True damage

True damage is one of the three types of damage in League of Legends, the others being magic damage and physical damage. True damage ignores armor and magic resistance, as well as other forms of damage reduction such as and.

Blocking true damage
Abilities or summoner spells which deal true damage are still blocked by effects that prevent damage such as the passive on, , , and Standard Attacks which deal additional true damage are still capable of being blocked by. will block all damage to a target champion, including true damage. Before the removal of Dodge, both true damage as an on-hit effect and true damage on standard attack were capable of being avoided completely if the standard attack was dodged, however during the effect of, can still effectively dodge true damage from on-hit effects and true damage from standard attacks.

Countering true damage
Although true damage cannot be reduced, it is possible to diminish its effect.
 * Against true damage that does a flat amount of damage such as, building health will diminish how much damage it does to you (as the ability does a lesser % of your health). The only ability this will not work against is which deals a % of max HP as true damage.
 * However in this case, building a or  will reduce the true damage, by reducing how fast she can trigger the ability, in addition it protects you immensely from physical damage,  primary damage source.
 * Absorption shields such as will also protect you from both flat true damage and  as it does not treat the shield as part of max health and damage will go through the shield first.
 * Magic-only shields such as and the passive on  and  will have no impact on true damage.

Champions who deal true damage with standard attacks

 * (active only)
 * (applies true damage over time)
 * (upon 3rd consecutive hit on a single target)
 * (on autoattacks, but for duration of ability only)
 * (on autoattacks, but for duration of ability only)

Champions who deal true damage with abilities

 * (upon retraction)
 * (only to minions, neutral monsters, and pets.)
 * (only to minions, neutral monsters, and pets.)
 * (only to minions, neutral monsters, and pets.)
 * (only to minions, neutral monsters, and pets.)

Summoner spells

 * (only to minions, neutral monsters, and pets.)
 * (only to minions, neutral monsters, and pets.)

Masteries

 * (only to minions, neutral monsters, and pets.)