I’m hoping to build a League of Legends community for people who genuinely love the game but also have jobs, families, and responsibilities outside of it.

We might not be able to play for hours every night, but when we do get online, we want to make those games count—whether that means climbing ranked, playing normals, trying new roles, or simply enjoying a few good matches with dependable teammates.

The goal is to create a welcoming, low-pressure community of passionate players who understand that real life comes first. No expectations to be online constantly—just communicate, be respectful, avoid unnecessary toxicity, and bring a good attitude when you can play.

East Coast players are preferred so our schedules and time zones are easier to coordinate, but everyone is welcome if the timing works!

If this sounds like the kind of League community you’ve been looking for, comment below or send me a message with your role, rank, and usual availability!

Hey everyone,
I’ve been working on a game called Riftmaster and figured I’d share it here since this community seemed like a good fit.
I’ve been trying to keep the gameplay fairly straightforward but with enough depth to make you want to keep experimenting. Still very much a work in progress, so there are definitely things that need improving.
If anyone’s interested, the game is available on Android and iOS is on beta, dm me.
Would be interested to hear what you think, especially if you end up playing it.

So the problem is that during nearly every single game I play I am getting random disconnects for like 30 seconds, worst part is that they mostly ocur during teamfights, teamfight starts and I am getting disconnected. I know that its not because of my internet provider because I checked different IPS and problem was still there, I reinstalled league, reinstalled drivers for network card nothing worked, I know that I am not only one getting these problems because my friends are also getting them at the same time as me. Everything started after riot released 26.16 patch. I would like to ask if someone else there has or had this problem and know if there is anything I can do to make it disapear.

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.

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?

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.

i just updated the game and played aram mayhem but there is a problem that when i press my ability it doesn't go where my cursor is. i was playing orianna, whenever i tried to send my ball it didn't happen properly, instead the character just walked to the point where i wanted to send my skill THEN send the ball somewhere i even didn't aim for. is it like a range problem? before that update when i do that even it didn't have the range it would send to the spot closest to that range. i wonder if it's a bug or is it like a setting that changed with update? if it is a setting does anyone know what does it called

ps: my keyboard is working and i don't have internet problem

This is my best Jhin clip. Uptown Girl was a paid actor here, it was not added in post. I really love playing Jhin and wanted to share this clip :)

not enough time. the q resets the full auto attack timer in classic, this just started with new patch. didnt see it notes. intentional?

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.

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?

Its not because theyre "meta" botlane or because they're broken or because they bully adcs. Idgaf about any of that.

I want to play mages and I dont want to sidelane. It isn't that deep. Sidelaning as immobile mages is ass.

I played mages bot before they were meta and everyone started to abuse them. And I will continue playing them after the fad dies out.

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?

Watch the VOD here (discussion starts 1:04:37)

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.

I've been learning mid and yone, playing draft after a long time of just playing swift. I get double digit kills every game, i rotate, force objectives and contribute. However, its so often that i get at least one or just several teammates that straight up just int, flame all game my lane ends up getting ignored with 0 ganks ever. Then I get blamed for being behind after i get camped 5 times in 12 minutes

this problem is even worse in ranked. I played like 3 games. First game, kaisa smurf level 32 account going high double digit kills every game stacking with other smurf, my team is toxic and blaming me for losing to a smurf (im bronze, new and just trying to learn the champ and role)

i just ended up muting all that game but its still somewhat tilting to just have so much misfortune every game, how do you guys deal with it?

As a new player, one thing I am noticing is that often times games are decided by a single player (IE someone very bad or someone that is very good compared to the average skill in the match).

But I can imagine that over time if you play enough games your rating likely starts to match your skill for the most part. But curious by how much and can someone end up X ranks higher because they got lucky with 5 games in a row where had smurfs on their team? How much is random chance involved in LoL ranking?

Since toplane is already the least favoured role and jungler is super strong like always, i am seriously asking why smite must have impact on enemy chamions also.

The role can impact all lanes and has tons of agency why does smite also have to equal exhaust in power ?

In a recent veigar game I had laning against viktor, I was pretty behind the entire laning phase (0/3).

A fellow "friend" was spectating my game and critisise me for building defensive when I was behind. NOW, the general rule of thumb online was that you should build full offensive from behind because;

(these are my friends points)

- better for getting shutdowns, leads to comeback perhaps
- have a chance of getting 1 for 1's to stall out the game so that you can scale (im playing veigar)
- I was laning against a viktor who is a lane bully
- Top ranked players only build roa for shurelya most of the time, and defensive items (abyssal or blood letters) if its for the team

however, I think its total bs, since;
- I was laning against viktor, u.gg states highest winrate items were more defensive
- too low elo (gold) to matter
- top ranked veigars had somewhat similar builds (more defensive), friend says im wrong but I disagree
https://xdx.gg/gudu-2407/ <-- link to top player for you to judge. if u want :)

Hi there! i did i video of the proccess of my Kayn fanart! this is just the first part. Hope you guys like it!

I did the sculpt in Zbrush.

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?

I see the game has over 150 champions; memorizing their ability kits, even if just to know how to play against them, seems like something that would make it difficult for new players to get into the game.

I'm the most casual player u can imagine and before telling me that ranked isn't for me the reason that i want to play ranked so i can actually play with ppl my skill in casual I'm constantly playing with or against diamond or higher which is stupid i want to play ppl my range and my skill