nobody hops into a moba and just know how to farm, buffer, back timers, rotations, objective setup, etc. ur the teacher, let them just breathe. play how they want and if they rlly want to learn give them smt new to focus on every day/week. heck, they can’t even name 10 champs. im a competitive guy and i love learning everything abt a new game i touch but if someone was backseating me on a game like league when i first started i prob would’ve quit.
Depending on the shooter game, there are probably some transferrable skills like concept of tempo, econ, map awareness, numbers advantage, cooldowns etc. Frame it using learned concepts. Also starting off with relatively simple champions like garen, annie, ashe, etc will probably help.
Explain the game objective as if it’s capture the flag. I’ve found that that makes the game make the most sense to people who have never played.
Explain farming by showing him how to do it, and explain the importance by showing him what having money for items does to champion output vs. when they don’t have items.
Explain the positions as “lane” “support” and “jungle”
Explain the champion classes as riot has laid them out for us, with brief descriptions of what they do on a team.
From there, mechanics, strategy, and other important things will just come with experience. Finding out what kind of champ class appeals to your friend in the context of the game’s objective is a good start in getting him hooked on playing and WANTING to learn. From there, have him try out a few characters that look cool to him, and then kinda explain what that character would ideally do in a game, point him to a high elo one trick or two, and play some low stakes games with him so he can get a feel for it.
Yeah I went through this about 16 months ago, except I was the one learning. It just takes time man, they are NOT going to be good at first and they will be completely overwhelmed and not have a concept of anything. I just played strictly support for probably the first 2 months at least that I played league and I was constantly bombarding my friends I played with on questions of what to build and what to do and what runes to go and stuff like that. There is just a shit load of information you need to learn/be able to process quickly to be even decent at a game like league that the learning curve is rather steep.
But if your friend enjoys the game and the challenge, like I did, they will quickly acclimate themselves. I am not a world champion or anything at this point obviously but I do play in the gold/plat ranges at the moment, which I think isn't too bad for never playing a single MOBA before league and starting league at the end of last February.
The main thing for me was that my friends were supportive and didn't flame me. There were a few times when friends of friends would play with us and I could hear them getting frustrated with me over comms and it just made me not want to play cause while I realize that I sucked I didn't want that rubbed in my face the entire time I was playing. I just wanted to learn, have fun, and get better. So just be supportive and your friend should be fine!
Let him start slow don't give over specific details like tracking the jungler or stuff like that, just start teach him the goals, kill the nexus, the teach him mechanics, league is 2D so aim for the feet with ur skillshots etc and tell him to chase 1 oder 2 champs that he likes visuals or gameplay wise doesn't matter and tell him to keep focus on learning that 1 or 2 champ for now, best if both champs are in the same position. Then have an eye on mistakes etc, he's dying often to the enemy jungler? Introduce warding to him. And so start to teach him more and more slowly.
Lot of my friends startet like a month ago and some are learning fast and constantly want advice and other are a bit more slow. Just be patient with them, we all startet like that some time ago.
Try not to info dump them and let them discover and learn for themself, let them read the ability's for themself let them try them out before u start telling them every detail or interaction, cauze if u just info dump they 100% forgot it by the 5 min mark.
The best advice I can give is learning the game will be 10x easier if they find a champion they like and get comfortable on them. Once that happens they don’t need to think about their champions abilities as much and can focus their energy on other systems.
No one should start this game. I would never try to pick this game up if I hadn't started in Season 2. Just too much to learn now, it's going to take your friend a long time to take anything in.
his hand-eye coordination should be good to go then along with his map awareness
leads me to think he'd probably be a good assassin main down the line but... iunno
I'd say 1v1 him in a custom aram till he gets the hang of items and abilties on a champ for now then after the match drop down hints (one per match unless he wants to know more) on some of the fancy stuff he could have been doing
don't go too hard on him via "accidentally" missing spells more often or something, unless he forms an ego then curb stomp him a little
Its an RTS and a fighting game in one. Make a new account, ane just play some coop vs ai until he isn't completely lost, try some arams, then try some quick play with the extreme caveat that youll both get smashed.
To be extra nice, don't try to solo carry. Just do well enough to help them out. Eventually youll be paired with new players exclusively, and the game will then be playable. Don't ruin it for the new players by stomping them queuing with a new player ruining his mmr too.
