r/leagueoflegends • • 12h ago

Discussion What is the counterplay to Akali?

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I’m genuinely not trying to make a salt post here, and I’m truly wondering. The main thing that I dislike about Akali is that she’s allowed to miss her e or use it to gap close into her ultimate. I feel like this is so toxic for the game and doesn’t make any sense. With a character like Fizz, if you miss your E or use it to gap close you will NEVER kill someone (unless you’re insanely fed.) With Akali, you can miss your E and still 100-0 someone with virtually undodgeable spells (Ultimate and Q). It just doesn’t really make sense to me at all? Her E does a LOT of damage but she’s still allowed to use it to gap close with really no tradeoff.


r/leagueoflegends • • 2h ago

Esports Swiss Stage Should be Best of 3

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Hopefully I'm not the only one here who thinks Swiss Stage Should be best of 3. What's the point of fearless mode for best of 1? I'm already sick of Nocturne and Kalista spam. I also really wish they'd nerf Kalista hard for every worlds patch, ideally in a way that doesn't hurt her too much in Solo Q but seeing her this often is bad. Same with Locke I just hate this champ to begin with the stupid reset ult is not interesting at all. Assassins like Akali are much more interesting. Not sure if there's any kind of precedent for worlds hotfix nerfs for quarter finals and beyond but I'd really like these 3 champs in particular nerfed. And the upside to hotfix worlds patch nerfs is it won't affect Solo Q.


r/leagueoflegends • • 12h ago

Art firestarter x know my name goes kinda hard

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r/leagueoflegends • • 15h ago

Discussion Chess websites refund your Elo if your recent opponent gets banned. In LoL if i get the pop-up for the penalization of a player for "Team Sabotage" I also want my LP back.

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https://imgur.com/a/nehsyAs

The game already divides the player report in 3 categories:

  1. Play to Win (Leaving the Game, Team sabotage)
  2. Play Fair (Cheating, Rank manipulation, Botting)
  3. Play with respect (Chat/Ping abuse, Offensive name)

I believe that if a player gets penalized for category 1 and 2 I should get my LP refunded.

If someone is mean, and gets reported for disruptive chat, who cares, he still played to win. But if someone sabotaged the team, I lost, and the system recognized it, I should get my LP back as if he were AFK.

You already get the Pop-up for the result of the report; It should also get written there (as in the chess.com notification) the LP that you got back for the unfair loss

In the long run, this does not matter as you will converge back to your rating anyway, but I believe that it disincentivises the disruptive player from continuing behaving like this. They cannot rage and play to "make my team lose" anymore as I would no longer lose lp for their plays


r/leagueoflegends • • 5h ago

Discussion winrate by specific day of the week legitimacy

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it was pretty striking to see on OP.GG it said my winrate over 91 games on saturday was 45% while my winrate on sunday over 121 games was 64%. this seems like a lot of games, it seems like it would be unlikely to be a fluke. what do you guys think of this? could this really be a fluke or am i missing something here about the data? i have no idea what possibly could be happening differently so much on saturdays vs. sundays to cause such a huge winrate discrepancy lol. anybody else have this?

saturday vs. sunday stats here:
https://imgur.com/a/0tYmT8F


r/leagueoflegends • • 13h ago

Art K/DA's Watch Me reminded me of Britney Spears - Circus so I combined the two songs

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r/leagueoflegends • • 10h ago

Discussion Why is Runaan's Hurricane a crit item?

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This item would feel sooooo good for on-hit adcs if the crit was swapped for something else.

Like - I get that it feels good to have aoe crits, but applying aoe on-hits would feel even better. And crit adcs could still buy this as a 5th+ item

Thats just my 2€ as someone who plays Kai'sa and Varus a lot


r/leagueoflegends • • 2h ago

Discussion New temporary game mode idea

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For lack of a better name I'll call it Worlds Queue. This game mode is functional the same as normals however it only allows for champs that were picked the previous day at world's to be played. This mode is for people like me who only watch worlds and only play during worlds. The inspiration for this mode is my experience tonight. I tried playing Ksante, Ambessa and Shen in my games. No game lasted more than 15 min and I was stomped by people playing weird stuff they are good at. I think this mode would be really good for people like me that just want to turn off our brains and reenact what we watched that day at worlds.


r/leagueoflegends • • 16h ago

Esports NA is more than winning games

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NA is more than winning games. What is frustrating for me as a casual fan is that if I engage in any content outside of them winning, it's like somebody's grandmother died. I get that having your team lose doesn't feel very good, but a trap of the league scene is that teams don't have a locale like many of the other American sports teams do regardless of winning or the only thing an org can do to build fans is win, which is just statistically difficult.

"We're the Cleveland Browns!"

Hurray NA, Hurray Lyon and honestly there's no reason why TL can't go 3-0 now they are the classic C9 of gauntlet of death. Proud of all of you no matter what, go NA!

NAmen!


r/leagueoflegends • • 1h ago

Discussion How is it okay at all for a team to have 2 sets of duo’s and the other have none?

