What Actually is TEMPO in League of Legends?

[@zellz91]

Tempo is always lethal

[@minidays960]

Say that again?

[@Pekkamuhis98]

@@minidays960 LETHAL TEMPO

[@rygornspectre7142]

​@@Pekkamuhis98 *Credits roll*

[@ebedensrift2006]

I like short Asians

[@dogehkiindogeborn5339]

based​@@ebedensrift2006

[@mondomola]

League is like a turn based game and tempo is a measure of the virtual turns. The team with tempo is the team with the initiative, the team attacking or doing. The other team responds to the team with tempo and takes advantage of the fact that they are occupied attacking to get a better position=tempo afterward.

[@Youngdefiantfan88]

It is nothing like a turn based game.

[@10kRats]

​@@Youngdefiantfan88 whats wrong with the metaphor?

[@Youngdefiantfan88]

@@10kRats Everything. LoL is real-time, not turn based. Completely different category

[@JasonHuang1004]

@@Youngdefiantfan88hence the word “like” I don’t think anyone is saying it’s the same genera as advance wars, fire emblem, final fantasy tatics, or star rail. However “like” is referring to league of legends having a lot of strategy and responding to what the opposing team did on their “turn” Food for thought but yes not the same genera obviously

[@zreed545]

​@@Youngdefiantfan88 except it the exact metaphor that pros and high tier analysts use.

[@PLZFrosty]

This is the best explained video about tempo that I've ever heard. Not even SkillCapped has made it this simple to understand, and they give a LOT of info in their content. Thank you for dumbing it down to us who struggle with the intro of the game

[@agseba124]

it's SkillCapped job to overcomplicate things, the need to do it so they can sell you a "course" that explains this "complicated" stuff

[@PLZFrosty]

@agseba124 makes sense

[@Mrkrabbss]

His example only applies to high elo

[@andrealasorte7747]

talking as if skillcapped videos are not horrible lol

[@PLZFrosty]

@@andrealasorte7747 are they?

[@christatum3045]

It's time guys. Literally Time. Tempo is the time you have available. You play well, you have more Time to do things like recall/roam/farm. You play bad, the opponent will have more Time to do those things.

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

Tempo is literally time in Portuguese. Its a Portuguese word. English speakers now use it instead of the word time.

[@julgan-o2i]

@@goncaloaraujo6644 It’s from latin « tempus » meaning time, it’s also tempo in other latin languages

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

@@julgan-o2i only in italian and i dont think italians have anything to do with it because in Portugal we use a lot of English words from England and vice versa. For example, They use bunda for big ass and its a Portuguese word. There are many other examples, england and Portugal have a really old and good relationship.

[@jacopovilla2028]

​@@goncaloaraujo6644Portuguese and Italian are not the only Latin originated languages and bunda, while yes it's probably originated by brazilian/Portuguese, came from the slaves from Africa.

[@RanetaCroak]

@@goncaloaraujo6644 I'm guessing it's actually from italian since tempo was widely used as a musical term.

[@jamestaylor9887]

My explanation would be tempo is the manipulation of the game state that alliows you to press your advantage ideally without being contested. Pushing waves gives access to jungle. For warding. Picking an enemy gives number advantage for forcing an objective Even forcing a summoner spell is a form if tempo, but its rarely capitalized on below mid diamond

[@m0nsterjojo6821]

This isn't how I learned what I know about it but did flow to this understanding without realizing it (This short "unlocked" that for me). It's a fantastic analogy and wonderfully put.

