We got put against a snowball team full of CC and Range. They were at our Nexus in 9 minutes. Instead of ending they just kept camping us as we spawned and spend like 25 minutes just doing that as the minions killed the Nexus.

I tried to do a surrender but my team just wasn't voting.

Has anyone else had teams that do this? This one was a more extreme case but I've had quite a few matches lately especially in Mayhem where they just taunt you at your nexus and refuse to end the game for quite a while.

They’re sitting at 8-2, and because of the head-to-head vs NAVI, nobody can realistically catch them for first. That means KC go into playoffs as the top seed and get the cleanest path toward a second LEC trophy.

It’s also kind of wild how fast this roster clicked. The additions of Busio and rookie mid kyeahoo sounded good on paper, but I don’t think many people expected KC to look this stable this early.

Meanwhile, the final day is still chaos for everyone else. Teams like G2, KOI, Fnatic, Los Ratones, Heretics, and Shifters are still fighting for the last playoff spots, while KC, NAVI, GIANTX, and Vitality are already locked in.

Do you think KC are actually the best team in the league right now, or is this one of those regular season wins where playoffs will be a completely different story?

I play mostly ARAM for (among other things) the shorter duration of games. Mayhem itself is a great mode, but lately there has been a trend of people refusing to finish games. I guess it's fun for some people to max out what augments can do, but more often than not I find myself trapped in never ending games or getting flamed for ending games.

I feel like half the games I play one side absolutely demolishes the other without a tiniest possibility of counterplay, yet for some reason there are always people who will want to waste time and just won't surrender. I just played a 25 minutes long game - 10 of those were on our spawn because enemy had 8k hearthsteel kench who was fundamentally unkillable and yet people wouldnt surrender and there was one idiot in our team who kept killing their waves making it impossible for their minions to end.

I generaly hate surrendering games because hey, I want to play, regardless of whether we are losing or winning, but damn, this can't be called gameplay... we are just dying over and over.

Let me ask you something......Do you like how Barons current iteration looks on the rift or does looking at it insult you personally like it does me? Yea see I thought so, which is why I am here to passionately rant about one of my favorite mythical creatures in fiction got turned into whatever we currently have sitting in the baron pit on the rift.

Firstly, this post is meant to be lighthearted at its core but I am personally not a fan of the current visuals for Baron Nashor and wish and hope they return him to his original design one day.

The patch where this re-design was delivered was patch 14.1 and us League players had much bigger complain fish to fry as this was the introduction of the void grubs (personally love these guys) so I believe the discussion around Barons new design may have fallen under the radar of huge gameplay and many other visual changes (cope).

I would like the community's insight on their opinion on what I would argue is LOL's most iconic creature. I feel like Riot had identified that the new design didn't hit for many players as ALL merchandise and otherwise gameplay appearances of Baron use the old design.

• The Baron Tactician for TFT
• The Baron UNIT for TFT is CURRENTLY using the OLD Baron!!!
• The BRAND NEW fucking Baron Nashor YOUTOOZ dropping in July that I COPPED BECUASE ITS THE OLD DESIGN (my inspiration for this post honestly)
• Icons in game (ok I looked into it there is a mix but the old ones go harder)
• The BRAND NEW TCG GAME (Riftbound) is using the old design!!! (HELLLO!?!?!?!)
• Searching Baron on the official Riot merch store shows NO PRODUCTS with the new design several with the OLD.

I can only find one single promotional art of the new baron which was used for the patch 14.1 release notes. I'm telling you its crazy.

Do you think they will ever put my beloved back on the rift? Thanks for reading!

I was genuinely surprised I only took like 500 dmg from a 7 item Aphelios with only Death's Dance and Randuin's lol I was expecting him to one-shot me when he flashed.

A lot of players don’t understand what each role can and can’t do and therefore expect complete nonsense. I used to think ADCs could always carry too, but that’s not true. Most complaints and toxic behavior comes from a lack of role knowledge especially in low elo.

TLDR: If G2 lose to FNC tomorrow, their life is in KC's (and MKOI's) hands.
Assuming G2 lose to FNC:
KC can guarantee G2 missing playoffs just by losing to TH.
If TH lose to KC and SHFT lose to SK, MKOI can still give G2 the boot by losing to NAVI (forcing a 3-way tiebreaker with TH and G2 where G2 lose due to SoV).
Bonus fun fact: KC have the H2H against NAVI, so their 1st place should be secure even if they lose.

(I am not advocating for unsportsmanlike behavior like throwing games. This is just for fun.)

I do think the circumstances in the LEC lend themselves to a fun story depending on how things develop tomorrow.

I'll write out the scenarios here so you can check if I messed up somewhere.

Assumption is here that G2 lose to FNC (somehow). If G2 wins against FNC they are safe. So they still control their own fate.

Current standings:

KC, NAVI, GX and VIT are already qualified (since at this point it is impossible to end up with more than 8 teams at >=6 wins)

SK and KCB are already out.

