League of Legends - What is it, and who makes it?

[Badfur 13]

League of Legends is a free to play, Real Time Strategy (RTS), and Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. Created by Riot Games, League of Legends is a game for the PC where you control one "Champion", and work with either 2 or 4 others to defeat an enemy 3 or 5 person team.

The game has 3 different maps, The Twisted Treeline, Summoner’s Rift, and The Crystal Scar. The Crystal Scar is a part of Dominion, which will be explained later. All champions start off in a small circle called the Summoning Platform. Here, champions are summoned to the map to fight against other players. The summoning platform heals and regenerates characters that are within its boundaries. All maps contain an area shrouded in "Fog of War", which means that when viewed, you can not see into that area unless you, or an ally, is nearby. The Fog of War area is typically surrounded by trees and shrubbery; players often refer to this area as the "jungle".

The goal of The Twisted Treeline and Summoner’s Rift is largely the same. Destroy the enemy’s headquarter’s; the Nexus. This is done by destroying guard towers in sequential order in order to breach the enemy base.. Every so often mechanical minions spawn in each lane to do battle, through killing minions you gain experience and gold. Experience lets you level up and acquire stronger abilities while gold lets you purchase items to make your champion stronger.

Each champion has a passive ability, 3 normal abilities, and an ultimate ability. The 3 normal abilities each have 5 ranks which are stronger at each rank. The ultimate ability has 3 ranks, and the passive stays the same. The abilities are unique to each champion, and have different effects. Some do damage, some heal, and others are utility. For example, one person can use their ultimate to heal all their allies at the same time. While another person can do damage to all their enemies at the same time. Some people can shield others, and others can shield themselves. Everyone is unique.

League of legends has two different game modes. There is normal mode and ranked. Normal mode is available for both classic, Twisted Treeline and Summoner’s Rift, and Dominion, The Crystal Scar. For classic, there is ranked as well. In normal mode, both sides participate in blind pick, where each side chooses a champion to play, there is no repeating champions on each side. However both teams can have the same character. For example, team A, can have Lux, Karthus, Gragas, Jax, and Garen, and team B, can have Amumu, Annie, Anivia, Sivir, and Lux, in blind pick. There is a Lux on both teams, and everyone is ok with this. Although, Riot recently added draft mode to normal play in addition to blind pick.

Ranked, however, is a different story. In ranked play, there is draft mode, and there are brackets to divide players up. In order to participate in a ranked match, you need to achieve level 30, as a player. Each game gives you experience, and over time, you can accrue enough experience to level up. In draft mode, the captains of each time ban 2 champions from being used. then players alternate between choosing unique champions. No champion can be repeated on either side. Ranked League of Legends games occur during a season. At the end of a season there is a tournament between the top players.

Dominion is a capture and hold type of game, common enough in first person shooters, though not exactly a mechanic seen in Real Time Strategy (RTS), and Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games. It takes place on The Crystal Scar, a symmetrical map in the shape of a pentagon. There are 5 points around the map, and the goal is to capture them, and hold them for a period of time to acquire points. In Dominion's case, the more points you hold compared to the enemy team determines how fast their base's health decreases. It starts at 500 health, and goes down whenever there is a difference in the bases held by each side.

There are a few ways to decrease the enemy base's health in Dominion. The first is to simply kill the opposing team. Each kill in Dominion reduces your opponent's base's health by 2 points. This mechanic stays in game until their base is at 100 health.

Another way to decrease base health is to complete quests. Periodically throughout a game of dominion, a quest will appear. This will mark one of your controlled points and one of the enemy points. The goal is to defend your point while trying to capture the enemy point. If you capture their point before they get yours, their team's base loses 20 points off of its health. I have found that this quest appears twice per game, though, the quest continues until it is completed. It may be possible for it to only appear once if the quest isn't completed by either team.

The final way to decrease the enemy's base's health is to hold points. There are 5 points around the map; both teams start on opposite sides. Next to each base there are two points of capture, with the final point of capture at an equal distance away from each base. If Blue team holds 2 points, and Purple team holds 2 points, with one point neutral, then neither team's base loses health. If Purple team holds 3 points, and Blue team only holds 2 points, then Blue team's base loses 1 point of health every 2 or 3 seconds. While this goes on, Purple team's base remains at the health it had. However, if Blue team turns the game around and now holds 4 points while Purple team only holds one point, Purple's base will be losing 3 points every 2 or 3 seconds. A base loses health based on the difference in number between controlled points.

Riot Games also created a video that explains how the game is done. It is an instructional video that explains everything, with in game footage of the events.

