There are LoL 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 custom game between two players. Usually done on Howling Abyss but occasionally done on Summoner's Rift in mid lane.
- The act of battling against an enemy champion, when neither champions have any help from their allies (i.e. both champions are alone)
- A champion's capability of winning direct trades against an enemy champion. Some champions like File:JaxSquare.png Jax and File:IreliaSquare.png Irelia have high 1x1 potential. The ones that have lower 1x1 potential usually have other attributes to compensate, such as higher burst, better teamfighting potential, higher kiting capability, and so on.
- 3's
- Twisted Treeline (referring to the fact that teams consist of 3 champions each).
- 5's
- Summoner's Rift (referring to the fact that teams consist of 5 champions each).
A[]
- AA
- Auto attack.
- AAS
- .
- ABAM
- All Blind All Mid: a custom game type where players pick champions in Blind Pick Mode to fight only in the middle lane.
- Ace
- When all champions on a team are dead at the same time.
- To kill the last living champion on the opposing team.
- Active
- Abilities possessed by champions and certain items that require activating (via clicking and/or hitting a key) to function, as opposed to "passive".
- AD
- Attack Damage.
- ADAM
- All Draft All Mid: a custom game type where players pick a champion to only fight in the middle lane.
- ADC
- Attack Damage Carry: a champion that deals high amounts of attack damage as the match progresses.
- AFK
- Away From Keyboard: a player who is not currently in control of their champion in a match.
- Aggro
- The targeting priority (or enmity) of an A.I. controlled minion, turret, monster, etc.
- Ali
- File:AlistarSquare.png Alistar.
- Ani
- Aniv
- File:AniviaSquare.png Anivia.
- AoE
- Area of Effect.
- AP
- Ability Power.
- ARAB
- All Random All Bottom: A custom game type like ARAM, but played on the bottom lane on the Crystal Scar instead.
- ARAM
- All Random All Mid: A custom game type where players randomly pick a champion to only fight in the middle lane.
- A matched game type where players randomly pick a champion to play on Howling Abyss.
- ARAP
- All Random All Proving Grounds: A custom game type like ARAM, but played on the proving grounds map instead.
- ArP
- ArPen
- Armor Penetration.
- ARTS
- Action Real-Time Strategy.
- AS
- ATS
- ASPD
- Attack Speed.
- Assassin
- A champion type whose forte is rapidly ambushing and slaying enemy champions. They have abilities that may include stealthing themselves or having a strong dash skill.
- Assist
- To help an allied champion in killing an enemy champion, gaining a share of the bounty.
- The alternative term for Support champions.
- Atmallet
- A build that utilizes Fratma's. and . Can also be referred to as
- Atmog's
- A build that utilizes Warma's. and . Can also be referred to as
- Aura
- A passive ability that usually applies to the champion and those around the champion.
- Aura platform
- Aura bot
- A champion who is equipped with multiple aura-producing items to assist teammates.
- Auto attack
- Auto-attack
- Autoattack
- The basic attack move performed by a champion when right-clicking an enemy unit.
B[]
- B
- Back: to retreat in the general direction of your base or away from the enemy.
- : To return to the base by pressing the "B" key by default.
- Babysit
- For one champion to continually assist 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 to the friendly tower, 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 File:OriannaSquare.png Orianna's command.
- Banana
- File:SorakaSquare.png Soraka's autoattack.
- Baron
- File:Baron NashorSquare.png Baron Nashor.
- Exalted with Baron Nashor Exalted with Baron Nashor. (Aka "Baron Buff")
- Base
- The walled area where the shop, nexus and inhibitors are situated.
- Bear
- File:VolibearSquare.png Volibear.
- File:AnnieSquare.png Annie's Summon Tibbers Summon Tibbers.
- File:UdyrSquare.png Udyr's Bear Stance Bear Stance.
- BC
- .
- BD
- Backdoor
- To attack an enemy tower or base without the support of a minion wave. Typically this is done by sneaking through the jungle and only becoming revealed to the opposing team as late as possible, in order to delay a reaction.
- To capture a capture point, typically the middle one, which is close to the enemy fountain and surrounded by two other enemy capture points.
- BF
- BFS
- .
- BG
- Bad Game.
- Bird
- File:AniviaSquare.png Anivia.
- Sometimes refers to the crows from File:FiddlesticksSquare.png Fiddlesticks's Dark Wind Dark Wind.
- Blind
- A Crowd control effect that causes the recipient's autoattacks to miss completely.
- Blind pick
- A type of match where all participants select their champion simultaneously. Both teams are unaware which champions the opposing side has picked until the loading screen appears. Any champion can be summoned by one ally and one enemy at the same time.
- Picking a champion for a lane in draft pick before the enemy has picked an opposing champion(s) for the same lane.
- Blink
- A type of movement ability, similar to the summoner spell .
- Blitz
- File:BlitzcrankSquare.png Blitzcrank.
- Blue
- Blue Buff: Crest of Insight Crest of Insight. By extension, can also refer to the File:Blue SentinelSquare.png Blue Sentinel.
- 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.
- Glyphs, a type of rune.
- BM
- Bad mannered / bad manners
- BoRK
- BotRK
- BRK
- .
- Bot
- Bottom lane.
- The Quarry/Boneyard capture points in Dominion.
- An A.I. controlled champion.
- Bot game
- Co-op vs. AI.
- A custom game where nearly all of the players are bots.
- Bounty
- The amount of gold a target is worth should they be slain.
- Box
- Boxes
- File:ShacoSquare.png Shaco's Jack In The Box Jack In The Box
- BP
- Blue Pill (obsolete), which was replaced by Recall. Sometimes used in place of "B".
- BRB
- Be right back.
- Broken
- When something within the game is viewed as imbalanced or malfunctioning (a champion, an item, a spell, etc.).
- Bruce
- File:Lee SinSquare.png Lee Sin.
- Bruiser
- A champion with high effective health and damage per second. See fighter.
- Brush
- Bush
- The tall grass in which champions can hide.
- BT
- .
