2012-10-09, 12:20 PM
I'll try to approximate my learning order as I went from really bad to decent.
- Play the tutorial. It helps with the very basics. Battle Training isn't very good at simulating an actual game though; if you've already done it, you shouldn't be arbitrarily killing the wolves like they tell you to.
- As a new player, you will probably have a tendency to want to plow through waves of minions and kill the towers as fast as possible, using the skills available to you. This is generally a bad idea. You want to, first and foremost, stay in your lane as long as possible, and spamming skills on minions will leave you out of mana and vulnerable to attack by enemy champions.
- You also don't want to clear waves of minions as fast as possible; the optimal thing to do is a technique called last-hitting. This is where you inflict only the killing blow on a minion and earn gold for it. You only gain gold if you actually kill the minion.
- 1 top lane/1 mid lane/2 bot lane/1 jungle is the meta, but in lower leveled games it's usually 2 top lane/1 mid lane/2 bot lane.
- You don't have to pay too close attention to the meta earlier on. In pre-20 games people will run weird combos like Trundle/Sion bottom lane, and that's most likely because people at that level only really learn one champion and don't know how to use other ones.
- This is what I recommend, as learning multiple champions can be overwhelming at first. Pick a champion you like or one that's easy for you--for me it was Ashe--and base your learning of mechanics off that one champion. As you get better you'll be able to easily branch out to other champions.
- Once you've learned the game, you should pick a role that you want to get good at. The champion you pick may or may not influence the role you're most comfortable playing. I learned the game with Ashe, who's a bot lane AD carry, but that's one of my worse roles. Right now I'm actually most comfortable playing jungle and support.
- A lot of champions are radically different, especially in terms of mechanics. I would make this a factor in choosing what champion I want to buy next, since I bought Kassadin at like level 9 and I'm still not very good at him since he's pretty hard to use.
- Co-op vs. AI can only get you so far. Play normal games ASAP once you're comfortable.
That's about all the general advice I can give. I can help you out in game if you need it. Good luck!
- Play the tutorial. It helps with the very basics. Battle Training isn't very good at simulating an actual game though; if you've already done it, you shouldn't be arbitrarily killing the wolves like they tell you to.
- As a new player, you will probably have a tendency to want to plow through waves of minions and kill the towers as fast as possible, using the skills available to you. This is generally a bad idea. You want to, first and foremost, stay in your lane as long as possible, and spamming skills on minions will leave you out of mana and vulnerable to attack by enemy champions.
- You also don't want to clear waves of minions as fast as possible; the optimal thing to do is a technique called last-hitting. This is where you inflict only the killing blow on a minion and earn gold for it. You only gain gold if you actually kill the minion.
- 1 top lane/1 mid lane/2 bot lane/1 jungle is the meta, but in lower leveled games it's usually 2 top lane/1 mid lane/2 bot lane.
- You don't have to pay too close attention to the meta earlier on. In pre-20 games people will run weird combos like Trundle/Sion bottom lane, and that's most likely because people at that level only really learn one champion and don't know how to use other ones.
- This is what I recommend, as learning multiple champions can be overwhelming at first. Pick a champion you like or one that's easy for you--for me it was Ashe--and base your learning of mechanics off that one champion. As you get better you'll be able to easily branch out to other champions.
- Once you've learned the game, you should pick a role that you want to get good at. The champion you pick may or may not influence the role you're most comfortable playing. I learned the game with Ashe, who's a bot lane AD carry, but that's one of my worse roles. Right now I'm actually most comfortable playing jungle and support.
- A lot of champions are radically different, especially in terms of mechanics. I would make this a factor in choosing what champion I want to buy next, since I bought Kassadin at like level 9 and I'm still not very good at him since he's pretty hard to use.
- Co-op vs. AI can only get you so far. Play normal games ASAP once you're comfortable.
That's about all the general advice I can give. I can help you out in game if you need it. Good luck!