Terminología de League of Legends

Hay términos del LoL que se usan tanto dentro como fuera del juego, y otros que se usan para simplificar la comunicación del juego. A continuación hay una lista de algunos de esos términos.

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1v1: Una partida personalizada entre 2 jugadores. Usualmente se arma en Abismo de los Lamentos pero ocasionalemente ocurre en La Grieta del Invocador en el carril medio. Por lo general, el vencedor de esa partida es quien logra la primera sangre (eliminando a su enemigo), farmea 100 minions o destruye la torre del carril en el que lucha.
3's: El Bosque Retorcido. Hace referencia al mapa donde por defecto se enfrentan dos equipos de 3 integrantes cada uno.
5's: La Grieta del Invocador. Hace referencia al mapa donde por defecto se enfrentan dos equipos de 5 integrantes cada uno.

A

AA: Auto attack. Auto ataque: El ataque basico ejecutado por un campeón al pulsar click derecho sobre un enemigo.
ABAM: All Blind All Mid: Una partida personalizada donde los jugadores eligen campeones en modo Blind Pick para luchar sólo en el carril medio.
Ace: Cuando todos los miembros de un equipo son eliminados.
Active (Activa): Habilidades que poseen campeones y algunos items, que requieren ser activadas (via click o pulsando una tecla) para funcionar, contrario a las habilidades con "Pasiva".
AD: Attack Damage. Hace referencia al ataque físico.
ADAM: All Draft All Mid: Una partida personalizada donde los jugadores eligen campeones en modo Draft Pick para luchar sólo en el carril medio.
ADC: Attack Damage Carry: Campeón que basa su daño en los autoataques. Por lo mismo, suelen ser equipados con objetos que otorgan daño físico, velocidad de ataque y probabilidad de ataque crítico.
AFK: Away From Keyboard: Jugador que no controla a su campeón en la partida. También se usa para señalar a los jugadores desconectados mientras la partida se lleva a cabo.
Aggro: El objetivo prioritario de un agente controlado por la I.A.( minion, torreta, monstruo, etc).
Ali: Alistar.
Ani
Aniv: Anivia.
AoE: Area of Effect. Area de Efecto. Habilidades que causan daño en área y no sólo a un campeón determinado.
AP: Ability Power. Poder de Habilidad.
ARAB: All Random All Bottom: Partida personalizada que se juega en el carril inferior de La Cicatriz del Cristal.
ARAM: All Random All Mid: Partida personalizada donde los jugadores eligen campeones aleatoriamente para luchar únicamente en el carril medio. El Abismo de los Lamentos toma este nombre a causa de que los combates suceden bajo esa modalidad.
ArP
ArPen: Armor Penetration. Penetración de Armadura.
AS
ATS
ASPD: Attack Speed. Velocidad de Ataque.
Assassin: Campeón que tiene la capacidad de emboscar y eliminar rápidamente a sus enemigos. Sus habilidades suelen incluir el ocultamiento (invisibilidad momentánea) o una fuerte embestida.stealthing
Assist (Asistencia): Ayudar a un aliado a eliminar a un campeón enemigo.; The alternative term for Support champions.
Aura: Habilidad pasiva de la que pueden tomar beneficio campeones aliados que se encuentren dentro del rango en el que el objeto o campeón actua.
Aura platform
Aura bot: Un campeón que se equipa con varios objetos poseedores de "Pasiva: Aura" para asistir a sus compañeros.

B

B: Back: to retreat in the general direction of your base or away from the enemy.; Recall: To return to the base by pressing the "B" key by default.
Babysit: For one champion to continually assist another champion in order to assist them in getting more powerful.; For a champion (usually jungler) to cover a lane and see to it that the minions don't push to the friendly tower, while the usual laning champion is temporarily elsewhere.
Bait: To feign weakness in order to lure the enemy into a trap.
Ball: The untargetable mobile object under Orianna's command.
Banana: Soraka's autoattack.
Baron: Baron Nashor.; Exalted with Baron Nashor. (Aka "Baron Buff")
Base: The walled area where the shop, nexus and inhibitors are situated.
Bear: Volibear.; Summon Tibbers de Annie.
BC: The Black Cleaver.
BD
Backdoor: To attack an enemy tower or base without the support of a minion wave. Typically this is done by sneaking through the jungle and only becoming revealed to the opposing team as late as possible, in order to delay a reaction.; To capture a capture point, typically the middle one, which is close to the enemy fountain and surrounded by two other enemy capture points.
BF
BFS: B. F. Sword.
BG: Bad Game.
Bird: Anivia.; Somestimes refers to the crows from Dark Wind de Fiddlesticks.
Blind: A Crowd control effect that causes the recipient's autoattacks to miss completely.
Blind pick: A type of match where all participants select their champion simultaneously. Both teams are unaware which champions the opposing side has picked until the loading screen appears. Any champion can be summoned by one ally and one enemy at the same time.
Blink: A type of movement ability, similar to the summoner spell Flash.
Blitz: Blitzcrank.
Blue: Blue Buff: Crest of the Ancient Golem. By extension, can also refer to the Ancient Golem Ancient Golem.; Blue Team: the group of players that start out at the lower left side of Summoner's Rift or Howling Abyss, or on the left side of Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar. This team will always be the first during the pick/ban phase of Ranked and Normal Draft modes.; Glyphs, a type of rune.
BoRK: Blade of the Ruined King.
Bot: Bottom lane.; The Quarry/Boneyard capture points in Dominion.; An A.I. controlled champion.
Bot game: Co-op vs. AI.; A custom game where nearly all of the players are bots.
Bounty: The amount of gold a target is worth should they be slain.
BP: Blue Pill (obsolete), which was replaced by Recall. Sometimes used in place of "B".
BRB: Be right back.
Broken: When something within the game is viewed as imbalanced or malfunctioning (a champion, an item, a spell, etc.).
Bruce: Lee Sin
Bruiser: A champion with high effective health and damage per second. See fighter.
Brush
Bush: The tall grass in which champions can hide.
BT: The Bloodthirster.
Buff: A positive effect applied to a champion.; An official modification to the game mechanics which makes something more powerful, as opposed to a "nerf".
Build: Conjunto de objetos adquiridos por un campeón durante la partida.
Bug: A defect in the mechanics of the game that is not intended.
Burst: A large amount of damage being dealt in a short time, pertaining particularly to the damage dealt by a single champion. Nuke is also a commonly used term.
BV: Banshee's Veil.

