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GENERAL LEAGUE OF LEGEND TERMS

PSN: I’ll not do individual terms for each champion. I’ll link their champion spotlight video (or any video that is close to a spotlight video) in the translator’s note at the end of the chapter. You don’t really need to know all of these for the novel, but I went overboard on making this…Let me know if I need to add, fix, or change anything. vO4RY7

Intro: League of Legend is a Moba (Multiplayer online battle arena) game. Generally, it consists of two teams with five members each as they compete against each other on the Summoner’s Rift. Either destroy the enemy team’s nexus or make the enemy team surrender to win the game. 

LANES

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Top Lane: A solo lane usually with champions with a combination of high survivability, high damage or have good engagement.

Mid Lane: A solo lane usually with champions with high burst damage—high amounts of damage in a short period of time. Usually APC or assassin. PC3Fh4

Bot Lane: A duo lane that usually contains ADC and support. 

Jungle: The map area outside of the three main lanes.

Lane swap: Where any of the three lanes switch their positions in order to compensate for a disadvantage. Usually a lane swap is between top and mid lane, in rare case, top and bot lane.

ROLES

ADC: Short for attack damage carry. Champion that deals high damage per second (DPS) and typically a glass cannon. ADC is usually a physical damage ranged champion that starts in the bot lane with a support.

APC: Short for ability power carry; also goes by mage. Champion that deals ability damage either by high burst damage or long range ability to snip enemy’s HP down (or poke). 

Assassin: Champion whose goal is to kill the carry before the carry can do damage. Close combat champion with high burst damage and usually with low survivability. 

Carry: Two types. First is the powerhouse that takes the victory for the team. Second is a champion with high damage output but weak early game. First type of carry could be a glass cannon but there are cases of tanks being the carry from early game advantage.  leaJCs

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Jungler: Champion that farms the monsters in the jungle and looks for opportunity around the map either by ganking, counter ganking, counter jungling (stealing enemy jungler’s jungle monsters), or contesting for powerful neutral monsters.

Bruiser: Champion with a mix of survivability and damage that could fight a longer period of time while dealing decent damage. This is usually the top laner’s role.

Tank: Champion with high survivability at the cost of their damage output. Goal is to take as much damage as possible either to waste the enemy’s spells or protect the team’s carries. 

Support: The ADC’s partner in lane. Support is usually known for their utilities whether for their hard/ soft crowd control (CC), healing/ shielding (temporary HP), or buff/ debuff. Usually the one that sacrifices their income/ resource/ lives for the carries. YXnWyd

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Ban and Pick Phase: Phase before certain games that allow players to ban and pick their champion. Depending on the order and game mode, players could counter ban/ counter pick their opponent. Blue team will ban and pick one first. 

Baron Nashor: One of the three powerful neutral monsters that reside in the baron pit near top lane. Killing it grants all living teammates a buff that gives bonus attack damage and ability power, empowered recall, and an aura that greatly increases the power of nearby minions. 

Base: The area in the Summoner’s Rift that is within the wall.  6lr45E

Blind Game: Game mode that doesn’t show the champion that your opponent picked. Depending on the game mode, there will be a ban and pick phase. Because of the nature of this, there will be cases of the same champion(s) being selected on both teams (mirror match).

Bush: A map feature found around the rift that obscures vision from outside observers. Upon entering any brush, the player would become partially transparent and enemies outside of that brush would immediately lose sight of the player. Wards, certain skills, units, or if the player in the brush engaged in an attack would reveal the player.

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Chat: Means to communicate between teammates. Using ‘All Chat’ to chat with the enemy team. Players won’t see messages from blacklisted players. There is also chat available before the game for individual teams, and end chat after the game used by both teams.

Crowd Control (CC): A type of movement restriction, displacement, or handicapped caused by skills, items, or the environment. A hard CC is where a champion is completely immobilized. Examples would be stun or knock back. While soft CC is where a champion is either immobilized but still can use their spell or able to move but unable to perform at their peak. Examples would be slow, root, or blind. D3zoLa

Creep Score (CS): The amount of creeps/ monsters/minions a player has killed.

Dragon (Drake): One of the three powerful neutral monsters that reside in the dragon pit near bot lane. It spawns every five minutes. It used to give only gold, then it gave accumulated buff for each kill. Now there are different elemental dragons that provide different buffs (cloud, mountain, infernal, ocean dragon). Elder dragon being the strongest and will only spawn after a team has killed their fourth dragons.

Early/ Late Game Champion: Champion that is stronger early game but falls off late game, and vice versa. 

First Blood: The first champion killed in the game. Which would award additional gold between the achiever and player(s) that assist. FIrst turret/ tower is the same concept.  Up938Z

Flash: A summoner spell that teleports a player’s champion in a short distance, from location A to B using the cursor.

