Top Team Comps #135: Grounded (Singed & Vex)
Nothing on the enemy team gets to move the way it wants to. This team comp takes away dashes, flashes and escapes until the fight happens exactly where you decided it would.Top Team CompsGroundedSinged...
View ArticleBlitzcrank Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Nobody actually loses to Blitzcrank's kit. They lose to one second of standing in the wrong place, and then they lose the twenty minutes that came after it.Blitzcrank is the oldest complaint in the...
View ArticleThe LoL Item Shop: Search, Item Sets and the Free Undo
You open the shop about twenty times a game and most people use maybe a third of it. Here's what the interface already does for you, including the button that takes a misclick back for free.League of...
View ArticleLoL 26.17 Patch Notes: Every Champion and Item Change
Patch 26.17 is a League Classic patch with a Summoner's Rift undercard. Classic gets its second content update and it's a big one: two more rune pages, cheaper runes, a lot more Influence Points and...
View ArticlePatch 26.17 Tier List Predictions: Our Day One Forecast
League of Legends Solo Queue Tier Lists for Patch 26.17:Patch 26.17 spends most of its attention on League Classic, but the Rift changes it does make all point the same way: Riot is taking power off...
View ArticleWeird Pick #165: Bot Lane Brand
Everyone knows Brand support. Almost nobody has noticed that the version standing where the marksman should be is winning more games than it does.Brand takes the bot lane carry slot in about one in...
View ArticleLoL Vision Guide: Ward Placement, Clearing and Trinket Timers
Everyone tells you to ward more. Nobody tells you how any of it works. Here are the rules that decide whether a ward shows you something or shows you a wall, plus the trinket math that explains why you...
View ArticleDid Hecarim Get Buffed in 26.17? What Riot Pulled From PBE
Short answer: no. Rampage [Q] is untouched in Patch 26.17, with the same 4 second cooldown and the same 0.75 second refund per stack it had in 26.16. The confusion comes from Riot's own highlights...
View ArticleTop 10 Champion Passives Stronger Than Most Ultimates
Every champion gets one ability they never press, never level, and never lose. For these ten, that ability is the best thing in the kit.A passive costs nothing. No mana, no cooldown, no button. Riot...
View ArticleGangplank Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Gangplank spends nine minutes doing nothing to you, and then one barrel chain takes most of your health bar from outside your range.The Gangplank matchup feels unfair because the punishment arrives all...
View ArticleLoL XP Guide: How Experience Is Shared and the Catch-Up Rules
Gold gets all the attention, and levels win more early fights than gold does. Experience arrives for being present, keeps arriving while you're dead, and pays more the further behind you are. Here's...
View ArticleARAM Strategy Guide: How to Win on the Howling Abyss
ARAM isn't Summoner's Rift with one lane. You can't recall, you can't shop once you leave the fountain, and the game quietly reduces damage from anyone poking you from max range. Here's what actually...
View ArticleLoL Death Timers Guide: How Long You Wait and What You Lose
Death in League isn't a flat punishment. The timer has two inputs, five items still work from the gray screen, and a late kill is worth the window it opens rather than the gold it pays. Here's...
View ArticleTroll Jungle Picks: 10 Off-Meta Junglers That Actually Work
The jungle punishes bad picks harder than any lane does, which is exactly why the off-meta ones that survive it are so annoying to play against.A jungler needs three things: a clear that doesn't leave...
View ArticleGraves Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Graves doesn't have a trick. He beats you in a straight fight from level three onward, and there's nothing more annoying than that.Most junglers you lose to have a gimmick you can learn. Graves just...
View ArticleGrievous Wounds Guide: Every Anti-Heal Source and Who Should Buy It
Anti-heal is a flat 40% that doesn't stack, ignores shields, expires in three seconds and only matters while it's applied. Here's every source of it, who on your team should be carrying it, and when...
View ArticleMeme Champions in LoL: 10 Picks the Community Will Never Let Go
Some champions are balanced. These ones are jokes the community has been telling for over a decade, and it turns out that's a much harder thing to kill.Riot can nerf a win rate. Riot cannot nerf a...
View ArticleWave Management Explained: Freezing, Slow Pushing and Crashing
You can win a lane without ever touching your opponent. Wave management is the difference between farming safely under tower and being ganked with no escape, and almost nobody teaches it. Here's how...
View ArticleVoidgrubs and Rift Herald Guide: Timers, Clearing and the Eye
The top pit has three tenants and all of them expire. Voidgrubs heal each other, the Herald scales with the lobby and carries a weak point on her back, and neither of them pays in gold. Here's how to...
View ArticleTroll Support Picks: 10 Off-Meta Supports That Actually Work
Every one of these picks gets somebody typing "?" in chat at champion select. Every one of them also wins bot lanes, which is the part nobody mentions afterwards.Off-meta support isn't the same thing...
View ArticleFormerly OP #12: Old Vladimir
Every other champion in the game had to choose between hurting you and surviving you. Vladimir bought both with the same gold.He had no mana bar, no cast time worth dodging, and two seconds of being...
View ArticlePoppy Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Poppy support isn't loud about it. She quietly turns off the one button your champion is built around and asks you to play the game without it.There's a particular helplessness to pressing your dash...
View ArticleLoL Inhibitors Guide: Stats, Super Minions and Ending a Game
An inhibitor has 4000 health, 20 armor and no magic resist at all, and breaking a second one buys you minions rather than access. Here's how ending a game actually works.League of Legends...
View ArticleFunniest Champion Interactions in LoL: 10 Most Frustrating Spells to Play Around
Ten moments where two kits collide and the game produces something nobody designed on purpose. Half of these decide games. All of them are funny.League has a few hundred abilities that all have to work...
View ArticleTop Team Comps #136: The Long Game (Nasus & Smolder)
Lose the first fifteen minutes on purpose. This team comp hands over the early game, farms through it, and then never gives the lead back once the items land.Top Team CompsThe Long GameNasus · Bel'Veth...
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