Promote (spell)

Promote is a summoner spell in League of Legends available at Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar.

Strategy

 * When most enemy champions are focusing on one lane or capture point, you may promote the minion in the other lane and you head to the other way. This strategy works on the opponents who only scan the champion icon on the mini-map, thus they are likely ignorant of the threat of the anti-turret cannon because it is not specially emphasized on the mini-map.

Classic

 * Unlike in Dominion mode, Promote in classic mode does NOT fully recover the minion's health but slightly higher percentage of remaining health than its pre-promote form. As such, a player should activate Promote immediately as long as the spell is ready and the siege minion is nearby.

Dominion

 * It is advisable to Promote a super minion which has very low health, so its health may be fully recovered, therefore utilising the full potential of the summoner spell.
 * The anti-turret cannon is a great neutralizing unit. For best results, a player can voluntarily stand right next to the enemy minion spawn point. In order to attract the next minion wave so it does not slow the promoted minion's march towards the enemy capture point.
 * Do not promote a super minion that is heading to the nearby allied capture point, unless that point is going to be neutralized by the enemy immediately. If the destination is void of battle, the minion will simply die to the nearby spawn point.
 * Pay attention if there is more than one super minion nearby. Move closer to the super minion you want to promote (with lower health and marching to the enemy capture point) before activating the spell.

History
Promote was originally a summoner spell for the classic mode which metamorphosed a regular minion into a siegerider. However, it was later removed along with the siegerider in the v1.0.0.63 patch due to abuse in Promote stacking, resulting in unstoppable pushes. It is brought back for Dominion as the abuse of Promote stacking will no longer work because each minion only pushes to one tower then dies.

Patch V1.0.0.129
Promote is now available for the Summoner's Rift. This time, however, the promote spell can target cannon minions only.