what does it mean to be a mechanical champion league of legends

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There are League of Legends terms that are used in and outside the game, with some terms being used to simplify and facilitate rapid communication. This is a list of these terms and their definitions.

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1v1

A challenge to a duel.

A custom game between two players. Usually washed on Howling Abyss just occasionally washed on Summoner'south Rift in mid lane. Could too refer to Showdown.

A champion's capability of winning trades against an enemy champion. Fighters similar Jax and Irelia have proficient 1v1 capabilities.

A

AA

Auto

Auto attack

Basic attack, which is nicknamed Auto attack since the champion can echo without new orders.

AAS

Archangel's

Archangel's Staff .

ABAM

All Blind All Mid: a custom game type where players pick champions in Bullheaded Option to fight only in the middle lane.

Ace

When all champions on a squad are defeated at the aforementioned time.

To kill the concluding living champion on the opposing squad.

Agile

Abilities possessed by champions and certain items that require activating (via clicking and/or hitting a key) to function, as opposed to "passive".

AD

the champion stat for  Attack damage.

ADAM

All Draft All Mid: a custom game blazon where players pick a champion to only fight in the middle lane.

ADC

AD Carry

Set on Damage Comport: a champion that deals high amounts of attack damage every bit the match progresses. Can as well refer to the bottom role assumed by a marksman.

AFK

Away From Keyboard: a player who is non currently in control of their champion in a match.

Agency

How much control a player accept over a state of affairs or how much a player is capable of responding an enemy'southward actions. For example, enchanter supports are often said the remove agency from assassins because enchanter supports can deny all possibilities of an assassin from doing their chore (to burst squishies) without them beingness able to do annihilation back, finer removing all control the assassin has over the match.

Aggro

The targeting priority (or enmity) of an A.I. controlled minion, turret, monster, etc.

Alcove

The outer corners of top and bot lanes added to Summoner's Rift in patch V9.23.

Ali

Alistar .

Ani

Aniv

Anivia .

AoE

Area of outcome.

AP

The champion stat for  Ability ability.

AR

All Random. Used in ARAM and AR URF.

ARAM

All Random All Mid: A matched game type where players randomly choice a champion to play on the Howling Abyss.

Armor Pen.

the stat for  Armor penetration.

As

the stat for  Attack speed.

Assassinator

Champions who tin can chop-chop eliminate targets to the extent of being so quick the target cannot even react. Assassins characteristic in their kit typically a form of gap closer to attain an enemy, big burst for when they do, and they will take a form of escape.

Aura

A passive ability that usually applies to the champion and those effectually the champion.

Aureola platform

Aura bot

A champion who is equipped with multiple aura-producing items to assist teammates.

Atmog's

A deprecated build that utilized Atma'due south Impaler and Warmog'southward Armor . Could also exist referred to as Warma'due south.

B

B

Back: to retreat in the general direction of your base or away from the enemy.

Think : To render to the base past pressing the "B" key by default.

Babysit

For one champion to continually help another champion in order to assist them in getting more powerful.

For a champion (usually jungler) to cover a lane and see to it that the minions don't push button to the friendly belfry, while the usual laning champion is temporarily elsewhere.

Bait

To feign weakness in order to lure the enemy into a trap.

Ball

The untargetable mobile object under Orianna'south control.

Banana

Soraka's autoattack which is shaped like a banana. Inspiration for Gild of the Assistant Soraka .

Baron

Baron Nashor .

Hand of Baron . (Aka "Baron Buff")

Base

The walled area where the shop, nexus and inhibitors are situated.

BC

The Black Cleaver

BD

Backdoor

To attack the enemy's nexus while most of them are focused elsewhere. Typically this is done by sneaking through the jungle and but becoming revealed to the opposing squad equally tardily every bit possible.

To capture a capture point, typically the middle one, which is shut to the enemy fountain and surrounded past two other enemy capture points.

Exist

Blueish Essence

Deport

Volibear

Annie's Summon Tibbers

Udyr's Behave Stance

Demote

The swap available champion pool in ARAM.

For the TFT meaning, see here.

BF

BFS

B. F. Sword .

BG

Bad Game.

Bird

Anivia .

Sometimes refers to the crows from Fiddlesticks' Dark Wind .

Beige

Total Beige of Everlasting Will

Blitz

Blitzcrank .

Blueish

Blue Buff: Crest of Insight . By extension, can likewise refer to the Blue Lookout man .

Glyphs, a removed type of rune.

BM

Bad mannered / bad manners, to perform ludicrous actions meant to taunt an enemy at a disadvantage.

Boosted (animal)

Describes a lower skilled role player that has been undeservingly placed in a higher skill subclass. (Coined by Michael Santana)

BoRK

BotRK

BRK

Blade of the Ruined King .

Bot

Bottom lane.

The Quarry/Boneyard capture points in Rule.

An A.I. controlled champion.

When used alongside a mechanic name or ability proper noun or letter, information technology means a champion that is extremely reliant on that particular mechanic or ability to work in a certain stage of the game. For example, Nidalee is often chosen a heal bot, since her Key Surge is the power that defines Nidalee's late game, with the rest of her kit falling off. See also: Ult bot.

Bot game

Co-op vs. AI.

A custom game where nearly all of the players are bots.

Box

Boxes

Shaco's Jack in the Box

BRB

Exist correct back.

Broken

When something inside the game is viewed as grossly imbalanced or malfunctioning (a champion, an item, a spell, etc.).

Bruteforce

To agressively push an objective without regard for enemy counterattack.

BT

The Bloodthirster .

Buff

(Abilities) A positive issue applied to a champion.

(Patch) An official modification to the game mechanics which makes something more powerful, equally opposed to a "nerf".

(Jungle) Red Vitrify or Bluish Buff .

Bug

A defect in the mechanics of the game that is not intended.

Kha'Zix .

Skarner .

Rek'Sai .

Outburst

A large amount of damage being dealt in a brusque fourth dimension, pertaining specially to the damage dealt past a single champion. Nuke is besides a commonly used term.

BV

Banshee's Veil .

C

Cait

Caitlyn .

Camp

To gank the same enemy laner multiple times in a curt corporeality of fourth dimension. Can be effective at making them fall behind or to tilt them.

