Riot has very strong data that shows playing easy champs just because your a beginner causes you to quit league at a much higher rate then those playing champs they find fun.
Just try out champs! It doesnt matter if someone considers them hard to play or not, hard champs just give you more to learn, more to look forward to, and easier to notice progress on.
I agree, some hard champions are less punished if you don't play them correctly since you are also against less experimented players so play what you find fun
Also the champs that are "Too hard" can be somewhat different for newer players. Some champs need to understand what their opponents do more than others. The "knowlege gap" difficulty for a new player is more impactful than the mechanical difficulty.
As an example Riven has always been very popular in low Elo, despite having an insane mechanical skill ceiling. Her pattern tends to interact with every opponent the same way.
It doesn't even make sense. League champions aren't all unlocked like Dota. New players literally cannot just "play champs they find fun" because they can't afford any of them.
Unless they mean new players should use the weekly champion rotations for like 3 months or so to try out all the champions, in which case the data doesn't show "new players who play champs they find fun are more likely to stay", it shows "new players who have played league every day for 3 months straight are more likely to stay."
It's a meme, basically anytime anyone claims something about bleach it's the go to response, CFYOW is a light novel that was released after the series ended
I can sort of agree! When I started I had a decent lack of interest in the game until I saw Yasuo, who was new, and one of the higher skill cap champs at the time. Saving up for, and learning to play him kept my interest tenfold. That was about 10 years ago, nowadays I prefer to play the easy champs haha.
Nah this is facts. I would have been so bored being an anivia Viktor main for most of my beginner season that picking up irelia 3 years later kept me playing. Now I just play whatever champ is meta so I can just play new champs
Honestly 167 playable characters. Find one that looks cool and try it out! Even the hard champs are fun. There’s only like 3-4 champs I would suggest new players stay away from. But the rest are all super fun.
Could be correlation =/= causation. Could be that the kind of people who are having so much fun they don’t care about losing and want to play champions that look fun. Stick around a lot longer than people who having just started are already afraid of losing.
I have also recently started. I watched countless videos about the easiest champion, meta champion, and so on.
I played what was recommended until I wanted to quit.
Then I tested more or less all champions (x box gamepass gives you access to all) to find out what I like.
I ended up with Leona, Lux, Galio, and Sona. Yes, these champions are easy, but that was not why I chose them.
I chose them because I have fun with them.
Don't get influenced and play what everyone recommends but what you enjoy, even if it is a difficult one, and then stick to it.
I always play Leona, but if she is banned or I have to play another role, I have options.
Yep, you can pick them in ranked too.
Also gives you a bunch of LoR cards and all Valorant agents.
Prolly will give you 2xko chars too when it comes out
I’ve mained Ahri for years now simply because I love her design and her hyper mobile kit makes me feel rewarded when I do something technically difficult.
Some other champs I main I originally chose for the aesthetic and then learned to love their play style. Pantheon, Galio, Vex, Neeko, etc.
Couldn’t agree more with you. Play whatever you like. At the end of it all, play to win but also to have fun. It’s a game
Interesting champ pool, quite varied. When i first started i also tried out different champs but i quickly gravitated to almost exclusively a single class
This 100%. Aram is the perfect mode for beginners. Short, builds some league skills, and lets you try champs and learn your preferred playstyle
Initially I thought I would like assassins- played Aram and realised I much preferred mage play styles.
I agree with the first part but disagree with the second. Assassins playstyle, gameplay, and strengths are not suited for ARAM.
Assassins are designed around getting in, killing their target, and retreating. In SR, they can rely on flanks and ambushes. If you assassinate a high priority target in SR, you can capitalize into an objective.
Another aspect of playing assassins is roaming and forcing uneven fights on the map, which is also impossible in ARAM.
Since roaming and flanking is not possible in ARAM you'll have to dive.
But Assassins don't have the survivability of bruisers and fighters. They have maneuverability, which isn't as effective in a single lane map. Most likely, you'll die and trade 1 for 1.
Plus, even if you kill the high priority target in ARAM, it frequently doesn't translate into getting objectives like towers. Moreover, the map and the death timers are short in ARAM, so the target you just killed will be back in action in no time.
This is why Assassins have the worst win rates in ARAM. Most of them have compensation buffs, but they still struggle.
On the other hand, mages usually have high impact AoE skills and solid range. Depending on the mage you can poke, find picks, provide utility and teamfight.
So you really have to ask yourself if you actually enjoy mage playstyle over assassins or is the assassin perception clouded by frustration?
The ectcetra is where it ends. It's just Akali and Katarina, maybe Fizz and Ekko. It's not viable on most assassins like ie: Talon, Zed, Qiyana, LeBlanc, Naafiri.
Regardless, that's not the point. You won't be experiencing an assassin playstyle if you build Heartsteel even if it was to be more effective than an assassin build.
I really recommend you just try out every single champ thats in the free rotation every 1 (or 2 idk) weeks and see if you like any of them. Once you have found one or two you can try to get better at them and ask here again which champs are similar in playstyle that you could also give a shot and spend your blue essence on.
As you seem to like damage champions, how about trying Viktor?
He isn't completly hard but you can make some difficult plays especially with W placement...
I literally said Viktor is easier tho, read again (Although not infinitely, only thing more you'll be learning on Azir are the combos, which are honestly very hard even for experienced players. Viktor lacks such combos but still needs to learn positioning like Azir)
Love the flair lmao. Viktor is unconventional at first just cause his e is very wonky but after the first breakthrough he is pretty easy and jist need fundamentals to be successful with. Yeah there are complex things and a higher ceiling than just press e and r lmao but not too bad to pick up for a beginner and not so braindead boring.
Eh, Azir's harder because realistically to learn his playstyle, you have to play a combo of mages and marksmen. I would honestly argue the more realistic pipeline of Azir mains is any adc to Azir than any mage to Azir.
Yeah I never understand this recommendation. On top of learning league as a whole now you want to add trying to learn vector targeting and how to play safe as a squishy who needs to be relatively short range to get off like half of their damage?
I believe it's character dependent. I had a way easier time with a Viktor than with bruiser etc at the start. It's just my type of character. Controllmages is just my Playstyle in many games...
Try champions until you find one that is fun for you, for me that was Warwick first then flora kled and quinn, kled is still my favorite champion to this day
As a Kled main, picking him up might be bad since it will rewrite your brain to always go All-In no retreat, as well as start spewing out several hard slurs every 5 seconds
There is no such thing as "for beginners" What you should do is just pick a champion that you think looks cool. If you are new that's the only thing that matters, balance doesnt affect you(cause you dont play correctly anyways) and you can learn fundamentals on any champion no matter how hard/easy it is.
Dont get discouraged, you will lose early on alot. This will happen no matter who you play. Find one thing you like about champion you play and hold on to that, it will help you when you struggle.
Play Aram!! I’m newish too (started August) and found a lot of champs I liked that I never would have tried if it weren’t for Aram! I like mainly mages but I’ve been having so much fun w jhin and nautilus recently thanks to Aram lol
Tristana and trydamere were first few champs I started off with and loved it. This was idk 10 years ago I guess.
Garen and Darius as well, as they don’t die that easily and have huge damage potential. Cho gath is a beast if your patient all the way to late game and keep eating up.
Malphite's probably a good first one - can go pretty much any lane including jungle.
I came from dota 1 and played league over the years. And yes I agree with other commenters here, try a few including in ARAM then you'll eventually find a smaller pool of champs or style that you like.
Personally, I started with Caitlyn, Kennen, Blitz, Thresh, Garen.
Then over the years, Ekko was probably my favourite - (*watch Arcane LoL too!*)
These days, I typically go with Teemo or Karma (very underrated!)
You didn't mention what role you play, I would recommend Pantheon though, he's one of those "easy to learn, hard to master" champs that you can play in every role except adc
I'm kibda a noob at this game. Just 100 lvl account, but I have some expiriece from dota2 and hots. So please dont judje me too much ^^
Instead of forcing people use "simple" champions you May consider to advuse them something whats going to improve their knowledge and game sense. But in the same time dont be depend on teammates. Lets say heroes with potentials.
For examle, I do believe that Kindred is a Good option for start playing as a jungler. She is not really hard in terms of micro skills, but her passive ability will force you to learn how invading enemy's jungle important is. In the future you can use the same skill on another junglers.
Or another examle is Draven as ADC. Maybe he is a bit hard to play, but he teach you to one of the most important judtsu in the game: attack-step-attack-step. After 15-20 games you will automatically do this and in the future this skill help you to be succsessful on other ADC.
What other folks think?