C

Cait: Caitlyn.
Cap: Rabadon's Deathcap.; To capture a point in Dominion.; A limit past which something can not rise (For instance, attack speed is capped at 2.5 attacks per second).
Care: To be careful, implying a possible gank incoming or any other kind of danger.
Carry: Un campeón que generalmente comienza más débil que otros campeones, pero se vuelve más poderoso mientras progresa el juego.; La acción de volverse el responsable final de ganar una partida.
Cass
Casio: Cassiopeia.
Caster: Un campeón cuyo principal fuente de daño son sus habilidades. El daño puede ser mágico o físico, y puede escalar ya se con AP (poder de habilidad) o AD (daño de ataque).
Cat: Nidalee.; Rengar.
CC: Crowd control: A category of status effects which limit movement or actions.
CD: Cooldown; Waiting for an ability's cooldown to finish before commencing an action.
CDR: Cooldown reduction.
Chain CC: To consecutively use multiple crowd control spells on an enemy champion.
Champ: A champion; a particular character that the summoner calls on and controls.
Char: Short for "character", used to mean champion.
Channelling: The casting time required to perform certain spells. These types of spells can be interrupted by "hard" crowd control.
Chase: To pursue an enemy champion as they're running away.
Cho: Cho'Gath.
Classic: The standard MOBA game mode in which players focus on laning, pushing minion waves, and destroying the enemy structures.
Clutch move: To perform a well-timed action while under pressure.
Co-op: Co-op vs. AI: the player versus A.I. controlled champion match mode.
Collapsing: When allied players coordinate with each other in order to converge and overwhelm the enemy team.
Commit: To not retreat. To stay in a fight until the battle is over, or until your champion is slain.
Counter gank: Arreglar una emboscada como respuesta inmediata a otra emboscada de los enemigos, con la intención de negar o frustrar la ventaja que podrían haber obtenido con ese primer ataque.
Counter jungle
Contra jungla: Asesinar monstruos neutrales en la jungla del equipo enemigo, privándolos de mejoras, oro y experiencia.
Counter pick: Elegir un campeón en particular durante la fase de selección para hacerle contra a un campeón enemigo determinado.
Cover: A player request for another teammate to hold the player's lane while they're not there. (See "babysit" and "hold.")
Cow: Alistar.
Creeps: Monsters and minions.
CS: En inglés, Creeps Slain o Creep Score, cantidad de súbditos y monstruos asesinados. Es un término adaptado de DotA.; The Crystal Scar, the map in which Dominion takes place.; Chrono Shift Chrono Shift de Zilean.
Custom: Custom game: the match mode created by player with the freedom to determine the team size, map, A.I. controlled champion participation and install a password for limited access.
Cup: Chalice of Harmony, Athene's Unholy Grail.
Cupcake: Yordle Snap Trap de Caitlyn.; Caitlyn; thus coined by Vi.; Whimsy de Lulu under her Bittersweet skin.
CV: Clairvoyance.

D

Dar: Darius.
D
Def: Defender: proteger la torreta o base sin atacar agresivamente.
DFG: Deathfire Grasp.
DC: Disconnected.
DD: Direct damage.; Double damage.
Debuff: Un efecto negativo aplicado sobre un campeón; el contrario de mejora o buff.
Deny
Denial: To kill allied minions or pets, preventing the opponent from earning the gold and experience from killing them in other MOBA games. This feature is intentionally absent from League of Legends and replaced with zoning tactics.
Di: Diana.
Disable: A form of crowd control that prevents the enemy from taking particular actions.
Dive: To pursue a specific target into a highly dangerous area, typically beneath an enemy turret.
Dodge: Queue dodge.; A deprecated champion stat, which determined the possibility to avoid an autoattack.; Following the removal of the dodge global stat, it is the status effect granted by Counter Strike de Jax.
Dog: Nasus.
Dom
Dominion: A game mode that differs from the classic MOBA-style gameplay, and focuses on seizing capture points.
Donger: Heimerdinger.
DoT: Efecto de daño a lo largo del tiempo ('Damage over Time').
DotA: Defense of the Ancients: a successful mod created from . It has inspired similar games such as League of Legends. "" is also used to categorize games of this particular sub-genre within the genre.
Double kill: Slaying two enemy champions within a certain length of time.
DPS: Daño por segundo (por ejemplo velocidad de ataque).; Un campeón que se especializa en hacera daño sostenido constante.
Draft: Draft Pick: a type of champion selection where all participants must first go through a champion banning phase and where no champion can be picked by more than one player.
Drag
Drake: Dragon Dragon.
Duellist: A champion who excels at combating enemy champions one on one (e.g. Fiora, Jax).
Dunking: A flashy or rewarding kill on a champion, described in terms of a .; To use an aerial leap ability to severely damage or slay an enemy champion. Examples of dunking abilities include Noxian Guillotine de Darius, Cataclysm de Jarvan IV and To the Skies! de Jayce.