A jungle monster'due south spawn location.

Cap

Rabadon'south Deathcap .

Wooglet's Witchcap .

To capture a signal in Dominion.

A limit which something can non exceed (For case, assault speed is capped at 2.5 attacks per second).

Care

To be careful, implying a possible gank incoming or any other kind of danger.

Carry

A champion that generally starts off weaker than other champions, but becomes more powerful as the game progresses.

The action of being ultimately responsible for winning a game.

Cass

Cassiopeia .

Pulley

A champion whose primary source of damage is their abilities. The harm can be either magic or physical damage, and can scale with either  AP or  AD.

Caster minion .

Cat

Nidalee .

Rengar .

Yuumi .

CC

Oversupply control: A category of status effects which limit movement or actions.

CD

Cooldown

Waiting for an ability'due south cooldown to stop before commencing an action.

CDR

 Cooldown reduction.

Concatenation CC

To consecutively use multiple oversupply control spells on an enemy champion.

Champ

A champion; a particular graphic symbol that the summoner calls on and controls.

Char

Short for "grapheme", used to hateful champion.

Cheese

A strategy, ofttimes early on game oriented, that allows a player to impale or otherwise significantly cripple an enemy (by and large during the first ii levels), proceeds a lead, so snowball. Cheeses are often unusual, and can be effective against enemies that do not await them. Nonetheless, should those cheese strategies fail, the enemy will be the one at a significant advantage. Also, cheeses oftentimes don't work against prepared enemies, or if the player fails to take reward of their pb and let the enemy recover.

Cho

Cho'Gath .

Classic

The standard MOBA game mode in which players focus on laning, pushing minion waves, and destroying the enemy structures.

Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline.

Disharmonism

Proper name of the tournament organization used in League of Legends.

Clown fiesta

A derogatory term used to refer to games, specially from lower elos, where 1 or both teams have no coordination or proper strategy, and the champion compositions are random and poorly planned.

A teamfight where, from the spectator point of view, is difficult to properly understand what exactly happened.

Clutch move

To perform a well-timed activeness while under pressure.

Collapsing

When allied players converge and overwhelm the enemy team.

Commit

To non retreat. To stay in a fight until the battle is over, or until your champion is slain.

Counter gank

Setting up an deadfall in immediate response to an enemy ambush with the intention of negating or thwarting the advantage gained by the enemy's attack.

Counter jungle

To slay the neutral creeps in the enemy's side of the jungle, depriving the enemy team of buffs, gold and experience.

Counter pick

To choose a particular champion during the choice stage in order to oppose a particular enemy champion.

Counterplay

Things that ane can do to counteract or minimize the touch on or dominance of a champion, ability, item, or rune. For instance, against an ability that is a skillshot, the main counterplay is to contrivance information technology.

Counterpush

To neutralize a shove or splitpush.

Cover

A player asking for another teammate to hold the role player'due south lane while they're non in that location. (Meet "babysit" and "hold.")

Moo-cow

Alistar and more specifically Moo Moo-cow Alistar .

Crash

A term describing when a game stops working properly and shuts downwards.

A derogatory term referring to the Clash tournament system.

Creep

The perception that an amount of something has gradually increased in the game when compared to the by. This could be acquired past multiple changes, such as direct buffs to champion potential, nerfs to deterrents, etc. For example, cooldown reduction creep is used to refer to  cooldown reduction beingness more than abundant in items and easier to obtain for more champions, compared to the by.

Creeps

Monsters or minions.

Crown

Rabadon'south Deathcrown .

Wooglet'south Witchcrown .

CS

Creep Score, an adjusted DotA term. The corporeality of creeps killer.

The Crystal Scar.

Zilean's Chronoshift .

Custom

Custom game: the match mode created past actor with the freedom to determine the team size, map, A.I. controlled champion participation and install a password for limited access.

Cup

Chalice of Harmony or Athene's Unholy Grail .

Another name for a Clash tournament.

Cupcake

Caitlyn's Yordle Snap Trap .

Caitlyn (coined by 6 )

Bloodshot Lulu 's polymorphed victims

CV

Clairvoyance .

D

Dar

Darius .

D

The first of two summoner spells the player tin can destine, spring to D by default.

Def

Defend: to protect the tower or base without attacking aggressively.

DFG

Deathfire Grasp .

DC

Asunder.

Dirt Dragon

Mountain Drake

Debuff

A negative effect applied to a champion; the opposite of a buff.

Deny

Denial

To kill centrolineal minions or pets, preventing the opponent from earning the golden and experience from killing them. While this feature is common in other MOBA games it is intentionally absent from League of Legends and replaced with zoning tactics.

Swoop

To pursue a specific target into a highly dangerous area, typically beneath an enemy turret.

Dodge

To disband champion select without mutual consent.

A deprecated champion statistic, which determined the possibility to avoid a bones assault.

Following the removal of the dodge global stat, it is the status effect granted by Jax's Counter Strike .

Dog

Doge

Nasus .

Dom

Rule

A game mode that differs from the classic MOBA-fashion gameplay, and focuses on seizing capture points.

Donger

Heimerdinger (coined by Michael Santana.

DoT

Impairment over time effect.

DotA

Defense of the Ancients: Allstars: a successful mod created from Warcraft 3. It has inspired similar games such every bit League of Legends. "Dota" is also used to categorize games of this particular sub-genre within the existent-time strategy genre.

DPS

Impairment per second. A measure of how much damage a champion or team can bargain each 2nd.

A champion who specializes in dealing steady sustained damage.

Elevate

Drake

Dragon .

Bleed effect

Drain effect is a conjectural term for various healing effects that are based on damage dealt, just are not  life steal and  spell vamp.

Drain tank

Bleed tanking

The human activity of lifestealing (or using spellvamp/other forms of sustain in instance of casters) harm done against enemies to tank their impairment. Champions which exercise this are difficult to kill, especially in 1x1 situations, because they heal through all the damage washed, and even if they don't do a lot of damage back, they can win the duel merely because the enemy cannot burst them downwards quickly plenty to prevent them from healing back. However, if their sustain is reduced or denied (because they are under CC effects or unable to attack), they can go like shooting fish in a barrel to kill, since they tend to not accept or to take less actual tankyness to fall back on. Examples of champions designed to be drain tanks are Aatrox , Warwick , and Olaf .

