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SCdinner
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada516 Posts
March 07 2011 02:11 GMT
#1
Hey guys. I just started playing Lol in the past week and I am trying to play with my experienced friends and I get plowed over every game. I am just using the free characters right now and I find it hard to get used to anyone because they keep switching every week. I am wondering if there is any begginer friendly starting charcters in the 1000-2000 point range I can purchase and get used to so I don't have to suck so bad. Also I'm an aggressive player and hate standing around towers incase that makes a difference of who is best to start as.
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Fisalia
Profile Joined September 2009
69 Posts
March 07 2011 02:19 GMT
#2
Personally I recommend Evelynn (1350) because she is a easy-to-use character. She is... imo as broken as they come. However, if you want a steady character, I advise Ashe. She's good for starters, and besides hawk-eye all of her abilities are fairly agressive. I also recommend Fiddlesticks (1350), because he can do a lot of fun stuff like drain the shit out of other people, and piss them off beyond belief :D. Lastly is Tryndamere... not much to say about him... but he is a great starter character... just search him up on google. use the words "tryndamere", "how", and "broken" and you can find great ways to play him. GL ^^
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Niton
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2395 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 02:33:49
March 07 2011 02:33 GMT
#3
Ashe, Sivir and Nunu are all strong 450 champions, Yi is good as well. Easier champions that fit your playstyle at 1350 might be Singed, Ryze or Annie.

Poppy and Alistar are very strong, but require more experience, and Soraka, Janna and Sivir are all very powerful but reward defensive play. I'd recommend trying the free ones from this post and seeing if any click with you.
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Senx
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Sweden5901 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 02:37:04
March 07 2011 02:36 GMT
#4
Annie is def your pick, strong AP carry that can stun and has good initiaton and poke that'll suit your playstyle.
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sRapers_ValkS
Profile Joined August 2009
United States644 Posts
March 07 2011 02:41 GMT
#5
You can get Trist for free, she's who I started with and I thought she was a fairly fun character.
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 02:56:18
March 07 2011 02:56 GMT
#6
Free: Trist (ranged carry)
450: Ashe, Sivir (ranged carries), Nunu (jungling), Soraka (support)
1350: Annie, Ryze, Sion (casters), Janna, Zilean (supports)
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Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
March 07 2011 02:56 GMT
#7
If you are looking for a character that you can take to the competitive level, try Ashe or Annie at 450 each. If you just want to pub stomp, you can use Eve, Morde, Yi, trynd, Garen, Jarvan, and a few others. They're really strong up to mid Elo draft, then their usefulness shys away.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
March 07 2011 03:24 GMT
#8
On March 07 2011 11:19 Fisalia wrote:
Personally I recommend Evelynn (1350) because she is a easy-to-use character. She is... imo as broken as they come. However, if you want a steady character, I advise Ashe. She's good for starters, and besides hawk-eye all of her abilities are fairly agressive. I also recommend Fiddlesticks (1350), because he can do a lot of fun stuff like drain the shit out of other people, and piss them off beyond belief :D. Lastly is Tryndamere... not much to say about him... but he is a great starter character... just search him up on google. use the words "tryndamere", "how", and "broken" and you can find great ways to play him. GL ^^

Tryndamere is bad and actually really difficult to play, Evelynn is easily shut down after you get past the meganoobs etc. and it's difficult as well. Ashe imo is too squishy to be reliable in the lower level games.


I'd suggest Sion actually since he can play any role that's needed. Master Yi is awesome for carrying and easy to lasthit and farm with. Non-mana champions tend to be stronger in lower level games in general because of the mana issues. Mundo can stomp like crazy, but imo the best champion to get would be Mordekaiser if you can save up 3150.
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Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
March 07 2011 03:27 GMT
#9
fyi, people refer to trist as free because she comes with the facebook skin
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emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
March 07 2011 03:35 GMT
#10
I just started this weekend, been playing a lot of Annie. Really fun character!
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Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
March 07 2011 03:43 GMT
#11
Sion is great suggestion, aggresive and quite strong. Mundo is bad when you start draft mode, but before that and especially against newbies he is great. I'd also reccomend Cho'Gath, he costs 3150, but he is extremely aggresive and very strong as well; arguably top tank at the moment.
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JFe4R
Profile Joined November 2009
United States54 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 04:07:04
March 07 2011 04:01 GMT
#12
Well maybe you still don't know what type of character you like to play more, base on that and that and that you don't have much experience in the game I recommend you use a dps champion because their role is easier than a tank or a support that needs more decision making or experience to play.

Easy to use and good staring characters:

- Ashe (range ad carry) - 450 IP
you will see ashe throughout every lvl range and ranked matches because she adds so much utility to the team. Range AOE nuke that can poke very far away, slow effect to catch fleeing heros, a scout ability and a good ultimate.

- Nunu (jungler/melee mage tank) - 450 IP
If you ever try to jungle, nunu is one of the best junglers/ganker of the game and very cheap just like ashe, both are use in competitive play. His best asset to a team is him jungle speed and utility to a team with a slow spell and a haste aspd/move spd buff for yourself and a team member. Also his devastating AOE ultimate is game changing if you can land it (it hits really really hard).

