Crowd control (CC) is the term used to describe an ability or spell that temporarily reduces a unit's ability to fight. The term 'crowd control' comes from the ability to control the enemy team during fights, by either restricting their contribution or means to escape. In addition, the use of crowd control can aid in your own survivability: in the same way you can stop them from escaping, you can stop them from following.

Crowd control does not make an enemy untargetable. In the case of Airborne effects, the target is considered to be on the ground for the purposes of skill shots and area of effect damage (such as Morgana's  Tormented Soil).

Contents 1 Types of Crowd Control 1.1 Summary Table 2 Categorization 2.1 Loss of Control 2.2 Disruption 2.3 Modifiers 3 Countering Crowd Control 3.1 Preventing 3.2 Removing 3.2.1 Items and Spells 3.2.2 Champion abilities 3.3 Reduction 3.3.1 Items 3.3.2 Champion abilities 3.3.3 Masteries/spells 3.4 Slow Potency Reduction 4 Self-CC 5 Trivia 6 References 7 Comments

Types of Crowd Control Edit

This article contains a streamlined version of the content. For the full article, see: Types of Crowd Control.

The following are the current forms of crowd control that exist within League of Legends:

• Airborne: A unit that is airborne is unable to control their movement, attack or cast abilities for the duration. The duration is also unaffected by crowd control reduction and cannot be removed by cleansing effects.
  • Knockback: A knockback causes the target to be made airborne in a direction away from the point of cast.The duration depends on how how far the target travels, from 0.75 seconds ( Rammus's  Powerball) to 1.5 ( Lulu's  Wild Growth).
  • Knockup: A knockup causes the target to be made airborne on the spot.The duration depends on how high is the target thrown into the air, from 0.75 seconds ( Rammus's  Powerball) to 1.5 ( Lulu's  Wild Growth).
  • Pull/Fling: A pull effect causes the target to be made airborne in a direction toward the point of cast.
• Blind: A unit that is blinded will miss their auto-attacks for the duration.
• Entangle: A unit that is entangled is unable to control their movement or attack for the duration.
• Forced Action: A unit that is under the effect of a forced action cannot control their own movement or attacks, and is unable to cast abilities.
  • Charm: A unit that is charmed will attempt to move toward the source for the duration. If the source cannot be seen, a charmed unit will instead stand still.
  • Fear: A unit that is feared will walk in random directions with reduced movement speed for the duration.
  • Flee: Targeted unit will move away from the attacker.^[1]
  • Taunt: A unit that is taunted will attempt to attack the source of the taunt for the duration.
• Polymorph: A unit that is pacified cannot attack or cast abilities, and has reduced movement speed for the duration.
• Silence: A unit that is silenced cannot cast abilities for the duration.
• Slow: A unit that is slowed has reduced movement speed for the duration.
• Snare: A unit that is snared is unable to control their movement for the duration.
• Stun A unit that is stunned is unable to control their movement, attack or cast abilities for the duration.
• Suppression: A unit that is suppressed is unable to control their movement, attack, cast abilities or use spells (including Cleanse). The duration is also unaffected by crowd control reduction.

Summary Table Edit

   denotes that the action is blocked

	Movement	Attacking	Abilities	Interrupt	Spells	Reduction	Removal
Airborne						No
Blind		Miss				Yes
Entangle						Yes
Forced Action						Yes
Polymorph						Yes
Silence						Yes
Slow	Reduced					Yes
Snare/Root				See notes		Yes
Stun						Yes
Suppression					All	No

Please note the following:

• Movement includes abilities (such as Ezreal's  Arcane Shift).
  • For example, while airborne you can cast all summoner spells except Flash and Teleport.
• Ability refers to a champion's castable spells (by default Q, W, E and R).
  • Mikael's Crucible cannot be activated where Abilities are disabled, as the item is intended to be used on allies.
• Spells refers to the Summoner Spells.
• Interrupt refers to whether or not the effect will cancel channeled abilities.
  • Contrary to popular belief, snares will not interrupt channeling (including channeled blinks such as  Crowstorm). They will, however, interrupt Teleport and charged abilities (namely  Elastic Slingshot,  Vault Breaker and  Piercing Arrow).
• Mercurial Scimitar removes any crowd control effect that Quicksilver Sash would.

Categorization Edit

Loss of Control Edit

Crowd control is often categorized into two categories depending on whether or not the effect removes total control of the player's character.

