Runes and  Masteries for League of Legends

           While you may think that killing things is the only concept in League of Legends, let me tell you that you are completely wrong. Their is a very in depth look on the game that you must know if you ever want to become successful in the game on any kind of professional level. What I am referring to are things in the game named runes and masteries. Now you may be asking yourself, how could these possibly help me play the game better or make me stronger? Well that's exactly what they do on a very literal point. Runes and Masteries enhance your champion by an exponential amount if you use the correct types of runes and masteries. Now this is where the puzzling part comes in, there are all different types of runes and masteries. Some for your ability power champions, attack damage carry champions, or tank champions. Each has its own specific set, if used in the right way can easily help you win games that you never had a chance in in the first place. Here is a list of just a few different combinations you can do with certain champions and all the runes they should use here.

Here is are all of the different runes available in league of legends, though you have to purchase them with IP points in the game, and that comes with just playing and experiencing the game. There are four different types of runes for each rune page Marks, Quints, Seals, and Glyph's. Each has their own unique trait that can help you in the game. 

Here we have a list of all the masteries in the game (these masteries selected are not for every champion). These are equally important to champions as runes are. Each section has its own way of helping all different kinds of champions, to giving them bonus shields or bonus damage or health. Every champion is unique in how they use their masteries just like runes for those specific champs. 

Here is one the games most knowledgeable persons when it comes to analyzing champs and what they need and how they can be used in picking all different runes and masteries for them. 

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Basic controls and understanding of League of Legends 

There are many maneuvers you can learn in the game that will help you make some serious outplays, but in order to achieve those you need to learn the basics of the game and learn exactly how when where and what exactly to do in the right situations. Learning is simple really the controls are close and there are only a few of them. The basic ones you will need to know is Q, W, E, R, F, D, and the left and right clicks of your mouse. Also it makes easier to play this game with a separate mouse to move around and use your abilities more freely and easily. Here is an instruction on exactly what each key will do for you while you will be play League of Legends here. Now you may change some of these keys later on in the game with macros, but that is an advanced thing and that'll be saved for later. Some of the keys while you are playing with activate instantly wherever your cursor is on the screen or you will have to use your key and left click on whatever you want to use the ability whether it is a friend or a foe.

Here you see which are the main ability keys that you will need to play the game. Use and activate your abilities with ease. Without these you wouldn't have a way to use your abilities except clicking on them manually which will make your plays significantly slower.

Here you see a basic tutorial on how to scale your abilities and what those abilities might need you to do in order to use them. Additionally where to position and what you should do for using certain abilities and when to use them.

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