The first round of the League of Legends World Championships ended on a somber note today for fans of the game's burgeoning North American region. The NA team Cloud9 lost all their games today, officially ending their and the entire region's hopes of making a real dent in the 2015 Worlds tournament. Ah well.
Briefly: Here you can see two opposing King Leorics casting their giant tomb ups so they cinch together perfectly, creating a closed rectangle that looks very scary to be stuck inside. Is this the Heroes of the Storm equivalent of a WWE "Hell In A Cell" cage match, as xWretchedWorldx described it on Reddit? Yes. Yes it is.
Earlier this year, the pro League of Legends team Team SoloMid (TSM) was sorely embarrassed when one of their opponents stole a baron right out from under them -- with a blind shot, no less -- during a tournament game. Now, they have finally had their revenge. Sort of.
Have you ever done something so colossally stupid in a video game that you almost wish you had been drunk and/or high just so you could use that as an excuse? I sure have.
"You'll never forget your first pentakill," all my League of Legends-playing friends have told me. I pray to god that it won't be like this one.
The goal of team battles in a MOBA like Heroes of the Storm is to keep yourself (and your teammates) alive while simultaneously killing your opponents. That way, once you succeed you have a valuable time window where the enemy is sitting through a cooldown, just waiting to respawn. I mean: if you succeed.
"This is too easy," the elf says. He sounds so sure. Sure enough that I actually believe him.
I don't think anyone has bitten their nails as hard as the people who played in this match.
Normally, Nautilus' special hook attack is only meant to ensnare one enemy at a time. But thanks to the most annoying thing ever to show its face in League of Legends, one lucky player managed to trap four players at the same damn time.
Man. Is there anything better than an in-game ability so ridiculous people can't tell if it's a bug or an intended feature?
League of Legends becomes much more enjoyable once you invest in a solid headset and start playing games with friends on Skype, Mumble or Curse. It's so much better that you might wonder why the hell Riot doesn't just make its own voice chat system. Because it would be a terrible, terrible thing.
Killing Baron Nashor in League of Legends grants a number highly valuable rewards that will help a team carry a game to victory. But doing so has a high risk attached to it as well. Players have to group together to attack the big scary monster, meaning a clever opponent can easily ambush them. Or worse: steal the kill.
