Ever since the first video games on the earliest computers, gaming has become one of the most popular pastimes in the world. Gone are the days when gaming was perceived to be limited and anti-social. Today, organized leagues and professional players can be found anywhere, and e-sports events are enjoyed either through streams or live in-person at big sporting venues.
League of Legends is regarded as the world’s most famous Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game, with multiple leagues, tournaments, and players.
The goal of this guide is to give you some great tips which can help you feel confident entering the world of LoL, and which can ultimately help you progress towards becoming a League of Legends master. So strap yourself into your gaming chair, and let’s get started.
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Summoner’s Rift
A standard game of League is played in 5 vs. 5 formats and the battlefield is a two-sided map split by a river called Summoner’s Rift. The experts at GooseSmurfs.com explain that each of the players controls a single character, known as a champion and who fights across three lanes and an expansive jungle that holds major neutral objectives and powerful buffs. The goal of each team is to defend their own structures and destroy the opposing team’s structures simultaneously.
Each structure has multiple turrets and waves of minions that constantly spawn from each base’s Nexus (the core of the base) and proceed through the three lanes (top, mid & bot). These turrets are there to guard each lane from the enemy’s champions and the attacks of their minions. Summoners must destroy all the turrets in at least one lane, and then destroy the last two towers that protect a Nexus, before finally being able to attack and destroy it.
Champion Basics
With a total number of about 150, champions are the heart and soul of League of Legends and are divided into several categories based on the damage type that they deal with. Physical damage, magic damage, both with the ability to emphasize on one of them or even “true” immitigable damage. Therefore, different combinations of champions chosen by the 10 players can create vastly different rhythms and feels for the game.
They all start at level 1 with just one active ability and then get stronger as the battle goes on, accumulating experience and gold along the way while accessing and upgrading new available abilities in the process.
Gold will be rewarded to the players for slaying minions, destroying structures or killing their enemy’s champions, and can be used to purchase items at the fountain’s shop. This gives them the flexibility in their stats and styles, such as more damage, survivability, or another utility that fits their needs.
However, choosing the right champion for yourself is not an easy task, but with certain understandings of your style, abilities, the different champions’ biographies, and the help of champion filtering from the game, it should not take long for you to get used to the flow of things.
Objectives
In League of Legends, everything the players do is with the intention of destroying the enemy’s Nexus, and there are multiple objectives around the map that can assist you towards achieving that goal. As the battles go on, pressure on each team will be intensified and certain objectives will be aimed at for advantages.
As a result, the locations where the dragon and other powerful monsters (such as Barron Nashor) spawn are the key points in generating battles, since the side which manages to kill the monsters are rewarded with buff advantages that will often be beneficial when going on the offensive.
Understanding the competitive nature of the game, teams will do anything to make sure that they have the edge over their opponents, especially in terms of the champions (which are usually the carry, mid-laner & top laner/off-laner). With higher level champions and better items to purchase, the odds of winning the whole battle increase significantly.
The only way to get better at League of Legends is through practice which will enable you to improve your technical skills (such as last hitting and kiting), and your knowledge of the game (with regard to meta, counter picks, synergies, and map awareness).
Regardless of League of Legends being team-based gameplay, any individual can change the entire course of a match. With all the information and resources out there, the time is now to begin your own League of Legends journey, an adventure that is full of excitement and fun and can be incredibly rewarding if you put in the necessary practice.
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