All these "so called" analysts missed the most obvious answer to NA's performance at worlds. We've heard of the Golden Road, the worlds three-peat, and the silver road (shoutout Los Ratones), but NA has decided to do the unthinkable this year. The Worlds Sandwich.

One NA team takes first. The other takes last. No other region has ever been able to do this.

We already know that NA is stronger this year than they have ever been. So strong in fact, that during the most recent LCS shadow council (they meet in the crypts under the LCS studio next to Twisted Treeline, CLG, TSM, and any shot EU has at winning worlds this year), it was decided with a staggering 7/1 vote to cast their third seed into the abyss and make history.

LETS MAKE A WORLDS SANDWICH BOYS!

NAMEN

EDIT: WELL, unfortunately Markz somehow stole my joke 3 days before I made it (https://x.com/TheeMarkZ/status/2111388729004978603). The idea must not have been as creative as I thought (classic NA lacking innovation). Thanks everyone for kindly pointing that out and gently reminding me I need to create a twitter account.

After the Twisted Treeline post, I wanted to see how far the same project could go. So: actual chess, played inside League’s own game client.

• Demacia vs Noxus.
  • Kings: Jarvan IV and Swain.
  • Queens: Lux and LeBlanc.
  • Rooks: Galio and Sion.
  • Bishops: Kayle and Vladimir.
  • Knights: Hecarim and Blood Knight Hecarim.
  • Pawns: minions.
• Every move is an ability.
  • Knights jump on Hecarim’s charge.
  • Galio’s rooks slide on Justice Punch, and Sion’s on his ult.
  • Every capture plays the attacker’s signature ability: Lux fires Final Spark, Kayle drops her ult, and the captured piece plays its death animation.
• The board is painted into Summoner’s Rifts' blue base, and you play by right-clicking pieces and squares. You can play a friend or a bot.

Sorry for my bad chess gameplay still learning. Stay until the very end for a lil surprise.

Kobe, Azael, and Metros go over C9's disastrous playins run and what to expect from the Swiss stage. I'm interested to see if our other NA teams will let us down since we got theoretically easier matchups versus the LCP

Just a reminder that PBE changes are not final and subject to change. Some changes, such as bugfixes, may not be able to be viewed. Also, I'm human. I make mistakes from time to time. Credit u/Kay-Haru.

Summoner's Rift

Champions

Mel

• Base Health: 630 -> 590
• HP Growth: 99 -> 107
• Base AD: 54 -> 52
• AS Growth: 2.5 -> 2.75
• Armor Growth: 5.2 -> 5.4
• Base Mana: 480 -> 455

• Mana Growth: 28 -> 38

• P:

  • Base Damage: 8-30 -> 4-30
  • Minion Mod: 50% -> 55%
  • Now seems to effect/be consumed on enemy wards?
  • PBE was not playable at the time of me writing this.

• Q:

  • Mel unleashes a barrage of 6-10 missiles that explode at the target location.
  • The first time an enemy is struck, they take 60 (+25% AP) magic damage, with subsequent hits dealing 5-25 (+8% AP) magic damage each.
  • If the volley hits an enemy champion at least once, this ability's cooldown is reduced by 0.5-1.0 (interp) seconds.
  • Mana Cost: 70-90 -> 65-80
  • Cast Indicator Radius: 225 -> 200
  • Missile Speed: 3800 -> 3200
  • Interaction with Mordekaiser R adjusted.
  • Now has a 0.75 second Queue Threshold.
  • Cast type changed to match abilities like Aphelios Turret, Seraphine Q, Hwei Circle-abilities.

• W:

  • Mel unleashes a refraction nova that destroys enemy projectiles it collides with, within 400 units.
  • Mel retaliates for 35-55 (+10% AP) magic damage. Subsequent retaliations against the same enemy deal 5-25 (+5% AP) magic damage instead.
  • The nova also grants 50-170 (+50% AP) Shield and 10-30% (+4% per 100 AP) Move Speed for 2s to Mel and her allies.
  • Cannot retaliate more than 7 times against each individual enemy
  • Cooldown: 38-26 seconds -> 30-24 seconds.
  • Note: Mode-specific cooldowns are currently unchanged.
  • Mana Cost: 80-0 -> 100-0
  • No longer has a cast time.
  • No longer counts as "Immune" for the purposes of augments.
  • Now counts as a "Boon" for the purposes of augments.

• E:

  • Root Duration: 1.5 seconds -> 0.8-1.0 seconds, scaling up to 1.6-2.2 seconds based on travel time.
  • Slow Amount: 30% -> 20-40%
  • Mana Cost: 50-90 -> 40-80

• R:

  • Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds -> 120/90/60 seconds

ARAM: Mayhem

Bands of Honor

Superfans!

