Forget everything you thought you knew about Fishing

[TheMagician]

For tl:dr just read the bolded parts I guess. But I would highly recommend you read the whole thing if you've ever been annoyed by always catching Chargers and Fly Pies.

Over the last two days I have discovered the TRUE way to fish in this game. It all started when I watched a Gala-Only run on Youtube and saw the player using a War God Icon as early as Jeremi. I've played this game countless times since its release and never knew that you could get a War God Icon at the Vidna Fishing Spot with 50K points.

So that's what I set out to do. I started a new game and played till I got to Vidna. I grabbed the Old Rod and some extra lures from the Coin Guy and set off to fish. I decided to try reeling with a pattern (something I always tried to do before but failed apparently). I quickly found a method for reeling that gave the "GOOD!" message frequently. It's really quite simple. I hit Square, roll my thumb down over the X button, release and pause for a split second, and then repeat. After mastering it you can get a constant "GOOD!" message to keep appearing as you reel.

Let me tell you right now. THIS is the way to fish in LoL. I got to 50,000 points in no time. It took me about 7 hours over the course of two days to rack up ~50,000 points. Obviously I did all my fishing at Vidna using the Old Rod. I caught Spikefish about 90% of the time when using the "GOOD!" reeling and a Normal Lure. To make sure this wasn't some fluke I tried fishing with all the Lures. I also tried fishing on a different save file at Buma and Vidna and seen similar results.

Here is what I have noticed. If you hook a fish during a "GOOD!" message (there's a small window of time associated with it) then you have a drastically greater chance for that fish to be a "rare" fish. Now I know this seems self explanatory right? But for anyone who's played LoL's fishing mini game you know how notorious it is for giving you nothing but crap fish 99% of the time.

So using the "GOOD!" reeling method here are my results (Yes I started to keep track. Who wouldn't after catching a dozen Spikefish in a row!?)

Fishing at Vidna (Old Rod)
Using a Light Lure and fishing normally I caught mostly Jacks and the occassional Fly Pie. Using the "GOOD!" method I caught almost exclusively Jacks (albeit they were Large Jacks).

Using a Normal Lure and fishing normally I caught mostly High Chargers (60%) and Fly Pies (40%). RARELY I would hook a Spikefish. However, using the "GOOD!" method I caught Spikefish 90% of the time and High Chargers the other 10%. This is 100% repeatable. I did it on multiple files, and at different sittings. (also during my 50K run I lost 4 Normal Lures when I hooked an impossibly hard to catch fish, presumably the Baraba.)

Using Heavy Lures and fishing normally I would catch almost nothing but Fly Pies. Switching over to the "GOOD!" method allowed me to catch Chargers 90% of the time and Octobans the other 10%. Again, this is definately repeatable.

Fishing at Buma (Legendary Rod)

Just a quick side note: Fishing with the Legendary Rod is a double edge sword. While it handles better than the Old Rod, it also has a higher Hit rate (a higher chance to hook a fish). This makes it very hard to reel with the "GOOD!" method because a lot of the time a fish will bite your lure as soon as you start reeling (therefore not even giving you a chance to reel "GOOD!")

I didn't do nearly as much fishing here as I did at Vidna (since I was trying to earn that 50,000 points in my new game file). But I will mention that using the "GOOD!" reeling method with a Heavy Lure I caught 4 Lippians in a row.

Like I said, it seems like common sense that getting the "GOOD!" message would increase your chances at better fish. But, in all my years of playing LoL I never could get a constant "GOOD!" message until now. It seems everytime you get the message to pop up there is a very short window of time that if you hook a fish it will be a better one than normal. The key is getting the "GOOD!" message to pop up multiple times in a row in order to maximize that window of time. The region you fish at doesn't seem to matter much. I caught Spikefish consistently whether I was fishing in the center, off to the right, or off to the left as long as I was fishing "GOOD!" However, the depth of your Lure does seem to matter. Almost all the Spikefish I caught were in the 4-5 meter depth range.

I can make a video to prove these results if anyone is interested. I figured I'd post this here since the LoL board at GFAQs seems all but dead. Oh and please, no one accuse me of using a Gameshark because I'm not and I don't even own one. I wouldn't take the time to write out this finding in such detail if I wasn't so thoroughly impressed by it myself.

[Redhollowlives999]

For tl:dr just read the bolded parts I guess. But I would highly recommend you read the whole thing if you've ever been annoyed by always catching Chargers and Fly Pies.

Over the last two days I have discovered the TRUE way to fish in this game. It all started when I watched a Gala-Only run on Youtube and saw the player using a War God Icon as early as Jeremi. I've played this game countless times since its release and never knew that you could get a War God Icon at the Vidna Fishing Spot with 50K points.

So that's what I set out to do. I started a new game and played till I got to Vidna. I grabbed the Old Rod and some extra lures from the Coin Guy and set off to fish. I decided to try reeling with a pattern (something I always tried to do before but failed apparently). I quickly found a method for reeling that gave the "GOOD!" message frequently. It's really quite simple. I hit Square, roll my thumb down over the X button, release and pause for a split second, and then repeat. After mastering it you can get a constant "GOOD!" message to keep appearing as you reel.

Let me tell you right now. THIS is the way to fish in LoL. I got to 50,000 points in no time. It took me about 7 hours over the course of two days to rack up ~50,000 points. Obviously I did all my fishing at Vidna using the Old Rod. I caught Spikefish about 90% of the time when using the "GOOD!" reeling and a Normal Lure. To make sure this wasn't some fluke I tried fishing with all the Lures. I also tried fishing on a different save file at Buma and Vidna and seen similar results.

Here is what I have noticed. If you hook a fish during a "GOOD!" message (there's a small window of time associated with it) then you have a drastically greater chance for that fish to be a "rare" fish. Now I know this seems self explanatory right? But for anyone who's played LoL's fishing mini game you know how notorious it is for giving you nothing but crap fish 99% of the time.

sorry actually thats has been found out..... i think its left, square,right, X, and pause and etc

[K73SK]

Hey there!!! I actually saw your post on those boards and was quite impressed that you got that many spikefish. I just wish I knew back when I was doing the minigame lol. I think your explanation I'd a great strategy and I'll have to try it myself someday.

[TheMagician]

If this is already well known then why does this site itself say that the only way to catch a spikefish is with a light lure?

[K73SK]

Because that's all I caught all of mine with Fixed and you've been rewarded with some yummy cash, lol.

[TheMagician]

Oh, well thanks!

I can upload a screenshot or video if needed?

[K73SK]

Oh, well thanks!

I can upload a screenshot or video if needed?

It's not that I don't trust you, but because I want everyone to know that it's authentic info...Go ahead and upload it and present it in this thread. I was actually going to ask about this but didn't have the chance to login and ask . The SS should show what kind of lure you're using in the upper right corner...So that'll be enough proof for everyone.

Thanks

[TheMagician]

Here's the link to the screenshot incase the image doesn't appear here.

Sorry it's been a few days since I've had the chance to play.

edit: Oops, forgot to hit Ctrl+V for the link. It looks like the image posted anyhow.

http://i53.tinypic.com/4h5zpx.jpg

[K73SK]

Remember to edit your old message if you want to add something to what you want to say (notice how I put "edit" for you).

Anyway, thanks for the screenshot. It's already on the site (must have done it before I left for vacation) but the SS will at least give people the proof they need if necessary

[Lonewulf]

Sweet! Early War God Icon, here I come! Seriously, thanks. I did not know about this....i hated fishing cuz I could never catch anything worthwhile.