Aside from the game itself, Riot does a showcase every Thursday for fan art and fan related content based on the game. The also frequently post videos on new champions when they are coming out that explain each champion, how to play them, and what they are like. They even have had contests where players can create a song based on the game, and winners receive prizes such as headsets, or riot points, a currency used to purchase alternate "skins" for champions, or even champions themselves.

Each champion has a primary outfit. They also have other outfits called skins. In order to gain access to new skins, you need to either buy them via riot points, or wait for a promotion for a certain champion. Sometimes Riot holds an event where proceeds go to charity or to a place. In the past, for anyone that purchased a "Nurse Akali" skin, the proceeds would go to the red cross.

And seeing as how a good gamer supports his fellow man, we learn that there is a level of humanity behind our games, as with any other.

Written by: Avahur

[Dusky 9]

Um holy Poop that's long. It's good though! I'll talk with you about this tomorrow, hahahahah.

[The Shido 9]

Rocking article...

Could be a two part-er?

Maybe seperate the basic gameplay type, and add the season one video.

And then seperate out ranked specifics and dominion into a second article and include the instructional wrap up.

IDK...its well done though :D

[Badfur 13]

I originally had it as a two part article.. separated into classic and dominion.. but... I could honestly probably divide it into 3 parts.. though it works well as 1..

[The Shido 9]

I originally had it as a two part article.. separated into classic and dominion.. but... I could honestly probably divide it into 3 parts.. though it works well as 1..

that could work as well, up to my editors though

[Dusky 9]

I was thinking of either downsizing or just posting as is and downsizing in the future. Don't take this the wrong way, if we were a normal news teams the articles would be around that length. The problem is that we write for a very busy audience that wants to know details not easily researched. This article is a summary on the game... No review, no special event, no news involving the game. We shouldnt be writing game summaries; as writers, we should aim to convince people to buy or not buy a video game/downloadable contents/product... Or (more commonly) at the very least give them information on why they should/shouldn't buy it. The first paragraph and the one about Riot are the only ones that are really news pieces. I know the first article is still a summary of the game, but its the basic description of the game that many readers (those who do not play the game) will need to connect with the article. The paragraph on Riot centers around a third-party group that some people can't find out from just playing the game or reading a summary. You have superb writing ability, now you must concentrate on writing shorter, more important articles that KSI gamers want to read.

[Badfur 13]

Sure.

[Dusky 9]

This will go up on Tuesday, I believe.

[Dusky 9]

APPROVED AS IS - CLOSE - POST ON OCTOBER 11TH

[KSI Ace 7 97]

Bad, if you can split it up, that would work more than how it is now and would more efficiently work with the KSI way of doing news. This is possibly the best article to bring people to the game who have never heard of it, since we are an Xbox community at this point in time. If you can split it up like you had said, or what Shido had recommended then it would work much better.

[Dusky 9]

What Ace I think is trying to say, is that this article is gonna break Access Denied (the news in the center). Hahahahha

[Badfur 13]

League of Legends is a free to play, Real Time Strategy (RTS), and Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. Created by Riot Games, League of Legends is a game for the PC where you control one "Champion", and work with either 2 or 4 others to defeat an enemy 3 or 5 person team.

The game has 3 different maps, The Twisted Treeline, Summoner’s Rift, and The Crystal Scar. The Crystal Scar is a part of Dominion, which will be explained later. All champions start off in a small circle called the Summoning Platform. Here, champions are summoned to the map to fight against other players. The summoning platform heals and regenerates characters that are within its boundaries. All maps contain an area shrouded in "Fog of War", which means that when viewed, you can not see into that area unless you, or an ally, is nearby. The Fog of War area is typically surrounded by trees and shrubbery; players often refer to this area as the "jungle".

The goal of The Twisted Treeline and Summoner’s Rift is largely the same. Destroy the enemy’s headquarter’s; the Nexus. This is done by destroying guard towers in sequential order in order to breach the enemy base.. Every so often mechanical minions spawn in each lane to do battle, through killing minions you gain experience and gold. Experience lets you level up and acquire stronger abilities while gold lets you purchase items to make your champion stronger.

Each champion has a passive ability, 3 normal abilities, and an ultimate ability. The 3 normal abilities each have 5 ranks which are stronger at each rank. The ultimate ability has 3 ranks, and the passive stays the same. The abilities are unique to each champion, and have different effects. Some do damage, some heal, and others are utility. For example, one person can use their ultimate to heal all their allies at the same time. While another person can do damage to all their enemies at the same time. Some people can shield others, and others can shield themselves. Everyone is unique.

