Ignite

For information about the music video, see IGNITE.

IgniteEdit
Sets the target enemy champion on fire for 5 seconds, revealing them and dealing 70 − 410 (based on level)  true damage over the duration, with the first tick of damage occurring briefly after the cast and subsequent ticks occurring every 1.056 seconds after the previous. The target is also inflicted with Grievous Wounds for the same duration.
Cooldown	180 seconds
Range	600
Breaks stealth	Yes
Summoner level	9
Availability
SR
HA
NB
AR
Ignite in action

Ignite is a unit-targeted summoner spell that burns an enemy champion for a few seconds, dealing periodic true damage, applying healing reduction, and revealing the target over the duration.

Notes

• Each tick deals 14 − 82 (based on level) true damage.
• Ignite deals its first tick of damage at [0 to 0.264] seconds after the cast, based on how soon the first character stat update tick after the cast occurs.
  • The last tick is thus dealt at [0 to 0.264] plus 5.28 seconds, well before the debuff's duration runs out.
• Cleanse removes the damage over time and reveal components of Ignite, but the healing reduction debuff will persist.
• Ignite deals default damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
• Ignite's healing debuff does not reduce shields or maximum health gains like Renekton's Dominus or Lulu's Wild Growth.
• Ignite cannot reveal stealthed targets as it does not apply true sight.
• Applying another cast will overwrite the existing debuff.
• Ignite grants two stacks of Conqueror, and one of  Electrocute and Phase Rush upon activation.
• Ignite triggers Summon Aery on the application of its first tick.
  • Subsequent ticks cannot trigger the rune.
• Ignite deals true damage and therefore cannot be mitigated by any form of damage reduction, although shields and invulnerability effects will absorb the damage.
• The cooldown of this spell can be reduced by summoner spell cooldown reduction.

Effectiveness comparison

The following table compares the effectiveness of Barrier vs Heal on a target affected by Ignite.

Ignite			Barrier				Heal
Level	Total damage	Damage per second	Absorbed damage	Absorbed damage in 2 seconds	Received Damage	Percentage of Damage Negated	Healing	Reduced healing ( GW)	Received Damage	Percentage of Damage Negated
1	70	14	120	28	42	40%	80	48	22	68.6%
2	90	18	141.2	36	54	40%	94	56.4	33.6	62.7%
3	110	22	162.4	44	66	40%	108	64.8	45.2	58.9%
4	130	26	183.5	52	78	40%	122	73.2	56.8	56.3%
5	150	30	204.7	60	90	40%	136	81.6	68.4	54.4%
6	170	34	225.9	68	102	40%	150	90	80	52.9%
7	190	38	247.1	76	114	40%	164	98.4	91.6	51.8%
8	210	42	268.2	84	126	40%	178	106.8	103.2	50.9%
9	230	46	289.4	92	138	40%	192	115.2	114.8	50.1%
10	250	50	310.6	100	150	40%	206	123.6	126.4	49.4%
11	270	54	331.8	108	162	40%	220	132	138	48.9%
12	290	58	352.9	116	174	40%	234	140.4	149.6	48.4%
13	310	62	374.1	124	186	40%	248	148.8	161.2	48%
14	330	66	395.3	132	198	40%	262	157.2	172.8	47.6%
15	350	70	416.5	140	210	40%	276	165.6	184.4	47.3%
16	370	74	437.6	148	222	40%	290	174	196	47%
17	390	78	458.8	156	234	40%	304	182.4	207.6	46.8%
18	410	82	480	164	246	40%	318	190.8	219.2	46.5%

• Barrier will always negate 40% of Ignite's damage if it is activated while under the effect of Ignite for at least 2 seconds.
• Heal will always negate more damage than Barrier.

Strategy

• Ignite provides players an offensive utility and damage spell that scales with level. Throughout Season 2 and Season 3, the spell was nearly ubiquitous in all lanes, as the extra kill pressure was highly valued. The changes to Heal and Exhaust in Season 4 provided powerful tools to defend against all-ins, causing Ignite to fall out of favor among all but the most aggressive roles and weakening aggressive champions and strategies overall. In Season 9, Ignite regained its original lower cooldown and is now heavily favored among supports and 1v1 kill lanes.
• A well-placed healing reduction debuff from Ignite can severely limit the effectiveness of enemy healing items, as well as healing abilities from champions like Soraka, Aatrox, Vladimir, Volibear, and Warwick. It is considered a direct counter to Dr. Mundo, Soraka, Aatrox and Swain because they are reliant on their healing-based abilities. The healing reduction debuff also applies to  life steal,  spell vamp, and drain effects from items and abilities such as Death's Dance and Aatrox's World Ender.

