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How to teach someone how to play LoL

TheSilentFist·9/14/2015, 1:44:13 PM·2 votes·1,314 views

Ive been playing this game for a very long time and im not the best player but I certainly know the ins and outs of this game, however in trying to teach this game to my friends Ive run into a few problems.

My friend is absolutely in love with this game ever since I introduced him to it, (has a picture of twitch as his wallpaper and everything) tho despite my best efforts its just not clicking for him, he goes 0/10/0 ( or around that) literally every game. and most of these games are bot games. even on the easy bots he can barley get a single kill. Ive given him all the info I can, explained proper builds, each game phase, team fights and proper laneing. yet nothing has helped him improve. I don't want him to get frustrated (which Im sure he is) and to be honest its incredibly frustrating for me as well. its been about a month now with no improvement.

what would you guys recommend? do you know of any good youtube tutorials I can show him? what champions should he focus on for learning? what tips should I give him? (literally anything, were talking about someone who understands the games concepts but cant seem to execute them)

7 Comments

StealthWarden9/14/2015, 2:01:25 PM1 votes

The best in world unswlolsoc

I have not seen anything paid or free out there comes anywhere near the amount of amazing that can be found here. You will probably learn something yourself.

TripNichols9/14/2015, 2:07:44 PM1 votes

So. I just started playing a few months ago and my ex taught me in a pretty annoyingly simple, but decent way.

1: He needs to pick and possibly buy a champion to "main". If it's Twitch, awesome, but if he's switching around a lot, each champ feels like you're playing a different game. It gets confusing. 2: Make him play a custom doing NOTHING but last hitting using AAs AND skills. And make sure he understands how vital it is to get items early. 3: Set a preset build that is pretty general so he can know what to buy and what order.

Those are what helped me begin getting kills.

iDiscreet9/14/2015, 2:10:27 PM1 votes

Have him watch gameplays n streams. That's how i got better . Im 1 week old and i get 5+ kills on normal mode

BattleOxe9/14/2015, 2:26:14 PM1 votes

Well, here's how I thought my friend

First of all, it's strongly recomanded for new players to pick easy champions. So, don't teach newbie how to play zed or yasuo. Teach him how to play garen, annie, sivir, amumu, ww...

Second, teach him to CS. 99,9% of new players think it's about kills. It's not. It's about CS, and you should tech him that

Third, it's much easier if he learns one chmpion at the time. Once he master him, he can pick others

Pracice, practice, pracice... I remember when my friend played like that. We played a lot of 1vs1 custom games. He will see tricks from you, he will get fammiliar with an enemy champion, he will learn how to counter-play over time

Silver Fluffenbu9/14/2015, 6:13:04 PM1 votes

it's never the entire game that just clicks it's one thing at a time.

you go from wat is ward? to warding all the time, to warding when appropriate, to dropping wards over impassible terrain to flank check

DarkLordOfToast9/14/2015, 7:06:35 PM1 votes

I'd say have him play arams as soon as he can. It greatly reduces the meta game by focusing completely on learning to dodge and safe ranges, it'll get him used to what each character can do, and the games are short so even if he's going uber negative it won't have to last for long.

easy bots don't teach you how other players can react to you they just are there to showcase the map imho.

Taric the Gay9/14/2015, 9:36:08 PM1 votes

If he's an ADC main show him Ciderhelm's orb walking/stutter stepping video. It's old but its still relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgMMxTofZ5A

Teach him proper positioning, the objective priority system and how/where to ward and their importance.

Bots teach you every role except jungle. Jungling can only be done in PvP. They teach you mechanics, split pushing and sieging turrets. They also teach you proper positioning to a certain extent because bots will instagib you the moment you are out of position. For an example see Blitzcrank bot. With the exception of Karthus bot, the bots have perfect prediction on their skill shots. This will teach dodging. Bots also have Korean-like reflexes. Play Blitzcrank against bots, try to see how many grabs you can actually hit. Their juking skills are near perfection if you don't know the proper strategy on how to land your skill shots properly.

And I actually recommend forming an initial "base" pool of champions you can play. Try to get 1 champion per role. Twitch is his 1st ADC? Get him to pick a top laner champion next. Then mid lane, then support then jungle. Some champions have multiple roles they can fill so steer him towards those ones. Champions such as Udyr, Morgana, Lulu and Swain are all straight forward in their play style and can fill multiple roles. If he is always playing new champions he will learn the game quicker and be less surprised for when he plays a PvP game since he has seen these champions before.