E

E: The third champion ability which is bound to the "E" key by default.
EC: Executioner's Calling.
Effective health: Health multiplied by the various damage reduction affecting it (normally armor and magic resistance), i.e. the damage that the champion needs to receive in order to be killed.
Egg: Rebirth de Anivia
Elo: A mathematical rating system for a player's relative skill level.
Elo hell: A perceived Elo level where it is very difficult or frustrating for a player to get out of.
Eve: Evelynn
Execute: An ability that does damage based on the missing health of an enemy. Examples include Resonating Strike de Lee Sin and Super Mega Death Rocket! de Jinx.
Executed: Being slain by a tower or a creep with no enemy champion receiving credit for the kill.; Otherwise, being slain by Noxian Guillotine de Darius.
Exp: Shorthand for experience points.
Ez: Ezreal; Easy

F

Face check: A champion going into a brush to see if an enemy champion is hidden in there. This can be a very risky action.
Fail flash: When the player uses their Flash spell in an unintended way, or when they try escape over a wall with Flash but end up at the same side they started, because the wall is too big
Farm: To seek out and kill minions to obtain experience and gold.
FB: First Blood: the first kill of the game.
Fear: A debuff which makes target champion walk around randomly and uncontrollably.
Fedeado: Es un campeón que se vuelve desproporcionadamente poderoso luego de obtener múltiples asesinatos sobre campeones enemigos.
Fedear: Morir repetidamente ante el equipo enemigo, dándoles oro y experiencia. Un jugador que hace esto es un feeder.
FF: Refers to /ff or "forfeit", another term for surrender.
FFS: For fuck's sake. An expression of anger or frustration.
Fid
Fiddle
FS: Fiddlesticks
Field of Justice: An in-universe term for a location where champions do battle with each other. Also referred to as a map.
Fighter: A hybrid champion between tanking and DPS that combines the survivability of a tank and the damage of a DPS or a caster. They were formerly called Bruisers.
Fish: Fizz
Flash: A blink-type summoner spell that activates instantly upon being cast, teleporting the player's champion a short distance in the direction of their cursor.
FM: Frozen Mallet
Fratma's: A build that utilizes Atma's Impaler and Frozen Mallet. Can also be referred to as Atmallet.
Fratmog's: A build that utilizes Atma's Impaler, Frozen Mallet and Warmog's Armor all at once.
Freezing: Freezing the lane is a very advanced technique that is very efficient. If you do it right, you can effectively deny all creeps to your opponent while freely acquiring creep score without threat.
Focus: Dirigir los esfuerzos de un equipo hacia asesinar un objetivo específico, generalmente uno de alto valor estratégico como el carr carry enemigo.
Fog
FoW
Fog of War: The shadowed areas of the map which are out of the vision range of allied champions, minions and structures.
FoN: Force of Nature
Forced teamfight: When one team attempts to take a map objective in order to compel the enemy team to try and stop them, resulting in a battle.
FotM: Flavor of the Month: a champion that suddenly becomes very popular among players. This can be for reasons such as their usage at a competitive level, an overly tuned buff or the discovery of a bug that is highly beneficial to the champion.
Fountain: The raised stone platforms located in each team's base, where champions will respawn after death, regenerate health and mana, and can purchase items.
Fourchan/4Chan: A nickname for Miss Fortune based on her ability to dominate early-game bottom lane if played right. Named after the infamous image board.
FPS: Frames per second
Franky: Vi
FWotD: First Win of the day: rewards player a flat bonus of 150 to the IP earned from winning the first match. The bonus refreshes every 22 hours after the first win. (Also known as WotD.)