Dubstep Ignite

The act of casting Ignite on a very low-health target and proceeding to walk away carelessly.

Duelist

A champion who excels at combating enemy champions one on one (e.g. Fiora , Jax ).

Dunking

A flashy or rewarding kill on a champion, described in terms of a slam douse.

To use an aerial leap ability to severely harm or slay an enemy champion. Examples of dunking abilities include Darius' Noxian Guillotine , Jarvan IV's Cataclysm and Jayce's To the Skies! .

E

Eastward

The third champion ability which is spring to the "East" key by default.

EC

Executioner's Calling .

Repeat

Seraphine's Stage Presence second ability cast.

Effective health

EHP

Health multiplied by the diverse damage reduction affecting it (normally  armor and  magic resistance), i.e. the impairment that the champion needs to receive in order to be killed.

Egg

Eggnivia

Anivia during Rebirth , officially dubbed by the game's chat.

Elo

A mathematical rating organization for a player'southward relative skill level.

Elo hell

A perceived Elo level where it is very hard or frustrating for a player to exit of.

Elojob

When a low-elo role player pays a higher-skilled player to heave the low elo's business relationship to higher elo. This practice is extremely controversial and is generally condemned by players and punished by Riot due to the problems that event from the inappropriate matchmaking.

ER

Essence Reaver

Eve

Evelynn

Execute

An ability intended to eliminate a champion. Examples include Pyke's Expiry from Beneath and Jinx's Super Mega Decease Rocket! .

Exp

xp

Shorthand for experience points.

Ez

Ezreal

Easy

F

F

The 2d of two summoner spells the histrion can destine, bound to "F" by default.

Flash .

Face check

A champion blindly walking into a brush to meet if an enemy champion is hidden in there. This can exist a very risky action.

Neglect flash

When the histrion uses their Wink spell in an unintended manner, or when they effort to escape over a wall but stop upwardly at the same side they started.

Fall off

A term used for when a champion stops getting stronger towards afterwards stages of the game. Those champions are generally strong during the early and/or mid game to compensate, thus have a express window of time to win the game before existence outscaled by the enemy. Example of champions that are considered to fall off late game are Lee Sin , Elise , and Zed .

Farm

To seek out and kill creeps to obtain experience and gold.

Farm lane

When, during the lane phase, neither of the opponents are able to impale each other or to effectively push without jungle interference, resulting into a lane phase where they both just subcontract.

FB

First Blood: the first kill of the game.

Fed

A champion becoming unduly powerful after obtaining multiple kills on enemy champions.

Feed

To repeatedly dice to the enemy squad, giving them gilded and experience. A thespian who does this is a feeder.

FF

Refers to /ff or 'forfeit', another term for surrendering.

FFS

"For fuck's sake". An expression of anger or frustration.

Fid

Fiddle

FS

Fiddlesticks

Fiesta

Clown fiesta

A game with many mistakes fabricated by both sides.

Fish

Fizz

Nami

Flame Horizon

Having 100 minion kills more than a lane opponent. Coined past shoutcasters.

Flank

To endeavour to bypass the enemy frontline and get straight to the enemy backline by going from an alternative route, mainly from behind. This strategy is useful for assassins and defined because they don't have enough durability to survive a barrage of CCs and directly damage.

FM

Frozen Mallet

Fratma'south

A deprecated build that utilized Atma'south Impaler and Frozen Mallet . Could also be referred to as Atmallet.

Fratmog'southward

A deprecated build that utilized Atma's Impaler , Frozen Mallet and Warmog'south Armor all at once.

Freezing

Farming a lane by but concluding-hitting minions. This pushes the wave as slowly as possible to prevent an opportunity to be invaded.

Fog

FoW

Fog of War

The shadowed areas of the map which are out of the vision range of allied champions, minions and structures.

FoN

Force of Nature

FotM

Flavour of the Month: a champion that of a sudden becomes very pop among players. This tin can be for reasons such as their usage at a competitive level, an overtuned buff or the discovery of a bug that is highly beneficial to the champion.

Fountain

The raised stone platforms located in each team's base, where champions volition respawn after death, regenerate wellness and mana, and can buy items.

Fourchan

4Chan

A nickname for Miss Fortune based on her ability to dominate early-game bottom lane if played right. Namesake from the infamous image board.

FPS

Graphic Frames Per Second the game renders.

Franky

6

Frostmancy

A build type that was flexed on well-nigh ranged mages where they would get summit with Kleptomancy and Spellthief'due south Border (And upgrade it to the Frostfang .). While top, they would completely ignore killing minions for golden, instead opting to rely on the aforementioned Keystone Mastery and their starting item for income. Because of this, they spent time that was otherwise allotted to CSing bullying their lane opponent, disallowing them from farming, or in more than farthermost cases, preventing them from remotely netting feel. While the Reddit post that brought the playstyle to the general public's attention was stylized effectually Kennen , the virtually common user of Frostmancy appeared to have been Zilean .

Total damage

To build all offensive items, contrary to generally building some defensive items for survivability. Consequently, these champions tend to do very high amounts of impairment, but are very easy to impale.

Full tank

To build mostly defensive items, contrary to generally building some offensive items for damage. Consequently, these champions tend to exercise very trivial amounts of damage, but are very hard to impale.

FWotD

WotD

First Win

First Win of the Day: a daily mission that rewards the summoner with experience and some Blue Essences upon winning a matchmade game.

G

GA

Guardian Angel

GP

Gangplank

Gank

To deadfall unsuspecting enemies. Portmanteau of 'gang impale'.

Gap closer

An power or spell that shortens the altitude betwixt the champion and the enemy.

Gauntlet

Iceborn Gauntlet

GG

Good Game

GG EZ

GG IZI

Good Game, easy win

GGMF

Gun Goddess Miss Fortune

Ghosting

In competitive terms, to gather noesis from the opponent'south perspective in social club to gain an advantage during the match.

GJ

Expert Chore

GL

Good Luck

GLHF

Good Luck; Have Fun

Glass cannon

A champion/build that is loftier in damage but lacking defense. This primarily refers to building a champion purely for offense, sacrificing survivability.

