crownjules
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- Jul 7, 2005
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You can kill them at any time and they respawn at intervals. There are a few different types and each has it's own benefit and degree of toughness. Some heroes can "jungle" (not lane and just focus on killing the NPCs and leveling that way). It's generally a slightly more advanced tactic.I have a few basic questions:
1. When, if ever, do you kill random monsters in the land? I assume at the beginning of the round?
Some NPCs will give you a buff if you kill them. The Golem (blue) increases mana regen and decreases ability cooldowns. The Lizard (red) buffs attack damage and adds a slow effect to your auto-attack. Baron Nashor (purple) adds ability power, attack damage, and health/mana regen.
Magic power. Most damage dealing abilities will show in the tooltip "...deals 50 (+67) damage." The number in parentheses is how much extra damage you're getting from your ability power. It's not the same ratio for every ability either - some abilities scale better than others. So even if your stat panel shows you have 250 ability power, that's not necessarily adding 250 damage to every spell. You get ability power mostly from items, runes, and masteries.2. What is ability power?
As you learn the ropes, you'll figure out when it's safe to leave your lane and when you need to get there. Also as the game progresses and you gain levels, the focus of the game switches from staying put and protecting your own tower (referred to as the "Laning Phase") to more of a group up and rove around the map trying to engage the other team.3. You mention that it is good to help teammates even if they are across the map. Considering how fast characters are always spawning and moving, it seems like a lot of the time this means abandoning a post, ie, leaving it open for destruction. Is this not normally the case?
Focus on last hitting. You get the same amount of XP from minions regardless of whether you kill them, another teammate does, or one of your own creeps. The XP amount only changes based on how many teammates are in range (you split it equally). However you only get gold if you land the killing blow. So do it as much as you can.4. How much should I focus on killing the minions? How much exp do I get from being near them as opposed to dealing killing blows?
I don't know this exactly, but you do get bonus gold if the hero was on a kill streak.5. How much exp and stuff do I get for an assist / kill of a hero?