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Quote from: theory on May 04, 2013, 05:32:55 pmExecution in LoL is a lot more complex than executing a Dominion deck. It makes sense to practice a champion over and over again to perfect the mechanics; there are no corresponding mechanics in Dominion to practice.I agree and disagree I found that in playing a large swath of characters you learn alot of the ideas of the game faster, for instance without looking at a build I could give you a decent generic build for any character as long as I knew if they were a bruiser/jungler/ap/adc/support this in turn allowed me to better understand how to build in a certain match, I know this character builds warmogs so i should build botrk for example
Execution in LoL is a lot more complex than executing a Dominion deck. It makes sense to practice a champion over and over again to perfect the mechanics; there are no corresponding mechanics in Dominion to practice.
As I play Diana I have to disagree. Q ulti at same time is ok if the ulti alone would kill them, but all too often the skillshot misses and then your ulti is on cooldown and your just dead in the water. It's much safer to fire off the ulti once it either has connected or will connect beyond the shadow of a doubt.But in general i do agree being able to combo with a champ can be fairly important, I think the largest learning step of any particular champion however is how long your attack animations are so that you can effectively last hit.
Also knowing how to animation cancel is even more important than that(auto attack animations) animation canceling is moving as soon as your animation reaches the point where the attack has registered in the computer. You can then move thus canceling the rest of the animation and speeding up the time between attacks.
So who here actively plays LoL? I see mcmcsalot online quite a bit; anyone else?
Hey. What's good youtube videos / online material for learning how to play better? I'm looking to start with more general guides, then branch off into specific guides for certain characters / builds.
Quote from: Twistedarcher on September 02, 2013, 05:26:41 pmHey. What's good youtube videos / online material for learning how to play better? I'm looking to start with more general guides, then branch off into specific guides for certain characters / builds.Playing with skilled friends is probably the easiest way to learn. And although it's important to play a lot of different champs (ideally every champ that is free), it's also nice to focus on one champ, or at least one lane, as your primary./r/leagueoflegends is a great resource, or more likely its sister subreddit /r/summonerschool. In addition, these lectures on Youtube were really helpful: https://www.youtube.com/user/unswlolsoc
Playing bot games doesn't result in elo inflation.It's still a good idea to play with humans because you learn faster.
Quote from: popsofctown on September 03, 2013, 05:14:57 pmPlaying bot games doesn't result in elo inflation.It's still a good idea to play with humans because you learn faster.the issue however is that prior to level 30 the game matches you against similarly skilled players of similar level. Once you are level 30 this pool of "similar Level" becomes everyone. So if you played to level 30 solely against bot yes your elo would not be affected, but you would be at somewhat of a skill deficit and will lose quite a few normal's until your elo matches you with similarly skilled players. This elo becomes much harder to change as time goes on and can make the game less fun as your grow in skill but are stuck in a lower elo(which I might add low elo play is very self serving, and it is hard to teach yourself out of)those are my only issues with bot games. That and that knowing how to "trick" the bots programming alows you to absolutely destroy them without any game skill lol.
Quote from: mcmcsalot on September 03, 2013, 05:58:39 pmQuote from: popsofctown on September 03, 2013, 05:14:57 pmPlaying bot games doesn't result in elo inflation.It's still a good idea to play with humans because you learn faster.the issue however is that prior to level 30 the game matches you against similarly skilled players of similar level. Once you are level 30 this pool of "similar Level" becomes everyone. So if you played to level 30 solely against bot yes your elo would not be affected, but you would be at somewhat of a skill deficit and will lose quite a few normal's until your elo matches you with similarly skilled players. This elo becomes much harder to change as time goes on and can make the game less fun as your grow in skill but are stuck in a lower elo(which I might add low elo play is very self serving, and it is hard to teach yourself out of)those are my only issues with bot games. That and that knowing how to "trick" the bots programming alows you to absolutely destroy them without any game skill lol.There's little to no consideration for summoner level in matchmaking. Good smurfs rocket up to playing with 30s before they even get all their summoner spells.
Quote from: popsofctown on September 06, 2013, 01:18:33 amQuote from: mcmcsalot on September 03, 2013, 05:58:39 pmQuote from: popsofctown on September 03, 2013, 05:14:57 pmPlaying bot games doesn't result in elo inflation.It's still a good idea to play with humans because you learn faster.the issue however is that prior to level 30 the game matches you against similarly skilled players of similar level. Once you are level 30 this pool of "similar Level" becomes everyone. So if you played to level 30 solely against bot yes your elo would not be affected, but you would be at somewhat of a skill deficit and will lose quite a few normal's until your elo matches you with similarly skilled players. This elo becomes much harder to change as time goes on and can make the game less fun as your grow in skill but are stuck in a lower elo(which I might add low elo play is very self serving, and it is hard to teach yourself out of)those are my only issues with bot games. That and that knowing how to "trick" the bots programming alows you to absolutely destroy them without any game skill lol.There's little to no consideration for summoner level in matchmaking. Good smurfs rocket up to playing with 30s before they even get all their summoner spells.Interesting, I was unaware of that. I should probably level a smurf to see what the new player process is like. Apparently you HAVE to play bot games till level 5??? Things have changed...
Uninstalled last night. The game's fun-to-time ratio was way too low for me. Especially in ranked -- things even out given enough time, but time is exactly the resource I have the least of.