Global

An ability that can strike anywhere on the map (east.1000. Gangplank'south Cannon Avalanche ).

Golden Pose

Whatever stasis effect.

Gold per 10

GP10

Items that generate extra gold over time. Golden generating items are often incorrectly referred to as GP5.

Gold funneling

Funnel

Funnel strategy

A strategy where two champions lane together (and become to the jungle whenever possible), where one takes all farm and gold for itself, while the other will fall behind, and attempt to build cheaper items with utility to compensate. The one that takes subcontract is a carry champion such every bit Master Yi , Twitch , or Graves , whereas the one that does non is an enchanter support or a champion that tin can be played like 1, such as Kayle , Taric , or Lulu . It is mostly done to increase the possibility for the conduct champion to construct and snowball a lead. This strategy was nerfed with the jungle gold changes.

Grag

Gragas

Grey screen

Grayness screen

Death, in reference to the greyscale overlay that appears on the screen when waiting for respawn.

Gutted

A champion or particular that has been rendered completely unviable to play (or buy in case of items).

H

Harass

Attacking an enemy while they are preoccupied with an action.

Hard CC

A crowd control effect that disrupts the channeling of abilities.

Difficult ternion

To aid the allied jungler past helping them kill a monster without the utilise of Smite .

Hat

Funny Lid

Funky Lid

Rabadon's Deathcap

Heal bot

Refers to Soraka contributing zip but healing.

Hec

Heca

Hecarim

Heim

Heimer

Heimerdinger

Hero

The equivalent term for 'champion' in other MOBA games. Coined from DotA.

Hexa

Hexakill - Single-handedly achieving half-dozen champion kills in curt succession, leaving the enemy nexus exposed to shredding.

HF

Have Fun

Agree

To keep the lane from pushing into allied defenses. Primarily done past junglers while the laner is abroad.

Claw

Ability which prevents motility and brings an enemy towards the champion'due south position. Examples include Thresh's Death Sentence or Blitzcrank's Rocket Take hold of

Equus caballus

Hecarim

Hourglass

Zhonya

Zhonya's Hourglass

HP

Wellness, also known as "Hit Points"

HP5

Health Regeneration per 5 seconds

Hybrid

A champion with significant ability scalings from both Advertizement and AP.

A build that includes both Advertizement and AP.

A champion that does meaning amounts of both physical and magic damage.

Hypercarry

A champion that has an extremely weak early or mid-game, merely scales extremely well late game to the bespeak of being near unstoppable if well fed and farmed. This term often describes ADCs that are oft highly dependent on automobile-attacking (i.east. Tristana , Kog'Maw , and Vayne ) and can be used to describe other champions as well in a lesser extent (i.e. Karthus , Jax , Azir ).

I

IE

Infinity Edge

IBG

Iceborn

Iceborn Gauntlet

Inhib

Short for Inhibitor

Initiate

A champion performing an action which signals allied champions to brainstorm the battle. The initiator may act as bait and take heavy impairment from the enemy in order to protect their allies from taking major damage.

Innate

A champion's passive ability separate from their four main abilities, shorten to P or I.

Insec

A type of play where a champion tries to position backside an enemy, then knockback them in the management of the allied team. This makes them a vulnerable target. During the early game, it can be an constructive gank setup, and at belatedly game, information technology can be a game irresolute move. Popularized by a pro player named "inSec", which used to exercise this with Lee Sin (by wardjumping behind an enemy, then using Dragon's Rage to knockback them in the direction of an ally). Despite this, information technology is possible to insec with other champions too. The 2nd most popular example is Azir , which can use Acquisition Sands and Shifting Sands to reposition himself behind an enemy, then apply Emperor's Divide to knockback them in the direction of allies. Other champions which can potentially insec include Tristana , Poppy , Shyvana , and Janna .

Instagib

Instakill

Instant giblets or Instant kill: when a full health or most full wellness champion/monster takes lethal impairment within such a brusk time that they essentially died instantly, with no adventure to react.

Instalock

Instalocking

Instant lock: to apace select and lock-in a particular champion (or a random 1) to prevent someone else from getting them, usually without previous alarm to the rest of the team. This is often perceived as poor sportsmanship.

Int

Brusque for "Intentional feeding".

Invade

To become into the enemy's territory, particularly their jungle.

Ire

Irie

Irelia

J

J4

Jar

Jarv

Jarvan Four

Jack

JitB

Shaco'south Jack in the Box

Jay

Jayce

Jg

Jungle.

JoJ

Journal of Justice

Juggernaut

A term coined past Riot, used to draw fighters that are extremely durable, simply are defective in mobility. They tend to exist difficult to duel, but at same fourth dimension easy to kite and inflict CC. Examples of juggernauts are Darius and Garen .

Juke

The act of feinting an enemy into the wrong direction, ordinarily done by breaking line of sight.

Jungling

To kill monsters in the jungle.

K

Kar

Karth

Karthus

Kass

Kassadin

Kat

Katarina

Kay

Kayle

Kayn

Kanye

A gross misspelling of Kayn .

Ken

Kennen

Kha

K6

Kha'Zix

Kill lane

A combination of the lesser lane selected for the specific purpose of slaying the opposing two champions during the laning phase.

Kit

A champion'south set up of abilities.

Kite

Kiting

Maintaining safe distance from a pursuing target. Ranged champions tin leverage the reward to keep attacking.

Kog

Kog'Maw

KS

Kill steal: A impale banana taking kill credit.

KYS

"Impale yourself".

L

Lag

Slow response during the match due to high network connectedness latency.

Some players too refer to the slowdown due to an bereft computer arrangement equally lag.

Lag specifically refers to the time between when information is sent and when it is received. This can be caused by a network latency, in which data is delayed between a user'south figurer and the game server, or past a slow computer. Lag most oft manifests equally "outbound lag", or delay between when a command is given and when it is performed. Lag can also manifest equally "entering lag", or a delay between when an event is registered on the server and when it is displayed on a user's calculator. This causes "jumping", or the appearance that a champion's position, wellness, mana, etc. has suddenly changed.

Lag Spike

A sudden and frequently momentary period of astringent lag.

Laner

The champion or role player who occupies a certain lane during the early game.

