Ignite
- For information about the music video, see IGNITE.Ignite
Sets the target enemy champion on fire for 5 seconds,
revealing them and dealing 70 – 475 (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.Cooldown180 secondsRange
600Breaks stealthYesSummoner level9AvailabilitySR
HANBAR
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[edit | edit source]
- Each tick of Ignite deals 14 – 95 (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 cannot reveal
stealthed targets as it does not apply 
true sight. - Subsequent casts of Ignite on the same target will override the previous debuff; the effect will refresh in duration but cannot be stacked.
- 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[edit | edit source]
The following table compares the effectiveness of 
Barrier vs 
Heal on a target affected by 
Ignite.
| Ignite
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Barrier
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Heal
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| 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 | 100 | 28 | 42 | 40% | 80 | 48 | 22 | 68.6% | |
| 2 | 90 | 18 | 121.2 | 36 | 54 | 40% | 94 | 56.4 | 33.6 | 62.7% | |
| 3 | 110 | 22 | 142.4 | 44 | 66 | 40% | 108 | 64.8 | 45.2 | 58.9% | |
| 4 | 130 | 26 | 163.5 | 52 | 78 | 40% | 122 | 73.2 | 56.8 | 56.3% | |
| 5 | 150 | 30 | 184.7 | 60 | 90 | 40% | 136 | 81.6 | 68.4 | 54.4% | |
| 6 | 175 | 35 | 205.9 | 70 | 105 | 40% | 150 | 90 | 85 | 51.4% | |
| 7 | 200 | 40 | 227.1 | 80 | 120 | 40% | 164 | 98.4 | 101.6 | 49.2% | |
| 8 | 225 | 45 | 248.2 | 90 | 135 | 40% | 178 | 106.8 | 118.2 | 47.5% | |
| 9 | 250 | 50 | 269.4 | 100 | 150 | 40% | 192 | 115.2 | 134.8 | 46.1% | |
| 10 | 275 | 55 | 290.6 | 110 | 165 | 40% | 206 | 123.6 | 151.4 | 44.9% | |
| 11 | 300 | 60 | 311.8 | 120 | 180 | 40% | 220 | 132 | 168 | 44% | |
| 12 | 325 | 65 | 332.9 | 130 | 195 | 40% | 234 | 140.4 | 184.6 | 43.2% | |
| 13 | 350 | 70 | 354.1 | 140 | 210 | 40% | 248 | 148.8 | 201.2 | 42.5% | |
| 14 | 375 | 75 | 375.3 | 150 | 225 | 40% | 262 | 157.2 | 217.8 | 41.9% | |
| 15 | 400 | 80 | 396.5 | 160 | 240 | 40% | 276 | 165.6 | 234.4 | 41.4% | |
| 16 | 425 | 85 | 417.6 | 170 | 255 | 40% | 290 | 174 | 251 | 40.9% | |
| 17 | 450 | 90 | 438.8 | 180 | 270 | 40% | 304 | 182.4 | 267.6 | 40.5% | |
| 18 | 475 | 95 | 460 | 190 | 285 | 40% | 318 | 190.8 | 284.2 | 40.2% | |
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Ignite provides players an offensive utility and damage spell that scales with level. Throughout Season Two (2012) and Season Three (2013), the spell was nearly ubiquitous in all lanes, as the extra kill pressure was highly valued. The changes to Heal and
Exhaust in Season 2014 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 2019, 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's Rift
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| Base cooldown ▶ | 300s (   )
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240s (    )
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180s ( )
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90s (  )
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20s (  )
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▼  Haste
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10 ( )
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272.73s | 218.18s | 163.64s | 81.82s | 18.18s | ||||
18 ( )
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254.24s | 203.39s | 152.54s | 76.27s | 16.95s | ||||
| 28 ()
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234.38s | 187.5s | 140.63s | 70.31s | 15.63s | ||||
 Howling Abyss
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| Base cooldown ▶ | 300s ( )
|
290s ( )
|
240s ( )
|
180s ( )
|
80s (  )
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20s ( )
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| ▼ Haste
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70 ( )
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176.47s | 170.59s | 141.18s | 105.88s | 47.06s | 11.76s | |||
| 80 ()
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166.67s | 161.11s | 133.33s | 100s | 44.44s | 11.11s | |||
| 88 ()
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159.57s | 154.26s | 127.66s | 95.74s | 42.55s | 10.64s | |||
| 98 ()
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151.52s | 146.46s | 121.21s | 90.91s | 40.4s | 10.1s | |||
124 ( )
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133.93s | 129.46s | 107.14s | 80.36s | 35.71s | 8.93s | |||
| 134 ()
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128.21s | 123.93s | 102.56s | 76.92s | 34.19s | 8.55s | |||
| 142 ()
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123.97s | 119.83s | 99.17s | 74.38s | 33.06s | 8.26s | |||
| 152 ()
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119.05s | 115.08s | 95.24s | 71.43s | 31.75s | 7.94s | |||
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Sound Effects[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Total damage increased to 70 – 475 (based on level) from 70 – 410 (based on level).
- Updated icon.
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 40% from 50%.
- Grievous Wounds strength reduced to 50% from 60%.
- Grievous Wounds strength increased to 60% from 40%.
- Updated visual effects.
- Reduced overall noise while increasing clarity and timing.
- Total true damage reduced to 70 – 410 (based on level) from 80 – 505 (based on level).
