Questions tagged [league-of-legends]
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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What do those abbreviations mean in League of Legends?
I'm quite new to League of Legends (LoL) but try to improve through reading guides. All too often I stumble upon abbreviations I am not sure what they mean.
Some of those are:
AD
AP
ArPen
AS
bot
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How do I ward properly in League of Legends?
I tend to like to play a support champion. Since I'm slowly making my way to mid and high level play its getting more important to get good wards up because ganks become more common.
I am therefore ...
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How can the damage reduction from Armor in League of Legends not have diminishing returns?
The formula for calculating damage reduction from armor in League of Legends is
Damage Reduction = Total Armor / (100 + Total Armor)
It seems clear to me that this formula dictates that adding more ...
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Smartly using smart casting
In League of Legends, I saw a smart casting mode in the options. What does smart casting do exactly? And is it useful/helpful playing against people with it?
When I was playing Soraka it seemed to ...
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How much IP do you get for winning & losing games in the various modes/maps?
My understanding is that you get a base number of Influence Points (IP) for losing each game and a little more for winning a game. In addition, the amount of time a games goes on seems to factor into ...
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How are all diminishing returns calculated in League of Legends?
It was brought up in another question about how two slows would stack.
I am wondering how do diminishing returns work and are calculated.
For instance, if I would stack dodge on a Jax if I was able ...
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First thing to learn when beginning League of Legends
So I just started out playing League of Legends. I've got a friend who plays and we started up a bot game so that I could learn the basic commands.
It wasn't pretty.
The bots basically slaughtered ...
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What are the characteristics that a champion should have to jungle?
In general, what characteristics should a jungling champion have?
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What is the precedence of Guardian Angel compared to other revive effects?
In League of Legends, there are a number of effects which revive a champion upon death. The item Guardian Angel is the most well-known and widely used of these. I was wondering, however, whether its ...
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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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Spell vamp / Life steal and AD scaling abilities
What do AD scaling abilities scale on for leech effects?
Take the following skill for example, it is pure AD scaling:
Lee Sin
Spell Summary Sonic Wave: Lee Sin
projects a discordant wave of sound to
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When are Teemo's bomb's damage calculated?
This is something I've often wondered when playing Teemo. If I place a bomb, and then an enemy walks over it seven minutes later, how is the damage calculated? Is it based off of how much AP and ...
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How do you counter Mordekaiser?
Mordekaiser seems to be a character that pick-up groups tend to have trouble countering, if the Morde player knows what he is doing. Iron Man allows an armor-heavy Morde to absorb a lot of punishment ...
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How to counter Karthus' ultimate?
Are there items or rune sets that would be good to negate or mitigate Karthus' ultimate or any other champions with high burst AP damage?
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What is the formula for armor/magic resist reduction?
As far as I can tell, it's something like this:
damage reduction = armor / (armor + 100)
Is this accurate?
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