League of Legends SuperThread

[Crunk]

Well, I haven't seen many threads about League around here (or most forums tbh), but I think it's about time to make one. So buckle seatbelts kiddos, because papa's gonna take the time to tell you the tale of Runeterra and why Graves can't have a cigar.


What is League of Legends
The cancer of the online community, the game with a community more toxic than CS:GO, COD, and WOW combined. The MOBA king itself: League of Legends

League is a MOBA (Massive-Online-Battle-Arena), released way back '09 by Riot Games™ and has grown to become the largest eSport in the world. In League of Legends 10 summoners select their champions and face-off on the Summoner's Rift in the highly competitive 5v5s to bring down each other's Nexus. 

LOL has 5 basic roles [Top Lane, Mid Lane, Jungler, Support, Marksmen], and over 130 champions to choose from, and every champion have their own unique abilities that are able to perform all 5 roles (some easier than others, some harder), now what all these abilities do and who all these champions are I'll let you discover on your own. 

Lets break down each role and lane, to its core objective
What the hell are lanes, and these roles?

I'm happy you asked. In League their are 3 primary maps to choose from: Summoner's Rift (where you will see 90% of all gameplay online), The Hollowing Abyss, and The Twisted Treeline. I'm adding sidenotes for lore of all 3 maps, with a short description if you want more info, otherwise scroll past them and I'll break down the 3 lane system, and the roles that are used in the game

The Hollowing Abyss

Spoiler

The Howling Abyss bridge is located in the Freljord and serves as a gateway to the Frostguard citadel. It was the Murder Bridge replacement for the Proving Grounds during the Freljord event and later became the first map for the ARAM game mode.

Spoiler

"This is more than just a bridge, you know. Maybe it was once a simple thing of stone and mortar, but now it bears the weight of the entire Freljord on its back." "The fate of this land was decided here, ages ago, in a long and brutal battle. Just look around and listen, that noise is more than the wind - it is the cry of the vanquished, thrown howling into the abyss!" "Everybody's forgotten who built this bridge and why. Everybody's forgotten the war that gave this place its scars. Everyone, but me. I was there! I saw the battle! I died here, and I never left this place! I was bound here to stand guard and sound my war horn if our enemies ever returned." "And now, now the howling grows louder, and I sense something evil stirring in the abyss, my hand reaches for my war horn. This place will soon see a battle again. One that will shape the Freljord for all time. And if the Freljord falls, so too will the rest of the world." "Yes, this is more than just a bridge." - Gregor

Spoiler

"The Howling Abyss. A bottomless crevasse surrounded by an ancient fortress carved into a glacier. No one remembers who built this place. No one knows its purpose. No one but me. Long before Ashe and Sejuani, before magic shattered the broken peaks, before the desertswallowed Shurima, it was the time of The Three Sisters. We were so young back then; Avarosa, Serylda, and me, Lissandra. Back then the Frozen Watchers lived here. I do not know where they came from, but I know they were powerful. They gave us gifts, shared their magic, made us immortal. They named us 'Iceborn'. In return, we gave them whatever they desired. This mighty fortress, a vast empire, our loyalty, these were a small price to pay. Avarosa did not see it that way. Like a spoiled child she cried out for freedom. She demanded choice. She sowed the seeds of rebellion and betrayal. This place is where it happened. On one side, the Frozen Watchers, on the other, Avarosa and her Iceborn horde. Many Iceborn died that day, but in the end, the Watchers fell. Avarosa drove them howling into the abyss. I never forgave her. I had my revenge... but that is another story." - Lissandra 

The Twisted Treeline

Spoiler

The Twisted Treeline is a two lane Field of Justice, released shortly before the game officially launched.
October 27, 2009: Released publicly inpractice games Practice games
March 30, 2010: Released for normal gameson.[1]
The Twisted Treeline map was reworked, and the new version released with patchV1.0.0.150 on October 17, 2012.[2] It was previously located near Zaun, but was retroactively relocated to the Shadow Isles.

