League Of Legends Research Paper

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The company Riot Games Inc. the creators of League of Legends should revert the patch that was deployed on November 28th, 2011. The patch remade the “jungle” which altered the gold rewards, experience rewards, and gameplay. First off, there are three roads in League of Legends which are named after their locations, such as top, mid, and bottom lane. The bottom lane is considered the “side lane” and the top and bottom is considered “solo lanes.” The “jungle” is considered an off-road lane where a player can start besides the three lanes; where they kill minions and help “gank (is when an enemy is far from safety and the “jungle” player comes from the shadow of the off-road to kill them)” their teammates lane if they are losing or help them …show more content…

To balance the changes that were deployed, they made the minions “spawn rate (it is the downtime of when the minions come back to life again and again after they first killed them)” lower. Players can sit in the “jungle” and kill minions over and over to gain gold and experience consistently. The developers wanted to create a safe and easy place to obtain gold and experience without the pressure of opposing enemies. As players obtain less gold in the early 15 minutes of the game, they believe it is balanced because as time goes by minions, 20 minutes plus, will give more gold and experience than before. As the developers did not want the “jungle” players to have overall top gold gained in the game because they did not want them to take over the early phase of the game killing champions left and right. That job is believed to be for the “ranged AD carry.” The reduction to experience in the “jungle” was because it is safe place to kill minions. They did not want the “jungle” players to have the same benefit before with no risks. The reason they made these changes was because they were having too many successful “ganks,” which creates the snowball effect where “side lanes” or “solo lanes” win against their opponent and continue to beat them again easily because their death put them far behind in gold and

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