League of Legends: People still play this game!
 

I'm surprised there's no thread for League of Legends yet! It's a MOBA much like Heroes of Newerth, only the team behind it has some different views on game design/philosophy which make it a completely different game even though it follows in the DotA tradition. The game itself is free to play, with a revolving cast of 10 heroes (called Champions in LoL) that are freely available each week and the option to grind "Influence Points" (IP) to unlock champions at varying costs.

Player accounts have their own persistant level-up system, with each level unlocking a new rune slot as well as mastery point, runes must be purchased with IP while the mastery trees are available provided you have free points. At the summoner level cap of 30, these represent about 1/3rd of your power as a character in the game, although skill generally trumps stats.

Feel free to add me! My main account is garianse, and my smurfs are gariandk and flashfrozen if you want to roll normals without inflating your rating if you're just starting out.

Player List!
Garian: garianse, gariandk, flash frozen
Amphibious: Hoser101
eternal Zero: seizero, Final Sparkle
Bleck: DrBleck
Triad Orion
Kitty: Wozza the Walrus, Tonkatsu the Pig
relyanCe
SkyRiderX: Zurken
BardicKnowledge: RTBardic
Derceto
Prophetik: prophetikmusic
Zircon: cubic zirconium
K-wix: OrlparAmblecrown
Sir Nuts: Cagonaso

I got a few friends who tried to get me to play, but for some reason I cant get past the start up screen the "Play" button is grayed out.

That's really weird :\ Sorry that you haven't had a chance to play. Have you tried contacting their support? I haven't had much luck with them but maybe they've gotten better since last year when I emailed them.

The servers seem to be really out of whack tonight though so I'm probably not going to get any more games tonight, but here's hoping!

Just finished some matches myself. For a free to play game I think its a pretty well made game. The mechanics work well and there are some really fun champions to play.

My in game name is Hoser101 (though looking in to getting it changed). I generally have a premade group with 4 other friends I know in real life, but I'm sure I'd be down for a game with any OCR goers out there at some point.

As far as champions go, here's the ones I've played the most in order of preference:
- Lux
- Irelia
- Janna
- Ashe

I've dabbled in other champions (and have a bunch unlocked), but rarely will I play someone outside of these 4. At least I've got 'em unlocked if I ever do get bored though.

me and my buddies are hopelessly addicted to this game. I'm considering buying the retail bundle to get all the little extras. I've certainly played the game more than 20 bucks worth, but yeah.

Also, the last Penny Arcade comic talked about LoL. It was pretty funny because it was 100% true. haha.

I've spent 200 dollars on it, so it's more than 10% true!

edit: oops, I see that you said 100% now!

Yeah I'll admit I've bought a few skins (And a big champion bundle). Worth it IMO, I play the game enough to feel like I should support the developers with my moneyz.

I have an US acc but I switched to EU because of latency.
I have spent at least 30$ on the game.
It's very fun some times, definitely worth a try.

Miss Fortune has some tig ol bitties.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__...entLoading.jpg

Most females in LoL do. But that might change soon, not every new female champ has d+ cups anymore.

I used to play, but removed it to clear up space.

But I was an avid Heimerdinger user.

Ah, Heimer, the afk in lane for 20 minutes champ and farm up a fast Rabadon's and stack Archangel's champ! Back when he had 7 turrets he was good at surprise ganks in the enemy jungle, and now that he gets additional rockets and grenade projectile speed during his ult he's actually competent at ganking provided he has mid pushed all the way in.

I play this. My summoner name is seiZero. Look me up! But if you're not level 30 or feeling up to playing your best to try and win my primary alt's name is Final Sparkle.

Unfortunately I'm not usually on to play unless I've already got a group going in. There are a bunch of ways to get a hold of me though (steam, fbook, PM, etc) so I'll gladly play as long as you can get a hold of me. The HoN crew can attest to the fact that I used to be pretty intense with games like this but I've mellowed out quite a bit in my opinion. I tend to play all of the carries (both AD and AP) and rack up kills and bring the team to victory by breaking enemy spirit but I have experience and can confidently play any hero in the lineup. That's both in their proper roles and then completely disregarding their role and playing them like a carry. Most notably I've done this by going solo mid with Shen or Amumu and just killing people. Though if I had to pick four at random I'd say (in no particular order) Akali, Warwick, [insert ranged AD champion here], and LeBlanc.