Lane smashing

A champion designed to win the lane stage confronting other champions. They try to constantly harass the enemy laner and deny them farm, making them fall behind. About lane bullies autumn off late game in society to compensate for their early game strength.

Lane swap

A strategy of laners switching lanes to recoup a disadvantage. This strategy used to be very mutual in competitive games (and very rare otherwise) considering it can permit teams to counter some height laners which cannot effectively lane against the power of a bottom laner and back up. Recent changes make this strategy very risky, the bot lane has less durable towers, and starting time tower golden is highly contested.

Laning

Remaining in lane to push button or farm.

Laning phase

A stage in the friction match where players are farming for their get-go items, ends when one or two towers are destroyed and laners starting time rotating to other lanes.

Lantern

Thresh'southward Night Passage

Laser

Lux's Final Spark

The Nexus Obelisk'due south basic assault.

Terminal hit

Getting the killing accident on a minion, pitter-patter, or enemy champion.

LB

LeBlanc

Lich Blight

Leash

A tactic where an assistant draws monster aggro, or attacks with the jungler.

Get out

Leaver

Exiting the match before the game is finished, whether voluntarily or not. This is regulated by the Leaver Buster organization.

LS

Lee Sin

 Life steal

Leech

Staying within range of enemy units to proceeds experience points without directly assisting teammates.

Leo

Leona

Liss

Lissandra

Lockdown

Applying crowd control to the signal a champion cannot perform a certain action.

Lockout

A land in which a champion is unable to perform certain actions. Associated tip: Lockout.

LoL

League of Legends, the title of the game itself.

lol

"Laughing out loud".

LOM

Low On Mana – Run into also Out of Mana

LW

Final Whisper

Chiliad

Main

A player's best or favorite champion to use.

A thespian'southward best or favorite role.

Mal

Malphite , Malzahar

Malp

Malph

Malphite

Malz

Malzahar

ManBearPig

ManBearPheonix

ManBearTiger and combinations thereof

Udyr

Human driblet

Pantheon 's Grand Starfall

Mao

Maokai

Map sensation

To be witting of the events occurring effectually the map. To increase Map awareness, at that place are abilities and items (e.g. wards and jungle plants) which reveal the fog of state of war at strategic areas.

Map control

To have vision and influence over areas around the map. Ways to increase Map control include placing wards and destroying enemy towers.

Map objective

A valuable mob or structure whose acquisition goes towards winning the lucifer. These tasks include getting the bluish and red buffs, slaying the Dragon and Baron, destroying towers and inhibitors, etc.

Melee

Melee champion.

Melee minion .

Mermaid

Nami

Meta

Metagame

The game'south electric current constructive play style, consisting of aspects such as lane setup, jungling, and squad composition.

Metagolem

An incredibly strict build that tin be flexed on a sure blazon of, or in more than extreme cases, every champion, that dictates the meta by being unbelievably overpowered. The term is a portmanteau of the words "metagame" and "golem".

A now archaic metagolem that consisted of Warmog'south Armor , Atma's Impaler , Frozen Mallet , Trinity Strength , and Mercury's Treads .

To a lesser extend this term likewise applies to a trend in early on 2016 for many champions that were supposed to build squishy, to build tanky. This is because dorsum then, items like Sunfire Cape , Iceborn Gauntlet , and Titanic Hydra , as well equally the  Grasp of the Undying mastery, used to be overpowered. They allowed nigh any champion to work with a tanky build because those items provided artificial sources of harm, with Grasp of the Undying providing wellness-scaling sustain and high base harm equally well. A lot of champions that were otherwise supposed to build glass cannon started to build tanky. The nigh popular examples include Main Yi , Fiora , Ekko , Fizz , and even Akali . Well-nigh of those champions had their base damages nerfed to encourage them to build glass cannon, and the aforementioned items were also nerfed to make them more expensive or practice less harm, discouraging their purchase on non-tanky champions.

MF

Miss Fortune

Mid

Mid

The Refinery/Drill capture points in Rule.

Mid top

At the offset of Dominion, a player declares to capture the nearest center capture point then rushes upwardly to acme.

MM

Marksman: a champion that deals high amounts of assault damage as the lucifer progresses, sacrificing information technology's defensive ability and utility. An official term substitutes "ADC" (set on damage carry).

MOBA

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena: a genre of games which brings many of the RPG (Role Playing Game) and RTS (Existent-Time Strategy) elements together.

Mobi (boots)

Boots of Mobility

Monkey

MonkeyKing

Wukong

Morde

Mordekaiser

Morg

Morgana

MP5

 Mana regeneration per 5 seconds

MPen

 Magic penetration

MR

MRes

 Magic resistance

MS

 Movement speed

Mundo

Dr. Mundo , who isn't actually a medico, so he is called Mundo.

Mummy

Mumu

Amumu

Murder bridge

Another name for the Howling Abyss map. (At the start of the lucifer, the journalist volition occasionally refer to the 'Murder Bridge' rather than 'Howling Abyss'.)

Previously, the custom game version of the Proving Grounds map, before it was replaced by Howling Abyss.

N

N1

Prissy Ane

Naut

Nauti

Nautilus

Nerf

An official modification to the game mechanics which makes something less powerful, as opposed to a "buff". Coined from EverQuest forums describing patches reducing effects to the power of nerf weapons.

NJ

Nice Job

Noc

Noct

Nocturne

Notes

Seraphine's Stage Presence empowered autoattack's extra projectiles.

Nid

Nida

Nidalee

Nuke

Any power that deals huge amounts of impairment, such as Javelin Toss or Requiem . Burst does not mean the same considering most characters' burst combos consist of multiple abilities.

O

OC

Original content

Occult

Sword of the Occult

OE

Orange Essence

Off tank

A champion that has some attributes of a Tank (ability to soak damage, initiation power, CC, etc.), just lacks in one or more than areas.

Off meta

A champion existence used in a completely different way from what is considered meta for them. For instance, it can refer to going with a different lane than intended (e.g. jungle Make , back up Jarvan IV ) or a different build (e.1000. AD Ahri , AP Tristana ).

Sometimes the champions themselves may be considered off-meta if they are uncommon enough, fifty-fifty if they are played as intended. Examples include Volibear .

Unusual strategies that are very rarely seen on nearly games. For instance, going dual top instead of going with one top and one jungler, or playing a melee champion as your ADC.

