Gosu League of Legends: How to win League of Legends games: tips, tricks, strategy, tactics, guides, links, tier lists, videos, and resources for advanced League of Legends gamers!
You guys know how much I love the Champion Pack! And guess what??? It's now25% off! That's right! You can now own your favorite League of Legends Digital Collector's Pack for a whopping25% off the cover price for a limited time only!
Getting this Champion Pack has helped me and my friends out so much by giving us instant access to 20 powerful champions and three Tier 3 runes! (Normally, you can't buy Tier 3 runes until you hit level 20, but if you get the champion pack, you can use them right away!) You can give these champion packs out to your friends for birthdays, for Christmas presents, and as prizes for winning our local League of Legends tournaments! And they will all love you for it ;-)
To improve performance, there will be scheduled platform maintenance this Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 1:30 AM - 5:30 AM PST. During this time, the servers will be offline. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!
Note: Soft Shutdown begins at 12:00 AM. Players already in game will be able to finish but no new players will be able to launch PvP.net.
I know, it's kinda corny. But if I met a girl while playing League of Legends, I'd totally ask her to have a League of Legends wedding together (lol)! And of course, we'd rock out with a party in the middle of the lanes!
If I were to have a League of Legends wedding, this is the song that I would play for our dance!
Congratulations to my own tourney team, the Emerald City Chau Chaus! Our team participated in the Seattle, WA local League of Legends tournament at [GameClucks] and made it to round four of the tourney!
Our team rolled through the first match without a hitch for our first victory!
The second match was a bit tougher and sent our team running for the hills for our first loss!
The third match looked much better as we took the other team by storm!
The fourth match saw a much more dismal fate, as our team was destroyed by their team of four tanks!
Don't sweat it, team, the next tournament is in two months! Practice hard!
I made a quick poll about item builds on champions on the official League of Legends forum. Click on the link below to vote!
"So how many of you have started a game, and used your own custom build, only to get flamed about it? What did you say to those flamers? Did they continue to flame you throughout the game even when you did the best out of both teams, you had the highest score, and you did all of the damage on your team?
List some examples if you can. And let us know if there really is "ONLY ONE BUILD FOR A CHAMPION" like these flamers say."
I recently queued with someone from the European (EU) who claimed that the EU server was better than the North American (NA) server. He said that I could never get to his ELO on the EU server. I wondered if this was true, but upon comparing his 0/0 Jarvan to my 5/2 Tryndamere that game, I thought I'd give it a try.
"You will get eaten alive on the EU server, they are so much better than you are," he said after hearing about my plans. "I am only smurfing here on the NA server, I assure you that I can completely stomp you on the EU server."
I look forward to challenges.
So today, I started a new account on the EU server under the name "LXRemmixS2" (Click here to signup for an EU account - make sure to change the Region setting to "Europe", otherwise you will be signing up for the NA server!) . I used the "Server Switcher v4" software (designed by Silviuvlad) to avoid having to reinstall my League of Legends client all over again. After downloading the file, I simply copied them into my League of Legends folder, and opened the "N2E.exe" file, which brought me to the EU server login. I actually recommend it because of its convenience. To obtain it, just click here. You need to complete a quick survey in order to download it, but it only takes a minute and the software is well worth it! Just make sure to make a copy of your entire League of Legends directory before using this, just in case you want to remove any changes.
(But if you insist on reinstalling a fresh copy of the game for use on the EU server, click here to signup to the EU League of Legends server. Make sure to change the Region setting to "Europe", otherwise you will download the NA copy, which is not what you want! It is a small download for the first file, but the patcher will download the complete client which is ~2GB in size, so be prepared to wait for it to download and install!)
Then, I proceeded to use my League of Legends Digital Collector's Pack which provided all of the champions I needed, $10 worth of RIOT Points, a few runes, and a skin included in the bundle. I did this so that I could hit the ground running and start kicking butt immediately! After that, I looked at my tier list, Remmix's Normal 5v5 Solo Queue Champion Tier List, and picked a champion from the top two tiers which I was comfortable using. I chose Annie, since my team needed a mage.
As expected, my first game was a success! It was fairly easy to distinguish just who the new players were against who the experienced players were... like me, there were veteran gamers who created new accounts as well. Still, they did not stand a chance against my Tier 2 Annie! I accompanied my two tanks (Rammus and Malphite) into battle and spammed my spells to the best of my ability. It wasn't long before we achieved victory!
