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Blog entry by Lottie Gatling

League of Legends: Getting Started (A Beginner's Guide)

Standard ability distribution of Double Up first, Strut at level eight, Make It Rain at level 14. High attack speed is critical for those last hits so get Berserker’s Greaves and Rapid Firecannon. Then start picking off weak units to stack Legends before delivering the Coup De Grace on enemy champi

Standard ability allocation with Double Up until level seven or nine, then switch to Strut until level 14 where you switch to Make It Rain. Stick with your teammates, focus on champion kills, and you’ll be a powerful

Standard ability allocation, Infinity Edge to milk Critical Strikes, Essence Reaver to keep pausing abilities, and attack speed boosting items like Berserker's Greaves and Rapid Firecannon are recommended. Early game you’re farming minions in the bot lane, mid-game you switch to objective stealing and assisting team fights, late-game you’re focusing on tower takedo

Things are slow in the early-game as you’ll spend your time warding, now and then you can ambush opponents to take advantage of Phase Rush, but be patient otherwise. In mid-game start roaming to join or kick off team fights. Use Knight’s Vow to keep teammates alive using your b

Most enemies expect Tahm Kench users to exploit Devour, your goal with this build is to punish that expectation by leaning on Tongue Lash and Thick Skin to act as a slow moving dueler from early to mid-game. Spirit Visage and Righteous Glory are key to this build against any team t

In the early game focus on Tongue Lash for farming, level 10 or so switch to Thick Skin, and at level 14 prioritize Devour. Your goal is to take the hits with Thick Skin and Devour allies when they’re close to dying letting you take the fall instead. Your goal isn’t to get kills, but to help your weaker allies survive so they can get ki

Another blade-wielding assassin, Akali in her genuine form looks as if she’s one of the Mortal Kombat female ninjas. In other words, you know exactly what to expect from this dangerous and murderous champion. And that’s what makes some of her alternative skins even more valuable as they tend to create fully original lore behind the charac

This bears many similarities to other builds, but focuses more on last hit kills and ganks to serve your team. Legend Bloodline requires you to do this to get stacks to boost damage and Coup De Grace helps you get those kills when champions are woun

SK Gaming finished as the second-worst team in the League of Legends European Championship this past spring. After winning just four out of their eighteen total Riot Forge Games, SK announced some major roster shakeups that they hope will help propel them back into competition among Europe's fin

Because of this, she can be tailored to many different playstyles which is part of why she’s so popular in this multiplayer game. If you’re interested in trying out this Bounty Hunter here are some popular builds to get you star

Slowing and Stunning are your main tools to get kills and dumping your points into Tongue Lash achieves this. You’ll die a lot even with points in Thick Skin at Level 10 or so, but you’ll be getting a lot of kills to make up for

After what felt like an incredibly long offseason, these past few days have been chock-full of excitement for League of Legends fans around the globe. Live games are back with the start of China and Korea's Mid Season Cup and we're finally beginning to see teams announce their opening day rosters for the start of the Summer Sp

As mentioned, all champions begin at level 1 at the start of each match. Leveling in a game can provide perks like more HP, MP, movement speed and defense. In order to level up. champions will need to defeat enemies or kill opponent champions. Also going to jungle camps and killing there is another way to gain levels. They will also drop gold that can be used to upgrade specific stats and unlock abilities. The max level players can reach in a single game is

This build requires players to be able to read an opponent’s moves really well and jump on opportunities (but recognize when it’s time to bail). Most of your time is spent roaming to see where you can provide the most benefit and use your ultimate to quickly help your carr

This build leans on your team quite a bit but offers an unstoppable wall that can disrupt enemy attacks towards the late-game. Items like Righteous Glory and Shurelya’s Reverie enhance HP pools, regeneration, and movement sp

After the whole Dardoch situation, many were left wondering just who TSM would announce as their starting jungler. The fan favorites turned in-house, deciding to promote Academy jungler Mingyi "Spica" Lu. Spica made his LCS debut with TSM back in Summer 2019, where he notably stole baron against Flyquest in his first ever LCS game. He then stole baron again in his playoff debut later that season against Clutch Gam

This build has you use Tahm in Top lane to duel while diving into other lanes to harass opponents. In the early levels most points go to Tongue Lash, level eight or so dump points into Thick Skin, then at level 14 spend it on Dev