In League of Legends Summoner's Rift (5v5), there are 3 symmetric lanes.
If only the minions play, does it last forever?
Are the lanes fully symmetric?
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Related Solutions
For Summoner's Rift (5v5)
Baron Nashor - 15:00 initial, 7:00 respawn after death
Dragon - 2:30 initial, 6:00 respawn after death
Lizard/Golem - 1:55 initial, 5:00 respawn after entire camp death
Wolf camp - 1:40 initial, 1:00 respawn after entire camp death
Wraith camp - 1:40 initial, 0:50 respawn after entire camp death
Small golem camp - 1:40 initial, 1:00 respawn after entire camp death
For Twisted Treeline (3v3)
Ebonmaw (Dragon) Buff - 4:40 initial, 5:00 respawn
Grez (Lizard) Buff - 2:10 initial, 4:00 respawn
Ghast/Rabid Wolf Buff - 1:55 initial, 3:00 respawn after entire camp death
All small camps - 1:40 initial, 1:15 respawn after entire camp death
Not sure if these values are 100% accurate for Twisted Treeline after the recent jungle remake. If anyone has specific info, feel free to comment/edit it in.
Special Notes:
The values listed for the Ghast/Rabid Wolf and Lizard/Golem initial spawn are 1:55 officially in the wiki, however this appears to vary by about 1s and in practice they're actually a bit closer to 1:54 on the in-game clock
As indicated, a camp of neutrals will not respawn if even one mob is left alive in that particular camp. The timer to respawn will not start until the last mob is killed. For example, if I kill the Blue Golem at exactly 3:00 but leave the small casters alive, the Blue Golem will not respawn at 8:00, but rather, 5:00 after whenever those two casters are killed.
Also, unlike HoN / DotA, neutral mobs will still respawn if there is something obstructing their spawn point (e.g. a ward, an object like Shaco's JitB or a Nidalee trap, a player, etc.)
General
- Custom games are only worth 75% of the IP you would have earned in a normal game.
- Co-op vs. AI games incur penalties based on summoner level and difficulty:
- Level 10-19: Beginner games are worth 85%.
- Level 20-29
- Beginner games are worth 70%.
- Intermediate games are worth 90%.
- Level 30
- Beginner games are worth 55%.
- Intermediate games are worth 80%.
Win
- 2.305 IP per minute up until 55 minutes.
- 18 IP bonus for completing a match (~7.8 minutes worth of IP)
Loss
- 1.402 IP per minute up until 55 minutes.
- 16 IP bonus for completing a match (~11.4 minutes worth of IP)
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Optimum Game Length
Riot Games has designed their IP system to reward playing the game to completion and to reward longer games:
Q: Will I be getting more or less IP and XP as a result of this change?
A: While you will get more or less in some games, the average XP/IP gain will be much more consistent. If you typically played very long games, you will tend to get more IP and XP; however, if you typically play short games, you will get slightly less IP and XP.
While you do get a bonus beyond the "per minute IP", that bonus is designed to compensate players for the time between matches:
Q: It seems unfair that I spend 5 minutes milling around in queue and in champion select, and don't get an IP/XP reward for that. Does this system help with this at all?
A: Actually, it does! All game types give a slight 'completion bonus' that is equivalent to several minutes of play. This is embedded in IP you earn.
That being said: provided you could get into another game in substantially less that 7.8 minutes, you'd make out slightly better by surrendering and starting a new game. You'd have to do this a lot to see a substantial gain, however. If it took you longer to get into the next game, you'd actually incur a loss overall.
In short, it'll usually be best to play to 55 minutes, then bail out if you're very likely to lose. At that point, you're essentially playing to see if you'll get 145 IP vs 94 IP. If losing seems like a foregone conclusion, then you're mostly playing for the experience at that point.
Sources
- Items in the general section: League of Legends @ Wikia
- Win/Loss Accrual Rates: Based on recorded values after the completion of games. There are some instances where (rate * minutes) does not exactly equal what I recorded from the game client when you round up, but overall the above rates serve as a good enough rule of thumb for my purposes.
- IP System FAQs
Reference
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Best Answer
No. Random variations in what targets the minions acquire will cause the game to eventually end. For example, if all 3 melee minions on the blue side target the same minion on the purple side, but each minion on the purple side targets a different blue minion, then the blue side will "win" that minion war by having one minion survive while the other side has no minions left. If this happens enough times, repeatedly, eventually minion waves alone will push towers, and ultimately, the nexus.
It can take a long time, but one team or the other will win. Which team wins, however, is random. Neither side has an inherent advantage if left to simulate itself.
This assumes that there are actually champions in the game but they are just idle at the fountain. If no one is in the game, it will simply end. It will not appear in the match history, and it'll be like the game never happened.