So far so good, and I have quite a ways to go before I reach level 30! I can't wait to reach level 30 and face the more experienced EU players! I will definitely have to keep you guys posted about my experiences... so stay tuned for updates!
(aka Team FnaticMSI or Fnatic.MSI or FnaticMSI.LoL)
Here is the final Tournament Bracket:
If you missed the two final, heart-thumping matches, you can view them here and in FULL HD!
Watch the Final Upper Bracket Season One League of Legends Championship Match here:
Upper Bracket Final Fnatic vs. aAa Game 1
(Fast Forward to skip the long introduction commentary)
Upper Bracket Final Fnatic vs. aAa Game 2
(Fast Forward to skip the long introduction commentary)
In the first match, Team Fnatic received their desired picks and played very well, ending the game early with very few deaths. Toward end game, the score was 15-0 until FnaticMSI Shushei went in, rambo-style, to give their team their first kill! Things were looking great for Team Fnatic!
The second game proved to be more challenging than the first. It looked like aAa used the intermission to productively hone in on FnaticMSI's weak points! aAa really started to pour it on thick as they won battle after battle! The second game was definitely a lot closer and more competitive than the first game. Things really were looking dismal for FnaticMSI toward mid-game. But as late-game approached, FnaticMSI won the more crucial battles, resulting in a 2-0 victory over Team aAa!
It was tough. It was intense. But in the end, there can only be one! Congratulations to Team Fnatic on winning the Season One Championship Tournament and the $50,000 Grand Prize! Looking forward to Season Two!
[Edit: the livestream is no longer active, since the event is over now. If you are looking for the final two championship matches between aAa vs. FnaticMSI, then click here to watch them].
Guys, I am going to go out on a limb here and profess to you my anti-religious views about a popular topic. So guys, how many of you are stuck in ELO Hell and how many of you have gotten out of ELO Hell fairly easily? The bigger question is: do you believe that there really IS an ELO Hell, or is it just an excuse made by players to make themselves feel better about staying at a low ELO?
Of course, what I have to say is solely my opinion and my opinion only: ELO Hell does NOT exist! I firmly believe that whatever ELO you are in is the ELO that you deserve to be in, especially over a large period of time. Think about it: if you don't deserve to be in the ELO that you are currently in, then you will rise above the ranks very quickly! This is because a low ELO with 5 baddies on the enemy team versus the 4 baddies on your team will naturally get stomped on by the only good player on your team (which happens to be you, correct?). You will simply win more games than you lose, and your rank will slowly go up and up and up!
I actually made a poll about this on the official League of Legends forums, and I would love it if you could vote on it by clicking on the link here:
There has been some PVP.net issues all day today and although I could deal with the lag, it seems that Riot feels the need to shut down my favorite game! I can't log on or anything!
If you try to log on, you will be put into a 10,000 person queue and even after you get IN to the game, you will find that there are no friends on your friends list! PVP is having some issues right now and I am getting restless, as I really want to play right now!
Anyhow, hang tight summoners! I am sure that Riot will not let us down!
In the meantime, I am excited to announce to you that I have just finished my first League of Legends ebook, "Top 10 Player Skills That Win League of Legends Games"! You can grab your copy of my FREE ebook by subscribing to my "GOSU League of Legends Newsletter" by submitting your information at the top-right of this page! I am giving away my ebook as a gift to anyone that subscribes to my newsletter! Sweet deal, isn't it?
This book will OPEN YOUR EYES!
Anyhow, hang in there, Riot will fix the servers soon!
[Edit] 6:00pm the server status is back online! Happy gaming!
As you may or may not know, I have been hard at work promoting my brand, "Gosu League of Legends"! And as such, it was inevitable that I would have to branch out into other article directories. I just finished my first Squidoo Lens right now and I'd like to share it with you, my faithful readers! Click the link below!
Are you tired of losing games? Do you want to win more games, but need help choosing strong champions before spending your hard-earned IP and RP? What if I told you that you can start winning more games today just by playing a handful of champions more frequently? Well, now you can win games all day long!
The wait is over!
After many, many, many cups of coffee, Remmix's League of Legends Tier List is here! I have carefully crafted this champion tier list with you (my readers) in mind and with the mindset of choosing champions for you to use and for you to win easily! Each champion has been hand-picked and categorized into different tiers based on strength, ease of use, versatility and some other mumbo jumbo.
Tier 1 champions can help you win over 75% of your normal games. Tier 4 champions are meant for players who have already learned those champions and are really really skilled with those champions. And everyone else is in-between.
