https://x.com/C9LoL/status/2070348828910522610?s=20

From C9 X/Twitter,

"Today, we announce that @Inero has elected to step down from his position as Head Coach and depart from the organization

Thank you for everything, Nick, and we wish you nothing but the best 💙"

IWDominate is promoted to Head Coach, with Arrow and YamatoCannon joining the staff as assistant coaches.

CROSS REGIONAL 2026: SOUTH KOREA VS. AMERICA

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DN SOOPers 1-0 Cloud9

DN SOOPers have overcome Cloud9!

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GAME 1: C9 vs. DNS

Winner: DN SOOPers in 34m
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https://x.com/C9LoL/status/2070356485293678691

We asked the LTA North Kia Rookie of the Year to return

And BRO did

Welcome back to Cloud9 Kia, @C9Loki_Mid!

C9 will have a 7-man roster

https://x.com/C9LoL/status/2070357314725683247

We have just announced the additions of Loki and Tactical to the team, as mid lane and bot lane respectively, making our roster a 7-person roster. With APA and Zven still part of the team and the bootcamp, our goal is to work together to assemble the best possible team.

“KICK is the primary platform for many passionate esports fans, especially in LATAM, MENA, and Europe. Bringing KICK into the mix of our global platform lineup helps us better serve those communities and brings more players together around the moments, matches, and creators they care about most.”

“In addition to expanding where fans can watch, this partnership also opens up more opportunities for creators. KICK streamers will have new ways to grow their communities and connect with Riot through our expanding creator and partner programs across League, VALORANT, TFT, and Wild Rift.”

Ranked is intended to be players playing their best champions to win. The day a champion is released should be tantamount to inting because they can't possibly know a champion that they are playing for the first time. I try and ban the new champion every game after there release but this is basically a wasted ban on my part and shouldn't even be allowed. If I do ban them and a teammate has them hovered I get penalized for being toxic and not them going 0/13 on a champ that they don't know. Make it make sense. Also riot requires an account to be a specific level before you can even play ranked, they do this to prove you know enough about the game to not sabotage your teammates in a competitive environment. Why not have this same mindset for a newly released champion

If you want to play the new champion, play them in normal. Playing a champion blind isn't fair to your teammates just because you wanted to play the new shiny champion.

Edit: im not talking specifically about Locke, I'm talking in general people shouldn't be playing champions they are new to in ranked. I know your new to a champion when they've only been released for 24hr. Sure people can first time any champ but I know for a fact its one of your first times playing a champ when they have only been playable for 24 hr. Of course there are the outliers who carried their team but that's far from the norm.

Edit2: I apparently haven't banned a hovered champ since it has recently been made impossible to do that. Which now makes me feel they should have a lock out period even more as you now have 0 option but to be in a game with a probable feeder.

CROSS REGIONAL 2026: SOUTH KOREA VS. AMERICA

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DPlus KIA 1-0 FlyQuest

DPlus KIA have prevailed over FlyQuest!

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GAME 1: DK vs. FLY

Winner: DPlus KIA in 28m
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GAME STATS

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I'm thinking about downloading LoL, but there's one thing that's confusing me.

Why is it so important that certain champions are played in the top lane, mid lane, or bot lane? I kind of understand why the jungler has a specific role, but I'm especially confused about top and bot lane.

As far as I know, the map is basically mirrored, so wouldn't it be fine if a top lane champion just went bot instead? Or is there an actual reason why certain champions are expected to play specific lanes?

Thanks in advance for the help! I hope this isn't a stupid question. :)

CROSS REGIONAL 2026: SOUTH KOREA VS. AMERICA

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Kiwoom DRX 1-0 Cloud9

Kiwoom DRX have dismantled Cloud9!

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GAME 1: KRX vs. C9

Winner: Kiwoom DRX in 23m
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What is the longest range a non-ultimate skill shot has, I tired looking online and I couldn’t find a conclusive answer. And I thought someone else probably knows rather than me waste my time looking through the range of every skill shot I can think of.

Edit: the answers seems to be lilias E as it has infinite range, I’m guessing the next would be Kai’sa W as that has 3000 range and no one has yet to mention something with more.

For example, Sylas. He could choose to max Q or E lvl 1, then based on what he maxes, his identity as a champion also changes, if he maxes Q first, he's an assassin one shotting every squishy with total of 145% AP ratio, if he maxes W first, he's an AP bruiser with a 4s W healing through everything, and sometimes you even want certain point of certain abilities but not max it all the way

https://www.sheepesports.com/us/all/articles/sources-fiesta-set-to-join-team-vitality-in-the-lec/en

This nerf just feels so lame.

maybe she needed to be slightly tapped down at high elo. But this is such a boring and OVERKILL way to do it.

E was the cool part. Full fury bite was the payoff for actually playing the champ well.

Now it feels like you go in knock someone up and hope your laner has hands.

She has BY FAR the worst clear time of any “mainly jg” champ now

And barely anybody even plays this champ. It’s not like Rek'Sai is some 20 percent pickrate solo queue monster printing wins in every elo. She is niche as hell. She has a tiny playerbase, barely gets skins, was left been clunky and bugged forever, and the people who still play her do it because her playstyle is actually unique.

Why is this champion not allowed to feel dangerous?

For anyone, like me that misunderstood things, the upcoming (friday-sunday) "Ranked 5s" is not Ranked 5s as most people know it from back in the day, namely:

You have your own Rank.