- Ryze (mage/ap carry) - 1350 IP
Good dmg and survivability for a mage, i haven't tried him yet since the recent changes but some ppl like him more now because he is more tanky than before. Really easy itemize just build tanky items with mana, starting with catalyst and/or tear of the goddess.

- Sion (tanky/mage) - 1350 IP
Hes a beast, you only need to spam 2 skills to be good with him and he can farm gold really easy. With 1:1 ap ratios he can burst ppl instanly and kill ppl with just 1 combo of his q+w (stun + aoe dmg shield).

- Fiddlesticks (mage) - 1350 IP
His combo can kill anyone .. with his game changing ultimate followed by his sick CC moves like silence+fear into casting "Drain" one of the most damaging starting spell in the game, you can turn any fight into your team favor.

These are 1350 IP but a little more difficult to use but they are also really good. - Janna (support) - Zilean (support) - Annie (mage carry). There are many more good champs on the 1350 range like Mundo, Amumu, Singed but like I'm recommending you the easiest champions to learn and start owning scrubs.
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Tooplark
Profile Joined October 2008
United States3977 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 04:37:21
March 07 2011 04:34 GMT
#13
On March 07 2011 12:43 Scipaeus121212 wrote:
Sion is great suggestion, aggresive and quite strong. Mundo is bad when you start draft mode, but before that and especially against newbies he is great. I'd also reccomend Cho'Gath, he costs 3150, but he is extremely aggresive and very strong as well; arguably top tank at the moment.

MUNDO IS VIABLE WHERE HE PLEASES

Fiddle will crush anyone who tries to outdamage drain in lane, can jungle without runes, has lots of cc, has an ult that just curbstomps disorganized players (i.e. solo queue)... basically fiddle is one of the best solo queue champions. Oh you can also solo dragon, which is nice.
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HazMat
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States17077 Posts
March 07 2011 05:14 GMT
#14
I'd learn Ashe. She is one of the hardest ranged carries to do well with but she is really really strong. Also, her arrows are super fun ^-^.

If you learn ashe now you'll pretty much learn to be pro with every other ranged carry and carry bads in solo queue when you hit lvl 30.
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overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
March 07 2011 05:20 GMT
#15
Ashe is boring as fuck in my opinion. She's also very easy and really good but boring as fuck. I don't get why people are suggesting her to someone who wants to play aggressive as I find she's more of a defensive carry. Tristana would be much better if you want to play a ranged carry that's aggressive.

I think Ryze or Sion are great choices, Sion is tanky and has a stun so you can afford to be a bit more careless with him and you can also gank pretty well. Ryze is good and helps if you want to play AP carry. Really it depends on what your friends play and what role you need to fill. If they're willing to play whatever then it depends on whether or not you want to solomid, jungle, dual lane, etc. For just in general though I'd probably say Annie, Ryze, or Sion as you can get kills with these three and play fairly aggressive (though you have to be careful with Annie as she's pretty squishy).
HazMat
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States17077 Posts
March 07 2011 05:41 GMT
#16
Ashe is not easy. People have this misconception that Ashe is easy because she only has 2 "skills" and no blink. She is a ranged carry that gets punished for making one bad move (unlike other ranged carries that have a blink.) She also requires a lot of game sense because most of the time you'll be the one initiating and knowing when to initiate is a hard and important game skill.

As for her being boring... I know a lot of people find her very boring but I also know people that enjoy playing her, like I. Just try her out and see!
www.youtube.com/user/ShakeDrizzle | League and SSBM content creator | Armada's Youtube Editor
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
March 07 2011 06:18 GMT
#17
On March 07 2011 14:41 HazMat wrote:
Ashe is not easy. People have this misconception that Ashe is easy because she only has 2 "skills" and no blink. She is a ranged carry that gets punished for making one bad move (unlike other ranged carries that have a blink.) She also requires a lot of game sense because most of the time you'll be the one initiating and knowing when to initiate is a hard and important game skill.

As for her being boring... I know a lot of people find her very boring but I also know people that enjoy playing her, like I. Just try her out and see!


Just play defensive. You can't lose your lane vs. almost anyone and it's hard as dick to be ganked. Yeah, it requires game sense but once you have a basic understanding of the game she's way easier than most other ranged carries in my opinion.

And as soon as you hit 6 you can kill the person in your lane so much better than any other DPS ranged carry.
HazMat
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States17077 Posts
March 07 2011 06:23 GMT
#18
Wut. Ashe can't 1v1 any other ranged carry in lane at 6. If you're both around the same hp with same farm Trist, Ezreal, Corki, Urgot will all outdmg you.

And hard to gank? You gank once and make her blow ghost or flash. You then gank again and she is dead. dunno whats hard about that.
www.youtube.com/user/ShakeDrizzle | League and SSBM content creator | Armada's Youtube Editor
Dgiese
Profile Joined July 2010
United States2687 Posts
March 07 2011 07:19 GMT
#19
In my opinion learn one of the cheap jungler's (Nunu or Yi). Jungling is a skill that will serve you well at any level of play, and you'll pretty much be guaranteed to get jungle without having to fight your teammates for it (All too often you'll have to fight your teammates if you choose a character that relies on mid).
gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
March 07 2011 11:25 GMT
#20
i would go with vladimir, galio, caitlyn, ezrael, or karthus
they seem to be what you're looking for
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