Spoiler

Deep in Shadow Isles lies a ruined city shattered by magical disaster. Those who venture inside the ruins and wander through the Twisted Treeline seldom return, but those who do, tell tales of horrific creatures and the vengeful dead. The location known as the Twisted Treeline is located in the mysterious Shadow Isles. An eternally thick, unnatural fog blankets the islands from the view of outsiders. It is thought that the islands are home to countless forms of undead, though no one seems eager to perform the exploration necessary to find out the truth. The Twisted Treeline is a two lane map where two teams consisting of three players battle in fast-paced action while their ultimate goal is to destroy the enemy team's nexus. Aside from its two, slightly curved lanes, the map also features several neutral monster camps and two altars to be captured as well as a free health pick-up - all situated in the jungle between the lanes - giving plenty of opportunities for team fights. There is also a path over the top lane which leads to Vilemaw's lair. The team who defeats the horrific creature inside receive the  Crest of Crushing Wrath, which provides a spooky buff: champions become ghosted, ignoring all unit collision for the duration of the buff. Additionally, nearby minions gain aura bonuses, and briefly terrorize nearby enemy minions on first contact.

The Summoner's Rift

Spoiler

The Summoner's Rift is the most commonly used Field of Justice.

The map was given a graphical and technical update on May 23, 2012 and remade from scratch in November 12, 2014.

Spoiler

The newest and most venerated battleground is known as Summoner's Rift. Traverse down on of three different paths in order to attack your enemy at their weakest point. Work with your allies to siege the enemy base and destroy their Nexus! Summoner's Rift is located in a remote forest between Freljord, and the Ironspike Mountains. The Summoner’s Rift is one of a few locations in Valoran where magical energy is at its greatest concentration, making it a highly sought-after locale to pursue magical endeavors. Historically, the forest where the Rift resides was the site of several battles between two summoner factions symbolized with the Stag and Owl crests, they sought out to use the natural magical energy of the area for their personal use.

Spoiler

The large amount of concentrated magic has it mutated the local wildlife. From giant frogs, giant birds to two headed wolves it has also attracted the attention of a powerful Dragon who currently resides in one of the battle torn ruins. Sentinels, Bramblebacks and Krugs are creatures made from local flora and earth infused to construct a magical being. The Rifts unstable magic has inadvertently cause the reemergence of Baron Nashor, a large Serpent/Worm largely believed to be dead for centuries. It has his corruption affecting the land around him.
Other known creature that live in this area are species of forest chameleons, ducks, Antlermice, Porowls, crows, dragonflies and butterflies.

Spoiler

The objective of Summoner's Rift is simple – destroy the enemy nexus. In order to do this, champions must traverse down one of three different paths (or lanes) in order to attack their enemy at their weakest points they can exploit. Both teams have their lanes defended by numerous turrets; each turret grows in strength the closer it gets to its respective nexus and each turret must be eliminated in order to gain access to the next turret in that lane. Cooperating with fellow summoners is an absolute requirement for success, as it is easy for a champion to find themselves ambushed by enemies in the lanes of the Rift.

So the main system in league that is implemented is the 3-lane system. Since you'll be spending a majority of your playtime on the Summoner's Rift, I will only discuss that system and map. On Summoner's Rift, you have 5 main roles as stated before: Top, Mid, Jungle, Support, Marksman. They are pretty self-explanatory, but I'll go in depth with each.

Top
Ahh top, the island of watching the whole map below you, and dueling for a good 60% of the match with your solo laner and the other 40% is looking for that one good roam

In top lane, you have really 3 basic objectives. Beat your laning partner and pull jungle pressure away from bot and mid, split push (sense-fully shoving toward the enemy base alone), and focusing on your team fighting ability, aka roaming. Each objective can be achieved in a single game, but you will be really dead-set on one or two of them at a time, try to deviate from that and practice all three in a single game, to provide maximum pressure. Which is the "blanket" objective for a top laner -- provide pressure on all parts of the map. 

Your champion selection for top lane really determines what sort of laning and grouping phase you will as a top laner. Taking a carry top laner, you will be expected to perform all 3 of the basic objectives as I stated before, and be the second carry on the team. You are expecting to CS (CS = Creep Score) well and perform good wave control, and pressure the enemy laners and jungler effectively. However, this can be very difficult, so top lane is also the domain to tanks, and farm heavy champions. As a tank, you have one sole objective: be an unstoppable meat shield for your squishies, and peel. Farm heavy champions are to do just what their title suggests - farm - playing farming top laners you need to scale up and be strong during the team fighting stage of the game, whether to burst down the backline or force the enemy frontline to burn everything they have on you.

Being in the top lane you will be pressured a lot by your teammates to be a carry, and do a lot more than you might be capable of, and I consider top lane being a more difficult lane to play, but one of the most fun lanes to play (depending on your champion).