[@mryous2543]

Honestly one of the best tempo explanations that I've seen someone in youtube say, most of the time they say how it works but never actually show it like a resource

[@yessir2456]

A good example in lane is how after a mage full combos you typically there is a trade window there if u have some form of disengage so you have a moment in time where it is your turn to do the damage where their spells are on cooldown

[@mnzrk]

thats not what tempo is at all

[@yessir2456]

@ its a different type of tempo but thats still tempo

[@cjk339]

@@yessir2456 tempo is regarding macro, youre talking about micro

[@yessir2456]

@@cjk339 tempo can apply to both wym its legit controlling the flow of a game state thats just as relevant in lane as it is on map

[@baptistecochennec5956]

​@@yessir2456you're technically not wrong but nobody uses the word tempo for what you describe so your example doesn't make sense

[@Krulfar]

Pretty good explanation. If you watch top tier League matches, the main factor that make the best teams the best is how well they use tempo. You can never take anything from them without it being traded for something else and if you make any small mistake they severily punish any second you lost.

[@Name-bf4ko]

This is spot on, especially for macro focused team like GenG. It's disgusting how they can get 2+ dragons, grubs and towers while having equal gold difference to the enemy team the entire time

[@slowsatsuma3214]

Opportunity cost is a related idea

[@mitsuki1388]

I feel like he explained opportunity cost more than tempo in the second half of it but they're intertwined

[@christatum3045]

@@mitsuki1388 the Opportunity Costs Time. Time is the 2nd most valuable resource directly after your Nexus

[@KINGOFTHESPARKS755]

Its the ebb and flow and waveform of a game. One of the strongest things you can do is disrupt your enemy's tempo, one interrupted recall is all you need

[@leafshadow2329]

Its quite nice seeing the visuals along with the answer to my question.

[@arigatameiwaku]

leafshadow himself

[@rmidifferent8906]

Tempo is the time that you can spend without it costing you anything. Simple as that. The cost is most often waves You gain tempo by quickly pushing the wave for example . You have free time before the next wave to anything you want. You can do an objective or gank another lane, or reset. You having tempo does not mean that your opponent can't respond to you. It just means that they have to sacrifice something, for example a wave or their reset timer. Proxying a wave quickly gives you a lot of tempo, because you kill the wave before it can fully arrive, so you have a lot of time to do anything

[@peterclark5244]

A great way to think about it, especially for junglers, is opportunity cost from economics. The cost of using your tempo is the cost from not doing something else. If you're taking drag you're not invading or ganking and vice versa. So it's really a cost benefit analysis of how much time and opportunity is spent to do something compared to doing something else. Tempo also determines risk - it takes more time to use a crashing wave to dive bot then do dragon, but not ganking and rotating to drag means that maybe bot lane pushes back the wave and comes late to drag as their jg comes from top side.

[@christatum3045]

@@peterclark5244 junglers are the ones with the best grasp on tempo because they quite literally are playing against the clock.(tempo means time) Full clearing is literally just doing a circuit and the camp respawns are the laps. Scuttle and epic monster spawns are "check points" to measure how ahead or behind schedule you are. Laners fight Gravity. Junglers fight Time.

[@mrreemann8313]

As a bronze player - I think a better name for this phenomenon in league is pressure. or Influence. Your goal in every game is to exert enough pressure to "crack" the enemy team's nexus. Sometimes, you spend some of your pressure to gain something that will increase your pressure later. Dragons, Baron, Enemy Jungle Camps - these give you more pressure. But first you need to spend your pressure - because when you are not in lane, when you are not applying your pressure to the enemy team, they are building their own pressure that they will spend to grow their own. Tempo as a word implies a musical rhythm - but in order to control the rhythm of a game, you need to force the enemy to play to your tune - you need to pressure them.

[@dominikmalnar3562]

Brate koliko mi je dugo trebalo da zbrojim 2 i 2 i skontam odakle si, ponosan sam da netko sa naših prostora nalazi dio kolača za sebe na ovoj velikoj svjetskoj sceni, svaka čast samo nastavi tek si na početku!! 🎉❤

[@carlparsons7288]

Tempo is applicable to many online games.

