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General Gameplay
Players are formed into 2 even teams of Champions, 3v3 or 5v5. As of 29 December 2011 there are 90 different released champions. Each team starts at opposing sides of a map in an area called the Spawning Pool, near what is called a Nexus. A match is won when either team's nexus is destroyed. To destroy a Nexus, each team must work through a series of Turrets. Turrets are often placed along a path to each base referred to as a Lane. Along the way, each player gains levels from killing the opposing team's champions and Minions (small NPCs that constantly spawn and attack the other team) and defeating neutral monsters (some of which grant buffs known as crests upon death). Completing objectives rewards players with gold which is used to purchase items. In League of Legends, each player starts at level 1 at the beginning of the match and can obtain the maximum of level 18 with their champion, leveling 4 different champion-specific abilities.
Game Modes
- Normal:
In a Normal game, players queue themselves to the automatic match-making service either alone (Solo) or as part of a group. The server then automatically creates a game and attempts to populate it with players in a way that both sides have a 50% chance to win. The players are rated in a hidden Elo rating based on the outcome of normal mode matches they participate in, and the server uses that rating for future match-making. Only the win count of the player in normal mode is displayed publicly, losses and Elo are not displayed.
- Dominion:
Dominion is a new game type announced by Riot Games. It was released on September 26, 2011. Dominion brings faster action and tactical gameplay played on an all-new map, the Crystal Scar, and features a new Capture-and-Hold playstyle. Players choose Champions, as in the "standard" Summoners Rift games, but the Inhibitors and Turrets have been removed. Instead, the map has five Capture Points. Capturing one of these points will turn it into a Turret for your team, and allow it to start spawning the minions that the Nexus spawned in Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline. Item availability is also different in Dominion, with some items available in Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline disabled, while other new items have been added. Two Summoner's Spells available in "standard" games have also been disabled, with two new ones taking their place. The new game type is aimed to be much shorter than conventional 45-minute classic games: most Dominion games average about 20 minutes in duration.
- Ranked:
The Ranked mode became available to players of level 20 and higher when Season One officially commenced on July 13, 2010, but was later changed to only be available to players of level 30 (players can still queue for Ranked games if they're over level 20, but only if they are in an arranged team). While this mode plays much like Normal mode, two main differences exist. First, the game uses Draft Mode where each team can ban up to 3 champions from the game (so no players may play them) and the two teams cannot play the same champion (so if team A takes Ezreal, team B cannot take Ezreal). In addition, you also see your enemies champion picks before the loading of the actual game (So that your team can arrange your team depending on which enemies you are facing)(There is now an option where normal games will also use draft pick but not use Ranked ELO). Second, an exclusive, visible rating is calculated based on the player's performance in Ranked games. The player is placed on the ladder according to their rating, and top teams on the ladder have a chance to compete in the "$100,000 Global Finals" at the end of the season. Season One has ended after the dreamhack Season One tournaments. Season Two, launched in November, introduced the addition of six-ban games, ranked teams and a complete change of the masteries.
- CoOp vs AI:
Co-op vs. AI is a mode where players are matched either alone or as part of a group against a team of bots. Currently, this mode is only available on the 5v5 map, Summoner's Rift. Players can choose either beginner or intermediate difficulty.
- Custom:
Custom mode allows players to manually create custom game sessions that other players can find on a game list and join. Players can add computer controlled champions (bots), set password, and set the maximum number of players in Custom games. Custom games now also allow players to view the game in spectator mode, which allows up to 8 players to view the video game.
meta-game
- Summoner
The Summoner acts as the persistent element in the game, to be used to track statistics and scores for each player.Summoners gain experience points and Influence Points for each battle they participate in. They level up by getting enough experience, unlocking new ways to influence battles.The Summoner can also choose two summoner spells to bring with it into an in-game session on the Fields of Justice. These spells significantly impact gameplay, and have a high cooldown while costing no mana. All spells can be improved by masteries.
