Basic guide about LoL

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Beginner Tactics

Welcome to the Beginner Tactics article. This article should help familiarize you with the basic tenets of League of Legends.

Champion Types

Roles – There are 5 main types of champions: Tank, Support, Mage, DPS, and Jungle. While “Jungle” is not an official tag, playing champions who excel at clearing out the jungle monsters can be just as important as playing your team’s Mage.

Tanks – Tanks specialize in two main traits: Absorbing damage, and distracting enemies. Often, this distraction can come in the form of disabling or “crowd-controlling” (CC) enemy champions. Alistar is an exceptional tank: Pulverize stuns nearby enemies for 2 second. His ultimate, Unbreakable Will, significantly reduces damage he takes for a short time.

Support – Support champions are focused on improving teammates. They can accomplish this feat through a variety of means: Replenishing mana or health, increasing movement or attack speed, shielding teammates from taking damage or getting CC’d, and more. Soraka has four support abilities: Passively, she increases her teammates’ magic resistance by 16. Astral Blessing heals a target and temporarily increases its armor; Infuse replenishes the mana of a friendly target, or silences an enemy; her ultimate, Wish, instantly heals all friendly champions for a significant amount of health.

Mages – Mages excel in dealing instant magic damage through various spells and also typically possess some minor CC effects of their own. Take Annie for example: Disintegrate, Incinerate, and Summon Tibbers together can deal over 1000 damage instantly when cast in sequence. Her passive, Energize, allows her to stun targets with her spells every few casts.

DPS – DPS, short for “Damage Per Second” are targeted at dealing extremely high, persistent physical damage to enemies. One common characteristic of a DPS champion is what’s called a “steroid” ability, which significantly multiplies a champion’s physical damage output. Master Yi has two such abilities: Wuju Style, which significantly increases his damage per attack; and Highlander, which gives him extremely fast attack speed, movement speed, and makes him immune to slows, allowing him to pursue his targets more easily.

Junglers – Junglers will also embody some of the above traits, but are also adept at taking out neutral monsters with no outside help. Typically these champions have a way to heal themselves or deal extremely high damage very quickly. Warwick is an excellent jungler: His passive, Eternal Thirst, heals him with every attack he makes; Hungering Strike deals significant damage to a single enemy and heals him for an equal amount.

Choosing a Champion

Complementing your Team – A winning team contains champions from all walks of life. Many players love playing “carry” (DPS) champions. Summoners who enjoy the playstyles of tanks or support champions are much rarer. Winning a game can be as simple as picking champions complementary to your team!

Possible Team Composition – Here’s a sample, well-rounded team composition: Alistar (tank), Annie (mage), Ashe (DPS, carry), Soraka (support), Warwick (jungle, DPS)

Items

Shop Interface – One of the key components of League of Legends is the purchase of items. Every champion comes complete with “Recommended Items” located at the top right of the shop. Following these items will leave you with a strong balance of your most important stats.

Starting Items – Purchasing some form of mana or health regeneration is extremely important. The first recommended item typically contains a relevant form of regeneration.

Building Towards your Role – Every stat has multiple complements: Attack damage, critical chance, and attack speed all work together to increase your overall damage output. Simiarly, armor and magic resistance increase the worth of your health stat. Mages can employ ability power, cooldown reduction, magic penetration, and more to increase their power. Experiment with stats that work well with your favorite champions!

React to your Enemy – As you get more familiar with the champions and items, you should try to build items to counter your opponents. Executioner’s Calling is strong against healers. Last Whisper and Void Staff are aimed at defeating enemies with heavy armor and magic resist, respectively. Madred’s Bloodrazor and Deathfire Grasp work best against enemies with more health than normal.

Key Items – There are a few extremely efficient items that will always support your team or always benefit your role: Aegis of the Legion is an exceptional tank or support item. Stark’s Fervor will significantly buff a friendly physical DPS champion. Infinity Edge is never a bad idea on any physical damage champion. Rod of Ages or Zhonya’s Ring should make an appearance on most mages in the game.

Map objectives

Turrets – Turrets give gold and experience to the entire team when they’re killed. Quickly pushing and destroying turrets will give your team a significant advantage in levels and items. Additionally, it leaves your enemies more exposed and easily attacked with less protection.

Inhibitors and Super Minions – After destroying 3 turrets in a lane the inhibitor will be vulnerable. Killing the inhibitor will spawn “Super Minions” for your team in that lane. They will continue to spawn with every minion wave until the inhibitor respawns a few minutes later. Super minions are remarkably durable and deal very heavy damage.

Kill the Nexus – Once you have broken past an inhibitor, 2 more turrets protect the nexus. Destroying the nexus will win you the game instantly!

Epic Monsters – Fields of Justice also contain various non-vital objectives: Epic monsters. Upon killing them, these monsters will give your champion a temporary buff, award your team gold and experience, or both!

Lanes

What is a Lane? – Minions, turrets, and inhibitors are situated in various “Lanes” in League of Legends. Minions follow a pre-determined path down these lanes, which are dotted with turrets of increasing power down the lane.

Travel Between Lanes – While minions stick to one lane all game, you should always be looking for the best place to fight! You can easily transition between the various lanes via the river running through the middle of the map, or through the twisting pathways in the jungle. Don’t worry: Monsters in the jungle will not attack you until you attack them.

Minion Spawns – Starting at 1 minute and 30 seconds into the game, minions will spawn in each of the lanes and head to the enemy base. On Summoner’s Rift, further waves spawn every 30 seconds. On Twisted Treeline, they spawn every 35 seconds. Every third wave will also see a “siege” minion spawned, who excels at absorbing damage from enemy turrets.

Turrets – Three turrets per team dot each lane. Two more turrets also protect the nexus. Normally, these turrets restrict your ability to push forward and kill the enemy champions or vital structures. Grouping together as a team will allow you to push these turrets down more quickly.

Objectives in the Lane – There are 3 main objectives while in the lane. First, deal the killing blow on enemy minions. While simply being near a dying enemy minion will award you experience, you gain bonus gold for directly dealing the killing blow on them. Second, you should try to kill the enemy champions. This feat won’t always be easy, but if you work with a teammate – especially with the help of slowing or stunning spells – you should be able to gain some extra gold and experience for killing your opponents. Third, you should also try to push down the enemy turrets. Certain champions like Sivir, Nasus, and Heimerdinger really excel at killing droves of minions quickly and attacking turrets.

Jungle

Organization – In most cases, the jungle is completely non-random. Epic monsters always spawn in the same locations and always give the same bonuses These images denote the location of the various epic and normal monsters across the Fields of Justice.

Buff Acquisition – Not every champion can easily defeat epic monsters on their own. Some players like to acquire buffs as a team-wide activity at the very start of the game. Others, like Warwick, can comfortably destroy and entire epic monster camp at level 1. Others may want to employ the summoner spell Smite, which is aimed specifically at destroying minions and monsters quickly.

Playing as a Jungler – As a jungling champion, you should be able to quickly acquire epic monster buffs to accelerate your monster killing. Using these buffs, you may find that ganking (attacking enemies from behind, unannounced) enemy champions will be both easy and profitable.


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