G

GA: Ángel Guardián ("Guardian Angel").
Game throw: Tirar el juego; cuando el equipo que lleva una ventaja comete uno o varios errores que hace que pierdan esa ventaja, o toda la partida.
Gang
GP: Gangplank
Gank
Gankear: Hacer una emboscada a uno o más enemigos desprevenidos con uno o más campeones aliados.
Gap closer: Una habilidad o hechizo que acorta la distancia entre el campeón y el enemigo.
GG: Buen juego ("Good game").
Ghoster: Un jugador que observa a un jugador enemigo que está streameando su partida, para tener una ventaja durante la partida.
GJ: Buen trabajo ("Good Job").
GL: Buena suerte ("Good Luck").
GLHF: Buena suerte ("Good Luck"); Diviértanse ("Have Fun").
Glass cannon: A champion/build that is high in damage but low in defense. This primarily refers to building a champion purely for offense, sacrificing survivability.
Global: Una habilidad que puede golpear en cualquier parte del mapa (por ejemplo Flecha de Cristal Encantada de Ashe).
Glifo: Un tipo de runa que principalmente mejora varias estadísticas de magia.
Golem: Ancient Golem Ancient Golem, which grants the Crest of the Ancient Golem (aka blue buff) after being slain.; Golem and Big Golem, usually refered to together as "Golems".
Gold: Oro; la moneda de intercambio para comprar objetos dentro de la partida.
Golden Pose: Pose dorada; activa del Reloj de Arena de Zhonya
GP10: Oro cada 10; Objetos/maestrías/runas que generan oro adicional a lo largo del tiempo. Los objetos que generan oro son por lo general referidos incorrectamente como GP5.
Grag: Gragas

H

Harass: To put pressure on an enemy champion by causing damage with little risk of retaliation.
Hard CC: A crowd control effect that disrupts the channeling of abilities.
Hard leash: To aid the allied jungler by attacking a monster and reducing its health greatly and allowing the ally to deal the last hit.
Hat: Rabadon's Deathcap. Also known to some as "Funny hat" or "Funky hat".
Heal bot: Soraka
Hec
Heca: Hecarim
Heim
Heimer: Heimerdinger
Hero: The equivalent term for "champion" in other MOBA games.
HF: Have Fun
Hold: To stay in a lane and protect a tower from being destroyed by the enemy. Primarily done by junglers while the laner is away.
Hook: Ability which prevents movement and brings an enemy towards the champion's position. Examples include Thresh's Death Sentence or Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab
Horse: Hecarim
Hourglass: Zhonya's Hourglass
HP: Health, also known as "Hit Points"
HP5: Health Regeneration per 5 seconds
Hybrid: A champion that uses two or more build types, such as going both AP and AD.
Hypercarry: A champion that has an extremely weak early or mid game, but scales extremely well late game to the point of being nearly unstoppable if well fed and farmed. This term often describes adcs that are often highly dependent on auto-attacking (i.e. Tristana, Kog'Maw, and Vayne) and can be used to describe other champions as well in a lesser extent (i.e. Poppy, Jax, Nasus).

I

IE: Infinity Edge
IBG: Iceborn Gauntlet
Ignite: A summoner spell which deals true damage over time on one enemy target. Can also refer to casting the spell on a certain enemy champion.
Imba: Imbalanced: describing something as unfairly powerful.
Inc
Incoming: Used to warn a player that one or more champs are heading their way in an attempt to gank. This is unlike MIA, which does not give a definite indication of the missing enemy champion's direction.
Inhib: Inhibitor: a structure that prevents the enemy's super minions from being spawned.
Inhibitor turret: The tower protecting the inhibitor.
Initiate: A champion performing an action which signals allied champions to begin the battle. The initiator may act as bait and take heavy damage from the enemy in order to protect their allies from taking major damage.
Inner turrets: The three towers at the outer perimeters of the base.
Instagib
Instakill: Instant giblets or Instant kill: when a full health or nearly full health champion/monster takes lethal damage within such a short time that they essentially died instantly, with no chance to react.
Instalock
Instalocking: Instant lock: to quickly select and lock-in a particular champion (or a random one) to prevent someone else from getting them, usually without previous warning to the rest of the team. This is often perceived as poor sportsmanship.
Invade: To go into the enemy's territory, particularly their jungle.
IP: Influence Points
Ire
Irie: Irelia
Item: An object carried or used by a champion to enhance their performance in the match.

J

J4
Jar
Jarv: Jarvan IV
Jack
JitB: Jack In The Box de Shaco
Jay: Jayce
JoJ: The Journal of Justice
Juke: The act of feinting a pursuing enemy into chasing the wrong direction by breaking line of sight through usage of brush and/or fog of war.; The act of dodging skill shots.
Jungle: The spaces populated by neutral monsters between the lanes.
Jungler: A champion who forgoes fighting in a lane in order to obtain experience and gold from killing creeps in the jungle.
Jungling: To kill monsters in the jungle.

K

Kar
Karth: Karthus
Kass: Kassadin
Kat
Kata: Katarina
Kay: Kayle
Ken: Kennen
Kha
Khaz
K6: Kha'Zix
Kill lane: A combination of two champions that have the specific purpose of slaying the opposing two champions during the laning phase. A kill lane is usually attempted in the bottom lane.
Killing spree: A champion who slays at least three champions consecutively without being slain them self.
Kit: A champion's set of abilities.
Kiter: Un campeón que es particularmente bueno kiteando (por ejemplo Ashe).
Kite
Kitear: Alejarse de un campeón enemigo mientras se lo ataca continuamente, de manera que el mismo es dañado pero no puede causar daño en respuesta.
Knockback: Pushing the target's position in the opposite direction of the skill user. Target cannot move or act during the knocking motion.
Knockup: Disabling the target by sending them into the air. The airbound target's horizontal position does not change.
Kog: Kog'Maw
KS: Kill Steal: Blaming an ally for landing the finishing hit on an enemy champion who they intended to score the kill on.; Kill Secured: Preventing a severely weakened target from surviving by doing an excessive amount of damage to the target.; Kill Streak: when a champion slays multiple enemy champions consecutively. The "Kill Streak" will reset when the champion is slain.