Those turrets just pwn all foes. ^.^

my name is DrBleck but you have to IM me and tell me to play

eternal Zero, you're effectively the guy who made me quit playing HoN! It wasn't your fault, my team (In an all friends 5v5) cussed me out for feeding your Maddman mid as Andromeda! I'll definitely vouch that you're a playing for keeps kind of guy, which is pretty awesome.

My group has been stomping bots lately for the ego boost, but when I solo I tend to try my best. Sometimes I end up carrying, sometimes I am the feeder, that's more because I'm inconsistent in my skill than anything else. Lately I've been on a Jungle Yi kick, but I tend to try to fill in the roles that other people aren't playing. I haven't played Alistar since the remake but before it I was a great Towerstar (that is to say, Sheen and Youmuu's and the old ult).

Holy shit wait hold up. For real?! Uh...my bad, dude. That was a long time ago.

It's no big! Everyone had been playing the game 24/7 and tensions were running pretty hot. Everyone seems to have mellowed out on calling each other out since then so it's all good :)

I play casually. I usually play CC characters like Alistar or Cho'gath, sometimes support. Add me if you want an extra: Wozza the Walrus.

I play casually as well. Don't normally like to get extremely competitive over it admittedly. Summoner name is... Triad Orion. :V

I typically play Mordekaiser, Sona, Cho'Gath, Kayle, and Renekton when he's available. I hope to get into playing Mundo sometime too. ...He goes where he pleases.

I've been playing for little over a year now, and despite the community consisting for 80% out of assholes, the game is really fun to play if you have a couple of decent players in your group! And free!

My characters:

- Katarina
- Caitlyn
- Singed
- Taric

LulzSec haxed it up.

launch client has bumscrewed.

League of Legends is pretty fun.
I use Ashe exclusively.

I recently got Heroes of Newerth, a similar title. It's by far a better game than LoL in all aspects. Graphically, the characters, the skills, the maps, etc.

Any league fans should definitely give HoN a try.
Granted, HoN is 30 bucks and it is technically free to play LoL.

One of my friends plays Jungle Mundo now, it's effing awesome, although he thinks he'll burn out on it soon.

Mahon: I wouldn't say HoN is superior in ALL aspects, but yes the graphical design is definitely much much much better, and I have a gold shield so nyah. Try to keep HoN vs LoL to a minimum, I enjoy both games and would like to see people give both an equal chance :)

relyanCe: Bummer, do you have any verified info?

Also, if anyone wants to queue with me some time I am comfortable filling most roles, the only champs I seem to absolutely fail at using are Irelia and Trundle, but that may just be because of lane matchups when last I tried them. That doesn't mean I'll be particularly GOOD with just anyone, my primaries are Anivia, Tristana, Nidalee, Cassiopeia, Jungle Nunu (AP), and AP Gragas... That is to say, I can generally carry if I'm playing one of those champs :V

no official word from the LoL team AFAIK, but the issue with the client has been resolved at this point.

quite a quick fix.

also, anyone interested in queuing with me, go ahead and add me (relyanCe)

I've been playing since beta and pre-season and LoL has been tons of fun every game. granted that leavers,trollers and disconnects often screw a whole game over sometimes but most of my matches are very evenly matched and really make players focus to win. Feel free to add me if you want - (Zurken)
My champs:
-Master Yi
- Malz
-Mundo
-Shaco
-Akali
- Caitlyn
I can playa bunch of others but these are my favorites :-D

My Champs:

Miss Fortune.

My roommate would be so proud.

I've never tried Jungle Mundo, just your typical laning Mundo. Not even that often, but I liked what I played of him. He's just such a troll and flinging cleavers at people gives me laughs.

I've been playing on and off since the game launched. It's one of the best free to play games out there for sure.

I mostly play Support characters, but last time I came back to the game was to play Brand, which was a lot of fun.

