My son asked me if I would play league of legends with him, so tried it for the first time. So much going on!

Firstly, how does anyone zero in on what hero they want to play, there are so many of them! I feel like it would take a year just to play enough to decide.

Secondly, the purchase UI seems to have been designed to ensure that a new player can never understand it. I’m sure like all things it becomes clear over time but jeez, did a professional team really work on that thing?

Anyway, 2 defeats from 2 games so far, I write to you from the lobby waiting for the third!

  •  Footnote2669   ( @jaykay@lemmy.zip ) 
    1•7 months ago

    Play ARAM and with time you’ll learn the characters. The matches are shorter and you can’t choose the champs, so you’re forced to learn. In ARAM you can only play with champs that you bought and have, or that are in rotation (set of characters that are free to play, changes every week). Because of rotation, you’re more than likely to see the same champs over and over so it makes learning easier. With time you’ll get the hang of it. Have item builds open on second monitor so you can focus on what abilities do instead of figuring out what items to buy.

    •  TIN   ( @TIN@feddit.uk ) OPEnglish
      2•7 months ago

      A couple of people have mentioned ARAM so I’ll take a look. As with a lot of these games, I find assimilating information at speed is not my forte!

      I’m currently playing turn based RPG, Wildermyth, if you want an idea how fast my mind goes!

      •  NattyNatty2x4   ( @NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org ) 
        1•7 months ago

        I used to play League a lot and yea there’s a fire hose of info you gotta learn at the beginning, especially as they continue to add new champs.

        I’d say:

        1. watch some kind of 'getting started video on YouTube, and search for the categories that different champs are in (e.g. support, ad carry, ap, bruiser, jungle, etc). Some of the categories overlap, because some are how the champ plays and some are their job in normal games. Google/YouTube explanations about this too.
        2. If you can get those things mapped out in your head, it’ll give you and idea for what kind of champ each is going to play as and against (i.e. you’ll know if the person you run into is gonna be tanky and hard to kill, a glass cannon, etc).
        3. Probably just stick to playing bruisers and other tanky champs for now so you don’t die right away, and slowly learn as you go.

        Good luck lol