A fresh start.]]>One of League of Legends’ most enticing features is its ranked queue, which allows players to test their skills against others. Each year, a new iteration of ranked is introduced to the game, requiring players to begin the grind once more while exploring its new features.
The case is no different this time around, with the 2025 season refreshing the ranked system once again. Riot Games has overhauled it a few times in recent years, yet it feels the 2025 changes make the most sense—let’s break them down.
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And this year, a Worlds spot is on the line.]]>As Spring Splits around the world are culminating in their playoff brackets, Riot Games has finally given fans of professional League of Legends information on the first major international tournament of the year.
This year’s Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), where the best League teams from around the world will compete for a spot at the 2024 World Championship, is set to take place in Chengdu, China from May 1 to 19, Riot announced today. This will be the first MSI in history to offer the winning team a guaranteed spot at Worlds rather than simply a cash prize.
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The Iron Maiden is being relegated back to her original role.]]>One of the more unexpected playstyles added to League of Legends in the last year, which gave a bulky engage champion new tools, may no longer exist in coming weeks.
As of the current iteration of League’s PBE testing realm, Rell will have a much harder time thriving in the jungle than she has over the past year. All of the jungle damage modifiers on Rell’s abilities have been entirely removed, with an explanation from Riot Games yet to be given—while the tanky champ has been granted compensatory buffs to her magic resistances—leaving the League community curious as to what exactly led to this decision.
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With the dragon nerfed, new faces are seeking to take his place.]]>An item that caused commotion in League of Legends for a large part of last season is once again gaining relevance, but this time it’s not entirely due to how quickly it can remove waves of minions.
ADC players are actively experimenting with bringing back Statikk Shiv as a primary item for certain champions in an attempt to increase the early-game power of marksmen in a post-Smolder meta. Though the item hasn’t been directly buffed or nerfed in several patches, it now stands out among others not only due to the stats it provides but how good of an investment it is.
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The winds of change are coming.]]>One of League of Legends’ oldest support champions is once again breezing through the competition—though it isn’t exactly clear why.
Janna has risen once more to the top of the support meta, currently sporting a 53-percent win rate across all ranks, according to League stats websites OP.GG and U.GG. But the champion has not been subject to any changes—neither directly nor to the items she tends to build—over the past several patches, making this rise to the top a direct result of other changes, such as Riot Games finally tackling the growing power of Maokai.
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Maokai's reign of terror could finally be over.]]>To all support players in League of Legends, don’t feel forced any longer to lock in the haunted tree.
Maokai, the Twisted Treant, is no longer reigning supreme as a must-pick in the support role. After three consecutive patches of boasting a 55-percent or higher win rate, the champion’s mark has fallen to 52 percent, where he has remained since the release of Patch 14.5, according to League stats sites OP.GG and U.GG.
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No more one-shotting nearly every champion in the game.]]>League of Legends’ giant stone colossus has long had issues with the sheer amount of damage he does, and Riot Games is now stepping in to place his offensive prowess behind his defensive capabilities.
Riot surprised League fans by pushing significant changes for Galio onto the PBE yesterday, impacting nearly the entirety of the champion’s kit that, should the tweaks make their way to the live servers, will completely alter the way he’s played. It’s currently unclear if these changes will remain in testing to see how they feel or if they’ll be making their way into the game at some point soon.
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Her power is finally returning.]]>Ahri, one of the oldest and most popular League of Legends champions, is once more a topic of conversation among fans—but this time, it’s because she may be a bit too good.
After another attempt at buffing the champion in Patch 14.4, Ahri’s presence on Summoner’s Rift has not only grown exponentially but she’s finally started to return to her winning ways. According to League stats websites OP.GG and U.GG, Ahri’s pick rate has jumped nearly seven percent from Patch 14.3 to 10 percent, while also now sporting a 52-percent win rate that’s just beginning to stabilize.
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There's only a few weeks left of the regular season.]]>After a two-week break, the LCS is finally back this weekend, and the entire broadcast is prepared to showcase a more serious, competitive, and even edgier side.
LCS commissioner MarkZ greeted League of Legends fans yesterday following the brief hiatus with the announcement that, for week five of the 2024 Spring Split, the broadcast will be themed—this time with a tougher, bolder tone than previous themed weeks have provided. This will kick off the latter portion of the Spring Split, with the Spring Finals quickly approaching at the end of the month.
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Criticism from the community has resonated with the development team.]]>Between a void monster whose changes didn’t land too well and a jungler’s edgy ego failing to meet the expectations of his other edgy side, there are a ton of problems that need to be addressed in League of Legends—and with Patch 14.5, they finally are.
Riot Phroxzon, the lead gameplay designer for League, returned last night with a more detailed look into what players can expect in Patch 14.5, including a breakdown of some of the incoming buffs with the reasoning behind them. These buffs, as well as nerfs and other adjustments, are now available for testing on the PBE and are expected to then be released on the live servers on March 6.
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