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Practice with purpose

Riot·1/11/2017, 12:22:53 AM·23 votes·300,758 views

Practice Tool is coming soon to League of Legends, so I wanted to take some time to focus on what it looks like and what you’ll be able to do in it. Let’s get straight into what you can expect from Practice Tool.

What is Practice Tool?

At its core, Practice Tool is a place where you can train your mechanics. It’s the training gym where you can go to brush up on your Lv1 last hitting, that early jungle gank route or your Riven mechanics. A simple, straight forward, single-player environment that lets you test out things like checking wall flash points or if you can solo dragon with a certain item build, without wasting hours in Custom Games. As League gains more and more similarities to a sport, it makes sense that there be a place where you can go to shoot hoops!

In particular, we’ve focused on the following areas for practice:

  • Champion mechanics and combos
  • Jungle practice
  • Endless last hitting
  • Item build DPS checks
  • Map familiarity (ward placement, wall flashes, etc)

Who is it for?

Everyone. Whether you’re trying to get from Diamond to Master or just want to figure out how Rumble’s ulti works, we think Practice Tool will serve a gap for you that wasn’t there until now.

What commands can I use?

We’re launching Practice Tool with the following commands. As you can imagine, there are many other commands that could be added, so we had to make some tough choices about which ones to prioritise first. Using our focus points mentioned above as a guide, we’ve aimed at enabling the basics of League that can help all players. Of course, we’ll also be listening to you guys and adding more as needed to enabling practicing whatever League throws at you in the future.

Player commands

  • Auto-refresh cooldowns
  • Auto-refresh HP
  • Auto-refresh mana (energy, rage, etc)
  • Add gold
  • Level up
  • Lock level (locks your current EXP level)
  • Teleport to target
  • Revive

Game state commands

  • Enable/Disable turrets invulnerable
  • Disable/enable turret fire
  • Disable/enable minions
  • Fast forward game time 30sec
  • Reset game
  • Spawn enemy target dummy
  • Spawn allied target dummy
  • Remove all spawned target dummies

Jungle commands

  • Respawn jungle
  • Spawn Dragon (can choose)

So what can I do with these?

Let’s get into some example practice scenarios.

Scenario 1: Endless Lv1 last hitting practice

  1. Start Practice Tool
  2. Enable turrets invulnerable
    1. This will prevent minions from accidentally taking the tower.
  3. Lock level
    1. This will prevent you from leveling up, so you can keep practicing at Lv1 damage (or whatever level you decide to lock at)
  4. After shopping, teleport to lane
    1. Why walk?
  5. Fast forward the game 90sec to get minions into the lane.
    1. Why wait?
  6. Practice endless last hitting!



Scenario 2: Early jungle clear practice

  1. Start Practice Tool
  2. After shopping, teleport to your preferred starting camp
    1. No need to walk
  3. Fast forward the game 60sec
    1. No need to wait forever for camp spawns
  4. Practice your jungle route!
  5. After a few levels, you can hit “Reset Game” and immediately try again with no loading.
    1. If you ever want to practice a specific camp, just use the “Respawn jungle” button and force them to respawn over and over.

Our development process for Practice Tool has been slightly different than the way we usually do things with other features. We’ve chosen to target getting a ‘bare-bones version’ of the tool working for you guys as soon as possible (so you can start practicing while Season 7 is still young), rather wait much longer to release something more polished but would still have very similar functionality. This means there might be a few things we missed, but that’s where we want to hear from you guys and start the process of improving the tool as we go!

Practice Tool will naturally need to update alongside League anyway, otherwise you won’t be able to practice new things that get added to the game (EG: plants are our newest addition to League so we’re obviously going to have to add them).

The doors to the Practice Tool training gym will be open soon. I’ll be around in the comments below, so feel free to ask me any questions about what you can/can’t do in Practice Tool.

793 Comments

Bosty1/11/2017, 7:04:47 PM353 votes

WOW! IT IS HAPPENING

Shíny1/11/2017, 7:10:00 PM104 votes

Teemo is already the community punching bag, did you really have to make him a literal one too?

Elemanten1/11/2017, 7:08:27 PM80 votes

Is there some way to add something to throw skill shots at you?

SuppsNeedFarmToo1/11/2017, 7:16:17 PM53 votes

Will you be able to play with your friends or is it just solo?

Korend Slicks1/11/2017, 7:51:42 PM46 votes

So are we going to be able to change runes and masteries on the fly during practice mode or do we have to exit and reenter ever time we have some crazy boosted excellent ideas about new changes to make. Will it even be possible to do such a thing in the future where you change you runes and masteries mid-practice?

Linna Excel1/11/2017, 8:15:14 PM39 votes

Question about the last hitting practice, would it be possible to get a way to keep track of the percentage of CS you are getting? That'd make it a lot easier to compare the hour I spend on day on, the twenty minutes on day two, and the forty minutes on days three and four.

Tundra Fizz1/11/2017, 8:30:00 PM30 votes

TEARS OF JOY! item 3070Fizzitem 3070

EzWari0r1/11/2017, 7:46:09 PM24 votes

This may seem odd but will this be co-operative. Me and my friends played hide and seek on the old dominion map and it was a blast. You can't play it anymore due to dominion being removed and even when you can play on it, they change how the game works so minions spawn and it messes the game up and on the current summoners rift you have a lot of the same problems. Leveling up, towers, creeps, etc. Being able to play this fun game on summoners rift while not having to run around and get xp from lanes and locking levels would make the game mode playable again and I would love for them to consider making it multiplayer if it isn't or even add hide and seek as a game mode if they could.

GarlicFries1/11/2017, 7:24:48 PM19 votes

Can we add bots, too? Or is it just a PvE environment?

High as Noon1/11/2017, 7:49:42 PM19 votes

Would there ever be a version where you can practice with friends ? Or have friends spectate live ?

Saico1/11/2017, 8:38:57 PM19 votes

Will you be able to invite friends to these practice games? Personally I like to do late game 1v1s with them and having the ability to invite friends is pleasing

Arow1/11/2017, 10:28:13 PM18 votes

Have we thought about a way to simulate leashing? This makes a big difference for some champs / rune sets when determining optimal jungling paths.

supercoolisaac1/11/2017, 7:28:39 PM17 votes

Is practice tool only for one person at a time? Would be really nice to be able to use this to get experience in specific matchups vs friends. Customs suck for that between the champ select, load times, and waiting 3 minutes for the game to start.

Patwick1/11/2017, 9:53:20 PM15 votes

I think this mode would be more interesting if another player or multiple players could connect to it.

MadHatHacker1/11/2017, 8:09:46 PM14 votes

I frequently find myself trying to help friends or others who are new to the game by coaching them in customs. Is there any functionality in the practice tool that will let me help or coach people who wish to use it to get better at the game?

If not, are there any plans to develop the kind of system that would allow people to mentor other players directly without having to be in the same room/playing hot seat? I think a lot of people have this question more or less, looking at all the "can I bring friends" comments, but I figured I'd ask anyway.

TheCharmingCharm1/11/2017, 7:42:22 PM13 votes

So with the cooldown refresh thing does that mean you have basically 100% cdr and you can spam your abilities all nice and urf style? :3

Or do you have to manually click a button to refresh your abilities

SuperAnimeGOD1/11/2017, 7:17:21 PM12 votes

YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!

Leonerdo1/11/2017, 7:23:25 PM11 votes

Are we talking a "in 1 or 2 patches" kind of soon, or a "by mid-season" kind of soon?