Unlabelled League of Legends - Study finds link between high LoL rank and intelligence

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League of Legends - Study finds link between high LoL rank and intelligence

Study finds link between high LoL rank and intelligence

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 08:01 AM PST

Kled can pause & redirect his Ult with Hexflash

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 10:12 AM PST

"Low ground advantage" explained by FNC Analyst Wolle

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 08:01 AM PST

Riot updated their site, and it looks gorgeous.

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:27 AM PST

Logitech G and G2 Esports Announce Global Partnership - G2 Esports

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 08:25 AM PST

When I hold C to have a quick look at my runes Id prefer to see the damage my arcane comet deals at the moment instead of the total damage dealt with this rune so far

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 10:52 AM PST

Arcane comet is just an example there are several runes that show the "so far" instead of the "at the moment" and I think the "at the moment" is much more useful to estimate your damage as fast as possible.

edit Since I need a few characters some more context:

The point is that I cant move when I need to hover over something. Id prefer hovering for the stats you see now when holding C since its less important for a fight but more like a nice to know.

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I wish they would bring back the ability to change the order of your rune pages by dragging them.

Posted: 15 Nov 2017 11:43 PM PST

I personally like to keep my rune pages organized by which champions they are for, and deleting all my pages to reorganized them is annoying. When they added the feature to be able to move rune and mastery pages was fantastic for me, but with runes reforged it was removed again, any information on this would be great.

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Climbing in Solo Queue Guide by Irelia Carries U

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 03:03 AM PST

Hey everyone, I want to share some tips that helped me out a lot when I started playing the game. For context, I started playing the game in season 3 and I made it to diamond 1 71 LP (no masters back then so pretty close to challenger) in one season. Then, I consistently kept challenger in s4-s5 until I had to take hiatuses due to family problems and personal issues. Currently I am trying to adapt to the current meta and Irelia's state so I am only masters currently, but I figured since I am applying similar points that I did back when I was first starting my climb I thought I should share what I do to improve with everyone.

The main five points are:

1) Choosing to main one champion and preferably one that is not very mechanically demanding

2) Get as good as possible at last hitting and learning what other champions do in interaction with your champion.

3) Master that said champion

4) Learning proper lane control (i.e. if you play top you should learn all the little things that make a world of a difference)

5) Learning proper map movements

So now to get into detail for each of those points. They are basically the TLDR but they should be learned in that following order.

1) There is a very easy way to climb the game and that is by picking only one champion (kind of general advice). That may sound quite boring but I reason that winning more games is more fun than trying out a new champion. So, if you are like me and you want to win a lot of games pick a champion that you really enjoy playing. It is okay if the champion is mechanically hard but it is advised that you pick something that is not. For myself, I started playing Katarina first and learned her match ups and stuff which allowed me to focus more on the game itself and not worry about lane counters or match ups in general because I knew what to do in them. When I switched to top lane I did the same thing, it took me about 200+ games to get comfortable with most of Irelia's match ups, albeit some remained hard given the meta back then. Once you are comfortable, it opens up a lot of room for you to focus on other things. So, once you start playing a champion that you wish to main, learning all the match ups and figuring out what runes/masteries to run should be your primary concern. Not so much with what to do early/mid/late game. Just learn the match ups first and then focus on other things.

2) Once you have done this, it is now time to focus on other things. A lot of people tunnel on comps and whatnot but those have minimal impact. I have had many games where I thought we had the inferior team composition but ended up crushing the enemy team composition in 5v5s. A part of this is due to knowing how my champion works against other champions and with the champions on my team. To bring up a simple example, Irelia and Orianna work extremely well to the point where they can carry a team fight alone. You do not even need to rely on the rest of your team. Irelia can dive the back line with Orianna's ball easily and give her a good opportunity to land a good ultimate. The damage from oriannas ult and the speed/shields from the rest of her kit will enable Irelia to finish off the adc no matter how late into the game it is. So, when I am playing Irelia and I have an Orianna on my team, I already have an idea of what my job is in that game. Being aware of things like this translates over into how you should be playing during the early/mid/late game. This is because league of legends is a team game and it doesn't matter if the enemy team comp has malphite top, cass mid, sej jungle and kog/lulu bot. It does not mean that they will automatically crush you if you are playing a champion like Irelia. If your team coherence is better than theirs as a result of your knowledge of how you should be playing the game with your champion, then your team will have the upper hand. Team compositions only really matter when all the players playing all of those champions know roughly what they are supposed to do which does not really happen often in solo queue.