Hard CC — The following effects completely remove control of one's character:

• Airborne
• Forced Action
• Stun
• Suppression

Soft CC — The following only remove partial control of one's character:

• Blind
• Entangle
• Polymorph
• Silence
• Slow
• Snare

Disruption Edit

As an alternative to the above, crowd control is sometimes categorized into two categories depending on whether or not the effect disrupts the channelling of an ability; abilities such as  Karthus's  Requiem and Katarina's  Death Lotus.

Hard CC — The following effects disrupt the channelling of abilities:

• Airborne
• Forced Action
• Polymorph
• Silence
• Stun
• Suppression

Soft CC — The following effects do not disrupt the channelling of abilities:

• Blind
• Entangle
• Slow
• Snare

Modifiers Edit

Abilities can also be categorized by what their effects inhibit.

Movement Modifiers — The following effects in some way inhibit movement:

• Airborne
• Entangle
• Forced Action
• Slow
• Snare
• Stun
• Suppression

Action Modifiers — The following effects in some way inhibit the ability to attack or cast abilities:

• Airborne
• Blind
• Entangle
• Forced Action
• Polymorph
• Silence
• Stun

Countering Crowd Control Edit

Crowd Control can be countered in various different ways.

Preventing Edit

Crowd control can be prevented. All forms of crowd control can be prevented, including knockback, knockup and pull effects.

• Master Yi's  Highlander prevents slows for 8 / 10 / 12 seconds.
• Poppy's  Diplomatic Immunity prevents all forms of CC for 6 / 7 / 8 seconds except from her target.
• Olaf's  Ragnarok prevents all CC for 6 seconds.
• Hecarim becomes immune to CC during  Onslaught of Shadows's charge.
• Jarvan IV becomes immune to CC during  Cataclysm's charge.
• Malphite becomes immune to CC during  Unstoppable Force's charge.
• Nocturne becomes immune to CC during  Paranoia's charge.
• Vi becomes immune to CC during  Assault and Battery's charge.
• Morgana's  Black Shield prevents all forms of CC for 5 seconds or until the shield is broken.
• Nocturne's  Shroud of Darkness creates a magical shield for 1.5 seconds which can block the next enemy spell that hits him.
• Sivir's  Spell Shield creates a magical barrier for 3 seconds which can block the next enemy spell that hits her.
• Banshee's Veil creates a spell shield that can block a spell once every 25 seconds.

Removing Edit

Crowd control can be removed after it has been applied. These effects can be activated while under the effects of the crowd control.

All forms of crowd control can be removed except knockback, knockup and pull effects.

Items and SpellsEdit

• Cleanse removes all CC except suppression.
• Mercurial Scimitar: Unique Active - Quicksilver: Removes all debuffs from your champion. 90 second cooldown.+60 attack damage, +45 magic resistance 3700 gold
• Mikael's Crucible: Unique Active: Removes all stuns, roots, taunts, fears, silences and slows on an allied champion and heals them for 150 + 15% of their missing health. 180 second cooldown. +300 mana, +40 magic resist, +9 mana regeneration per 5. Unique Active - Mana Font: Increases your Mana Regen by 1% per 1% Mana you are missing. 2200 gold
• Quicksilver Sash: Unique Active - Quicksilver: Removes all debuffs from your champion. 90 second cooldown.+45 magic resist 1550 gold

Champion abilities Edit

• Alistar's  Unbreakable Will removes all forms of CC.
• Gangplank's  Remove Scurvy removes all forms of CC.
• Olaf's  Ragnarok removes and prevents all forms of CC.
• Evelynn's  Dark Frenzy removes all slows.
• Garen's  Decisive Strike removes all slows.
• Master Yi's  Highlander removes and prevents all slows.

Reduction Edit

Crowd control reduction reduces the duration of crowd control effects by a percentage equal to its value. The reduction will stack multiplicatively with other types of CC duration reduction.

