Infernal Cinders in LoL: What They Do and Where They Spawn
The little flames on the ground of an Infernal map are Infernal Cinders. Walk over one for a quick burst of speed and a point of ability haste that stays with you. Here's where they spawn and how to...
View ArticleK/DA FIRESTARTER Is Out: League of Legends' New K/DA Song, Singers and Every...
K/DA is back. The FIRESTARTER music video went up on the League of Legends YouTube channel on the evening of October 18, ahead of the October 20 date on the band's teaser, and it's their first new...
View ArticleFormerly OP #19: Old Shaco
Old Shaco never cheated. The rules just kept making exceptions for him.Roots held everyone but him. Spells killed every trap but his. Death was permanent for everything except his clone.Formerly OPOld...
View ArticleLoL Settings Guide: The Options Worth Changing Before Your Next Game
Ten settings worth changing before your next game, from quick cast with indicator down to the health bar text almost nobody switches. None of them require practice, and two of them change every...
View ArticleSummoner's Rift Map Guide: What Every Area Is For
A tour of Summoner's Rift by what each part of it is for: the pits, the river, the buff camps, the bushes and the base. Every piece of the map, and the decision it exists to create.League of Legends...
View ArticleLoL Ranks Explained: What Every Tier From Iron to Challenger Is Like
What each rank in League actually looks like from the inside, tier by tier, and the single habit that gets you out of each one. Iron to Challenger, including where Emerald changed everything.League of...
View ArticleFOTM 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...
View ArticleReading 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...
View ArticleOld 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...
View ArticleLoL 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...
View ArticleWeird 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...
View ArticleLoL 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleLoL 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...
View ArticleFormerly 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...
View ArticleLoL 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...
View ArticleLoL 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...
View ArticleRed 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...
View ArticleARAM 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...
View ArticleLosing 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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