What mistakes did you make when you first started playing?

Hrd2H1t·Dec 5, 2016·38 votes·3,642 views

Title.

And by first starting playing, I don't mean "back when I was Bronze" or whatever. I mean what did you not know before you hit level 30.

For example:

When I first started I watched a lot of League youtubers so I didn't get THAT much wrong, but I used to think that red buff and blue buff were equal in strength to dragon. Also, whenever people said that you needed smite to get jungle items, I legit thought that it was part of a cross-promotion deal where you would get jungle items if you also had a Smite account.

152 Comments

Best Kog NADec 5, 201657 votes

My biggest mistake would be.... Creating an account. : ^)

The Poetic ZedDec 5, 201637 votes

I thought the league community was friendly. Boy did I learn quick

SnowplosionDec 5, 201627 votes

I thought you could use all abilities on towers. My first kill was when I tried to Ashe ult a tower and I hit a low health enemy in spawn.

StormDragoonDec 5, 20162 votes

Mate you are hilarious XD

The Ginger NingaDec 5, 20164 votes

For the longest time I thought Ashe's ult effected minions. As in it would hit a minion if it was in-between you and a champ. So I would not only wast my ult to try and clear minion waves, I also would make really long walks to try and get an unblocked shot.

Insanity SongDec 5, 201619 votes

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ZarvanisDec 5, 20163 votes

http://i.imgur.com/hC2SRIP.jpg?noredirect

PaladinNODec 5, 201611 votes

As Ahri, I once tried (to my defense, this was a pure reflex action - somewhere inside me, I knew it wouldn't work) to Charm a Caitlyn ult bullet.

Needed more time to get out of its way, you know...

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

kitcat300Dec 5, 201621 votes

summoner 4 "teleports your champion-"

Oh Nice._ Scrolls across map and flashes_

Wait where am I?

"-a short distance."

Oh....

Also, thought smite was a dumb spell. Why waste a slot when you can kill easily kill minions yourself. That was before I was exposed to jungling.

MelledoneusDec 5, 201611 votes

I used to think smite worked on champions. I was like, "holy moley I want that upgrade to dumb ignite."

JVP15Dec 5, 20168 votes

I know. "HOLY CRAP! 1000 TRUE DAMAGE! THAT IS NUTS!" That was me. Imagine my disappointment when I found out it didn't work on champs.

PaladinNODec 5, 20165 votes

"HOLY CRAP! 1000 TRUE DAMAGE! THAT IS NUTS!" Imagine my disappointment when I found out it didn't work on champs.

Yep, I've been there too...

Morgana mid - with Smite.

The Darius KingDec 5, 20162 votes

^ That was me once i hit 10 i took it wherever i played i went support naut with smite and flash not knowing what i was doing and surprisingly no one told me until i was around lvl 16

Xiao ZhanDec 5, 201614 votes

When I first started playing league of legends, I thought you would level each ability equally, like every level, I would put a point into a different ability, (for example, q, w, e, q, w, r, e, q, w, e) I used to do this all the time until someone told me that was not what you were supposed to do, lol. Also I thought that Flash was a useless ability because I was always like, "why would you use flash to move such a short distance on the map and have it on cooldown for so long when you could just use ghost to move around the map quickly"

President Swa1nDec 5, 20162 votes

Every word in this comment is on point.

Trias000Dec 5, 20162 votes

{quoted}

When I first started playing league of legends, I thought you would level each ability equally, like every level, I would put a point into a different ability, (for example, q, w, e, q, w, r, e, q, w, e)

I actually wonder why this doesn't work. Probably because abilities aren't well-balanced and some gain more benefits as you level them up.

zaire90Dec 5, 20162 votes

{quoted}

When I first started playing league of legends, I thought you would level each ability equally, like every level, I would put a point into a different ability, (for example, q, w, e, q, w, r, e, q, w, e) I used to do this all the time until someone told me that was not what you were supposed to do, lol. Also I thought that Flash was a useless ability because I was always like, "why would you use flash to move such a short distance on the map and have it on cooldown for so long when you could just use ghost to move around the map quickly"

Im not alone

CrazFight Dec 5, 201613 votes

I used to think there was this huge bug on teemo.... since every time i pressed E nothing would happen, so I would rage in chat about how riot's game doesn't fucking work because when i pressed E nothing would happen. Little did I know....

MarshbouyDec 5, 201612 votes

used to build ADCs defensively. I'm talking like warmogs and thornmail on twitch as my first items.

Hrd2H1tDec 5, 201643 votes

As the great tutorial tells us: "Build thornmail on Ashe"

NekoniClawsDec 5, 201611 votes

My friend's gold buddies took me into a PVP as soon as I could PVP... and I built item 3147 on Sona

Now they call me Duskblade.

MelledoneusDec 5, 20169 votes

Me playing Master Yi: "Ok, so my Q is my big damage ability. But I need more power for this ability. Hm... ability power..." item 1052

There we go!

EndlessSorcererDec 5, 20167 votes

Well, AP Yi was a legitimate build for several seasons.

MelledoneusDec 5, 20165 votes

Not in the season I started.

Echo545Dec 5, 20169 votes

I didn't know you could build smaller items into bigger ones. So I would always sit around, then 15 or 20 minutes into the game I pull a item 3089 out of nothing. ~~I also thought revive was better than flash~~

DoktorKaiserDec 5, 20168 votes

Mine is the worst one at least from what I read here. You see LOL was my first MOBA so I had no idea how to cast skills, so I used to cast them by clicking on ability icons with my mouse and then throwing them also with my mouse so I played entirely with mouse and didnt use qwer and df or god forbid smartcast :D

pro crastinat0rDec 5, 20162 votes

same boat here lol

NewGuy101Dec 5, 20168 votes

i took summoner 11 to show off that I was level 10

EndlessSorcererDec 5, 20166 votes

I started around pre-season 3.