Freeze Lane: Holding minions in a specific place, so players could farm without pushing the wave further up or down the lane. Few of the common reasons are to deny your opponent gold and experiences or to farm safely near your turret.

Fountain: Also known as spawn point. The platform where champions spawn, respawn after dying, and teleport to after completing recall. While on this platform, players could purchase items or quickly recover missing health or mana. It is protected by the fountain laser.

Fountain laser: Real name is Nexus Obelisk. It is a type of turret that could not be damaged by the enemy team, and it possessed the highest damage output in the game. Its main purpose is to protect allies or prevent allies from being spawn-camping by the enemy teams. OXiZ6b

Gank: Where champion(s) goes to another lane to kill the enemy team with a number advantage or as a surprise. This is usually the jungler’s job. Counter gank is when you gank an enemy who is also ganking your ally. 

Kill: Act of reducing an enemy champion’s HP to zero. Killing more than one champion within a set time limit would trigger multi-kill: double kill, triple kill, quadra kill, and penta kill. Hexa kill is only available in the Hexakill special game mode.

Kill to Death Ratio (KDA): The number of kills, deaths, and assists a player has at any point of time in the game.

Lane Split: When a team moves to a weak or undefended lane to apply pressure by pushing the wave in attempts to gain a tower advantage or force the enemy to send members to stop the lane pusher.  rsY29d

Laning Phase: The period of game where the players, excluding junglers, remain in their respective lanes to farm minions and obtain gold. Each game phase would depend on the remaining turret and the duration of the game (mid game/ late game).

Match Making Rating (MMR): Rating number that represents a player’s skill level.

Meta: What the community believed to be the most optimal way to win the game. Either using a certain champion or item.

Minion: Units that spawn from the nexus and advance along all three lanes toward the enemy nexus. Killing the enemy team’s minions yields gold for the player. Some minions are worth more than others.  QIz2Hm

Normal Game: Does not involve the ranked system. But do consider a player’s MMR.

Placement Match: The first ten ranked games would determine which rank a player would start. From experience, a player would not be placed in a rank higher than platinum. (To all the novel with player that was placed in Diamond rank, WHY)

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QWER: How the player called their skills because of the default key binding. QWE are the three basic abilities. R or ‘ult’, is the ultimate ability that is typically an ability that champions can put a skill point to once they reach level six. It is typically their most powerful ability. 

Rank Game: League’s ranking system where it matched players against players of similar levels. Players play ranked matches to increase or decrease their rank. Rank tiers from highest to lowest (when they were added): Challenger (2014), Grandmaster (2019), Master (2014), Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Brone, and Iron (2019). Within each rank, there are four divisions from I being the highest, to IV (pre 2019 update, there was a V division and master & challenger did not have divisions). p0dlvH

Red and Blue buff: Each team gets two jungle camps that give a red and a blue buff. Blue gives increased mana regeneration and reduced cooldown, and red gives a burning effect on auto and increased health regeneration. Killing the champion with the buff would transfer the buff to the slayer. 

Recall: Also known as ‘B’ because of its default hotkey, is an ability that all players have with an eight second cast time. If the channel is not interrupted, the champion will be teleported to the fountain. Empowered Recall cuts the time by half.

Rift Herald: One of the three powerful neutral monsters that reside in the Baron pit near top lane. Slaying the monster drops a relic in the pit for forty seconds which could be picked up by any member of the slayer’s team, granting them empowered recall and eye of the herald. Activating the item to summon a Rift Herald to push the lane and dealed large amount of damage to a turret in exchange for a portion of summoned Rift Herald’s life. There is only one Rift Herald per game.

Skin: Cosmetic for champion that could also give the champion special animation effects. Most of them required real money to purchase.  rV2cJI

Smite: A summoner spell that does true damage to a neutral monster(s). 

Spawn-killing: The act of killing an enemy in their fountain immediately after they respawn.

Summoner Spell: From a pool of abilities, players could bring two to the Summoner’s Rift. Flash being the most common and Smite being a must for jungler.

Turret: Also go by tower. Heavy fortifications that attack enemy units on sight and located on the three main lanes. They prioritize enemy minions unless an ally champion takes damage from the enemy champion within a turret range. Depending on the location, they go by outer turret, inner turret, inhibitor turret, or nexus turret. wH abK

Turret Dive: The act of trying to kill an enemy when they are under the turret.

Ward: An item or trinket that gives vision to a dark area either for a period of time or until the ward is destroyed. 

LEAGUE OF LEGEND COMPETITION/ DIVISION

League of Legend Pro League (LPL): The top-level professional league for LOL in China. There are two national competitions for this league. Spring and Summon Seasons. hUHRWn

League of Legend World Championship (Worlds): A worldwide annual professional LOL tournament hosted by Riot Games.