Lexis

-Generic-

Mid - Short for middle, short for middle lane

Top - Short for top lane

Bot - Short for bottom, short for bottom lane

Courier - A unit that transfers items to and from base

Lane - A pathway in which creeps and turrets are located

Jungling - Anywhere that is not a lane or base, where neutral creeps spawn

Double Stacking - A trick where one makes two neutral creeps spawn in the jungle

Proc - A reference to "procedure" in which an item has an on hit chance to do something

Runes - Buffs that spawn every two minutes in the MOBA's DotA 2 and HoN

Regen - In short for regeneration, one of the many buffs given by runes.

"Push us up" - A command asking to kill more creeps, so that the place where both teams     creeps meet is closer to their side

Port - Short for portal, an item used to teleport across the map

Last Hit - A term in which the person makes the killing blow on a unit, receiving gold

O.P. - An acryonym for over powered

Crit - An abbreviation for critical, most often used in critical hit

Ult -  An abbreviation for ultimate, the last skill a character is able to learn

A.F.K. - An acronym for "away from keyboard" 

Farmer - A term for someone who gets many last hits to "farm" a large amount of gold

Metagame - The most effective strategy in the "flavor of the month" rotation of strategies

Roshan - A powerful creature that grants immortality to one player who kills it in DotA 2 

Baron - A powerful creature that grants a team wide buff to which ever team kills it in LoL

Blue Buff -  A spell caster buff that is granted to who ever kills the Ancient Golem in LoL

Red Buff -  A physical user buff that is granted to who ever kills the Elder Lizard  in LoL

River - A term for the area directly splitting a MOBA map in symmetry  

Bush - A high grass area in LoL that players cannot see into, but a player in it can see out

Ward - A placed unit that last for 3 minutes that grants the team who placed it vision of that are until death

Base - The home area of a team

Creeps - The A.I. units that spawn from each base and walk down lane to fight

Turrets - The A.I. units that are stationary and protect the base 

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-KoM Specific-​

As a team that plays multiple MOBAs, lingo from game to game becomes part of our vocabulary. For example, the character name Swiftblade from HoN is sometimes given to the DotA 2 character Juggernaut. Another example of this is the LoL character Kennen is sometimes refereed to as Moon Queen. There are a multitude of nicknames given to characters, items, and players alike that each member must be fluent with to be able to understand half of the team's communication. In other cases, acronyms are treated as abbreviations. For example, when saying M.I.A. one does not say the letters, yet instead we shout "mia." This does not transfer over to A.F.K. however.

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