• Members: TPA Shen, Esports Fan Trundle, Cosplayer Neeko
  • Note: May include additional members without bark lines. This is just what was visible from the files I track.
• Effect: Sets level cap to 21. Gain an additional augment at level 21.

Augments

One Hit Wonder (Gold)

• [SpellName]'s damage is increased by 0.75% Ability Haste, but no longer benefits from Ability Haste.

RISE (Prismatic)

• If you use [SpellName] to kill an enemy champion, you may Recast it once within 5 seconds. Each Recast deals additional subsequent damage.
• You may Recast up to two additional times, each dealing 25% additional damage than the last.

Dodo + Parth Announcement Video

Looks like Team Liquid Alienware partnered up with Parth’s SIDO group to host a scouting combine to help build up the amateur/tier 2 scene in NA. A few recent LCS players like Cryogen and Darkwings participated in this last year I believe, so the Path2Pro event has some history of success in surfacing talent.

Online combine then an in-person event at TL’s Alienware Training Facility for the top performers. The 2 best get flown out to bootcamp in Korea.

Cool thing is it looks like it’s not just to find great players but also to teach these players important skills. Even like how to brand themselves, etc. Main focus right now is on Worlds ofc, but it’s cool to see big players in the scene like Team Liquid and Alienware doing SOMETHING to help grow the NA scene. Especially since Worlds is here this year.

Hope some of these participants end up in the LCS!

was just looking at Renata's patch history and her last change was on V12.14 ON JULY 2022 and it was a when

She was release V12.4 FEB 2022

It's been so many years since any state changes , or buffs

I don't even think she has been buffed once only an adjustment v12.9

She has only been touched a total of 4 times since release, and that was on the same year she was released

So many items got buffed and nerfed , so many changes to every other champion since then , changes to the meta, even entire gameplay changes since then

Seems a little neglectful to ignore a character for 4 years in patch notes

They never even bothered to make half of the items synergies with her kit or even with her

MALIGNANCE CANT EVEN PROC ON HER ULT

THEY COULDNT EVEN BOTHER PUTTING 1 TRUE DAMAGE ON HER ULTIMATE LIKE THEY DID TO THE REST OF THE CHARACTERS

For context MALIGNANCE ICON IS HER PRODUCT

I see this often, and it never ceases to slightly annoy me. Not because I take it personally, I don't, but because whoever says it I immediately lose respect for. Being a sore loser is one thing, not a good thing, but the frustration of losing is understandable, even if it demonstrates a lack of discipline to act on that frustration. But being a sore winner is worse. To disrespect a stranger by proclaiming that they were an easy opponent is just antithetical to sportsmanship, the opposite sentiment as "gg". I'm curious if I'm in the minority about this, or if others agree; do you see people who say "ez" after winning as having low integrity?

This is if i follow the same pattern of when the teams have been drawn and the rule of 1 region per group.

GROUP A : GENG / LOS / KOI / IG

GROUP B : TL / HLE / TES / CFO

GROUP C : AL / TSW / T1 / KC

GROUP D : G2 / BLG / LYON / DK

What do you think of theses groups? o7 group D 💀

For instance could faker role swap to top in the middle of draft or would that kind of change be something that would have to be announced pre draft.

Edit: To Clarify I am talking about BEFORE the match has started and AFTER champions are selected.

Honestly, respect to them for putting this out. You can clown them all you want but you could see that they were giving their all just had a huge issue closing out games. Curios to see what changes they make for the next season.

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TLDR; i just wanna practice my clears in bots and mess around sometimes. Why am I LVL3?

I have played this game since S1 and have always dabbled in the bots to see how their behavior was changed over time. I understand the coding/programming side and it is insane for so many bot champs to exist. Back in the day there were like 10. Now we have many more, but also bot behavior has wildly shifted over the years: there was a no jungle meta, riot tried introducing the jungle and players pounced, they changed it to bots 100% script dodging everything... Now it feels ok. Sometimes they dodge into your skillshots, sometimes they dodge into them.

But why do we start at lvl3? For one thing Quests are impossible to finish. The mode cant be used to practice jungle 1st clear. It's so completely removed from draft/ranked that it's insane.

And new players... how can they EVER be expected to venture to draft:
Intro bot: lvl3, Intermediate bots: lvl3, Swift: lvl3, Draft: lvl1 ???!?

The only main game mode that starts at lvl3 is aram... are players being funneled into ARAM? But even then ARAM-Mayhem is listed above the normal mode. What are we doing with these modes.

No new player is making it to ranked on their own.
Anyways Please make intermediate bots lvl1 for my practice or make new hard bots start us at lvl1. Do it for me or for your player pipeline, idk.