League of legends

RichardRahl

So I noticed a few people on the forums dicussing LoL, i'm kind of tired of solo queing up with people and then getting pissed when people feed, ks or don't call MIA's and get ganked when solo midding. So, I propose that anyone who wants to play that has skype or a usable vent add me :) skype name is s.lavallee summoner name is reapercdn89

lolfighter

Our discussion was about how newbie-unfriendly LoL is though. It seems like you're asking for veteran players who will never ever make a mistake (or at least never admit it and just blame someone else instead).

puzl

Haven't you got the memo? being good at a game is a character flaw!

lolfighter

I don't understand where you're going with that.

RichardRahl

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no, mistakes are fine, but when I posted that I just got out of a game where in the span of 5 minutes was ganked 3 times by top lanes guys because they didn't call mias.

Talesin

Again, one of the easiest ways to get a bit more slack if you're a newbie is to /tell/ people you're a newbie. If you make a mistake, expect people to explain things you might already know (call MIAs, don't overextend in your lane until you get decent, don't melee as a ranged character). Most new players I've seen don't *warn* people that they're new until halfway through the game, or even at the end. At which point it comes across as an excuse by a regular player who just got sloppy and played badly.

And I'm Talesin du Noc there.

lolfighter

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That's the problem though. I have no idea what that even means.

Talesin

<b>Gank</b>- When multiple unexpected opponents surprise-attack a single player, usually from the brush or cloaking for those champs who can do so.
<b>Call MIA</b>- 'Missing in action'. When the opponents normally fighting in your lane go missing, most likely to gank another lane, you're expected to warn your teammates in chat that they're no longer present (ie: 'top MIA', 'bot MIA'). MIA normally isn't called when you score a kill on one, unless they take an unusually long time to return to the lane, due to the on-death penalty time waiting to respawn.
<b>Baiting</b>- A champ pretending to overextend or put themselves into a bad position, to tempt you into range for others hiding nearby and set you up for a gank, or to flank you to prevent escape during the gank.

So in that case, whoever was fighting in the top lane didn't warn anyone when they suddenly were facing no enemy champs, who had gone off to gang up and kill Richard.
Calling MIA gives the others on your team warning that they may need to fall back/play more conservatively or carefully, increasing their chances of running away without dying if they're the one the enemy group is targetting to gang up on.

This may not help if the enemy has a jungler (doesn't stay in a lane, fights the neutral monsters in the 'jungle' areas between the lanes) who has abilities which lend themselves well to surprise-attacks (Warwick is an excellent example of this, as is Twitch, and to a lesser degree Evelyn and Amumu). As they're never in a lane, effectively everyone on your team needs to be watching for them to show up at the worst possible moment.

Again, announce that you're a newbie at the beginning of the match, and if you don't know what someone is telling you to do, ask. Most times, people will explain. It's quite rare to have an entire team of unhelpful jerks who will just blame you for losing, without being willing to explain what you SHOULD be doing.

Temphage

wat

RichardRahl

Thanks tale, I was coming to post that the other day but apperently the mods accidentally removed my posting rights when they were revoking rights from spam bots rofl, had to send in an email to say "ey what the hell bro?" got an apology this morning :P back to posting wee....

Kouji_San

<!--quoteo(post=1862791:date=Jul 23 2011, 07:22 PM:name=RichardRahl)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RichardRahl @ Jul 23 2011, 07:22 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1862791"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Thanks tale, I was coming to post that the other day but apperently the mods accidentally removed my posting rights when they were revoking rights from spam bots rofl, had to send in an email to say "ey what the hell bro?" got an apology this morning :P back to posting wee....<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
BAN THE SPAM BOT... oh wait, you seem to resort to spamming their emails now? Carry on!

RichardRahl

<!--quoteo(post=1862894:date=Jul 23 2011, 09:14 PM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kouji_San @ Jul 23 2011, 09:14 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1862894"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->BAN THE SPAM BOT... oh wait, you seem to resort to spamming their emails now? Carry on!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

hahaha, yeah my emails are always spammed the to hell by bots -_-