[@jeanligne5113]

Tell them its the cooldown of yumi e

[@wlink639]

I have heard the term first time over a decade ago in Hearthstone

[@kiiana221]

For those still wanting an simpler explanation. Tempo means quite literally time in some languages like portuguese. Tempo is your time on the map or time when you can do plays instead of farming minions or camps. You use time to make plays or get objectives

[@christatum3045]

@@kiiana221 farming is part of tempo too bro. That's the whole point of adc going to the middle. To eat the quicker wave sooner and be better positioned to respond. It's also why power farm junglers don't waste time on failable ganks and invest their tempo into sure success farming instead

[@MrMARS1ANO]

Tempo literally means time in italian (coming from tempus, in latin). Which, uncoincidentally, is the resource we are talking about. When you gain tempo or lose tempo, you essentially gain or lose time to do stuff.

[@skoodlemoose]

everyone starts the game with a clock at 0 seconds, every time you gain time over your opponenet (clearing a camp 2s faster, moving quicker out of lane, etc) you're gaining tempo. You can use this tempo to do big things liek invade or do objectives or gank or roam or whatever. The reason jungle is so broken is that it's the biggest tempo generating role in the game, you can generate massive amounts of tempo if you know what you're doing. Support is the same way and arguably better at it in some situations

[@nathanwilson3507]

thanks for explaining it so well 😁

[@Greenllamabean]

If you’ve played a dark souls game, it’s best described as the time when you dodge or the time you attack. Typically the person who is ahead, or who has a stronger champion at that point in time will determine this tempo

[@yuumijungle548]

hes correct about this, a low elo jungler will think that if he can do a dragon its always "free" however what he doesnt understand is during the time he does the dragon, the enemy jungler has established a 3 level lead, hit level 6, took his entire top side and killed top and midlane, so even if something is free in theory, it can still be a bad play in practice.

[@StrictlyDeft]

Having tempo is like chess when it's your turn. You can take all the time you have to make a move, analyze the board, count your pieces, and think about what your options are. You are free to do with your turn what you want, but eventually, you will have to make a move, and once you cash in your turn, you lose tempo. Now your opponent has tempo, all you can do is wait for your next turn and play safe, defend turrets, push out waves, and clear your jungle camps. You can't force fights when it isn't your turn because it's too risky, and if you lose the fight, you are also skipping what would have otherwise been your next turn.

[@N4th4Pl4yz]

Ebb and flow. *Includes Fizz in the video*. Masterpiece.

[@xazarl3381]

Another way you might understand aswell is top is pushed in and mid is pushed in and your jungler decides to invade blue and meets the enemy jungler. Then the enemy mid and top because they have pushed you under tower have tempo to move and collapse 3v1 without losing anything then when they return to lane the wave is neutral or pushing to them. Then this is where your teams jungler asks why you didnt help and you say i couldnt leave why did you invade then you all argue and lose the game because of the junglers mistake. Another way would be you take baron everyone recalls and pushed out to get tier 2 tower bot. You decide to stay top and take 1 more wave then you recall now you off tempo with your team and this is where 5v4s can happen or when you went for one more wave you died and ruined the tempo.

[@unbinding216]

Actually applicable to real life. Pretty Cool

[@DidatticaScuola]

Tempo mean fkng recall before drake spawn instead of chasing a 0/9 mundo top with ghost

[@supervillain369]

I'm also going to toss it out here: Assassins are designed in part to be capable of doing 'counter-tempo' that is; they can break off from where the team is supposed to be tempo-wise to get picks and generally disrupt the enemy when they are supposed to be at advantage; being able to repeatedly do this without inting, is what separates good and great assassins.

[@SenatorDodo09]

"Generating options and opportunities for you and your team" is how i always explain it

[@shrimp7]

League is the perfect definition of time is money

[@dan_oak]

Azzap has such a good vocabulary especially for someone from the balkans.

[@alexandertanner2940]

Idk why people don’t just compare it to chess. Practically the same, but much easier to visualize, more well known, and in an actual turn based form.