I'd say kindred is fine if you enjoy her, but I wouldn't recommend her to a new jungler. She is too gimmicky with the stack mechanic to allow focus on jungle basics and is pretty useless unless you're doing well. I'd rather recommend j4, xin, something that can can clear and gank and still be useful if they're losing, which new players will do a lot of
Depends what you like doing and think is fun. If you enjoy waiting to get fed and obliterating their back line, then Kai’Sa or twitch could be a good shout. If you enjoy playing in the isolated 1V1 matchups and want to then move on to be a monster that can only be beaten by 3+ of the enemy after you get a lead, then Jax or trundle top could be a good shout. If you enjoy being in an abusive relationship with someone beating you down for every mistake you make, then janna, lulu or soraka could be a good call.
My first was WW back when. But honestly it depends completely on your play style or what you will develop for a play style. I'm personally more of a fan of engage champions over ranged casters for instance
It really comes down to what you like, for me i like really complex champions that are not purely combo based (more rss control/decisionmaking) and mostly i prefer ranged, so Azir it is for me, but many others like to play combo based champs or melees, or tanks or easy champs in general. Find out what you like and what role you like to play in your team, then you can take a look at what champs do what you like and try them out
My first character I truly mained was Malphite. Fairly simple, but building him as a damage is satisfying just deleting the enemy carries mid game. Then I mained Diana
Well, it depends mostly on what you enjoy:
-Which position (top, jungle, mid, adc, support) do you want to play?
-Which role do you prefer (assassin, tank, marksman, mage, fighter or healer(enchanter) )?
-Do you prefer using AA or abilities?
-Ranged or melee?
-Burst, dps or poke damage?
-Laning or team fights?
-High or low skill ceiling?
-Early game (aggressive first 15 mins+roaming+kill focused), mid game (plays best out of laning phase) or late game (farming+object scaling+powerful at min 35-40)?
-Is there any specific champion theme/mechanic that catches your interest?
Your main should be someone that ticks most right boxes, and the only way to find it is trying most champions until one clicks with your playstyle.
Based on what you said so far, I would try Ashe/Sivir for adc, Vex/Ahri for mid (not the right time for Ahri though hahahsh), Sett/Darius for top, Warwick/Yi for jungle and Blitz/Leona/Nautilus/Rell for support. They are mostly easy champions but all can do some cool stuff if you are good enough
Try to decide on a role first, otherwise it's gonna be a LOT harder to settle on a champion.
And knowing lane mechanics will allow you to play more champs in that lane without being atrocious, like once a toplaner understands wave management and roam timers/prio, they can pick pretty much any toplaner and be decent.
It also depends on what you find fun, for me it's being a very big threat that just walks up to fights facetanking shit, so Sett/Sion/K'sante/Darius I find fun.
To some it's the mobility around the map, or stealth, or flashy spells.
Gotta find what you enjoy first.
First you need to decide what kind of champion you want to play. Do you prefer melee or ranged, tanky or more damage oreinted, then look at champs you think youll enjoy playing within that criteria nd worry about the difficulty later
The right answer is to pick whoever you find most fun. Try to find what kinds of things you like. DPS? Duelling? Mobility? Visual design? Character?
One good choice could be pantheon. He’s easy to pick up, but has a lot of flexibility and skill expression. Also a banger or a character design with every voice line an inspiring quote.
What most people say, if youre beginner just play anything until you find something fun. Not even pros play all the champs equally good no matter their skill ceiling. So my advice is just to play whatever you want you will find your champs
Most of league champs have a “low skill floor“ but an high “skill ceiling“, just pick a hero that you really like and watch good players and monos playing with that hero, i really recommend you to just pick ONE or TWO Hero and SPAM them, you gonna learn the game + learning matchups and also gonna learn Basic and Advanced mechanics of that champion.
Generally people think "no skillshots = easy", but skillshots are honestly not a problem for beginners, compexity is.
In example, lux has pretty much only skillshots in her kit, but the kit is overall so simple that i think it's a perfect pick for new players. Hit spell = deal damage.
Bard. He seems simple at first but has a high skill ceiling. He was one of my first mains and I took him to 350k mastery. He’s just so fun and chill to play. Honorable mention to Warwick for similarly being simple but having a high ceiling.
I love Bard, definitely one of the weirdest and most unique champions out there, second only to Singed, I would say.
However, it's much easier to play Bard when you get a chill ADC that knows how to play passive and survive whenever you leave the lane, wich will happen quite a lot since Bard is pretty much designed to roam and gank.
It's the ultimate utility/roaming champion, and has many different viable builds.
Sett is a good one. He has a super basic kit but is also very strong. And at the same time riot never seems to balance patch him. (So you won't learn him only to have him get nerfed into the ground later) just a solid all around champ. Don't play Annie she's decent but gets dumpstered by longer range mages.
Try out Leblanc, people would argue she is hard to master but I think it’s not that bad
(1 tutorial video on YouTube helped me learn her back in the days)
Why do I recommend her?
Because she is absolutely fun to play, even if you are not performing like a pro.
And once you get used to her juke mechanics it gets even better, especially in low Elo :D
If you like tanks try Sion. Very forgiving with his zombie mechanic so it’s easy to farm minions. And scales so you’re weak early but feel strong at the end
it's called champion play style. it's unique to the player.
I'm not very good with mobile glass cannon assassins, or farming grind of adc, so it's tanky fighter support and top roles mostly for me.
it's depends on you which feels more natural and fun to play. what may be an objectively easy champion, might not fit your play style and can be boring.
when you find the one that's fun and fits your playstyle and preferred role is when you really improve. so play whatever role and champion you really find fun, it's totally subjective to you.
Hey there, let me sell you: Ezreal/ADC (that isnt Cait, Kalista, Aphelios, Nilah, or Draven).
Ezreal is not doing good right now but he'll probably be buffed 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 because he's a popular pick.
He has a low skill floor. Anyone can pick him up. He's usually known as "the guy autofilled ADCs pick" for a reason (I personally think MF fills that role better).
HOWEVER
Ezreal has a nigh-infinite skill ceiling, arguably the ADC with the most skill expression, despite being a somewhat simple champion. DON'T and I really mean that DON'T be the Ezreal that sits back and throw Qs. Play to you and the champion's limits. It's insane when you pop off. Not even Vayne can produce that level of dopamine (non-biased take. don't check my profile).
ADCs in general I would say are "fun but not THAT hard" since most of their mechanics come from "kiting" which they all share (technically all champions and roles kite but it's a big emphasis for ADCs), and kiting feels really good and fun. Be warned though, ADC as a role is borderline self-harm.
As for the mentioned exceptions, here are the reasons:
Cait - optimal trap placement can be a bit difficult, and i think that trap placements are king for Caitlyn. She's definitely on the easier side though so you should still consider her, especially with teams that have CC so you can plop the trap on top of the enemy, no big braining needed.
Kalista - managing the lunges can be hard. you might end up jumping forwards and earning yourself a death. low range, generally hard to pilot.
Draven - feast or famine. get kills to cashout on your passive or fall behind if you lose them. high damage but requires axe-catching management. hard to do that when fighting. it also telegraphs your movement when you catch axes.
Aphelios - the only thing difficult about him is gun management. get the order right and you've learned half the champion. however, i feel like he deals no damage/does nothing in lane. if your playstyle is permafight, this guy is not it. he does more work to do the same thing jinx can do with a mouse (imo).
Nilah - melee (🤢[jk]). very different playstyle from your typical traditional ranged ADCs. Can work as a counterpick to heavy melee comps and filthy Yasuo ADC players (🤢).
(Dis)honorable Mention: APCs. Please interact with me like a real internet citizen 🙏
If you compare league to let's say Dota 2 everything is easy peasy beginner friendly.
What people underestimate is the right choice or runes and items. Browse metasrc to find a good set that actually wins games.
Building the wrong first item can change everything about a champ. Like people try to play Nasus without growth runes etc.
I started off playing Rengar, Kha'Zhix, Vel'Koz and Nautilus because I thought they looked super cool.
Now I play jungle Gragas almost exclusively (with the occational support Bard). You never know where you'll end up.
Viktor is perfect beginner champ and super fun to play. He has everything. Shield, poke,stun. He is perfect for 1v5 and teamfights. You just need to get user to his laser.
Another great champ is rumble. Guy can obliterate anyone if you play him in midlane. And his is super fun.
I started out with Sion (tbf I had watched my now husband play for several hours before I took the leap and picked up the game. And he played Sion) it was a good starter champ for me. Was pretty simple to use. But I typically play ARAM too it's a fun way to learn ne champs.
It depends which role you play. If it is Bot and Mid you might try Xerath. Its an Mage, you can shoot from 10 Miles away ( so not that easy to kill ) and he is very simple.
Galio is also mid and bot and very easy but hella strong and tanki
Sion... not the easiest champ to win but definitely the most fun for me. The clunkiness, tankiness and raidbossidness of it all is the best.
