Mechanics: Blocking Dash Damage

Some dashes stop when they hit a champion, and the damage lands on whoever they hit. Stand in the right place and a support can absorb an entire engage aimed at their carry.

League of Legends Mechanics

Blocking Dash Damage

Updated August 2026

A large number of gap closers travel visibly across the ground rather than teleporting. Many of those stop when they collide with an enemy champion, and crucially, the damage applies to whoever they collided with rather than to the intended target.

That means you can put yourself in front of an ability aimed at somebody else and simply take it for them.

How to Do It

• Watch the enemy who has the dash, not the ally they want to kill.
• Position yourself between them and your carry, on the line the dash would travel.
• Let it hit you. The dash stops early, your carry takes nothing, and the engage has failed before it began.

This is the least visible way a support wins a fight. Nothing appears on the scoreboard. There is no assist, no kill, no damage number worth looking at. All that happened is that the enemy engage stopped six hundred units short of the person it was meant to kill, and your team won the fight that followed.

What It Works On, and What It Doesn't

Works: collision dashes

Anything that travels across the ground and stops on the first champion it touches. If you can watch it move, you can usually stand in it.

Doesn't work: blinks

Flash and similar instant teleports have no travel to intercept. There is nothing to stand in front of.

Doesn't work: targeted dashes

Some dashes lock onto a specific champion and will path around you to reach them. Know which of the threats in front of you are which.

Partially works: skillshots

Many skillshots also stop on the first target hit, so the same positioning absorbs those too. Worth thinking of as one habit rather than two.

The Habit to Build

Most supports position relative to their own carry. The better instinct is to position relative to the threat, because that is what decides whether you are actually between the two of them. Standing behind your marksman looks protective and accomplishes nothing.

For any term used here, the League of Legends Terms Glossary covers it.

The rest of the mechanics series

• Auto Attack Resetting
• Input Buffering
• Double Ward Gold
• Auto-Attack Spacing
• Extending Flash Over Ledges
• Advanced Hotkeys
• All Advanced Mechanics