[@abjoern]

People who don't play chess don't know what tempo is in chess either

[@alexandertanner2940]

@ chess is turn based and played on a physical board. It is far easier to visualize/comprehend tempo on a chessboard than in a moba match

[@troyjohnson7154]

The more you play, the more you get attuned to that tempo. Most of the rage you see on this game is people misreading the "tempo" of the game. Either they think they have priority on a camp that they dont or the rest of the team doesnt see it and doesnt help. Etc.

[@mateuszmatera4044]

It was a really good explanation of a tempo in just one short, but even if tempo is well explained it's hard to learn it from videos. In my opinion tempo becomes more intuitive the more and better you play. It's hard to learn it by theory you need to feel it in a game.

[@765craven4]

The super frustrating thing is playing with people who have no concept of this. They don't understand how to use the advantages they gain and just want to use that time to farm, or worse, try to poke their laner under their tower, when there's a dragon or grubbs up. Have lost tons of games as a jungler cause of having laners doing shit like this, and had junglers as a laner who'd rather farm camps than take a Dragon. It's infuriating.

[@dragonnoises8824]

I (main supp) get 2 kills for my adc, I've enough health to roam mid and make/interfere a play, minions are pushing so wave will reset. I got a kill to my mid. I helped my jg with scutter. Back. "Troll supp left the lane instead of bullying with our advantage" -Ezreal that died without backing to base Why?

[@765craven4]

@dragonnoises8824 I don't play support but as a Jungle main it's super infuriating when I countergank and we kill all 3 of the ADC, Supp and Jg and we are all still above half health with a Dragon up and yet my ADC and Supp would rather reset than help me with the Dragon. Like. I get that you're sitting on a fat paycheck but help me ffs.

[@dragonnoises8824]

@@765craven4 I hate it when the adc goes back to base instead of helping with objectives

[@zreed545]

Fuck dragons they are piss the gold and exp from waves and camps is generally more valuable, so you shouldn't sacrifice those for a dragon.

[@aekainal]

so basically tempo is trying to take advantage of your situations

[@Adam-gt6ew]

Well explained

[@sionara2285]

Every action has a reaction, nothing is free

[@davidgervais5974]

Tempo is especially important in jungle.

[@christatum3045]

@@davidgervais5974 Jungle is a clock & race track simulator

[@moontim4620]

Basically it means if you see a bard in your lane, you attack with it

[@krzysztofputerko1943]

"in a matter nothing is free" Meanwhile enemy team who doesn't respond at all when I solo drake lvl 4 right after my first clear as Shyvana when It's warded lmao. I love silver/gold elo.

[@ButHearMeOut]

Tempo means time in Portuguese/Spanish You get an advantage, it gives you some time where you have control of the encounters

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

Tempo is time only in Portuguese. Spanish is tiempo. English speakers started using tempo instead of tempo. You’re explanation is right

[@christatum3045]

@@goncaloaraujo6644 same word bruh. Tempus is time in Latin.

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

@@christatum3045 mate i dont think you understand how languages work. Its either from italian or portuguese.

[@christatum3045]

@@goncaloaraujo6644 I don't think YOU understand how etymology works. All these time words are just remixes of the word Tempus. They're modern reworks of the word Tempus from season 1

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

@ yea you have no brain at all. No shit latin languages came from latin. The fact english speakers use Tempo and not Tiempo or any other variation means it either came from Portuguese or Italian. You are discussing with urself about the latin thing you absolute donkey

[@Twenty2-ok]

But a good setup and it can feel free, especially if their on your side knowing to BURST THAY BOI DOWN, instead of chillaxing on the objective

[@Ken-un9jb]

"Nothing is Free" yeah tell that to Goldies when I sneak drake at lvl5 after full clearing, while enemy JG chills on the toplane stealing xp from his teammate :3

[@RisingShadow11]

when the adc just wants to freeze wave all game and doesn't know went to push or backward constantly pushing.... not using tempo wisely

[@bllllllllackbirdie]

Tempo= time. Pushing out waves gives you time to help outside your lane as example.

