EPTI can remember my times below level 30 and it took me quite a while, too, but I think it's good because the game is pretty deep if you never played a MOBA game before.
How to make it fun, leveling to 30? - Page 2
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little fancy
Germany2504 Posts
I can remember my times below level 30 and it took me quite a while, too, but I think it's good because the game is pretty deep if you never played a MOBA game before. | ||
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TheLink
Australia2725 Posts
Which in turn means the AD shouldn't be bot and should get a solo lane. But no-one peels anyway so AD's are far weaker than normal and bruisers are king. Which means metagame is totally irrelevent. Just pick what you like playing, buy some wards (assuming they have a jungler) and go kill shit. I know it's bad solo-queue mentality of kills mean everything but they really do when everyone is terrible. Easy kills are worth more gold than farm/objectives. PS: If 2 AD's are demanding bot, or you end up with like trio mid or something then just let them. I kid you not you are more likely to win with these trolls than otherwise. Imagine an enemy AP mid walks to lane and finds he's up against 3 people. He doesn't want to get zoned because thats boring so he dies repeatedly. Team doesn't want to help because they're all filling their roles fine. Blame gets thrown around and opposing team rages out. | ||
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Nimix
France1809 Posts
If you solo queue, you should have able to roflstomp everybody if you have some practice and play mid or jungle, I'm a rather bad dota player, but when I started playing LoL I was able to single handedly win most of my solo games before lvl 15 (and I'll emphasize that I'm really bad). | ||
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OreoBoi
Canada1639 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
On December 14 2012 01:15 DwarfTherapist wrote: I didn't find it so bad. When i go into an f2p game, i compare it to buying a cheap pc game £20/$30. I bought a week long exp boost and several of the per game boosts. Just played like mad with one other friend (we used to play sc2 1v1 and dota2 a lot) so we we're both far and away the better players in every match. I can't remember the exact numbers but i think i was getting 500ish exp per game. When i had nobody to play with i'd grind out solo bot (1v1) games just perfecting my last hit and winning at 11 minute mark for fast exp. 6 of those per hour roughly, pulling in 200+ exp per game. By the time we hit level 30 we only had about 60 normal wins (60:35 iirc) and quite a lot of the 11 minute drills (also useful for perfecting jungle runs). I gotta say, playing ranked was fucking awful. The skill level was SO much lower. In our first game (i play support) my AD friend went 20/0 and i was on something like 2/0/20 playing soraka. turns out the only way we can enjoy the game is playing normals, we get consistently close and challenging games. We tried to stick with ranked, but even at 1600 elo everyone is still so much worse than in the normals. tl;dr it starts bad and only gets worse. Your either exaggerating about your relative skill in ranked or you haven't played enough games to reach your true elo so your normal elo is much higher. | ||
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Fortissimo
Canada145 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On December 14 2012 01:45 Slaughter wrote: Your either exaggerating about your relative skill in ranked or you haven't played enough games to reach your true elo so your normal elo is much higher. My normal Elo is also higher than the ranked one. I can tell because the people play so much better in normals. So I just don't play ranked nowadays. The shiny Elo number is meaningless to me, and it's way easier on playing with friends, because they give themselves less pressure or something like that. More fun. | ||
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DwarfTherapist
United States48 Posts
On December 14 2012 01:45 Slaughter wrote: Your either exaggerating about your relative skill in ranked or you haven't played enough games to reach your true elo so your normal elo is much higher. He averages 10cs/min every game, 190ish by 20 mins. I'm good with bltiz/taric/naughtysupporty and i don't mind playing shit like soraka/sona when needed. Last season his average kd was 15:1 and 300cs/game. You're right about not playing enough ranked to get elo up, we've had games where we literally get 30/0 and destroy our lane, yet somehow team scores are like 30-44 and you realize nobody else has done anything other than run into towers over and over. It's pretty hard to roam from bot, can only realistically help mid. We went on a 15 win streak but it just ended up boring. The game feels like if you don't absolutely destroy the entire game, you'll lose because the other 3 invariably can't cs and can't stop dying. people say "carry harder" but.. it's not happening. We've switched to jungle/mid to have more influence on the game and coordinate ganks, but it's just depressing. It's like running a childminding service, cleaning up everyones puke and crap. Not the game for me any more ;p | ||
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Kickboxer
Slovenia1308 Posts
You guys are somehow natural progamers, but you can't even carry bads to reach your superstar elo which is supposedly way higher than 1600 where "people keep running into towers"? And that's why you play normals with people who started the game 10 days ago, who are supposedly better than ranked players? And you own these 2k elo quality players 30/0 because they are good? El oh el. Sure man, you're not married to Adriana Lima because you've had too much pussy and now it's all boring. And you're not an UFC champ because you beat up 7 adults when you were in grade school and now you're banned from cage fighting for life. Let me tell you a secret. You can't play and you can't stand getting owned, and that's why you're stomping beginners in normal games while everyone else is making their way up the very accurate elo system. Your rationalizations are ridiculous and borderline insane, but in this game, I guess that makes you fit right in with the crowd. Comedy  | ||
