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Practice Tool is now live!

Riot··7 votes·95,958 views

Hey, folks!

Practice Tool is now available on updated clients, you can hop in right now to get some training on it!

We’ll be seeing if Practice Tool puts too much stress on our servers and if needed we’ll maneuver accordingly.

Want to know more about Practice Tool? Check here.

166 Comments

drwerewolf31 votes

I don't see it in the client. How do I get in?

Lauchmelder4 votes

You play on the old client? (it's the only thing that could come to mind other than trying to restart your game)

asn18144 votes

Same issue. I have the new client too.

Spideraxe5 votes

Try re logging, if it doesn't work maybe they announced it before actual turn on

drwerewolf17 votes

Up now! Under 'Training' -- Thanks Riot!

Mr Killalot14 votes

I just wish you could do it with another person. Would really help with those two man combos.

DarianY13 votes

Are you guys gonna make it so you can add friends in the practice mode in the future or just leave it as a single player mode? I really want to teach my non-level 30 friends how to play certain champs and tricks because it's boring to wait 5 mins for flash and a couple mins for ult when you teach them in custom mode.

SwiftStriker0010 votes

They are taking a different approach development-wise with the practice tool. They are releasing the tool with a minimal set of features and they will add as they go, whereas they usually just wait until all the features are in place.

For the moment it is single player only, and will be for a while, but we dont know what features will be next, only that they are taking suggestions

Tahngarthor3 votes

I think 1v1 custom games work just fine if you have an actual person to play with. If you don't, the practice tool is ideal.

drurya964 votes

To those having trouble, it is under the "training" tab after pressing play, it is not in the "create custom" tab.

FHMarshy4 votes

Hi! Just out of my own curiosity, is there plan for this to include a group of people?

I was thinking a bot lane duo trying out some combos, be it the BallistaBlitzcrank Kalista or the nami cait trap timing etc

Thanks!

YJRBqwXJcS4 votes

logs in

o boy time to practice against some characters

ahri is not a bot you can train against

thanks riot

Exate5 votes

I don't believe you can play against Ahri in Co-op vs AI either. Only some champions are programmed to be bots.

InTheSea4 votes

Are you go to put it in the Old Clients Because some people does not have the new client. So if you put it in the old one People that does not have the new clients go to be happy :D

Amasa Delano8 votes

Anyone can upgrade to the new client now. Riot has said they won't be adding new features to the old client (like Replays, for instance). New features will only get added to the new client.

UpooOnMe5 votes

Also, they've been including parts of the new client download in patches for old client users, so it won't be a terribly long wait, and there's the recently improved low-spec mode if you're worried about performance issues.

Pajama Penguin2 votes

You can't upgrade to the new client anymore. I had the new client and uninstalled for a month or two to work on applications. When I re-downloaded the game, I had the old client and haven't been able to upgrade since.

LaothenAmneter2 votes

You can download it from the old client launcher. Did it like 10 days ago for a friend.

SciFi Scrivener3 votes

Can't wait to get home from work to check this our.

Rhyleman3 votes

you should put it on the old client to, my computer screen is really small and i have to use the old one any chance?

iggyvolz6 votes

The old client is going away pretty soon (I think they said in 2-3 patches or so)... if you're not able to use the new client that's going to be a problem very soon.

FilliumWutang6 votes

I think they let you modify the resolution of the new client in the settings. Haven't checked, just what I remember.

Ardarail3 votes

How small? You can make the new client pretty small, just press Ctrl Down.

Mert3 votes

Seeing this in school made the day less tedious :D

JustPeachie3 votes

I updated to the new client, but now every time I launch it tells me an error and that I need to reinstall?

Ronald McDona1d3 votes

Wish Riot would have let it able to invight friends fun mode to play around with with friends and stuff :/item 3070

Joseph Gladstone2 votes

invight

Trash At Jynx2 votes

[slayer-jinx-unamused] can't find it

A Salty Sempai3 votes

New client, under "Training". Should be there.

Pandemic Punch2 votes

Don't see it

A Salty Sempai3 votes

New client, under "Training". Should be there.