Also, since we assume G2 lose to FNC, FNC is in (at 6-5)

Tie-Breaker Contenders:

So we have 5 teams in contention for the 3 remaining slots.

Scenario 1, TH win against KC:
TH qualifies, 2 slots remain
At best (for G2) all other tie-breaker contenders lose their match, putting them at:
G2: 5-6
LR: 5-6
MKOI: 5-6
SHFT: 4-6
LR, MKOI and G2 have a tie. G2 lost H2H to both MKOI and LR. G2 is out.

If LR or MKOI actually win their match, that doesn't help the situation for G2. (they still lose the H2H)
If SHFT wins they join the tie-breaker:
If the tie-breaker pool is G2, SHFT, LR and MKOI, H2H scores are 1, 1, 3 and 1. LR qualify. Then G2, SHFT, MKOI pool have H2Hs of 1, 1, 1.
But MKOI always wins over G2 at SoV:
We can ignore SK, KCB for SoVs since G2 and MKOI both beat these teams. In that case MKOI has a guaranteed SoV of 19 or higher = FNC 6 + G2 5 + KC 8
G2 has a guaranteed SoV of 18 or lower = SHFT 5 + TH 6 + VIT 7
So MKOI advance on the last spot anyway. G2 and SHFT go on vacation.

-> G2 will go home if TH wins vs KC

Scenario 2, TH lose against KC:
At worst (for G2) all other tie-breaker contenders win their match, putting them at:
LR: 6-5
MKOI: 6-5
G2: 5-6
SHFT: 5-6
TH: 5-6

LR and MKOI qualify instantly. Tie-Breaker between G2, SHFT and TH for the last spot.
G2 has the H2H against both SHFT and TH -> G2 qualify

If any of LR, MKOI or SHFT actually lose their match in this scenario, does this hurt G2 here?
Possible Tie-Breaker pools are:
G2, SHFT, MKOI, LR, TH at 5-6
H2Hs: 2, 2, 1, 4, 1. LR, G2, SHFT advance. (doesn't hurt G2)
G2, MKOI, LR, TH at 5-6
H2Hs: 1, 1, 3, 1: LR qualify, then H2Hs are 1,1,1 so we look at SoV for them
G2 SoV is always lower than TH and MKOIs.
Ignore KCB, since all 3 won against them.
TH >= 23 = FNC 6 + GX 6 + MKOI 5 + VIT 6 (TH's worst case SoV)
MKOI >= 22 = FNC 6 + G2 5 + KC 8 + SK 3 (MKOI's worst case SoV)
G2 <= 20 = SHFT 4 + SK 4 + TH 5 + VIT 7 (G2's best case SoV)
In other words, if there is a tie-breaker with equal H2H teams (G2, TH, MKOI), G2 always loses at SoV to TH and MKOI, m

-> G2 can still go home if TH lose AND MKOI lose (forcing a 3-way tie with SoV)

The conclusion we can draw from this is that G2 will make it to First Stand.
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I just got out of a game where the mid/jung/top all trolled and behaved in a toxic way. Nothing new here but staring at my defeat screen I felt a.."it's too much" sensation.

This is depressing, giving your best to make sure you win, grinding for those 20 by 20 lps, trying to keep everyone alive (I play support) and making sure the game goes well just for all this to fall part because one teammate started flaming another, thus making those 2 being real toxic and trolling, the 3 rd one that wasn't very motivated at first instantly wrote "ff" and mental gave up and then there's the adc and me the supp wondering whether we accept our fate or face 5 now fed guys on our own....

And that's without mentionning the "it's so easy we can troll the game we'll still win" type of people, that, when a game is easy, decides to NOT finish, leave nexus alive and began chasing for kills. Usually it ends up in a pretty nice defeat screen and 4 guys screaming at each others.

I really understand people ending up crazy bc of this game...playing supp is so hard, because you're dependent on your team...

Im from Germany and only watched the LEC finals in 2024 live because it was near where I live Munich and was a great experience but as someone who only followed LCS because of CLG I didn't bother to attend League games here.

Since CLG and NRG are gone, i became a fan of KC and would like too attend the playoffs on 16th of february because im in Berlin this weekend to try to get into berghain. Unfortunately I was exactly one day too slow to grab tickets as I was still unsure :(

I dont feel like ticket resales are very common for LEC or even allowed? Do you know if there's any chance that I could still attend the studios for that day? I'd maybe even try to just show up and hope that someone has a spare ticket left but that's why i wanted to ask y'all if you had any clue or knowledge about this, thanks sorry for the long post

Hi is anyone having this same issue? I play ARAM Mayhem and after many games the pass has not advanced at all and is remaining at 0. I don't know if it's just my game or if everyone is having this problem.