L

Lag: Slow response during the match due to high network connection latency. Severe lag may result in disconnection and will count as a leave if the player does not reconnect before the end of the match.; Some players also refer to the slowdown due to a bad computer system as lag.; Lag specifically refers to the time between when information is sent and when it is recieved. This can be caused by a network latency, in which data is delayed between a user's computer and the game server, or by a slow computer. Lag most often manifests as "outbound lag", or delay between when a command is given and when it is performed. Lag can also manifest as "inbound lag", or a delay between when an event is registered on the server and when it is displayed on a user's computer. This causes "jumping", or the appearance that a champion's position, health, mana, etc has suddenly changed.
Lag Spike: A sudden and often momentary period of severe lag.
Lane: The paths that allied and enemy minions follow.
Laner: The champion or player who occupies a certain lane during the early game.
Laning: Staying in the minion paths in order to push or farm.
Laning phase: The first part of the match on Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline. This phase usually ends as one or two turrets are destroyed.
Lantern: Dark Passage de Thresh
Laser: Final Spark de Lux; The Nexus Obelisk's autoattack.
Last hit: Getting the killing blow on a minion, creep, or enemy champion.
LB: LeBlanc
Leash: A tactic used to draw monster aggro, benefiting the jungler.; A type of ability effect requiring the caster and target to stay within a certain distance. (E.x. Unspeakable Horror de Nocturne.)
Leave
Leaver: Exiting the champion selection or the match before each game is finished, whether voluntarily or not. This is regulated by the Leaver Buster system.
Lee: Lee Sin
LS: Lee Sin; Life steal
Leech: Staying within range of enemy units to gain experience points without assisting your team mates with the kills.
Leo: Leona
Liss: Lissandra
LOL: League of Legends, the title of the game itself.; The League of Legends, a peacekeeping institution within the game's lore.; Laughing out loud
LOM: Low On Mana – See also Out of Mana
LW: Last Whisper

M

Main: A player's best or favorite champion to use.
Mana: Resource used by most champions to cast abilities.
Mana Battery
Mana Dispenser: Soraka
Manaless: Champions who do not have the mana stat.
Malp
Malph: Malphite
Malz: Malzahar
ManBearPig
ManBearPheonix
ManBearTiger and combinations thereof: Udyr
Man drop: Pantheon's Grand Skyfall
Mao: Maokai
Map: A location where champions battle against each other.; A diagrammatic representation of the arena, displayed at the lower right corner of the player's screen.
Map awareness: To be conscious of the events occurring around the map. To increase Map awareness, there are abilities and items (e.g. Clairvoyance or wards) which reveal the fog of war at strategic areas.
Map control: To have vision and influence over areas around the map. Ways to increase Map control include placing wards and destroying enemy towers.
Map objective: A task that is sought after which goes towards winning the match. These tasks include getting the blue and red buffs, slaying the Dragon and Baron, destroying towers and inhibitors, etc.
Mark: A type of rune which primarily boosts various physical stats.; A status effect (usually a debuff) which changes the effect of a champion's ability. For instance, Katarina's Bouncing Blades adds a mark to all targets hit, and Katarina's basic attacks and abilities against marked targets deal bonus damage and consume the mark.
Martyr: A champion that dies defending a capture point with an extra score reward, depending on how many enemy champions are involved in the kill.
Mermaid: Nami
Meta
Metagame: The game's current play style, consisting of aspects such as lane setup, jungling, and team composition.
Metagolem: A tanky-dps build that (ideally) consists of Atmog's, Frozen Mallet, Trinity Force, and Mercury's Treads. The term is a portmanteau of the words "metagame" and "golem".
MF: Miss Fortune
MIA: Missing In Action: an enemy champion who was laning does not show up in the original lane which may result in recalled to base, preparing to gank the other lane and/or hiding in the brush. "MIA" is more common on the NA server than on EUW and EUNE. ss is used as the equivalent on the EUW and EUNE servers.
Mid: Middle lane; The Refinery/Drill capture points in Dominion.
Mid top: At the beginning of Dominion, a player declares to capture the nearest middle capture point then rushes up to top.
Mid turrets: The three towers just outside the base.
Minion: The computer-controlled unit spawned from the allied structure (nexus or capture point) to march to the opposing structure along the designated lane.
Minion wave: A group of minions spawned together once at a time. Multiple groups of minion waves may accumulate to form a bigger group that is harder to be dealt with.
Miss: Enemy champion missing in action. "Miss" (along with "ss") is more common than "MIA" on the European servers.
MK: Minion Kills
MM: Marksman: a champion that deals high amounts of attack damage as the match progresses, sacrificing it's defensive power and utility. An official term substitutes "ADC" (attack damage carry).
MOBA: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena: a genre of games which brings many of the RPG (Role Playing Game) and RTS (Real-Time Strategy) elements together.
Monkey: Wukong
Morde: Mordekaiser
Morg: Morgana
MP5: Mana regeneration per 5 seconds
MPen: Magic Penetration
MR
MRes: Magic Resistance
MS: Movement Speed
Mundo: Dr. Mundo
Mummy
Mumu: Amumu
Murder bridge: Another name for the Howling Abyss map. (At the start of the match, the announcer will occasionally refer to the "Murder Bridge" rather than "Howling Abyss".); Previously, the custom game version of the Proving Grounds map, before it was replaced by Howling Abyss.

