Compared to hon LOL is atrociously bad, and I'm sorry I ever took the time to download and install it.

LOL is pretty fun, its especially fun if you are playing with people in the same room or talking over skype / phone.

I'm going to add those that have listed their sn in here. My sn is presumptuous pig.

How are you building gragas? Ive only seen him played a few times, played him once myself in a practice game so i didnt learn much, but he really hasnt seemed that tanky in the games ive played. Decent damage, but really easy to get away from 1v1.

Ive really liked playing kayle. She was one of the free heroes the first week i started playing and have stuck with her since. Getting blue buff, along with having nasher's tooth and rageblade, and taking out the entire enemy base is a lot of fun

Oh and i posted it before, but my summoner name is porchcat, feel free to add me.

Still loving this game. The graphics really aren't that bad... pretty decent if you ask me.

The first time I used Gragas I followed this guide and I haven't changed yet: The Drunken Master

The basic idea behind this build is to stack health and cooldown reductions. Gragas' passive Happy Hour grants 2% of his HP over 4 seconds everytime he uses an ability. His skills are pretty spammable and have uses both defensive and offensive.

His Barrel Roll is a long range aoe remote mine. It will detonate after 5 seconds, or you can detonate it yourself by pressing it again. You can launch this through trees and everything.
Drunken Rage is a no cost 30 sec cooldown that gives a 20 sec buff on AD, lowers dmg taken and gives you 50-90 mana. Unbelievable considering it also gives 2% HP regen from Happy Hour.
Body Slam is a charge that aoes on impact, damage and slowing enemies. Short cooldown, even shorter late game. Valuable skill for escapes, quick movement around the map, but most of all chases/tactical positioning.
Explosive Cask is a nuke that blasts enemies away from the target area. Decent dmg, long range, very useful for saving allies or repositioning enemies. Also lowers enemy attack speed.

tl;dr Gragas is a deceptively agile and manipulative hero with decent dmg and massive survivability through self-regen.

A friend of mine uses Gragas and he hides behind walls and then body slams through the wall.

Mobafire is a good site to browse builds for characters: http://www.mobafire.com/

Ya, both the body slam and the barrel roll crush through walls. Surprising an enemy is so easy.

Unfortunately Gragas' free week is over. I'm trying a similar build with Nunu the Yeti Rider or w/e. I've had success so far but my opponents have fed me.

any good lvl 30s want to duo solo rank solo que? I need to reduce the chance i get of having a leave/feeder

It seems as though everyone I play against is a noob. Is this common while leveling your summoner? I'm only level 6 right now but there are feeders in every game I play.

That mobafire link was great thanks for that, every hero I pick just copy a build and wreck face.

It seems like it's going to take forever to get to level 30.

u will have feeders in any normal game imo.

Bump, anyone still playing?

i play at least a game or two every day. currently level 14, i've bought amumu and taric and use them almost exclusively.

terrible tactic since I've only used like 1/3 of the heroes and i get beat by characters i don't understand.

my name in LoL is Raymears. I'm pretty bad still.

i just lost interest in this game when i refocused on poker I can see myself playing this game again some day

I'm level 15ish, been playing kog'maw since hes free this week.

played like 1500 ish games. getting kinda sick of it cuz the community is trash. will prob play more when the new map comes out.

This Karthus bug is ****ing bogus.

Playing ranked right now and trying to get back to 1500 Elo.

The ranked draft system is so much better than blind pick so give it a try once you get to level 30.

What Karthus bug?

Invinci-Karthus

Dies once and is invulnerable for the rest of the game.

Think its fixed now though.

Heimerdinger!!!

**** heimer, he's a bastard.

I've been using Taric exclusively for a while now and finally feel like a good player. It's more understanding my opponents than anything else, but that seems pretty obvious. Basically I find out who the best player on my team is and support them from mid to late game.

I've been getting better at setting up and communicating ganks without exposing myself to getting killed in the set up.

I use a full tank build, currently level 17 and no runes since I'm saving for the Tier 3 ones. Taric is very effective, especially if people let me have the golem buff for huge group battles.

This game is so ridiculous for noobs. I've had experience playing LOL beta and lots of HON/DOTA (so I'm familiar with last hitting, warding, creeps, team balance, casters/tanks/carries, etc) and I feel horribly disadvantaged because of lack of runes (and abilities+talents). My friend is obsessed and I just don't see it. I wish he spent his time getting good at Starcraft instead =(.

You usually get put up against people in your bracket so not a lot of people have a huge advantage on you unless you group with a lvl 30 or something.

Runes/Masteries aren't a big deal since actual gameplay is always the deciding factor in low-mid level LoL games.

It's mostly a game of discipline at the beginning. Noobs are usually eager to attack heroes while veterans sit back and just last hit and level until their opponents make a mistake.

Also, greed gets the best of my teams when they stick around after we down a tower or finish a team battle. It's so much easier if you just retreat, recharge, item, and regroup for the next battle but they stay and die a lot.

Been crushing with Sona lately, something like 18-10 since I started tracking my games with her.