OMW

On My Way

One point wonder

An power that has very little change in level scaling, so it is virtually full power at rank i.

One-Trick

I-Fob Pony

OTP

A player who tin can play only one champion finer.

OOM

Out Of Mana – See likewise Depression On Mana

OP

Overpowered

A champion or detail (normally particular builds) that are considered too strong in a particular meta.

Open mid

After falling behind early, a team may allow the enemy team to button down mid lane for an early victory.

Oracle

Oracle's

Oracle's Excerpt or Looted Oracle's Extract , used to observe invisibility.

Orange

Gangplank's Remove Scurvy

Ori

Orianna

OTW

On The Way

Overextending

A champion moving likewise far in lane/enemy territory, which can open up them upwardly to sudden engages.

Overloaded

A champion which has too many tools or their kit, allowing them to do many dissimilar things at once; either because their abilities have an excessive amount of furnishings, or considering their abilities are just too versatile. Champions like this can be considered difficult to residue due to that reason, as simple numbers changes are normally not enough to bring them in line with other champions.

This can also be applied to items; if an item is too versatile (either due to having many different stats, or furnishings, or both), information technology can be considered overloaded.

Overkill

The act of dealing (substantially) more damage to an enemy than is needed to kill him off.

Overtuned

A champion which has overbearingly high numbers on their abilities (base damage, scalings, range, missile speed, etc) or their stats (base of operations HP, HP per level, base Advert, etc).

An particular tin can likewise be considered overtuned if its stats or the numbers on their passive or agile furnishings are too high.

P

Pant

Panth

Pantheon

Pass

Battle Pass

Event passes that links with event tokens and exclusive prizes.

Path

Pathing

The road that will exist taken towards a destination.

PBE

Public Beta Environment, a testing realm for upcoming content.

PD

Phantom Dancer

Peeling

To utilise crowd control abilities to cease enemy champions from attacking an allied champion.

Penta

Pentakill - Single-handedly achieving five champion kills in short succession, leaving the enemy nexus exposed to shredding.

PFE

Pulsefire Ezreal

Philo

Philosopher's Stone

Pink

The removed Vision Ward colored pink, which is succeeded by Control Ward . Command Wards are sometimes notwithstanding referred to every bit pinkish wards.

Poacher

Poacher'due south Dirk

Poacher's Pocketknife

Poke

A class of harass which uses long ranged attacks to cause small-scale to moderate damage in order to weaken an enemy, while keeping a prophylactic position.

Pony

Hecarim , generally used in a derogatory way.

Position

Positioning

A champion's location during a fight. Good positioning is determined by the player knowing the optimal location their champion should exist at.

Pot

Potion(due south), usually Health Potion .

Premade

Multiple players, who know each other, forming a team together before entering the champion selection phase.

Pro

An act of calling someone that is very talented when playing, short for professional.

Proc

The activation of an result. See too Proc damage.

Projectile

The visual particle representing certain basic attacks and abilities. They can exist blocked past Yasuo's Wind Wall , intercepted by Braum's Unbreakable , and dodged past untargetable abilities similar Fizz 's Playful / Trickster , fifty-fifty if they are bespeak-click (and thus would otherwise always hitting the target).

Proxy

A high-adventure, loftier-advantage strategy (more often than not done at the superlative or lesser lanes due the length of the lanes) that involves farming enemy minions between the enemy turrets to prevent the opposing laner from effectively pushing or farming.

Pubstomp

When an organized squad of skillful players thoroughly defeat random public players in a lucifer.

Pull

A tactic used to draw monster aggro, benefiting the jungler. Same as leash.

An ability that brings the enemy closer to you (e.k. Blitzcrank's Rocket Take hold of ).

Purple

Majestic squad: The group of players that starting time out at the upper-right side of the map, once chosen Squad Chaos.

Hand of Baron . (Aka "Businesswoman Buff" or "Imperial Vitrify")

Push

To continue advancing forward in a lane, clearing it of minions and towers.

PvP

Player versus Player: game modes that do not include bot-controlled champions.

Q

Q

The first champion ability which is spring to the "Q" key by default.

QQ

Depicts a pair of crying eyes, implying that the other player is lament.

QSS

Quicksilver Sash

Quadra kill

Slaying four enemy champions within a certain length of time.

Quint

Quintessence, the removed about expensive/powerful type of rune.

R

R

The fourth champion power (usually the ultimate) which is bound to the "R" key by default.

Rage

To display in-game frustration.

Ragequit

An incident where a role player quits (leaves) the game due to in-game frustrations.

Raka

Soraka

Rakan

Rambo

Diving into a fight alone, normally a suicidal tactic.

Rat

Twitch

Razors

Bloodrazor , Stormrazor

Rdy

Ready

Re

Short for reappear, meaning an enemy champion is no longer MIA.

Used once someone is no longer AFK.

Recommended

A category of champions whose controlling difficulty is relatively low and suitable to new League of Legends players.

The recommended items listed in the shop for shortcut purchase. Player can edit their recommended items manually.

Reddish

Crest of Cinders . Also known as "red buff." By extension, tin refer to the Cerise Brambleback .

Marks, a removed blazon of rune.

Cherry ward

Control Ward

Ren

Rene

Renek

Renekton

Ren

Rengo

Rengar

Rep

Report: An action afterwards each match to study a player to official for inappropriate behavior such every bit exact abuse or intentionally feeding the opponent.

Req

Request

Require

Karthus' Requiem

Revolver

Hextech Revolver

Rina

Nickname for Katarina

Riot

The development company that created League of Legends.

Rito

An intended misspell of Riot Games, the visitor that develops League of Legends. This word is usually used semi-ironically when players spot humorously blatant issues in the game, which they typically respond with 'Rito pls'.

River

The map dividing river that lies in neutral territory on Summoner's Rift.

RNG

Random number generation, game mechanics that utilise randomness. See RNG in WoW.

RoA

Rod of Ages

Roam

Movement by a laning champion abroad from their lane to a different area of the map to gank or otherwise apply map force per unit area.

ROFL

Rolling on the floor laughing.

