League of Legends guide to Terms, Phrases, and Acronyms
93I will cover most if not all the terms, phrases, and acronyms in this guide for League of Legends:Clash of Fates.
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b = back, fall back, they're coming for you
back = fall back, they're coming for you
care = be careful, they may be coming for you
oom = out of mana
lom = low on mana
IAS = Increased Attack Speed
focus = To target a specfic player.
top, mid, bottom = the lanes in LoL. With the flip camera option, the top and bottom may be switched for some people.
lane = the road that contain towers and lead to and from the two teams respective bases.
river = The river which cuts across the map diagonally
jungle = The mass of trees and paths that exist between the lanes
neuts = neutral creeps
neutrals = The AI controlled enemies who live in the jungle
creeps = Team spawned minions
bp, pill, pilling = blue pilling, going back to base
base, basing = going back to base
shop,buy = To go back to base to go shopping
brush = The large grass in LoL which causes your hero to be hidden to people outside of the brush
grass = brush
sigils = Temporary buffs granted to a player by defeating the Golem and the Elder Lizard. These buffs transfer to the killer in the event that the hero dies with the sigil.
buff = Typically a temporary increase to some stat(s)
passive = An ability which is not activated but helps a character.
aura = A 'passive' which applies not only to the hero who has it, but also to heroes within the given range for the aura. A shareable passive.
dd = direct damage ability. Typically DDs are unavoidable
skillshot = an ability that fires a projectile that can be dodged. For example: Ashes ultimate arrow
aoe = area of effect
pbaoe = point blank area of affect. The area of effect is centered around the caster
backdoor= To attack the enemies towers and base without the cover of your minions there
ult = ultimate ability. The R Ability.
unique = In LoL certain auras/passive are unique, meaning they do not stack.
last hit = Getting the very last hit, or killing blow.
AP = Ability Power. The stat which boosts the effectiveness of magical abilities.
miss, mia = Missing, missing in action. Commonly used to describe when a hero is missing from a lane and may indicate to the team that a gank may occur.
juke, juking = When being chased, juking is to fool your pursuers.
feed = A player who dies constantly feeds the other team (via the gold reward for killing someone). Being called a feeder is not a compliment. A player who is fed has a lot of kills.
gg = good game.
bg = bad game, these occur too often to my liking unfortunately.
gj = good job.
ms = movement speed
baron, nashor, worm = the big worm like boss that gives a noticeable buff to the whole team when killed.
gl hf - good luck, have fun, usually an encouraging sportsmanlike phrase said before a match
push - to gather up a creep wave and attempt to destroy an enemy tower "I'm going to push top"
d, defend - to sit at a tower and/or inhibitor and attempt to avoid confrontation while stopping the enemy from killing the objective "I'm gonna d mid"
gank - to go (often with more than one player) to try and kill an enemy, often by surprise "lets gank bottom"
tp - summoner spell telleport used to traverse the map "Ill tp back in"
heal - either the summoner spell, a champion ability, or the act of returning to base to regenerate HP and mana "you should heal"
harass - to annoy the enemy with small bursts of non lethal damage, often forcing them to go heal or be set up for a gangk.
bait - to deliberately appear in a position to be easily killed so as to lure 1 or more players to be gangked by your team "go bait them in to the jungle".
Disable = A Disable is a debuff that usually prevents some kind of action on the player. Stuns, roots, silences are all examples of disables
Stun = A debuff which prevents any action by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Root = A debuff which prevents any movement by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Silence = A debuff which prevents any abilities being used by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Farm = Farming involves the amassing of gold for player. This is usually best done by killing a lot of creeps and killing them very quickly. Certain Heroes like Ashe and Tristana are great farmers: The first has a +gold passive, and the latter has an AOE passive.
CC - Crowd control (but in this context actually means stuns)
QQ - People crying/rage quitting.
PUG - Pick-up game - randoming with other people.
League of Legends Guide/walkthrough
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Things heard outside, but are related to the game
vent = Ventrilo. It is voice communication software used to coordinate as a team. LoL has its own vent server:
build = how a champion and its summoner is built. For champions this may includes the items one buys on a champion, and the order one gets a champion's skills. For summoners, this refers to their masteries and rune selections.
carry = A character who, if played properly, wins late game fights for a team. Typically these heroes are weak early game and require a lot of farming.
tank = Character with a lot of HP and likely armor/resistance. Whose job is to initiate battles with the enemy players/turrets as to draw damage onto himself and protect his fellow team mates.
dps = Damage per second. Also refers to characters who job it is to deal damage (As opposed to support and tanks)
support = Characters who job it is to support other characters: Healers, buffers, etc
runes = Refers to LoL's rune system, however this term is overloaded and some players also refer to sigils as runes
talents = A diffrent term for masteries
mastery, masteries = The talent-tree system of LoL
Dota = Defense of the the Ancients. A map in the War3 game. This map, DotA caused LoL:Clash of fates to be formed.
moba = multiplayer online battle arena
elo = The score a person has in the Ranking system.
leave, leaver = To quit a game before it is over.
raqequit = To quit a game in anger (Always gives me a chuckle)
disc, dc = disconnect from a game.
