Mission Statement

In the basics page I will show you the most basic knowledge you need to play the game. There's still way more depth that goes into the game, but all this information would be good for a beginner to go into a match and have a sense of what they need to do.

What are the game goals?

The goal of the game is to destroy the enemy nexus that is guarded by 2 towers:

Every lane can reach this goal if they keep pushing, but of course, there are other players that are protecting their towers and trying to destroy yours also.

When you destroy a tower you are granted gold, to buy more items. When you destroy an inhibitor you are rewarded with stronger minions that will push to the enemy base.

When you destroy a tower you are granted gold, to buy more items. When you destroy an inhibitor you are rewarded with stronger minions that will push to the enemy base.

You can purchase your items in the shop. The shop also heals you and has a deathly ray that prevents the enemies to kill you easily when you are here.

You gain gold pasively over time, you are granted 1 gold per second, and also you are granted gold on minion kills. The caster minions give you 14 gold, the Melee minions give you 21 gold, and the cannon minions give you up to 90 gold. Champion kills grant you 300 gold.

For reference this is a Caster minion:

This is a Melee minion:

This is a Cannon minion also known as the Siege minion:

Five LoL Roles

  Before starting a League game, you can choose a role between Top lane, Jungle, Mid lane, and Bot lane. Bot lane is the only role that consists of two players playing in the same lane. It consists of the ADC and Support champion. Here's a visual representation of how you select your roles before starting a match:

From left to right the role selection are, top, jungle, mid, adc, support. Lastly there's fill on the bottom, fill is when you don't care into what role you're being put into in the game.

Every role has their own playstyle, for example the Top laner is who stays alone in a one versus one lane in the most secluded place in the map. The jungler is who doesn't have to lane and has a jungle where they can move around and help another lanes. The mid laner is also a one versus one lane but their lane is shorter and they can also move faster to help the top laner or the bot laners. The bot lane is shared by the bot laner, also called the ADC and the support. The support is who protects the ADC so they can deal more damage, while staying safe.

Champions

Although every champion in League is different and have different abilities, every champion has some similarities. They all have a passive, a Q ability, a W ability, an E ability, and an R ability. The R ability is usually called the Ultimate ability because that's the strongest ability that each champion pocesses. Here's a picture of the overview of this. You can see this more explained in the Champions tab.

Every champion also have stats, altough some of them are different they are the same basics. Here's a demonstration of the stats

Hitpoints: These are the amount of health your champion has. If this number reaches 0, your champion dies

HP regen per 5: This number is how much health do you pasively regenerate every 5 seconds

Attack Damage: This is how much damage you deal with your basic abilities

Armor Penetration: This number is divided into 2 numbers, there's flat armor penetration which arithmetically removes armor from the opponent, in other words if your enemy has 100 armor and you have 10 armor penetration, the enemy effectively has 90 armor. The percentage is how much percent of armor you can reduce for your enemy.

Lifesteal: This number is how much percentage of health you can cure yourself by hitting the enemy.

Attack Speed: This number is how fast your champion attacks.

Crit Chance: This number is for a chance that you can critically strike, critical attacks deal more damage than normal attacks.

Range: This number is for how far away your champion can attack.

Movement Speed: This number is for how fast your champions walks.

Mana: This number is for your resources, if it reaches 0 you won't be able to cast abilities.

Mana Regen per 5: this is how much mana you gain every 5 seconds

Ability Power: This is the counter part of Attack Damage, some champions deal Physical damage, and some champion have magic abilities.

Magic Penetration: Is the counter part of Armor Penetration

Spell Vamp: This is the counter part of lifesteal.

Cooldown Reduction: This number is the percentage margin that you can lower your abilities cooldown.

Armor: This is the number of armor points that you have to protect yourself from physical damage.

Magic Resist: This is the number to protect yourself from magical abilities.

Tenacity: This number is to reduce the amount of time that you stay stunned by other champions abilities.

Summoner Spells

Barrier: It gives you a small shield.

Clarity: It givess you a small amount of mana.

Cleanse: It cleanses you from other champion stuns.

Exhaust: It reduces the damage your enemy deals to you by a small percentage.

Flash: It's a small blink that can let you get away.

Ghost: It gives you a movement speed bonus.

Heal: It cures you for a small amount of health.

Ignite: It deals damage to your enemy.

Mark/Dash: It targets your enemy, and teleports you to them.

Smite: It deals damage to the jungle monsters.

Teleport: It teleports you to what you choose.