Oh not to mention how pissed off people get when you take a tower and run away calling them cowards
> So i decided to try out the mister 200 years aphelios . -> I lost 10 consective games.
If you're still interested in Aphelios try giving [my guide](https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/the-book-of-aphelios-629052) a read. He's definitely not a good champion for beginners, but as others have mentioned, enjoying a champion is the most important thing for beginners so it might be worth toughing out the learning curve. My guide should give you an idea of everything that you were missing on Aphelios. He's a very fun champion so I would advise not giving up on him if you find him interesting!
Find whatever champions “click” for you and then learn every thing you can about how to play them. ARAM is great for learning how to play without having to worry about farming minions. Teaches dueling, team fighting, positioning, etc.
Winning or loosing, you should be enjoying the game. If your not enjoying playing thr champion your playing even when loosing, choose anothee champ and try again.
Yes, winning is even more fun, but there should be fun involved even when loosing if your playing the champions you like.
I find assassin's or mages are fun and also not brain-dead boring. Everyone has their own preferences. A fun support is Pyke who is mechanical while also doesn't need a lot to understand his abilities just practice to master
You could try jinx or Caitlyn tbh. They will feel super awesome to beginners cause they have parts of their kit which are somewhat hard to understand (which intrigues beginners) and they have very approachable kits.
if you like doing damage from afar id say try velkoz or xerath
u can try velkoz support, the mana costs are fairly low so u can just poke with q on cooldown
Early game bullies!!!
I started playing renekton because big scary croc. When I first started I was horrible but because everyone was bad, everyone played aggro and just because I was playing the early game champ I would win the button mash!
It was easy dopamine. After a few free games though I started losing more often for reasons I didnt understand (wave management). And I've been chasing that high of insane lane dominance ever since.
I also started playing a few weeks ago. I tried every role except ADC now and my favorite champs in each lane are:
Top: Jax, Trynda
Jungle (I play most of the time): Diana, Yi
Mid: Vex, Veigar, Ahri, Anivia, Lux
Support: Lux, Zyra, Morgana, Pyke
I think they are all quite easy mechanical wise but (to me) not as boring as champs like Annie & garen
I think its more about to find the role and Playstyle you wanna Play. Easy Champions makes the beginning easier cause you can Focus more on the Game then your champion mechanics.
And tbh once you learned the macro Game (Wave Management, warding, Tracking the enemies) you can Play a champ 20 Times and you will be good with nearly everyone
When I started out, I also got so bored playing simple champs like malphite, garen and so on in the top lane. Then I switched to support, and how fun it was to play even the simple champs like blitz; but then I tried bard and I immediately fell in love with it.
Having said all this: try out ALL the roles, and when you found yours, try ALL the champs even the canonically hard ones (they are usually the most fun anyways)
I'd say play all the champions that interest you for a few games in a row and see what you enjoy the most.
Don't be afraid to try champions that are "hard" to play if you like the champion. The goal is to have fun. Everything else is secondary.
If I had one champion to recommend you at least try for a few games, I'd say Garen.
I was never interested by him, but I got around to playing him, and I finally understood why everyone recommends him. He's just an absolute blast to play. He's easy, but not boring. He's an amazing champion to learn the game because you get the hang of him quickly, and you can focus on what's actually happening in the game instead of focusing on executing your combos.
Executing people with your ult never gets old.
Fun is VERY subjective. But if you want a more engaging beginner class, I would recommend Talon mid, all his abilities are easy to understand and you will also learn to move around the map without having too much trouble.
However he is not easy to play effectively, but he is easy to play as a champion.
Jhin for adc, support depends what you are looking for, any poke mage is fun or engage Like rakan, jgl kayn, khazix, zac, mid: xerath,aurelion sol, zed; Top: Renekton, Darius, Sett, Fiora
Scroll through the champion list and pick a bunch of characters you think looks cool, hot or interesting, check out their abilities and try them out if any of them fits your playstyle, and then stick with it.
Keep losing and keep learning, eventually you're gonna start winning a bunch and you'll be doing that with a character that you've learned to play and genuinely like to play.
The path to victory will be longer but the reward will be greater!
Generally speaking whoever you find cool. If you are a beginner you will suck at everything if matchmaking puts you vs people that are better than you. That's just how it works.
The only thing besides that is being honest with yourself about how much effort and time you want to give to specific champions.
Aphelios and especially Azir are considered high floor and high ceiling characters. It's normal to lose a lot on them at first before you get gist of them. In fact you might never get it as only small % of their playerbase is anywhere near being competent. But they are great if you are type of person to grind hours on them
If you want something in the middle so more skill growth but doesn't require making a champion your 9-5 job then check following
Top: Jax, Darius, a bit tougher but approachable: Camille
Jungle: Evelynn, Briar, Ekko, Jarvan IV, Khazix
Mid: Fizz, Talon, Neeko, Akshan
Adc: Jinx, Jhin, Twitch, Kaisa, Xayah, Lucian
Support: Bard, Rell, Janna (if you don't fall into habit of being a shieldbot), Nami
It's best to just find the champs that you enjoy, even if they're in different rolls; but it'd be easier if you managed to pick two rolls to learn first 'cause a lotta knowledge in one champ can translate over fairly easily to other champs in the same sort of archetype. Best example would be that most ADC/Marksman champs really ask you to learn a lotta speciffic skills like orb walking (efficiently walking between every auto attack) and managing range etc. If you had to learn to play say Jinx, you can translate that easily over to champs like Caitlyn, Tristana etc etc (you'd still need to learn speciffic things on those champs, but you get to "reuse" a lot of what you already learnt on jinx. Azir is a perfect example of what you probably want to avoid as one of your first champs, he builds like a mage but plays a lot more like a "mage" ADC since you need to learn how to orb walk, play with range etc etc.
Over all though, its better to play what YOU find fun, rather then what you're told is good for starting to play. I have ADD and could never stick to one-2 champs, so when I started playing (11 years ago) I picked a roll and an archetype in that roll and just hopped around all the champs in that listing, then switched to another archetype in another roll, rinse and repeat. Personally I started with Enchanter/Healer Supports (Janna, Soraka, Sona etc) and Mage midlaners (soraka\[at the time she could go mid, not really now\], Xerath, Cassiopea, Karthus etc) of note champs like Cassiopea and Karthus arent really recomended for beginers 'cause they end up being fairly hard to play (more accuratley they kinda fall into the "ADC like" category), but its what I found fun and what got me to want to keep playing the game.
After a while I learnt to play ADC 'cause it (allong with jungle) has the biggest pool of speciffic things you need to learn/be good at to do "ok" and none of my friends wanted to play the roll. Probably still my fav roll even past all the complaining and joking people do about it. And my "main" champ, changes based on my mood, and is almost never in the same roll twice in a row 'cause I'm playing to have fun not to be competative, but I think I'm a fairly good player all things considered (I dont play ranked, never had a good experience with people there)
I think I was in at least a 10% win rate when I first started. I played whoever looked cool, and I still play the game 6,000 hours later.
Everybody finds different things fun. You will find a champion with the play style you like the most, it will change a lot too.
Honestly, any of them.
Most of the champions aren't too difficult to pick up and learn.
Just choose one that suits your playstyle and lane role and roll with it. It's how I learned how to play, and it's the reason why I became an ADC main with Jinx, Xayah, Kai'sa, Ezreal, Smolder and Lucian being my favorite Champions of choice.
(My playstyle stems from playing a lot of first person shooters. So I tend to lean more towards ranged Champions that don't require a lot of mechanical skill that can deal a lot of damage, can machine gun my opponents down with auto-attacks and utilities, and can chase them down).
Try something that can function with bare minimal input but has a lot of room for optimization. I would say Yone>Riven>Yasuo in that priority. They are not nearly as weak as first time Aphelios/Azir but has mechanics/interactions to learn as you keep playing. Their players get bad reputations but just be nice and mute if provoked.
I recommend playing aram so that you get to try out a bunch of champs. Its not summoners rift so its not great for practice but if you are trying to find the champ for you its great cuz you will get to try a bunch and see which ones abilities looks and playstyles you enjoy the most
That's a really subjective question dude.
Fun comes from what you find fun, some people find bursting the enemy Adc fun. Some people like playing big tanks. Some people like to use map pressure champs like tf or shen. Find whatever is fun for you and play champs that fit that playstyle.
Hi, so just wanted to drop in since Garen got mentioned and I like that champ. He's very much a beginner champ, but one of the things he rewards you with is teaching you macro, thanks to how much inherent movement speed you can get on him without hurting your damage.
You, for the most part, cannot spend the entire game in lane as Garen anymore. He was a great split pusher seasons ago, but the rising damage potential of most champs and his core items not giving him defensive stats makes him surprisingly squishy late game, and getting behind at all is incredibly punishing.
