Comments on: A Quick Guide to the Most Popular Game in the World: League of Legends

By: MattV

MattV — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:43:55 +0000

Heroes of Newerth. Play it. Its better. Shitty community, but the game is much much better.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:54:54 +0000

Pfff, lol is just Dota for casuals or begginers.

By: Levi

Levi — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:24:41 +0000

LoL does not have 32 million players, it has about 2 million. Riot blatantly lies about their statistics. Check http://lolstatistics.com/, 2 million players. DoTA2 is both more popular and a better game.

By: Shiki

Shiki — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:14:09 +0000

Well I dont play LOL, but i had my share with MOBA games in the form of DoTA, HoN and now DoTA2.
I recently discussed with my friend the problem that these kind of games have because all the whiners, haters or trolls. He’s the sort of person obsessed with APM, K/D ratio and points these games have, and he is a hater. He spends more time writing curses than acctually playing the game, and this is in my oppinion the biggest problem these games have- not being able to play the game casually because someone is so worried about their stats.
I think the best sollution to this particular problem is just to remove stats, well keep them internally for matchmaking purposes, but don’t let them be visible to you or to other players. You can reward the players for winning with items that can change your heroes apperance, different anouncers, sound packages or stuff like that, but don’t keep score (anyway not visiblly). Leave that to pro players or players who want to play the game competitevly.
Sometimes when I come back home from work tired and just want to have a quiet game to relax, it is impossible because someone is going to hate or whine for sure and ruin your quiet game.

By: shri

shri — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:18:00 +0000

@Rich : this redhead is Katarina, but you should see miss fortune too if you like redhead : http://lol.zfcdn.net/db/champion-skin/MissFortune_0.jpg

more seriously, playing for 6 month, 5-6 games/week now, I try to fellow all these rules.

At my level, there will be at least half the game without jungler if I don’t do it. But learning how to jungle seem very complicated to me. I’m so bad a jungle that I still feel sometime that it would be better for me to play duo-top. I don’t even talk about the times the ennemi jungle invade and rape me or when the top laner is so bad at last hitting that I could feed easily with what he left. Support is not as easy at it sound too : you should place some wards (where? when?) and knowing what supportive item to buy depending of your ADC and other teammate and enemy… you shouldn’t have one or two builds always the same like other roles generally can!

Moreover, these two role are the less likely to do lot of kills…so there are less likely to be played… so if you fellow the rule “Be a Team Player” you will play a lot these two roles!

By: Manny

Manny — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:03:23 +0000

Sounds like a game taken way too seriously like a lot of the popular games out there lately. Fun must take on a new meaning when the laughs and carefree attitude are absent for a good 90% or more of the game. Just an observation. Don’t shoot me. I’m harmless!

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:36:07 +0000

@rich, Katarina
@grant If you don’t mind, i’ll do my best to try to explain it to you.
As you know main “meta” these days is that you have top, jungle mid, adc and support as paul already said in his article.
the reason of the jungler is that he can earn his own xp and not share with top, who can level faster while being alone. another reason for this is some champions have really weak or nearly impossible early phase of the game when playing against another player, so they need themselves to build up first and then they can “gank” and get kills.

as for the roles, you want your mid (ap carry, although it’s coming back that ad carries should be in mid) to get really buffed. jungler will/should/how they decide get most ganks on an enemy mid so your mid get kills.

adc on the bottom has support with him already whose sole role early in the game is to protect his ad carry. also, to ward map and provide buffs for the whole team. eg. sona has ap/ad buff for the whole team, heal, speed buff and great stun. usually support doesn’t “creep” at all, just leaves all the minions for the adc.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:51:11 +0000

Damn, who the hell’s that redhead? Nice!

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:07:25 +0000

This is actually a very informative article. I’ve been playing LoL for a few months now (as much as I can with a job, wife, and 3 kids) and still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing sometimes. Main issue I have is with the “roles”. I’ve searched for what the big difference is for mid, top, and bottom and never seen it spelled out as simply as you’ve put. I still don’t fully understand a jungler and think it’s better to have everyone in the lanes and pushing against the towers. I just go to the jungle for quick XP and/or gold.