- Buff
- A positive effect applied to a champion.
- An official modification to the game mechanics which makes something more powerful, as opposed to a "nerf".
- Bug
- A defect in the mechanics of the game that is not intended.
- File:Kha'ZixSquare.png Kha'Zix.
- File:SkarnerSquare.png Skarner.
- File:Rek'SaiSquare.png Rek'Sai.
- Burst
- A large amount of damage being dealt in a short time, pertaining particularly to the damage dealt by a single champion. Nuke is also a commonly used term.
- BV
- .
C[]
- Cait
- File:CaitlynSquare.png Caitlyn.
- Cap
- .
- To capture a point in Dominion.
- A limit past which something can not rise (For instance, attack speed is capped at {{#vardefine:n|2.5}}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
- Casio
- File:CassiopeiaSquare.png Cassiopeia.
- Caster
- A champion whose main source of damage is their abilities. The damage can be either magic or physical damage, and can scale with either AP (ability power) or AD (attack damage).
- Cat
- File:NidaleeSquare.png Nidalee.
- File:RengarSquare.png Rengar.
- CC
- Crowd control: A category of status effects which limit movement or actions.
- CD
- Cooldown
- Waiting for an ability's cooldown to finish before commencing an action.
- CDR
- Cooldown reduction.
- Chain CC
- To consecutively use multiple crowd control spells on an enemy champion.
- Champ
- A champion; a particular character that the summoner calls on and controls.
- Char
- Short for "character", used to mean champion.
- Channelling
- The casting time required to perform certain spells. These types of spells can be interrupted by "hard" crowd control.
- Chase
- To pursue an enemy champion as they're running away.
- Cheese
- To try to kill the enemy laner at level 1-2 and snowball from there.
- Cho
- File:Cho'GathSquare.png Cho'Gath.
- Classic
- The standard MOBA game mode in which players focus on laning, pushing minion waves, and destroying the enemy structures.
- Clutch move
- To perform a well-timed action while under pressure.
- Co-op
- Co-op vs. AI: the player versus A.I. controlled champion match mode.
- Collapsing
- When allied players coordinate with each other in order to converge and overwhelm the enemy team.
- Commit
- To not retreat. To stay in a fight until the battle is over, or until your champion is slain.
- Counter gank
- Setting up an ambush 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 selection phase in order to oppose a particular enemy champion.
- Cover
- A player request for another teammate to hold the player's lane while they're not there. (See "babysit" and "hold.")
- Cow
- File:AlistarSquare.png Alistar.
- Creeps
- Monsters and minions.
- CS
- Creeps Slain or Creep Score, an adapted DotA term.
- The Crystal Scar, the map in which Dominion takes place.
- File:ZileanSquare.png Zilean's Chrono Shift Chrono Shift.
- Custom
- Custom game: the match mode created by player with the freedom to determine the team size, map, A.I. controlled champion participation and install a password for limited access.
- Cup
- , .
- Cupcake
- File:CaitlynSquare.png Caitlyn's Yordle Snap Trap Yordle Snap Trap.
- File:CaitlynSquare.png Caitlyn; thus coined by File:ViSquare.png Vi.
- File:LuluSquare.png Lulu's Whimsy Whimsy under her Bittersweet skin.
- CV
- .
D[]
- Dar
- File:DariusSquare.png Darius.
- D
- Def
- Defend: to protect the tower or base without attacking aggressively.
- DFG
- .
- DC
- Disconnected.
- Debuff
- A negative effect applied to a champion; the opposite of a buff.
- Deny
- Denial
- To kill allied minions or pets, preventing the opponent from earning the gold 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.
- Di
- File:DianaSquare.png Diana.
- Disable
- A form of crowd control that prevents the enemy from taking particular actions.
- Dive
- To pursue a specific target into a highly dangerous area, typically beneath an enemy turret.
- Dodge
- Queue dodge.
- A deprecated champion stat, which determined the possibility to avoid an autoattack.
- Following the removal of the dodge global stat, it is the status effect granted by File:JaxSquare.png Jax's Counter Strike Counter Strike.
- Dog
- Doge
- File:NasusSquare.png Nasus.
- Dom
- Dominion
- A game mode that differs from the classic MOBA-style gameplay, and focuses on seizing capture points.
- Donger
- File:HeimerdingerSquare.png Heimerdinger.
- DoT
- Damage over Time effect.
- DotA
- Defense of the Ancients: a successful mod created from Warcraft 3. It has inspired similar games such as League of Legends. "Dota" is also used to categorize games of this particular sub-genre within the real-time strategy genre.
- Double kill
- Slaying two enemy champions within a certain length of time.
- DPS
- Damage per second (i.e. attack speed).
- A champion who specializes in dealing steady sustained damage.
- Draft
- Draft Pick: a type of champion selection where all participants must first go through a champion banning phase and where no champion can be picked by more than one player.
- Drag
- Drake
- File:DragonSquare.png Dragon.
- Duelist
- A champion who excels at combating enemy champions one on one (e.g. File:FioraSquare.png Fiora, File:JaxSquare.png Jax).
- Dunking
- A flashy or rewarding kill on a champion, described in terms of a slam dunk.
- To use an aerial leap ability to severely damage or slay an enemy champion. Examples of dunking abilities include File:DariusSquare.png Darius's Noxian Guillotine Noxian Guillotine, File:Jarvan IVSquare.png Jarvan IV's Cataclysm Cataclysm and File:JayceSquare.png Jayce's To the Skies! To the Skies!.
E[]
- E
- The third champion ability which is bound to the "E" key by default.
- EC
- .
- Effective health
- EHP
- Health multiplied by the various damage reduction affecting it (normally armor and magic resistance), i.e. the damage that the champion needs to receive in order to be killed.
- Egg
- Eggnivia
- File:AniviaSquare.png Anivia's Rebirth Rebirth
- Elo
- A mathematical rating system for a player's relative skill level.
- Elo hell
- A perceived Elo level where it is very difficult or frustrating for a player to get out of.
