What is League of Legends?

For all those people who do not know what this game is, it is a MOBA video game. MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. This means that the game is played with multiple people via the internet in a pvp(player vs player) style mode where players compete against each other to win. 

In League of Legends or Lol for short, you can select from a variety of over 100 champions that each have a variety of abilities that you can use to defeat enemy players. In the standard game mode, there are three lanes where one to two champions go and try to destroy the enemy turrets in the lane. On the default map which contains two teams of 5 players, there are three turrets in each lane. 

If a champion goes too close to a turret, they will get hit by the tower which will deal a big amount of damage that increases each time. In order to not get hit by a turret so that you can destroy it, you must get your minions which are small little creatures that each team has. These minions are very weak but by destroying the enemy's minions, your minions will go under their turret and attack the turret while you can also attack it.

After destroying the first two turrets in a lane, there is a turret called the inhibitor turret. After attacking this turret, its health can regenerate over time, but once you destroy it, you are at the inhibitor which cannot be damaged until the inhibitor turret is gone. The inhibitor also regenerates health but unlike turrets, it does not hurt you. If you destroy the inhibitor, the minions in that lane on your team will become stronger for a few minutes until the inhibitor will respawn unlike turrets which cannot respawn.

Once destroying the inhibitor, you will be at the nexus towers. The nexus towers are just like inhibitor towers except there are two of them. They guard the nexus which needs to be destroyed to win the game. 

The nexus turrets and nexus

That is the basic idea of League of Legends and even though it seems very complicated, after playing the game for a while, it can become quite fun and easy to play.