N

N1: Nice One
Naut
Nauti: Nautilus
Nerf: An official modification to the game mechanics which makes something less powerful, as opposed to a "buff".
Nexus: The primary structure of the match where minions are spawned from. Victory is achieved when the opposing nexus is destroyed.
Nexus turrets: The two towers protecting the nexus.
NJ: Nice Job
Noc: Nocturne
Nid: Nidalee
Noob: Unskillful player/unexperienced beginner. Similar forms include "nub" and "n00b". Derived from the word newbie.
Normal: Normal game
NPC: Non-Player Character
Nuke: Any ability that deals huge amounts of damage, such as Javelin Toss or Requiem. Burst does not mean the same because most characters' burst combos consist of multiple abilities.

O

OC: Original champion/character. New champion idea by fan who is not associated with or hired by Riot Games.
Off tank: A champion that has some attributes of a Tank (ability to soak damage, initiation ability, CC, etc.), but lacks in one or more areas.
OMW: On My Way
OOM: Out Of Mana
OP: Overpowered
Oracle
Oracle's: Oracle's Elixir and Oracle's Extract, used to detect invisibility.
Orange: Remove Scurvy de Gangplank
Ori: Orianna
OTW: On The Way
Outer turrets: The three towers furthest from the base.
Overextending: A champion moving too far in lane/enemy territory, which can open them up to ganks.

P

Pant
Panth: Pantheon
Party: A player can invite other players from their friend list to form a team before joining a match. If the amount of participants does not reach the maximum size of the selected match mode (3 or 5), they will be placed with solo players to fill the vacancy/vacancies.
Path
Pathing: The route that will be taken towards a destination.
PBE: Public Beta Environment, a testing realm for upcoming content.
PD: Phantom Dancer
Peeling: To use CC abilities to stop enemy champions from attacking an allied champion.
Penta: Pentakill - Slaying five enemy champions within a certain length of time.
Pet: A non-champion, non-minion ally that may or may not be controllable, is generated by a champion's ability and fights for them on its own (e.g. Tibbers).
PFE: Pulsefire Ezreal
Philo: Philosopher's Stone
Ping: To alt/G+left-click on the mini map causing a "ping" noise and a mark on the map that your entire team can see.; The latency of player's internet connection to the game server, measured in "ms" (millisecond, 1 ms=0.001 second).
Pink: Vision Ward
Poach: A strategy that annihilates any monster camp of the opposite side of jungle in order to weaken the opponent team's chance on obtaining experience, gold and buff from the jungle camp of their side.
Poke: A form of harass which uses long ranged attacks to cause small to moderate damage in order to weaken an enemy, while keeping a safe position.
Pony: Hecarim
Position
Positioning: A champion's location during a fight. Good positioning is determined by the player knowing the optimal location their champion should be at.
Pot: Potion(s), usually Health Potion.
Premade: Multiple players, who know each other, forming a team together before entering the champion selection phase.
Pro: An act of calling someone that is very talented when playing, short for professional.
Proc: The activation of an effect.
Proxy: A high-risk, high-reward strategy (generally done at the top or bottom lanes due the length of the lanes) that involves farming enemy minions between the enemy turrets to prevent the opposing laner from effectively pushing or farming.
Pub: Public player: a person that the player is placed on a team with through the automated matchmaking system.
Pubstomp: When an organized team of good players thoroughly defeat random public players in a match.
Pull: A tactic used to draw monster aggro, benefiting the jungler. Same as leash.; An ability that brings the enemy closer to you (e.g. Rocket Grab de Blitzcrank).
Purple: Purple team: The group of players that start out at the upper-right side of Summoner's Rift, or right side of Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar.
Push: To continue advancing forward in a lane, clearing it of minions and towers.
PvP: Player versus Player: game modes that do not include bot-controlled champions.

Q

Q: The first champion ability which is bound to the "Q" key by default.
QQ: Depicts a pair of crying eyes, implying that the other player is complaining.
QSS: Quicksilver Sash
Quadra kill: Slaying four enemy champions within a certain length of time.
Que: Queue: the champion selection phase before commencing the match. Currently there are Blind Pick and Draft Pick available.
Queue dodge: To shut down the game client or disconnect from the internet during the champion selection process to avoid playing the match.
Quint: Quintessence, the most expensive/powerful type of rune.