- Elojob
- When a low-elo player pays to a high-elo player, so that he can boost the low elo's account to higher elos, usually platinum or diamond. This practice is extremely controversial and is generally condemned by players and punished by Riot due to how it can create negative experiences for those who are battling alongside boosted low-elo players, due to them not having enough experience for the elo where they are playing.
- Eve
- File:EvelynnSquare.png Evelynn
- Execute
- An ability that does damage based on the missing health of an enemy. Examples include File:Lee SinSquare.png Lee Sin's Resonating Strike Resonating Strike and File:JinxSquare.png Jinx's Super Mega Death Rocket! Super Mega Death Rocket!. See all "missing health" abilites.
- Executed
- Being slain by a tower or a creep with no enemy champion receiving credit for the kill.
- Otherwise, being slain by File:DariusSquare.png Darius's Noxian Guillotine Noxian Guillotine.
- Exp
- Shorthand for experience points.
- Ez
- File:EzrealSquare.png Ezreal
- Easy
F[]
- Face check
- A champion going into a brush to see if an enemy champion is hidden in there. This can be a very risky action.
- Fail flash
- When the player uses their spell in an unintended way, or when they try escape over a wall with but end up at the same side they started, because the wall is too big
- Fall off
- A term used for when a champion becomes weaker during later stages of the game. Those champions generally are strong during the early and/or mid game to compensate, and thus, have a limited window of time to win the game before being outscaled by the enemy. Example of champions that are considered to fall off late game are File:Lee SinSquare.png Lee Sin, File:EliseSquare.png Elise, and File:ZedSquare.png Zed.
- Farm
- To seek out and kill minions to obtain experience and gold.
- Farm Alarm
- Term coined by E-sports casters for File:Rek'SaiSquare.png Rek'Sai's Void Rush Void Rush; Referring to her shriek when the ability is used being heard by all players. Often this ability is used to get back to the jungle to speed up farming.
- FB
- First Blood: the first kill of the game.
- Fear
- A debuff which makes target champion walk around randomly and uncontrollably.
- Fed
- A champion becoming disproportionately powerful after obtaining multiple kills on enemy champions.
- Feed
- To repeatedly die to the enemy team, giving them gold and experience. A player who does this is a feeder.
- FF
- Refers to /ff or "forfeit", another term for surrender.
- FFS
- For fuck's sake. An expression of anger or frustration.
- Fid
- Fiddle
- FS
- File:FiddlesticksSquare.png Fiddlesticks
- Field of Justice
- An in-universe term for a location where champions do battle with each other. Also referred to as a map.
- Fighter
- A hybrid champion between tanking and DPS that combines the survivability of a tank and the damage of a DPS or a caster. They were formerly called Bruisers.
- Fish
- File:FizzSquare.png Fizz
- File:NamiSquare.png Nami
- 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.
- FM
- Fratma's
- A build that utilizes Atmallet. and . Can also be referred to as
- Fratmog's
- A build that utilizes , and all at once.
- Freezing
- Freezing the lane is a very advanced technique that is very efficient. If you do it right, you can effectively deny all creeps to your opponent while freely acquiring creep score without threat.
- Focus
- To direct a team's efforts toward killing a specific target, normally one of high strategic value such as the enemy carry.
- 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
- Forced teamfight
- When one team attempts to take a map objective in order to compel the enemy team to try and stop them, resulting in a battle.
- FotM
- Flavor of the Month: a champion that suddenly becomes very popular among players. This can be for reasons such as their usage at a competitive level, an overly tuned 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 will respawn after death, regenerate health and mana, and can purchase items.
- Fourchan
- 4Chan
- A nickname for File:Miss FortuneSquare.png Miss Fortune based on her ability to dominate early-game bottom lane if played right. Named after the infamous image board.
- FPS
- IPS
- Frames per second, images per second
- Franky
- File:ViSquare.png Vi
- Full damage
- A champion who builds mostly offensive items. Generally they build only one defensive item for survivability purposes, but the rest of their builds consist only of offensive items. Thus, these champions tend to do very high amounts of damage, but are very easy to kill.
- Full tank
- A champion who builds mostly defensive items. They generally build no damage items, or only one damage item (which generally offers defensive stats alongside offense). These champions tend to do little damage due to that, but in turn, are extremely difficult to kill.
- FWotD
- WotD
- First Win
- First Win of the day: rewards player a flat bonus of 150 to the IP earned from winning the first match. The bonus refreshes every 22 hours after the first win.
G[]
- GA
- Game throw
- When a team with a lead makes a mistake or a series of mistakes that causes them to lose the lead, or the entire match.
- Gang
- GP
- File:GangplankSquare.png Gangplank
- Gank
- To ambush one or more unsuspecting enemies with one or more champions.
- Gap closer
- An ability or spell that shortens the distance between the champion and the enemy.
- Gauntlet
- GG
- Good game
- Ghoster
- Ghosting
- A player who watches an enemy player's online stream in order to gain an advantage during the match.
- GJ
- Good Job
- GL
- Good Luck
- GLHF
- Good Luck; Have Fun: a portmanteau of GL and HF.
- Glass cannon
- A champion/build that is high in damage but low in defense. This primarily refers to building a champion purely for offense, sacrificing survivability.
- Global
- An ability that can strike anywhere on the map (e.g. File:GangplankSquare.png Gangplank's Cannon Barrage Cannon Barrage).
- Glyph
- A type of rune which primarily boosts various magical stats.
- Golem
- File:Ancient GolemSquare.png Ancient Golem, which grants the Crest of the Ancient Golem Crest of the Ancient Golem (aka blue buff) after being slain.
- Golem and Big Golem, usually referred to together as "Golems".
- Gold
- The in-game currency used to buy items.
- Golden Pose
- active
- GP10
- Items/masteries/runes that generate extra gold over time. Gold generating items are often incorrectly referred to as GP5.
- Grag
- File:GragasSquare.png Gragas
H[]
- Harass
- To put pressure on an enemy champion by causing damage with little risk of retaliation.
