.....An-OP-ness OVERLOAD? A Rune and Masteries

Runes and Masteries represent what you can do outside of a game of League of Legends to improve your chances to win inside of the game itself. See, they allow you to improve a champion's strengths or reduce their weaknesses. There are a variety of Runes and Masteries, and they give a wide range of effects. There are four categories of Runes:

• Marks - Marks usually give offensive boosts such as armor penetration and increased attack damage. If you find a non-offensive Mark, it is probably a secondary Rune and thus will have a reduced effect.
• Seals - Seals usually give defensive boosts such as bonus armor/level or bonus flat armor. If you find a non-defensive Seal, it is probably a secondary Rune and thus will have a reduced effect.
• Glyphs - Glyphs usually give magic-based boosts such as mana regen/level. If you find a glyph that's non-magic, it is probably a secondary Rune and thus will have a reduced effect.
• Quintessences - The best type of rune, but the rarest as well. At Level 30 you can have up to 9 Marks, Seals and Glyphs on a rune page, but you are only allowed 3 Quintessences. There are a few effects that are only obtainable on a Quintessences, but there are also other effects shared with the other three types of Runes. It's up to you to find which Quintessences are best for your limited slots.

All runes cost Influence Points, so you better start saving!
Masteries should be familiar to anyone who has played a roleplaying or action roleplaying videogame in recent years, as they involve skill trees. Basically, you have a trio of skill trees (Offense, Defense and Utility). On level-up, you get one Mastery Point to allocate in any of the trees. Depending on the tree in question, you can improve your offensive abilities, your defensive abilities, or some miscellaneous abilities. You don't have to worry about ruining your account, as you can reset your mastery points at any time to change up. In fact, you will want a variety of mastery pages for different champions. For example, a champion meant to take punishment would receive greater benefit from the defensive skill tree than from the offensive skill tree.

Play to Win

Influence Points are the virtual currency that you can obtain by playing games of League of Legends. Win or lose, you get IP. As you would expect, you get more Influence Points for a win than for a loss. You can use Influence Points to purchase all sorts of goodies in the Riot Store, accessible right from the main menu of your LoL client. Influence Points are good for just about everything in the store, and for the few things they are not, you'll need Riot Points (see the sidebar for an explanation on Riot Points).
As a new player, you may be tempted to spend all of your IP on your favorite champions. I can sympathize with that urge, but try to fight it. Influence Points are the only way to purchase Runes, which will strengthen your champion builds at higher levels. While Runes are rarely used below Level 20, once you hit that golden level, you will be at a disadvantage against people who saved up in the interim.
Estimates say that you can look forward to accumulating around 15,000 IP or so by the time you reach Level 20, and that is more than enough Influence Points for you to fill up a Rune Page.
I'll talk about Runes and Masteries in the next section.

Your Character Pick

When you start playing League of Legends, you will first play a pair of tutorial battles to introduce you to the gameplay. The first one is played on a special map called The Proving Grounds and you control Ashe, the Frost Archer. The second one is played on Summoner's Rift, which is the main map of League of Legends, and you get to choose from Ashe, Ryze, or Garen.
Having played that pair of battles, you may be biased towards one of the three champions you got to play. Completing the second tutorial battle gives you nearly 500 Influence Points (IP, for short), which will allow you to get one of the nine champions in the Riot Store that cost 450 IP. Garen, at 1350 IP, is out of your reach until you play a few more games.
For most players, I'd recommend Ashe, as she has a very easy skillset to learn, but she has a lot of potential when utilized by more experienced players. My first purchased champion was Kayle, but she requires a little more technique to utilize effectively, as her skillset has both offensive and defensive abilities.
In summary, Ashe is a good champion to start out your roster.
I'll give some general gameplay tips near the end of this hub, but now I'll be talking about several other things that new players should learn about.

Understanding the TEAM COMPOSITION

The biggest mistake I see newbies make is picking one or two champions and always playing them. These are the people you see get into a queue and lock in within the first five seconds. My favorite games are those in which I see someone decide “I’m going Ashe, I’m taking the middle, and anyone who has a problem with it can blow me.” Don’t be that guy; I don’t want to have to come to your house and rip your throat out. As much as you may love playing Warwick in a game with 4 other junglers, if your team needs a tank, you should play a tank (remember, the rest of your team sucks too much to do it).