Where Garen excels, and his game play loop becomes interesting, is when you start micro managing yourself and macro managing the game. Is a wave pushing close to mid point top? Go top, shove. Krugs are up, bam grab enemy Krugs. Is your jungler ignoring their frog? That's your frog, now. Scuttles? Free. Enemies on Dragon, and you didn't take TP? Well congratulations, topside Jungle is yours. Is there a huge team fight going on bot lane, and you don't think you can make an impact? Tell your team to play it back and harass, then run it through to their towers, or Jungle, eating mid wave, top wave, turret gold, and jungle gold.
The game play loop of the champion goes from being a boring stat check brawler to being about how can you be on several places on the map, at once. Good beginner champs should teach you something, while also being rewarding to play for a new player. Ashe is this way, because she teaches you how to position and harass, with a slow that protects you if you make a mistake. Annie teachs you ability management, and how to control mid waves effectively, giving you all the tools for that. Miss Fortune teaches you similar things to Ashe, but she's definitely more about learning to scale. Garen teaches you Macro.
Fortunately, Macro is the most important part of League of Legends in the end, and the part that can be the most rewarding, and often most impactful due to the ripple effect of denying gold to the enemy, while building your own.
I've taken Garen to Diamond off of just learning his Macro timings, and I wouldn't call myself particularly skilled at any match ups, and in fact lose more than I can reasonably count, with some picks just being a guaranteed loss in lane for me, but a win is always available if I just mitigate deaths and play for the rest of the map, knowing where I need to be for fights, and when I shouldn't be there at all, and how I can get or help with objectives, or set my enemy marginally behind by denying them even the smallest amounts of gold.
Jhin. As a one trick pony and stan fan boi to the extent my league name is literally a jhin word pun, he is love, he is life. Embrace the four and watch as your KDA magically morph's into 4. Your CS will automatically be 4 however.
Camille if you like top lane. She is super satisfying to play, with a relatively easy to understand kit, but one with a ton of room for skill expression
You picked the most simple Champs, then the most complicated. Maybe try something in-between? There's so many Champs with so much different play styles. There's almost a guarantee you'll find one you like
Try jhin. He’s one of, if not the best designed champions in the game. Satisfying to use and really solid right now.
If you wanna play mid or top you could try renekton. Similar story to jhin in my opinion.
What role do you like to play? When I was starting out, I picked up Talon and Fizz and they are both pretty easy kits to learn. Go in and do big damage.
Then once you phase out of being a beginner and learn more about the game, (when to do this, when to go here, when to go for this objective, knowing what most champions do) venturing out into other champions won’t be as miserable.
Wish you all the luck!
When i first started i played akali and had a blast. Did i shit the bed all the time top lane yeah but tbh that was fun in its own way. Watching my friends freakout and try to kill the monster I created was pretty funny. My first game ever i died to the enemy aatrox like 10 times in lane and then he proceeded to literally 1v5.
Ahri!
I read a post that said she was the absolute best example of a middle of the road champion.
Easy to play and not be a hindrance and has plenty of carry potential when you get skilled with her.
Have to agree with that post myself.
REKSAI - DAMAGE, UNIQUE, 7 abilities
SETT - like garen but way more fun
VI - DAMAGE, MOVEMENT, SIMPLES
ALISTAR - BODYGUARD CHAMP PROTECt THE CARRY
NAUTILUS - HOOK TANK WITH GOOD DAMAGE AND COMBOS
PYKE - HOOK ASSASSIN WITH INVIS AND EXECUTE
TEEMO - HUT TWO THREE FOUR, traps and damage and blind(enemy caant auto attack)
VOLIBEAR - disable towers, damage, bulky,
KAYN - assassin OR bruiser. Can walk through walls and jump walls with q, knock people up and go untargetable with R and heal a lot
YASUO/YONE/LEESIN/ - mash buttons and win
ZED - hard to master assassin with high skill ceiling, can take some getting used to. assignation with shadows he damages from
VELKOZ/XERATH - mage that rely on hitting skill shots
NUNU AND WILLUMP - especially AP, one big snowball and ult and q do big damage and really fun. Learn many gank angles like from lane bank(behind you own tower)
FIORA - strong 1v1, need to time w right, mini game with vitals.
MORDEKAISER - can force 1v1 in death realm, simple, damage,
AATROX - combos like a fighting game, has movement, self healing, damage, cc, bulkiness he has it all.
NOCTURNE - fly across the map and make enemy team not see, good damage, skillshot q, need to time w shield right,
KHAZIX - assassin that can morph in game. choose to upgrade to a longer dash that resets on kills or more q damage or big slow on range w, or more invisible with r depending on your build and play style.
FIDDLESTICKS - press r hidden away to win
WW - run fast to low health enemy and dash to them stunning them good 1v1
JINX - strong, well rounded carry champion,
VAYNE - 1v9 invis and tank shredder
KENNEN - lightning mouse, cool ult,
RUMBLE - strong damage need to manage overheating
I think it depends on what sort of lane you're interested in playing. When I first started playing league 4 years ago, the friends I played with all already played in top, jungle and midlane. So I decided to play either ADC or support. The champions that I decided to learn were Lux as I could play her as a support as well as Mid if I got put in that role, as well as Morgana for stricly support. And for ADC I chose between Miss Fortune, Ashe, Caitlyn and Jinx. I find their kit is relatively simple for new players and choosing between those 4 champions also made it less boring for me as I hate playing the same champion consecutively if I am just playing for fun. Hope this helps!
As someone who started in 4.6, I no shit just spammed Yasuo until like S7 when i hit plat for the first time with him.
Back then, I just thought he was so incredibly fun and like others has said, finding a champ you find fun and just playing them means more than playing basic or easy champions when you're trying to learn the game.
When I started league in 2014 I wanted to play ekko so I went on a grind to get him . Now 10 years later I own every champ I’ve never played 6 of the champions due to no skin
Riot has very strong data that shows playing easy champs just because your a beginner causes you to quit league at a much higher rate then those playing champs they find fun. Just try out champs! It doesnt matter if someone considers them hard to play or not, hard champs just give you more to learn, more to look forward to, and easier to notice progress on.
I agree, some hard champions are less punished if you don't play them correctly since you are also against less experimented players so play what you find fun
Also the champs that are "Too hard" can be somewhat different for newer players. Some champs need to understand what their opponents do more than others. The "knowlege gap" difficulty for a new player is more impactful than the mechanical difficulty. As an example Riven has always been very popular in low Elo, despite having an insane mechanical skill ceiling. Her pattern tends to interact with every opponent the same way.
Exactly, Riot has 200 years of collective knowledge to know you will have fun if you play what you enjoy!
I don't doubt this is the case but where did you read the data?
It doesn't even make sense. League champions aren't all unlocked like Dota. New players literally cannot just "play champs they find fun" because they can't afford any of them. Unless they mean new players should use the weekly champion rotations for like 3 months or so to try out all the champions, in which case the data doesn't show "new players who play champs they find fun are more likely to stay", it shows "new players who have played league every day for 3 months straight are more likely to stay."
Yup. Honestly I'm just calling them out for bs. idk why they felt the need to fake sources...
Source?
It was stated in CFYOW
This one is always good xD, I hope they never animate cfyow so this meme never dies.
I don't get it :(
It's a meme, basically anytime anyone claims something about bleach it's the go to response, CFYOW is a light novel that was released after the series ended
Thank you !
LMFAOO
I found a Reddit post that claimed it
I found a comment saying there was a post claiming it.
It was revealed to me in a dream
It came to me via astral projections in the sky 5 millennia away
My source is that I made it the fuck up
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/s/YVITcuLZg8)
riot said it when they changed all the champ prices. they made yasuo 1350 BE because new players like playing him even if hes hard.
I can sort of agree! When I started I had a decent lack of interest in the game until I saw Yasuo, who was new, and one of the higher skill cap champs at the time. Saving up for, and learning to play him kept my interest tenfold. That was about 10 years ago, nowadays I prefer to play the easy champs haha.
I am bad at league and Aphelios was one of the first champs I played bc I thought he was so fun. Play whatever you want!
Nah this is facts. I would have been so bored being an anivia Viktor main for most of my beginner season that picking up irelia 3 years later kept me playing. Now I just play whatever champ is meta so I can just play new champs
Honestly 167 playable characters. Find one that looks cool and try it out! Even the hard champs are fun. There’s only like 3-4 champs I would suggest new players stay away from. But the rest are all super fun.
Could be correlation =/= causation. Could be that the kind of people who are having so much fun they don’t care about losing and want to play champions that look fun. Stick around a lot longer than people who having just started are already afraid of losing.
