[center]League of Legends thread[/center]
So what’s this game all about?
League of Legends is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA for short) based on the original DoTA mod of Warcraft 3. The standard game mode is played in teams of five. You pick one champion out of 131 possible choices with the objective of destroying the enemy Nexus. The game is completely free to play. As you play more games, you earn in-game currency called Influence Points (IP for short) which can be used to unlock champions or Runes (more on these later). You can also buy another currency with real money called Riot Points (RP for short), which is mostly used to unlock cosmetics such as skins for champions or wards, but can also be used to unlock champions. Generally, RP does not have a direct effect on in-game performance. In fact, you can play League of Legends without spending a single dollar on RP and buying everything with IP.
There is also a levelling system where you go from level 1 to level 30. This system is tied to your summoner account and is not directly related to in-game champion levels, which are essentially instance-based. As you finish more games, you gain more experience. Gaining more levels gives you access to an extra Mastery Point, which can be used to augment your champion further.
Levelling up does not just grant you access to more mastery points; it also gives you more room to put runes in your rune pages. Runes are similar to masteries in that they are customisable augmentations that you can apply to your champion. Unlike masteries, however, you will not be able to change your runepages in champion select, so you will need to decide on the runes you might need for the next game. Also, runes cost IP, while masteries do not cost any currency at all.
Once you hit level 30, you can start queueing for Ranked games. First you play 10 placement games for the system to get a rough estimate on your skill level, then you get placed into a specific tier and you can start climbing your way up to higher tiers. At the end of the season, you get special rewards based on your end-of-season tier.
There is, of course, a lot more to League of Legends, but this is somewhat beyond the scope of this introductory post. Decent resources to learn the game are streams or official LCS (League Championship Series) games.
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Taliyah has been released! Click here for the champion spotlight.
Click here to join in the IRC channel
Unfortunately, the IRC channel is a bit dead since the regulars moved on with their lives. If I’m around, I’d be happy to join in on any League related discussion in #LoL, and if enough people stay around, the channel can pick up in terms of activity a bit more.
Haven’t played a game past the tutorials.