- Hard CC
- A crowd control effect that disrupts the channeling of abilities.
- Hard leash
- To aid the allied jungler by attacking a monster and reducing its health greatly and allowing the ally to deal the last hit.
- Hat
- Funny Hat
- Funky Hat
- Heal bot
- File:SorakaSquare.png Soraka
- Hec
- Heca
- File:HecarimSquare.png Hecarim
- Heim
- Heimer
- File:HeimerdingerSquare.png Heimerdinger
- Hero
- The equivalent term for "champion" in other MOBA games.
- HF
- Have Fun
- Hold
- To stay in a lane and protect a tower from being destroyed by the enemy. Primarily done by junglers while the laner is away.
- Hook
- Ability which prevents movement and brings an enemy towards the champion's position. Examples include File:ThreshSquare.png Thresh's Death Sentence Death Sentence or File:BlitzcrankSquare.png Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab Rocket Grab
- Horse
- File:HecarimSquare.png Hecarim
- Hourglass
- Zhonya
- HP
- Health, also known as "Hit Points"
- HP5
- Health Regeneration per 5 seconds
- Hybrid
- A champion that uses two or more build types, such as going both AP and AD.
- Hypercarry
- A champion that has an extremely weak early or mid-game, but scales extremely well late game to the point of being nearly unstoppable if well fed and farmed. This term often describes ADCs that are often highly dependent on auto-attacking (i.e. File:TristanaSquare.png Tristana, File:Kog'MawSquare.png Kog'Maw, and File:VayneSquare.png Vayne) and can be used to describe other champions as well in a lesser extent (i.e. File:KarthusSquare.png Karthus, File:JaxSquare.png Jax, File:AzirSquare.png Azir).
I[]
- IE
- IBG
- Iceborn
- Ignite
- A summoner spell which deals true damage over time on one enemy target. Can also refer to casting the spell on a certain enemy champion.
- Imba
- Imbalanced: describing something as unfairly powerful.
- Inc
- Incoming
- Used to warn a player that one or more champs are heading their way in an attempt to gank. This is unlike MIA, which does not give a definite indication of the missing enemy champion's direction.
- Inhib
- Inhibitor: a structure that prevents the enemy's super minions from being spawned.
- Inhibitor turret
- The tower protecting the inhibitor.
- Initiate
- A champion performing an action which signals allied champions to begin the battle. The initiator may act as bait and take heavy damage from the enemy in order to protect their allies from taking major damage.
- Inner turrets
- The three towers at the outer perimeters of the base.
- Instagib
- Instakill
- Instant giblets or Instant kill: when a full health or nearly full health champion/monster takes lethal damage within such a short time that they essentially died instantly, with no chance to react.
- Instalock
- Instalocking
- Instant lock: to quickly select and lock-in a particular champion (or a random one) to prevent someone else from getting them, usually without previous warning to the rest of the team. This is often perceived as poor sportsmanship.
- Invade
- To go into the enemy's territory, particularly their jungle.
- IP
- Influence Points
- Ire
- Irie
- File:IreliaSquare.png Irelia
- Item
- An object carried or used by a champion to enhance their performance in the match.
J[]
- J4
- Jar
- Jarv
- File:Jarvan IVSquare.png Jarvan IV
- Jack
- JitB
- File:ShacoSquare.png Shaco's Jack In The Box Jack In The Box
- Jay
- File:JayceSquare.png Jayce
- JoJ
- The Journal of Justice
- Juggernaut
- A term coined by Riot, used to describe fighters that are extremely durable, but are lacking in mobility. They tend to be difficult to 1x1, but at same time, are easy to kite and vulnerable to CC. Examples of juggernauts are File:DariusSquare.png Darius and File:GarenSquare.png Garen.
- Juke
- The act of feinting a pursuing enemy into chasing the wrong direction by breaking line of sight through usage of brush and/or fog of war.
- The act of dodging skill shots.
- Jungle
- The spaces populated by neutral monsters between the lanes.
- Jungler
- A champion who forgoes fighting in a lane in order to obtain experience and gold from killing creeps in the jungle.
- Jungling
- To kill monsters in the jungle.
K[]
- Kar
- Karth
- File:KarthusSquare.png Karthus
- Kass
- File:KassadinSquare.png Kassadin
- Kat
- Kata
- File:KatarinaSquare.png Katarina
- Kay
- File:KayleSquare.png Kayle
- Ken
- File:KennenSquare.png Kennen
- Kha
- Khaz
- K6
- File:Kha'ZixSquare.png Kha'Zix
- Kill lane
- A combination of two champions that have the specific purpose of slaying the opposing two champions during the laning phase. A kill lane is usually attempted in the bottom lane.
- Killing spree
- A champion who slays at least three champions consecutively without being slain them self.
- Kit
- A champion's set of abilities.
- Kiter
- A champion that is particularly good at kiting (e.g. File:AsheSquare.png Ashe).
- Kite
- Kiting
- Continuously backing away and attacking a pursuing enemy champion in such a way that the enemy is damaged while unable to deal damage back.
- Knockback
- Pushing the target's position in the opposite direction of the skill user. Target cannot move or act during the knocking motion.
- Knockup
- Disabling the target by sending them into the air. The airbound target's horizontal position does not change.
- Kog
- File:Kog'MawSquare.png Kog'Maw
- KS
- Kill Steal: Blaming an ally for landing the finishing hit on an enemy champion who they intended to score the kill on.
- Kill Secured: Preventing a severely weakened target from surviving by doing an excessive amount of damage to the target.
- Kill Streak: when a champion slays multiple enemy champions consecutively. The "Kill Streak" will reset when the champion is slain.
L[]
- Lag
- Slow response during the match due to high network connection latency. Severe lag may result in disconnection and will count as a leave if the player does not reconnect before the end of the match.
- Some players also refer to the slowdown due to a bad computer system as 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's computer and the game server, or by a slow computer. Lag most often manifests as "outbound lag", or delay between when a command is given and when it is performed. Lag can also manifest as "inbound lag", or a delay between when an event is registered on the server and when it is displayed on a user's computer. This causes "jumping", or the appearance that a champion's position, health, mana, etc. has suddenly changed.