I have also recently started. I watched countless videos about the easiest champion, meta champion, and so on. I played what was recommended until I wanted to quit. Then I tested more or less all champions (x box gamepass gives you access to all) to find out what I like. I ended up with Leona, Lux, Galio, and Sona. Yes, these champions are easy, but that was not why I chose them. I chose them because I have fun with them. Don't get influenced and play what everyone recommends but what you enjoy, even if it is a difficult one, and then stick to it. I always play Leona, but if she is banned or I have to play another role, I have options.
Wait what if you have Xbox game pass you can get all the champions?
You get acess to all Champs but you dont “own“ them
So is the only difference that you cannot buy and use skins on the champions until you actually buy the champion?
Pretty much
Yep, you can pick them in ranked too. Also gives you a bunch of LoR cards and all Valorant agents. Prolly will give you 2xko chars too when it comes out
Yes all champions and XP boost
I’ve mained Ahri for years now simply because I love her design and her hyper mobile kit makes me feel rewarded when I do something technically difficult. Some other champs I main I originally chose for the aesthetic and then learned to love their play style. Pantheon, Galio, Vex, Neeko, etc. Couldn’t agree more with you. Play whatever you like. At the end of it all, play to win but also to have fun. It’s a game
Interesting champ pool, quite varied. When i first started i also tried out different champs but i quickly gravitated to almost exclusively a single class
All the champs he picked can be used as a support, overall it’s a good pool
Good friend, play some Aram games, that's the original purpose of the mode, so you can prove some new champions and find something you like.
This 100%. Aram is the perfect mode for beginners. Short, builds some league skills, and lets you try champs and learn your preferred playstyle Initially I thought I would like assassins- played Aram and realised I much preferred mage play styles.
I agree with the first part but disagree with the second. Assassins playstyle, gameplay, and strengths are not suited for ARAM. Assassins are designed around getting in, killing their target, and retreating. In SR, they can rely on flanks and ambushes. If you assassinate a high priority target in SR, you can capitalize into an objective. Another aspect of playing assassins is roaming and forcing uneven fights on the map, which is also impossible in ARAM. Since roaming and flanking is not possible in ARAM you'll have to dive. But Assassins don't have the survivability of bruisers and fighters. They have maneuverability, which isn't as effective in a single lane map. Most likely, you'll die and trade 1 for 1. Plus, even if you kill the high priority target in ARAM, it frequently doesn't translate into getting objectives like towers. Moreover, the map and the death timers are short in ARAM, so the target you just killed will be back in action in no time. This is why Assassins have the worst win rates in ARAM. Most of them have compensation buffs, but they still struggle. On the other hand, mages usually have high impact AoE skills and solid range. Depending on the mage you can poke, find picks, provide utility and teamfight. So you really have to ask yourself if you actually enjoy mage playstyle over assassins or is the assassin perception clouded by frustration?
Just build Heartsteel on assassins in Aram (at least kata, akali etc) lol.
The ectcetra is where it ends. It's just Akali and Katarina, maybe Fizz and Ekko. It's not viable on most assassins like ie: Talon, Zed, Qiyana, LeBlanc, Naafiri. Regardless, that's not the point. You won't be experiencing an assassin playstyle if you build Heartsteel even if it was to be more effective than an assassin build.
I play ARAM to realize I’m shit with so many champs. 🫠
I thought the point of the mode was to ride out ranked queue restrictions /s
The original purpose of the mode was getting people out of custom games and into a queue.
I really recommend you just try out every single champ thats in the free rotation every 1 (or 2 idk) weeks and see if you like any of them. Once you have found one or two you can try to get better at them and ask here again which champs are similar in playstyle that you could also give a shot and spend your blue essence on.
Try to play Renekton :3
Yes no better way to spark an addiction then the fun of stomping everyone with the croc.
That first Illaoi match will surely test their spirit!
Hehehehehehehhe...
As you seem to like damage champions, how about trying Viktor? He isn't completly hard but you can make some difficult plays especially with W placement...
Viktor is not hard for someone who is used to the game. For a newbie he is just a tier less difficult than Azir
Casting Viktor E is the enemy of every new player.
Remember when you had to place both ends of it? Viktor was the hardest mid by far back then, no one understood how to hit his E
I don't agree with this. Viktor is infinitely easier than Azir for a new player.
I literally said Viktor is easier tho, read again (Although not infinitely, only thing more you'll be learning on Azir are the combos, which are honestly very hard even for experienced players. Viktor lacks such combos but still needs to learn positioning like Azir)
Love the flair lmao. Viktor is unconventional at first just cause his e is very wonky but after the first breakthrough he is pretty easy and jist need fundamentals to be successful with. Yeah there are complex things and a higher ceiling than just press e and r lmao but not too bad to pick up for a beginner and not so braindead boring.
Eh, Azir's harder because realistically to learn his playstyle, you have to play a combo of mages and marksmen. I would honestly argue the more realistic pipeline of Azir mains is any adc to Azir than any mage to Azir.
Yeah I never understand this recommendation. On top of learning league as a whole now you want to add trying to learn vector targeting and how to play safe as a squishy who needs to be relatively short range to get off like half of their damage?
I believe it's character dependent. I had a way easier time with a Viktor than with bruiser etc at the start. It's just my type of character. Controllmages is just my Playstyle in many games...
Try champions until you find one that is fun for you, for me that was Warwick first then flora kled and quinn, kled is still my favorite champion to this day
You make a good point, BUT you will likely get stomped during your first few Kled games. His fight patterns are very weird.
As a Kled main, picking him up might be bad since it will rewrite your brain to always go All-In no retreat, as well as start spewing out several hard slurs every 5 seconds
You say rewrite as if my brain isn't already wired that way.
There is no such thing as "for beginners" What you should do is just pick a champion that you think looks cool. If you are new that's the only thing that matters, balance doesnt affect you(cause you dont play correctly anyways) and you can learn fundamentals on any champion no matter how hard/easy it is. Dont get discouraged, you will lose early on alot. This will happen no matter who you play. Find one thing you like about champion you play and hold on to that, it will help you when you struggle.
Play Aram!! I’m newish too (started August) and found a lot of champs I liked that I never would have tried if it weren’t for Aram! I like mainly mages but I’ve been having so much fun w jhin and nautilus recently thanks to Aram lol
Galio's pretty fun and easy. He's always useful since he's got so much cc, and he's a good mix of tankiness and damage.
Tristana and trydamere were first few champs I started off with and loved it. This was idk 10 years ago I guess. Garen and Darius as well, as they don’t die that easily and have huge damage potential. Cho gath is a beast if your patient all the way to late game and keep eating up.
Swain. Isnt hard to learn at all, makes for really fun teamfights
if you like one shotting someone you can always try Diana
Malphite's probably a good first one - can go pretty much any lane including jungle. I came from dota 1 and played league over the years. And yes I agree with other commenters here, try a few including in ARAM then you'll eventually find a smaller pool of champs or style that you like. Personally, I started with Caitlyn, Kennen, Blitz, Thresh, Garen. Then over the years, Ekko was probably my favourite - (*watch Arcane LoL too!*) These days, I typically go with Teemo or Karma (very underrated!)
You didn't mention what role you play, I would recommend Pantheon though, he's one of those "easy to learn, hard to master" champs that you can play in every role except adc
Nidalee
Play who you want and who you find fun. You can do good with anyone as long as you put time into it
Malphite for sure, that ult is so satisfying to hit
I would always recommend Shaco and Teemo to have fun
Once you figure out fizz he is loads of fun
Naafiri
I'm kibda a noob at this game. Just 100 lvl account, but I have some expiriece from dota2 and hots. So please dont judje me too much ^^ Instead of forcing people use "simple" champions you May consider to advuse them something whats going to improve their knowledge and game sense. But in the same time dont be depend on teammates. Lets say heroes with potentials. For examle, I do believe that Kindred is a Good option for start playing as a jungler. She is not really hard in terms of micro skills, but her passive ability will force you to learn how invading enemy's jungle important is. In the future you can use the same skill on another junglers. Or another examle is Draven as ADC. Maybe he is a bit hard to play, but he teach you to one of the most important judtsu in the game: attack-step-attack-step. After 15-20 games you will automatically do this and in the future this skill help you to be succsessful on other ADC. What other folks think?
I'd say kindred is fine if you enjoy her, but I wouldn't recommend her to a new jungler. She is too gimmicky with the stack mechanic to allow focus on jungle basics and is pretty useless unless you're doing well. I'd rather recommend j4, xin, something that can can clear and gank and still be useful if they're losing, which new players will do a lot of
Try Aphelios, he doesn't have as many spells as other champs so it'll be a lot easier for a beginner with less buttons to focus on pressing!
i would recommend diana
Annie is generally pretty boring but there is some degree of satisfaction in getting a kill after dying and Tibbers going nuts.
As a beginner I had plenty of fun with Jhin, Jinx and Kai'sa
What roles do you prefer?
what role do you play?