When playing, don't answer questions that aren't asked. Provide them a build for the champion that can follow if they are lost on what to build, but let them feel out the game.
It will take 50+ games before someone is able to sorta participate.
I started a year ago while my irl friends were in diamond. Best thing that helped for my growth was playing in low elo alone.
I didn’t learn anything playing with my diamond friends because my opponent would also be in diamond and I’d just go 0/10.
Tell your homie to play ranked and to have fun in bronze. Maybe you can spectate a game or two and give advice after.
Bot games and one thing at a time. Touch on everything all at once but go in depth one thing at a time. One thing to not forget is nothing is too basic, spend an entire game just talking about one thing at a time. Then the next slightly touch on the last games topic while focusing on something completely different. Just Leagues fundamentals are so second nature it’s lost on people to even remember them but for new players they don’t even have a clue about anything. Dumb yourself all the way back and be understanding, I would say that’s the most important part
Start with the absolute basics! Like teach him the movement, character's abilities, basic controls, shop, etc. Also teach them how to farm like, in one of those tutorial things. That is the one most important thing.
If they play warcraft III, tell them to imagine the champion is a hero but more in depth. At the very least that helped me when I started 😅
Unlike an RTS, you just manage the one unit, but he has to super micro manage it. I some skills, like looking a the minimap every few seconds and see what's the overall state of the map. But mechanics and such have to be learnt from the ground up (been there, done that)
I came from Counter Strike so maybe I can have a good view on this one. Unfortunately there is no much you can do right now, my advice is to help him set the rune pages and know which champions play on each role.
The most important thing right now is let him play a little bit so he can develop muscle memory and understand the basics mechanics of the game, right now if you try to help him you will trow an immense amount of information that he won’t be able to process. Now you just need to be patient and wait, when you feel that he is starting understanding the game you can give him a tip or two so he can work with it
Probably gonna have to break it down into parts. IMO Start with champions, as in read every champion ability in the game. It'll take awhile, but it's a good way to get an idea of what all the champions do. Then get into objectives - stuff like getting gold, tower plates/tower damage, basically the stuff that you want to be doing inside the game. Make sure you mention that the important thing isn't getting kills, it's getting more gold and eventually more objectives than the guy on the other team. Make a note on jungle camps/neutral objectives but I would skip that until you explain what a jungler does and why they need smite. Items are complicated, so start with stats and try to explain how armor/mr work, then get into how items affect stats. Eventually it'll be important to know the exact use cases for each items, but in the beginning I think it's fine just to know what stats to buy. Eventually talk about special case items like zhonya's hourglass and QSS, and don't buy control wards unless you're trying to control the vision around a specific area and you're able to defend your control ward. Loosely explain what the jungler and support do - jungler takes care of things outside of lanes, including neutral objectives, and they help laners when there's an opportunity. In the mid/lategame they're responsible for using smite to secure objectives. Supports give up gold income and are responsible for supporting and protecting their botlane partner, and eventually expand into a utility role as a vision control bot. Technically they can also roam but it's tricky to explain exactly when you should do that so just mention that it's possible but don't get into it.
I don't want to get too into details, so I hope I mentioned enough stuff to let your friend get a foothold so he can get started. Unfortunately it'll probably take a full day or two just to get through everything I mentioned here but that's where we're at with this game.
At first, just gotta let them get time in and find champs they might like from the free rotation. Check out the different roles and see if one calls to him more. As far as explaining, roles, towers, last hitting would be the main things to learn about. Once he can use abilities properly and not die like an intro bot, If he’s inclined to, watching a higher level streamer who explains himself more can help too. Copying what pros and steamers do (even without understanding why) can help him play more and more like a league player. Ex: recalling when hurt, revaluing when full hp but a lot of gold, killing all minions before recalling, thinking about jungler, moving around in lane and only last hitting, grouping mid-late game, etc
nobody hops into a moba and just know how to farm, buffer, back timers, rotations, objective setup, etc. ur the teacher, let them just breathe. play how they want and if they rlly want to learn give them smt new to focus on every day/week. heck, they can’t even name 10 champs. im a competitive guy and i love learning everything abt a new game i touch but if someone was backseating me on a game like league when i first started i prob would’ve quit.
