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Starting Out: Bots or No Bots

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ShadeZ94 ?? Junior Member
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12-18-2012

In my experience, I went into PVP first off and learnt from there. I also found the bots hard when I first started playing with them (About lvl10). I advise trying a couple of PVP games and seeing how you go, just say you are new and ask for help if you need it.

 
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r3lic ?? Member
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12-18-2012

The first thing you have to learn are the champs and what skills they have so you can anticipate what you will be up against. It's hard to go 1 on 1 with a champ and not know if they have burst combos, escapability, stuns etc. Once you know this, it'll become easier to counter them. Keep trying, play passive at first, try to work on your last hitting to get farm, and gradually become better. It's a learning curve, but if you put in the time, you'll get there. I don't recommend playing anything other than bots right now, save yourself the frustration of the populace calling you out for bad play.

 
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wHiSkErTeMx73744 ?? Senior Member
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12-18-2012

I would suggest finding one or two champions that you feel like you can grasp the core concepts of, and dive into PvP.

I've made this statement a while ago when they changed the beginner and intermediate bot AI sometime in mid-season 2. Both beginner and intermediate bots became significantly harder. Even me, a level 30, had trouble fighting intermediate bots, because of the extra boosts that they gain (they get items based off of a timer, while players get items based off gold). I could only imagine what the new players were facing when they were fighting against beginner bots. Since that patch, beginner bots are no longer suitable for beginners, and intermediate bots are no longer suitable for intermediate players. I feel Riot has gotten a skewed sense of how difficult the bots should be, because they've been accustomed to the ways of this game for a long time.

Anyway, I rambled on about not-so-important things. Just play PvP. Despite some of the hate you'll receive, it will be a much better experience along the way.

 
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Eliasin ?? Junior Member
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12-19-2012

The same thing happened to me. I say find your favorite champ and learn all their abilities and aspects. Then practice against bots using that knowledge. If you want guides go to www.lolking.com or www.mobafire.com

 
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ArchDragon97 ?? Senior Member
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12-19-2012

I played bots until level 15. Huge problem. Bad idea playing bots for a long time, unless its now and again to get used to a champion. Just do PVP games, as bots don't give you experience.

I looked at your match history. You seem to want to jungle, don't take smite on soraka. Don't try jungling until you have runes/masteries. You play supports, soraka and taric. No wonder you cant duel with anything. Supports, well, support the carries and team mates and dont do damage, also, don't play akali. Higher skillcap, and you need runes and masteries.

Generally smite is taken on junglers, that farm the jungle and go to lanes and kill enemy laners with you. Don't until your level 20 ish and have enough runes/masteries or your wasting your time.

Your build order seems to be rather ****ed up as well, generally FOR NOW follow the recomended builds, it'll get you started with a decent build.

 
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Señor Blanco ?? Junior Member
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12-19-2012

It's better to stay alive than to get kills. Practice staying alive and farming minions (ie. last-hitting them for gold) and you'll find that your level & items outdo your lane opponent and you'll start getting kills.

1. Stay alive.
2. Last-hit minions.
3. Go to the store when you have between 1000 and 2000 gold and buy the next recommended item (or part of its build tree).

You'll end up dying a few times per game but if you play really defensively by staying behind your minions (choose a ranged/mage champion) and stay close to your towers when you're outnumbered, you'll do better and maybe get a positive kill:death or at least assist:death ratio.

Also what ArchDragon97 said. Don't play supports until you're more familiar with the game, probably around level 10.

 
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Riyshn ?? Senior Member
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12-19-2012

It took until the second page, but I'm glad to finally see someone beside me saying to stay away from bot games. A bot game or two to get the feel of a new champion is fine, but in general if you get yourself too used to playing bots, you just get stuck expecting thier predictability, which will screw you over in PvP games.

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