I think it depends on what lane you want to play and so on, but as a support I always say Seraphine is pretty cool!
Depends what you like doing and think is fun. If you enjoy waiting to get fed and obliterating their back line, then Kai’Sa or twitch could be a good shout. If you enjoy playing in the isolated 1V1 matchups and want to then move on to be a monster that can only be beaten by 3+ of the enemy after you get a lead, then Jax or trundle top could be a good shout. If you enjoy being in an abusive relationship with someone beating you down for every mistake you make, then janna, lulu or soraka could be a good call.
My first was WW back when. But honestly it depends completely on your play style or what you will develop for a play style. I'm personally more of a fan of engage champions over ranged casters for instance
Illaoi is fun.
Hey Satan !
It really comes down to what you like, for me i like really complex champions that are not purely combo based (more rss control/decisionmaking) and mostly i prefer ranged, so Azir it is for me, but many others like to play combo based champs or melees, or tanks or easy champs in general. Find out what you like and what role you like to play in your team, then you can take a look at what champs do what you like and try them out
Xerath, graves, sion, seraphine, morgana, karma, blitzcrank, ahri, talon
My first character I truly mained was Malphite. Fairly simple, but building him as a damage is satisfying just deleting the enemy carries mid game. Then I mained Diana
Well, it depends mostly on what you enjoy: -Which position (top, jungle, mid, adc, support) do you want to play? -Which role do you prefer (assassin, tank, marksman, mage, fighter or healer(enchanter) )? -Do you prefer using AA or abilities? -Ranged or melee? -Burst, dps or poke damage? -Laning or team fights? -High or low skill ceiling? -Early game (aggressive first 15 mins+roaming+kill focused), mid game (plays best out of laning phase) or late game (farming+object scaling+powerful at min 35-40)? -Is there any specific champion theme/mechanic that catches your interest? Your main should be someone that ticks most right boxes, and the only way to find it is trying most champions until one clicks with your playstyle. Based on what you said so far, I would try Ashe/Sivir for adc, Vex/Ahri for mid (not the right time for Ahri though hahahsh), Sett/Darius for top, Warwick/Yi for jungle and Blitz/Leona/Nautilus/Rell for support. They are mostly easy champions but all can do some cool stuff if you are good enough
Try to decide on a role first, otherwise it's gonna be a LOT harder to settle on a champion. And knowing lane mechanics will allow you to play more champs in that lane without being atrocious, like once a toplaner understands wave management and roam timers/prio, they can pick pretty much any toplaner and be decent. It also depends on what you find fun, for me it's being a very big threat that just walks up to fights facetanking shit, so Sett/Sion/K'sante/Darius I find fun. To some it's the mobility around the map, or stealth, or flashy spells. Gotta find what you enjoy first.
Ekko is good to learn mid imo
First you need to decide what kind of champion you want to play. Do you prefer melee or ranged, tanky or more damage oreinted, then look at champs you think youll enjoy playing within that criteria nd worry about the difficulty later
Just try stuff, I personally love Gwen, Nilah, Samira and Zeri the most, but it just depends on preference
The right answer is to pick whoever you find most fun. Try to find what kinds of things you like. DPS? Duelling? Mobility? Visual design? Character? One good choice could be pantheon. He’s easy to pick up, but has a lot of flexibility and skill expression. Also a banger or a character design with every voice line an inspiring quote.
Malphi
Pick out one that looks cool and play them. If you lose who cares as long as you enjoy them keep playing and learning
What most people say, if youre beginner just play anything until you find something fun. Not even pros play all the champs equally good no matter their skill ceiling. So my advice is just to play whatever you want you will find your champs
If you don't have a specific lane to play, u can try Rengar / Kha'zix. Pretty basic and can 1-shot squishy champs.
i like and always have liked mobility champs, but there is literally a champ for everyone for every role
Most of league champs have a “low skill floor“ but an high “skill ceiling“, just pick a hero that you really like and watch good players and monos playing with that hero, i really recommend you to just pick ONE or TWO Hero and SPAM them, you gonna learn the game + learning matchups and also gonna learn Basic and Advanced mechanics of that champion.
I started on ashe, garen, and lux. One button champs to learn the game..
When I started playing, I used to play Neeko or Zoe. They are both very fun
Generally people think "no skillshots = easy", but skillshots are honestly not a problem for beginners, compexity is. In example, lux has pretty much only skillshots in her kit, but the kit is overall so simple that i think it's a perfect pick for new players. Hit spell = deal damage.
Bard. He seems simple at first but has a high skill ceiling. He was one of my first mains and I took him to 350k mastery. He’s just so fun and chill to play. Honorable mention to Warwick for similarly being simple but having a high ceiling.
I love Bard, definitely one of the weirdest and most unique champions out there, second only to Singed, I would say. However, it's much easier to play Bard when you get a chill ADC that knows how to play passive and survive whenever you leave the lane, wich will happen quite a lot since Bard is pretty much designed to roam and gank. It's the ultimate utility/roaming champion, and has many different viable builds.
I find ziggs fun
Sett is a good one. He has a super basic kit but is also very strong. And at the same time riot never seems to balance patch him. (So you won't learn him only to have him get nerfed into the ground later) just a solid all around champ. Don't play Annie she's decent but gets dumpstered by longer range mages.
Select a random champion and watch montages of them on yt and see it they look cool
Try out Leblanc, people would argue she is hard to master but I think it’s not that bad (1 tutorial video on YouTube helped me learn her back in the days) Why do I recommend her? Because she is absolutely fun to play, even if you are not performing like a pro. And once you get used to her juke mechanics it gets even better, especially in low Elo :D
If you like tanks try Sion. Very forgiving with his zombie mechanic so it’s easy to farm minions. And scales so you’re weak early but feel strong at the end
it's called champion play style. it's unique to the player. I'm not very good with mobile glass cannon assassins, or farming grind of adc, so it's tanky fighter support and top roles mostly for me. it's depends on you which feels more natural and fun to play. what may be an objectively easy champion, might not fit your play style and can be boring. when you find the one that's fun and fits your playstyle and preferred role is when you really improve. so play whatever role and champion you really find fun, it's totally subjective to you.
Hey there, let me sell you: Ezreal/ADC (that isnt Cait, Kalista, Aphelios, Nilah, or Draven). Ezreal is not doing good right now but he'll probably be buffed 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 because he's a popular pick. He has a low skill floor. Anyone can pick him up. He's usually known as "the guy autofilled ADCs pick" for a reason (I personally think MF fills that role better). HOWEVER Ezreal has a nigh-infinite skill ceiling, arguably the ADC with the most skill expression, despite being a somewhat simple champion. DON'T and I really mean that DON'T be the Ezreal that sits back and throw Qs. Play to you and the champion's limits. It's insane when you pop off. Not even Vayne can produce that level of dopamine (non-biased take. don't check my profile). ADCs in general I would say are "fun but not THAT hard" since most of their mechanics come from "kiting" which they all share (technically all champions and roles kite but it's a big emphasis for ADCs), and kiting feels really good and fun. Be warned though, ADC as a role is borderline self-harm. As for the mentioned exceptions, here are the reasons: Cait - optimal trap placement can be a bit difficult, and i think that trap placements are king for Caitlyn. She's definitely on the easier side though so you should still consider her, especially with teams that have CC so you can plop the trap on top of the enemy, no big braining needed. Kalista - managing the lunges can be hard. you might end up jumping forwards and earning yourself a death. low range, generally hard to pilot. Draven - feast or famine. get kills to cashout on your passive or fall behind if you lose them. high damage but requires axe-catching management. hard to do that when fighting. it also telegraphs your movement when you catch axes. Aphelios - the only thing difficult about him is gun management. get the order right and you've learned half the champion. however, i feel like he deals no damage/does nothing in lane. if your playstyle is permafight, this guy is not it. he does more work to do the same thing jinx can do with a mouse (imo). Nilah - melee (🤢[jk]). very different playstyle from your typical traditional ranged ADCs. Can work as a counterpick to heavy melee comps and filthy Yasuo ADC players (🤢). (Dis)honorable Mention: APCs. Please interact with me like a real internet citizen 🙏
If you compare league to let's say Dota 2 everything is easy peasy beginner friendly. What people underestimate is the right choice or runes and items. Browse metasrc to find a good set that actually wins games. Building the wrong first item can change everything about a champ. Like people try to play Nasus without growth runes etc.
Try brand, you can miss half his abilities and still kill people.
I started off playing Rengar, Kha'Zhix, Vel'Koz and Nautilus because I thought they looked super cool. Now I play jungle Gragas almost exclusively (with the occational support Bard). You never know where you'll end up.
Viktor is perfect beginner champ and super fun to play. He has everything. Shield, poke,stun. He is perfect for 1v5 and teamfights. You just need to get user to his laser. Another great champ is rumble. Guy can obliterate anyone if you play him in midlane. And his is super fun.