[@product8422]

I like to think of macro tempo and micro tempo... macro is like playing the map and micro is like timing waves to be efficient with gold and items

[@DZero2105]

Yeah if they're smart enough to realize its ebb and flow before master they would probably just play blame

[@Deathstroke24120]

It's free if you're so ahead that they can't push further than neutral

[@azirious666]

If 3rd tower isn't pushed then you lost a free dragon

[@BelrogPlutius]

Nothing is free unless when you're on my enemy team in rank, then everything is free

[@paulreed3778]

Now explain tempo to my team

[@tian1332]

Here is a simple explanation tempo is time that you are uncontested doing something as if you are in practice tool

[@shun-li8204]

TIL that the Waves mentioned in relation to Game Tempo refers to Minion Waves... God I'm stupid, all those videos I watched in the past being lost af...

[@sebastit7d]

"No objective is free" tell that to my jungler and laners freezing and clearing their own camps on the opposite side of the map after you ping 4 people at dragon, getting nothing done because 99% of the playerbase plays locked camera with their minimap turned off.

[@theinflaster8397]

Tempo is necessary on the highway

[@arbitervildred8999]

don't put words in our mouth, blud asked for an explanation never said tempo gives you drake :skull: priority is what gives you free drake Thought you knew better

[@DejaVuRemember]

That's like my match history

[@Summer2shura]

ah league of legends my favourite fighting game

[@WVK0NG]

And then there me just pushing top no matter what is happening on the map 🤣🤷‍♂️

[@donsq4306]

I knew about this since I was past silver. I am decent at macro for low elo. But my problem is I cant stop myselve from tilting 😂 So Now i just play arams but barely touch the game. I must say unless you go pro or something or start streaming high elo. It’s not worth the effort. Just play life 😄

[@amateural]

As a no elo QP Casual jgl player azzapps jgl arc has people calling me a tryhard so do I technically get like 1 LP for that or?

[@MART0Ss]

Key word- 'time'. Tempo=time

[@TheWeekdys1]

Oh you thought you are playing an action pvp game. No, it's me, a fucking turn base game 😂

[@arvianaksan68]

Its a currency/resource to go do something else to make it easy to understand

[@kelato-by4px]

It's the most annoying buzzword in league right now.

[@htetmyattun0]

I play Nami so that my team will always have the ebb and flow.

[@zaxalyas1073]

except, my team doesnt trade that, they go to drake too and 2v5

[@DrSabineVT]

League is a TCG Confirmed

[@m9wshideout613]

when i realized League is a turn based game i started becoming better

[@andrewcampbell3337]

There's no such thing as a free lunch

[@azizardaxxxx6412]

Simply extra chess move

[@fifthycharaktersforaqualit7468]

You just try to lose the least amount stuff and try to gain the most stuff by pushing out your lane and other mechanics

[@OmarBaassiri-wd6wc]

Hm. You clearly haven't played the old DOTA. Spawn in base. Minute 0. Ursa Warrior. Buys Vanguard. He can solo the equivalent of the monster in league that you can ride into crash a turret. At level 1. Without potions.

[@chiruzbg]

Look up chess tempo!

[@SkyTowerKurogane]

Opportunity cost, basically.

[@Jelonazo]

It is free if you kill the enemy beforehand ....

[@boro.purvi.sled.pikoto]

Tf is he talking about tempo is the time u have before the next wave arrives Or ur first jungle camp spawns

[@thomasw624]

Tempo = ability to move first

[@Venomasa]

As in chess

[@MemarGameChannel]

Bot lane is always free

[@_valerio___8484]

brw tempo is literally just time in italian

[@alekx6145]

So League is like chess

[@chrisdavis8650]

Unless your faker... Ive seen that dude do things that i didn't know was possible.

[@BirchTreeCoconut]

Dude is wrong, in Silver EVERYTHING is free. Well, maybe except dragons after 20 min

[@notEAdemize99]

LMAO Tempo literally means "time" in portuguese and probably a few other languages. It means you're ahead in time of your 'obligations' so you can do more stuff than the opponent.

