I will cover most if not all the terms, phrases, and acronyms in this guide for League of Legends:Clash of Fates.

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.

 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.