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kyriores
Greece178 Posts
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MrF
United States320 Posts
GLHF its a great game once you get some people to play with, also ARAM. EDIT This is literally some of the biggest bullshit I have ever read, and I've read some pretty massive bull in my time. You guys are somehow natural progamers, but you can't even carry bads to reach your superstar elo which is supposedly way higher than 1600 where "people keep running into towers"? And that's why you play normals with people who started the game 10 days ago, who are supposedly better than ranked players? And you own these 2k elo quality players 30/0 because they are good? SO true | ||
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Animzor
Sweden2154 Posts
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Animzor
Sweden2154 Posts
On December 14 2012 02:29 MrF wrote: OK here's what you need to do find some friends who play Lol or make your current friends play, its not hard everyone is or has been in your position so most people are looking for people to play with too, first of all its much easier to win if you are actually talking to your team, not typing, second its just more fun that way. Simberto above me put it better "Don't play alone" GLHF its a great game once you get some people to play with, also ARAM. EDIT SO true Same thing in SC2. People always say "I'm am in silver, but my true level is diamond" or shit like that and blame the fact that they don't play ladder. Same thing with the idiots who think they are going to become progamers if they quit school, as if that's the only thing holding them back. | ||
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TheKefka
Croatia11752 Posts
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rhs408
United States904 Posts
I leveled up to 30 doing solo q (aside from playing duo with my gf, in which we win about 50% of games tops), I felt overall it was a good learning experience - and I had a good deal of fun as well, maybe it's because I'm a relatively patient person... I actually have yet to try ranked games, I feel I'm not quite good enough yet (I think my game sense is very good, but my last hitting is still sub-par) but based on what you said maybe I should give it a try. Even going from normal blind pick games to normal draft games the level of play seems quite a bit higher, I figured ranked would be even tougher, not to mention a lot more anger and stress being thrown around between teammates. I'm guess still having too much fun with the game itself (learning/unlocking new heros) and improving to care about rank... remember in the end it is just a GAME, play it in which ever way gives you the most pleasure! | ||
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denton
10 Posts
Go ahead and quit. You will be back. You do not know why. But you will be. And you will enjoy it again. Ranked is still a sesspool. For normals the trick is to play with at least one other person IF you want to win more consistently. Or ideally play with 3-5 people for more team oriented games (opposition will be teams as well). I was 1900 S2 and the games are much better than low ELO but it is tough to get there. Currently I am trolling at ~1200 elo (by trolling I mean going 25-2 with akali) and the attitude of people is disgusting. It is amazing to see how upset people are at this elo! Long story short, friend people you enjoyed playing with This is KEY. I have so many friends from league that I met through this game. They are all on my skype list and I know them all really well. I play other games with them all the time and we are just great internet friends. Without them I would have quit sure. But that goes for every game. | ||
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denton
10 Posts
You will be a crippled player if you do this. Play at least 2 roles. One of ADC/Top/Mid (lane practice) and jungler (so you understand the jungle and flow of the game, map control concepts). | ||
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Argoth.
Germany1961 Posts
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thenexusp
United States3721 Posts
On December 14 2012 02:57 Argoth. wrote: Seriously dude, do yourself a favor and get like 3-4 champs for every role (the cheap ones are fine) and try Normal draft. It's soooo much better than blind pick where people just instalock. ^ yes this. Some people flame you if you don't have runes or aren't level 30 though... | ||
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La1
United Kingdom659 Posts
I find normal to be a complete waste of time, I am currently learning shaco / skarner for my jungle and i notice normals are just awful, people dont ward, people play stupid charas as they dont want to support, I had signed GP bot a few days ago but i don't care as it's only normals and it doesnt matter if you lose. The only reason normal is "nicer" is because people have nothing to lose if they do lose, were as in ranked they lose that hard earned elo so they get pissed off when you feed. Also this pre-season i was 2-6 down to 1100ish elo, I am now 1480ish? i won 14 straight to be like 18-6 as i just rolled the lower level players. My advice is to pick aggressive champs or champs which are global. Shen, TF, Karth (Globals) Ahri, Cassi, Ori, Kat (Aggressive) If you kill your enemy enough then you snowball and you win as long as you can cs well also  | ||
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