Full Tank

As a tank, when the fight is starting, you get to be the first one to run in (with fingers crossed that you don’t die instantly). You also get to be the last one to leave when retreating (you’re just so lucky, getting to be in all the safe positions). But best of all, if you play a tank, you too can know the joy of being completely dependant on items without getting any signifigant number of player kills! The most important thing to remember is that you don’t do a lot of damage; damage is highly overrated (real men don’t need to do damage). Your first priority is to protect the squishie babies on your team. Do this well, and you will always win.

Off Tank
As an off-tank, you’ll either go in right before the tank or right after the tank depending on your team if your team knows how to initiate. If the opposite team is smart, you will most likely know the joy that is being targeted by everyone instantaneously. As for your role, you should always be the person going for the squishiest enemy. A successful off tank will scare the shit out of them, and make them run for their mommies.

Carry
I have never seen a term in any game that is more misused than “carry” in League of Legends. This is unfortunate because a well played carry is key to victory. So let me be completely clear here: a carry is a champion who focuses on increasing their auto-attack damage as much as possible. You aren’t some loser who relies on cooldowns to kill things. You are the king of dealing damage (a good carry will try to get his team to treat him like royalty). Not only do you deal more damage than all the other noobs on your team, you can sustain it for as long as the fight lasts. Towers cower at the mention of your name. A few examples of this role are Ashe, Master Yi, and Tryndamere.

Mages are the magic version of the carry. They do lots of damage through their abilities. You aren’t some loser who has to use auto attacks to do damage over time. As a mage, you put out burst damage to kill the enemy before they even know what hit them. Since you rely on your abilities, your job is to get in, blow all your cooldowns, and get out. Because mages focus so much on their abilities, each one plays very differently. Eve has to manage stealth, Anivia has to manage her wall (as well as dealing with the menal stresses of being a giant damn bird), Annie has to manage her pyromania, and Ryze… well… just don’t play Ryze, ok? Mages excel by stacking magic penetration and lots of ability power. If the enemy is stacking magic resist, chances are you’re doing your job well. Other magi you need to know are Kogmaw, Fiddlesticks, and Vladimir.

Support
Support is the most varied type of champion. Your teammates may be idiots, but if you play a support champ well, they can be powerful tools. Support focuses on buffing your allies, and annoying your enemies. Some have heals, some have auras, some have CC. Play a support, and you’re pretty much like Santa Claus. You make your team smile and be glad that you’re on their side. You bring joy to all the little boys and girls all around the world. Who hasn’t been jungling and not doing as well as they should when you suddenly get healed by Soraka? It’s those kinds of moments that make support so great to have. A few examples of support champions are Soraka, Morgana, and Blitzcrank

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Make Friends

Random queueing can have its benefits. For example, when you lose in a random team, it’s never your fault. It’s either your team’s fault, lag’s fault, or shitty balance. But as long as you are playing with a random team, there is never EVER anything that you could have done that may have helped your team.

On the other hand, random teams suck. Most teams you join in this way will have at least one person who’s a leaver, a feeder, or some other form of terrible player (of course, everyone except you and I are terrible). Regardless of what anyone might tell you, you can win even with a terrible team. I’ve personally turned a game around when I had 1 player afk for half the game, 2 players who just fed, and a jungler who died to the golem 3 times. Given the odds of random team compositions, the other team probably sucks just as bad. Regardless, you don’t want to be stuck in these games forever.

Even someone as absolutely amazing as I am can’t always win a game alone. As much as it may pain you to think of playing with others, if you want to become halfway decent at LoL, you need players you work well with. When you find a player who doesn’t suck (you may have to lower the bar on that definition), add them to your friends list. I also suggest finding a mod that renames friends list to either “plebs” or “tools”. This is also key. Remember that you are not playing with friends or teammates, you’re playing with tools. A means to an end who sucks slightly more than you do.

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Hi! This is my first post in this blog, I hope that you will continue to follow this blog and enjoy it! Hope this will help you.

Hi! This is my first post in this blog, I hope that you will continue to follow this blog and enjoy it! Hope this will help you.