Despite being one of the launch champs, how is there still not a legendary skin for it? And the mythic skin isn't an excuse since it's ass and not really better than the normal one. Seems like a sideshow champ to me lol.

Fun fact: Since MSI, I've seen some Brazilian fans constantly putting FURIA on the same level as TSW, or even above them. Even after TSW beat TES 3-1, some were still arguing that FURIA could've beaten TES too. The funny part is that TSW and FURIA never got to face each other for months, so we never had a direct answer to that debate.

But now, MVK, a team that TSW has been absolutely dominating all year in the LCP, just swept FURIA 3-0 at Worlds. And for those who don't know, MVK is basically the successor to the old Buffalo org. Yes, THAT Buffalo team that used to terrorize G2 at MSI.

I know esports isn't perfectly transitive, but at this point, does TSW really need to beat FURIA themselves to prove anything? Looks like MVK settled that debate for them.

2026 WORLDS PLAY-IN STAGE

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.20.

Today's Matches

• All matches are a best of 5

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on YouTube

• Stream on Lolesports

Bracket

On-Air Team

Format

• 4 teams participate
• Double elimination bracket
• All matches are best of five
• Winner advances to the Bracket Stage

The official Worlds ruleset can be found here.

VoDs

• VoDs on Reddit

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• VoDs on Lolesports

Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:

This is our Live Discussion Archive. Here you can find all the old live threads, and the respective PMTs in a stickied comment under the post.

In preparation for Worlds I have compiled data for the first jungle path of each game in pro LOL across the LCK, LEC, and LCS for the most recent season. Here are some interesting insights that I found. I've provided some descriptions of the types of jungle paths in a bulleted list at the bottom of this post.

• Starting in the top side of your jungle and pathing to you bot side (vertical_bot) is the most common first jungle path at 47%. This is twice as frequent as the next closest pathing style (vertical_top - 23%). Figure 1 shows the frequency of every pathing style.
• The vertical_bot path has decreased in frequency significantly since First Stand going from 78% of all paths to 47%. The single_quadrant path has taken the largest share of this slice going from 2% to 18%. In my last post I mentioned that I thought there was room for more path diversity and I think this new data validates that somewhat. Figure 2 shows the average gold difference change in each lane by path type. Despite an increase in frequency across all the non-vertical_bot path types many of these alternate paths still see a positive team gold difference.
• The vertical_top path continues to perform poorly. I am a little shocked to see that the frequency increased from 14% to 23%. Figure 3 shows the vertical_bot vs. vertical_top matchup by lane. The blue bar shows the gold difference at the moment of recall and the orange bar shows the gold difference at 6:00. On average the team who paths vertical_top goes down 24 gold overall and this effect is especially seen in the bot lane, generally the highest priority lane in pro play.
• Figure 4 shows vertical_bot's average gold difference versus each other path_type. vertical_bot has a disadvantage against single_quad and diagonal while vertical_bot gains gold advantages over the other path types on average. These gold differences look way different than last time, in part this is due to removing the source of some bias in the way data was collected. I will add a comment describing this.
• Path type frequencies vary widely between teams. Here are some path type frequencies for some Worlds teams:
  • GEN - 64% vertical_bot, 17% vertical_top, 7% single_quad, 1% horizontal_bot, 1% horizontal_top
  • G2 - 27% vertical_bot, 54% vertical_top, 12% single_quad, 4% horizontal_bot, 4% horizontal_top
  • TL - 29% vertical_bot, 12% vertical_top, 50% single_quad, 4% horizontal_bot, 4% horizontal_top
• Figure 5 displays the path type frequency for each league (LCK, LEC, LCS). The path frequencies are fairly similar, vertical_bot in particular only varies by 1% across leagues.

Here are the descriptions of each path type:

• vertical_bot - Pathing from top side jungle to bot side on a single team's side of the map
• vertical_top - Pathing from bot side to top side on a single team's side of the map
• horizontal_top - Pathing from one top side quadrant to the other top side quadrant (Example: pathing from blue team's blue jungle to red team's red jungle)
• horizontal_bot - Pathing from one bot side quadrant to the other bot side quadrant
• single_quad - Clearing a single jungle quadrant and then backing (or more commonly ganking and then backing)
• diagonal - Any path not already covered. The most common example is blue team's jungler invades red team's red jungle then paths to blue team's red jungle.