RP

Riot Points

RQ

Ragequit

Run it down mid

Run it down

A phrase coined past streamer Tyler1 meaning to feed the opposing mid lane player by repeatedly running by their mid turret

Rylai

Rylai'south

Rylai'southward Crystal Scepter

S

Sarah

Nickname for Miss Fortune .

Satan

A derogatory nickname for Teemo .

Scaling

How well a champion'south efficiency increases every bit the game continues and every bit they proceeds levels and items. Champions that calibration well are ordinarily called carries.

Scrim

Scrimmage: two teams competing against each other for fun in a non-tournament game.

Scrub

An insult indicating that the player has a low skill level for the game.

Undercover/Sleeper OP

A champion which is potentially powerful enough to become meta, merely is still unpopular and near people don't realize how potent that champion is.

Sej

Seju

Sejuani

Sera

Seraphine

Shop

The location where items are bought.

To return to the base of operations and buy items. Interchangeable with "b" or "brb".

Shroom

Teemo's Noxious Trap

Shotgun Knees

Urgot'due south Echoing Flames , sometimes used in a tongue-in-cheek mode.

Shyv

Shyvana

Single target

A targeting characteristic describing attacks or spells that affect simply one target. Single-targeting is oftentimes used in projectile-based effects.

Siv

Sivir

Skar

Skarner

Small indie company

A derogatory term used to mock Riot for things such as minor merely useful features that have notwithstanding to be implemented, weird bugs, things that are supposedly like shooting fish in a barrel to ready or need a urgent set, or for poor/controversial decisions. Coined from the fact that Anarchism used to actually be a small indie company.

Smurf

A secondary account of lower level or rank than a histrion's primary account. Coined from Schlongor's second account "PapaSmurf".

Serpent

Cassiopeia

Snare

A debuff which prevents a champion from moving. Tin likewise be referred to every bit a root or an 'immobilize'.

Snowball

Situation that occurs when a champion or team gains an reward that allows them to progressively abound stronger.

Marker / Nuance

Snowball item

An detail that grows in power as you gain kills/assists, e.g. Mejai's Soulstealer .

Soft CC

A oversupply control effect that yet allows you to move freely and does not interrupt power channels.

Soft leash

To describe the aggro of a monster briefly before moving abroad.

Solo

A champion (normally the acme and mid laners) that guards an entire lane on their ain.

Sora

Soraka

SotO

Sword of the Occult

Space AIDS

Malzahar's Malefic Visions .

Spell

Summoner spell: The boxing abilities which are not provided past the champion, merely rather designated by the summoner to their champion earlier entering the match.

Carve up button

To continuously advance in one lane while teammates are focused elsewhere.

Squishy

A champion that can exist killed easily due to depression base health/defenses.

SR

Summoner's Rift

SS

Enemy champion missing, shortened course of "miss". "SS" (along with "miss") is more common than "MIA" on the European servers.

Stat cheque

Stat checking

A champion that wins trades only considering information technology has superior stats, instead of considering it outplayed the enemy or because information technology used a certain combo. Whatever champion tin potentially be a stat check, but some champions are considered stat checks because due to how their kit works, they rely mostly or exclusively on stat checking to deal with enemy champions.

A champion can be a stat bank check considering it simply has amend stats (ex: having more max HP than the enemy), considering it has a lot of a stat that directly counter the enemy (ex: having a lot of armor confronting an enemy that does fully physical impairment), because information technology can heal more than than the enemy tin can harm, or because information technology can reduce the stats of an enemy (ex: reducing the enemy'due south assault speed).

Stat stick

An particular which either does not have an unique passive or active, or has i that is very weak. In either instance, the particular is considered useful more often than not for its stats; indeed, most items which are considered to exist stat sticks tend to have superior stats compared to items which take useful passives and/or actives. An example is old Phantom Dancer , which did not had a 12% harm reduction passive, and was useful generally because it used to offer l% attack speed and 35% critical strike risk, which was superior to old Statikk Shiv 's 40% attack speed and 20% critical strike risk, allowing Phantom Dancer to compete with Statikk even though the latter had a lighting passive that did burst damage and waveclear. Phantom Dancer was fifty-fifty stacked, because the stats were just that loftier.

Steroid

A temporary, cocky applied, straight-forward power that increases one's performance without tangentially altering it.

More specifically: an ability that provides an increase to a champion's base stats, or the part of the ability that does so.

Stonewall

When a champion is effectively able to plow the lane into a farm lane, denying all kill pressure from the enemy and countering their pushing potential, fifty-fifty if they would otherwise accept both. They do this without having kill presusre themselves.

Store

Anarchism Shop: the 'store' accessible in the client interface where player can purchase Riot Points , champions, skins, Rune pages, Experience Boosts, etc. The term 'shop' dominantly refers to the Shop in the Field of Justice where the actual friction match is played.

Stronk

A typo of the word "potent," generally used sarcastically due to beingness a misspelling.

Stunlock

A phrase used to express being continually hit with hard crowd control, thus being unable to non do annihilation.

Super

Super minion: a stronger minion that is spawned by destroying an enemy inhibitor in classic game style.

Super Hard CC

Difficult crowd control that is as well capable of abruptly canceling the enemy champion'south dash rather than it finishing mid-stun. Hard crowd command includes merely is not express to Veigar'southward Event Horizon , knockbacks, and all knockups.

Super Soaker

Hextech GLP-800, often used along with Glacial Augment rune.

Susan

Nasus' name spelled backwards, often as a derogatory term for most Nasus players.

Sustain

Sustainability

A champion'south capacity for staying in a lane or jungle without having to go dorsum to the base.

Sustained damage

A big amount of damage that is done over a long period of time. Essentially the opposite of burst. Despite the name, sustained harm does not e'er come up with actual sustain (but most of time, volition practice). Sustained damage is considered to exist better to deal with tanky targets, while burst is more effective against squishy targets.

SV

Spirit Visage

Synergy

How well two or more champions/players work together.

An item that benefits a item champion without wasted stat boosts or inefficient abilities. ("Synergy" sections were removed from the item pages due to the definition existence fairly subjective and cumbersome.)

T

Tankiness

The quality of beingness able to take high amounts of damage, primarily through items that requite defensive stats.

Tanking

To take high amounts of damage. Commonly refers to damage being washed to tanks and fighters, who have the durability to survive such damage.