- Lag Spike
- A sudden and often momentary period of severe lag.
- Lane
- The paths that allied and enemy minions follow.
- Laner
- The champion or player who occupies a certain lane during the early game.
- Laning
- Staying in the minion paths in order to push or farm.
- Laning phase
- The first part of the match on Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline. This phase usually ends as one or two turrets are destroyed.
- Lantern
- File:ThreshSquare.png Thresh's Dark Passage Dark Passage
- Laser
- File:LuxSquare.png Lux's Final Spark Final Spark
- The Nexus Obelisk's autoattack.
- The Inhibitor Turret's autoattack.
- Last hit
- Getting the killing blow on a minion, creep, or enemy champion.
- LB
- File:LeBlancSquare.png LeBlanc
- Leash
- A tactic used to draw monster aggro, benefiting the jungler.
- A type of ability effect requiring the caster and target to stay within a certain distance. (E.x. File:NocturneSquare.png Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror Unspeakable Horror.)
- Leave
- Leaver
- Exiting the champion selection or the match before each game is finished, whether voluntarily or not. This is regulated by the Leaver Buster system.
- Lee
- File:Lee SinSquare.png Lee Sin
- LS
- File:Lee SinSquare.png Lee Sin
- Life steal
- Leech
- Staying within range of enemy units to gain experience points without assisting your team mates with the kills.
- Leo
- File:LeonaSquare.png Leona
- Liss
- File:LissandraSquare.png Lissandra
- LOL
- League of Legends, the title of the game itself.
- The League of Legends, a peacekeeping institution within the game's lore.
- Laughing out loud
- LOM
- Low On Mana – See also Out of Mana
- LW
M[]
- Main
- A player's best or favorite champion to use.
- A player's best or favorite role.
- Mana
- Resource used by most champions to cast abilities.
- Mana Battery
- Mana Dispenser
- File:SorakaSquare.png Soraka
- Manaless
- Champions who do not have the mana stat.
- Malp
- Malph
- File:MalphiteSquare.png Malphite
- Malz
- Mal
- File:MalzaharSquare.png Malzahar
- ManBearPig
- ManBearPheonix
- ManBearTiger and combinations thereof
- File:UdyrSquare.png Udyr
- Man drop
- File:PantheonSquare.png Pantheon's Grand Skyfall Grand Skyfall
- Mao
- File:MaokaiSquare.png Maokai
- Map
- A location where champions battle against each other.
- A diagrammatic representation of the arena, displayed at the lower right corner of the player's screen.
- Map awareness
- To be conscious of the events occurring around the map. To increase Map awareness, there are abilities and items (e.g. wards) which reveal the fog of war at strategic areas. or
- 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 task that is sought after which goes towards winning the match. These tasks include getting the blue and red buffs, slaying the Dragon and Baron, destroying towers and inhibitors, etc.
- Mark
- A type of rune which primarily boosts various physical stats.
- A status effect (usually a debuff) which changes the effect of a champion's ability. For instance, Katarina's Bouncing Blades adds a mark to all targets hit, and Katarina's basic attacks and abilities against marked targets deal bonus damage and consume the mark.
- Martyr
- A champion that dies defending a capture point with an extra score reward, depending on how many enemy champions are involved in the kill.
- Mermaid
- File:NamiSquare.png Nami
- Meta
- Metagame
- The game's current play style, consisting of aspects such as lane setup, jungling, and team composition.
- Metagolem
- A tanky-dps build that (ideally) consists of Atmog's, , , and . The term is a portmanteau of the words "metagame" and "golem".
- To a lesser extend this term also applies to a trend in early 2016 for many champions that were supposed to build squishy, to build tanky. This is because back then, items like File:Master YiSquare.png Master Yi, File:FioraSquare.png Fiora, File:EkkoSquare.png Ekko, File:FizzSquare.png Fizz, and even File:AkaliSquare.png Akali. Most 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 do less damage, discouraging their purchase on non-tanky champions. , , and , as well as the mastery, used to be overpowered. They allowed almost any champion to work with a tanky build because those items provided artificial sources of damage, with Grasp of the Undying providing health-scaling sustain and high base damage as well. A lot of champions that were otherwise supposed to build glass cannon started to build tanky. The most popular examples include
- MF
- File:Miss FortuneSquare.png Miss Fortune
- MIA
- Missing In Action: an enemy champion who was laning does not show up in the original lane which may result in recalled to base, preparing to gank the other lane and/or hiding in the brush. "MIA" is more common on the NA server than on EUW and EUNE. ss is used as the equivalent on the EUW and EUNE servers.
- Mid
- Middle lane
- The Refinery/Drill capture points in Dominion.
- Mid top
- At the beginning of Dominion, a player declares to capture the nearest middle capture point then rushes up to top.
- Mid turrets
- The three towers just outside the base.
- Minion
- The computer-controlled unit spawned from the allied structure (nexus or capture point) to march to the opposing structure along the designated lane.
- Minion wave
- A group of minions spawned together once at a time. Multiple groups of minion waves may accumulate to form a bigger group that is harder to be dealt with.
- Miss
- Enemy champion missing in action. "Miss" (along with "ss") is more common than "MIA" on the European servers.
- File:Miss FortuneSquare.png Miss Fortune
- MK
- Minion Kills
- MM
- Marksman: a champion that deals high amounts of attack damage as the match progresses, sacrificing it's defensive power and utility. An official term substitutes "ADC" (attack damage carry).
- MOBA
- Multiplayer Online Battle Arena: a genre of games which brings many of the RPG (Role Playing Game) and RTS (Real-Time Strategy) elements together.
