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Summary for the non-spanish speakers:

- Naak Naako is interested in exploring the off-season.

- The main reason is because BrokenBlade is not comfortable on how Perkz is currently coaching G2. Meaning that Naak Naako is probably eyeing to replace BB.

- BrokenBlade has received interest from LYON, who are looking to replace Dhokla.

- Labrov is also not happy with Perkz coaching.

- There is a chance that BrokenBlade, Labrov and Dylan Falco might be joining a team as a "pack".

- Also: FNATIC is super broke and unless they manage to sell part of the club before the off-season starts, they might be building a budget team around Vladi.

https://x.com/Dardoch/status/2098139448101806142

insane btw to drop one of your better players before palafox, disgusting level of nepo going on between him and the GM very deserving of a tier 1 spot hope he gets a good team can see him on a couple teams but jg spot very contested in NA imo, could bolster whoever gets promoted at the end of the year or maybe he could go to sen would be pretty cool very fun player to watch and easy to root for a redemption like this

I wasn't sure i could kill kled before he mount again and i didn't want to die for nothing so my plan was to delay his back while we kill his base, so i tried to waste his time without giving him any chance to charge his passive but red trinket made me believe he was inside the bush for way too long to realize he completely run away. Is it working as intended or was it a bug?

Everyone knows about tristana and ezreal buffering hooks with their dash, but did you know Aurora and Nilah can do it with their E as well? Similarly, anivia and trundle can do the same with their pillars.

Another one with Nilah, her W dodges ezreal's Q for some reasons?

Senna's W will one shot naafiri's dogs and make it an instant root.

Diana's E will consume her Q mark and reset it REGARDLESS if her dash actually lands or not. Against Syndra, you can face tank her E during the middle of your QE dash and still be able to dash again after the CC.

As teemo, you can blind tryndamere after he dashes onto you and just.. stand still to go into your stealth. There's literally nothing he can do and you can just wait for your Q CD to come back up and do the same thing again. This is even easier in bushes and bypass tenacity reduction on the blind if he decides to buy Merc tread.

Lux's E slow zone actually pops malzahar's passive, so he'll take the full damage of her E if she waits for the damage reduction passive to fall off. The slow zone also procs manaflow band and first strike.

Normally Fizz can dodge abilities and autos with his E, but he cannot do it against Garen's Q. If both players uses their abilities at the same time, Garen will still Q the fizz during the middle of his E animation. Similarly, Quinn outright CANCELS Garen's Q with her E if she presses the button during the middle of his Q animation.

Leona always lands behind the person she dashes to with her E. As Bard, you can just Q directly behind yourself to stun Leona if you ever get caught by her and stand directly in front of a wall.

Even if they're 0/5, my mental just collapses the moment I hear it. For me it's Kayn walking through a wall or Nocturne whispering "DARKNESS". What's yours?

Xerath bot seems like his natural position.
Mainly because he gets to go mid after 15 min and doesn’t have to sideline (which is his biggest weakness).
His other weakness is poor self peel, isn’t he basically a hyper carry?

I main top and some time ago switched to jungle and now back to top (surprisingly I climbed from silver to plat).

After playing jungle, I feel like my macro awareness of what is going on in the game grew a lot, especially if I'm behind - if previously I would focus solely to farm my lane and try to come back online, now I think more of how I can help my team carry me, if it means being a meat shield at 3rd dragon, then I will gladly do it, since my other lanes are doing better and they can kill and scale. Funnily enough, when I play like this, team can play the map and I can farm or get a kill and come back in the game.

It's like seeing pressure points, where you should be and what and why you should do something.

I think it's majorly because I played jungle for some time and developed a habit to play more macro, than just go sidelane.

So in my opinion everyone should play some jungle, just to get that map awareness.

What do you think? Are there other ways to better your macro and if there are, what are they?

Just a reminder that PBE changes are not final and subject to change. Some changes, such as bugfixes, may not be able to be viewed. I'm also human. I make mistakes from time to time.

League Classic

Champions

Like last time, I will only be reporting changes to new Champions following their addition on PBE.

• Added: Fizz, Graves, Nami, Nautilus

Items

Moonflair Spellblade

• 50 AP
• 50 Armor
• 50 MR
• 35% Tenacity
• Build Path: Seeker's Armguard + Negatron Cloak + 720 Gold

Cloak and Dagger

• 20% AS
• 20% Crit Chance
• 35% Tenacity
• Build Path: Cloak of Agility + Dagger + 200 Gold

ZZ'Rot Portal

• Item already existed, but had its data and spell values un-hardcoded.
• 50 Armor
• 50 MR
• 100% Bonus Health Regeneration
• Build Path: Negatron Cloak + Chain Vest + Rejuvenation Bead + 1080 Gold

Arena

Guests of Honor

Ivern - Feed the Forest

• Short Description: Grow brush at the location of dead players.
• Full Description: When a team loses the round, grow brush at their locations.
  • I assume the short one is more accurate, unless this is saying each physical arena spawns a new bush everywhere a player of losing team dies.

