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FOTM Report: Smolder Bot | Patch 26.20 Build and Runes
Riot buffed Smolder's crit scaling and raised the heal on his ultimate by almost half at rank three. He went from Tier 3 to Tier 1 in bot lane inside a week.He's winning 51.2% of his bot lane games on...
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Reading Team Comps in LoL: The Questions to Ask Before Minions Spawn
Reading a draft is mostly about absences. Ask these before minions spawn: who walks in first, whose game is longer, and which single player on their team has to die.League of Legends GuideReading Team...
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Old League of Legends: 10 Things the Game Used to Have
Half the things that defined League for its first six years aren't in the game any more, and a lot of players have never seen any of them.Some of these got cut because they were bad. Some got cut...
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LoL Mid Lane Guide: Priority, Roaming and Where You Actually Die
Mid is half the length of a side lane, which decides everything else about the role.League of Legends GuideMid LaneThings Nobody Tells YouMid is barely half the length of the side lanes. The turret is...
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Weird Pick #172: Mid Lane Garen
Mid lane is full of champions who win by pressing four buttons in the right order. Garen's answer is to take the buttons away.Nobody drafts Garen mid to out-scale anyone. They draft him because the...
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LoL Top Lane Guide: Waves, Plating, Teleport and Converting a Lead
Top laners win their lane and lose the game more than anybody else, and it happens the same way every time. The fix is knowing what the longest lane on the map is really asking you to do.League of...
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Top Team Comps #142: Pick a Resistance (Olaf & Vel'Koz)
Armor or magic resist? This team is built so that whichever one the enemy buys, they picked wrong. Five champions, three damage types, and nowhere sensible to spend gold.Top Team CompsPick a...
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LoL Support Mistakes: The Habits That Cost Your Team
Warding in bursts, roaming from a shoved lane, and engaging with nobody behind you. Here are the support habits that cost games, and the one question that decides the rest of them.League of Legends...
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Formerly OP #18: Old Tryndamere
Old Tryndamere didn't get scarier when he was winning. He got scarier when he was dying.Every other champion in Season 1 had a health bar. He had a countdown to the good part.Formerly OPOld...
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LoL Bot Lane Guide: Positioning, Spikes and Trading
Marksmen die in the ten seconds after they win something (rarely during the fight itself). This covers what nobody tells you about bot lane: what positioning actually means, why the level two rush is a...
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LoL Jungle Mistakes: The Habits That Lose You Games
The lane screaming for help is usually the worst one to visit, your first ninety seconds are decided by habit rather than the draft, and counting your game in kills is how junglers lose games they were...
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Red Post Roundup #9: Why Sylas and Varus Got Pulled
Riot pulled Sylas and Varus out of Patch 26.20 before it shipped, and explained the rest of the Worlds patch champion by champion: longer sleeps for Lillia, crit for Smolder, and nerfs for Ashe and...
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ARAM Mayhem Augment Changes in Patch 26.21: Every Augment Leaving and Arriving
Patch 26.21 lands on October 21 and takes 14 augments out of ARAM Mayhem. Dropkick, DropBear, High Roller and Fan the Hammer are all on the list. Riot showed five new ones on October 5. The 26.21 PBE...
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Losing Your Lane in LoL: How to Get Back Into the Game
A losing lane is information, and most players ignore all of it. Getting back into the game comes down to what to build, when to recall, how to use the wave, and the one habit worth more than the other...
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LoL Terms Explained: The Ten Words That Change How You Play
Ten words your team uses as though everybody agreed on them, explained properly: tempo, peel, kiting, poke, split push, scaling, engage, wave management, vision and CS. The full A to Z lives in our...
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LoL Pings Guide: Every Ping, What It Says and Who Sees It
Two ping families, one of which nobody learns, a summoner spell call almost no player makes, and a budget tied to your Honor level. Learn what every ping does and which ones are worth pressing.League...
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Funny Arena Duos in LoL: Pairs That Still Finish Top Four
Arena only asks you to finish in the top four of eight duos. That leaves a lot of room for pairs that make the whole lobby laugh.These are the funniest Arena duos we know that still place. Some lean on...
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Riot Delays Private Replays to 26.21 After Creator Backlash
Riot has pushed private replays back to Patch 26.21. The 26.20 notes said you'd only be able to watch replays of your own games from now on, Midbeast and Vandiril both put out videos about it the next...
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True Damage Know My Name Skins: All 5 on PBE, With 3D Models
Five True Damage Know My Name skins reached the PBE on Tuesday, October 6, for Akali, Ekko, Qiyana, Senna and Yasuo.Ekko's is a Prestige and Yasuo's is the Worlds 2026 skin. All five are already up in...
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Why League of Legends Solo Queue Is SO Tilting
Playing solo queue has never been purely "for fun". In fact, it's so anti-fun that Riot's own design team has coined the term "healthy frustration" as a main component of how they design the game's...
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