Hey guys! This is lemmingllama here. I wanted to make a definitive guide of all the slang and the acronyms that are used in the game of Idle heroes. The reason for this is because new players often find it difficult to catch up with the game and it would be helpful if they had something like this guide to look at. Reddit and Discord usually are filled with too many answers when you are searching online, and so this is a better list that will help all the players of the Idle of heroes game.
- Active – This is also called as an ult. It is the special attack that the heroes can use when they have full energy.
- Amu – This is a short form for the Dark assassin Amuvor, the hero.
- Antlers – The antlers cane is an ancient artefact that is used to increase attack, skill damage and precision in the game.
- Asmo – This is a short name for the Light warrior, Asmodel, also a hero.
- Aspen – Aspen is two things, a dark warrior hero and also refers to the aspen dungeon. A dungeon is a place where you fight enemies to get some rewards.
- Baade – The Baade is the most powerful in the world of idle heroes. He is also the bringer of true terror as well as unlimited memes.
- Basics – This refers to the basic scrolls that are used for summoning. It can be used to unlock heroes of 1 star to 5 stars.
- BB – The short name of the hero and shadow assassin Bloodbale.
- Bel – Refers to the hero Belarin, the light priest.
- Bell – It is an artefact that is used to increase HP, attack as well as starting energy. Full name is Demon bell.
- Blacksmith event – This is the event where players can spend their gems to get better equipment — referred to as the Grey dwarf's blessing.
- BoD – It is an acronym for the barrier of destiny. It is an exclusive fortress faction artefact that is used to increase HP and damage reduction.
- Branches – It Is also called the Prophet's blessing. It is a resource that is used to replace the heroes in the tree of a prophet.
- BS – It is an event held monthly where the player could attack the bosses for additional resources. Also, it Is the term that everyone uses when a new hero is released.
- BT – It refers to a building that houses fights against the other player's teams which can help in collecting more dragon scales and other resources. It is called Brave Trials.
- Candy Cane – It is an artefact that is used widely to increase the Stun immunity, Attack, and HP and also called Lucky candy bar.
- Casino – It is a wishing fountain where the player can get rewards in exchange for wishing coins as well as super wishing coins.
- CC – It is the form of stunning, petrifying, horrifying and silencing the hero. Often referred to as crowd control, it is used to stop a hero’s efficient functioning.
- CCL – It as an arena where the player can play against other players using just one line up. I have called the Crystal Crown League.
- CD – Short form for the hero, Corspsedemon. Who is a shadow warrior?
- Cheese – This is a phenomenon where the heroes like aidan and Mihm get benefits because of the deaths of their own allies. It is typically a team composition. And focuses on having a mechanic perform more stronger than it typically should by abusing it.
- Chips – It is also known as wishing coins that can be used to get rewards at the wishing fountain.
- CI – It is a place where the player can defeat islands to gain additional resources and also build new structural formations to get even more resources. It is called Celestial Island.
- Crit – It is the critical chance, refers to the percentage of chance of your own hero putting a critical hit and also inflicting critical damage bonuses.
- CNY – It is the Chinese New Year. It is a huge event and is a time when all the developers usually take a break.
- DA – Refers to the hero Dark Arthinodal, the dark mage.
- Dant – It Is the warrior hero of the abyss, Dentalion.
- Deer – It is a monster that can boost the block and armour.
- DH – It refers to two things, Droid Hang, which is the company that develops the game of Idle Heroes and also the forest ranger hero, Demon Hunter.
- Dildo – It is the staff. Also the punisher of the immortal. It is an artefact that can increase critical damage, attack and critical chance when used.
- Dodge – It is now replaced by Block. Was a hero bonus in the old game.
- Dom – Refers to the hero called Dominator, who is a shadow warrior.
- DoT – It refers to Damage over Time. It is an effect that deals damage for each round only for a set amount of rounds.
- DPS – It refers to any hero that has the main purpose of dealing with the maximum damage. Refers to Damage per second.
- DR – It is a statistic that will reduce the amount of damage that the player's hero will take. It is called Damage reduction.
- Dragon – It is a monster. Useful in boosting the critical damage and the critical chance.
- DS – It refers to the hero Dragon Slayer, who is a forest warrior.
- Dust – It is a resource that is used by players to improve the hero stones. Also called as the magic dust.
- E3 – Called the Enable 3. T is where a hero with 10 stars has been enabled by the player three times, and that can use all enabling changes in the game.
- Elite Shards – It refers to a resource that is used to get a copy of the hero from the drop pool of some stronger hero (The chances that you will get a fodder hero is very slim.)
- Energy – When your hero’s energy bar is completely full, it will use the active skill in the next attack. Refers to the closeness of the hero to using their active skill.
- F2P – It is used to describe players who have not yet spent any cash on the playing of the game and called free to play.
