2011-09-29, 12:28 AM
IllegallySane Wrote:If only skins and name change, doesn't sound too bad. Are there rooms where people can just play casually? I don't want to get too hopped up playing competitively all the time.This is how you get into games in LoL:
Once you're at the PvP.net homepage, once you press "Play" (and select the game mode you want to play), the matchmaking system will try to form teams that will have an equal chance of winning from the people who are queueing up, using a hidden ELO that you have (this is determined by how many games you win or lose, but you can't see this because Riot has said the hidden ELO for normal games is a trade secret). This is known as "blind pick", which means you will be queued up with people you don't know, and you and your matchmaked team will go in together to fight in Summoner's Rift (or Twisted Treeline)!
This process works also for Ranked matches. Instead of using hidden ELO, it uses known ELO to do the matchmaking(and you can see your ranked ELO yourself after you play a certain number of ranked matches). Though I wouldn't worry about this for now; this game mode is more of a srs business type of thing, and you're simply starting off atm.