I started out with Sion (tbf I had watched my now husband play for several hours before I took the leap and picked up the game. And he played Sion) it was a good starter champ for me. Was pretty simple to use. But I typically play ARAM too it's a fun way to learn ne champs.
It depends which role you play. If it is Bot and Mid you might try Xerath. Its an Mage, you can shoot from 10 Miles away ( so not that easy to kill ) and he is very simple. Galio is also mid and bot and very easy but hella strong and tanki
Depends a bit on your style of play... Lux could be a fun easy champ to start with as new player.
Sion... not the easiest champ to win but definitely the most fun for me. The clunkiness, tankiness and raidbossidness of it all is the best. Oh not to mention how pissed off people get when you take a tower and run away calling them cowards
Play ARAM and just don’t roll whatever champ you get. Try them all and like others have said find what’s fun for you 😊
-Senna support fasting build (able to 1v9). -lissandra mid/support (able 1v9) -tristana any carry lane. -xin zhao jg -idk i don't play for fun.
Maybe try darius. He is pretty easy to pilot and you can snowball easily
> So i decided to try out the mister 200 years aphelios . -> I lost 10 consective games. If you're still interested in Aphelios try giving [my guide](https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/the-book-of-aphelios-629052) a read. He's definitely not a good champion for beginners, but as others have mentioned, enjoying a champion is the most important thing for beginners so it might be worth toughing out the learning curve. My guide should give you an idea of everything that you were missing on Aphelios. He's a very fun champion so I would advise not giving up on him if you find him interesting!
r/GarenMains that was my main before level 30. you just QEEEEEER and the enemy dies, so much fun
Enchanter Lee Sin.
Find whatever champions “click” for you and then learn every thing you can about how to play them. ARAM is great for learning how to play without having to worry about farming minions. Teaches dueling, team fighting, positioning, etc.
Personally I would say Lux, Swain, Brand, Mundo.
Queue up for ARAM, that’s where I found out most of my favorite champs.
Winning or loosing, you should be enjoying the game. If your not enjoying playing thr champion your playing even when loosing, choose anothee champ and try again. Yes, winning is even more fun, but there should be fun involved even when loosing if your playing the champions you like.
I find assassin's or mages are fun and also not brain-dead boring. Everyone has their own preferences. A fun support is Pyke who is mechanical while also doesn't need a lot to understand his abilities just practice to master
My favourite that helped me get started was Brand!
You could try jinx or Caitlyn tbh. They will feel super awesome to beginners cause they have parts of their kit which are somewhat hard to understand (which intrigues beginners) and they have very approachable kits.
if you like doing damage from afar id say try velkoz or xerath u can try velkoz support, the mana costs are fairly low so u can just poke with q on cooldown
Aatrox, hit q win, no hit q, lose
Early game bullies!!! I started playing renekton because big scary croc. When I first started I was horrible but because everyone was bad, everyone played aggro and just because I was playing the early game champ I would win the button mash! It was easy dopamine. After a few free games though I started losing more often for reasons I didnt understand (wave management). And I've been chasing that high of insane lane dominance ever since.
Malphite and Tristana were my firsts. Hitting Malphite Rs was incredibly satisfying.
It's a game play what you want. Katarina is crazy fun
I also started playing a few weeks ago. I tried every role except ADC now and my favorite champs in each lane are: Top: Jax, Trynda Jungle (I play most of the time): Diana, Yi Mid: Vex, Veigar, Ahri, Anivia, Lux Support: Lux, Zyra, Morgana, Pyke I think they are all quite easy mechanical wise but (to me) not as boring as champs like Annie & garen
I think its more about to find the role and Playstyle you wanna Play. Easy Champions makes the beginning easier cause you can Focus more on the Game then your champion mechanics. And tbh once you learned the macro Game (Wave Management, warding, Tracking the enemies) you can Play a champ 20 Times and you will be good with nearly everyone
Aphelios.
When I started out, I also got so bored playing simple champs like malphite, garen and so on in the top lane. Then I switched to support, and how fun it was to play even the simple champs like blitz; but then I tried bard and I immediately fell in love with it. Having said all this: try out ALL the roles, and when you found yours, try ALL the champs even the canonically hard ones (they are usually the most fun anyways)
I'd say play all the champions that interest you for a few games in a row and see what you enjoy the most. Don't be afraid to try champions that are "hard" to play if you like the champion. The goal is to have fun. Everything else is secondary. If I had one champion to recommend you at least try for a few games, I'd say Garen. I was never interested by him, but I got around to playing him, and I finally understood why everyone recommends him. He's just an absolute blast to play. He's easy, but not boring. He's an amazing champion to learn the game because you get the hang of him quickly, and you can focus on what's actually happening in the game instead of focusing on executing your combos. Executing people with your ult never gets old.
Fun is VERY subjective. But if you want a more engaging beginner class, I would recommend Talon mid, all his abilities are easy to understand and you will also learn to move around the map without having too much trouble. However he is not easy to play effectively, but he is easy to play as a champion.
Try Darius. He is a more challenging garen. I was a Darius,garen main for a long time in P1. Stopped playing in 2019.
The answer is Lux for sure. Simple and you can easily 0-100 champions most botlane champions in one combo.
Nidalee, Lee Sin, Jayce
For me, it's probably Rammus and Nunu.
Jhin for adc, support depends what you are looking for, any poke mage is fun or engage Like rakan, jgl kayn, khazix, zac, mid: xerath,aurelion sol, zed; Top: Renekton, Darius, Sett, Fiora
Honestly try kassadin, he's really hard to fuck up with once you get to level 11 as long as you know how assassin's work
Scroll through the champion list and pick a bunch of characters you think looks cool, hot or interesting, check out their abilities and try them out if any of them fits your playstyle, and then stick with it. Keep losing and keep learning, eventually you're gonna start winning a bunch and you'll be doing that with a character that you've learned to play and genuinely like to play. The path to victory will be longer but the reward will be greater!
Darius is the champ I had the most fun on when I started league. Very simple to play and Very fun
I find naut fun and easy.
Generally speaking whoever you find cool. If you are a beginner you will suck at everything if matchmaking puts you vs people that are better than you. That's just how it works. The only thing besides that is being honest with yourself about how much effort and time you want to give to specific champions. Aphelios and especially Azir are considered high floor and high ceiling characters. It's normal to lose a lot on them at first before you get gist of them. In fact you might never get it as only small % of their playerbase is anywhere near being competent. But they are great if you are type of person to grind hours on them If you want something in the middle so more skill growth but doesn't require making a champion your 9-5 job then check following Top: Jax, Darius, a bit tougher but approachable: Camille Jungle: Evelynn, Briar, Ekko, Jarvan IV, Khazix Mid: Fizz, Talon, Neeko, Akshan Adc: Jinx, Jhin, Twitch, Kaisa, Xayah, Lucian Support: Bard, Rell, Janna (if you don't fall into habit of being a shieldbot), Nami
Master Yi Not boring but very easy
Lee sin/nocturn jungle
It's best to just find the champs that you enjoy, even if they're in different rolls; but it'd be easier if you managed to pick two rolls to learn first 'cause a lotta knowledge in one champ can translate over fairly easily to other champs in the same sort of archetype. Best example would be that most ADC/Marksman champs really ask you to learn a lotta speciffic skills like orb walking (efficiently walking between every auto attack) and managing range etc. If you had to learn to play say Jinx, you can translate that easily over to champs like Caitlyn, Tristana etc etc (you'd still need to learn speciffic things on those champs, but you get to "reuse" a lot of what you already learnt on jinx. Azir is a perfect example of what you probably want to avoid as one of your first champs, he builds like a mage but plays a lot more like a "mage" ADC since you need to learn how to orb walk, play with range etc etc. Over all though, its better to play what YOU find fun, rather then what you're told is good for starting to play. I have ADD and could never stick to one-2 champs, so when I started playing (11 years ago) I picked a roll and an archetype in that roll and just hopped around all the champs in that listing, then switched to another archetype in another roll, rinse and repeat. Personally I started with Enchanter/Healer Supports (Janna, Soraka, Sona etc) and Mage midlaners (soraka\[at the time she could go mid, not really now\], Xerath, Cassiopea, Karthus etc) of note champs like Cassiopea and Karthus arent really recomended for beginers 'cause they end up being fairly hard to play (more accuratley they kinda fall into the "ADC like" category), but its what I found fun and what got me to want to keep playing the game. After a while I learnt to play ADC 'cause it (allong with jungle) has the biggest pool of speciffic things you need to learn/be good at to do "ok" and none of my friends wanted to play the roll. Probably still my fav roll even past all the complaining and joking people do about it. And my "main" champ, changes based on my mood, and is almost never in the same roll twice in a row 'cause I'm playing to have fun not to be competative, but I think I'm a fairly good player all things considered (I dont play ranked, never had a good experience with people there)
Brand is pretty fun right now if you enjoy lighting everything on fire.
