Gold is the primary in-game currency in League of Legends used to purchase items that enhance champion stats and abilities during matches.

Starting Gold:

• Summoner's Rift: 500 gold
• Howling Abyss: 1400 gold

Base Gold Generation:

• Summoner's Rift: 20.4 gold per 10 seconds (starts at 1:50)
• Howling Abyss: 55 gold per 10 seconds (starts at 1:00)

Ways to Earn Gold:

1. Passive Gold Generation

• Automatically earned over time
• Can be increased with gold-generating items
• Only one gold income item can be carried at a time

2. Active Gold Generation Items that increase gold gain:

• Cull
• Runic Compass
• Stormsurge
• The Collector
• World Atlas

Champion Abilities that Generate Gold:

• Akshan's Going Rogue
• Draven's League of Draven
• Gangplank's Parrrley
• Pyke's Death from Below
• Twisted Fate's Loaded Dice

3. Killing Units

• Last-hitting minions (gold value increases over time)
• Neutral monsters (fixed gold value)
• Enemy champions (includes bounties)
• Structures (turrets, inhibitors)
• Wards and traps

Selling Items:

• Most items can be sold for 70% of their purchase price
• Some items (gold generating items, consumables, starting items) return only 40%
• Undoing purchases in shop returns full cost

Notable Gold Mechanics:

• Maximum possible gold from a single teamfight: 5750 (excluding special abilities/items)
• Maximum shutdown bonus: 700 gold (plus 300 base kill gold)
• Kill assists grant bonus gold to participating teammates

Gold earned through these various methods allows players to build items throughout the game, creating a power progression system that rewards skilled play and objective control.

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