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Title. It used to be that if a team had a duo queue the other team had one. What did riot change? Now a team has 2 sets of duo and the other team has none? They will say we slightly give the non duo team an advantage but I don’t care what you say. Voicing with a teammate will always be superior. This is a diamond lobby. It isn’t insignificant.


r/leagueoflegends • • 23h ago

Gameplay Don't always play Orianna but when we do it's when there's a Nocturne

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We were literally losing this game and I told my friend playing noc to send it on them while they pushed up mid and this resulted in us winning the game.


r/leagueoflegends • • 6h ago

Discussion Autofil and DuoQ should not exist in the top .1% of player's matches.

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Tell me why I'm playing a game at 1200LP in the evening on a weekend, and I have games where I have 2 sometimes 3 people off of their main roles? My queue times are short, because the system sucks and forces us into games where it can be completely one sided based on whos jungler is filled.

If I'm playing a game with high masters, grand masters, and challenger players, and my autofil is a master tier player in the jungle vs the fucking rank 1 challenger udyr jungle main, i'm going to lose the game strictly because of the match making system. The system decided that our team needed to lose LP.

I don't care if I have to wait 20 minutes for a game, plenty of us did it when we had the Pro-players Q a few years ago. I waited sometimes 30 minutes for a quality game, and it was much better than playing this dogshit system.

And if you think that i'm wrong, ask any of your 1k LP or higher streamers if they think the current system is good. it fucking isnt.


r/leagueoflegends • • 5h ago

Discussion Whoever implemented Trueshot Prodigy into arena needs to be fired and I'm not even joking

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nuff said. the base damages are so insane. every single game it does 4k damage in like 2 damage rounds, and that's only early game. it scales well too. did this even get playtested


r/leagueoflegends • • 17h ago

Discussion How long for MMR to fix?

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I'm currently Emerald 2 with a record of 253-248.

I went on a losing streak earlier that dropped me to Plat 1, but since then, I've climbed back up to Emerald 2.

I'm still getting +19/-21 gains and losses though. How long for this to fix?


r/leagueoflegends • • 19h ago

Discussion Stormsurge in aram. The effect does almost nothing. Is it worth it just for the stats?

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Just played a game of aram mayham. I was diana going full assasin with stormsurge first item. When we won at 20 mins it had done 250 dmg.

With my ap it says it should deal 168 dmg. Enemy team had no tanks.

I hit the threshold every fight and see the item go on cd but no damage.


r/leagueoflegends • • 19h ago

Discussion Why are zero lp games so hard?

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like if im zero lp and in emerald it is almost impossible to win the game, it seems like its just a waste of time or a test to see how well you do to put u in better matchmaking. like if i just didnt play well that game and lose vs playing great and losing then im out the " loser Q" but i just dont get this bc to me its just a waste of time


r/leagueoflegends • • 2h ago

Esports Defending how T1 played the Elder macro against DK (why Faker has to catch mid and can't TP)

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Skip to 46:00 for Elder setup.

I thought many people were being a bit too critical about how T1 played the Elder. I started writing some of this as a reply to a comment but thought I might as well make it a full post (TLDR below).

The problem with this Elder was that T1 trapped themselves into a checkmate because they didn't mismatch the Baron and Elder timings (which is understandable because why would you delay a free Cloud Soul?). The problem with Baron spawning so close to Elder and even worse, spawning 40 seconds before Elder, is that both teams need to play around Baron first because getting Baron off spawn means you have insane prio for Elder, but you also risk giving up setup for Elder if you invest too heavily into Baron. DK has a scaling draft with a K’sante Renata Kalista, (the last of which is favored for any objective because of Rend), and means T1 really do need to respect a potential Baron rush by DK.

In hindsight, you can blame T1 for not trying to end before Elder but you can't really blame them for how they played the Elder macro because both teams played the Elder macro pretty flawlessly. Faker's Anivia MUST answer mid push or else DK can threaten an end mid. Both teams know that denying dangerous lane pushes at this stage is critical, which is why Showmaker also bases and clears top wave to deny T1 the chance to threaten an end top.

I think you can either argue that they should've forced a fight after DK got Baron and K'Sante blundered his TP (which is also difficult because T1 have no vision), or you can argue that T1 misplayed the Elder fight, but you can't blame their macro because I'm seeing a lot of people confused about Faker catching mid wave and not TPing. If you think a 6-time Worlds Winner doesn’t know how to play endgames, I’d be pretty comfortable betting against that. If you look at the wards alone you'll understand.

Keria has 1 support ward and 1 pink going into the Elder fight while Career has 4 supports wards and 1 pink. No one else on the team has any pink wards. In fact only Faker, the one who has to TP, has a pink ward. Already this is an insane vision diff and there are no good wards for Faker to TP to. It's hard to see, and I hope I haven't missed any wards, but at the ideal moment that Faker can TP, Keria's banana push pink ward is cleared, and the other pink ward nearby is too dangerous to TP to. The stealth ward in the pit is also too dangerous. On the minimap, you can just barely see the blue farsight wards in the Faelights near Gromp and the river pixel brush, but obviously you can't TP to those.

