So I think I know the general idea of stacks: each stack is a certain amount of damage, and you get to have a lot of stacks. My confusion is.. what EXACTLY are stacks? How DO you stack? I think it's different for every champion, but can somebody explain this to me? thanks
DeloricVI2 votesIt depends.
Some champions have abilities that "stack," or gain power by overlapping one another or having buffs that persist long enough to overlap. Champions like Sion, Nasus, and Veigar all have abilities that "stack." Every time they kill a minion or champion in a certain way (with the exception of Sion) they become more powerful. Sion gets points added to his maximum health, Nasus makes his Siphoning Strike more powerful, and Veigar gains ability power.
Other things like Twitch's deadly venom can be applied to the same target multiple times to increase its effectiveness. Vel'koz has his passives that activates when it stacks 3 times, dealing true damage based on Vel'koz's level, Braum's passive stacks up and stuns you when you get 4 stacks....
It's not all that common of an ability, but this is the basics.
Rico Nasty1 votesThanks, that was very helpful! If it's not too much to ask, do you know how to stack on Cassiopeia? I'm looking at buying her.
Zielmann1 votesStacking things usually explain how they stack in a tooltip. Or you can check the LoL wiki: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Cassiopeia
As it says on there, Cassiopeia builds a stack of Aspect of the Serpent once every 6 seconds (10 times per minute) and for every second that an enemy champion is poisoned, up to a max of 500 stacks.
Rico Nasty1 votesThanks for all the help, you guys! I really appreciate it:)
LegendaryLemur1 votesSo you're thinking of spending some fat stacks?
DeloricVI1 votesCass will passively generate stacks on her passive over time (10 per minute) and gains stacks simply by enemy champions being poisoned (i.e. from her abilities, but also gets stacks from Teemo's Toxic Shot, Singed's Poison Trail, Twitch's Deadly Venom, Gromp's Toadstool Armor... I think that covers them all) whenever they take poison damage, so each tick of poison counts.
That is, unless you're talking about the stacking debuff applied by Twin Fang, in which case, using Twin Fang will cause the debuff, and debuffs from this ability can stack and increase poison damage for both of them, rather than just refreshing the duration on the debuff like you see when you take multiple autoattacks from Teemo, for instance.
LegendaryLemur1 votesCass will passively generate stacks on her passive over time (10 per minute) and gains stacks simply by enemy champions being poisoned (i.e. from her abilities, but also gets stacks from Teemo's Toxic Shot, Singed's Poison Trail, Twitch's Deadly Venom, Gromp's Toadstool Armor... I think that covers them all) whenever they take poison damage, so each tick of poison counts.
That is, unless you're talking about the stacking debuff applied by Twin Fang, in which case, using Twin Fang will cause the debuff, and debuffs from this ability can stack and increase poison damage for both of them, rather than just refreshing the duration on the debuff like you see when you take multiple autoattacks from Teemo, for instance.
As far as i know, Cass can only gain stacks on her passive from her own poison; it's only the cooldown reduction on twin fang that is affected by other champion's poison. Otherwise, unless there is some range limitation this would be crazy OP.
DeloricVI1 votesFrom what I hear all of them count for both, but I could be wrong. I can't find any reference that specifies that only Cass's poison gives her stack of aspect of the serpent, or there being a range on it.
LegendaryLemur1 votesSo you are saying a teemo top lane will boost cass's stacks just with his on-hit off of his E? And a singed support can run around with his Q on bot lane and add to cass's stacks? Nahhh. The only thing i can find is before the rework but i'm pretty sure it stilll applies:
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2gacs1/can_casss_new_passive_be_abused/
DeloricVI1 votesAh, ok. I don't play Cass, and she's a pretty rare pick. Now I know. ^^
Zielmann1 votesIt depends on what you're stacking. Bloodthirster stacks with every auto-attack. Tear stacks on spell casts. Soulstealer stacks on champion kills or assists. Nasus and Veigar Q's stack with killing a unit with that spell.
Anything specific you want to know about in terms of how it stacks?
Rico Nasty1 votesThank you! Very informative! How do you check how many stacks you have?
LegendaryLemur1 votesGenerally speaking, mousing over the appropriate icon (ability or item) will show how many stacks you have).
Rico Nasty1 votesThanks!