Jungle
Welcome to the jungle, we got reds and blues, we got flamers too, we can tilt the enemies, but don't worry we'll tilt you too

Jungling is without a doubt the most difficult role in the game (IN MY OPINION). As a jungler you have a few different jobs; those jobs include vision control, lane pressure, jungle pressure, objective control (epic monsters - Dragons, Rift Herald, Baron Nashor), as well a few other jobs (shot calling being one of the more namesake jobs). If you've never played League of Legends or watched it, then all of these concepts are pretty foreign, so I'll go a bit more in-depth.

When you are jungling there are 4 Camps on both sides of the map (Top side and bot) on each half of the map. As shown by the visual above. There are also two visual camps in front of Baron, and Dragon known as the Rift Scuttlers, but are mainly used vision of the Dragon/Baron pits on their respected side of the map. Each camps provides a unique buff for X amount of time, and can be used for various ways, whether it be pushing power, securing other camps, sustaining without having to go back to shop, etc. So what does each buff do?

All of the jungle buffs are as follows (For the current 6.20 Patch):

• Gromp - When smited, Gromp gives you small poison damage bonus to your attacks for 90 seconds, that applies to both monsters (neutral/enemy) and champions.
  
• Blue Sentinel - When smited, the Blue Sentinel restores mana back to your, and when killed grants mana regen, cooldown reduction, and an increase to ability power lasting around 90 seconds.
  
• Wolves - When smited, the Greater Murk Wolf spirit is summoned and will grant vision to the Blue buff quadrant of the map and will alert allies when an enemy is within the blue quadrant of the map for 95 seconds.
  
• Raptors - When smited, the Crimson Raptor will grant a true sight buff for 90 seconds, and when proc'ed will grant vision of nearby wards and hidden traps (Teemo shrooms, Jhin traps). Once the true sight buff is proc'ed it will stay active 10 seconds.
  
• Red Brambleback - Much like the Blue buff, when smited it will restore resources but red buff will restore missing HP and when killed the brambleback will grant additional health regen, bonus true damage (ignores resistances), and applies a debuff that slows enemies for 3 seconds. Red buff lasts 90 seconds.
  
• Krugs - When the Ancient Krug is smited will grant a 90 second buff where every 6th basic attack to stun minions and non-epic monsters, the buff can be extended at early levels by attacked towers to do bonus true damage to towers.
  
• Dragon - There are currently 5 different dragon buffs and each are as follow
  
  1. Ocean Drake - "Heart of Oceans" restores 4 / 8 / 12% of missing health and missing mana over 5 seconds every 8 seconds while out of combat (based on stacks; +50% if they have Mark of the Elder Dragon).
     
  2. Cloud Drake -  "Stratus Walk" grants + 25 / 50 / 75 (+50% if they have Mark of the Elder Dragon) bonus movement speed while out of combat. Note: Cloud Drake does the most damage of all of the dragons
     
  3. Infernal Drake - "Infernal Tribute" grants 8 / 16 / 24% (+50% if they have Mark of the Elder Dragon) increased attack damage and ability power.
     
  4. Mountain Drake - "Earthen Arms" grants 10 / 20 / 30% additional damage (+50% if they have Mark of the Elder Dragon) as true damage to Epic Monsters and turrets.
     
  5. Elder Drake -  Aspect of the Dragon grants (45 × Elder Dragons slain) (+ 45 for every elemental dragon stack) true damage on all spells and basic attacks against non-turrets over 3 seconds. The strength of all elemental dragon buffs is increased by 50% for the duration. Elder Dragon will only spawn after 35 minutes, and after at least 1 other elemental dragon has been slain.
     
• Rift Herald - Rift Herald is a newer buff to the game where as the other buffs can be killed multiple times throughout the game, Rift Herald can only be killed once per game and only will remain on the map pre-20 minutes, (pre-19:45 to be exact), afterwards Baron Nashor will spawn. When Rift Herald is slain it will grant the Glimpse of the Void buff. Glimpse of the Void grants 
  
• 5% damage reduction while no allied champions near CORRUPTION: At 100 charges, your next basic attack discharges all stacks of CORRUPTION, dealing 15-270 magic damage (at levels 1-18, damage halved for ranged champions), lasting 20 minutes on a single champion.
  
• Baron Nashor - When Baron has been slain, the allied team is granted the Hand of Baron buff. The Hand of Baron grants empowered recalls, increased Attack Damage and Ability Power, and nearby minions are greatly enhanced for 210 seconds or until slain.
  

