Ignite

Ignite is a targeted summoner spell. It deals a moderate amount of true damage over 5 seconds and reduces healing and regeneration effects on the target by 50% for the duration.

Strategy
affords players an offensive utility and damage spell that scales with level. Throughout Season 2 and Season 3, it has been a popular spell among summoners for its focused and aggressive nature.

A well-placed healing reduction debuff from can severely limit the effectiveness of enemy healing items, as well as healing abilities from champions like, , and. This also applies to lifesteal and spell vamp effects from items and abilities such as and.

Furthermore, true damage pierces fully through armor and magic resist, and is not mitigated by damage reduction. This makes an effective counter to mitigation-based items and abilities like the defensive stats from  and.

Trivia

 * The icon for shows a great resemblance to  since they are both icons of a hand holding a flame.