His raven form looks pretty sick.
Tip of the Day: More Fun Reading for Beginners (Including Yours Truly)
I figure that today I’ll just pass on more links I found entertaining for myself. No particular order except I will try to keep the more dry stuff lower on the list.
Tomorrow, I will probably post a lot of WCG related links since there should be some coverage from the community and the matches begin on Friday 
Effectively Countering Sona (by Grafik from Team Epik Gaming)
One of my favorite posts of the past two weeks. On the LoL Boards the past couple of weeks, too many people have been QQing over Sona being so powerful. Grafik puts out his take on it and makes the case that Sona’s ability to babysit multiple characters makes her a big factor in less-coordinated team fights, but that advantage at least gets neutralized by coordinated teams because she’s not particularly great at babysitting individual members of a teamfight. This doesn’t change how well she assists other players, but it’s good food for thought for most players.
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You’ll have to get used to Shurelia’s “babyish” voice (this will be difficult for some people). That said, this is a great tutorial and a visual guide to zoning themes in LoL–pretty much specific for the laning phase. I still fail at this too often in my games… That said, much of the SRK crowd should have a natural sense of this already because of fighting game experience.
Solo Queue Advice (by Elementz - another top player)
Some people might think the tone in this post is a bit much, but it’s great solid advice (at least I think so) and drives certain points home–especially regarding wards. I consider it a MUST READ. Also, Solo Queue articles seem to be the flavor of the week from the pro players side of things.
@ Ezreal (Q&A Game Designer Thread)
I’ll give the same advice I gave for the @Morello thread. Just read the red posts. On your first read, start from the beginning. Later on if you go back to this thread, start from the back and work your way towards your last post. Again, I recommend reading only the Red Posts in these. Some more great insight in character design in this game
Runeterra Livestreams
Roku provides some great high level livestreams. Particularly from the perspective of Roku and Shurelia. The livestreams are also archived and organized by Champion (scroll down to “Video Library”). Runeterra is not the only place for Livestreams but I think it’s a great starting place and I’m sure links to other great livestreams will be posted up soon (Solo Mid, CLG, etc…).
Another Avid Player’s Perspective (Experience and Tips from Caddy of Solo Mid)
Warning: This article is very much a blog post–which is to say it’s rambling a little bit. But I found it to be at least a bit insightful and interesting, it just has a slow start. Ultimately it was worth reading so I’m recommending it.
Quick Tip: Halting the Inferno (dealing with Ignire)
Super simple tip for beginners with a little bit of perspective. I will say that I have to deal with ignite a lot more around Level 20 (lol, I’m still not there…) than I’ve had to deal with at any other time so far.
Interview with Riot’s E-Sports Manager
A Solo Mid video interview from PAX 2010. BTW, Matt Marcou seems like a cool guy
Personal thoughts/ramble (not particularly related to the interview): I know Riot has not done the best of jobs establishing this game as an e-sport so far, but I think they’re treading it lightly right now (aside from the giant cash prize at the end of Season 1) and we’ll be seeing them step it up pretty hard in the future–particularly when things probably get really rebalanced around Season 2 or so. That’s just a guess from me, but they seem to be a self-conscious developer and know that because they’ve altered many rules with the MOBA/ARENA style genre, balance was gonna be an issue for a good while as they experiment with character designs and rollout strategies. I think competition is their longterm plan, but they are still in the early phases of putting this game out there and tweaking with experimental design ideas. But hey… DotA has had years of refinement and before that, Starcraft didn’t even get replays for years and Battle.Net wasn’t the best way to coordinate a competitive scene either… Hopefully with LoL, it just takes one more year to establish itself more for competitive players, but for now I’m just having lots of fun with the game and I’m nowhere near competitive yet anyways.
Statikk’s Take on Sona
An early impressions/pseudo-guide from a top player on Sona.
Hope some of you enjoy the links!
Next stop, WCG Grand Finals!
-Chanchai
any of you guys hopping the next champ after Swain will be Luxanna Crownguard? i hope so, it’ll be cool to see both garen and luxanna spinning away.
I just started getting into this, still learning the chars/items as much as i can. I used to play a lot of Dota and the transition is pretty easy for me. If any one is scrambling for a 5th ill be down “Slogan8r”.
Funny about the solo queue thing and wards because its so dead on true.
Sona and Garen lane = 25 minute surrender incoming.
imo.
WCG International has begun!
Today the teams are playing round robin which will determine the seeding for the elimination bracket. And Riot’s LoL Page is providing streams!
Official League of Legends WCG Page
As of this writing, CLG (North America) has won their game against Another Story (Southeast Asia). China Hero (China) takes their first win by defeating Team SK (Europe).
It’s also worth checking out the League of Legends Community - WCG 2010 Boards. You’ll get a lot of discussion and updates live here.
Again, this is only the Round Robin stage and teams are developing their strategies for the finals tomorrow.
Runeterra also has some coverage and updates of what’s going on via the following links:
Discussion and Detailed Coverage via Forums
Twitter
Runeterra’s WCG Starting Point (where you can find the above links)
Things are pretty interesting so far, though I hope someone is recording all of these matches for later viewing. Next two matches will be up at Noon Pacific Time!
-Chanchai
Swain’s raven form looks fuckin boss. Dropping my ip on his release.
Tests realm says hes underwhelming so far…
Oh well, cant wait.
All of today’s matches (Round Robin matches + Semifinals) have been recorded. The match of the day was CLG vs. SK.
Yo, add Johnnyfivepenises if you want to know what its like to be a real man. I be with a mix of new dudes and lvl30 guys. And yes please we need people to ward it up more.
Quoted for Truth! With five penises that would be a real man and a mix of new dudes and “warding it up more.”
Just kidding 
Hey guys lets make a team and not take any fuckin tank and think ima win yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i love this game
Hi everyone. I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I want to know if there is an alternative link/site where I can download LoL because the official downloader only gives me this error. I started playing HoN but I have been told that LoL is not only similar but a better game so I wanted to try it out. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it!
I am running windows 7 if that helps and I have tried disabling my firewall and antivirus but was unsuccessful. Thanks again.
It’s a rare problem, and the only solution given is to uninstall/reinstall Pando, reset your modem, and try again.
Lemme know if it’s still not working, I’ll upload my installer to mediafire overnight if it isn’t.
hey guys i just got galios and the hero is fun as fuck. but im having troble building a tank build. any1 no? bc soemtimes i go ap but when the team im in dotn have tank im forced to go tank
Take advantage of his passive and get some MR gear, you still get good AP from his passive (50% of his MR = AP) and you are much more useful to your team.
imo.
yea but i also need health to stay alive
Get Aegis and Banshees, both give HP.
imo.
Just got this game. Fun as hell. Never played Dota tho.
I am noobtastic though.
The World Cybergames Finals are still going and it’s been awesome!
Europe dominated the first match (with Twisted Fate), but USA (with a strong early game and awesome Anivia play by JiJi) evens the score by dominating the second match!
Third and final match is about to begin. You can watch it at the WCG site or at WCG 2010 | League of Legends
GREAT FINAL MATCH FOR THE WORLD CYBER GAMES CHAMPIONSHIP!
Building tank requires knowledge of the other team. If they have lots of physical damage going on, start building Randuin’s Omen, Frozen Heart, Thornmail (if theres good autoattackers), etc.
Against magic based teams Banshee’s Veil and Force of Nature is your best bet.
If theres a mix of both then start on Randuin’s Omen then get Force of Nature or Banshee’s Veil depending if they have cc.