Tanky DPS

An alternative term for a "Fighter" blazon champion. Though the term can be used to describe any champion that has obtained loftier survivability and harm through levels and items.

Team comp

Team composition: A specific champion set-upwardly for a team in which they work together to achieve an overall strategy. Examples include Poke comp, Heal comp, Push comp, AoE comp, CC comp, etc.

Teamfight

When multiple champions, from each opposing side, gather in 1 area to battle.

Teeto

Nickname for Teemo made pop by PhantomL0rd with this video

TF

Twisted Fate

Trinity Force

Teamfight, when multiple champions, from each opposing side, assemble in one area to battle.

TFT

Brusk name for Teamfight Tactics game mode.

Thunderlord'south

Thunderlord's Decree

TLD

 Thunderlord's Decree

Tilt

Mental frustration that negatively affects a player's power to make level-headed decisions during a friction match. For farther reading, see Tilt Blazon and the Wikipedia article on the concept of Tilt (poker).

Tower

A unremarkably used alternative term for the turret.

Belfry hugging

To stay nigh the tower to deter enemy champions from attacking them.

Toxic

Used to draw a person whose attitude negatively influences the game.

TP

Teleport

Twisted Fate's Gate

Trade

Trading

Merchandise champions: to switch champions with another role player during the champion selection for Typhoon or Ranked games after all players of both teams have finished selecting champions.

Trade damage: when players from each side deal equivalent injury to each other during a confrontation.

Trade kills: when players from each side endure an equivalent number of deaths after a confrontation.

Tree

Maokai

Tri-brush

A detail "Y" shaped brush that covers iii directions, such as those located on Summoner's Rift near the top exit of the jungle of the purple team's side of the map and near the bottom exit of jungle of the blue team'south side.

Trinity

Triforce

Trinity Strength

Tris

Trist

Tristana

Troll

A person who causes acts of disruption to other players and to the community. These acts may include writing offensive messages or intentionally feeding the enemy. Trolls are also referred to equally griefers. Encounter Troll on Wikipedia for more than information.

Mythical beings originating from the Norse mythology. In League of Legends, Trundle belongs to this race.

Troll pole

Fizz's Playful , which is tormenting to enemies attempting to eliminate him.

Troll pool

Vladimir'southward Sanguine Puddle , which is tormenting to enemies attempting to eliminate him.

TT

Twisted Treeline

Tryn

Trynd

Trynda

Tryndamere

Turtle

Turtling

A defensive strategy that involves protecting turrets, playing prophylactic, and avoid dying as much every bit possible until late game comes. Information technology is ofttimes used alongside champions with high waveclear potential and hypercarry champions.

U

Ult

Ulti

Ultimate ability

To tell a player to employ their champion'due south ultimate ability.

Ult bot

A champion whose ult is very powerful or a lot more impactful compared to the balance of their kit. Sometimes those champions accept the balance of their kits or their base stats nerfed to compensate, only are yet worth picking due to their ultimate alone. Examples of champions which are or were considered ult bots are Miss Fortune , Malzahar , Malphite , and Shen .

Unique

An aura or ability that does not stack, mutual to item effects.

Upwardly

Underpowered

URF

Ultra Rapid Fire

Urf , the Manatee. Referring to the day innocent equally celebracón

Utility

Spells or abilities that have a quality of being beneficial for the squad. back up champions are known to have a lot of utility.

5

Var

Varus

Vel

Vel'Koz

Vision hack

An ability which allows a thespian to run across through the fog of war, such as Twisted Fate's Destiny .

Veig

Veigar

Vent

Ventrilo: a tertiary party vox chat software.

Vertical Jungling

A style of jungling mainly seen in higher elo and competitive play where the de facto jungle border betwixt both teams' jungles is the middle lane rather than the river. Instead of the cherry-red side owning the first & 2d quadrants with the blue side owning the third & fourth, one team will own the first & fourth quadrants as well every bit the southeast (Dragon) river, and the other will own the 2nd & third quadrants plus the northwest (Baron) river.

Vik

Viktor

Vlad

Vladimir

Voli

Volibear

W

W

The second champion ability which is jump to the "W" key by default.

Ward hop

Using a nuance power (e.grand. Lee Sin's Safeguard and Jax's Leap Strike ) to target a ward. This is useful for escaping enemy attacks or intercepting an enemy that has used walls to juke away.

Ward bait

To place down a ward in order to set up an ambush. When an enemy champion attempts to destroy the ward, usually due to having an Oracle , the thespian initiates their surprise attack.

Warma's

A deprecated build that utilized Atma's Impaler and Warmog's Armor . Could as well be referred to every bit Atmogs.

Wet Noodle Fight

Describes a fight between two champions that are building very piffling impairment - usually tanks. This oftentimes takes place in the top lane during competitive play.

Weedwick

Warwick during patch four.20. Warwick was notable in this patch due to the combination of Skirmisher's Sabre and Devourer (which were introduced in this patch) which made him significantly more than powerful and allowed him to potentially ane shot enemies when combined with his ultimate (since information technology activates on-hit furnishings, and in that patch, Skirmisher Sabre'due south active was considered an on-hit consequence). The name is a pun with 420 being a number associated with cannabis.

Win Button

A term generally used tongue-in-cheek or in frustration to express that a champion may only need to use what is commonly only their ultimate power to win a fight.

Winions

Minions, especially when they overwhelm objectives such as towers or the nexus. Also, when they contribute to a lot of damage against a champion.

Wombo combo

When teammates effectively and consecutively chain together their abilities on enemy champions. Coined from a Smash Brothers Melee match.

WotA

Will of the Ancients

WP

Well Played

Wu

Wuk

Wukong

WW

Warwick

X

Xin

XZ

Xin Zhao

Y

Yas

Yasou

YS

Yasuo

Yellow

Seals, a removed type of rune.

Yi

Primary Yi

Yor

Yorick

Z

Zeke

Zeke'southward

Zeke's Convergence

Zerg Rush

Building up smaller units into a giant wave to rush an enemy. Can exist achievable by withholding minions, Zz'Rot Portal , and playing Yorick . Coined from Starcraft.

Zil

Zilean

Zone

Zoning

Tactics used to prevent enemy champion(s) from gaining gilded/experience.

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