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League of Legends Patch 12.5 is a relatively small patch with only one thing of note – the small Master Yi rework. The tweaks will discourage lethality builds an incentivize on-hit builds. Hullbreaker also receives some nerfs. New Bee skins goes live this patch. Champion Changes Ahri Developer Notes: While we’re happy that players are […]

VALORANT Episode 4 Act II goes live with the promised Yoru rework and members of the Controller role get a few tweaks. Icebox, especially its B site, receives major changes while Ascent gets a slight modification. For the Battle Pass details and new skin bundle Gaia’s Vengeance, click here. Agent Updates General Improved the system […]

Riot Games just revealed more details about the new-and-improved Yoru, and even announced the release date for the rework. According to the official blog post, VALORANT players can expect to see Yoru equipped with his new abilities by the time Episode 4 Act II rolls out. If no delays happen, the Yoru update will be […]

Renata Glasc is slated for some nerfs, according to Riot game designer Blake “Squad5” Smith. Read on for the full details. Renata Glasc Base Stats Armor per level reduced: 4 >>> 3.5 Developer notes: General power reduction. Her Armor/lvl was a bit high overall in [her] class. Passive – Leverage Damage on both hits reduced: […]

A tweet by Riot game designer Phlox gives us a glimpse of what League of Legends Patch 12.5 will look like, including some heavy Master Yi changes and Seraphine buffs. Read the rest of the changes below: Buffs Samira HP per level: 88 >>> 94 Armor per level 3 >>> 3.5 R – Inferno Trigger […]

The Wuju Bladesman hailing from Ionia is the latest League of Legends champion to receive a small rework. In a Tweet by Riot Games Game Designer Kevin “Captain Gameplay” Huang, he outlines the changes slated to ship with the Master Yi rework. See the full list of changes: Q – Alpha Strike Damage: 25/60/95/130/165 (+90% […]

Only a few minutes ahead of a League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) game, the Cloud9 Twitter announced that Nick “LS” De Cesare has been released from the esports organization. The tweet reads: LS has been released from Cloud9 and Max Waldo has been promoted to the LCS Head Coach position. We would like to […]

Teamfight Tactics Patch 12.4 brings TFT Set 6.5, with new items, augments, units and more! Some changes geared towards player experience were also made, and now you can see which enemies you haven’t fought yet! In Neon Nights, meet reworked units and new ones. Read on for the full patch notes. Ranked Grandmaster and Challenger […]

In an update Tweet by TSM FTX, they announced that their support Wei “Shenyi” Zi-Jie will be stepping down to their Academy roster, and Wang “Yursan” Sheng-Yu will take his place as a starting support in the next League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) games. The Tweet reads: Player comfort and adaptation are core values […]

After two years of retirement, we finally got to see Jian “Uzi” Zi-hao back on the Rift! In games 2 and 3 of his team Bilibili Gaming’s series against Invictus Gaming, Uzi returned to show them who’s boss. 895 days have passed since Uzi’s last professional game, but he still showed impeccable prowess when he […]

It has been a long wait for Team Liquid support Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in. Due to having green card issues, Team Liquid could not play the LCS Lock-In Tournament and the first two weeks of the LCS Spring 2022 Season with their full roster. Due to Riot rules, a team could not have more than two […]

VALORANT PS4, VALORANT PS5, VALORANT Xbox One, VALORANT Xbox Series X, VALORANT Switch – all these now a possibility as a VALORANT console version may have just inadvertently leaked by Riot Games themselves. While some are waiting for the mobile version of VALORANT, looks like players have something else to look forward to. Riot’s recent […]

League of Legends Patch 12.4 welcomes the Chem-Baroness Renata Glasc, as well as some tweaks to marksmen to widen the ADC pool. Some gold mechanics have been changed around support items to discourage players from playing enchanter top lane with smite. New Champion – Renata Glasc, the Chem-Baroness Passive – Leverage Renata Glasc’s basic attacks […]

From a Tweet from Riot designer Riot Phlox, we get another sneak peek at what’s waiting for League of Legends players when Patch 12.4 rolls out. Very recently, the fighter items got a quick overhaul to force them to pick between being beefier or dealing damage, and making it harder to choose both. League of […]

The Lead Champion Designer for League of Legends, August “Riot August” Browning shared to Twitter a sneak peek of the incoming Zeri tweaks. He posted the changes with the caption “Zeri the carry is very unfairy we’re nerfing her kit to make ranked games less scary.” Q – Burst Fire Uncharged right click damage: 15 […]

This week, the League of Legends premier North American server, the Champions Queue, debuts. On the official website, Champions Queue is described as “a competitive matchmaking experience hosted on a private Discord server designed for the best West Coast North American players. Prizing will be distributed among the top competitors across three seasons throughout the […]

A few weeks ago, League of Legends put up an in-client survey to see which champion players thought needed a rework the most. Champion aside, a “thematic update” was also up for grabs for some forgotten skin lines. Today, the survey results were revealed, and the winner is… Skarner. Our favorite jungle scorpion is getting […]

Following the previous article, Riot Games has now officially released the League of Legends Patch 12.3 Notes. Notable changes include the Ahri “refresh” and changes to fighter items. AHRI Champion refreshed. Base stats and all skills updated. BASE STATS Health Growth: 92 ⇒ 82 Health: 526-2090 (levels 1-18) ⇒ 500-1894 (levels 1-18) Base Health Regeneration: 5.5 ⇒ 2.5 Armor: 21-80.5 (levels 1-18) ⇒ 18-77.5 (levels 1-18) […]

League of Legends Public Beta Environment (PBE) updated today to include the newest champion: Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness. She is expected to hit live servers on patch 12.4, sometime mid-February. To see what her abilities are, her skins, and a peek at her gameplay, read on.   Renata Glasc Abilities Passive – Leverage Renata Glasc’s […]