- Monkey
- File:WukongSquare.png Wukong
- Morde
- File:MordekaiserSquare.png Mordekaiser
- Morg
- File:MorganaSquare.png Morgana
- MP5
- Mana regeneration per 5 seconds
- MPen
- Magic Penetration
- MR
- MRes
- Magic Resistance
- MS
- Movement Speed
- Mundo
- File:Dr. MundoSquare.png Dr. Mundo
- Mummy
- Mumu
- File:AmumuSquare.png Amumu
- Murder bridge
- Another name for the Howling Abyss map. (At the start of the match, the announcer will 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
- Nice One
- Naut
- Nauti
- File:NautilusSquare.png Nautilus
- Nerf
- An official modification to the game mechanics which makes something less powerful, as opposed to a "buff".
- Nexus
- The primary structure of the match where minions are spawned from. Victory is achieved when the opposing nexus is destroyed.
- Nexus turrets
- The two towers protecting the nexus.
- NJ
- Nice Job
- Noc
- Noct
- File:NocturneSquare.png Nocturne
- Nid
- Nida
- File:NidaleeSquare.png Nidalee
- Noob
- Unskillful player/inexperienced beginner. Similar forms include "nub" and "n00b". Derived from the word newbie.
- Normal
- Normal game
- NPC
- Non-Player Character
- Nuke
- Any ability that deals huge amounts of damage, such as Javelin Toss Javelin Toss or Requiem Requiem. Burst does not mean the same because most characters' burst combos consist of multiple abilities.
O[]
- OC
- Original content
- Occult
- Off tank
- A champion that has some attributes of a Tank (ability to soak damage, initiation ability, CC, etc.), but lacks in one or more areas.
- OMW
- On My Way
- OOM
- Out Of Mana – See also Low On Mana
- OP
- Overpowered
- Open mid
- After falling behind early, a team may allow the enemy team to push down mid lane for an early victory.
- Oracle
- Oracle's
- invisibility. and , used to detect
- Orange
- File:GangplankSquare.png Gangplank's Remove Scurvy Remove Scurvy
- Ori
- File:OriannaSquare.png Orianna
- OTW
- On The Way
- Outer turrets
- The three towers furthest from the base.
- Overextending
- A champion moving too far in lane/enemy territory, which can open them up to ganks.
- Overkill
- The act of dealing (substantially) more damage to an enemy than is needed to kill him off.
P[]
- Pant
- Panth
- File:PantheonSquare.png Pantheon
- Party
- A player can invite other players from their friend list to form a team before joining a match. If the amount of participants does not reach the maximum size of the selected match mode (3 or 5), they will be placed with solo players to fill the vacancy/vacancies.
- Path
- Pathing
- The route that will be taken towards a destination.
- PBE
- Public Beta Environment, a testing realm for upcoming content.
- PD
- Peeling
- To use CC abilities to stop enemy champions from attacking an allied champion.
- Penta
- Pentakill - Slaying five enemy champions within a certain length of time.
- Pet
- A non-champion, non-minion ally that may or may not be controllable, is generated by a champion's ability and fights for them on its own (e.g. Tibbers).
- PFE
- File:EzrealSquare.png Pulsefire Ezreal
- Philo
- Ping
- To alt/G+left-click on the mini map causing a "ping" noise and a mark on the map that your entire team can see.
- The latency of player's internet connection to the game server, measured in "ms" (millisecond, 1 ms=0.001 second).
- Pink
- Poach
- A strategy that annihilates any monster camp of the opposite side of jungle in order to weaken the opponent team's chance on obtaining experience, gold and buff from the jungle camp of their side.
- Poke
- A form of harass which uses long ranged attacks to cause small to moderate damage in order to weaken an enemy, while keeping a safe position.
- Pony
- File:HecarimSquare.png Hecarim
- Position
- Positioning
- A champion's location during a fight. Good positioning is determined by the player knowing the optimal location their champion should be at.
- Pot
- Potion(s), usually .
- 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 effect.
- Proxy
- A high-risk, high-reward strategy (generally done at the top or bottom 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.
- Pub
- Public player: a person that the player is placed on a team with through the automated matchmaking system.
- Pubstomp
- When an organized team of good players thoroughly defeat random public players in a match.
- Pull
- A tactic used to draw monster aggro, benefiting the jungler. Same as leash.
- An ability that brings the enemy closer to you (e.g. File:BlitzcrankSquare.png Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab Rocket Grab).
- Purple
- Purple team: The group of players that start out at the upper-right side of Summoner's Rift, or right side of Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar.
- Exalted with Baron Nashor Exalted with Baron Nashor. (Aka "Baron Buff" or "Purple Buff")
- 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 bound to the "Q" key by default.
- Depicts a pair of crying eyes, implying that the other player is complaining.
- QSS
- Quadra kill
- Slaying four enemy champions within a certain length of time.
- Que
- Queue: the champion selection phase before commencing the match. Currently there are Blind Pick and Draft Pick available.
- Queue dodge
- To shut down the game client or disconnect from the internet during the champion selection process to avoid playing the match.
- Quint
- Quintessence, the most expensive/powerful type of rune.
R[]
- R
- The fourth champion ability (usually the ultimate ability) which is bound to the "R" key by default.
- Rage
- To display in-game frustration.
- Ragequit
- An incident where a player quits (leaves) the game due to in-game frustrations.
- Raka
- File:SorakaSquare.png Soraka
- Rambo
- Diving into a fight alone, usually a suicidal tactic.
- Random
- Blindly summoning a champion during the champion selection phase by clicking the "?" or "Lock In" buttons before selecting a champion. (Champions not yet bought or not free to play will not be chosen.)
- Rank
- Ranked
- Ranked game
- Rat
- File:TwitchSquare.png Twitch
- Razors
- Rdy
- Ready
- Re
- Short for reappear, meaning an enemy champion is no longer MIA.
- Used once someone is no longer AFK.
- Recall
- A universal ability to teleport back to base after an 8 second channel.
- Recommended
- A category of champions whose controlling difficulty is relatively low and suitable to new player of League of Legends.
- The recommended items listed in the shop for shortcut purchase. Player can edit their recommended items manually.
- Red
- Crest of Cinders Crest of Cinders. Also known as "red buff." By extension, can refer to the File:Red BramblebackSquare.png Red Brambleback.