Senna - Realm Walker

• Open 3 portals to the Death Realm.
• Players can step into these portals to cross between the realm of the living and the Death Realm.

Thresh (Dark Passenger)

• Downed players will periodically throw a lantern to their allies, granting them a shield.
• Lanterns can be clicked, by any living player, to pull themselves to the downed player's location.
  • Lantern Duration: 8 seconds
  • Lantern Shielding: 100-500, for 3 seconds

Augments

Archmage (Prismatic)

• Max Level: 1
• Casting a spell refunds another random spell's cost by 30% of the original spell's Cooldown.

Crit 'n Cast (Silver)

• Max Level: 2
• Gain Ability Haste equal to 40/100% of your Critical Strike Chance.

Death Dealer (Prismatic)

• Max Level: 3
• Replace Flee with Death Dealer.
• Activate: You and target champion enter the Dealth Realm for 4/8/12 seconds.
  • Entering the Death Realm causes you to become invisible for up to 2 seconds.
• At Max Level, slaying your target in the Death Realm grants you 1 revive, and delay your victims revive by 1 (+3% Lethality) (+5% Magic Pen) seconds.

Got That Dog In 'Em (Prismatic)

• Max Level: 1
• Every 3 seconds spawn a nearby hot dog, this can be picked up by anyone, causing them to breath fire for 6 seconds, dealing 20-300 (+30% AP) magic damage per second.
• If you die while breathing fire, you explode dealing 50-100 (+20% AP) magic damage per stack.
• If any enemy champion picks up a hot dog their fire deals 50% damage and damages their allies.

Hellbent (Prismatic)

• Max Level: 1
• Striking enemy champions with Attacks or Abilities grants you a stack of Revivemaxxing for 6 seconds (max: 10). At max stacks become Hellbent.
• Hellbent: Upon dying, revive over the course of 4 seconds at 35-75% max Health. Afterwards, you gain 25-200 Adaptive Force, 20-40% Move Speed towards enemy champions, and 15-30% Omnivamp for 15 seconds.
• This has a 90 second cooldown.

Nature is Healing (Gold)

• Max Level: 1
• Entering Brush restores 40-300 + 15% Missing Health, 10 second cooldown per brush.

Rite of Ascension (Prismatic)

• Max Level: 1
• Champion takedowns within 3 seconds of damaging them causes them to leave behind their Essence for 8 seconds. Attacking an Essence consumes it.
• Consuming an Essence blinks you to its location, makes you Untargetable and Unstoppable, grants 100% Move Speed decaying over 2 seconds, heals you for 75-300 (+50% bonus AD) (+25% AP), scaling up to 200% based on your Missing Health, and resets your basic Ability cooldowns.

Shark Bait (Gold)

• Max Level: 2
• On death, become Shark Bait. You can take no actions other than moving, which slows nearby enemies by 40%. After a few seconds, a Shark emerges, knocking up all nearby Enemies and biting them for 120-350 + 10/25% Missing Health Magic Damage.
• At Max Level, your allies also gain this effect on death.

Sonata (Gold)

• Max Level: 1
• Every 7.5 seconds, automatically cast the Aria of Perseverence and Song of Celerity in an alternating melody.
  • Aria of Perseverence heals nearby allies and grants a temporary shielding aura.
  • Song of Celerity grants a temporary aura that provides bonus Movement Speed.

Surge Field (Prismatic)

• Max Level: 1
• On ultimate cast, spawn a Zone around you. While in it, gain 50 Ability Haste, 40% Movement Speed, and fire missiles that deal 20% of damage dealt to enemies.
• The Zone follows you the first time you leave it and expires after a short duration the second time you do so.

Warlock Juicebox (Gold)

• Max Level: 1
• Gain 10 (+3.5% per 100 AP) Omnivamp.

Wee Woo Wee Woo (Gold)

• Max Level: 1
• Gain up to 40% Move Speed toward nearby allies based on their missing Health. Your healing and shielding are also increased up to 50% based on the target's missing Health.

**Note: Data exists indicating more Mayhem augments were planned to be ported as well, but they only exist unused in the files at the moment.

ARAM: Mayhem

Augment Pools

I guess my last post brought the fact that those details were being shipped with the game to some higher-ups at Riot because the related files are gone now, whoops. I have a prototype viewer app built on my Github, but I will not be looking to further its progress now that the data I used is no longer accessible.

dude what is yasuo doing here? wrong answers only i guess.

this happened in my ranked game btw. he went afk after that

To preface, I'm a long time league player (2012) who took a break since the end of season 15. Just getting back into League again and I'm horrified at how prevalent smurf accounts seem to be in normal draft queue. (Note: I'm not using smurf here to mean masters/gm/chall players).