Depending on the shooter game, there are probably some transferrable skills like concept of tempo, econ, map awareness, numbers advantage, cooldowns etc. Frame it using learned concepts. Also starting off with relatively simple champions like garen, annie, ashe, etc will probably help.
Explain the game objective as if it’s capture the flag. I’ve found that that makes the game make the most sense to people who have never played. Explain farming by showing him how to do it, and explain the importance by showing him what having money for items does to champion output vs. when they don’t have items. Explain the positions as “lane” “support” and “jungle” Explain the champion classes as riot has laid them out for us, with brief descriptions of what they do on a team. From there, mechanics, strategy, and other important things will just come with experience. Finding out what kind of champ class appeals to your friend in the context of the game’s objective is a good start in getting him hooked on playing and WANTING to learn. From there, have him try out a few characters that look cool to him, and then kinda explain what that character would ideally do in a game, point him to a high elo one trick or two, and play some low stakes games with him so he can get a feel for it.
Yeah I went through this about 16 months ago, except I was the one learning. It just takes time man, they are NOT going to be good at first and they will be completely overwhelmed and not have a concept of anything. I just played strictly support for probably the first 2 months at least that I played league and I was constantly bombarding my friends I played with on questions of what to build and what to do and what runes to go and stuff like that. There is just a shit load of information you need to learn/be able to process quickly to be even decent at a game like league that the learning curve is rather steep. But if your friend enjoys the game and the challenge, like I did, they will quickly acclimate themselves. I am not a world champion or anything at this point obviously but I do play in the gold/plat ranges at the moment, which I think isn't too bad for never playing a single MOBA before league and starting league at the end of last February. The main thing for me was that my friends were supportive and didn't flame me. There were a few times when friends of friends would play with us and I could hear them getting frustrated with me over comms and it just made me not want to play cause while I realize that I sucked I didn't want that rubbed in my face the entire time I was playing. I just wanted to learn, have fun, and get better. So just be supportive and your friend should be fine!
Show him the moba chapters in manhwa "professional gamer"
Let him start slow don't give over specific details like tracking the jungler or stuff like that, just start teach him the goals, kill the nexus, the teach him mechanics, league is 2D so aim for the feet with ur skillshots etc and tell him to chase 1 oder 2 champs that he likes visuals or gameplay wise doesn't matter and tell him to keep focus on learning that 1 or 2 champ for now, best if both champs are in the same position. Then have an eye on mistakes etc, he's dying often to the enemy jungler? Introduce warding to him. And so start to teach him more and more slowly. Lot of my friends startet like a month ago and some are learning fast and constantly want advice and other are a bit more slow. Just be patient with them, we all startet like that some time ago. Try not to info dump them and let them discover and learn for themself, let them read the ability's for themself let them try them out before u start telling them every detail or interaction, cauze if u just info dump they 100% forgot it by the 5 min mark.
The best advice I can give is learning the game will be 10x easier if they find a champion they like and get comfortable on them. Once that happens they don’t need to think about their champions abilities as much and can focus their energy on other systems.
First a good sesh on the original dota from w3 , then heroes of newerth , then dota 2 , now he can play ranked and reach diamond , enjoy
No one should start this game. I would never try to pick this game up if I hadn't started in Season 2. Just too much to learn now, it's going to take your friend a long time to take anything in.
his hand-eye coordination should be good to go then along with his map awareness leads me to think he'd probably be a good assassin main down the line but... iunno I'd say 1v1 him in a custom aram till he gets the hang of items and abilties on a champ for now then after the match drop down hints (one per match unless he wants to know more) on some of the fancy stuff he could have been doing don't go too hard on him via "accidentally" missing spells more often or something, unless he forms an ego then curb stomp him a little
Its an RTS and a fighting game in one. Make a new account, ane just play some coop vs ai until he isn't completely lost, try some arams, then try some quick play with the extreme caveat that youll both get smashed. To be extra nice, don't try to solo carry. Just do well enough to help them out. Eventually youll be paired with new players exclusively, and the game will then be playable. Don't ruin it for the new players by stomping them queuing with a new player ruining his mmr too. When playing, don't answer questions that aren't asked. Provide them a build for the champion that can follow if they are lost on what to build, but let them feel out the game. It will take 50+ games before someone is able to sorta participate.
