League of Legends

If you have played DotA before, then you should know the basics of the game play. If you haven’t, don’t worry, because there is a tutorial that goes over the basics.

As a summoner, you will also have spells. A level twelve summoner will get you the final spell. Before a battle begins, you can choose two of 14 spells. Some of these spells are upgraded through masteries. You will automatically have two spells equipped. These spells are heal and revive. Heal restores the health of your champion for one hundred forty plus twenty times your level and half that to nearby allies. Revive will instantly revive your fallen champion.

You can view anything involving your summoner, such as the masteries, in your summoner profile. The first tab contains your entire profile. It has your summoner level, experience, any boosts that you have purchased, and the number of points you have allocated into which masteries. Next to your experience bar and level, you will see the statistics overview of the player-versus-player matches. At the bottom of the screen, you can see your recent matches. It will show the character picture along with the outcome, the type of game, date played, and the EXP and IP gained. You can click on one of these to view that champion’s stats.

The third tab contains all the champions you currently have. As of now, there are a staggering forty champions to play, and they are coming up with more. There are many types of champions. Some champions will have an attribute, such as nuke or farmer. You can type these attributes into the find bar and keep track of all the nukers out there.

Anyway, back to the in-game stuff. The nexus, the main building of both teams, spawns minions. There are three types of beginning minions—melee, magic, and turret. Melee minions are hard to kill, but they don’t do too much damage. Magic, on the other hand, are easy to kill, but do a lot of damage. Turrets are ranged attackers that are both hard to kill and do lots of damage. You gain the most amount of gold from the turrets and the least from magic minions. You will only get the gold if you kill it, though.

My favorite aspect of League of Legends, or LoL, is the towers. They are actually called turrets, but I prefer to call them towers. These towers won’t do as much damage as they do in DotA so you will not get mauled at max level with snazzy items on. These towers will also target minions as the primary target instead, so it is best to stay behind the minions when attacking towers. Once the towers are locked onto a minion, it will show with a white line, making for easier viewing. You can rush in and not worry about it hitting you until the minions are dead.

There is an in-game store where you can use your IP, or any riot points you have, to buy stuff. RP are points that you buy with your own money. IP is the stuff gained by playing games. They store is scheduled to open on November 17.