Yesterday I played two more matches with Ashe and won, therefore the five are complete.
So for 13.5 levels I have played Ashe almost exclusively. Right now I think she will remain my favourite but you never know.
I will now start playing Caitlyn until I know her well.
Right now I am watching videos on her game play, mostly with commentary so I understand the choices made. I like to be AD carry so I will try to do that with Caitlyn as well.
In general I found that the best matches are those where the team just works together and doesn't chat or curse the whole time. I like those most. You can just play and you know that your team will be there if you need them, and your team knows that you will be there when needed.
Haven't had too many of those but yesterday, one of the matches was exactly like that. It felt really good playing with that team.
As I am a moron, I did not add any of them to my list...
One thing I find highly annoying: "ks! fuck you, noob!"
I admit that some people might do it on purpose but I doubt that the majority of players is running around just trying to killsteal.
I will share the situation when I got this line:
A team"mate" being ganked.
I reach him as he is down to about 80 or so health. The two enemies who did the gank are both on about 500 health. I am Ashe, well fed, well built. I kill both enemies, my team"mate" does not die and our team gets the kills.
I don't care WHO did the kills, just as happy if someone else would have done them. But my team mate did not die, the enemy did.
I did not killsteal! I saved your ass, sucker!
Monday, July 30, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Five wins and runes
As I am getting better with Ashe I decided to play five more wins with her and then move on to Caitlyn.
I have played Caitlyn a few times when I started, because she was free, and I enjoyed it. The moment I could, I unlocked her, but haven't played her even once.
Right now I am three wins into this. Two more to go.
Yesterday I started my first runepage.
After this set up, and although it doesn't look like much, I did feel a difference in the gameplay.
I do not yet fully understand how to put the runes and why to put what where. I had help to set it up.
But once I understand it better, I will let you know why I make what desicion on the runepage. For now I just follow what I am being told and it only led to better gameplay so far.
Soon coming a list of links that I find useful for learning this game.
I have played Caitlyn a few times when I started, because she was free, and I enjoyed it. The moment I could, I unlocked her, but haven't played her even once.
Right now I am three wins into this. Two more to go.
Yesterday I started my first runepage.
After this set up, and although it doesn't look like much, I did feel a difference in the gameplay.
I do not yet fully understand how to put the runes and why to put what where. I had help to set it up.
But once I understand it better, I will let you know why I make what desicion on the runepage. For now I just follow what I am being told and it only led to better gameplay so far.
Soon coming a list of links that I find useful for learning this game.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Newbie at League of Legends
On my LoL (League of
Legends) experience so far:
I am pretty much a
newbie. My lvl 12 is a real lvl 12 (nearly 13), I have not had other
accounts before this one. So I am in the process of learning this
game.
From the beginning I
liked Ashe most. In all other games I play ranged characters, and so
I chose this type for LoL as well.
First thing that was a
problem for me, in the very beginning. I had to read so much that it
took away from the fun. During matches I would have to click through
the shop menu so much to understand what items are for me and which
aren't.
I chose completely
wrong things of course – until I started watching game plays with
commentary, Ashe builds and read on the wiki and on other sites, what
a good Ashe-build looks like.
My mistakes in the
beginning where these:
- I realized that I will take a lot of damage, so I built a lot of health. This led to me not hitting well.
- I realized that my Q,W,R take a lot of mana, so I built a lot of health. This led to me using slots for items that could be used a lot better.
- I realized that I need to hit faster if I want to kill minions or have a chance in any kind of fight, so I bought stingers a lot.
By this time my build
would normally look like this:
2 stinger, 2 frozen
heart, boots of swiftness, mana potions
Soon I realized that
this is a crappy build. Not only are the stingers obsolete if you
build in the direction of say Infinity Edge, Phantom Dancer, and
Banshee's Veil, they actually take spots that you might need for
other things for the time being.
Say during laning phase
you might wanna bring health and mana potions and maybe some sight
wards along.
So you better play safe
during that phase, have a Doran's Blade as first item and stay in
lane as long as you can to farm minions.
I learnt to not push
too much for as long as it makes sense. I would rather get the last
hits on the minions and then fall back a little, than draw attention
to my lane for getting to near to the turrent. This would increase my
risk of getting ganked a lot and would simply get my team in a bad
position as in that case it is most likely that my turret will be
destroyed in no time.
I kept watching game
plays and targeted for lvl 30 plays and championships by that time.
This was very useful because it started increasing my map awareness.
Watching others play and trying to figure out what is happening by
checking on the mini map is very useful because I didn't have to pay
any attention to anything happening to me or my lane.
Something very good
happened, when in a forum a guy showed up. He opened a thread about
LoL and asked if anyone would like to play with him. I said, I am new
but I would like to.
Turns out this guy is a
pro and he started explaining a ton of things to me. Why to build
things a certain way, what to do, where to go. He would play a few
matches with me and then tell me what was wrong with my game play or
build etc.
Recently we simply
swapped roles and went bot together. He played ranged to show me how
to properly build and play it.
Since then I build like
that and try to play like that. Although I am still getting a few
ganks, and I still sometimes run out of position for no good reason,
I feel I am getting better and more secure.
I start understanding when to
push and when to leave.
By now my problem is
that obviously at this lvl people are very aggressive. It seems that
they care more about killing champions than about destroying turrets,
making gold, or even winning.
I have tried other
champions as well.
I tried Miss Fortune and Caitlyn and liked them so
far but I have mainly played Ashe.
The one that I played
worst so far was Master Yi. And the one I had fun with but really am
bad at playing was Dr. Mundo.
I salut everyone who
can play anything else but ranged champions. I suck at all these,
ranged is the only thing I am ok at.
I play a lot
I play, a lot. I like games!
I have played tons of games in the past. Ranging from text based browser MMORPGs to big installs that make my computer run hot.
Right now I am focussing on two games.
League of Legends, where I am currently playing ranged champions.
Minecraft, where I have about 5 worlds running on my windows and 3 on my Mint, and in addition I am playing on a multiplayer server. Yes, I play Minecraft on the computer, not on the Xbox, I am not one of the "cool kids".
Apart from that, I started playing a few games by Zynga, but I am generally annoyed by those games. They suck, they make the browser freeze and they are too annoyingly time consuming, as you have to stare at your screen so much while doing nothing but waiting. Really not my thing, I think I will quit them soon.
Apart from computer games, I play "old school".
Something, I recently discovered, are pen&paper. Very fun, I must say!.
Another one of my all-time favourites, Munchkin. A hilarious card game, you have to love it!
But I am very certain that these are games, that I will not tend to ramble about.
You will find a new post all the time. I tend to get very annoyed at times, so there might be some light ranting envolved, just bare with me :D
So let the blogging begin!
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