New Player FAQ

[quote=DEWO]I did a sneaky edit on your post Mowen to include the megathread for the questions "which champ to buy" :) Sowwy :P[/quote]

[quote=Mowen]Ninja Mod strikes again! Nah but that's completely fine. :)[/quote]

[quote=lumberjak]how i can get hauting nocturne skin??[/quote]

[quote=Nighthawk]^ Pretty sure you can't, as that is a Halloween skin and is only available at Halloween.[/quote]

[quote=TreyDobe]About the normal queue you can view your win/loss ration via lolking.net though I'm not sure how you calculate Elo or anything, I wonder if 17 wins and 18 losses in normal matchmaking good or bad?[/quote]

[quote=Mowen]Thanks! I will add that soon. :) I think you can look at the lolstatistics site for the actual normal elo, I had just forgotten to update that part.[/quote]

[quote=thigh heater]Yo nice post. although i have to comment on the fact its redic you bring up the pronunciation of runes when its all just a personal pref do to the fact it can be changed by dialect and accent and thiers no real reason to care how someone says it but what evz im getting off the subect. Concidering this is a post for newbs me being one of them I was curious about the following as a newb obviously i should start with begginer bots but at what lvl is it fair to fight intermidiate bots (cuz at lvl 5 sum i tested my luck do to the fact begginer bots are way too easy and they were doing way more damage as though they had ruines and a larger mastery set up, they should really put something inbetween beggner and intermidiate and not have such a big gap between them) and is their harder difficulty settings than intermidiate that will be unlocked later? or is it just a very poor scaling and should really just be called easy and hard. What about unranked matchs am i just going to get pit against who ever as a lvl 6 will i be playing a bunch of 30's or is it split up into groups according to lvl and are you awarded more exp and ip for fightng humans? i think along with what you have posted you should touch on some of these type of subjects were to get started type of thing and when you should move forward cause from what i gather from lvl 1 - 29 is just preping you for ranked matches which is a long time for an intro totorial to when the real game starts? cause now that i've smashed some easy bots out id like to try something else and im not sure were to move too.[/quote]

[quote=Mowen]If you play bots / humans it's kind've up to personal preference. I think playing against other people will always teach you more than playing against bots. You will be put with other people around your level. If you lose the first few don't be discouraged, because the matchmaking system will slowly lower the difficulty of your opponents if you keep losing. Intermediate bots are probably still fairly easy, don't know about the rune/mastery difference. I would still suggest playing some normal Blind Pick games to play against other people though. Also it is still pronounced "roons" and not "ruins" no matter what language / dialect you use because there's simply no "i" in the word. However, I put that in there as an inside joke with a friend so don't take it personally or anything. :)[/quote]

[quote=The LZ][quote=thigh heater] Yo nice post. although i have to comment on the fact its redic you bring up the pronunciation of runes when its all just a personal pref do to the fact it can be changed by dialect and accent and thiers no real reason to care how someone says it but what evz im getting off the subect. Concidering this is a post for newbs me being one of them I was curious about the following as a newb obviously i should start with begginer bots but at what lvl is it fair to fight intermidiate bots (cuz at lvl 5 sum i tested my luck do to the fact begginer bots are way too easy and they were doing way more damage as though they had ruines and a larger mastery set up, they should really put something inbetween beggner and intermidiate and not have such a big gap between them) and is their harder difficulty settings than intermidiate that will be unlocked later? or is it just a very poor scaling and should really just be called easy and hard. What about unranked matchs am i just going to get pit against who ever as a lvl 6 will i be playing a bunch of 30's or is it split up into groups according to lvl and are you awarded more exp and ip for fightng humans? i think along with what you have posted you should touch on some of these type of subjects were to get started type of thing and when you should move forward cause from what i gather from lvl 1 - 29 is just preping you for ranked matches which is a long time for an intro totorial to when the real game starts? cause now that i've smashed some easy bots out id like to try something else and im not sure were to move too. [/quote] Welcome to Mobafire. If beginner bots are totally above your level, of course it's not so smart to go against intermediate bots. However, once you're pretty confident with beginner bots, begin practicing intermediate. Also, no, there's no bot level above intermediate. There's good reason to also play against humans, right off the bat. There's no good in being level 30 or near it and not having played against humans much. Because what that'll mean is, you'll get your buttox whipped once you DO play against humans, since they'll be 30 or near it, too. Ranked gaming also isn't something you're even remotely forced to. It's a higher level of play, yes. But you're not forced to it. Many people don't care for ranked and then there's those that do. Plus, you can just as easily play Draft pick, which simulates ranked gaming, without actually being ranked itself. That gamemode is equally good practice, as you'll perhaps see. To answer your other question; Yes, you are awarded exp and IP for playing against humans; just like bot games also award you these things. In ranked games, there's a system called ELO, which is used to gauge player skill. When you start ranked, your elo is 1200. If you win games, you gain ELO and also are pitted against increasingly skilled opponents and vice versa. P.S. If you're able to, it would be really nice if you would make more use of some punctuation. Commas, full-stops and so forth. Because, if you don't, it makes your post hard(er) to read and that might result in you not getting your questions answered :).[/quote]

[quote=thigh heater]Thank you Mowen, and The LZ, but also is thier a diffrence between the ip+exp reward for bot, custom, normal, and ranked games(which i imagine is just an ip reward). to The LZ: i said beginner bots are too easy and intermadiate bots are too hard. but then again i was only summoner lvl 5 so...[/quote]