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League of Legends Info - John_DZ - 08-14-2013
League of Legends is a MOBA game (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). It is an extremely popular RTS game and is very fun to play. The game is based off of the Defense of the Ancients map on Warcraft III. Currently there are 4 maps that you can play the game on. Summoners Rift (5v5), Twisted Treeline (3v3), Crystal Scar/Dominion (5v5), and the Proving Grounds (5v5)
Most Common Abbreviations:
- AD - Attack Damage
- AS - Attack speed
- AP - Ability Power
- APen, MPen - Armour Penetration or Magic Penetration
- B - Back (They're going back, or they want you to go back)
- BT - Bloodthirster (An item)
- CC - Crowd Control (slow, stun, knockup, silence, etc.)
- CD - Cooldown
- CS - Creep Score (Minions killed)
- DMG - Damage
- DPS - Damage Per Second
- GG - Good Game, generally said when the game ends.
- GJ - Good Job
- IE - Infinity Edge (An item)
- MIA - Missing In Action, someone is missing from their lane.
- OMW - On my way
- OOM - Out Of Mana
- SS - "Miss", another version of MIA.
- Top, Mid, Bot - Top Lane, Mid Lane, Bot Lane
- WP - Well played
Most Common Terms:
- Active/Passive/Unique - An effect on an item.
- Active - Takes effect when activated (Click the item, or number that represents it, 1-6).
- Passive - An effect that happens passively (No activation needed).
- Unique - An Active or Passive effect, however, stacking more than one of these items will NOT allow you to use it more frequently.
- Active - Takes effect when activated (Click the item, or number that represents it, 1-6).
- Aura - Gives an effect to champions around it.
- Combo - A combination of skills.
- Counter Jungle - Invading the enemy jungle and taking their neutral minions.
- Creep - An enemy minion
- Farm - Amount of minions killed
- Fed - Having gained a lot of kills, and is far ahead in gold.
- Feeding - Giving the enemy a lot of kills.
- Gank - Surprise attack on your lane, most commonly by the enemy jungler
- Juke - Moving back and forth to dodge skillshots/crowd control.
- Laning Phase - Phase of the game where everyone (except jungler) stays in a lane and farms.
- Neutral Creep - Jungle minions (Neutral as in doesn't take sides)
- Skillshot - An ability that needs to be aimed.
- Squishy - Easy to kill (Low Health/Low Resist)
- Warding - Putting up a ward to gain vision of the fog of war.
Most Common Roles:
- Bruiser
- The Bruiser (usually goes top) is a character that becomes semi-tanky or very tanky. Should be able to take quite a bit of damage before dying as he, as the bruiser is generally one of the characters that initiates a fight. Also usually has at least some cc, that way they can keep the AD/AP carry busy.
- Examples: Singed, Riven, Cho'Gath
- The Bruiser (usually goes top) is a character that becomes semi-tanky or very tanky. Should be able to take quite a bit of damage before dying as he, as the bruiser is generally one of the characters that initiates a fight. Also usually has at least some cc, that way they can keep the AD/AP carry busy.
- AP Carry
- The AP Carry (usually goes mid) is a character that generally has a lot of burst. They can take out one specific champion very quickly, but after that, they have to wait a while for their cooldowns to come back up before being able to do anymore considerable damage. They are very squishy.
- Examples: Leblanc, Veigar, Diana
- The AP Carry (usually goes mid) is a character that generally has a lot of burst. They can take out one specific champion very quickly, but after that, they have to wait a while for their cooldowns to come back up before being able to do anymore considerable damage. They are very squishy.
- AD Carry
- The AD Carry (usually goes bot with support) is a character with a high amount of sustained damage. They can't burst as fast as an AP Carry, but can keep doing damage over a long period of time. Also very squishy and usually targeted first.
- Examples: Vayne, Ezreal, Corki
- The AD Carry (usually goes bot with support) is a character with a high amount of sustained damage. They can't burst as fast as an AP Carry, but can keep doing damage over a long period of time. Also very squishy and usually targeted first.
- Support
- The Support (usually goes bot with AD Carry) is a character that has a large array of jobs. For the first part of the game, their main job is to ward the river (To be aware of incoming ganks), heal the AD Carry (if possible), use CC to help get the AD Carry kills, and protect the AD Carry. Once teamfights come they're main job is to protect the AD Carry and for certain supports, they'll initiate (Leona, Alistar, Sona, etc).
- Examples: Sona, Taric, Leona
- The Support (usually goes bot with AD Carry) is a character that has a large array of jobs. For the first part of the game, their main job is to ward the river (To be aware of incoming ganks), heal the AD Carry (if possible), use CC to help get the AD Carry kills, and protect the AD Carry. Once teamfights come they're main job is to protect the AD Carry and for certain supports, they'll initiate (Leona, Alistar, Sona, etc).
- Jungler
- The Jungler (goes to the jungle) is a character that also has various jobs. Their main job is to get their gold/xp from the jungle camps so that there can be a second solo lane which will be able to gain more gold and more xp since they're by themself. They're second job is to gank the lanes and try to kill the enemy, that way the lanes will have an advantage against their opponent. Late game, they should be fairly tanky and help to initiate on the enemy.
- Examples: Skarner, Lee Sin, Udyr
- The Jungler (goes to the jungle) is a character that also has various jobs. Their main job is to get their gold/xp from the jungle camps so that there can be a second solo lane which will be able to gain more gold and more xp since they're by themself. They're second job is to gank the lanes and try to kill the enemy, that way the lanes will have an advantage against their opponent. Late game, they should be fairly tanky and help to initiate on the enemy.
Other Helpful Sites:
- ChampionSelect - http://championselect.net/
- LeagueCraft - http://leaguecraft.com/
- LoL King - http://lolking.net/
- LoLPro - http://www.lolpro.com/
- Mobafire - http://www.mobafire.com
- SoloMid - http://solomid.net/
RE: League of Legends Info - ViolentReality - 08-14-2013
Great post man, I've been meaning to check this game out.