- FA – It is an artifact that is used to increase the Hp as well as damage reduction and called Fearless Armour.
- FB – Refers to the hero Faith Blade, who is a light assassin.
- Feathers – It is a resource that can be traded to get specific heroes, artifacts or specific skins — a glorious relic.
- FM – Refers to the hero Fat Mu, an Abyss ranger.
- Fodder – This is used to refer to the heroes who are not strong enough and must be used to improve on the kills of other heroes.
- Fox – It is a monster that can boost the damage, skill as well as precision.
- FS – Refers to the hero Flamestrike, a Fortress mage.
- FTA – It refers to an arena where the player can work with another two players to defeat other players. Called the Free Team up Arena.
- Fusion – It refers to the event where the player fuses strong heroes in order to receive rewards.
- GC – Called guild coins, it is a useful resource that helps the player to upgrade their guild tech. It also allows the player to buy from the guild store. (It is my personal opinion that you do not buy from the guild store. It is not a good idea).
- GE – Refers to the four eyed heroes Grey-Eyed. A forest assassin.
- Gem box – It is a mysterious chest event. This is where players can buy resources as well as heroes in exchange for gems.
- Ghern – It refers to one of the youtubers of Idle heroes.
- GL – It refers to the owner of the player's guild. It is called Guild leader.
- Golem – It is a monster that can boost the precision as well as armour.
- Goo – It usually refers to the spirit called Green goo. Also refers to Purple goo (which are hero promotion stones). These are used to upgrade the player’s heroes.
- Griffin – It is also called as an owl. Refers to a monster that can boost the holy damage as well as the precision.
- GvE – It is an aura that is received when you have three dark and three light heroes in the player's team and called Good Versus Evil.
- GW – It is a building where players can battle against other guilds and get guild coins based on their placements at the culmination of the week and called Guild wars.
- KB – It is used to refer to King Barton, a hero warrior of the abyss.
- KoD – It is an abyss faction exclusive that increases Hp as well as damage reduction. An artifact called The King of Demons.
- HD – It is a type of damage that can ignore the armour. It is called as Holy Damage.
- HG – Refers to the warrior hero Honor Guard, A warrior of the forest.
- HM – It is an event where players can unlock new heroes in order to receive rewards — called as Heroic Miracle.
- HP – Referred to as Hit points as well as Health points. It describes the amount of damage that the player’s hero can withstand before finally dying.
- HS – It is a resource called the heroic scrolls. It can be used to unlock heroes from 3 stars to 5 stars at the place called the summoning circle.
- IB – It refers to the hero called Iceblink who is a fortress ranger.
- Ice – It is a monster that is also often referred to as the carb. Carb can be used to boost Holy damage as well as precision.
- IH – Well, it seems obvious, it refers to the game that we all are playing and are discussing here, Idle Heroes.
- KoG – It is an artefact that can be used by the player to increase the Hp, Attack as well as the Armour break. It is often called by gun, but the actual terminology is Kiss of Ghost.
- LB – It refers to the hero, Lord Balrog, An abyss warrior.
- L/D – It refers to the rare faction of heroes, called the Light and Dark.
- Leak Lady – It is used to denote a player that likes to drive and also posts the leaks of the game’s next events. Called the Kaoricompass.
- Marg – It refers to the hero Margaret, of the abyss mage.
- Market – It is a building where the player can buy other vital resources in exchange for gold as well as gems. Also called the marketplace.
- Mats – It refers to the materials that are needed to improve the player's monsters and called the Monster Souls and chaos.
- Merge – It denotes the phenomenon of several servers being combined into a single large server. Called the server merge.
- Meta – This is usually used by players to understand what is good and what isn’t. It refers to how widely a particular hero, line p, build or artefact is used in the game.
- Mich – It is used to refer to the hero Michelle, the ranger of light.
- Militant – It refers to an event where the player receives rewards for taking part in the arena.
- Mini Monthly – It is used to denote a privilege card. This card gives the player diamonds each day for a period of thirty days.
- MKx – It is used to refer to a youtuber who goes by the name of MKxJump.
- Monthly card – It is a senior privilege card. This card gives the player many diamonds every day for a period of thirty days.
- MS – It is used to denote an object Magic Source. Magic Source can increase start energy as well as damage to skill.
- MSS – Refers to an artefact that is called Magic Stone Sword. This particular artefact can help in increasing Control immunity, attack as well as damage reduction.
- NM – It is used to refer to a level in Aspen Dungeon called a nightmare.
- OD – It is used to denote the hero Od-01, a fortress mage.
- P2W – It is often called as Pay to win. It denotes a person who has used a considerable amount of money on the playing of the game. Additionally, it can also denote items that require money to be unlocked.
- Pets – It refers to the creatures that usually power up the player's heroes and activate when a number of rounds have passed. Also when some active skill shave been utilized in a battle — also called as monsters.