R

R: The fourth champion ability (usually the ultimate ability) which is bound to the "R" key by default.
Rage: To display in-game frustration.
Ragequit: An incident where a player quits (leaves) the game due to in-game frustrations.
Raka: Soraka
Rambo: Diving into a fight alone, usually a suicidal tactic.
Random: Blindly summoning a champion during the champion selection phase by clicking the "?" or "Lock In" buttons before selecting a champion. (Champions not yet bought or not free to play will not be chosen.)
Rank
Ranked: Ranked game
Rat: Twitch
Razors: Madred's Razors
Rdy: Ready
Re: Short for reappear, meaning an enemy champion is no longer MIA.
Recall: A universal ability to teleport back to base after an 8 second channel.
Recommended: A category of champions whose controlling difficulty is relatively low and suitable to new player of League of Legends.; The recommended items listed in the shop for shortcut purchase. Player can edit their recommended items manually.
Red: Blessing of the Lizard Elder. Also know as "red buff." By extension, can refer to the Lizard Elder Lizard Elder.; Marks, a type of rune.
Ren
Rene: Renekton
Reng: Rengar
Report: An action after each match to report a player to official for inappropriate behavior such as verbal abuse or intentionally feeding the opponent.
Req: Request; Require; Requiem de Karthus
Revolver: Hextech Revolver
Riot: The development company that created League of Legends.
River: The water crossing between lanes on the Summoner's Rift.
RNG: Range; Random number regeneration, game mechanics that utilize randomness. See RNG in WoW.
RoA: Rod of Ages
Roamer: A champion that is suited to moving around the map in order to support, jungle or gank.
ROFL: Rolling on the floor laughing.
Root: A debuff which prevents any movement by an enemy champion. Can also be refered to as "snare" and "immobilize".
RP: Riot Points
Rylais: Rylai's Crystal Scepter

S

Scaling: How well a champion's efficiency increases as the game continues and as they gain levels and items. Champions that scale well are normally called carries.
Scrim: Scrimmage: two teams competing against each other for fun in a non-tournament game.
Scrub: An insult indicating that the player has a low skill level for the game.
Seal: A type of rune which primarily boosts defensive or utility stats.
Sej
Seju: Sejuani
Shop: The location where items are bought.; To return to the base and buy items. Interchangeable with "b" or "brb".
Shroom: Noxious Trap
Shutdown: To slay a champion that is on a killing spree.; To harass or slay a champion continuously to prevent them from getting more powerful.
Shyv: Shyvana
Silence: A debuff which prevents any activated abilities from being used by the target champion.
Siv: Sivir
Skar: Skarner
Skillshot: An ability that requires aiming a projectile that could miss its target.
Skin: A different appearance for a champion that can only be obtained by spending RP.
Slow: A debuff which reduces the target's movement speed.
Smart cast: An entry scheme of action command that allows 1-click on the keyboard (or combined with the shift key) to perform the action without clicking the mouse button on the target.
Smiteless: Killing the Ancient Golem Ancient Golem or Lizard Elder Lizard Elder without using Smite so that one can immediately invade the enemy jungle to steal the enemy's Ancient Golem/Lizard Elder.
Snake: Cassiopeia
Snare: A debuff which prevents a champion from moving. Can also be referred to as a "root" or an "immobilize".
Snipe: To shoot out an ability at long range to strike a target.
Snowball: Situation that occurs when a champion or team gains an advantage, and continues to use the advantage to win the game.
Snowball item: An item that grows in power as you gain kills/assists, e.g. Mejai's Soulstealer.
Soft CC: A crowd control effect that does not disrupt the channeling of abilities.
Soft leash: To draw the aggro of a monster briefly before moving away.
Solo: A champion (usually the top and mid laners) that guards an entire lane on their own.
Solo queue: As opposed to a party, a player allows the automatic matching system to assign a team for them. The player may end up joining a team completely composed of solo players, or an incomplete party. For the latter case, solo players may need to wait longer until the rest of the party has finished selecting their champions.
Sora: Soraka
SotO: Sword of the Occult
Space AIDS: Malefic Visions de Malzahar.
Spell: Summoner spell: The battle abilities which are not provided by the champion, but rather designated by the summoner to their champion before entering the match.
Split push: To continuously advance in one lane while the other members of the team are advancing in another lane.
Squishy: A champion that can be killed easily due to low base health/defenses.
SR: Summoner's Rift
SS: Enemy champion missing, shortened form of "miss". "SS" (along with "miss") is more common than "MIA" on the European servers.
Steal: To kill the neutral creeps that's on the enemy's side of the map, particularly their Lizard Elder Lizard Elder (for Red Buff) or their Ancient Golem Ancient Golem (for Blue Buff).; To land the killing blow on a neutral creep that the enemy was actively fighting, particularly Dragon Dragon and Baron Nashor.
Stealth: An ability to conceal the user from being seen or detected by enemies.
Steroid: An ability that increases one or more of a champion's base stats.
Store: Riot Store: the "shop" accessible in the PVP.net interface where player can purchase RP, champions, Skins, Runes, IP Boosts, etc. The term "shop" dominantly refers to the Shop in the Field of Justice where the actual match is played.
Streaming: To watch a video in "real time", instead of downloading a file to the computer and watching it later.
Stronk: A typo of the word "strong," mostly used sarcastically due to being a misspelling.
Stun: A debuff which prevents the target champions from moving, attacking or casting abilities.
Summoner: The role given to the player as they call a champion to the field and directs them in battle.
Super: Super Minion: a stronger minion that is spawned by destroying an enemy inhibitor in classic game mode. In Dominion mode, each minion wave already contains one super minion.
Support: A category of champions whose forte is to support his/her allies' performance.
Suppress
Suppression: A stronger version of the debuff stun which cannot be alleviated or actively broken out of by most methods except Quicksilver Sash.
Surrender
Surrendering: To start a vote between teammates to end the game earlier before the Nexus is destroyed by the opponent team and admit defeat.
Sustain
Sustainability: A champion's capacity for staying in a lane or jungle without having to go back to the base.
SV: Spirit Visage
Synergy: How well two or more champions/players work together.; An item that benefits a particular champion without wasted stat boosts or inefficient abilities. ("Synergy" sections were removed from the item pages due to the definition being fairly subjective and cumbersome.)