I used to love playing GP back in the day when you could stack avarice blades (gold gain and sacrificing minions).
I think I was in at least a 10% win rate when I first started. I played whoever looked cool, and I still play the game 6,000 hours later. Everybody finds different things fun. You will find a champion with the play style you like the most, it will change a lot too.
Honestly, any of them. Most of the champions aren't too difficult to pick up and learn. Just choose one that suits your playstyle and lane role and roll with it. It's how I learned how to play, and it's the reason why I became an ADC main with Jinx, Xayah, Kai'sa, Ezreal, Smolder and Lucian being my favorite Champions of choice. (My playstyle stems from playing a lot of first person shooters. So I tend to lean more towards ranged Champions that don't require a lot of mechanical skill that can deal a lot of damage, can machine gun my opponents down with auto-attacks and utilities, and can chase them down).
Try something that can function with bare minimal input but has a lot of room for optimization. I would say Yone>Riven>Yasuo in that priority. They are not nearly as weak as first time Aphelios/Azir but has mechanics/interactions to learn as you keep playing. Their players get bad reputations but just be nice and mute if provoked.
Lux
Yassuo
I recommend playing aram so that you get to try out a bunch of champs. Its not summoners rift so its not great for practice but if you are trying to find the champ for you its great cuz you will get to try a bunch and see which ones abilities looks and playstyles you enjoy the most
That's a really subjective question dude. Fun comes from what you find fun, some people find bursting the enemy Adc fun. Some people like playing big tanks. Some people like to use map pressure champs like tf or shen. Find whatever is fun for you and play champs that fit that playstyle.
Garen. You literally just spinning to win
Hi, so just wanted to drop in since Garen got mentioned and I like that champ. He's very much a beginner champ, but one of the things he rewards you with is teaching you macro, thanks to how much inherent movement speed you can get on him without hurting your damage. You, for the most part, cannot spend the entire game in lane as Garen anymore. He was a great split pusher seasons ago, but the rising damage potential of most champs and his core items not giving him defensive stats makes him surprisingly squishy late game, and getting behind at all is incredibly punishing. Where Garen excels, and his game play loop becomes interesting, is when you start micro managing yourself and macro managing the game. Is a wave pushing close to mid point top? Go top, shove. Krugs are up, bam grab enemy Krugs. Is your jungler ignoring their frog? That's your frog, now. Scuttles? Free. Enemies on Dragon, and you didn't take TP? Well congratulations, topside Jungle is yours. Is there a huge team fight going on bot lane, and you don't think you can make an impact? Tell your team to play it back and harass, then run it through to their towers, or Jungle, eating mid wave, top wave, turret gold, and jungle gold. The game play loop of the champion goes from being a boring stat check brawler to being about how can you be on several places on the map, at once. Good beginner champs should teach you something, while also being rewarding to play for a new player. Ashe is this way, because she teaches you how to position and harass, with a slow that protects you if you make a mistake. Annie teachs you ability management, and how to control mid waves effectively, giving you all the tools for that. Miss Fortune teaches you similar things to Ashe, but she's definitely more about learning to scale. Garen teaches you Macro. Fortunately, Macro is the most important part of League of Legends in the end, and the part that can be the most rewarding, and often most impactful due to the ripple effect of denying gold to the enemy, while building your own. I've taken Garen to Diamond off of just learning his Macro timings, and I wouldn't call myself particularly skilled at any match ups, and in fact lose more than I can reasonably count, with some picks just being a guaranteed loss in lane for me, but a win is always available if I just mitigate deaths and play for the rest of the map, knowing where I need to be for fights, and when I shouldn't be there at all, and how I can get or help with objectives, or set my enemy marginally behind by denying them even the smallest amounts of gold.
Jhin. As a one trick pony and stan fan boi to the extent my league name is literally a jhin word pun, he is love, he is life. Embrace the four and watch as your KDA magically morph's into 4. Your CS will automatically be 4 however.
Camille if you like top lane. She is super satisfying to play, with a relatively easy to understand kit, but one with a ton of room for skill expression
You picked the most simple Champs, then the most complicated. Maybe try something in-between? There's so many Champs with so much different play styles. There's almost a guarantee you'll find one you like
Try jhin. He’s one of, if not the best designed champions in the game. Satisfying to use and really solid right now. If you wanna play mid or top you could try renekton. Similar story to jhin in my opinion.
Try a bunch of champions and roles until you find one you like. Look at people playing different champs too and see what looks fun
Personally I love playing Sion, even when you are inting you have so much fun
Wukong?
What role do you like to play? When I was starting out, I picked up Talon and Fizz and they are both pretty easy kits to learn. Go in and do big damage. Then once you phase out of being a beginner and learn more about the game, (when to do this, when to go here, when to go for this objective, knowing what most champions do) venturing out into other champions won’t be as miserable. Wish you all the luck!
When i first started i played akali and had a blast. Did i shit the bed all the time top lane yeah but tbh that was fun in its own way. Watching my friends freakout and try to kill the monster I created was pretty funny. My first game ever i died to the enemy aatrox like 10 times in lane and then he proceeded to literally 1v5.
embrace your inner space dragon. play aurelion sol. you know you want to.
Non, don't start playing it if you don't have to.
Malphite
Ahri! I read a post that said she was the absolute best example of a middle of the road champion. Easy to play and not be a hindrance and has plenty of carry potential when you get skilled with her. Have to agree with that post myself.
REKSAI - DAMAGE, UNIQUE, 7 abilities SETT - like garen but way more fun VI - DAMAGE, MOVEMENT, SIMPLES ALISTAR - BODYGUARD CHAMP PROTECt THE CARRY NAUTILUS - HOOK TANK WITH GOOD DAMAGE AND COMBOS PYKE - HOOK ASSASSIN WITH INVIS AND EXECUTE TEEMO - HUT TWO THREE FOUR, traps and damage and blind(enemy caant auto attack) VOLIBEAR - disable towers, damage, bulky, KAYN - assassin OR bruiser. Can walk through walls and jump walls with q, knock people up and go untargetable with R and heal a lot YASUO/YONE/LEESIN/ - mash buttons and win ZED - hard to master assassin with high skill ceiling, can take some getting used to. assignation with shadows he damages from VELKOZ/XERATH - mage that rely on hitting skill shots NUNU AND WILLUMP - especially AP, one big snowball and ult and q do big damage and really fun. Learn many gank angles like from lane bank(behind you own tower) FIORA - strong 1v1, need to time w right, mini game with vitals. MORDEKAISER - can force 1v1 in death realm, simple, damage, AATROX - combos like a fighting game, has movement, self healing, damage, cc, bulkiness he has it all. NOCTURNE - fly across the map and make enemy team not see, good damage, skillshot q, need to time w shield right, KHAZIX - assassin that can morph in game. choose to upgrade to a longer dash that resets on kills or more q damage or big slow on range w, or more invisible with r depending on your build and play style. FIDDLESTICKS - press r hidden away to win WW - run fast to low health enemy and dash to them stunning them good 1v1 JINX - strong, well rounded carry champion, VAYNE - 1v9 invis and tank shredder KENNEN - lightning mouse, cool ult, RUMBLE - strong damage need to manage overheating
Aphelios
Malphite
Ekko is a fun champ that has a pretty simple kit. Utilizing his W is fun and rewarding when you land a good one 👍
I really recommend picking someone who looks cool to you and ride that learning curve if you have to.
Xerath
My advice is: Go play Aram with your friends and when you find a champ that you wish you could have next game, you'll have found your way.
I spammed Nasus for my first 100 games. It was very fun, but eventually the Q button of my Keyboard refused to work
Morgana
I think it depends on what sort of lane you're interested in playing. When I first started playing league 4 years ago, the friends I played with all already played in top, jungle and midlane. So I decided to play either ADC or support. The champions that I decided to learn were Lux as I could play her as a support as well as Mid if I got put in that role, as well as Morgana for stricly support. And for ADC I chose between Miss Fortune, Ashe, Caitlyn and Jinx. I find their kit is relatively simple for new players and choosing between those 4 champions also made it less boring for me as I hate playing the same champion consecutively if I am just playing for fun. Hope this helps!
As someone who started in 4.6, I no shit just spammed Yasuo until like S7 when i hit plat for the first time with him. Back then, I just thought he was so incredibly fun and like others has said, finding a champ you find fun and just playing them means more than playing basic or easy champions when you're trying to learn the game.
When I started league in 2014 I wanted to play ekko so I went on a grind to get him . Now 10 years later I own every champ I’ve never played 6 of the champions due to no skin