3)Mastering said champion can take a while or it may not. For me it took me 1700 Irelia games to reach challenger for the first time. Even then I would say that I probably had not completely mastered Irelia. There were still things that would slip my mind about which all ins I win or whatnot but that is okay, we're human after all. But after you get the fundamentals you have to focus on really drilling into all those hidden powerspikes of your champion against different champions. For example, Irelia's powerspikes against gangplank are much different than Renekton. Whereas I can fight GP at lvl 1-3 there is absolutely no way I can fight renekton lvl 1-3. I do not always have to wait until level 7 or 9 to fight most of the match ups because I am aware of what my win conditions are in early levels. Sometimes I can kill a riven at lvl 3 when she misuses her abilities, but the main point is to figure out every little thing you can do in each match up. To do this you need to rely on your own judgment and not as much on what guides or what other people say. For example, wickd's preferred method of dealing with jax is maxing E and bursting him down, while for me I prefer to let jax push me near the turret, freeze it so he cannot keep his passive up and look for trades/all ins while having the safety of my turret to back into. All of these are personal quirks you can develop if you try to master your champion on your own.

4) There are a lot of specific things to know about each lane. So, depending on what lane your champion goes to, you should definitely master everything you can about that lane. For example, I play Irelia and she goes top most of the time so I learned all the different ways of wave management for top side that don't translate that well to other lanes. Freezing is very important when playing top while not so much when playing mid. Although to be fair it does translate well into bot lane where freezing is also important. There is also a lot more importance towards levels than other lanes. Apart from the general lvl 2 and lvl 6 powerspikes. In top lane if I am lvl 8 against a lvl 7 darius or jax I have a major advantage. A bigger advantage than I could ever get from items alone. I have to jump on that opportunity and try to force my opponent to all in before they are the same level as me. Learning little things like this and knowing how to abuse them will win you lane a good portion of the time regardless of match ups.

5) This is probably the most difficult thing and may even be impossible to master completely. It is something you can observe being done by anyone in high elo. The better they do this the higher rank they are. Being where they need to be and never wasting time wandering around. Just by doing this to an adequate level you can get to masters+. There are people that can have total map pressure and yet keep 10+ cs per minute. I am struggling to master this myself and the more I improved on it, the higher I climbed in season 7. I went from being stuck in diamond 3 after being at rank 19 in season 5 because I had forgotten how important being able to do this is. I started practicing and hit masters easily and now I am trying to improve even more on it to hit challenger. Watching faker do this is probably the best example and it is something that, once you know how to efficiently do will make your rank jump leaps and bounds.

Now the biggest thing that you might ask yourself is, how do I learn all of these things? This is a very hard question to answer because it is wholly dependent on the individual. For myself what really helped me was playing a lot of games to establish mechanics and playing customs with other OTPs on their champions to learn those match ups. I also watched my replays and tried to reason about the game and what I could have done differently in games I lost. Another thing that really helped me is taking a few minutes off after playing a game and rerunning the whole game in my head. I would make sure to do this as accurately as possible and imagine different scenarios play out if I had done x instead of y.

Anyways I hope this helps!

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Eyeball Collector is very creepy

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 07:56 AM PST

I just realized that one get an eyeball not only after they killed an opponent, but a ward as well. Does that imply wards are also made of human/void beast/yordle eyeballs? How many vel'kozs are killed per game?

Or the wards could be Bjergsen's teammates.

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League of Legends Cinematic | Elementalist Lux (Fan Video) | HD

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 09:33 AM PST

TSM Superlatives - Part 1

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 01:30 PM PST

Victorious Graves looks like Garen's Granpa

Posted: 15 Nov 2017 09:34 PM PST

After being unable to find a playlist of all Riot made songs on Spotify I made one with every song I could find that was made by or with Riot.

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:58 AM PST

Here is the link to the playlist, you need a Spotify account to open it

When looking up league songs on Spotify I came across this post where /u/RiotPraeco stated that their music team was working on uploading all their songs to Spotify, however this was three years ago.

Two months ago /u/viranimal mentioned they're trying to get champion music uploaded

I was only ever able to find one playlist with champion music and that was hidden under Riot Games Brasil's profile here.

If I'm missing any songs let me know.

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I fucking love league of legends

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 01:50 AM PST

I really don't care who sees this or whether it gets removed, but I feel this will make me feel a lot better for what is going on in my life right now. If anyone actually decides to read this, I'm sorry if it sounds like a mess, because it actually is.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, most of them dumb and I hit myself for these mistakes all the time. With these mistakes come all the guilt, which I readily keep bottled within.

Recently, I pretty much broke after I felt a friend backstabbed me, and that made me think about how league has helped me though all my tough times. I've played this game for six years, and when I started was when I started feeling this guilt. Instead of opting for another way, where my friends went for drugs as an outlet, I made league my outlet. My passion and love for league kept me away from the dark thoughts I had, and it really became a place for me to express myself, have fun, and have some release. After my breakdown, I saw that without league, I really don't know where I would be now, and that the breakdown was partially caused by my loss of motivation for the game. This really makes me feel that the over $2000 dollars I've spent on the game really was worth it. It provided me relief for six years, giving me something to be motivated about and think about every day instead of the guilt I felt inside. I've made a lot of very good friends through this game, and i am extremely thankful for it.

