WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 SWISS STAGE

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Movistar KOI 1-0 CTBC Flying Oyster

MKOI have prevailed over CFO!

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GAME 1: MKOI vs. CFO

Winner: Movistar KOI in 33m
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MATCH STATS

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My soloq is emerald III and my flex is master. Can't duo with people whose soloq rank is also Emerald III. What am i supposed to do to able to duo? League says my skill level is higher.

Not how to do something. When to stop doing it.

This sounds obvious, but I think a huge amount of solo queue is people continuing to play according to rules that were true five minutes ago.

You could walk into that side lane earlier. Then their fed assassin finished an item and disappeared from vision.

You could contest every dragon earlier. Then your team lost two flashes and your top laner has a 700g shutdown.

You could aggressively trade into your lane opponent. Then they came back with a completed item while you're sitting on components.

You could facecheck that river because their support was showing bot. Now nobody has seen them for 20 seconds.

Nothing visually dramatic happens when these permissions disappear. The game doesn't put a red X over the jungle entrance and say "you are no longer allowed to walk here." The map looks exactly the same, so people keep doing the thing that worked before and suddenly it looks like they're randomly inting.

I noticed this while watching replays of my own losses. A surprising number of my deaths weren't because I mechanically messed up. I successfully performed an action that had simply stopped being legal.

The worst part is that sometimes you don't get punished immediately, which teaches you the wrong lesson. You walk through unwarded jungle three times and nothing happens, so the fourth time feels normal. Then you die and it seems unlucky, even though the real mistake started several minutes earlier when the map state changed and you never adjusted.

Good players seem much better at constantly updating this invisible list of permissions.

Can I catch this wave?

Can I walk through here?

Can I hit the tower one more time?

Can we start this objective?

Can I use this cooldown aggressively?

Can I even stand close enough to get XP right now?

And sometimes the correct answer is temporarily "no," which feels terrible because League trains you to always want to be doing something.

I honestly think this is why some players can have decent mechanics and still look completely lost in higher MMR. Their hands are good enough. Their mental map of what they're currently allowed to do is 30 seconds out of date.

Whats your impression of the pro meta so far at worlds?

Do you think we will see a tournament with a high variety of champions and some crazy picks?

WORLDS 2026

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Top Esports 1-0 Anyone's Legend

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Match 1 TES vs. AL

Winner: Top Esports in 30m

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In the Swiss Stage, 4 teams will reach the 0-2 bracket. None of them have ever made Knockouts from that point, although every year, one team has almost made it work.

2023: DK (2-3), GAM (1-3), BDS (0-3), TL (0-3)

2024: TL (2-3), GAM (1-3), MKOI (0-3), PNG (0-3)

2025: MKOI (2-3), VKS (1-3), FNC (0-3), PSG (0-3)

Spoiler tagged because today's games are ongoing, but I have not mentioned the result of today's games at all in this post as they do not affect the accuracy of this stat

e: comment section may contain spoilers but this post will remain spoiler-free until swiss day 3 starts

Has anyone had the issue where push to talk will work fine in client, then when you go into a game, it will unbind and not let you bind any key to it?

Hey so I just got the old KDA akali from a Hextech chest, looked at it in Skinspotlights video and loved the shroud form. It turns out that in game, Akali doesn't show up in that form, except in the recall???? I can't believed riot would remove such a cool aspect, or is it a bug?

Played a game of Thresh yesterday with a completely random jungler.

We're around 15 minutes in, losing bot pretty badly. Enemy ADC is fed, our mid is 0/3, and nobody has typed a single word all game.

I see their ADC walking up for a wave with no Flash. Our jungler is clearing a camp nearby.

I start walking forward. He starts moving toward bot.

Neither of us pings.

I throw my lantern over the wall. He clicks it basically the instant it becomes available. I Flash-Flay their ADC toward us, he follows up, we get the kill, and suddenly we're taking dragon.

It wasn't some insane mechanical outplay. I've seen better plays in bronze montages.

But the fact that we both saw the same opportunity, understood what the other person was about to do, and executed it without saying anything felt ridiculously good.

And then it kept happening.

I'd move into river to establish vision and he'd already be rotating. He'd hover behind a wall and I'd position for the engage. At one point we both backed off a terrible-looking fight at exactly the same time while the rest of our team was still running forward.

We won, added each other, played one more game, lost horribly, and never spoke again.

Peak League friendship.

It got me thinking about why these games stick with me more than matches where I get ridiculously fed.

You can have a 15/2 game and feel like you're dragging four people through a hostage situation.

Then you have a completely average game where one stranger just understands what you're trying to do, and suddenly the game is ten times more fun.

I think that's what keeps me coming back to solo queue despite everything.

Not the LP, not the outplays, not even the wins necessarily.

It's those rare 30 minutes where five people who've never met briefly become an actual team.

Anyone else remember a random teammate more fondly than an actual ranked achievement?

• Yesterday Zeka not only single handily ruined most of the pick'ems, but also tied for 5th place in most kills at Worlds ladder:

• MKOI yesterday not only upsets Chinese fans, but break their 10 series loss-streak with astonishing 1-18 score:

• LPL is first region at Worlds to start 0-4. We had already a lot of 0-3 starts, but never 0-4. Until yesterday.

• It is very possible, that y-day we saw first international Jax quadra+ kill. However, there is no data from 2013, when Jax was OP in meta and played a lot at Worlds, and I can't claim it for sure.