My champs:

-Janna
-Soraka
-Sona
-Zilean
-Brand
-Teemo
-Karma
-Cassiopeia

I mostly play with Janna, Zil and now Brand.

It never hurts to have a good roster of support characters under your belt. I mostly stick to Sona myself, but I've played and done okay with Soraka and Janna. Janna's goddamn amazing, though. Just period. Crazy good.

And Brand's cool, but I just can't really get into how he plays myself, sadly.

I love Janna. It was actually the first character I played, but luckily Janna is one of those characters that always stays good and mostly balanced through the patches and is still helluva fun to play.

Sona is pretty cool too but sometimes I get tired of her VERY passive style of play. You're practically a buff generator with only one worthwhile (but very, very good) stun.

I like Brand's playstyle A LOT. I usually have a defensive playstyle (which comes from my support background) and having a passive that does true damage on every action allows me to hurt my enemy in small stacks and pound him hard when I think it's the time. Plus, Brand excells at team fights. His AOE damage on team fights is absolutely awesome and can really turn the tide on a fight.

With Teemo I also play defensively, hurting the enemy little by little while in laning phase, however Teemo tends to be pretty useless late game (except against melee carries). But I love how people get pissed off getting killed by all the mushrooms I lay down all over the map :D.

Yeah, Sona's extremely passive in the late game but if you focused on Hymn of Valor early on she's a semi-effective harrasser early on, especially if you one-two HoV with Power Chord. It's less effective later on, and by that point you're using your Power Chord to Slow or weaken enemies instead.

But Janna's shield is just... oh jeez. So damn good.

And goddamn those Teemo mushrooms. ....But I do enjoy stepping on them as Mordekaiser with a shield up so I can just kinda laugh that they didn't do anything to me. XD

My jungle Mordekaiser, 100% win. People always ask, are you troll? Then I just say no. Win, every time.

It's fun, you should try it, if you play Morde.

I just downloaded LoL and am eager to learn stuff! It seems a little more casual than HoN, which is good.

In any case, which (if any) of the cheap heroes should I be unlocking?

450 IP: Nunu (AP/Tank that can jungle very well), Ryze (machine gun caster that builds all of the mana items, making him very durable), Ashe (Ranged DPS that can kite better than nearly everyone)
1350 IP: Morganna (Strong support/caster-carry hybrid), Annie (Facerolls QWER for 9001 damage), Janna (Has a shield+steroid that synergizes so well with laning with powerful melee DPS champs), Tryndamere (One of the hardest carries in LoL, melee DPS with a 5 second ignore death ult)

Also be sure to like LoL on Facebook to get Tristana for free with the Riot Girl skin ^_____________^ She's my favourite ranged dps in the game right now even though she's not the strongest.

My advice would be to play with all of the free champs, see who you like and try to build your champ collection up based on that. Around summoner level 10 you might want to focus on building a rune page with level 1 runes for the characters you enjoy playing to keep up with other players. The best bet with runes is to use level 1s until you can afford to replace them with level 3s because the ROI is greatest at level 1.

Another note, Nunu is going to be nerfed in the next patch, but I don't know how yet. He's kinda silly powerful right now though so I kinda expected it. One of my biggest gripes is how Riot tries to manipulate the metagame of LoL by affecting it with every patch. Currently the beefy DPS champs have been very powerful, and they really have been ever since the AOE meta from last autumn fell out of favor.

i usually take the top solo as mordekaiser, but i can see how jungling with him would work.

fucking annie

I play under the username Derceto. Feel free to friend me, been playing since the beta, over 900 wins. I'm happy to play with any of you, regardless of skill, I'm much more concerned about playing with cool people who are nothing like the 80% of the LoL community that are douchebags than I am with winning. If you're the type that rags on team mates when they have a bad game don't bother. And I play anything AP, though my best are probably as follows

Anivia
Janna
Heimerdinger
Cassiopeia

though I also play a mean:
Ap Cho, Ap Kogmaw, Ap Gragas, Karthus, Orianna and Tankrawka

I've never actually tried a Junglekaiser run. How would that work in terms of Masteries, item build, and the like?

I'm just used to laning and pushing with Morde, either solo or with a partner.