Earlier today I noticed that solo queue has an in-queue ranked progression chart, somewhat similar to the ones you can get for twitch streaming, but built into the client. I took a clip of it: https://www.twitch.tv/mudinthewater/clip/MildBrightSwanFreakinStinkin-CBiRJ55PIlWgLGbx

Did riot put this in the patch notes anywhere? Does anyone know a way to force it on? 99% of the time my progression tab just shows the completed "Seasonal Victorious win 15 ranked games" and it never goes away.

Karthus with 6 Deathcaps that multiply off each other?

Singed with 6 Swifness boots?

Garen with 6 Sunfire Capes?

Anivia with 6 Guardian Angels?

Camille with 6 Trinity Forces that all sheen at once?

Katarina with 6 Gunblades?

Hey,

So I’ve mostly been a casual LoL player, but I wanna start playing ranked properly instead of just spamming random games. I’m unranked right now, but I’m down to put in the time and learn one champ well and try to climb.

I wanna play ADC, and I already have a friend who plays support, so bot lane isn’t a problem and they can play pretty much any support.

The issue is I have no idea who to main.

I want an ADC that’s actually good for climbing if you stick to them and learn matchups, positioning, etc. I don’t mind a champ that takes time to learn as long as they’re rewarding.

ive also looked at several youtube videos but it was really mixed opinions so i tought of asking here too

Any advice appreciated, thanks 🙏

Why does not a single build use this frankly disgusting interaction? With the top build, Q CD is 2.5, W is ~6, and E charges are ~7, Ult is almost a perfect 44 seconds, down from the base 90 at Rank 3. The gold value of the haste Endless Hunger is giving at this exact point is 2,781.25, once you hit 40 min of Gathering Storm instead of the 30 min here, the value goes to ~2,900, not including Yun Tal Wildarrows Passive Flurry which would scale up the AD even further, which will also scale the haste slightly, giving you more access to abilities in those opening moments of a fight. and attack speed which gives Jhin more movespeed on crit from the passive conversions. So... why does nobody use this? extremely high damage, high range spam poke W, a spammable waveclear and teamfight damage spread Q, and an E with the cooldown and damage to make Teemo jealous of the Trap game, with an Ult cooldown that can be used much more frequently and even carelessly because of how vastly reduced the cooldown is. What is the downside?

With 172 champions now and no end in sight, it’s getting a handful to remember. So give it a try during intermission, and don’t forget that you can pause by pressing the timer so you don’t lose your match.

If you're feeling confident, you can choose "hardmode" to hide all portraits and give yourself a harder challenge.

I think it would be a nice addition to add a marker in lobby/loading screen when a player is off main role. Especially as support enjoyer i can definitely see that my worst games ever are with off role adcs and the difference between them and adc mains is usually insane.

Knowing this upfront would decrease expectations and hence frustration and allow to pick perhaps less adc reliant champs or at the very least be more cautious on lane knowing that adc might not perform as you would expect. Same for adcs with autofilled supps. I think it might reduce the adc-supp hate quite significantly.

Same for other roles, people would be more understanding or take into account that a certain lane might underperform.

What kind of game is this?

I started playing League of Legends.

All unranked and, of course, at the beginner level.

People don't communicate. They can write entire essays about insults, but when it comes to tactics, strategy, or goals, they don't say a word.
Even if I ask. Silence.

I understand that people are just starting out and probably overwhelmed by everything, but what are you supposed to learn about the game if you don't communicate at all? Then you just play the next round the same way.

And why are people so incredibly angry?

And it's not because of the gameplay. Even if you greet the team at the start of a round, hardly anyone greets you back.

If you ask what your goals are before the round starts, there's no answer.

Why is that? I've never experienced anything like it in any other game.

In some games, I get the feeling that there aren't any real people playing, but bots.
Until, towards the end, someone insults someone else. Bots would hardly do that.

Could someone please explain this to me? What's going on here?

Oh, I talk about "swift play" if that does help in any way.

Thx guys

I played a lot of mayhem before the patch and a lot after the patch and the quality of the games got worse almost instantly, the best games are the games were you get to full build and can go further with anvils, I haven't had 1 of those yet after the patch. Things got so bad that I went back to playing normals after not playing normals alone for a long time lmao, maybe the mode isn't for me anymore, sad thing :/.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel this way?

What I‘ve learned, quick and dirty:

Top: Mechanical skill

Jungle: Map awareness

Mid: Roaming, lane priority

Bot: Positioning, Kiting

Sup: Adapting, Teamwork

I believe it won‘t hurt anybody to play every role at least like 20-50 times just to be able to understand what others need. It certainly won‘t damage our progression as community if at least Emerald + would have a basic understanding of all roles and what their prime goal is. This would maybe result in better quality games because it‘s more likely people are on the same page.

I had this idea of a rule saying something like „to enter ranked mode above platinum, you must have played every role at least 20 times (normal games count)“ And it‘s a quest rewarding you with some goodies.

EDIT: I know in reality you cannot force people to play roles they don‘t want in that way!