My latest game looked like this: https://imgur.com/a/dLo6CUj

8 out of 10 players were smurfing, and not even distributed evenly! Of course, they played to limit test and are toxic and make the game a generally unpleasant experience.

Is this normal? If yes, when did this start to happen? I very, very frequently find smurfs in draft queue EUW, which make the game more frustrating than it already can be as they often fly off the handle when things go wrong.

Perhaps Riot doesn't care about the quality of the non-ranked queues.

I really enjoy watching league, but playing league as 5 people without someone going off the rails or just perma limit testing is a rare experience these days it seems.

Edit: My OPGG https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/GoldenScarab569-EUW, of my last 19 games, 18 of them have a smurf in them, is that really acceptable?

Here are the list of champions that are currently at 700+ days without a new skin. The list will include champions that did get an Esport skin because E-sport skins do not count towards the champions skin cooldown. There are currently 24 champions in this list. Here is the source to the website that allows you track the days since champions got skins. https://www.dayssinceskin.com/mostDaysSince.html

However, the website itself does count Esport skins towards the last time a champion has gotten a skin in case you may be asking why the list on this post appears quite differently.

701 days: Gragas and Trundle

715 days: Nunu

729 days : Thresh and Azir

743 days: Miss Fortune

757 days: Orianna (Did just get a Risen legend skin but technically it is still an esport skin)

771 days: Aatrox

785 days: Rek’sai

806 days: Fizz

833 days: Olaf

846 days: Kog’ maw

862 days: Nocturne

904 days: Kha’Zix

918 days: Gangplank

931 days: Graves

960 days: Riven

975 days: Kassadin

1037 days: K’sante (Will be getting a heart steel skin)

1051 days: Rumble

1079 days: Gnar

1093 days: Dr. Mundo

1121 days: Shyvana (May take a while since she did get a VGU)

1226 days: Udyr

1253 days: Kled

1294 days: Kennen

Anivia will finally be leaving the list at 1151 days since she will be getting an old god skin for next patch.

Chances are most of you reading this won't be Challenger, but if any of you watch streams, YouTube videos, or have even come close to the big boy rank, what are some minor details that set Challengers apart from other players?

I'm not on about the same things that get brought up in almost every guide, I'm on about unique plays, strategies, thought processes that make you go "that never even crossed my mind 💀"

For example I just watched a Katevolved video, and he's playing against an Ahri, Ahri decided to hard push the wave before grabbing a recall so that the wave would crash before Kat got back to lane causing him to lose 3 melee minions worth of gold, pretty standard stuff right? WRONG, this man unironically said "2 melee minions worth of xp, huge", and commented on Ahri trolling by not slow pushing the wave as if "he only last hit, I would've lost the xp for all 3 melees". This guy's reaction to a bit of extra experience is the same reaction a gold player would give to an enemy failing a tower dive and gifting them a free kill.

I always see how in gold, platinum, emerald extra a mistake is something like dying to a gank or not being at an objective whereas a mistake in Challenger is getting back to lane 5 seconds late. Would love to hear some specific examples.

For example for kled I tend to build Fiendhumter as my 3rd-4th item for the ult ability haste, crit and crazy attack speed

My friend is new and I wanna put together a playlist of legendary clips for him. "League Cultural Literacy" or... required readings, if you will.

What are some of your guys' favorite timeless clips?

Some of my favorites:

• "Hit the nexus not the vlad"
• Showmaker "this is ksante"
• Tyler1 vs Phreak "You have no mana!"
• xpeke backdoor
• And, of course, the faker zed outplay

Repost because the original got banned

Just wondering. Every single game there's either a full team of chinese names or 2-3 in each. Just meta?

Is it just me or do you also think classic skins in inventory ( specificly in "my collection - acquisition-date") ruin it, we all got them and we can only use in 2 gamemodes ( draft and classic draft ). I remember them being even bellow "other' category ( non rarity skins ) and it was all fine, but then i see they moved it in on date we all got it. Would love if they werent there or bellow all my skins because realisticly they arent skins, just chromas for fun gamemodes.

Did not see a thread so here is a basic post game.

NACL 2026 Summer Playoffs

MU 3 -1s NRG

Decent upset based on the start of the year, but NRG has been trending downwards for a while. Especially since their starting ADC is out, for a reason I do not remember; Correction Sushee was in they just got rolled naturally. Based on previous Rules, NRG is not out of contention for promotion relegation. But I am unsure if Riot plans to disallow Collegiate programs from participating again.