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League of Legends Dictionary

written by Admin A, Admin L

The following are words/terms used in League of Legends, you may encounter these words when in-game, on the chat, or anywhere within the game, this dictionary is the necessary terms to understand in order to play League of Legends well.

ADC -  Attack damage carry

Ace - When all champions on a team are dead at the same time.

Buff - A positive effect applied to a champion.

Build - A set of items

Bottom - Bottom lane.

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

Ban - to disable a champion from being used in a match

Baron Nashor -  the most powerful neutral monster on Summoner's Rift.

Blue - Blue Team: the group of players that start out at the lower left side of Summoner's Rift or Howling Abyss, or on the left side of Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar. This team will always be the first during the pick/ban phase of Ranked and Normal Draft modes.

Creeps - Monsters and minions.

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

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

CS - Creeps Slain or Creep Score, an adapted DotA term.

CD - Waiting for an ability's cooldown to finish before commencing an action. 

CDR - Cooldown reduction.

CC - Crowd control: A category of status effects which limit movement or actions.

Dodge - A deprecated champion statistic, which determined the possibility to avoid a basic attack.

Duo -   When you queue as a duo (with just one other person), you're still considered to be in the solo queue as far as the matchmaker is concerned.

Flash - A blink-type summoner spell that activates instantly upon being cast, teleporting the player's champion a short distance in the direction of their cursor. 

Farm - To seek out and kill minions to obtain experience and gold.

Feed/Feeder -  To repeatedly die to the enemy team, giving them gold and experience. A player who does this is a feeder.

Gank - o ambush one or more unsuspecting enemies with one or more champions.

GG - Good game, easy win, and I win

Hug - If you are able to be hit by a member of the opposing team and your tower does not target them, you are NOT tower hugging

Influence Points - A form of money earned from winning games, can be used to buy champions and runes

Jungle - The spaces populated by neutral monsters between the lanes.

Killer - someone who takes a kill who isn’t supposedly theirs, can also be called kill steal, where they take the last shot so it counts as their score

Leash - A tactic used to draw monster aggro, benefiting the jungler.

Lane -The paths that allied and enemy minions follow.

Nerf -  An official modification to the game mechanics which makes something less powerful, as opposed to a "buff".

Overpowered - a champion that is too powerful and unbalanced

Passive - It doesn't stack if you have a second passive with the same effect. Different unique passives can work together. And yes, the max cool down reduction is 40%

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

Red - the team on the top right corner of the map, can also mean red buff

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

Shop -  The location where items are bought. To return to the base and buy items. Interchangeable with "b" or "brb".

Stack -  Effect stacking refers to a single effect being applied more than once on a target.

Support - A category of champions whose forte is to support his/her allies' performance.

Trashtalk/trashtalker - someone who cusses, insults, or is mean to an ally

Ult - Ultimate ability To tell a player to use their champion's ultimate ability.

Ward - Items that reveal the fog of war once placed.

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Getting your PC ready to play

written by Admin R

Always have a good framerate with good gear. LoL is a very light game but it doesn't mean you don't need more frames. Playing on the lowest settings (Exception on Shadows being on Medium or High) should be recommended to every players.As for gear, have a good mousepad with a good lens for the mouse. Also Mechanical Keyboards are a thing, but a membrane keyboard would be alright.

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Champion roles pointers

written by Admin P

Top

-Build tanky, build a lot of armor, magic resist, and health.

-When in teamfights, go straight for their back line; together with your jungler you should be able to either kill them or force a retreat.

Jungle

-Start at your red, then go to steal their red, but if you see their top or mid disappear, head back and do your blue instead.

-In a teamfight, your job is to either isolate and kill the enemy’s back line or to protect your own.

Mid

-If ganking top, go through your own jungle to avoid wards.

-Remind everyone to place wards. In the late game, especially in ranked solo queue, it’s really about who makes more mistakes.

Support

-If you’re playing someone like Soraka or Sona, just focus on protecting your ADC. 

-Bring support items like Redemption, also always use your heal spell to heal your allies,

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A heads up before heading to the battlefield against players

written by Admin R

Try to think what role you have to play. Playing Support but you wanted to carry can deteriorate in the beginning or even mid game. Try to talk it out with your teammates what role you really need to play.

Communication is a key of success. Always communicate with your teammate and say what plans are needed to win the whole match.

Always put down wards to the ones that are very common that enemies goes. Wards are very important to see the enemies that cannot be seen. Always use wards and control the lane properly.

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Fixing your gaming attitude

written by Admin J, Admin N

How to improve your mechanics (controlling champions)Practice, practice, practice! Every professional player has put in ridiculous amounts of hours to ensure that they remain at the top of their game, and there are multiple things you can focus on which can greatly improve your game.

1. Control your temper.  Getting angry at anyone is counter productive – it will only cloud your judgement and probably make you say things you wouldn't say normally. Try to calm down and instead of being angry, be a leader and help your team play better and be more helpful as a team.

2. Don’t blame your teammates. You should not blame others, because most of the time you can probably avoid the mistake if you find a solution to it. It cannot be helped if one is too far to help you, don’t blame your support for letting you die, they could’ve had their skills on cooldown or had low mana, they could’ve had nothing to do to help. Instead, ask them to help you directly from the chat.

3. Never surrender.  Anything can happen in Solo Queue, so you should never give up. Giving up means bad sportsmanship, and bad sportsmanship could lead to losing. Think positively and never give up. If you don’t like losing, think of it as a lesson to think of better strategies.

4. Communicate. Be proactive by pinging your teammates on what you want to do on the map. Be aware of your team’s situation, if you’re idle or healing at the moment, guide your team with pings to help them make decisions. Ping your teammates when you want to do something together.