My girlfriend plays League and whilst from just listening to her play I have a vague understanding of the game, I still don’t really get it. I’ve asked her but she’s absolutely awful at explaining things.
Some questions that have sprung to mind whilst listening / watching her play: what’s a lane? what’s mana? how do you win/lose? ~~why does this game make her so angry?~~
I’m also not much of a gamer so please dumb it down as much as possible – I’m just a clueless boyfriend that wants to enjoy his girlfriend’s interests.
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It’s so nice of you to take some interest!!
League of Legends is sort of like capture the flag. Two teams of 5 are put on a map, and each team has a base. Your goal is to push into the other team’s base and destroy their nexus to win. There are three lanes that connect one base to the other (and different types of characters do better in different lanes, but that’s a whole other story).
But you can’t just run straight into the base, because it’s protected by a bunch of turrets that will easily kill you before you can kill the nexus. Also, the players from the other team will try and kill you too. So what you need to do is kill minions (weak NPCs that just run down each lane until they get killed), which give you gold and make you stronger. The turrets also will attack minions before attacking you, which gives you time to destroy the turrets without taking damage.
Each player controls a character (champion) that has abilities and attacks which they can use to kill minions and players on the other team. The abilities use mana, so you can’t just spam stuff. If you die, you have to wait anywhere from 15-60+ seconds to respawn, which allows the other team more time to destroy your turrets and nexus without you being able to defend it.
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