What is LoL?

One of the things that has been the primary focus of my Summer has been the game League of Legends. Yeah, I'm a loser who decides to stay at home on a computer for most of his Summer months instead of grabbing it by its proverbial testicles and doing stuff outside. I'm not saying that I hate the outdoors, but this week-end has been double IP (Influence Points, points earned in game by playing and can be spent on heroes or runes which give your heroes passive bonuses) and so I've been on a lot.

What is League of Legends, or LoL? The best way I found to describe it is that it's a tower-defense game, but in reverse. You play as a champion, of which there are fifty-six to choose from, along with four others, or two if you're playing the 3v3 map, against another team of five. You, along with the other champions and the minions, or creeps, that your base summons are trying to take out your opponents towers, creeps, champions, inhibitors and nexus. The inhibitor is a building that when destroyed will let your base summon epic minions in that lane. The Nexus is the primary target in the game, destroy the Nexus and you win. There are a total of three lanes in the 5v5 map, Summoner's Rift which I'll talk primarily about, each lane has an outside, inside and inhibitor tower along with an inhibitor. At the Nexus there are two towers. The base is made up of the inhibitors, their towers, the Nexus, it's towers, the well and well tower. The base is surrounded by a wall that the only openings are found at the inhibitor towers. The well is where champions are summoned, revive at and recall to so they can heal or buy items. In between the lanes are forest, or jungle, areas where neutral monsters are found. Neutral monsters are monsters that either team can kill for gold and experience and a few of the monsters have buffs that you get when killing them. There are two neutral monster bosses, one that just gives experience and gold to all allied champions, Dragon, and the other, Baron Nashor, gives experience, gold and the strongest buff to all allied champions.

Sorry about the poor job at explaining the game, but this is to segue into my Anivia Guide that I will post soon. There's more to the game, but this is all I can manage right now.