Bearon = The Ultimate League of Legend Champion. A bear of nobility from Rabilov.
adjudicator = Either an older beta tester, or a beta tester whose skill in game or feedback out of game have been noted.
skin = Items that give a Champion a new look (Costumes, clothes, etc)
champion = The particular character that you as the summoner control
hero = non-canon name for a champion
summoner = Your representation in the game.
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wtf is PUG, PUB you mean?
Play more MMO's before making stupid comments. PUG is valid term (as he said, pick-up game). Which means it's a group made of random people as opposed to a premade. Very commonly used in WoW. Aka: World of Warcraft since you seem to have acronym problems.
PUG might be an acronym in WoW, but seeing as most people don't play WoW, and in most other games the acronym is PUB (standing for Public Game), he doesn't have acronym problems.
PUB isn't an acronym. It's short for Public.
mia?
PUG and PUB are 2 different things, and PUG is probably the correct term to use for LoL.
Usually in first person shooters, you would call a public server a PUB server, you join while a game is in progress and play as much as you like, people come and go as they please.
You have pick up games (PUG) in first person shooters as well, these are usually organised outside the game on IRC or something, 2 teams are arranged, join at the same time and play for a set period until one team wins, this is more like how a game of LoL is played.
great round down of very important terms to know before you jump into the world of lol. I particularly like your 'bg' description, it is unfortunately very true.
and btw retard, WoW is the MOST played game - ever, almost 10mil people so be quiet and sit down you inbred - PUG is valid.
Before you go calling people retards do some homework, maple story has over 100 million players and the actual most played game is MS Solitaire.
whats AD means?
AD means attack damage. It is stat that gives boost to physical characters like Xin Zhao, Master yi...
please add CV for ClairVoyance
THank you for this hub.
what is a acronyms for "return"? For example when a the opposing team member on your lame is MIA, then you realize that player as returned.
whats OP means
what does SS mean?
OP means overpowered
SS means that a champion in your lane is missing
Right, one term missing. Kiting, I'd love to know what it means.
-eMR, +MRP and %MRP what does this mean
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kiting is if you are followed by a champ and you are leading him over traps etc. to lower his health or if you lure him into your teammates but this is also called baiting.
for example teemo is very good at kiting he can lay mushrooms and as you run away from the enemy champion you are leading him over the mushrooms to lower his health turn around and kill him.
this is what i understand as kiting
btw u can add my in lol if u like dannyblind is my summoners name
btw it is stated above that all debuffs don't apply to summoners spells, they actually do except for cleanse. because if you are silenced you can't flash whatever someone is saying.
Tree?
how bout CV, whats that?
nvm Cv = clairvoyance, its good
By spells do you mean abilities or magic damage
What is to snowball?
No need to reply with the obligatory other meaning.
snowball = a hero gets out of control fast by getting a lead in the start of the game
Glad you gave a good description of feeding... people who die a lot but get kills alongside it often call others feeders because they don't understand the correct definition. It isn't about K/D ratio... dying is dying no matter what, so think about that before calling someone else a feeder.
Good guide, just going to pointlessly comment and say that I don't think a few of things you put in the outside but related section don't really have much meaning outside of LoL (such as champion, summoner, Bearon, and so on) and I think things like gg, bg, and such should be in the related section. Maybe I'm just a bit ocd (obsessive compulsive disorder, for since this is an acronym guide)... anw (anyways) ty (thank you) 4 (for) the guide OP (original poster).
Could you maybe go into some depth as to what the job is for fighters, pushers, assassins, junglers and so forth?
while there is useful information in there, you only covered extremely basic concepts and self-explanatory words... make it shorter with only the useful stuff please
what about "stronk"
and "morde es 1"
and "huehuehue"
and "I am disappoint"
Retards..
How'd you guys like this hub? Anything that you want me to add?
I think alphabetical order would be nice... I've also seen OP used as opposing, meaning the summoner is good not that the champion is a better one to select. Re has been used a lot recently as well and from was I can understand from context it is recall, meaning the the summoner is recalling, or telling another summoner to recall theirs.
Actually, I've seen Re used in almost every game and from what I understand it doesn't mean recall but rather that a champ called mia has re-appeared
ie. if you're laning mid and notice your opponent entering the bush (and you are uncertain whether they are heading to gank or perhaps simply just hiding in the bush for a bit, you would call "mia mid, heading bot"
and then if the champ returns within a few seconds, you call Re to just inform your teammates they don't have to worry about that particular champ at the moment.
In the games I've played, when someone is telling their lanemate to recall they simply say 'B' or 'go b'
cs means?
What does "hi" mean???
What does "pick a champion now noob" mean?
Re is short for return
pfft ty for the help
Really great hub. I wrote a hub on playing ranked games if anyone is interested hubpages.com/hub/aguidetoplayinglol
What does op noob char mean?
whats pff?
What is KS means?
What does Glass Cannon means?
'Glass cannon' a damage dealer with little to no def, resistence, etc. Something like tryndamere
Ks = Kill Steal
when some1 lowers the enemy up to almost a kill and someone else comes and takes the killing blow. Meaning he did almost nothing to kill him but took all the rewards from it. U usually let the carry in your team make all the killings when possible even if he has to ks
Chillin Cold 16 months ago
I was hopeing to find out the exact discrition of the following.
Assassin
Pusher
Fighter
and the differences between them.
Some of these are self explanitory like
Stealth
Melee
Stun
Tough
Nuke
And you covered Carry, and tank