What is League of Legends and how to play?

 League of Legends is one of the most popular video games on the face of the Earth. Currently the game has more than 100 million monthly active users, it is developed by RIOT Games and its game mode is MOBA or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena.

His origins

To know a little more about the game we would have to go back to 2006, the year in which Brandon Beck and Marc Merril founded Riot Games and, in the company of Steve Mescon and Steve Feak, they came together to give life to what we know today as League of Legends, which, as many believe, was originally a modification of the also well-known game World of Warcraft.

In 2009, Riot Games officially published League of Legends thanks to the support of many strategic partners who gave it the financial engine and robustness that the title needed to be able to fight in this hectic world of MOBAs. By 2012, three years after its launch, the success of League of Legends was total and had 70 million registered users while in 2013 they managed to connect 5 million users around the world at the same time, thus breaking a record for this type of online entertainment platforms.

The basics: the minimum to play League of Legends

What's worth noting about League of Legends is that it's a simple game that everyone has access to. And as Lenore, a renowned Colombian caster of this game in Latin America, told us, “League of Legends is a game that runs on almost any computer,” and that is very true. The processing and hardware requirements are basic, which allows almost any computer to be suitable to play it, although you will always need an internet connection.

Minimum requirements to play:

- 3 GHz processor (supports SSE2 instruction set or higher)

- 2GB RAM

- 12 GB available on the hard drive

- Shader 2.0b compatible video card

- Screen resolution up to 1920x1200

- DirectX 9.0c or higher support

- Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10

Developer recommended requirements:

- 3 GHz dual-core processor

- Recommended: 4 GB RAM

- 16 GB available on the hard drive

- NVIDIA GeForce 8800/AMD Radeon HD 5670 video card or equivalent (dedicated GPU with 512 MB or more graphics memory [VRAM])

- Compatibility with DirectX 9.0c or higher.

- Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 with the latest Service Pack installed

Now, how do you play?

The truth is that League of Legends initially has a basic purpose and its game modes too, if what you are looking for is fun for a while, if what you want is to compete you will face endless adversities and very high level players . In the game, the player must choose between 150 existing characters (or champions) to fight in a combat arena with the aim of destroying the 'Nexus' located in the enemy base. The arena allows the participation of two teams (blue and red) with five players each and who must overcome different difficulties in order to reach enemy territory, first passing through a considerable number of defenses called turrets that they must defeat in order to advance. the game.

League of Legends map showing the link between both teams (Blue on the left, red on the right).

All players in the game start with a low level and, based on their performance in the game, they begin to raise their level which will allow them to unlock special skills to use in the game. There is also a number of gold that each champion (or player) must increase in the game that can be spent to increase the statistics of each of them such as life, attack and defense; Gold is obtained by killing characters such as minions or monsters within the arena, as well as eliminating players from the rival team.