Recall

For the Legends of Runeterra card, see Recall.

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Recall is an ability that all players have, regardless of the champion they are playing. It causes your champion to channel for a few seconds. If the channel is not interrupted, it causes the champion to appear at their team's fountain.

Upgrades

Possessing the following buffs will upgrade Recall into Empowered Recall:

• Hand of Baron
• Eye of the Herald

Notes

• Recall is activated by either clicking on its icon in the HUD or by pressing the selected key bind (B is set to the default).
• The following interrupt Recall's channel:
  • Taking damage, unless it was fully mitigated ( shield,  invulnerability).
  • Issuing a movement or attack command.
  • Casting abilities and using all item actives not stated below.
  • Using Flash, Teleport, Mark / Dash, or Hexflash.
  • All  immobilizing crowd control effects with the exception of  root as well as  ground.
    • Being displaced by an allied ability will also stop the channel (e.g, Crystallize, Pillar of Ice, Weaver's Wall).
• The following do not interrupt Recall's channel:
  • Using the actives for Shurelya's Reverie, Righteous Glory, Youmuu's Ghostblade, Spellbinder, Gargoyle Stoneplate, Randuin's Omen, or Seraph's Embrace.
  • Using Barrier, Clarity, Cleanse, Exhaust, Ghost, Heal, Ignite, or Smite.
  • Using a consumable.
  • Using a trinket, with the exception of Eye of the Herald.
• If a normal Recall is being channeled, and the Empowered Recall is gained, activating Recall again will cause the channel to be overridden by the Empowered Recall.
• There is a slight delay before the channel of Recall initiates.
• Recall is not visible through the fog of war, but if a Recalling champion was seen Recalling before being obscured from  sight, the sound effects can still be heard, but this does not necessarily mean the channel was completed.
• It is possible to be damaged while Recalling but still return to base. This happens if the damage is taken within 0.1 seconds before the channel completes.
  • If this happens while Recalling with very low health, it is actually possible to arrive dead at the base.
• When a player disconnects from the game, instead of Recalling, they will manually walk back to their base while being invincible.
• Unlike Teleport and some long-ranged  blinks, any  unit-targeted  projectiles targeting a Recalled champion will not be  destroyed (i.e - Caitlyn's Ace in the Hole will continue to follow the target even after the channel of Recall was finished).

Enhanced Recall

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When  Dominion was released, Recall was remade to fit in to the game mode's fast-paced style, creating Enhanced Recall which had a much shorter cast time.

Improving Recall

In Season Two, the Utility Mastery Tree included the Tier 1 Mastery Improved Recall that reduced the channel time of Recall by 1 second and Enhanced Recall by 0.5 seconds.

In Season Four, the Utility Mastery Tree included the Tier 1 Mastery Phasewalker that reduced Recall's channel time by 1 second and Enhanced Recall by 0.5 seconds.

Development History

The Recall function was originally tied to Blue Pill, a purchasable alpha item that could be activated to return to base. The function was then made into an optional summoner spell, and eventually into a feature inherent in all champions.

Recall Animation

Since V1.0.0.140 patch, new champions and certain skins, like  Legendary skins (e.g. Battlecast Prime Cho'Gath), have received a special Recall animation and a few have received special quotes. Additionally, when an older champion gets a visual upgrade, all of their skins are outfitted with a new Recall animation.

Since the release of Vi, with the exception of Quinn, the Recall animations between the classic skin and the first released alternate skin of a champion differ from one another. For example, Original Lucian folds his guns before him, while Hired Gun Lucian produces a chair to sit in with drinks in hand.

Although Recall is disabled on the  Howling Abyss, attempting to do so by pressing the key bound to it will play the animation for the respective champion or skin.

In patch V9.11, players in the Challenger rank of the league system were given special, golden particles for their Recall animation. These particles would only be visibly golden for the 'regular' Recall but not for Empowered Recall nor the minimap representation of Recall. Additionally, this special Recall animation would play in all unranked queues and ranked queues, but only in the particular ranked queue they are Challenger in (be it Solo/Duo Queue or Flex Queue).

Trivia

• The first icon of Recall was modified for several game assets.
  • It was recolored purple for the first icon of Teleport.
  • It was recolored red and flipped for the icon for Enhanced Recall.
  • It was recolored blue for the icon for the Season One mastery Perseverance.
• It was previously possible for champions with abilities that make them  dash to an enemy champion to follow an enemy that has just finished Recalling and teleported to base, making the champion fly all the way to the enemy base.
  •  Projectiles will still do so.
• If you Recall while the Nexus is destroyed, the camera will attempt to center on your champion rather than the exploding Nexus.
• When Ryze was first remade, an oversight allowed him to use Recall to trigger his Arcane Mastery passive, so he could refresh the cooldown of all of his abilities by simply rapidly pressing the Recall key.
• Xayah and Rakan are the first champions to be able to interact and affect Recall mechanically.
• In Teamfight Tactics Set 3, the animation for the when three  Mech-Pilot units merge into the Super-Mech is borrowed from Recall.

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Patch History