League of legends has two different game modes. There is normal mode and ranked. Normal mode is available for both classic, Twisted Treeline and Summoner’s Rift, and Dominion, The Crystal Scar. For classic, there is ranked as well. In normal mode, both sides participate in blind pick, where each side chooses a champion to play, there is no repeating champions on each side. However both teams can have the same character. For example, team A, can have Lux, Karthus, Gragas, Jax, and Garen, and team B, can have Amumu, Annie, Anivia, Sivir, and Lux, in blind pick. There is a Lux on both teams, and everyone is ok with this. Although, Riot recently added draft mode to normal play in addition to blind pick.

Ranked, however, is a different story. In ranked play, there is draft mode, and there are brackets to divide players up. In order to participate in a ranked match, you need to achieve level 30, as a player. Each game gives you experience, and over time, you can accrue enough experience to level up. In draft mode, the captains of each time ban 2 champions from being used. then players alternate between choosing unique champions. No champion can be repeated on either side. Ranked League of Legends games occur during a season. At the end of a season there is a tournament between the top players.

Aside from the game itself, Riot does a showcase every Thursday for fan art and fan related content based on the game. The also frequently post videos on new champions when they are coming out that explain each champion, how to play them, and what they are like. They even have had contests where players can create a song based on the game, and winners receive prizes such as headsets, or riot points, a currency used to purchase alternate "skins" for champions, or even champions themselves.

Each champion has a primary outfit. They also have other outfits called skins. In order to gain access to new skins, you need to either buy them via riot points, or wait for a promotion for a certain champion. Sometimes Riot holds an event where proceeds go to charity or to a place. In the past, for anyone that purchased a "Nurse Akali" skin, the proceeds would go to the red cross.

And seeing as how a good gamer supports his fellow man, we learn that there is a level of humanity behind our games, as with any other.

Written by: Avahur

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League of Legends is a free to play, Real Time Strategy (RTS), and Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. Created by

Riot Games, League of Legends is a game for the PC where you control one "Champion", and work with either 2 or 4 others to defeat an enemy 3 or 5 person team. Riot recently released a new game mode called Dominion.

Dominion is a capture and hold type of game, common enough in first person shooters, though not exactly a mechanic seen in Real Time Strategy (RTS), and Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games. It takes place on The Crystal Scar, a symmetrical map in the shape of a pentagon. There are 5 points around the map, and the goal is to capture them, and hold them for a period of time to acquire points. In Dominion's case, the more points you hold compared to the enemy team determines how fast their base's health decreases. It starts at 500 health, and goes down whenever there is a difference in the bases held by each side.

There are a few ways to decrease the enemy base's health in Dominion. The first is to simply kill the opposing team. Each kill in Dominion reduces your opponent's base's health by 2 points. This mechanic stays in game until their base is at 100 health.

Another way to decrease base health is to complete quests. Periodically throughout a game of dominion, a quest will appear. This will mark one of your controlled points and one of the enemy points. The goal is to defend your point while trying to capture the enemy point. If you capture their point before they get yours, their team's base loses 20 points off of its health. I have found that this quest appears twice per game, though, the quest continues until it is completed. It may be possible for it to only appear once if the quest isn't completed by either team.

The final way to decrease the enemy's base's health is to hold points. There are 5 points around the map; both teams start on opposite sides. Next to each base there are two points of capture, with the final point of capture at an equal distance away from each base. If Blue team holds 2 points, and Purple team holds 2 points, with one point neutral, then neither team's base loses health. If Purple team holds 3 points, and Blue team only holds 2 points, then Blue team's base loses 1 point of health every 2 or 3 seconds. While this goes on, Purple team's base remains at the health it had. However, if Blue team turns the game around and now holds 4 points while Purple team only holds one point, Purple's base will be losing 3 points every 2 or 3 seconds. A base loses health based on the difference in number between controlled points.

Riot Games also created a

video that explains how the game is done. It is an instructional video that explains everything, with in game footage of the events.

Written by: Avahur

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There are two separate parts; breaking it into 3, or changing the content to how Shido mentioned it earlier would require a little bit more work, but I can do so if this doesn't suit you.

[KSI Ace 7 97]

Works for me, if you want to just post the first one tomorrow and the next one...just some other random time it works for me lol

[Badfur 13]

Where do I post it?

[KSI Ace 7 97]

http://www.ksiforums.org/index.php?/forum/47-community-news/

[Dusky 9]

I decided to add the link to the Wiki page on Dominion where you say that you will explain the concept later, considering that is what the 2nd piece consists of mostly. This way, we can keep the piece as one article, however if Ace/Sungazer/Shido/Badfur disagree, we can still post the 2nd piece tomorrow.

[The Shido 9]

Embed the video into the article...(second one)

Winning

Good ****ing work badfur!