League of Legends is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Riot Games, inspired by the Defense of the Ancients (DotA) map for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
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When should Infinity Edge be prioritized on a carry?
When is Infinity Edge the best option in a build, with respect to early game success and ranged carry types?
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Is it possible to change “recommended Items”?
I recognized some items which are listed as recommended in the shop menu are pretty useless for certain champion builds and it is better to get some other instead.
Because I am pretty new to LoL I ...
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When should you start pushing?
At what point do you want to start pushing instead of just last hitting? Is there a reason to do it at all after any towers are down?
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Why are characters banned in tournament play for DotA-likes?
Why are characters banned from DotA-likes in tournament play during selection? Are there characters that are actually imbalanced; why not just balance them?
If it's just for the sake of another ...
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What are some effective ways to last hit better?
There are times, especially AD bot, when I think I am doing very well, hit Tab, and see that top lane has more CS than me. I usually hit around 150~ by the 20 minute mark, but I know I should be ...
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What happens with jungle respawns when you don't fully clear creeps?
Supposedly you can harass the enemy jungle a little by killing the valuable creeps in a jungle pack and leaving one of the cheap minions around to delay a full respawn. How does this work exactly? ...
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What Champions are freely available, and how can I get them?
My friends and I are started getting into League of Legends. I am enjoying myself enough that I'm considering unlocking a Champion or two.
However, I noticed that some Champions are available online ...
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What happens when you place a Ghost Ward beyond the Sightstone's limit?
The new Sightstone seems like a fantastic value,
Unique: Ghost Ward - Consumes a charge to place a Ghost Ward. You may have a maximum of 2 wards from this item at once.
What happens when you ...
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Is there a hotkey to gain a point in a skill without clicking the icon?
I was watching a video on YouTube this morning and it seemed that the player was able to spend his skill points without actually moving his mouse to the little icons and clicking. In DotA it was ...
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How much honor must I have to earn badges?
I see in this earlier question about honor that the amount needed is unknown, but in another question it's stated to be 25.
How much Teamplay or Honorable Opponent honor must I earn to receive a ...
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How does damage versus Zyra's Plants work?
Zyra's plant summons all have 6 hitpoints, yet they often survive multiple hits from champions.
I assume this means they are similar to Wards (3 hp, 1 hp per attack), but the plants seem able to take ...
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If Mordakaiser's, Zilean's, and Yorick's ults are placed on a champion, in what order do the ults take place?
As you can tell from the question, if all three champion ults were placed on a dying champion, which one would take priority. I feel like it would be Zilean's ultimate but Yorick's ultimate is very ...
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How do I maximize my IP boost?
Because League of Legends was voted lord of the flies or something, all its saprophytic users have apparently been given a 10-win IP boost.
How does the IP boost work? How can I get the best use out ...
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How can I chat with friends while in a LoL match?
Is it possible to chat with people on my friendlist while I am playing a match? If so: how? I did not find any window or button for this yet.
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Can you use cleanse while being grabbed by Blitzcrank?
This is Blitzcrank. He has the ability to grab stuff (including champions):
This ability is a pain in bot lane.
I was just wondering. Can cleanse be used while being grabbed by Blitzcrank?
Bonus ...
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Do the mastery “Evasion” applies against Karthus's Requiem?
The skill evasion do the following:
Reduces the damage taken from area effect abilities by 1/2/3%
Does it reduce the damage from Karthus's Requiem ?
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Is it any use combining Sorcerer's Shoes and void staff? [closed]
While doing my different builds for my AP heroes, I've noticed existing builds on the net sometimes (often) combine Sorcerer's Shoes and void staff, and I don't really understand why.
When ...
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How do you deal damage to your opponent's nexus in Dominion?
I know that you damage the opponent's nexus by controlling more capture points than they do. And I think I recall from the one game I played last night that there were other actions that did this as ...
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What are the conditions and effects of grabbing a suppressed enemy?
Inspired by this question: What happens if you use Skarner's ultimate and then Flash? we can ask what does happen when an ally grabs a pulled-by-skarner enemy?
Does it cancel Skarner's ultimate ...
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Doubts about 'Jungling' in League of Legends
I am new to League of Legends, only played 10 match in total till now. I read the term Jungling in some guides dedicated to champions of League of Legends. If I understood well it is the process of ...
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What is the idea of a bot “kill lane”?
I'm familiar with the standard bot lane meta, but recently I've been learning about "kill lane" combos.
What exactly is the idea of a kill lane combo?
Could you give some examples of common combos ...
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What happens if you use Skarner's ultimate and then Flash?
Skarner's ultimate, Impale, allows him to basically grab an enemy and freely move around, dragging the enemy with him. But what happens if Skarner performs a Flash during this time?
Similarly, I'm ...
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Why does one side's minion wave push harder than the other side?
A little while back, I went into a custom game with a friend to 1v1. Essentially there were no rules and we could push whatever lane we want and to win we would kill the nexus as always. However to ...
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Should Alistar be getting kills?
Alistar is one of my main champs, but I notice that I almost never kill anyone with him. Just one or two by luck, so I normally build myself as tank.
Is there any build or anything that can help me? ...
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Escaping from League of Legends Elo Hell
What are the different ways to boost your Elo rating in LoL?
It seems like when you lose 5~7 games in a row there is no way to get a decent team to play with, thus leading you to lose more and more.