We can finally see Renata, the newest League of Legends champion, in her full glory. Read on to view her skins, as well as her abilities and release date!   Skins Her default skin sports a white and purplish palette, similar to the Crime City Nightmare skin line. Renata’s splash art for the default skin […]

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “does Killjoy like NFTs?” The answer is no. No, she does not. One of VALORANT’s official Twitter accounts showed us a day in Berlin with Killjoy, everyone’s loved German Genius. Everything was fine and dandy; coffee and pretzel for breakfast, several tourist spots, and a very relatable game of League […]

Riot Games recently announced a partnership with Amazon to give out free Valorant loots for Amazon Prime Gaming subscribers. With various skins collections showed off already by a lot of players. There’s also the sprays, player card, titles and gun buddies to match their profile inside the game. Like any other game, these cosmetics cost […]

League of Legends European Championship host Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere revealed in a tweet that she will not be hosting the LEC Spring 2022 Week 3. The reasons stated were vague, but it appears that her team and Riot are working towards getting her back on broadcast. I will not be hosting the LEC this week. […]

A tweet by League personality Monstrous Yi claims that League of Legends next champion is named Renata. However, players are skeptical since it hasn’t even been a week since the release of Zeri, League’s most recent champion. https://twitter.com/MonstrousYi/status/1486311224992227333 The name of the game mentioned in the tweet roughly translates to “Battle of the Golden Spatula” […]

Only a patch after her release, newest champion Zeri is already getting a nerf. In a League of Legends Patch 12.3 preview shared by designer Riot Phlox on Twitter. In it, they said that they “are adjusting the fighter system to be less health skewed.” According to them, they will be watching the effects of […]

Mihael “Mikyx” Mehle returns to the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) after finally getting picked up by a team. EXCEL Esports confirmed their acquisition of the legendary support player in a tweet. First day out of jail 🥷 Welcome @G2Mikyx to the LEC team 👊 *Pending riot approval pic.twitter.com/YszYhmq8ed — GIANTX (@GIANTXENG) January 25, […]

VALORANT Episode 4 Act 1 was officially released back on January 11, 2022, which was also the debut of Neon. It’s only natural that players get excited when a new Episode or Act releases in VALORANT because of new content drops. This time won’t be any different as we are rapidly approaching VALORANT Episode 4 […]

LCK Spring 2022 Week 2 just concluded, and T1 top the rankings in almost every statistic imaginable. Led by the superstar mid laner Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, T1 look like a cut above the rest. For starters, T1 are currently 4 wins out of 4 matches they played. They only saw the Defeat screen once, in […]

League of Legends developer Riot Games announced that the Chemtech Drake and its related effects will be disabled. The Chemtech Drake is one of the two new drakes added this preseason, the other being the Hextech Drake. The whole blog post from Riot states: When we introduced the Chemtech Drake, Soul, and Terrain in preseason, […]

Riot Games has implemented a multi-factor authentication (MFA) feature to secure their accounts among all Riot Games titles. Players can set up this simple additional security step in order to keep safe all their belongings and prevent account fraud. Before, Riot already made an MFA feature where players have to enter a code using another […]

LCK Spring 2022 Week 1 League of Legends Champions Korea, or LCK, came out swinging on Week 1. A surprisingly action-packed week from the most “by the book” players in the world was delivered. Since the LCK had a relatively quiet offseason compared to the other regions, most teams were in great shape in LCK […]

Earlier today, Team Vitality proved that last week’s 0 – 3 score line was just a blip in the radar with their win against Team BDS. The Team Vitality squad can only be described as underperforming in the first week of the League of Legends European Championship, or LEC. They finally seem to have activated with […]

Valorant Patch 4.01 is online and the Ares Meta is no more. With the hot fix of the gun online, the era of the LMG weapon Ares has come to an end. Riot made changes before to the gun to make it more relevant, however they made it too strong. The initial release of the […]

LEC Spring 2022 Week 1 The League of Legends European Championship, or LEC, kicked off its first week of the season with a Superweek. This meant 3 days of games over the weekend, and a great chance for the new LEC rosters to debut. The LEC Spring 2022 Week 1 introduced fans to the new players, along […]

It’s now an annual tradition for League of Legends to celebrate the Lunar New Year with the in-game event Lunar Revel. Skins, missions, and more usually come with the Lunar New Year right around the corner. For Lunar Revel 2022, Riot Games has decided to launch a cinematic featuring Ezreal as he discovers an ancient […]

Ahri is the latest League of Legends champion to get a mini-rework, as announced earlier today. The Ahri changes are expected to hit live servers in Patch 12.3, sometime in February. A tweet from Champion Designer August “Riot August” Browning confirmed the changes and their goals for Ahri. Browning said they wanted Ahri to “lean into […]

Riot has recently teased about making an “emo band” after their successful music projects. This will follow amazing releases such as K/DA, Pentakill, and True Damage. After putting their efforts getting into metal, k-pop, and hip-hop, they will now tackle “emo” for their musical journey. People took interest due to having a timely “vibe check” […]

With the release of VALORANT Episode 4 Disruptions, all players focused on the new VALORANT Agent, Neon being released. What we didn’t expect is another unsung hero of the patch, the LMG that started the Ares meta. A lot of players, even pros, think that this gun is too overpowered or unbalanced. Here’s why. In […]

League of Legends‘ Esports POV viewer, Pro View, will retire early this year. According to the official website, its subscription was not received as well as expected. The full text reads: LoL Esports will be sunsetting Pro View starting February 1st, 2022 LoL Esports has made the difficult decision to retire Pro View starting February […]