I am newish to the game and play jungle. Some games I’ll have jungle camps that appear on the minimal as red swirly icons instead of blue. What does this icon mean and are my teammates seeing the same icon? Thanks!

Has Riot announced why they aren't doing Worlds watch rewards? It was always nice getting a new emote because someone got face checked from a bush or a stolen Baron.

Hello everyone,

im trying to find the song which plays during the pick/bans of the first round kc vs cloud 9. Shazam or other music finding softwares cant seem to find it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYm14kysATs . Is it not released on any plattform yet? I have searched through worlds playlists on youtube, but it cant find it.

Many thanks for your help

I did play more supp (sera/leona) than jg (shyv) going up to Bronze 3. Then the 2nd I started locking in jungle I tanked so hard it wasn't even funny. It went from all my teammates giving me honors and thumbs upping me to question marking me, flaming me in chat, and reporting me for "not ganking their lane". But I've noticed it is always the players that are 0-10 and losing their lanes that are question marking me/flaming, while I am ganking the lanes that are winning and these players are dead silent and just play with me.

Either way I am clearly not doing something right while on supp I felt like I was just getting carried.

Like I know I am bad but damn is this normal?

I'm relatively an oldhead in League but here are some funny things I've been able to witness myself:

1. I witnessed the old Brand icon
   
2. I witnessed the release of Thresh - he was the recently released champion when I started playing.
   
3. I remember playing with old Sivir
   
4. I was able to play the version of Mordekaiser with a diff. Icon
   
5. I actually played the game before the white camp was introduced
   

6. I played at a time where there was no bronze/silver/gold/diamond yet - they haven't even introduced challenger yet at the time.

7. I was able to witness AP Master Yi and the whole giga ban Kassadin meta or you lose.

God, it feels like a lifetime already.

Some of these Champion Subreddits are entirely different worlds, I see. I just assumed things were normal, people sharing art of their character or something. But no. I see now after someone found this and showed it over no twitter. Some of you are evil and making things that shouldn't exist

https://x.com/GhosttoCoasts/status/2111201513309921747?s=20

I rarely post on Reddit, but I really wanted to see what the community's opinions are regarding the standard Honor system for players who primarily stick to Arena.

As a League player since Season 1, I personally only play Arena now because I believe it is one of the best modes to ever happen to the game. For years, I consistently held Honor Level 5 by playing ARAM. However, since shifting entirely to Arena, my Honor has dropped from level 5 down to level 3. Because Arena utilizes the Fame system instead of the standard post game voting screen, there is currently no way to maintain or grow your standard Honor level.

My question for the community is: should there be some kind of adapted Honor system integrated into Arena? This would ensure that players who dedicate themselves to this mode still have a fair chance to reach Level 5 and earn the end of season rewards. I am not angry or complaining about this, just genuinely curious if other Arena mains are experiencing the same issue and what your thoughts are on potential solutions.

0:00 - Intro
0:07 - League Classic closes in January
1:59 - Upcoming champions
3:33 - New champion: Mordekaiser
9:12 - New champion: Yorick
15:36 - New champion: Lucian
18:40 - New champion: Hecarim
20:26 - Items and bugfixes
29:40 - Champion balance changes

Why did they rework this?

Ult is super unique too, isn’t this the “Blade Waltz” augment from Mayhem?

It’s mayhem everyone enjoys and it even shows up as Prism augment

Which means everyone liked the ult? but did they rework it because it was too strong?

RiftReel is just a random name I decided on, it fully records your league just like outplayed and has no ads or overwolf requirement.

It's REALLY simple so if clipping is all you want this is way less resource intensive then the massive and annoying overwolf laggy mess it is, and it's open source so feel free to fork or do whatever you want.

I made it using claude max, technically anyone could make something like this and it's likely people have but felt like posting this to help the community not have to deal with the headache of testing it anyway.

