KajitiSouls Wrote:-- Do the tutorial.
-- Now do the battle tutorial.
-- Now do a beginner bot game (custom or coop, don't care) to make sure you've got the basics down without being told to do something. If you do, you should win your lane. Whether you win the match or not will depend heavily on your teammates =/
-- Friend me or someone else from SP.net, just so you don't have to deal with people with terrible attitudes.

And when you've got your foot in the door,
-- Start studying up on mechanic.
-- Practice last-hitting and map awareness.
-- Learn what all the champions can do, and what all the items do.
-- Practice last-hitting and map awareness.
-- Learn counters and stuff. Review what you know. Keep playing games to get more experience, because this game has so many ways situations can unfold.
-- Practice last-hitting and map awareness.

Up front, I'm going to say this game has a learning curve that's like a cliff. That's not to say that you shouldn't start playing though. Matchmaking tries pairs you up with players that have your approximate skill level, so chances are if they're really newbies, they'll know only just as much as you do! Learn and play at your own pace, and talk to us for advice.

Also, get familiar with the Summoner's Code, which basically says "you can get angry, but you should not rage at your teammates or be a plantain". Don't do things that you'd rather that they shouldn't do to you (includes d/cing or quitting in the middle of a game for whatever reason). Being bad is excusable though, since people have their ups and downs like everyone else =/

DO NOT USE MOBAFIRE.COM FFS!!!

Blaine Wrote:Play with friends on Skype that are already good at the game in bot matches, if possible. It helps to have them explaining mechanics while you're playing, instead of playing a game, then coming here to post/read things about it.

Also, get LoLReplay. If you have something overly specific that you want to ask us about and you have an example in a game that you've played, you can either upload the whole game and link us to a download of it, or record it with fraps/dxtory/xsplit and upload it to YouTube and we can look at it. LoLReplay takes barely any resources, so you won't notice any performance dips when you play.

Also also, don't play with Corn. He goes AFK a lot.

Edit: Also also also, if you hit the chatroom button in the bottom right corner (next to the exclamation point) you can hit the join a chat room button and join the Southperry channel (exactly typed as Southperry).

SolicShooter Wrote:A little tip: Don't buy runes before you reach level 21 because it'll be a waste to buy tier 1 or tier 2 runes. When you finally do reach level 21, the best common rune set up that I can suggest before you really get into the game is Flat AD marks, Flat armour seals, Flat Magic resist glyphs and movement speed quintessences. Later on you can branch into other things like armour penetration, magic penetration and attack speed marks etc.

Jamesie Wrote:On the guide part, you might want to add a small bit about not being completely reliant on the guides for everything. It's extremely sad when I see people exclusively follow guides and then suck because they refuse to build situationally due to the fact that it's "not in their guide."

Aynia Wrote:Garen is the worst champion for top lane. There's no reason to play him either. ZERO scaling.

You're welcome for the IP you've saved. Please gib me referrals.

Aynia Wrote:Garen is the worst champion for top lane. There's no reason to play him either. ZERO scaling.

Judgment Wrote:Also, pay attention to any sound cues, similar to visual cues, as those can be used as valuable information at times.




I thought Xin Zhao was the one that had no scaling on his abilities.

Aynia Wrote:According to the GREAT players of Southperry, he's awful bro.

Check out that ult. ZERO SCALING GENERAL.

Jamesie Wrote:Garen scales better on his abilities (because his Q scales and his E scales, versus only Xin's Q), but Xin scales better in the game.
Note that when I mean scaling, I mean abilities get stronger when he buys an item. Xin's ult doesn't scale at all with items he buys. So sssshhh now.

Aynia Wrote:Totally. I agree 100%
1.4 bonus AD on Q and 4.2 on E.
That's ZERO scaling.

Jamesie Wrote:1.4 total* AD on his Q and 4.2 bonus* on E. It's only a 4.2 bonus if you sit in it the entire time however. There are still better solo-top tanky deeps (Riven, if you insist on playing manaless)
And to be a good scrub, both pomegranate Zhao and Garen are in Tier 4 on Elementz tier list. I'm clearly not the only person who thinks they're trash.

Aynia Wrote:>blindly listen to elementz
>1211 elo

Ok bro.

Aynia Wrote:listen to elementz

Jamesie Wrote:"And to be a good scrub." (lrn2read plz) I know listening to Elementz is stupid herpaderp. I read his tier list to even see an opinion of what other people think of champions.

Quote:My ELO is low because I spend significantly less time playing Normal games. Notice how I've played a total of ~500 Normal games? I don't play real people a lot, I spend more time theorizing. I am a thinker, not a doer. I can't be bothered to play 2k+ games like you.

Judgment Wrote:I thought Xin Zhao was the one that had no scaling on his abilities.