My biggest mistake was not building four Black Cleavers on every AD champion.

PaladinNODec 5, 20162 votes

Yeah, they stacked once upon a time, didn't they?

Was before my League time, so I've only heard the rumours.

420 gramsDec 5, 20165 votes

I thought ap increased everyone's abilities better and ad did only everyone's autos.

Cap7ain Teem0Dec 5, 20164 votes

I watched lcs before i started playing so i got most of it , but i didn't understand how some spells scaled ad some scaled ap, and so I wasn't sure if a midlaner like syndra had an ap autoattack

KneelbeforezothDec 5, 20164 votes

My biggest mistake in league was never playing pvp until season 5 lol i started in season 2 hit level 30 in season 3 and just played bot games and custom games for about 3-4 years played one pvp game and it was with master yi vs kayle in the top lane i was 1-13

Those were good times thank you for this post put a smile on my face*[zombie-nunu-hearts]*

As i read the main post i saw that jungle comment about the smite thing i remember thinking to myself that you needed an expansion pack in order to jungle in the game as was my mind set coming from world of warcraft and runescape you pay to be able to experience the WHOLE game

Sozan5Dec 5, 20164 votes

I build Singed AD and commented: "He's just a much weaker version of Yi.".

Played full AP Sona mid. And when I say full, I mean it:

item 3003 item 3100 item 3089

It was back when Archangel stacked. I believe I used to have 1,3k AP or so with this build. xD

Purpl3Jungl3Dec 5, 20164 votes

I couldn't jungle because I didn't know leasges were a thing.
I didn't know why each champion had a specific lane & why it made a difference.
I couldn't build. My full build used to almost always be 8 Gems. I never build Damage on any champs.
I too thought buffs were impossible to 1v1. Till I saw a utube vid of someone doing it at lvl 2, I was so amazed lol
I didn't know what the point of lanes were; I thought if my whole team just pushed mid from the start we'd win instantly. and 6. I didn't know ADC meant AD Carry till I asked someone; till then I was playing AP bot lane all the time

KezzzaDec 5, 20163 votes

Building nothing but Stingers on Ashe because of the 50% attack speed, and being totally convinced that it was the most OP thing ever. Extreme confusion regarding the difference between AP and AD, and armour and magic resistance. Always buying spellthief's edge as my first item for the gold generation, then going straight to Nashor's Tooth and Will of the Ancients, no matter what I was playing. I don't know why. Building ridiculous trash just so I could have 40% CDR, like having one Nashor's Tooth and one Stinger on Karthus, because "40% CDR, AP and AS? What more could I possibly ask for?" Build zero defensive items. Pure glass cannon, every single time. Then I'd complain about how champions were OP because they could delete me so easily. Gee, I wonder why? Thinking Lich Bane was 100% useless on Sona, because it "only had 80 AP and a bunch of useless stats". oh boy. Hextech gunblade on Soraka. I've lost a coop game before. That was my first game on my current main. Building multiple Warmog's because I was certain that it was the best way to be tanky.

YFisfabulousBRUHDec 5, 20162 votes

i build AD/full AP soraka for the lols

Dabrick01Dec 5, 20163 votes

item 3068 on Malphite

I sat there calculating the dmg i would do per second. It was like in 250 at lvl 18.

Unique passives may not stack, but the intro bot Ezreal couldn't do shit to me.

Troll SlaiyerDec 5, 20162 votes

played on lock-screen for the longest time

ƒoesDec 5, 20162 votes

I ran into a Katarina once who had been playing Katarina almost nonstop since level 10 or so, she said she had made her account in S3 - this was S5. She had absolutely no clue what Quick Cast was.

We had to tell her what it did and noticed she wasn't using it because of how slow her combos were.

PROJECT KatarìnaDec 5, 20162 votes

buying more than one boots and attack speed on Chogath

PrimordialChaosDec 5, 20162 votes

I thought that you would keep the level of your champion when they game ends. I thought that every time you started a new game, the game was broken and it didn't save data.[zombie-brand-mindblown] [zombie-brand-facepalm]

Vicious VortexDec 5, 20162 votes

back in season 1 i used to think that true damage went through shields so when i was janna, i would never shield people who were ignited. Also, when i would play mord and he said "you only have to click once fool" I got scared because i thought he was specifically talking to me

LiungLindwurmDec 5, 20162 votes

used to flame. . . . . . .

oh wait i still do

Blades in ExileDec 5, 20161 votes

I always used to chase close to death champs way to long and fed, I cant remember the account name but I will always remember that Volibear that told me to stop chasing so far and play more conservative, even my actual brother who played the game for around a year at the time didn't help that much at the beginning.

grittedbladeDec 5, 20164 votes

you know your chasing too hard when the Volibear tells you to calm down

MilleiniaDec 5, 20161 votes

I didn't know we only get 3 refunds and spent them all in 10mins trying to get diana and cait (first champions I ever owned in the game). Have regretted that ever since

Mr NoggenfoggerDec 5, 20163 votes

Pretty sure everyone does that when they find out about refunds

EschetonDec 5, 20161 votes

I started a ranked game at level 1. Did not know ANYTHING. Got killed by cs. Fed like mad. Didn't buy anything because I didn't know it reset between games. Got yelled at A LOT. Good times?

Dabrick01Dec 5, 20164 votes

Not possible. You have to be LVL 30 to play ranked and you have to have at least 16 champs.