How to Be a Professional Gamer: an Esports Guide to League of Legends Pdf

FREE HOW TO BE A PROFESSIONAL GAMER: AN ESPORTS GUIDE TO LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PDF Fnatic,Kikis,Gamsu,YellOwStar,Spirit,Febiven,Rekkles,Deilor,Mike Diver | 256 pages | 06 Oct 2016 | Cornerstone | 9781780896588 | English | London, United Kingdom A Beginner's Guide To Esports: League of Legends - CheckpointXP Pro teams compete within their own regions during spring and summer regular seasons. Worlds is the biggest yearly event in LoL esports, and many fans, LoL players, and new viewers will tune in. The name of the genre itself implies a few things. For one, it is a multiplayer game with five players in each team pitched against another five, which makes a total of ten players in every game. It is played online, so it groups and matches players together when they join an online queue. For tournaments, matches are played offline to greatly reduce lag. Summoner is the term Riot Games uses for its players, where they summon their desired champion onto the battlefield to compete in their place. There are champions to choose from as of September In competitions, each player will select How to be a Professional Gamer: An Esports Guide to League of Legends unique champion to be part of their five-man team. This area is outlined by the lighted blue and purple beams of light at the top and bottom corners of the map above. The Rift is square shaped, and split into half diagonally by a river. To do that, the team of five will need to work together to overcome obstacles across the Rift. What makes MOBAs unique is the strategical way in which teams navigate the map, which consists of three lanes. Protecting the base and their side of the map, are towers. Each lane contains two outer turrets on each respective team, which does heavy damage to all enemy units. Because the goal of each team is to get to the other side of the map to destroy the Nexus, downing these towers is imperative. Due to the way the map is split, the team on blue side would start off controlling the bottom half of the river, while the red team controls the top half. To win the game, the team would need to achieve certain objectives before they can secure victory by the Nexus. Because of the way the map is structured, typically one player will go to the top lane the top lanerone in the middle the mid lanerand two at bottom bot laner and support. The fifth player roams the jungle, killing monsters and assisting lanes to gain advantages. Players from both teams will spread out in this formation at the start of every game. This movement across the map is called lane assignments. As players lane yes, a verb against their opponent, minion waves will emerge at fixed timings from their base to assist them. Different champions are picked in different roles, for they serve specific purposes. Professional teams are managed by a team of coaches and staff. The head coach joins the team on stage for drafting, like in traditional sports. How to be a Professional Gamer: An Esports Guide to League of Legends picks and bans, they make the final call for their players on which champions to pick, and in which order. The draft phase happens before the start of every professional LoL game. Each league or tournament may have their own unique overlay, but the standard, essential information is always shown. Below team names, we can see the current series score. FPX leads by two games in this best-of-five series, while G2 has not won a single game so far. Playoffs are usually played in a best-of-five format. Regions adopt their own format double round robin, best-of-ones, best-of-threes for the regular season. Each champion is represented by their portrait. In the middle, 9. These are game updates that alters the state of the game, where some champions are made stronger than others. Teams would How to be a Professional Gamer: An Esports Guide to League of Legends strategize differently according to each game update or patch. Below 9. As with all in-game names, these are nick names gamers give themselves which they known by in the community, and not their real names. From there, vertically down are the champions that each team has picked for themselves. The players are lined up according to their roles, from top to bottom. GimGoon and Wunder are top laners of their respective teams, Tian and Jankos the junglers, Doinb and Caps the mid laners, Lwx and Perkz the bot laners, and Crisp and Mikyx the supports. The order of players are fixed every match. Once draft phase is over, they can swap champions during the Swap Phase to suit their roles. There is a fixed sequence during picks and bans which consists of two phases. Firstly, three champions will be banned by both teams one by one. Then, the blue team the one on the left side, in this case, FunPlus Phoenixwill pick the first champion. This is an advantage, as they get first dibs. That concludes the end of phase one where three champions have been picked by both teams. They each then ban an additional two champions in sequence in phase two. From there, red team G2will pick one champion. Blue team FPX then finishes off their draft by choosing their last two. Red side then has the advantage of last picking the final champion of their draft. In order to get from one end of the map, to victory on the other, teams will need to complete smaller goals and bigger objectives. Micro goals are:. Bigger objectives include:. The dragon pit is located at the bottom side of the map, while the Baron at How to be a Professional Gamer: An Esports Guide to League of Legends top side. The Rift Herald spawns in the early game, before Baron takes it place later on. When a team slays an Elemental Dragon, they receive a permanent boost to certain stats, such as offensive or defensive power. When a team kills Herald and summons it, it charges into towers and deals a chuck of damage. When the team defeats Baron, they gain a buff that, when near a minion wave, boosts their power too which helps them push into turrets and the enemy base to close the game. Preforming all these actions collectively allow a team to control the map through vision. Think about it like the art of war. As you can see, the ultimate, permanent resource in League of Legends is gold — which can only be earned and not lost. With gold, players will be able to upgrade items for their champions and grow more powerful as the game progresses. Whenever micro goals are achieved, they also gain experience. This helps them level up, which gives them higher base stats and makes them stronger too. When they possess stronger weapons and are of a higher level than their opponents, they are more likely to win skirmishes and team fights. By killing enemy champions, they gain even more gold, and have the opportunity to control a larger area of the map. Riot Games describes it as a cycle: More kills, more gold, more items. Right in the center of the top bar shows the number of kills each team has. All the blue text are resources that the blue team has amassed, and red text How to be a Professional Gamer: An Esports Guide to League of Legends the red team. Even though there are times where teams with more kills has the lead, this is not always the case. A more accurate barometer is the amount of gold earned, the number next to the two gold coins. The team that is leading will have more accumulated gold. Next to that icon is a turret, which tracks the number of towers each team has downed. Below the top bar in the middle sits the game timer. The elemental icons signifies the Elemental Dragons that each team has secured in the game. On the right is the countdown to the next Baron spawn — two of the most important objectives in the game. Adjacent to the champion portraits are two summoner icons. Each player equips two Summoner Spells that give them added utility to make plays. Whether they are available for use, or on cooldown, is depicted. The most common Summoner Spell shown in yellow is Flash, which every single member of G2 equipped. In the example above, Jankos is out of action for 43 seconds. At the bottom right corner adjacent to the HP and MP bars are the two keystone runes that a player has equipped. Runes add or enhance champion abilities and statistics, and give players customizable options to tailor them according to the champion picked and their individual playstyle. They are preset before the game begins, and cannot be changed once it starts. League of Legends champions possess an ultimate ability. It is their strongest ability, or spell, and has the longest cooldown among their other three abilities. Through the HUD, we can see if their ultimate is ready to be used, or on cooldown. The third main component is the live scoreboard at the bottom of your screen. It shows champions in order from top lane to support, and the amount of farm they acquired. Farm includes the number of minions as well as jungle monsters. Usually the supports have the least amount of farm 16 and 64 in this case because their goal is to assist their bot laner and give them all the farm so that they can carry the game.

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