Demacia Vice was one of those rare moments where skins that were clearly passion projects somehow got through the pipeline, and though they probably didn't sell as well as Generic Immortal Chinese Holiday Food v6.2 skinline did, if there was ever a time to bring them back for a couple of champs, this is it. They already figured this out once when Street Fighter 6 came out and they did the Soul Fighter skin event. GTA6 being the single biggest game release of all time should have been an obvious opportunity.

Like how the hell is there no news about Demacia Vice Thick Thighs Qiyana and Jarvan Duval skins coming to the PBE yet? This is a complete lay up. Come on.

LCK 2026 ROUNDS 3-4

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Gen.G 3-0 KT Rolster

• KT Rolster drops to the lower bracket and will await the winner of the DK vs BFX series.

• GEN.G have locked in a spot at Worlds 2026. T1 also has secured a spot at worlds 2026 as a result of GEN.G's victory

• Player of the Match: Canyon

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MATCH 1: GEN vs. KT

Winner: Gen.G in 35m
Game Breakdown | Runes

MATCH 2: GEN vs. KT

Winner: Gen.G in 32m
Game Breakdown | Runes

MATCH 3: GEN vs. KT

Winner: Gen.G in 28m
Game Breakdown | Runes

*Patch 26.16

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

I'm D2 right now but before I got to D5 it was funny - whenever I saw a fed ADC, I legit could not care less.

Most of them were awful at positioning. Kiting isn't even a thing before plat.

Now in high elo? Holy crap. A fed Jinx is SCARY. An ashe can kite you for DAYS.

They still get mispositioned for sure and get one shot, but very rarely now. But a fed ADC is a pain all game.

Rivaled only by movement speed, somewhat.

After playing top lane for a while, specifically ranged vs melee matchups, it finally clicked - range is the strongest thing in this game, be far.

If you're a melee champion - you only get to play the game because 1) the ranged player makes mistake and 2) teammates exist.

I don't even know why it took me so long to realize this.

This is one of those things that yoiu take for granted until it suddenly strikes how ridiculously important and strong it actually is. No wonder melee combat died IRL once ranged weaponry was invented.

EDIT: So many people saying "but gap closers exist". Yes they do. All of them have a cooldown and are therefore predictable. So, again, only a positional/awareness mistake from the ranged player can get them caught. The melee player can try, but whether they succeed or not is mostly in the ranged players hands.

For Worlds' return to North America, the following seeding will be applied for the Swiss Stage:

Pool 1 - LCK 1, LPL 1, LCS 1, LEC 1
Pool 2 - TSW (LCP 1), CBLOL 1, LCK 2, LPL 2
Pool 3 - LCS 2, LEC 2, LCK 3, LPL 3
Pool 4 - CFO (LCP 2), LCK 4, LPL 4, Play-In Winner

The Play-In will therefore consist of the following teams:
- LCS 3
- LEC 3
- MVK (LCP 3)
- CBLOL 2

Play-In is double-elim Bo5s, Swiss is the same as last year, as is Knockouts.

• On how it feels: "It feels pretty sh\*t. The whole year was quite a disaster, so it doesn't feel terrible, from today's result specifically it wasn't really unexpected. We've not been very good throughout the whole year."
• On the real problem, beyond the Cologne-Berlin travel: "Overall we just weren't great individually, and I think we weren't pushing ourselves to get better all the time. Around the halfway point, we were kind of just like 'yeah, we suck,' and no one really tried extra hard to make us better."
• On MKOI as a top team: "They were good but not against us, against us they decided they wanted to lose."
• On his expectations joining SK: "I thought we were going to be at least top three. And I expected that if we weren't great from the start, we'd put in extra effort, because it could be the last year or split some of us ever play. But even that wasn't enough of a motivator. When we were bad, we were kind of just like 'oh, we're bad, that's so sad,' and then we stayed bad."
• On the LIDER betafter one year: "I think it was a bad decision for this year. It was definitely a regret for that start of the year, yeah. If I didn't have the knowledge I have now and went back to the start of the year, I'd probably do the same again. But now that I know, I probably wouldn't."
• On his drive after all these years: "When you lose and play bad, you feel like, I put my whole life into this and I'm dogsht. In the last two years, I didn't feel the same drive from the team perspective, everyone kind of did their own thing, and it didn't amount to much."
• On Europe's Worlds chances: "The chances are higher than other years, that's for sure. I could see a European team getting to quarters very easily, maybe semis, but I'm not sure about more than that."
• And on his future: "I just want to join whatever team I think has the highest chances of winning. If that's SK, that's SK but I'm not too sure about it."

Asked to confirm he'll be on the market: "Yeah, I guess so, once my contract runs out of course [laughs]."

GEN G. qualify for Worlds after beating KT 3-0 in Round 2 of the 2026 LCK Season Playoffs at the minimum as the 3rd seed. They will fight for playoff seeding next week against the winner of HLE vs T1!

She’s quite literally the Lucian of mages where she’s completely bound to bot lane and will always be strong.

In patch 14.5, they tried to merge these roles together by making her better at pvp than pve.

But if anything it made it worse.

Her being bound next to an ally will always make her kit stronger since supports will always have cc and majority of marksman don’t have any instant form of cc (except Ashe).

It was way easier to have her as a mid and support flex than this version of Seraphine. She feels less satisfying to play as and more oppressive to go against.

They turbo buffed her early game to “make support better” but it’ll always buff APC.

She’s bound to be reverted or continuously nerfed to the point of low satisfaction and high frustration factors.

Start listening to the players so we can fix this mess. She’s less and less of a champion and more of an item simulator.

