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I play it. I've been a long time player of dota, then jumped ship to HoN, then jumped to LoL. Timelordwho, Cestin, and Vataro have accounts, though Vataro prefers HoN.

My account name is Allegorical.

Timelordmu, due to thieving name thieves.

Yeah, I saw you added me. I'm pretty much a newb just trying out every character I can find. I seem to like ranged types like Kennen, Tristana, Janna and some others whose names I forgot. Kargath?

Also LoL's community is fairly hilarious.

Game says your username can't be found. Are you sure it's right?

I never really had problems with leavers, but I probably just got lucky. IF you climb in ELO rating you will start to see less of them. Unranked ELO is invisible, but you start at 1200, and according to lolbase.net I'm around 1530 ELO and I basically see a leaver once every 25 games.

You should also know that these types of games aren't very new player friendly. That's not to say the community is awful; and in my opinion of the three main games LoL has the most pleasant community. But the nature of the game means there isn't really a training zone or a chance to learn without it affecting gameplay. You kind of have to learn on your feet.

A few general tips for someone who has never played these types of games before.

1. Know where your enemies and allies are. If several of your enemies are missing and you push too far alone, then you will probably get ganked. Pushing alone too far in general is a bad idea.
2. Buy boots sometime early in the game. They probably shouldn't be your first item, but a second or third definitely. It's a huge mistake to get them much later.
3. Don't over-specialize with your items. Ashe is one of the champions on free rotation at the moment. She is best built as an attack damage type character (getting damage items, attack speed, critical hit chance, armor penetration, and more). However you should still get at least one defensive item on her, otherwise she will often be too frail to stand up long in the fight. You shouldn't be a glass cannon, you should be a tempered-glass cannon. Likewise with tanky champions like shen you shouldn't be purely a brick wall, you should be a spiky brick wall.
4. Last hit the minions. You only get gold from the kill if you deliver the killing blow. You gain some gold over time regardless, but it is very little. Most of your gold will come from killing minions, towers, and champions.

That or be Kennen. <3

If I can find how to add people I will add you guys.

more like I got username and charactername confused.

In other news, Shen is a whole new take on the game, and I greatly enjoy playing him.

I sometimes play carries, the only true carry I own is Ryze, but it just seems like that whenever I'm not playing a tank, I feel too squishy. I think it has something to do with morale, because I oftentimes do die more when I feel like I'm not going to perform top-notch, because I'm so unused to DPSers.

Also, does anyone here play Twitch or Teemo? If you do, I hate your guts, please die, etc. Those two **** me off the most out of all of the champs.

I occasionally play pentakill twitch. But I enjoy suicide Karthus and Malz a bit more currently.

Edited, Jan 8th 2011 11:32am by Timelordwho

Woah, slow down there. I love playing with people who play only tanks. It tends to mean they are good at them.

Heimerdinger foreverrrrr!

I Shen me some shen shen while I shen a shen. Comphreshen?

Yeah, this is a vlad post.

Edited, Jan 9th 2011 7:38pm by Allegory