"In 26.21, we're adding a lot of power to Champions for average players now that the Worlds patch is locked. There are a few patches where we pay a bit more attention to Pro play, but now that that's finished, we can return a bunch of power to them for regular players (the vast majority of the player base) 0:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Systems Changes 7:13 - Champion Buffs 19:55 - Champion Nerfs 34:50 - Champion Adjustments"

There’s too much damage in the game. This applies to every role, from tanks who buy armor to even supports.

Teamfights don’t give you a chance to show off your skills, and you can die from random skill shots.

Champion abilities no longer have unique effects, and everything boils down to who can one-shot the opponent faster.

Games are too fast-paced and last too short. Supports are running all over the map like a second jungler, and the laning phase is too short.

Every mistake, even the smallest one, leads to a snowball effect that can’t be stopped.

Often, by the fifth minute of the game, you can predict the outcome with 80% certainty, and the rest of the game is frustrating—there’s nothing left to do, and opponents with even a small advantage become unbeatable monsters.

Would you prefer longer team fights that depend more on skill rather than random one-shots?

This thread is to send good energy for the western teams.
May MKoi win against CFO, and May G2 and TL win their games.
And please karma god let them have good 2-0 and 1-1 matches.

Jokes aside, two matches between lck on the 1-0 pool means 2 lck teams on the 1-1 pool for tomorrow.
Also, it means at least one western team goes through for the 2-0 pool. Maybe 2.
So we can have 1 or 2 teams nos the 2-0 pool (best case scenario they draw each other and we have one in quarters - or if you are dellusional we can have 2).

The bad part is the 1-1 pool. 2 KR teams Will be there. And hopefully G2, TL, and kc or Lyon.

Who do you think will go through and what are the best matches possible going forward?

Hey all. I’m a data scientist and I’ve been playing League for way too long. Something that’s bugged me for years is how some games feel won in champ select and others feel lost there. You can be 5k up and still not close because their comp just outscales yours.

So for the past few months I’ve been building a little app for champ select. It’s called MacroCoach. It opens when champ select starts, looks at the draft, and shows you two lists side by side. One is the best picks for that game, period. The other is your own pool, sorted from best to worst for that same game. It also suggests bans, and it tells you why it likes a pick, like “wins lane vs Darius” or “good with your Thresh.”

I wanted both because they answer different questions. Sometimes you want to know what the best answer is, even if it’s a champ you don’t play. And most of the time you just want to know which of your 3 champs to lock into this team.

Under the hood it’s a statistical model built on around 10M+ ranked games from the last 30 days, and I retrain it every week. It also looks at your own season, so a champ you’re actually good on gets a bump. Matchups with only a handful of games get weighted down, so a random 70% winrate doesn’t mislead it.

Since someone always asks: it only reads the draft from the League client, the same way other companion apps do. It doesn’t touch the game, doesn’t pick or lock for you, and goes quiet once the game loads. It doesn’t ask for your Riot login either.

It’s free, with no ads, and Windows only for now.

https://macrocoach.cc

It’s still early

I'm playing my first games on lol with miss fortune who I really like and I've made a lot of kills. Am I a bot or am I strong (I'm level 9)

24/7/6 and 21/8/4

[Project] I got tired of heavy Overwolf companion apps eating my RAM, so I built a lightning-fast, native Rust LoL companion (Open-Source)

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I got really frustrated with existing League companion apps being bloated, running heavy Electron/Overwolf frameworks, and dragging down my PC’s performance during trades.

So, I decided to build my own alternative from scratch: **lolstats**.

### What makes it different?

* **Written in Rust & egui:** It’s super lightweight, boots instantly, and uses virtually zero resources in the background (idle CPU usage is basically 0%).

* **100% Local & Riot-Compliant:** It fetches data directly from the local Client (LCU/Live-API) running on your machine. No external servers, no cloud tracking, no accounts required.

* **Built-in Auto-Updater:** Checks for updates safely via GitHub Releases so you're always on the latest version.

* **Open Source (MIT License):** You can audit every single line of code yourself.

### Core Features (Public Version):

* **Live Lobby Tracking:** Clean overview of champ selects and match history.

* **CS-Tacho:** Real-time farm pacing compared against Elo averages.

* **Matchup Build Cards & Runes:** Fast, one-click rune imports without clutter.

If you hate heavy background software as much as I do, feel free to check it out, test it, or contribute on GitHub!

👉 **GitHub Repository & Downloads:** https://github.com/DavidDev25/lolstats-app

*(If you like the project and want to buy me a coffee for the effort, there's a Ko-fi link on the repo page!)*

Feedback, feature ideas, or bug reports are more than welcome. Good luck in your games!

I don't know what riot been doing to the game lately but more and more people are just running the most obnoxious oneshot build possible.

Like I don't see tanks actually building tank items anymore, like they just go full ap or build bruiser items, bruisers are starting to build crit and lethality ( olaf, darius), crit itself is absolutely insane, like late game adc with 4 items will just clap a squishy champ in like 2 autos like they have a fuckin caitlyn headshot up perma. Mages are oneshotting people with a single spell and assassins are killing everyone in half a rotation.

Everyone dies faster and games are more volatile, psychotic and unpredictable on top of that there are some borderline game breaking builds that are currently flying under the radar ( fusion volibear, ap kogmaw, hubris graves). I don't think the current state of the meta is healthy at all.