FYI this only works with league, no other games. enjoy.

EDIT: it was updated 1 hour before second day matches started, it never was this late before. Its fine if they remove the other mid series update.

Power rankings usually update once a day and always after all matches for the day have concluded, but yesterday the update came during KC vs C9 series and there hasn't been an update since.

I know most people won't care, but I like playing with data and working with LoL Esports Power Rankings scores. Until now, every year you could get the Power Score changes between days allowing to get metrics and data for each separate round.

This isn't the case this year. They did the last update sometime during the matches. Probably they do it at 00:00 UTC which was mid series KC vs C9. This is also supported by the fact that both LEC, LCS, KC and C9 Power Scores have changed, but the score didn't update and is still 0-0 for both, which could mean they were still mid series.

I'd like to somehow notify them so they can fix it which is probably as easy as moving the update time (it already changed in past years).

As the Worlds 2026 Play-In Day 1 just ended the Pick'ems results are the following:

CHAMPIONS

PLAYERS

TEAMS

EVENTS

You can keep track of the results as we head to the Worlds 2026 Play-In Day 2 here:

https://pem.lol/worlds/2026/pickems

If anyone knows, please let me know the name of the song that was playing for KC vs MVK game 2 Draft phase, thanks <3

Those being BDD, Faker, Showmaker, Zeka and Chovy. Here's some more fun facts.

Total from each region:

LEC: 10 (Nemesis, Caps, Humanoid, Larssen, Nisqy, Nuc, Fresskowy, Poby, Jojo, Kyeahoo)

LCS: 15 (Nisqy, Damonte, Jensen, PowerOfEvil, Bjergsen, Abbedagge, Perkz, Jojo, EMENES, Palafox, APA, Quid, Quad, Saint Loki)

LPL: 11 (Doinb, Rookie, Xiaohu, Yagao, Xiye, Angel, Knight, Scout, Icon, Creme, Shanks)

Of these 36, 10 are Korean.

The LCS has sent more Europeans and Koreans than they have North Americans.

Also remember LCS and LEC has had less seeds at worlds, and even then they still have double(or triple) the representatives.

I think this also brings up a big question, with many Korean mid prospects continuing development in other regions, what will happen when some of the veterans retire? Will Korea maintain it's dominance without the big 5? Will it be the league of Zeka/Chovy?(It kind of already is)

Faker (30) , BDD (27) , Showmaker (26) , Chovy (25) , Zeka (23)

If there's any errors here I apologize, it's almost 3am. Cya for worlds in 2 hours!

there's always been below the stream all the details about builds, runes, skills order and so on about the players playing the match

is it bugged? is it a problem? they removed it?

it was so useful

I can't be the only one with this issue right?

I have tried using ctrl +/- to zoom in/out, doesn't seem to change anything. I've also tried like changing primary runes and then trying again to chagne secondary rune - nothing works. I can't figure it out.

Can barely select sorcery from the right edge. Can select green/teal normally, full hitbox. But there's no way to click on Red

This is something so simple that a lot of people overlook. People give top players a pass when they start acting disrespectful because "they know what they're talking about" and have the rank to talk shit.

Some people, especially in low elo see this and adopt this attitude. Let me tell you something:

Your chances of winning go up higher when everyone in the team is motivated to win, not when you're putting them down.

Is it gonna magically make everyone's macro and micro better when you're being nice in the comms? Of course not.

But I'd rather have a motivated and eager-to-win teammate rather one who:

1. Will sabotage the game out of spite

2. Has lost the energy to win because what does it matter anymore.

And that's all because you decided to be an asshole, and now, everyone loses.

It doesn't matter if you have the superior micro and macro in your elo; if your team doesn't feel like winning anymore because you are constantly putting them down then the team's loss is on you. Because you turned what could've been a potential victory / comeback into an inevitable defeat.

It's free to be a good person. The wins feel better and the losses don't seem to matter as much, and you get to learn much more clearly because you're not constantly viewing things through the it's their fault not mine lens.

You want to improve your winrate in ranked? Don't just take into account micro and macro, think about attitude too, and believe it or not, a positive mindset is much more healthier for you.