[@leeroyj7300]

im convinced he's just spouting bullshit for the sake of sounding smart, yes there are free drags, its called an ace

[@patrykboduch9458]

Learn chess, get to high intermediate level and you will understand what Tempo is ;)

[@Astrobigobaldoo]

Tempo is time in portuguese

[@maomaeramnon3870]

What a terrible explanation and definition of tempo

[@БарриЛомов]

Basically, "tempo" - is digitally formed game position, best used for AI-bots. Human mind can operate outside of those digits. But you need some kind of data for AI-bots to have a reaction, similar to human`s. That is "tempo". Also, "Tempo" is an excuse for most laner`s inability to read map correctly and their inability to move in time for a good teamfight and cooperate with their team.

[@asingularlittlefish]

First? 🤓 ☝️

[@imoto2764]

Tampon

[@Fenzz01]

Until you play bronze

[@dirtydeeds4free553]

Tempo can also be explains as time. The game ends in x minutes, no matter what. What you do in that time is your tempo. You HAVE to choose, you cannot get everything. Minion waves, camp timers, neutral objectives, tower plates, towers, and items/basing if ur not orrn, all of that is also tempo. And unless ur yorik, or ornn, you can only do one of these things at a time. Then you also gotta sync up with 4 other griefers, and fight against 5 other griefers.

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

Its literally time. English speakers use the portuguese word for time (tempo)

[@dirtydeeds4free553]

@goncaloaraujo6644 yes, with latin roots. Not just Portuguese, I'd think it's in every latin language in some form or another

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

@@dirtydeeds4free553 yes latin roots but tempo is only portuguese and italian

[@rykovanadis8155]

Isn't tempo when you get ahead with some kind of advantage (typically early) then use that advantage to stay ahead and move faster than your opponent staying at least one step ahead and push the game faster? Or am I wrong?

[@bau9894]

not necessarily. thats too broad. tempo just means who has control and can make the decisions freely. eg. your enemy laner hard pushes and thus has tempo over you because they can do something else on the map that you cant or will be behind in the response

[@jamestaylor9887]

Typically. In a way tempo is the same thing as snowballing. The main issue is many people don't understand how to utilize tempo to actually close out a game or the ego their tempo and lose it making it harder to close a game out.

[@aitorugartevega3681]

By being ahead as a laner, you can gain control over the wave state and the moment you decide to push, you gain tempo over the enemy laner to make a play. While you make the play, the enemy laner pushes the wave and when your play ends, you have to go back to the lane to get the wave and push. In that moment, even if the enemy laner is weaker, he has tempo over you and can make a play that you can't contest, as you'd lose many minions.

[@alessandrodellepiane2088]

Sry for text wall That would be trying to accelerate the game by using tempo aggressively so u end up having all tier 2s or whatever, but tempo in itself is like rhythm, kind of like a subtle rule/mechanic of the game, where the teams effectively play in turns(similar to soccer and basketball offensive and defensive phases), rather than a "free flow" like it would seem by just experiencing a game first-hand. The turns corresponds to moments where members of the teams have the time to switch from their "single player" role to meet up to make a play together like getting a drake or invading the enemy jgl, ganking/diving a sidelane etc, these moments come from quickly clearing waves bc ur primary role still remains generally protecting ur tower and getting minions, but once u got nothing on ur plate u can use ur time (turn) to make a play

[@palfalvigergo4324]

Not really. Thats called snowballing. I play top so lets say i crash a wave into turret. Then proxy another one. Now I will have tempo over my toplaner because he has to collect the wave under turret and also the upcoming wave. So in that time im free to invade jungle take scuttle or roam mid or whatever until the next wave even comes close. Thats called tempo. If the enemy slow pushes and crashes a big ahh wave under your turret usually he resets but he can also roam to take grubs or herald. Thats also tempo, then he has tempo over you

[@nicamis8190]

FunFact tempo is time in italian

[@Kishi_Lancelot]

Tempo just means time in portuguese or spanish😅