Runes and mastery
A rune is an enhancement that the summoner provides for their champion before a match on a field of justice begins to augment the champion's abilities.
Runes can be purchased with Influence Points from the Riot Store. Each rune grants a small bonus in a specific category, which stack upon each other to grant larger bonuses.
Runes can be purchased with Influence Points from the Riot Store. Each rune grants a small bonus in a specific category, which stack upon each other to grant larger bonuses.
There are four kinds of Runes a Summoner will use and each of these types of runes have three tiers:
Mark: offensive runes,
Seal: defensive runes,
Glyph: magical runes,
Quintessence: utility runes.
Mark: offensive runes,
Seal: defensive runes,
Glyph: magical runes,
Quintessence: utility runes.
It is also important to note that some runes are "primary", while others are called "secondary" and provide lesser bonuses. Given a certain kind of rune, it will be primary in either marks, glyphs or seals, and secondary in the other two rune types. The aura shrouding a rune of a certain effect will denote which rune type it is considered primary - for example, Potency runes will have a blue aura showing that it is Glyphs that specialise in them.
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MASTERY
A Mastery is an area that a summoner is able to focus their intense magical training into, categorized into three specific categories, which are collectively known as masteries. Some of the more advanced masteries require not only a working knowledge of previous masteries within a single category, but also the knowledge of a specific mastery. As a summoner gains levels of power within the League of Legends, they are able to select which specific areas of interest to focus on.
Summoner masteries are not set in stone; based on the type of champion you wish to control in a battle arena, masteries can be changed to better suit a summoner's needs, simply by pressing the "Return Points" button to completely reset your masteries and allow yourself to choose others in which to spend your points ("re-spec").
Summoner masteries are not set in stone; based on the type of champion you wish to control in a battle arena, masteries can be changed to better suit a summoner's needs, simply by pressing the "Return Points" button to completely reset your masteries and allow yourself to choose others in which to spend your points ("re-spec").
OFFENSIVE |
DEFENSIVE |
UTILITY |