Mid
BOOM, POP, BAM, your carries are dead *zed laugh* *Phreak screaming* LOOK AT THE CLEANSE, LOOK AT THE MOVES, FAKER WITH THE HUGE OUTPLAY, WHAT. WAS. THAT!

Now, on to our Mid laner, essentially the mid laner has the same job as the top lane, but is under a bot more pressure as they have to watch top lane, bot lane, and the enemy jungle for incoming ambushes. In most cases the mid lane is where you will find your assassins, and mages that can either be carry or utility based. (Sorry this isn't as in-depth as top and jungle, there isn't too much to mid, if someone has more information that think is relevant, please do share it in the replies and I will update this). 

Bot
Bard to Team: I got this guys *throws ult down* 2.5 seconds later.. *ENEMY PENTAKILL*
Carry to Support/Rest of the team: FUCKING PEEL YOU FUCKING FEEDERS I AM YOUR BIG BROTHER TYLER

Finally we reach bot lane. Where our Support and Marksmen live. I'll start with Marksmen, because I feel their job is a bit more simple and easier to explain.

As a Marksmen or ADC (Attack Damage Carry), you will be our carry, our damage, the reason why Riot invented tanks. Marksmen are all ranged champions and do the most damage with their basic attacks, and their abilites compliment their basic attacks in different ways. When you are playing this role you are expected to be able to farm effectively, have great map awareness, positioning in fights, and competence to know when to run away and when to fight. On to your laning partner, the support.

As a support your job is just as stressful as the adc's. Your job is not only to protect your marksmen's life, but also pick the smart fights with them, as well as have great map awareness, presence, and vision control. A support's job is not to sit in the duo-lane all game long, a good support should roam whenever possible to make plays much like a jungler would...However, that doesn't mean you are to leave your marksmen to dry alone in the 2v1, you need to be able to have faith in your carry, support them as much as you can, and peel (for the love of God, if you see you can save your carry's life, DO IT, don't be the guy to let them die). #SupportLivesDontMatter (They do, I'm kidding as a support main). Playing support means your sense of the map has to be better than all of your laners put together. Because you are really not doing all that much during the laning phase, so pay attention to the map, ping out missing enemies even if your solo laners did, it helps and always buy a sightstone, because vision is too important.


Well, I'm impressed you made it this far! Thanks for reading my super-thread on League and if you didn't read it, I'll give you a 60 second breakdown of the game by my great friend Arkadian:

[Red]

Very nice Thread man. I should get back to playing this game at some point.

[Crunk]

Very nice Thread man. I should get back to playing this game at some point.

Thanks, and if at all possible could you move this to the proper section? I didn't realize I wasn't in the league section

[Red]

Very nice Thread man. I should get back to playing this game at some point.

Thanks, and if at all possible could you move this to the proper section? I didn't realize I wasn't in the league section

Done.

[Harry Potter]

LoL you should work at rito bud! They would hire you as advertiser

[Crunk]

LoL you should work at rito bud! They would hire you as advertiser

God, I wish lol I'd make a million and one different posts like this (if not higher quality) for pay.

[Harry Potter]

LoL you should work at rito bud! They would hire you as advertiser

God, I wish lol I'd make a million and one different posts like this (if not higher quality) for pay.

Just saying, you can make a couple of threads in different places/forums and screenshot them and send them to rito together with your resume, they hire people who have passion for their work, maybe they like the posts you make and they hire you too! You never know just try out, you've nothing to lose!

[Crunk]

LoL you should work at rito bud! They would hire you as advertiser

God, I wish lol I'd make a million and one different posts like this (if not higher quality) for pay.

Just saying, you can make a couple of threads in different places/forums and screenshot them and send them to rito together with your resume, they hire people who have passion for their work, maybe they like the posts you make and they hire you too! You never know just try out, you've nothing to lose!

Hmm, didn't really know about this. I'll definitely have to give this a go! Thanks Potter!

[Wubz]

Or you know, you can steal people's accounts. That works too.

[Crunk]

Or you know, you can steal people's accounts. That works too.

I mean, I'd rather earn it xD Creates self-worth and self-achievement that I didn't have before.

Also, say you were to get a high-elo (high rank) account and tried to play. You'd be basically fucked without basic game knowledge, plus you'd quickly be demoted.