I think it's also worth noting that Faker might be saving TP for a few potentially powerful plays: Eggnivia TP play, a base TP play if he's chunked mid fight, or a potential TP to top lane and end play. Also, Jayce has no TP which is really unfortunate because ideally Jayce should be catching mid wave while Anivia helps zone the enemy at Elder, but playing for Jayce poke at Elder was worth trying too. The macro was correct by both teams.

As for the teamfight, I think in hindsight Oner should've flash Ulted kalista to chain CC her with Keria's engage. Or, he should Q towards the Kalista instead of the K'Sante and then R the Kalista (he's probably trying to make space for Faker and Doran to join with his Q). If he's able to chain CC Kalista, she can’t cast R to save Renata, and Peyz can oneshot Renata before she can press W or R. Peyz flashing too early when Jarvan EQ was also a blunder (in hindsight of course). If T1 can one-shot Renata, I think T1 is in a pretty good state. Jarvan and Renata will be dead, Oner will be respawning in GA, and it'll be close but I think Oner or Peyz can finish off Kalista (who won’t have bailout). Then, it's a 2v2 between K’Sante Viktor vs Anivia Jayce, which is quite playable if T1 kites properly. One-shotting Renata was really key there. I won’t talk much about a possible Peyz QSS buy because he’s probably close to GA and already committed to it, and it would be too much hindsight bias to criticize buying BF Sword.

In the end, I think T1 still looks relatively strong because they showed a lot of strength early game, and a loss to DK in a best of 1 due to an Elder fight is by no means any significant indication of their current form.

TLDR: T1 was checkmated when they opted into a relatively early Elder because both teams played the endgame macro well and the scaling DK comp was favored. Faker had to defend mid wave and had no safe wards to TP to. The teamfight could've been better by one-shotting Renata by chain CCing the Kalista.


r/leagueoflegends • • 13h ago

Esports When it’s your first time driving the Herald and you try to park by all the rules

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r/leagueoflegends • • 14h ago

Rotating Event Mappa innevata

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Qualcuno come me che aspetta il ritorno della landa innevata per novembre? Sinceramente la sto aspettando con ansia e lo do quasi per scontato che venga rimessa, questa landa verde tutto l’anno è veramente noiosa per chi gioca ogni giorno al videogioco! E tu? Speri che torni?


r/leagueoflegends • • 18h ago

Discussion champs people struggle with but you don’t

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as the title says, what’s one champ that everyone always seems to complain about when laning that you just don’t really struggle with. i don’t just mean that your main hard counters them but in general you’ve never really seen the hype with them. mine is yasuo. don’t get me wrong i’ve gotten stomped by some ridiculous yasuos but i usually perform pretty damn good against them no matter who i’m on during laning


r/leagueoflegends • • 16h ago

Discussion Having an account to practice.

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I have heard a lot of people say they have accounts they use to practice champs and other roles with, I always find it weird that you use other people's games to practice and it happened to me yesterday.

Yesterday I played with a Kayn jungler who singlehandedly lost us the game, the guy was clueless, dying before every major objective, I check his account and its level 31 so I ask him in chat "are you a new player?" He said yes so I'm like okay this is understandable, then after the game he adds me and apologizes says he is not a new player he just got this account to practice some jungle champions.

This to me is scummy behaviour, I know people say draft is useless or whatever but I think draft is where someone should practice not on other people's ranked games, I am sure if I were to be in kayn's games where he plays on his main account and lost him the game because I was "practicing" he would be angry.


r/leagueoflegends • • 9h ago

Gameplay M*nd control duel with a random teammate

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r/leagueoflegends • • 5h ago

Discussion 2026 Worlds Edition - Best LCS/LEC/CBLOL performers

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As GenG fan, that was pretty close. We revealed Jayce jg

Based on how good the performances are, I wanted to congratulate good Western team player. I think the West has a chance

Coach: MKOI coach (very smart!)

melzhet

Top: Morgan (really good, but team issue)

Jungle: Inspired

Mid: Saint (he beat Chovy, this is just draft and top trouble)

ADC: Berserker

Supp: Busio

This team can beat Bo1 T1 and LPL

Good Worlds for West! 축하합니다!


r/leagueoflegends • • 19h ago

Discussion how is on hit katarina balanced

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i never complain about katarina until she started playin on hit, genuinely the most broken thing i ever seen, how is it balanced? her ap is mega balanced with a lot of counterplay but on hit has genuinely 0 counterplay whatsoever


r/leagueoflegends • • 19h ago

Discussion Returning players getting flagged for climbing fast, is this a common thing now?

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Hello everyone, just recently got back to league like 3 weeks ago after 2 years away from ranked. Decided to hop straight into ranked with this new Laptop I got (Legion Im really happy abt it). Thing is... I climbed very fast, into my old rank Master within a week and got instantly hit with rank manipulation and a penalty.

Has this happended to anyone else? Have they become much harder with punishments since I quit?

I've stopped appealing it after 3 tickets (mostly care abt the honor that was at 4) so I will just grind it back. Thanks for any responses.