- PFF – It is used to denote a location in the player’s guild where the player can get guild coins and also battle against guild bosses. Called the pray for fire, this unlocks only when the player’s guild has defeated the sixty eth guild raid.
- PIH – It denotes the website playidleheroes. This website has extensive guides as well as content for people playing the game of idle heroes.
- PO – It is a resource that the player can exchange at the place called the prophet tree. This resource is called the Prophet Orb. This can be used to acquire hero shards as well as the prophet’s blessings.
- Pokeball – It refers to the artefact Augustus magic bell. This particular artifact can be used by the player to increase block, attack, and speed. The Pokeball is also called as the augustus or the 8ball.
- Purple orbs – It is a resource that is required to increase the tires of the player’s heroes. Also called the hero promotion stones.
- PvE – Used to denote the Player Versus Environment. This is played when the game uses computers and not real players to play against you. This Is usually used to refer to marauders, pray for fire, guild raids, the campaign and so on. This is when different mechanics are used by the combat which is not typically used in PvP combat scenarios.
- PvP – This is used to denote the player versus player scenarios in the game. It is usually used to refer to the arena, brave trials, friend battles and so on and also used to denote the things that mimic the behaviour of PvP combat like the Sealed land and the tower of oblivion.
- Rainbow – This denotes the colour mixing aura that is given when the player has one hero from each of the factions in his team.
- Redemption – It is an aura that is given when the player has two forests, two light heroes as well as two fortresses in his team.
- Regression – It is used to denote the situation when the user disassembles a particular hero using the soul stones in order to get back some fodder as well as some hero copies of 5 star heroes.
- Replace – It is when the player uses soul stones as well as some copes of 5 star heroes to turn a stronger or a 10 star hero into a new hero.
- RNG – It denotes the random number generation. If you are wondering why your luck in the game has been so bad, this is the reason.
- Runes – It refers to the power of the rune. It is an exculsive artifact of the forest faction. This can be used to increase HP and damage reduction.
- Shards – It is a resource that the player can use to get a copy of a particular hero. Some of these are only for specific heroes while some are meant for a specific power level or a specific faction.
- Shelter – It is used to denote an event where the player can exchange some of their heroes for other heroes as well as for some specific equipment.
- Sig – Refers to the hero Sigmund, a forest warrior.
- Sleepy – Refers to the hero sleepless, a dark warrior.
- Slot – It refers to the position that a hero is present in a line up. This ranges from slots one to six, coming from the back to the front.
- Smash – It refers to the ability that is used to make multiple attacks with only a single press of a button. This is used to save time as well as the effort.
- Snake – It refers to the monster that can be used by the player to boost their block as well as their skill damage.
- Snot – It is a resource called the spirit that is needed to increase the levels of the player's heroes.
- SoJ – It refers to an exclusive artifact of the light faction. This artifact, called the Sword of Justice is often used to increase the critical chance, the attack as well as the holy damage.
- Soul Stones – These are also called soul symbols. They are used int the game as resources that allow the player to regress or to swap a hero that is 10 stars or above 10 stars.
- SC – It is the short form for the super wishing fountain. It is a building where the player can use the super wishing coins that they have to get rewards — Sc also a short from for the Super Casino.
- Tank – It refers to a hero who will usually sit in the first slot which has a lot of Health Points.
- Thug – It is used to refer to the hero Cthuga, the abyss ranger.
- Tickets – These are in short for arena tickets. This is a vital resource that gives that allows the player to battle and attack other layers which are also in the arena.
- Tits – It is used to denote the hero Sierra, a fortress mage has 4 stars.
- ToC – It is a short form that is used to represent the Trial of champions. The Toc is an event where the player fights using a number of three teams to fight with other players.
- ToO – It is the short form for the Tower of Oblivion. It is a building in the game where the player can battle in order to receive some resources as well as some hero promotion stones.
- Val – It is called as stunning or also as gayboi and is used to denote the hero Valentino, the fortress mage.
- Valk - It refers to the hero Valkyrie, the forest ranger.
- VIP – It is a system that exists in the game; it refers to the practice of rewarding the players on the basis of how much they have spent while they have played the game. Is a short form for Very Important Person.
- WA – It is an exclusive artifact of the shadow faction. This is called the withered armour. It is used by players to increase the HP as well as damage reduction.
- WGM – It is the short form for Wind God’s Messenger. It is an artifact that the player can use to increase the Hp as well as the speed.
- Whale – It refers to a player who has spent a huge amount of money on the game.
- Wolf – It refers to the monster that can boost the precision as well as the armour break.
- Wrath – It is the short form of a youtuber who posts about idle heroes and goes by the name of Wrathofgod.
- Zeals. It is the short name for a youtuber who posts about thegame of idle heroes and goes by the name of Zealsambitions.