Items Edit

• Mercury's Treads: Unique Passive - Tenacity: The duration of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes are reduced by 35%. +25 magic resistance, Unique Passive - Enhanced Movement: +45 movement speed. 1200 gold
• Spirit of the Ancient Golem: Unique Passive - Tenacity: The duration of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes are reduced by 35%. +500 health, +30 armor, +14 health regeneration, +7 mana regeneration. Unique Passive - Butcher: Damage dealt to monsters increased by 25%. 2300 gold
• Zephyr: Unique Passive - Tenacity: The duration of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes are reduced by 35%. +25 attack damage, +50% attack speed, +10% movement speed, +10% cooldown reduction. 2850 gold

Champion abilities Edit

• Dr. Mundo's  Burning Agony reduces crowd control by 10% / 15% / 20% / 25% / 30% while active.
• Garen's  Courage reduces crowd control by 30% for 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 seconds.
• Irelia's  Ionian Fervor reduces crowd control by 10% / 25% / 40% for 1 / 2 / 3 nearby enemy champion(s).
• Zac's  Let's Bounce! reduces crowd control by 50% while the ability is active.

Masteries/spells Edit

• Cleanse reduces crowd control by 65% for 3 seconds (4 seconds with Summoner's Resolve).
• The Tenacious mastery reduces crowd control by 5% / 10% / 15%.

Slow Potency Reduction Edit

These effects reduces the potency of movement slows. Similar effects stack multiplicatively with each other. Note: This does not reduce the duration of the effect.

• Boots of Swiftness reduces the potency of movement slows by 25%.
• The Relentless mastery reduces the potency of movement slows by 7.5% / 15%.

Self-CC Edit

The following effects are comparable to crowd control, except that the effect is caused voluntarily and affects the user rather than a target.

Self-Knockback: A champion that knockbacks itself and is temporarily unable to cast abilities, attack and issue movement commands.

• Caitlyn's  90 Caliber Net
• Ziggs's  Satchel Charge 

Self-Snare: A champion that snares itself is unable to control its movement and will ignore movement commands (included forced actions, such as fear). A champion that is snared can still be moved by airborne effects, but it will not break the snare.

• Xerath's  Locus of Power

Self-Slow: A champion that slows itself has reduced movement speed. Most of the current examples are connected to a channelled ability, and the slow will end when the abilities have finished casting.

• Garen's  Judgment (while passing through enemy units)
• Varus's  Piercing Arrow
• Vi's  Vault Breaker

Self-Silence: A champion that silences itself is unable to cast abilities. They may still attack and use summoner spells.

• Rumble's  Junkyard Titan

These effects are not affected by crowd control reduction, nor can they be removed by cleansing effects.

A note on channeling and casting animations: neither are considered forms of crowd control, however disruptive they may be. A notable example is Renekton's  Ruthless Predator, which incapacitates Renekton for a fair duration of the stun - much to many player's detest.

• Casting: The casting (sometimes "charging") of an ability cannot be cancelled by the player or an enemy except by death. Forced actions (such as taunt) will have no effect for the duration of the cast, and using airborne effects to move the player will not affect the trajectory of the skill - which will start from the point of cast, not from the player's current location. Summoner spells and most items can still be activated while casting.
• Channeling: The channeling of an ability can be cancelled by hard CC, or by the player attempting to perform another action (such as movement, casting another ability or attacking) - a notable exception is Galio's  Bulwark, which can be cast during  Idol of Durand without interrupting the channel. Summoner spells and most items can be activated without disrupting channeling (which is particularly useful information for jungle Fiddlesticks as Health Potions will not interrupt  Drain).
  • As denoted above, some channelled abilities apply a self-stun, which prevents the user from cancelling the channel prematurely (as they are unable to attack or cast other abilities).

Self-Stun: The following champions have channelled abilities that the summoner cannot interrupt (contrary to most channels which will be interrupted if you attempt to move, attack or use another ability). This is comparable to a stun.

• Malzahar's  Nether Grasp (for the first 0.5 seconds of the duration)
• Urgot's  Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser
• Warwick's  Infinite Duress

Trivia Edit

• Sona's  Crescendo causes the target to dance.
• The highest available crowd control reduction can be achieved by Zac This combines the 35% from Tenacity, 15% from Tenacious, and 50% from  Let's Bounce!, reaching a total of 1-((1-0.35)*(1-0.15)*(1-0.50))=72.4%. Or 90.3% for 3 seconds with use of Cleanse.
• Alistar, Olaf, and Tryndamere are the only 3 champions that can use their ultimates under the effects of hard CC.

References Edit

Ability Types
Absorption shield Area of effect Aura Crowd control Damage over time Dash Blink Healing Skillshot True damage