- Marks, a type of rune.
- Ren
- Rene
- Renek
- File:RenektonSquare.png Renekton
- Reng
- Rengou
- File:RengarSquare.png Rengar
- Report
- An action after each match to report a player to official for inappropriate behavior such as verbal abuse or intentionally feeding the opponent.
- Req
- Request
- Require
- File:KarthusSquare.png Karthus's Requiem Requiem
- Revolver
- Riot
- The development company that created League of Legends.
- Rito
- An intended misspell of the name of the game company of League of Legends - Riot Games. This word is usually used when players lose against what they perceive to be an 'unfair champion' or when gamebreaking bugs are spotted, people will typically respond with 'Rito pls'.
- River
- The water crossing between lanes on the Summoner's Rift.
- RNG
- Range
- Random number regeneration, game mechanics that utilize randomness. See RNG in WoW.
- RoA
- Rod of
- Roamer
- A champion that is suited to moving around the map in order to support, jungle or gank.
- ROFL
- Rolling on the floor laughing.
- Root
- A debuff which prevents any movement by an enemy champion. Can also be referred to as "snare" and "immobilize".
- RP
- Riot Points
- Rylai
- Rylais
S[]
- Satan
- A derogatory nickname for File:TeemoSquare.png Teemo.
- Scaling
- How well a champion's efficiency increases as the game continues and as they gain levels and items. Champions that scale well are normally 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.
- Seal
- A type of rune which primarily boosts defensive or utility stats.
- Sej
- Seju
- File:SejuaniSquare.png Sejuani
- Shop
- The location where items are bought.
- To return to the base and buy items. Interchangeable with "b" or "brb".
- Shroom
- File:TeemoSquare.png Teemo's Noxious Trap Noxious Trap
- Shutdown
- To slay a champion that is on a killing spree.
- To harass or slay a champion continuously to prevent them from getting more powerful.
- Shyv
- File:ShyvanaSquare.png Shyvana
- Silence
- A debuff which prevents any activated abilities from being used by the target champion.
- Siv
- File:SivirSquare.png Sivir
- Skar
- File:SkarnerSquare.png Skarner
- Skillshot
- An ability that requires aiming a projectile that could miss its target.
- Skin
- A different appearance for a champion that can only be obtained by spending RP.
- Slow
- A debuff which reduces the target's movement speed.
- Smart cast
- An entry scheme of action command that allows 1-click on the keyboard (or combined with the
shift
key) to perform the action without clicking the mouse button on the target. - Smiteless
- Killing the File:Ancient GolemSquare.png Ancient Golem or File:Lizard ElderSquare.png Lizard Elder without using so that one can immediately invade the enemy jungle to steal the enemy's Ancient Golem/Lizard Elder.
- Snake
- File:CassiopeiaSquare.png Cassiopeia
- Snare
- A debuff which prevents a champion from moving. Can also be referred to as a "root" or an "immobilize".
- Snipe
- To shoot out an ability at long range to strike a target.
- Snowball
- Situation that occurs when a champion or team gains an advantage, and continues to use the advantage to win the game.
- Snowball item
- An item that grows in power as you gain kills/assists, e.g. or .
- Soft CC
- A crowd control effect that does not disrupt the channeling of abilities.
- Soft leash
- To draw the aggro of a monster briefly before moving away.
- Solo
- A champion (usually the top and mid laners) that guards an entire lane on their own.
- Solo queue
- As opposed to a party, a player allows the automatic matching system to assign a team for them. The player may end up joining a team completely composed of solo players, or an incomplete party. For the latter case, solo players may need to wait longer until the rest of the party has finished selecting their champions.
- Sora
- File:SorakaSquare.png Soraka
- SotO
- Space AIDS
- File:MalzaharSquare.png Malzahar's Malefic Visions Malefic Visions.
- Spell
- Summoner spell: The battle abilities which are not provided by the champion, but rather designated by the summoner to their champion before entering the match.
- Split push
- To continuously advance in one lane while the other members of the team are advancing in another lane.
- Squishy
- A champion that can be killed easily due to low base health/defenses.
- SR
- Summoner's Rift
- SS
- Enemy champion missing, shortened form of "miss". "SS" (along with "miss") is more common than "MIA" on the European servers.
- Steal
- To kill the neutral creeps that's on the enemy's side of the map, particularly their File:Red BramblebackSquare.png Red Brambleback (for Red Buff) or their File:Blue SentinelSquare.png Blue Sentinel (for Blue Buff).
- To land the killing blow on a neutral creep that the enemy was actively fighting, particularly File:DragonSquare.png Dragon and File:Baron NashorSquare.png Baron Nashor.
- Stealth
- An ability to conceal the user from being seen or detected by enemies.
- Steroid
- An ability that increases one or more of a champion's base stats.
- Store
- Riot Store: the "shop" accessible in the PVP.net interface where player can purchase RP, champions, Skins, Runes, IP Boosts, etc. The term "shop" dominantly refers to the Shop in the Field of Justice where the actual match is played.
- Streaming
- To watch a video in "real time", instead of downloading a file to the computer and watching it later.
- Stronk
- A typo of the word "strong," mostly used sarcastically due to being a misspelling.
- Stun
- A debuff which prevents the target champions from moving, attacking or casting abilities.
- Summoner
- The role given to the player as they call a champion to the field and directs them in battle.
- Super
- Super Minion: a stronger minion that is spawned by destroying an enemy inhibitor in classic game mode. In Dominion mode, each minion wave already contains one super minion.
- Support
- A category of champions whose forte is to support his/her allies' performance.
- Suppress
- Suppression
- A stronger version of the debuff stun which cannot be alleviated or actively broken out of by most methods except .
- Surrender
- Surrendering
- To start a vote between teammates to end the game earlier before the Nexus is destroyed by the opponent team and admit defeat.
- Susan
- File:NasusSquare.png Nasus's name spelled backwards, often as a derogatory term for most File:NasusSquare.png Nasus players.
