Does League of Legends needs leveling as in mmorpgs? For example in World of Warcraft you need leveling to get in top level raids. Is there any kind of content in League of Legends that can be accessible only after leveling? Does a player need a certain level to be strong enough for comfort playing? What means leveling in League of Legends ?
League-of-legends – How mandatory is leveling up in League of Legends
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Best Answer
The answer is no and a small yes.
First of all, League of Legends is not an MMORPG, it's a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA). The maximum number of players will be reached in a 5v5 match.
They added a little roleplay by giving you the role of a summoner who summonons a champion every game. For gaming you will receive experience and level up until max level 30. The game you play will be the same all time, but by increasing levels you will be able to modify your champions abilities with runes and so called masteries (skilltree). Also different game modes will be enabled by reaching a specific level.
For each level you get you can spend 1 more point into your masteries (skilltree). You can reskill for different games or champions as you wish. For example, increasing mana regeneration, base amor, runspeed, attack speed. By leveling you unlock slots on a runepage, these runes can be bought for points you earn for gaming. (A win brings ~ double the points compared to a loss.) Besides runes you can also buy the champions itself. Riot allows you to select a few different champions for free every week, so next week you will have 10 different ones to test for free.
Everything in the game except skins you can buy with the points you earn for playing games, but you can also obtain skins and champions with real money. While you can't buy levels, you can buy a boost which makes you level at double speed... but still you need to play some games until you reach 30.
You also select 2 summoner spells in the beginning of a match which are basically normal spells which cost no mana and have a high cooldown. So it will not have a bigger impact on the game than your normal spells, but these small things will make every game a little more different. Most unlock before level 10, while the last (Flash) unlocks at level 11.
Important : You will not be able to play ranked games before level 30. So the real competitive mode will only be playable after you gained a specific amount of games. This sorts out complete noobies from appearing in a ranked game. (At least i thought so.)