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League of Legends 101

SirGoldenTaco·2/3/2015, 4:21:26 PM·4 votes·3,815 views

Easy rules to win at League of Legends:

1- Learn to fill Being able to play any positions is a great way to be able to win any games.

2- Mute annoying players Talking = Less playing = Less farming/Killing = Falling behind = Losing

3- Don't play unsafe (Going too deep, chasing too far, etc) Better to be safe than feeding!~

4- Know your limits Don't go in the enemy jungle alone if there is no wards, don't go 1v3, don't go 1v1 if you have no vision (It's a tarp)

5- Pings and wards (Do it and buy them) It's a team game, you're not alone, let them know something is going on. Get at least 1 wards every 3 min. (Buy a ward save a life) It's not the support's job to ward the map you have a part in this too~

6- Disable all-chat (Trust me it helps) Don't talk to them... Just don't... Look at rule #2... Nuff' said.

7- Play more draft or ARAM In my book: Draft>Normals simply because there is no fighting over positions and ARAM is a great way to play multiple champions! (Knowing how champions work can make you able to fight against them better)

8- Before going in rank (or even normal) make sure that you are in a good mood! Going into a match with a frown on your face has almost never a good ending... GG@20 Play you are happy, and if you lose more than 2 games in a row... just stop for the day (or if it's morning stop until after-noon)

9- Build to fight the game, not your lane It's important to know that if you are going against an AP that you might not want to go full MR because the enemy team might have 4 AD and 1 AP, know what you are building.

10- Don't leave & Don't be Toxic Leaving matches is a bad thing you can do to you're team and to yourself but being toxic is the worst thing you could do, why? -Losing the game -Bad mood afterwards -Being reported -Losing more games -And many more side-effects

Follow these simple rules and you should be fine to become better at LoL~ Good Luck & Have Fun!

9 Comments

RiotRiot Renders2/4/2015, 12:55:07 AM2 votes

I like the syllabus, however, I'd suggest to engage in constructive communication first and foremost. Be adaptable and have humility. It's a social team game at its core, and your games will benefit from communicating more. Shutting players out entirely may end up causing more harm to your game than good - last resort kind of stuff.

You capture a lot of the essence that makes the game a good time - the social atmosphere, your familiarity with the game, and the strategies that can level up how you interact with the game and others.

Lately I've been spending as much time playing the games with friends and using a voice chat. Helps a LOT with learning the game.

Aaron Cerulian2/5/2015, 10:59:30 PM2 votes

Loving the rules that my friend is finally implementing, allot of people can learn from them, myself included. But knowing this guy for the past,id say about 12 year, i'd never expect something like this from him, League of Legends is kind of a 2 sided blade when it comes to it. We've had our bad moments of rage as a group and what not but i think that most of all we learned to work as a team from school to league,things only got better. Hopefully it only gets better from here on and alot of other gamers can learn from these rules and have ourselves a better community for it.

EnderForHegemon2/6/2015, 2:56:19 AM2 votes

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3- Don't play unsafe (Going too deep, chasing too far, etc) Better to be safe than feeding!~

4- Know your limits Don't go in the enemy jungle alone if there is no wards, don't go 1v3, don't go 1v1 if you have no vision (It's a tarp)

This is so horribly backwards and contradictory that it hurts my eyes.

I'll start off by saying that I agree that feeding is basically a bad thing, and that you should try to avoid it, but I don't like these rules at all. "Better to be safe than feeding" is the opposite of how to learn the game.

Know your limits.

This is very good advice, and needs to be tested on and pushed every single game. If you never overreach, by definition you have never reached your full potential. you must push beyond what you think might be your limits in order to properly get better and understand the game. If you spend every game sitting comfortably below your perceived limit, you may not feed, but you will not get the full satisfaction, impact, or fun or playing to potential. Constantly you need to make educated guesses about your limits, then weigh the risk/reward of them working out. This is done at every level of the game. Pros constantly overreach, even in LCS games and at the World Championships. Every baron throw, every miscalculated all-in or skillshot. These are not bad things. These are people trying to play to maximum potential.

Sometimes playing the game properly, or efficiently, or even in a way that is fun is inherently unsafe, and I argue that new palyers need to learn this more than anyone else. Pain is a teacher that no one will ignore, and going 0/9/3 on a midlaner is a powerful lesson that will make you better at the game if you look at what happened with a critical eye. GO for the catch when you see it, don't hesitate. TRY to burst down a dragon when they're slightly out of position. Either you'll get it or you won't, and either way you'll learn something about the game. PRESS for that level two advantage against a scary lane that might outscale you.

Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!

HadesHellfire2/3/2015, 4:40:05 PM1 votes

i really like this post, it has said some things i do need to get better at like playing safe, but this is a great post.

i really like the learn to fill and ARAM areas because my friends will main one champion too much and then when they don't get their role they want they feed and i keep telling them to expand their champion pool but they don't want to. i actually played a lot of ARAMs so i could learn the champions.

pretty much the same thing with the learn to fill thing. i understand that supporting isn't always the most fun role, but if you learn to do the role well it can be fun.

But here's a tip for people that rage a lot and are toxic, if i ever get mad at someone, i'll go into chat, type out what they did to piss me off and insult them, then click escape and don't send the message. it really works.

Nybx4life2/3/2015, 5:54:14 PM1 votes

I suggest more playing draft than ARAM. While ARAM is great for learning champs and how to use them in team fights, draft is where it's at; allowing the player to learn the champ AND the role simultaneously.

Mr Slowdeath2/4/2015, 4:14:16 AM1 votes

"9- Build to fight the game, not your lane"

The way you explain this is correct, but the way you've summarized it can be misleading. It's more like:

"9- Build to fight your lane, then the game"