Understanding Summoner Timers
In this section, we will discuss the understanding of how to keep track of summoner spells in League of Legends. Summoner spells are given to players as they proceed to level up in the game. At level 8, you get the Flash ability which is undoubtedly the most useful summoner in the game.
Everybody knows and understands what each summoner spell does right? But do you know what are the separate timers of the summoner spells?
In the spreadsheet above, we can see all the summoner spells that we should track (excluding smite; because it can stack up to two times, making it harder to track.) There are multiple ways you can track the summoner spells, the most common is to ping the summoner spell. In Korea, and worldwide: players spam the timer of summoner spells to show their team that somebody is potentially a free gank.
What Decreases The Length of Cooldown?
There are two different ways you can decrease the cooldown of summoner spells. The first being the Mastery “INSIGHT” and Second being “IONIAN BOOTS OF LUCIDITY.”
The Mastery Insight decreases the cooldown of summoner spells by 15% Which means that all summoner spells will be refreshed quicker. If we look at the timers, everything is reduced by 15%.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity are another way of reducing your summoner spells, these are purchasable and can be brought by anybody (excluding Cassiopia)
The boots give you extra stats not just the reduction of timers. We can see what the actual timers are above.
Summoners can have an increased summoner cooldown of 25% with boots and the mastery. Which decreases the summoner spells to 25% which is a huge amount compared to not having any.
Tips for tracking summoner spells,
You should ping the summoner spells to tell your team that the enemy has used their spell. From this timer you should be able to mark when it will be up again (using the graph timers above.) If you’re not sure if the enemy has the mastery, or the boots. You can hover the summoner and see the cooldown of it.
If you wish to “spam” the chat of the enemy summoner timer, then you can write it: CTRL A + CTRL C + CTRL V + ENTER to paste it in, and repeat.
In Summary,
You can improve at League of Legends by keeping an eye on the enemy summoner spells and communicating with your team to tell them when your enemy is vulnerable and summoner-less.
Understanding the timers of summoner spells is easy once you get used to it but can be hard to get into and keep doing. So I wish you the best of luck! You now understand the cooldowns of summoner spells and how to tell your team about them
Finally, if you wish to download the image of the spreadsheet above, then you can do so. I suggest printing it off and keeping it near your monitor so you can easily track the timer.
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