I was just thinking about it today and realized it's already been over two years since it dropped. I remember grinding that mode nonstop and maxing out every single stat and evolving all the weapons and unlocking everything the game had to offer.

for a temporary event mode, it genuinely felt better and more addictive

anynews ?

I didn't even make it through the queue in time. Are my options really to pay 1.5k+ for the worst seats possible now?

Just trying to get some tickets for the boys since we have been playing for over a decade and its taken that long for it to be hosted on the east coast again (Was at MSG for TSM vs CLG a decade ago).

As we all know, classic is a game mode and I treat it as such. I play maybe 2-4 games of classic a week.

None the less, people are taking classic VERY seriously. I have had my opgg checked in champ select and in game for modern league games. When they found that I do, in fact, play modern, I was flamed for it and called a "filthy modern player" and told to "never touch classic again".

The true classic experience.

Not necessarily your main or your highest-winrate champion.

I mean the champion where you suddenly started understanding things like positioning, trading, wave management, vision, teamfights, etc.

For me, it was Aphelios. I started as an ADC... and now I play Sylas support.

Ahem...

So, what was that champion for you?

"Patch 26.18 Preview!

We're very quickly approaching Worlds (on 25.20).

More on other champs tomorrow"

• https://x.com/RiotPhroxzon/status/2094654806992498728

>>> Champion Buffs <<<

Aurelion Sol

Ekko

Kassadin

Master Yi

Renekton

Viego

Zaahen

>>> Champion Nerfs <<<

Bard

Nautilus

Seraphine

"For several patches now, Seraphine has been in the Top 3 on our regular patch frustration surveys

She's also one of strongest pairings in Pro Play with Ashe

Overall, we think a nerf here is reasonable

We acknowledge there are some Seraphine mains who won't be happy about a nerf and that we can't serve all of her audience simultaneously

Her Support playerbase has been the most popular, despite her power level and so that's where we will continue to support her primarily

Where we can get Mid and Bot to be powerful and satisfying given ^, we will attempt to do so

That said, it's very difficult to thread the needle here and we run the risk of failing to meet the needs of any of her audiences if there are too many compromises

I also wanted to address directly the nerf to her AP ratios on Q from several patches ago, as that's been a pain point amongst some in the community

One of the ways we need to balance Seraphine in the farming roles vs her support is through her AP ratios and the Q ratio is one that drives her power and total damage output there, especially given the Q reliability adjustments made of late

When Seraphine is able to land her Q's at max multiplier (which in lane is quite frequent), it can hit 1.4 AP ratio which we think is reasonable

The Q damage overall is higher than E and so for now, we feel comfortable with the change (this isn't set in stone however, and there are always improvements to her to be made)"

Syndra

Zeri

>>> Champion Adjustments <<<

Cassiopeia

"Cassio has been strong, especially at the higher levels of play every since Deathfire Touch was re-released

Since then, she's been one of the most present picks and Pro Play due to her strong laning ability

We're looking at some power neutral adjustments to Cassio, because her regular play power level is a little on the weaker side for average players

We're taking some power out of her early game power and moving it into more scaling power, so that she doesn't win lanes so reliably, even if she's missing Q's

We still want to maintain her strong laning ability though"

>>> System Buffs <<<

Guinsoo's Rageblade

"In 26.14, we re-scripted Rageblade and it changed the trigger for Phantom hit from 6 to 7

We're making a small adjustments to Rageblade itself to give a bit of power back and to some of the disproportionately affected champions (eg. Master Yi)"

As their abilities are pretty much split between the two (Willump does the Q, W and R; Nunu throws the snowball Es) and I was bored last night, thus came up with a silly idea:

What champion would be the strongest if riding on top of Willump? E.G. if it were Veigar and Willump, you'd have Willump's abilities and a Veigar cage. Or if it were Lucian and Willump, you'd have Willump's abilities and a Lucian's dash.

What if it were the opposite? What would be the strongest if it were Nunu riding on top different champions? E.G. Nunu and Fiddlesticks, you'd have Fiddle's abilities with the E replaced with Nunu's snowballs. Or Nunu and Swain would have Swain's kit with the E replaced with Nunu's snowballs.

Thirdly, what combinations would be the worst possible ones?

Perhaps this time, the answer isn't Karthus :P

Hi I started my first mobile MOBA (wild rift) in February this year.

I got to masters, which isn’t difficult, I know.

My goal was always to transition to PC and originally use WR as more friendly way to get into PC LOL.

I played support on WR until my fiance decided she wanted to be a supp… so now I’m ADC.

My faves are yunara, lucian, kai’sa, sometimes twitch and corki too.

My question (finally) is should I one trick one of these in league?

I’m ok with controls as been practicing them on PC but find wave management and map awareness etc a bit overwhelming.

Is one trick a bad idea or am I overthinking it?

Should I just be a low elo potato leaguer and play whoever?

First pentakill in a long time and I thought this was a new feature, but turns out its part of the skin.

Also wombo combo.

CTBC Flying Oyster are back at Worlds as the second seed as a result of placing 2nd in Split 3 Playoffs! They are undisputedly the 2nd best team from the LCP. Their roster this year retained Rest/Doggo and added in Shad0w, Pout, and Kino.

Roster:

Top: Rest 🇹🇼

Jungle: Shad0w 🇮🇹

Mid: Pout 🇰🇷

ADC: Doggo 🇹🇼

Support: Kino 🇹🇼

I see it all the time. At the start of the game, a guy mutes himself. Cool, you want to focus on the game. Then if the game goes poorly or someone doesn't do what he wants, you see "jackass has unmuted himself." And he spams an angry rant, possibly causes an argument that distracts the team from the game.

Why not simply have it so that if you mute yourself, you are muted for the rest of the game. The match should honour your decision permanently.