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Outside the box way to learn league of legends.

slôw·7/9/2015, 3:21:07 AM·4 votes·809 views

This is a guide, a guide for learning League of Legends in a way that will hopefully make more sense and be more direct and easy to comprehend for a new player. The goal of this is to AVOID as much KNOWLEDGE requirement as possible. Meaning I want to get away from "evelynn does this so you need to do this" I want to go to the side of what your goals are, and how to learn to reach them, and abuse everything possible to get to them.

I'll kinda be approaching what I feel is the most interactive and fun way to play the game. Aggressively. So aggressive that if your opponent messes up, you know EXACTLY how to completely abuse and take them out of the game consistently, and pretty brutally. You may die, you may get caught, fuck up, thats PERFECTLY OKAY! The more aggressive you are the better you will get at it, if you die and analyze why you can find out how to not die there, or where your limits are, this is the goal.

Take example the season 4 champion DanDy:

His playstyle is brutally efficient, every mistake is exploited. He checks where his opponent starts, and abuses everything possible on his opponent and uses that to make his advantages that much better. Most players would just take the advantage, instead of looking to make that advantage slightly better, and taking the "risk" (not really a risk because we learned our limits!)

We want to be like DanDy, we want to make people ragequit, call our champion bullshit, and flame their teammates. When that Yi level 2 ganks mid, we want to abuse his decision by understanding basic and overlapping concepts:

If hes mid, I'll always be close to him, he made a mistake by ganking mid first, because I'll ALWAYS be there no matter where I started. *Time to counter gank easily because we are there *His gank failed, he's dead, my mid laner is ahead. Hes dead, so its free to take his other buff, and ward the one he started because we WILL be stronger than him no matter what now, meaning we can abuse him further for FREE. *Kill him at his 3rd buff, take more of his jungle, take drag, everything.

This is how you play jungle brutally and it takes much longer to be truly incredible at it, but obviously holds a lot more benefit than playing passive and never taking the risk to learn where you can't do what.

This approach is akin to learning the shape of a room (your limits) by closing your eyes and feeling the edges, rather than just walking around in it (most people).

DONT BE AFRAID TO TRY THINGS.

Recently, my friend who is learning jungle, hes silver IV, I told him that the enemy isn't starting blue and their top laner isn't watching it because I checked with wards (playing aggressively).

He didn't want to try it because its outside the comfort zone. But I convinced him he might as well try.

He ended up 3 buffing the enemy jungler, taking 2 dragons in a row, controlling all the vision in enemy jungle without competition and getting super fed on MAOKAI JUNGLE (low damage.) and we won the game. Because he might as well try.

SO LETS GET STARTED!

Lets learn some fundamental strategical thinking revolving around efficiency and snowballing.

> League is a game of investment. Everything you do has the goal of contributing to your snowball. Every second you sit in your lane getting gold is invested into yourself, every time you spend time to help a teammate, you invested in your teammate. If your teammate isn't going to be worth the investment, either invest in someone else or invest in yourself. If this means you are in jungle, if you think you can carry, then get yourself gold by farming. If support, start roaming. Top lane, start farming. Mid lane, start invading.

This is the snowball game. Invest in whoever gives you the highest chances of winning.** The goal is to learn who this is, when you need to do it, and how you can do it most efficiently, along with protecting the investment and using it.**

Taking this thought process, lets imagine some scenarios. Support: Your ADC is missing CS, and obviously doesn't play ADC very much. You are playing Annie. Annie is great at roaming. Lets roam mid lane to invest in our mid laner because he's doing a great job!

or:

We can be pansies and sit in lane, lose opportunities, and get nothing out of it because this ADC is ass. Still going to blame our teammates, because they should have carried me, I'm the support!

Lesson: Learn to take ACTION, if your jungler isn't keeping track of dragon, then do it for him, ping him and tell him when its up soon, ward around it, clear vision, problem solved.

I'll probably update this later and fill it more.

TODO:

  1. Aggressive Jungling
  2. Aggressive Mid Lane
  3. Aggressive Supporting
  4. Aggressive Top Lane ADC doesn't apply easily, so I won't.

6 Comments

Shynkle7/9/2015, 3:28:30 AM1 votes

Man oh man I wish somebody had told me this from the start. My friends who brought me into the game taught me nothing, and made PvP sound like it was only for the best. Like, winning a PvP game in my neighborhood was talked about for the whole day. Hell, they thought I was a god cause I got 4 kills on my first PvP game. But, point is, this is a great guide for people who, like me, didn't have people to teach them what to do. I didn't actually learn to play the game until I found ANOTHER group of friends who taught me what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. So yeah. This is some good shit.

Nicorus 7/9/2015, 4:17:55 AM1 votes

map awareness is great, that's important. playing aggressive isn't always the best course of action dependent on your team composition. this is most applicable in bot lane and junglers. if your support is Janna, that is a stall lane and designed not to win lane, but to allow your adc to farm up ridiculously. which in turn wins you lane. I would say more importantly than playing aggressive is to understand your champ, and their role in the game. there are the standard tanks and marksmen but their are sub categories such as split pushers and healing supports vs poke supports, off meta supports, etc. Is playing aggressive important, absolutely. is it good to try new things, yeah its a game, have fun. however knowing when to go all in early game is more important than playing aggressive. while there are good pointers and insights in this thread, playing highly aggressive in lane early game puts in a position where you are easily ganked.

Galewings7/9/2015, 7:32:05 AM1 votes

Great thread man. I'm one of those that pretty much had to learn on their own with no one to teach them. I'm still a bad player, but I know I'm better than I was months ago.

This game is really, really bad at teaching you how to play. The tutorial is garbage and that is pretty much all you get. The rest either someone else teaches you or good luck learning.