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Magic Penetration Vs. Magic Resist Reduction
What is the difference between Magic Pen and MR Reduction? In what situations would I want one over the other?
The items I'm debating between are Abyssal Scepter and Void Staff. I know that Void ...
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How do I know when it's time to push?
I'm fairly new to League of Legends and I learned of the concept of zoning recently, and it makes a lot of sense, but no source that I visited tells me when I know it is time to push. The most ...
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How much gold do you receive for minion kills over the course of a game?
How much gold do you receive for kills for each type of minion (range/melee/anti-turret) and how does this amount scale throughout the game? Also, if someone knows, how do I max money from creeps?
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Can you use Kog'maw as a shield after he dies?
Can Kog'maw, after having his health be dropped to zero, be used as a living shield for the remainder of time he has left before he blows up to block skills like Dark Binding from Morgana?
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How do you view your unranked ELO rating?
A couple posts I've found on the LoL forums suggest looking in some "air" directory under your profile's logs, but I have no idea where this is. How can I find my ELO ratings in League of Legends?
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Do unique passive buffs from different items stack?
Many items have UNIQUE Passive: Some Description as a part of their description. I understand that UNIQUE implies that you cannot have 2 of the same item with the same effect.
What I am not sure ...
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Which skills can reveal enemies?
Leaving out Clairvoyance, wards and other items which reveal enemies like the new Wriggles in twisted treeline,
which champion skills grant vision through the fog of war? (e.g. in bushes?)
I'm not ...
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what is the meaning of circles near allied portraits in LoL
In the in-game gui, there is a circle near each allied portrait. I've seen it be either gray or green; what is the meaning of that circle? As far as I know, it's not saying whether the friend is ...
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How is range measured in League of Legends?
I know different games use different techniques and units of measurement. In Starcraft II one range for attack is about the width of one zergling. In Guild Wars the range is some fraction of the ...
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How do you dodge Sivir's boomerang ability?
Whenever I lane bot against a Sivir, she hits me every single time with her boomerang, making me have to go back to the base a lot. The people on my team always tell me to just dodge her ability, but ...
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Does Guardian Angel prevent loss of stacks on Bloodthirster?
The tooltip for Guardian Angel (GA) says
Passive Unique: Revives your champion upon death, restoring 750
health and 375 mana. 5 minute cooldown.
But as far as I neither Kill or Death ...
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What is an ace in League of Legends?
Sometimes, during a League of Legends match, it happens to see on screen and heard a message that says a particular champion did an ace. But what does it mean?
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Which champions can roam effectively in League of Legends?
I just read a post on Elementz's blog that explained how meta game has changed in League Of Legends and how important is today the role of roamer.
I studied some videos of Alistar roaming and trained ...
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What's the most useful thing to buy from the store first?
I just started playing League of Legends, and accumulated a small pile of IP. What is the most useful thing to buy from the store first?
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Listing of Kill/Assist Rewards/Bonuses in LoL?
I'm trying to find a listing of information on how kills/assists are rewarded in League of Legends. For instance, you get a certain amount of money for a standard champion kill. What about for an ...
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When is the right time to start farming the epic jungle mobs?
When playing a match when is the right time to get some teamates together to go kill the bonus granting mobs in the jungle ?
Are they worth taking the time to kill ?
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What is the genre of HoN/DotA/LoL?
Some people call it Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), Valve is calling the upcoming Dota 2 a Action RTS (Real Time Strategy) and I've seen some using Action RPG.
Has the community come to an ...
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Positioning? What's the right way to go about it?
I feel like whenever I read guides they never talk about positioning. I'm wondering what are the most useful positioning tips? I know not to run into the middle with a ranged carry but is there a more ...
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Can I use Wukong's passive to detect the presence of enemies?
Wukong's passive is as follows:
(Innate) Wukong's armor and magic resistance are increased by 4 / 6 / 8 for each nearby enemy champion.
Using this passive, are you able to sense the presence of ...
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Why shouldn't Hecarim trust Mordekaiser?
On the League of Legends Wikia I found out that an Altar on the new Twisted Treeline says to Hecarim "Mordekaiser is not to be trusted, Hecarim!"
Why? I can't find anything in their lore about their ...
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How many times can Karthus cast Lay Waste before casting Requiem after he dies?
Once Karthus dies, his passive allows him to cast spells for 7 seconds. I'm curious how many times I can cast Lay Waste while still leaving enough time to cast Requiem. Since his CDR affects this, ...
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What do I do against the infamous “gank squad”?
In League of Legends, a "gank squad" can loosely be defined as:
a team of highly coordinate players who focus on demoralizing and map control as opposed to traditional tower pushing and lane ...
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If an item has the effect “XXX per 5 secs” is the effect over 5 secs or is it exactly on 5 secs?
This mostly comes from the effects like HP regen and MP regen, is the amount spread over 5 secs or after 5 sec exactly?
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What makes or breaks a solo AP Mid?
What makes a good AP Solo Mid? What should you train for, and what kind of items, runes, and mastery trees Should I use?
I want to try out for a AP Solo Mid position on a team, but am new to League ...
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Can you drop Tiers in LoL Ranked?
... and if so, what criteria must you meet? I keep hearing conflicted info, like
"Only through inactivity."
"Only from challenger."
"You can never drop Tiers."
"Yes."
Does anyone know ...