Sherrl2 votes

Every time i try updating to the new client it crashes and makes me reinstall

BelowZero162 votes

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Kronicles2 votes

I thought there would be a leash emulator. Am I missing something? Am I suppose to use the Target Dummies for leash simulation?

Mathyew994 votes

If anything this is better, you can't always rely on a leash- and hell if you want to simulate it just smite at the start and give yourself infinite smite, easy sol.

meowwow72 votes

who needs a valentines card when we have the practice tool to do "practice" since lets face it everybody is going to go flash crazy and play ali pinball most likely :3

BelowZero162 votes

if it is out how do u get to it

A Salty Sempai3 votes

New client, under "Training". Should be there.

mlgmage9352 votes

THIS IS AWSOME [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

pikachu06662 votes

So What About Those Still Using The Old Client?

Banazîr Galbasi6 votes

IIRC, they're going to push people more to the new client in the next couple of months. They've been including bits of the new client with the past few patches to make the final download smaller, and eventually the old client will no longer be supported.

pepino5 votes

USE THE NEW ONE*[zombie-brand-facepalm]*

ArgonianFly3 votes

My computer lags when I use it and multiple times it has stopped responding when I'm in the lobby or whatever it's called so I get a time ban thing. I really just need to buy a new computer but I'm poor af. item 3070

Kylito2 votes

just set it to low spec mode under settings. i had the same problem but now the new client is useable

CheshireGame2 votes

I haven't used the Practice Tool yet, but I think (if it doesn't already have this) it should allow you to decide a build for the bot and be able to give it gold and tell it where to go, like if you want to learn how to counter an off meta build on ezreal for example.

TommyBoyFTW2 votes

Practice Tool Wishlist!!

-Adding more bots and people to practice mode This is really good and i believe most people want this available in the practice mode, this would be a great feature so you can calculate how much damage you deal with the mastery bounty hunter, Rengar stacks ect, and so you can do full build 1v1's level 1 1v1's ect. to practice different parts of the game other than just combos,this is also good for if you do like a 2 person combo ex. Yasou ult with a second person knocking up. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ALTHOUGH RIOT SAID THEY WOULD NOT BE IMPLEMENTING THIS I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD CONSIDER THIS AS MANY PEOPLE WANT THIS IDEA

-A disable crit button this would be great for someone like Tryndamere, it would be really great to see how a fight plays out without the crit interfering so you can calculate how much damage you deal if you end up with 0 crits in a level 1 all in ect. It would be really great so you can see what your least potential damage and your most potential damage is.

-Another great feature that would be nice to have is to be able to change mastery's and runes during the game, and have access to all runes during practice mode so we can check out maybe what works for us and then buy it for real games.

  • Another great feature would be to have the ability to add a little more practice dummy's, as long as it wouldn't crash or anything. ( A great addition to this would be if we could change the armor and magic resist levels of the dummy.)

This would be great so you can freeze all the waves so you can farm things with for example Sion w, Nasus q, Veigar, ect. so you can get stacks and see how much damage you deal ect. although this probably isn't healthy for the client with all the minions being in lane, So an other alternative would be to have a stacks button where you can add/max out the cap on stacks to a champion.

That's all for now although i thought up other ideas that's all i can remember for now, i think the practice tool is great and riot really did well one this one so, THANKS RIOT! but yeah, reply to this if you have any ideas and up-vote/like this if you agree with any of my ideas, thanks again, sincearly TommyBoyFTW.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

SailorOdessa2 votes

Some Suggestions:

+let players place more than 3 wards at the same time

+let players spectate/record the process

+let players downgrade the level

+let the player chose what turret should become invincible or stop firing

+apply Fast-Forward to the champion as well, if he's moving to a certain destination before you click the option

+make Back-Forward

I've tried it just once so far and I really liked it, but those things would improve it a lot imo.

[slayer-jinx-catface]

BelowZero161 votes

I don't see it where would it be?????

Enyav5 votes

click on "Tutorial", It should be in there.

Banazîr Galbasi7 votes

I feel like we bots shouldn't be promoting how to use this system...

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