the other's team blue WAS my blue LOL so define jungle sides as well because I didn't watch anything about League. Just dove right in.
quit
I think the best advice you can give to anyone that's new to League is to tell them to expect to be bad at it for a long time.
A lot of my friends who I've tried to get into League have become so overwhelmed and insecure about how terrible they are at the game.
Explain to them that the vast majority of this game is knowledge. Knowing all the champions, their rotations, their power spikes, where they go in any particular meta, which ones are useful in any given meta, how to manage waves, when to roam for objectives, when to expect a jungler to be on your side of the map, etc... and you can't get that knowledge without putting in the hours.
Miss Fortune is great to learn on, or a mage like Lux or Morgana. Jungle is a hard role but learn on champs like Rammus, and Amumu
I remember the 'Get Jinxed' music video is what got me to try League. Login Screen was when Sion's rework just came out. I was like, "Oh my gosh, this login is scary, I don't wanna face him!" lol good times!
Tell him to mute all from the start. Introduce him to the magic of the ward and how to check the minimap since that was one of the last things I learned and yet is the most important.
I personally learned a lot from watching the pro scene and analyzing why they did what they did and how it works (not blindly following), so you could suggest that or watching high elo streamers to get an idea of what's going on in the game once he masters the basics.
Best advice you can give him is to remember to have fun because at the end of the day league is a game.
This too! Start him on the steps to League Enlightenment early.
Jungles one of the most difficult roles to start with. I'd suggest telling him to experiment with mid or support. In my opinion, those are the easiest roles for someone new to try.
Just have fun, give him a few easy champs and ignore toxicity
ask if they like to click a lot or have a more passive approach. If they like passive then take malz or urgot. If they like to click a lot give them yasuo or an ADC.
Play support and make him play a simple adc, not ashe though considering her tricky ult and E.
Best champs for him are probably cailtyn, jinx and twitch. All of them are mostly auto attack based champions with simple spells.
Dont try to team him too much though. Just take him through basic last hitting and warding. Also dont carry him through every game, make him have to work for the win.
I would tell him to try a variety of champs. I only played one when i was new because i knew what he did. now i have 900k mastery on said champ and 40k on next highest because hes the only one I can play well. So yeah i wish i had tried more stuff
Ive had a few friends join me in league but none of them ended up sticking with it. One thing to remind them is that they won't be great just starting out, that it takes a long time to really get good at the game (mainly runes, items, abilities usage/dodging, and to let them know that they will get better and everyone starts out bad. Also I recommend sticking with one champion to learn the game, try out a few pick one in the role you like and stick with them for a bit.
Tell him/her to disable team and all chat. The game will suddenly be a completely wonderful experience with no toxicity ruining it. That's honestly the best move if you want to keep your friend playing the game.
Xin Zhao is a good starter champion for the jungle. He's very straightforward with a clear win condition of jump on enemy and knock them up.
I've gotta say though, I think Annie is the best champion to learn the game on. You can learn to CS with Q. You can also learn about windows of strength/vulnerability when your stun is ready. I think there are lots of good things to learn by playing Annie
