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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 Cleanse removes the damage over time and Sight icon reveal components of Ignite, but the healing reduction debuff will persist.
  • Ignite deals Umbra Blades default damage, and thus will not trigger spell effects.
  • Ignite's healing debuff does not reduce shields or maximum health gains like Renekton's Renekton's Dominus Dominus or Lulu's Lulu's Wild Growth Wild Growth.
  • Ignite cannot reveal Guerrilla Warfare stealthed targets as it does not apply True Sight icon true sight.
  • Applying another cast will overwrite the existing debuff.
  • Ignite grants two stacks of Conqueror Conqueror, and one of Electrocute Electrocute and Phase Rush Phase Rush upon activation.
  • Ignite deals Hybrid penetration true damage and therefore cannot be mitigated by any form of damage reduction, although Hybrid resistances icon shields and Cosmic Radiance 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 Barrier vs Heal Heal on a target affected by Ignite Ignite.

  • Barrier Barrier will always negate 40% of Ignite's Ignite's damage if it is activated while under the effect of Ignite Ignite for at least 2 seconds.
  • Heal Heal will always negates more damage than Barrier 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 Heal and Exhaust 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 Heal power icon healing abilities from champions like Soraka Soraka, Aatrox Aatrox, Vladimir Vladimir, Volibear Volibear, and Warwick Warwick. It is considered a direct counter to Dr Dr. Mundo, Soraka Soraka, Aatrox Aatrox and Swain Swain because they are reliant on their healing-based abilities. The healing reduction debuff also applies to Life steal icon life steal, Spell vamp icon spell vamp, and Ravenous Hunter rune drain effects from items and abilities such as Death's Dance Death's Dance and Aatrox's Aatrox's World Ender World Ender.
Summoner spell haste
Summoner's Rift icon Summoner's Rift
Base cooldown ▶ 360s
(Teleport)
300s
(Flash)
240s
(ClarityHealUnleashed Teleport)
210s
(CleanseExhaustGhost)
180s
(BarrierIgnite)
90s
(Smite)
20s
(Hexflash)
Cooldown reduction icon Haste
12 (Ionian Boots of Lucidity item) 321.43s 267.86s 214.29s 187.5s 160.71s 80.36s 17.86s
18 (Cosmic Insight rune/Dawncore item) 305.08s 254.24s 203.39s 177.97s 152.54s 76.27s 16.95s
30 (Cosmic Insight rune/Dawncore item Ionian Boots of Lucidity item) 276.92s 230.77s 184.62s 161.54s 138.46s 69.23s 15.38s
36 (Cosmic Insight rune Dawncore item) 264.71s 220.59s 176.47s 154.41s 132.35s 66.18s 14.71s
48 (Cosmic Insight rune Ionian Boots of Lucidity item Dawncore item) 243.24s 202.7s 162.16s 141.89s 121.62s 60.81s 13.51s
Howling Abyss icon Howling Abyss
Base cooldown ▶ 300s
(Flash)
240s
(ClarityHeal)
210s
(CleanseExhaustGhost)
180s
(BarrierIgnite)
80s
(Mark)
20s
(Hexflash)
Cooldown reduction icon Haste
70 (Howling Abyss aura) 176.47s 141.18s 123.53s 105.88s 47.06s 11.76s
82 (Howling Abyss auraIonian Boots of Lucidity item) 164.84s 131.87s 115.38s 98.9s 43.96s 10.99s
88 (Howling Abyss auraCosmic Insight rune/Dawncore item) 159.57s 127.66s 111.7s 95.74s 42.55s 10.64s
100 (Howling Abyss auraCosmic Insight rune/Dawncore itemIonian Boots of Lucidity item) 150s 120s 105s 90s 40s 10s
106 (Howling Abyss auraCosmic Insight runeDawncore item) 145.63s 116.5s 101.94s 87.38s 38.83s 9.71s
118 (Howling Abyss auraCosmic Insight runeDawncore itemIonian Boots of Lucidity item) 137.61s 110.09s 96.33s 82.57s 36.7s 9.17s

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Patch History[]

V12.11
V12.10
V10.23
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
V5.22
  • Grievous Wounds icon 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 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 Zhonya's Ring.
V1.0.0.96
  • Damage per level reduced to 20 from 25.
  • Can no longer be removed by Cleanse 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
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 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 Ignite spell is on cooldown, your champion has an additional 10 ability power.
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