- Masteries
Masteries are perks that affect gameplay, they are commonly referred to in other games as "skill-trees". All of the masteries are passive effects although some augment summoner spells, which can be activated. They are grouped into Offensive, Defensive, and Utility categories. Each group has 6 tiers, within a group all but the first tier are locked when you first start, with a successive tier opening with each 4 points spent in the same group. Lines in the mastery tree imply additional unlocking criteria. The summoner can put one point per level (up to level 30) into masteries. Masteries can be re-distributed at will between battles. As of May 23, 2011, players were allowed to have multiple saved mastery pages.
- Runes
Similar to masteries, runes affect gameplay in minor ways. Runes are categorized into Marks (offensive), Seals (defensive), Glyphs (magic) and Quintessence (utility). They are also grouped into 3 tiers, higher tiers requiring a higher Summoner level. Runes must be unlocked in the Store and it is possible to have more than one copy of a rune. Summoners must arrange their runes in the Runebook to benefit from them. The Runebook has limited number of slots for each rune type. The book has two pages, allowing two different rune builds to be saved and the appropriate one chosen before a battle. More rune pages can be purchased from either Influence Points or Riot Points, however the 7 rune page combo can only be purchased with Riot Points. A combining system exists for runes: combining two equal-tier runes produces a random rune of the same tier, while combining 5 equal-tier runes produces a higher-tier rune.
- Store
The League of Legends Store allows Summoners to purchase additional options through Riot Points (RP) and Influence Points (IP). Riot Points must be bought using real money, while Influence Points are earned by playing the game.
- Champions can be unlocked for either RP or IP.
- Skins are alternate looks for champions that can be unlocked for RP only.
- XP Boosts that can increase the amount of XP gained per game over a period can be purchased for RP only. There are two types of XP boosts, ones which last a certain amount of time, and ones which last a certain number of wins. XP gain is doubled while an XP boost is active, though if an IP boost is also active it is tripled
- IP Boosts that can increase the amount of IP gained per game over a period can be purchased for RP only. There are two types of IP boosts, ones which last a certain amount of time and grant double IP (Triple if an XP boost is also active), and ones which last a certain number of wins and grant 150 bonus IP per game.
- Runes can be purchased for IP only so as to not directly "sell power".
- Others, Extra Rune pages, and the ability to change your summoner name. And they can only be purchased with IP or RP.
- Bundles that unlock a large selection of champions can be purchased for RP only.
- Riot Points can be recharged by credit card, PayPal, Paysafecard and SMS.
Development
Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, the previous designer of the popular Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map, DotA Allstars, and Steve "Pendragon" Mescon, the administrator of the former official support base for the map (www.dota-allstars.com), were involved with Riot Games in the development of League Of Legends. Using the original DotA created by Eul (the original Defence of The Ancients map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos) as a base, Guinsoo made DotA Allstars by inserting his own mix of content, largely expanding the number of the heroes, and adding recipes, numerous items and various gameplay changes. Guinsoo then passed version 6 of the map on to its current developer, IceFrog.
The idea of a spiritual successor to Defense of the Ancients that would be its own stand-alone game with its own engine, rather than another Mod of Warcraft III began to materialize at the end of 2005. League of Legends was born "when a couple of very active DotA community members believed that the gameplay was so much fun and so innovative that it represented the spawning of a new genre and deserved to be its own professional game with significantly enhanced features and around-game services."
Riot Games was co-founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill. They partnered with some of the key creative minds behind the creation of DotA-Allstars, Steve "Guinsoo" Feak and Steve "Pendragon" Mescon. Riot Games officially opened its office in September 2006, and currently has about 100 people working on League of Legends, "including their robust technology platform to service and operate the game as well as a team dedicated to community relations."
According to Marc Merrill, when creating the various champions in the game, instead of leaving the champion creation to just a few people, they decided to open up the champion creation process to everyone in the company based upon a template where they could vote on which champions made it into the game.
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