- Sustain
- Sustainability
- A champion's capacity for staying in a lane or jungle without having to go back to the base.
- SV
- Synergy
- How well two or more champions/players work together.
- An item that benefits a particular champion without wasted stat boosts or inefficient abilities. ("Synergy" sections were removed from the item pages due to the definition being fairly subjective and cumbersome.)
T[]
- Tank
- A champion designed to take high amounts of damage, usually with high CC abilities and low damage.
- Tankiness
- The quality of being able to take high amounts of damage, primarily through items that give defensive stats.
- Tanking
- To take high amounts of damage. Usually refers to damage being done to tanks and fighters, who have the durability to survive such damage.
- Tanky DPS
- An alternative term for a "Fighter" type champion. Though the term can be used to describe any champion that has obtained high survivability and damage through levels and items.
- Taunt
- A disable which forces the target to attack the taunter.
- A champion quote which can be activated by entering
/t
or pressing ctrl+2. - Team comp
- Team composition: A specific champion set-up 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 one area to battle.
- Teeto
- Nickname for File:TeemoSquare.png Teemo made popular by PhantomL0rd with this video
- Tenacity
- A champion stat which determines the reduction of effect duration of most crowd control debuffs.
- TF
- File:Twisted FateSquare.png Twisted Fate
- Teamfight, when multiple champions, from each opposing side, gather in one area to battle.
- Toon
- Another word for character.
- Top
- Top/upper lane
- The capture point of windmill in Dominion mode.
- Tower
- A commonly used alternative term for the turret.
- Tower diving
- TD
- To pursue an enemy champion while in range of the enemy's tower.
- Tower hugging
- To stay near the tower to deter enemy champions from attacking them.
- Toxic
- Used to describe a person whose attitude negatively influences the game. (http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=37108896#post37108896)
- TP
- File:Twisted FateSquare.png Twisted Fate's Gate Gate
- Trade
- Trading
- Trade champions: to switch champions with another player during the champion selection for Draft 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 suffer an equivalent number of deaths after a confrontation.
- Tree
- File:MaokaiSquare.png Maokai
- Tri-brush
- A particular "Y" shaped brush that covers three 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's side.
- Trinity
- Triforce
- Triple kill
- Slaying three enemy champions within a certain length of time.
- Tris
- Trist
- Tristy
- File:TristanaSquare.png 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 as griefers. See Troll on Wikipedia for more information.
- Mythical beings originating from the Norse mythology. In League of Legends, File:TrundleSquare.png Trundle belongs to this race.
- Troll pole
- File:FizzSquare.png Fizz's Playful Playful.
- Troll pool
- File:VladimirSquare.png Vladimir's Sanguine Pool Sanguine Pool.
- TT
- Twisted Treeline
- Tryn
- Trynd
- Trynda
- File:TryndamereSquare.png Tryndamere
- Turret
- A stationary defense structure that guards the lanes and the base. It is also commonly referred to as the Tower.
- File:HeimerdingerSquare.png Heimerdinger's H-28G Evolution Turret H-28G Evolution Turret or H-28Q Apex Turret H-28Q Apex Turret.
U[]
- Ult
- Ulti
- Ultimate ability
- To tell a player to use their champion's ultimate ability.
- Unique
- An aura or ability that does not stack, common to item effects.
- UP
- Underpowered
- Utility
- Spells or abilities that have a quality of being beneficial for the team. Support champions are known to have a lot of utility.
V[]
- Var
- File:VarusSquare.png Varus
- Vel
- File:Vel'KozSquare.png Vel'Koz
- Vision hack
- An ability which allows a player to see through the fog of war, such as File:Twisted FateSquare.png Twisted Fate's Destiny Destiny.
- Veig
- File:VeigarSquare.png Veigar
- Vent
- Ventrilo: a third party voice chat software.
- Vik
- File:ViktorSquare.png Viktor
- Vlad
- File:VladimirSquare.png Vladimir
- Voli
- File:VolibearSquare.png Volibear
W[]
- W
- The second champion ability which is bound to the "W" key by default.
- Ward
- Items that reveal the Fog of War once placed.
- Ward jump
- Using an ability File:Lee SinSquare.png Lee Sin's Safeguard Safeguard or File:KatarinaSquare.png Katarina's Shunpo Shunpo and targeting a ward. This is useful for escaping enemy attacks or intercepting an enemy that has used walls to juke away. Experienced Lee Sin players often build or to complement this ability. They may also build especially when jungling to make use of the ward ability this item offers.
- Ward bait
- To place down a ward in order to set up a gank. When an enemy champion attempts to destroy the ward, usually due to having an Oracle, the player initiates their surprise attack.
- Ward coverage
- The amount of wards placed down to give more vision around the map.
- Ward placement
- The location in which a ward is laid down. Good places to lay down wards are usually in brushes, entrances, the river, etc.
- Warma's
- A build that utilizes Atmogs. and . Can also be referred to as
- Wet Noodle Fight
- Often describes a fight between two champions that are building very little damage - usually tanks. This often takes place in the top lane in competitive play
- Wombo combo
- When teammates effectively and consecutively chain together their abilities on enemy champions. The term first originated from a Smash Brothers Melee match.
- WotA
- WotD
- Win of the day: rewards player a flat bonus of 150 to the IP earned from winning the first match. The bonus refreshes every 22 hours after the first win.
- WP
- Well Played
- Wu
- Wuk
- File:WukongSquare.png Wukong
- WW
- File:WarwickSquare.png Warwick
X[]
- Xin
- XZ
- File:Xin ZhaoSquare.png Xin Zhao
Y[]
- Yas
- Yasou
- YS
- File:YasuoSquare.png Yasuo
- Yellow
- Seals, a type of rune.
- Yi
- File:Master YiSquare.png Master Yi
- Yor
- File:YorickSquare.png Yorick
Z[]
- Zil
- File:ZileanSquare.png Zilean
- Zone
- Zoning
- Tactics used to prevent enemy champion(s) from gaining gold/experience.
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