Developed by Riot Games, League of Legends is an online MOBA game that has become increasingly popular in recent years. Players try to defeat the opponent with their team by choosing among summoners with different abilities. There are important terms to learn in the game, especially for players who have just started playing LoL. In this content, we have explained the meanings of League of Legends (LoL) terms for you.
League of Legends (LoL) terms!
Although the terms may seem confusing, they are very important both to benefit the team and to have more information about the game. Among these terms Ace, AP, AD and Diff, the most curious. So let’s move on to League of Legends (LoL) terms.
- Ace: Kill all champions of the opposing team by making 5 out of 5.
- NAME: Attack power.
- AD Carry: The attack power carrier is often used for marksmen.
- AFK: Leaving the computer. It means “away from keyboard”.
- AOE: Attacks that deal damage to a large area.
- AP: Ability power.
- AS: Attack speed.
- Assassin: Assassins are called summoners. For example; Akali, Zed, Kha’Zix.
- B: Shortcut to return to base.
- Bait: To bait, to set traps.
- Ban: Ban.
- Baron/Nashor/Nash: Huge purple monster. Provides power to the team when killed.
- BG: Abbreviation for bad game.
- Blue: Blue colored power-up monster in the forest.
- Boots: The name given to the bottom lane in Summoner’s Rift.
- buff: Strengthening. Usually used when a champion becomes stronger.
- Build: Item lineup of champions.
- Burst: Dealing high damage at once.
- Bush/brush: The bushes in Summoner’s Rift
- Resort: Be careful call.
- Carry: Good players carry the game.
- CD: Cooldown / cooldown time. The time it takes for abilities to be used again.
- Counter jungle: Stealing the opposing jungle’s camps and knocking the opposing jungler behind in level gold.
- Crit: Acronym for Critical.
- CS: Creep Score or minion score in Turkish. Indicates how many minions you have killed.
- DC: Disconnected / dropped from the game.
- Debuff: Buffs that limit a champion’s abilities.
- Dive: Attacking the opponent while he is under the tower.
- diff: lagging behind in power. These players contribute less to the team than others.
- DPS: Damage per second.
- Drag/Drake: Dragon, dragon. It strengthens the team.
- duo: Two people enter the game together.
- Facecheck: To enter the bush whose contents cannot be seen.
- Farm: Get stronger by killing minions. Champions like Nasus get stronger by farming.
- FB: First blood. When the first score is taken, the first blood is drawn.
- Feed: To strengthen, feed an opponent by constantly dying.
- GA: Guardian angel / guardian angel.
- Gank: Raiding a lane unexpectedly by the opponent. Usually junglers are expected to raid.
- GG: Good game / good game.
- GL: good lock / good luck
- Golems: The stone beast in the forest is called.
- Harass: poke.
- Initiate: To be the first to attack in a team fight.
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- Invade: Going to the forest of the opposing team at the beginning of the game, attacking the opponent in an unexpected way and achieving a score.
- Jungle: Forest.
- KS: Stealing score.
- lane: Corridor.
- lifesteal: Can’t play.
- Mia/Miss: Missing / missing. It is used to notify that there are lost opponents in the corridor.
- mid/middle: Middle corridor.
- MS: Movement speed.
- Nerf: Weakening of a champion or item as a result of the update.
- np: No problem / no problem.
- OOM: Out of mana
- KISS: They are called strong champions.
- Passive: The passive abilities of the champion are called.
- Poke: poke.
- push: Pushing the corridor.
- Rejection: Red color monster in the forest.
- river: River.
- Shop: Item shop.
- Silence: To prevent the opponent from using their abilities by silencing.
- Split push: When two teams are fighting each other, it is called when a player leaves the battle and pushes the lane.
- SS: It means the opponent is not in the lane.
- Stack: Load.
- Stun: Don’t be stunned.
- Supp: Support / support.
- Tank: Used for tank champions. Tank champions stand in front of their team in battles, trying to block the damage. For example; Nasus, Malphite
- Tower dive: Go under the tower.
- TP: teleport / teleport
- Trade: make an exchange. It is usually called when two opponents cut each other in the lane.
- Tribush/tribrush: They are called triple bushes.
- Ultimate: It’s short for Ultimate. It is the champion’s strongest ability. He is in fourth place in the ranking of talents.
- Wolves: Wolves in the forest.
- WP: Well played.
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