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Altar Blue

An altar being captured

An altar is an area in the Twisted Treeline that grants vision and a powerful buff to the team that controls it. There are two altars on opposite sides of the map. A champion captures an altar by standing on top of it for 9 seconds. When more champions stand on a single altar, it is captured in a shorter amount of time.

Capturing Altars[]

When captured, an altar seals for 90 seconds during which it grants Sight icon vision of the surrounding area and during which cannot be recaptured. Capturing an altar grants 80 Gold 80 to each member of the capturing team. Additionally, controlling an altar grants your team bonus effects.

  • One Altar Controlled: 10% bonus movement speed.
  • Two Altars Controlled: Restore 1% of maximum health on minion and monster kill.

Each altar has sets of quotes. Some of these quotes are specific to champions aligned with the Shadow Isles.

The amount captured decays over time (if a capture is interrupted) at the same rate as it increased regardless of how many champions opposed to the capture are present. A capture can be halted by having a champion opposed to the capturing team on the altar, but this only pauses the capture; in order to reverse the capture, the capturing champion(s) must be knocked off the altar. Capturing is unaffected by recalling (in that, a champion recall while capturing).

Altars spawn at 2:30 and are locked for 90 seconds upon capture, but can't be locked by the same team again, until control has shifted and the altar is then reclaimed.

West Altar Quotes[]

West Altar Spirit

Upon being first captured
Upon subsequent captures

When captured by Elise Elise:

When captured by Hecarim Hecarim:

When captured by Karthus Karthus:

When captured by Mordekaiser Mordekaiser:

When captured by Yorick Yorick:

When captured by any Shadow Isles champion (including Evelynn Evelynn and Thresh Thresh):

East Altar Quotes[]

East Altar Spirit

Upon being first captured
Upon subsequent captures

When captured by Elise Elise:

When captured by Hecarim Hecarim:

When captured by Karthus Karthus:

When captured by Mordekaiser Mordekaiser:

When captured by Yorick Yorick:

When captured by any Shadow Isles champion (including Evelynn Evelynn and Thresh Thresh):

Trivia[]

  • ▶️   Spirit of the Altar profileicon "Alas, poor Yorick." quotes Hamlet.
  • ▶️   Spirit of the Altar profileicon "Are you lonely Yorick?" is told with sarcasm.
  • ▶️   Spirit of the Altar profileicon "Mordekaiser… are you also a prisoner?" is a reference to the Iron Maiden Song The Prisoner, which was also the previous title of the Children of the Grave Buff.
  • ▶️   Twisted Treeline Altar profileicon "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!!" is a common quote from plague searchers.
  • The west altar behaves aggressively against the Shadow Isles champions, reminding them of their apparent errors, mocking them, and questioning them. On the other hand, the east altar is friendly to them, asking them for help, glorifying them and offering them his service.
  • The West altar is often referred to as the 'Lady' and the east altar as the 'Lord' due to the images that appear after capturing them and their voices.
  • ▶️   Spirit of the Altar profileicon "This place was once so beautiful." references how the Ruination the Ruination transformed the Blessed Isles into the Shadow Isles.
  • The two spirits that appear when an altar is captured are husband and wife. They died there thousands of years ago.[1]
    • The face that the East Altar is remembering is most likely the spirit from the West Altar, his wife.
  • Evelynn, the Widowmaker Evelynn, the Widowmaker was speculated to originate from the Shadow Isles, but no confirmation to this relation was made until much later.[2]
    • Evelynn Evelynn and Thresh Thresh were supposed to receive Altar quotes, but was eventually scrapped.
  • The West and East alter may be the husband and wife from the Tales of the Black Mist, but is just speculation.

References[]

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