Summoner spell haste

Summoner's Rift
Base cooldown ▶	360s ()	300s ()	240s ()	180s ()	90s ()	20s ()
▼  Haste
10 ()	327.27s	272.73s	218.18s	163.64s	81.82s	18.18s
18 ()	305.08s	254.24s	203.39s	152.54s	76.27s	16.95s
28 ( )	281.25s	234.38s	187.5s	140.63s	70.31s	15.63s
Howling Abyss
Base cooldown ▶		300s ()	240s ()	180s ()	80s ()	20s ()
▼  Haste
70 ()		176.47s	141.18s	105.88s	47.06s	11.76s
80 ()		166.67s	133.33s	100s	44.44s	11.11s
88 ()		159.57s	127.66s	95.74s	42.55s	10.64s
98 ()		151.52s	121.21s	90.91s	40.4s	10.1s

Trivia

• The icon for Ignite shows great resemblance to Annie's Pyromania since they are both icons of a hand holding a flame.
• Ignite, Unleashed Smite and Primal Smite (and Mark on Howling Abyss) are the only summoner spells that deal direct damage to enemy champions.
• The first icon for Ignite was reused for the Season 2011 mastery Burning Embers.
• Pentakill's first volume, Pentakill: Smite and Ignite, was named after Smite and Ignite.

Media

• Videos
• Old Icons

Related Videos

Ignite client showcase

Ignite

Ignite

Sound Effects

Activation

• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX
• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX
• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX

Effect active

• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX
• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX
• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX

Effect ends

• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX
• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX
• ▶️   Summoner Spell SFX

Patch History

V12.11

• Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 40% from 50%.

V12.10

• Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 50% from 60%.

V10.23

• Grievous Wounds strength increased to 60% from 40%.

V10.18

• Updated visual effects.
• Reduced overall noise while increasing clarity and timing.

V9.2

• Total true damage reduced to 70 − 410 (based on level) from 80 − 505 (based on level).
• Cooldown reduced to 180 seconds from 210.

V8.6

• Total true damage increased to 80 − 505 (based on level) from 70 − 410 (based on level).

V8.2

• New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

V7.22

• Level requirement reduced to 9 from 10.

V6.9

• Grievous Wounds
  • Reduces all healing received by 40%.(Previous change from V5.22 reverted.)

V5.22

• Grievous Wounds
  • Reduced to 40% healing reduction from 50% healing reduction.
  • Grievous Wounds now only affects self-healing instead of all healing.

V5.3

• Ignite now interrupts champions who attempt to recall while Ignited.

V4.5

• Reveals target for the duration. Doesn't reveal stealth.
  • Bug: Stealthed targets are revealed.

V4.4

• New particles.

V1.0.0.152

• Cooldown increased to 210 seconds from 180.

V1.0.0.151

• Now only usable on enemy champions.

V1.0.0.142

• No longer usable on minions (still usable on jungle monsters).

V1.0.0.139

• Now removes stealth when used.

V1.0.0.129

• The damage over time can now be removed by Cleanse.

V1.0.0.126

• Fixed a bug where its visual effect would sometimes persist far beyond the actual duration.

V1.0.0.97

• Now removes stealth when used.
• Fixed a bug where itcould be cast while in stasis from Zhonya's Ring.

V1.0.0.96

• Damage per level reduced to 20 from 25.
• Can no longer be removed by Cleanse.

V1.0.0.94

• Fixed a bug with the tooltip cooldown value that made it seem shorter than it actually is.

V1.0.0.72

• Can now be removed by Cleanse.

V1.0.0.70

• Now also reduces the target’s healing and regeneration by 50%.

V1.0.0.52

• Fixed an issue that prevented Ignite from being cast while silenced.

V0.9.25.34

• Range increased to 600 from 550.

V0.9.25.24 Added

• Deals 50 damage plus 25 damage per level over 5 seconds. This damage is not lowered by armor or magic resistance.
• Burning Embers (mastery): While your Ignite spell is on cooldown, your champion has an additional 10 ability power.

Summoner spells