- Cooldown reduced to 180 seconds from 210.
- Total true damage increased to 80 – 505 (based on level) from 70 – 410 (based on level).
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
- Level requirement reduced to 9 from 10.
- Grievous Wounds
- Reduces all healing received by 40%.(Previous change from V5.22 reverted.)
- Grievous Wounds
- Reduced to 40% healing reduction from 50% healing reduction.
- Grievous Wounds now only affects self-healing instead of all healing.
- Ignite now interrupts champions who attempt to recall while Ignited.
- Reveals target for the duration.
Doesn't reveal stealth.- Bug: Stealthed targets are revealed.
- New particles.
- Cooldown increased to 210 seconds from 180.
- Now only usable on enemy champions.
- No longer usable on minions (still usable on jungle monsters).
- Now removes stealth when used.
- The damage over time can now be removed by Cleanse.
- Fixed a bug where its visual effect would sometimes persist far beyond the actual duration.
- Now removes stealth when used.
- Fixed a bug where itcould be cast while in stasis from
Zhonya's Ring.
- Damage per level reduced to 20 from 25.
- Can no longer be removed by Cleanse.
- Fixed a bug with the tooltip cooldown value that made it seem shorter than it actually is.
- Can now be removed by Cleanse.
- Now also reduces the target’s healing and regeneration by 50%.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Ignite from being cast while silenced.
- 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.
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Standard sightStandard sight reveals units through Fog of War and 
brush, but not stealth. It does not bypass 
nearsight effects.
Grievous WoundsGrievous Wounds does not stack, the duration of the debuff will overlap on separate effects and refresh on the same effect.
Centered rangeCentered range is calculated from the center of a source unit's hitbox to the center of a target unit's hitbox.
- Centered range is used for most unit-targeted abilities.
- It is less effective and may seem to have diminished reach against large units.
Sight center range. A line of vision cannot extend beyond terrain or an unrevealed brush.
Sight can also refer to an effect that makes a unit visible regardless of the fog of war or brush, allowing them to be targeted. Standard sight cannot see stealthed units, but True Sight can.
- Nearsight is a
crowd control debuff that inhibits sight; allied vision is lost in addition to a reduced sight radius. 
Obscured vision is similar to sight in a way that it can observe units, but does not render units targetable, rather it exposes their position and informs of their presence.
Unobstructed vision is a form of sight that allows a unit to be able to see their full vision radius, ignoring any obstructions that would otherwise restrict visibility.- All effects that use
unit-targeting require sight of the target. Delayed unit-targeted attacks and spells can cancel if sight of the selected target is suddenly lost.
Default damage
Default damage does not interact with most other effects, such as Conqueror stacking, 
Luden's Companion or 
Arcane Comet. The main exception is:
Omnivamp and 
Physical vamp (where applicable) heal for a percentage of damage dealt.
Effects triggered by damage subtypes will still occur in spite of the damage's non-reactive nature (e.g. 
The Black Cleaver on instances of 
Physical damage and 
Morellonomicon on instances of 
Magic damage).
StealthStealth conceals a unit from enemies' view and prevents them from selecting it, and grants ghosting while not seen. Stealth allows one to avoid and ambush enemies or re-position in a fight.
- There are three categories of stealth, based on the conditions necessary to gain sight of the user:
Camouflage, 
Invisibility, and 
stealthed traps. True sight invariably reveals stealthed units. - Certain actions may break stealth, such as starting an attack, casting an ability, using certain item actives, and others.
- A stealthed unit's character model briefly shimmers for every instance of damage taken while stealthed. This shimmering does not make the unit selectable nor remove the effect, it only compromises the unit's position.
Stealth is not a form of 
untargetability; units can still be hit by effects that do not require sight of targets, such as auto-targeted, direction-targeted (skillshots) and location-targeted effects.
True sightTrue Sight reveals units through Fog of War, brush, and stealth. It does not bypass nearsight effects.
True damage- Applies:
- Mitigated by:
Shield
health that absorbs the next instances of damage in place of actual health. This can be improved by various items and effects depending on the type of shielding.
Incoming shields can trigger bonus effects from 
Shield Bash. Outgoing shields can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, 
Ardent Censer, and 
Staff of Flowing Water. Shield reduction effects, exclusively 
Serpent's Fang, reduce all incoming and outgoing shields.
InvulnerabilityA unit that is Invulnerable reduces all damage taken to 0 and prevents effects that trigger from damage.
Heal current health, but never above their maximum health.
Outgoing heals can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water.
DrainDrain, better known as Vamp, is a term for various healing effects that are based on damage dealt, but are not spell vamp or life steal. Drain effects benefit from 
Heal Power.
Howling Abyss auraAll champions on the Howling Abyss gain the following bonuses:
- +70 summoner spell haste
- Restores 0.15% of maximum mana per second.
- Passively gains 5 experience per second.
- Reduces all outgoing heals by 50%. The healing reduction does not affect self-heals.
- Omnivamp and life steal against minions are reduced by 40%.
- While alive and within 1000 units of a dying enemy minion, gain
6 from it (unless you have last-hit it). 
Melee champions gain 15 bonus magic resistance and their basic attacks deal 20% bonus damage against siege and super minions.- Melee champions now deal 20% bonus damage against structures, if they adaptively have more ability power. This buff is replaced by the generic time-based ARAM buff's bonus damage to structures once the latter exceeds 20%.