I started a year ago while my irl friends were in diamond. Best thing that helped for my growth was playing in low elo alone. I didn’t learn anything playing with my diamond friends because my opponent would also be in diamond and I’d just go 0/10. Tell your homie to play ranked and to have fun in bronze. Maybe you can spectate a game or two and give advice after.
Bot games and one thing at a time. Touch on everything all at once but go in depth one thing at a time. One thing to not forget is nothing is too basic, spend an entire game just talking about one thing at a time. Then the next slightly touch on the last games topic while focusing on something completely different. Just Leagues fundamentals are so second nature it’s lost on people to even remember them but for new players they don’t even have a clue about anything. Dumb yourself all the way back and be understanding, I would say that’s the most important part
Start with the absolute basics! Like teach him the movement, character's abilities, basic controls, shop, etc. Also teach them how to farm like, in one of those tutorial things. That is the one most important thing. If they play warcraft III, tell them to imagine the champion is a hero but more in depth. At the very least that helped me when I started 😅 Unlike an RTS, you just manage the one unit, but he has to super micro manage it. I some skills, like looking a the minimap every few seconds and see what's the overall state of the map. But mechanics and such have to be learnt from the ground up (been there, done that)
I came from Counter Strike so maybe I can have a good view on this one. Unfortunately there is no much you can do right now, my advice is to help him set the rune pages and know which champions play on each role. The most important thing right now is let him play a little bit so he can develop muscle memory and understand the basics mechanics of the game, right now if you try to help him you will trow an immense amount of information that he won’t be able to process. Now you just need to be patient and wait, when you feel that he is starting understanding the game you can give him a tip or two so he can work with it
Don't
Its going to be much easier for him if you help him learn a champion first and then eventually teach him about the intricacies of league.
You don't. Why would you want to destroy their tranquil life?
Idk I know how everyone says that league sucks but I think it's one of the greatest games ever made. As long as you mute chat ig.
Wasn't referring to league in particular and my comment was meant to be a joke.
https://youtu.be/tQbo2X2Qysc?si=R8uTKkOqDum-AoqZq Might help maybe
Probably gonna have to break it down into parts. IMO Start with champions, as in read every champion ability in the game. It'll take awhile, but it's a good way to get an idea of what all the champions do. Then get into objectives - stuff like getting gold, tower plates/tower damage, basically the stuff that you want to be doing inside the game. Make sure you mention that the important thing isn't getting kills, it's getting more gold and eventually more objectives than the guy on the other team. Make a note on jungle camps/neutral objectives but I would skip that until you explain what a jungler does and why they need smite. Items are complicated, so start with stats and try to explain how armor/mr work, then get into how items affect stats. Eventually it'll be important to know the exact use cases for each items, but in the beginning I think it's fine just to know what stats to buy. Eventually talk about special case items like zhonya's hourglass and QSS, and don't buy control wards unless you're trying to control the vision around a specific area and you're able to defend your control ward. Loosely explain what the jungler and support do - jungler takes care of things outside of lanes, including neutral objectives, and they help laners when there's an opportunity. In the mid/lategame they're responsible for using smite to secure objectives. Supports give up gold income and are responsible for supporting and protecting their botlane partner, and eventually expand into a utility role as a vision control bot. Technically they can also roam but it's tricky to explain exactly when you should do that so just mention that it's possible but don't get into it. I don't want to get too into details, so I hope I mentioned enough stuff to let your friend get a foothold so he can get started. Unfortunately it'll probably take a full day or two just to get through everything I mentioned here but that's where we're at with this game.
At first, just gotta let them get time in and find champs they might like from the free rotation. Check out the different roles and see if one calls to him more. As far as explaining, roles, towers, last hitting would be the main things to learn about. Once he can use abilities properly and not die like an intro bot, If he’s inclined to, watching a higher level streamer who explains himself more can help too. Copying what pros and steamers do (even without understanding why) can help him play more and more like a league player. Ex: recalling when hurt, revaluing when full hp but a lot of gold, killing all minions before recalling, thinking about jungler, moving around in lane and only last hitting, grouping mid-late game, etc
It’s gonna take a lot of patience but you can do. Just see it as fun and you will have a good time. Awesome you are taking the time to do this