So, I've decided that I am going to rekindle my motivation for this game during Thanksgiving break, and hopefully be able to forgive myself for what I've done, and keep on playing, maybe even rekindling the dreams of going pro.

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Ezreal adc winrate is now over 56%

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 10:11 AM PST

Is this a problem? https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/gold/champion/Ezreal/ADC/
I know there was a bug with muramume applying the damage twice but this seems pretty mad.
Is it klepto which is overtuned or his Q doing too much dmg (which contributes towards the jgl pick)
also he can rush sheen fast with klepto and futures market rune so there's that..

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The Play That Ended my League Career

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 07:00 AM PST

Sources: Warriors-owned League of Legends team to be called Golden Guardians

Posted: 15 Nov 2017 05:07 PM PST

Why does Volibear even have manacosts

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 04:09 AM PST

Garen, Reksai, Shyvana, Mundo, all of those are more or less similair to Volibear and none of those has mana costs. Volibear already has something very similair to a 'fury' mechanic with his W. He really hasn't got a reason to be gated by mana either (no ranged abilities, high cooldowns). I'm not saying this would fix him and yeah maybe he does need a full rework. But getting rid of his mana and giving him fury instead would at least have him feel less half-assed

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Sources: Cloud9 set to acquire contract rights for top laner Licorice

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 03:17 PM PST

New Zed unlocked statue in merch store.

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:52 AM PST

December sales schedule

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 10:21 AM PST

different rune builds have unique names

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 06:54 AM PST

here is the link https://prnt.sc/hb9qfd press the attack and domination secondary has a unique name merciless elite you can check yours by hovering over the icon at the end of the runes tab

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Riot announces LoL Park, will broadcast LCK themselves instead of OGN

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:26 AM PST

Question for discussion: Why is being a OTP embraced so much in League but looked down on so much in other games?

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 01:14 PM PST

I was browsing the Overwatch reddit the other day and noticed a huge discussion happening on OTPs. Lots of people were for them but more were against them. Apparently, a relatively well known otp streamer was given a punishment for refusing to cooperate with his team despite him being a well known otp that is bad at other heroes. He was ranked GM I believe. Lots of people felt this punishment was the right decision bto cause otp'ing is so bad for the game, despite their being so many of them in GM.

I have also browsed many of the other MOBA Reddit's and noticed that in general people recommend AGAINST otp'ing. For example, in Dota 2 and HotS it's always recommended to have a large versatile champion pool. This is the exact opposite of the advice given in League, where usually guides recommend to limit your champion pool down as much as possible.

I started my competitive gaming days with Street Fighter and other fighting games. I always spammed one character pretty much and I have always essentially been a otp, regardless of the game I played. In League, I main Kat.

I'm curious why the environment is so different in League, I have a few theories as to why that I'll list below and maybe we can get some interesting discussion going.

1) League's game design allows for otp'ing to be more viable.

  • There's less hard counters in League. If you otp Anti-Mage in Dota or Butcher in HotS, you would be countered too hard. League's design always allows you a way to potentially outplay or lessen the severity of your champion's counters. For example, IMO Kass beats Kat pretty hard, but Kat still has multiple opportunities in the early game to potentially all in Kass to either kill him or bully him out of lane. Multiple examples like this exist.

2) League allows you to queue up as a specific role.

IMO, this is huge. There is no way you could ruin your team comp. In another moba, let's say you are last pick and you otp a carry, but your team needs a support. Well, in this scenario, either you call it early and hope your team is willing to pick and play around you or you're forced to dodge. Or, I guess you can try to make it work by playing a role you're weak at—else your team will think you're trolling.

3) League has had otps for a longer time and even though they were initially looked down upon, the fact that so many otps have hit challenger has made it pretty common knowledge that otp'ing is very effective e.

This is pretty self explanatory I think. The culture of League has changed a lot throughout the years. Initially, otps were looked down upon, but so many otps have hit master tier and challenger tier and have also written so many guides talking about its benefits that by now its common knowledge. Also, it's important to note that League is so so popular that there is a higher chance a otp becomes famous or well known, which then also makes it seems more legit. For example, Gross Gore, LL Stylish, Keegan, etc.

I might have potentially answered my own question but I'm still interested in discussion. How do you feel about otps? Are you one yourself? If you play o5her games, do you only do it in League, or do you do the same in other games?

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PSA to all players running Windows 10 x64 Insider builds

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 10:07 AM PST

Do not upgrade to build 17040!

This build has a bug that can cause Windows to bugcheck (throw GSOD) when League of Legends is running.
Link to details: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/11/16/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17040-pc/

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