T

Tank: A champion designed to take high amounts of damage, usually with high CC abilities and low damage.
Tankiness: The quality of being able to take high amounts of damage, primarily through items that give defensive stats.
Tanking: To take high amounts of damage. Usually refers to damage being done to tanks and fighters, who have the durability to survive such damage.
Tanky DPS: An alternative term for a "Fighter" type champion. Though the term can be used to describe any champion that has obtained high survivability and damage through levels and items.
Taunt: A disable which forces the target to attack the taunter.; A champion quote which can be activated by entering /t or pressing shift+2.
Team comp: Team composition: A specific champion set-up for a team in which they work together to achieve an overall strategy. Examples include Poke comp, Heal comp, Push comp, AoE comp, CC comp, etc.
Teamfight: When multiple champions, from each opposing side, gather in one area to battle.
Teeto: Nickname for Teemo made popular by PhantomL0rd with this video
Tenacity: A champion stat which determines the reduction of effect duration of most crowd control debuffs.
TF: Twisted Fate; Trinity Force; Teamfight, when multiple champions, from each opposing side, gather in one area to battle.
Toon: Another word for character.
Top: Top/upper lane; The capture point of windmill in Dominion mode.
Tower: A commonly used alternative term for the turret.
Tower diving
TD: To pursue an enemy champion while in range of the enemy's tower.
Tower hugging: To stay near the tower to deter enemy champions from attacking them.
TP: Teleport; Gate
Trade
Trading: Trade champions: to switch champions with another player during the champion selection for Draft or Ranked games after all players of both teams have finished selecting champions.; Trade damage: when players from each side deal equivalent injury to each other during a confrontation.; Trade kills: when players from each side suffer an equivalent number of deaths after a confrontation.
Tree: Maokai
Tri-brush: A particular "Y" shaped brush that covers three directions, such as those located on Summoner's Rift near the top exit of the jungle of the purple team's side of the map and near the bottom exit of jungle of the blue team's side.
Triple kill: Slaying three enemy champions within a certain length of time.
Tris
Trist
Tristy: Tristana
Troll: A person who causes acts of disruption to other players and to the community. These acts may include writing offensive messages or intentionally feeding the enemy. Trolls are also referred to as griefers. See on Wikipedia for more information.; Mythical beings originating from the Norse mythology. In League of Legends, Trundle belongs to this race.
Troll pole: Playful de Fizz.
Troll pool: Sanguine Pool de Vladimir.
TT: Twisted Treeline
Tryn
Trynd
Trynda: Tryndamere
Turret: A stationary defense structure that guards the lanes and the base. It is also commonly referred to as the Tower.; H-28G Evolution Turret de Heimerdinger.

U

Ult
Ulti: Ultimate ability; To tell a player to use their champion's ultimate ability.
Unique: An aura or ability that does not stack, common to item effects.
UP: Underpowered
Utility: Spells or abilities that have a quality of being beneficial for the team. Support champions are known to have a lot of utility.

V

Var: Varus
Vel: Vel'Koz
Vision hack: An ability which allows a player to see through the fog of war, such as Destiny de Twisted Fate.
Veig: Veigar
Vent: Ventrillo: a third party voice chat software.
Vik: Viktor
Vlad: Vladimir
Voli: Volibear

W

W: The second champion ability which is bound to the "W" key by default.
Ward: Items that reveal the Fog of War once placed.
Ward jump: Using an ability Lee Sin's Safeguard or Katarina's Shunpo and targeting a ward. This is useful for escaping enemy attacks or intercepting an enemy that has used walls to juke away. Experienced Lee Sin players often build Sightstone or Ruby Sightstone to complement this ability. They may also build Wriggle's Lantern especially when jungling to make use of the ward ability this item offers.
Ward bait: To place down a ward in order to set up a gank. When an enemy champion attempts to destroy the ward, usually due to having an Oracle, the player initiates their surprise attack.
Ward coverage: The amount of wards placed down to give more vision around the map.
Ward placement: The location in which a ward is laid down. Good places to lay down wards are usually in brushes, entrances, the river, etc.
Warma's: A build that utilizes Atma's Impaler and Warmog's Armor. Can also be referred to as Atmogs.
Waveclear: Limpieza de olas de súbditos. Es la capacidad de un campeón de destruir largas olas de súbditos en uno o pocos lanzamiento de habilidades.
Wet Noodle Fight: Often describes a fight between two champions that are building very little damage - usually tanks. This often takes place in the top lane in competitive play
Wombo combo: When teammates effectively and consecutively chain together their abilities on enemy champions. The term first originated from a Smash Brothers Melee match.
WotA: Will of the Ancients
WotD: Win of the day: rewards player a flat bonus of 150 to the IP earned from winning the first match. The bonus refreshes every 22 hours after the first win.
WP: Well Played
Wu
Wuk: Wukong
WW: Warwick