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Controller
Controllers assist their allies with potent utility and keep enemies at bay with crowd control. Weak when alone, supports are capable of massively amplifying their teammates' power to become the strongest class in group combat (or teamfights), supplying crucial utility or crowd control at clutch moments to save allies from death and enable takedowns on the enemy team.
Supports typically start out by assisting the marksman in lane, as their own power is less dependent on items to function well, but over time their contribution expands as they lend aid to their entire team with both their spells and effective, yet affordable, items. Sub-classes of Controllers are enchanters and catchers.
Catchers[edit | edit source]
Catchers specialize in locking down opponents or, in some cases, entire battlefields by creating intense zones of threat that only foolish enemies would dare wade through. Although not as reliant on their friends as Enchanters, the fragile Catchers greatly benefit from allied presence - both to deter incoming danger and to help capitalize on targets they've locked down.
Enchanters[edit | edit source]
Enchanters focus on amplifying their allies' effectiveness by directly augmenting them and defending them from incoming threats. Enchanters themselves are often quite fragile and bring relatively low damage to the table, meaning they really only shine when grouped together with others.
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MarksmanAt present, Marksmen do not have any official subclasses. The following have been considered:
- Demolisher
- Scrapper
SlayerSlayers fall into one of the following subclasses:
- Assassin
- Skirmisher (aka Duelist)
Specialist
- Examples
Top
Juggernauts, Divers, 
Battlemages, 
Skirmishers, and 
Vanguards are the most likely champions to be selected in the Top Lane position.
JungleWithin a drafted team, the Jungler is the champion assigned to the jungle. A Jungler needs to be able to clear jungle camps without too much difficulty and ambush other champions in lane.
Divers, Assassins, Skirmishers, and Vanguards are the most likely champions to be selected in the Jungler position.
MiddleWithin a drafted team, the Mid Laner is the champion assigned to the mid lane.
Burst Mages, Artillery Mages, and Assassins are the most likely champions to be selected in the Mid Laner position.
Bottom
Support. Being the most vulnerable, the Bottom Carry has to acquire as much gold as possible to purchase key items that will greatly increase their fighting potential.Within a duo lane, the optimal strategy for earning gold is to designate a single champion to farm while the other is recommended to purchase an economy item. The Bottom Carry is expected to fulfill the former designation: the position is made for champions that highly depend on item-based power spikes.
Marksmen are the most likely champions to be selected in the Bottom Carry position.
Support
Bottom Carry. This role's initial goal is to assist their more vulnerable team mate through the earliest stages of the game, and is a position that suits champions with either utility, disengage or high base damage.
Within a duo lane, the optimal strategy for earning gold is to designate a single champion to farm while the other is recommended to purchase an economy item. The Support is expected to fulfill the latter designation: consequently, the position is not suitable for champions that are highly dependent on item-based power spikes. The Support is also expected to be the primary contributor to the team's 
vision.
Enchanters, Catchers, Wardens and Burst Mages are the most likely champions to be selected in the Support position.
UnplayedThe following champions do not have sufficient play time to generate positional information. For new champions, this can be expected to promptly change.
Roamer
- Roaming as a role is generally considered implicit of the
Jungler, but it is also a strategy often adopted by 
Middle, 
Top and Support players, especially those using Catcher or Assassin champions. - Roaming as a position usually comes at the expense of the Support or Jungler, whereby the player performs the above role exclusively without laning. Roaming as a position is common at very low levels prior to unlocking the
Smite summoner spell (as an alternative to duo- Top), but can also be employed at other tiers of play as well as during featured game modes, such as Hexakill.
MeleeMelee champions have a basic attack 
range usually within 200 units. A melee attack does not use a projectile to deal damage, therefore not subject to effects that mitigate projectiles, like 
Wind Wall. Some champions can shift between a ranged and melee form, and certain items/runes differ for melee characters.
RangedRanged champions have a basic attack range usually beyond 300 units. Many deal damage through projectiles, which are subject to mitigating effects like Wind Wall. Some champions can shift between a ranged and melee form, and certain items/runes differ for ranged characters.
Mana
Mana (also known as MP) is a stat that is the resource of many champions necessary to cast most of their abilities. Mana can be restored via mana regeneration and some abilities, items, runes, and buffs.
Mana is represented in-game by the blue bar within the HUD, indicating the champion's current mana and maximum mana. Current mana is reduced by expenditure through paying an ability's mana cost.
FuryFury is an umbrella term for many named resources that must be generated before being usable, compared to 
Mana or 
Energy that exist in some quantity beforehand. For most users, this resource is only required by a single ability or passive effect.
It represents momentum and encourages sustained aggression from users, often gating a power-spike or empowerment.
Fury generation varies between users, but is always generated in-combat (e.g. on-hit, ability casts or taking damage) and often decays when out of combat.
- Known as
Energy
Energy is a resource designed to limit how much a champion is able to use their basic abilities during a set time frame rather than through the use of mana. It is represented by a yellow bar instead of blue.
Energy has a maximum of 200 (except for 
Shen, with 400), and regenerates rapidly, at a rate of 10 energy per second. This means that energy champions are not at risk of depleting their resource over a long period of time, however the small capacity restricts the rapid usage of multiple spells.
HeatHeat is a gating mechanic unique to 
Rumble's 
Junkyard Titan that is intended to limit up-time but, like Energy, does not have an indefinite down-time. Heat is not required to cast abilities and is instead generated on-ability-cast, with Overheating preventing users from performing certain actions for a set time.
FlowFlow is a resource that must be generated before being usable, compared to Mana that exists in some quantity beforehand. It is represented beneath the health bar that is blue until filled, and then white. Unlike 
Fury and its variants, however, Flow is not affected by the unit's combat status. With only one example of Flow, the validity of this exception may be called into question in the future.
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.