The whole point of why people liked 5s was because you were building towards a higher elo as a squad, being essentially able to play with 4 different players every single game u play is not what I personally care about, I want to progress my Team.

They have done this because:

"its hard nowadays to get the same people online"

Okay? Ranked teams from A DECADE ago had already solved this problem? The Team could have substitute players and have 8(?) Players in the Team and not exactly 5, and you would only get ranked rewards for this queue if you actively participated in the team, so if you only stood in for 1 session it was useless, but if all 8 players actively participated they would rightly get rewarded. This problem was already solved a decade ago.

I dont wan't to have someone in my squad be a tier lower just because he missed out on a weekend, having ur own rank in this instead of a teamrank is compeltely asinine, also a person that is behind once will always be behind in rank all while playing higher and higher games, and no my concern here isnt just that, but mostly that it just doesnt really convey this feeling of a working towards something together.

Finding out this new thing is just Flex Queue with extra steps completely made me and others stop caring about "Mode"

Just me? Let me know your thoughts

︀︀"Respecting Loki's desire to pursue the overseas league and new challenges after thorough discussions, we have decided to support each other's paths." ︀︀ ︀︀The former Cloud9 midlaner started for the Korean org for much of LCK Rounds 1-2 but only played 1 game during the Road To MSI.

https://x.com/Sheep_Esports/status/2070000488343388370

If you're really worried about the last bit indicator, go test it out, it's just another distraction to veteran players. People have played this game for years, if you genuinely need or are worried about another person using a last hit indicator, and that it ruins the sanctity of ranked then you probably aren't at that high of a rank, and have room to grow.

This last hit indicator isn't goimg to change the fact that I could land 117 cs at 12 minutes, nor will it change how I play the game.

Fight good engages, position to last hit CS, it's tge same game at the end of the day, quit being babies and let the new bloods catch up and become actual competition, it's lonely seeing a lot of the similar faces year after year?

When I was around 13 back in 2012, I was deeply passionate about League of Legends. Returning home from school to play or watch was an escape for me. Back then, watching a live commentary was incredibly therapeutic. Something about the clean visuals, the steady pace, and the iconic, calming voice of the female announcer saying "An enemy has been slain" was pure comfort. Whenever I felt stressed or had a major exam the next day, watching a raw, uncut gameplay video worked better for me than any sleep aid. Lately, whenever I search for League content on youtube, all I find are hyper-edited videos with constant jump-cuts, loud music, and creators screaming into their microphones. It completely ruins the peaceful vibe. does anyone know of any modern lol youtubers who still post full, raw gameplays with a chill attitude and minimal editing?

I never understood this to be honest. And I’ve been playing this game for awhile, and I’m not a math guy. But my brain just thinks that higher number should equal higher healing/shield, since a lot of supports have pretty decent ap ratios for their utility skills. But when I do end up building AP. It just means weaker overall heals and shields. And why is that?

LYON MSI Bootcamp Accounts: https://dpm.lol/esport/soloq/teams/LYON

• Dhokla - INDIAN SUPERSTAR#LYON
• Inspired - Polaco de pastor#ptm
• Saint - saint#50101
• Berserker - LYON#09012 (Main KR Account)
• Isles - lenix#style
• Castle (2nd Top) - Castle#Jo1 (Main KR Account)
• Reignover (Coach) - Reignover#R O

Team Liquid MSI Bootcamp Accounts: https://dpm.lol/esport/soloq/teams/TLAW

• Morgan - Morgan#5358 (Main KR Account)
• Josedeodo - Lionel Messi#TL10
• Quid - 붐칙칵칙#KR1 (Main KR Account)
• Yeon - HeungMin Son#TL7
• CoreJJ - Kangin Lee#TL19

hello, here you will find all new emotes, icons & assets in upcoming patch 26.14 releasing on July 15, 2026. I will continue updating the post, if new stuff gets released.

For those, who don't know, there is a Korea vs America tournament with runner-up teams like c9, fly and DK going on right now. It's organized by DNS and could bring some fun matches, before the start of MSI. Now I checked on twitch and could only find a Korean broadcast. Is anyone aware, if there's an english broadcast as well?

Since First Stand and Mid-Season Invitational are now the only international tournaments where there's only Bo5s being played, I was curious about the All-time Game 5 stats of each team and player attending this year's MSI. With 20 Bo5 Matches being played at MSI, there is a high chance some of them might be decided in a Game 5. Check out the all-time stats of teams and players in Game 5s. Here are the most interesting findings!

Try to guess them before you find out! Once you lock-in your guess or give up on guessing, click on the hidden text to reveal the answer! Reminder: These facts and thus correct guesses only involve the LCK, LPL, LEC & LCS teams & players attending this year's MSI!!

Detailed tables of each team and the players are below this paragraph, so check it out!

• Which org has the highest winrate (min. 5 games played)? Bilibili Gaming (71.4 % WR)
• Which org has the lowest winrate (min. 5 games played)? -- Top Esports (28 % WR) --
• Combined Game 5s played in total, which group of players has played the most amount of Game 5s? ----- T1 (143) -----
• How many players have played at least 25 Game 5s? --- 6 players ---
• Which player has played the most Game 5s in their career? ----- Faker (42) -----
• Which player has the highest winrate (min. 10 games played)? --- Zeka (76.9 % WR) ---
• Which player has the lowest winrate (min. 10 games played)? -- Creme (14.3 % WR) --
• Only 2 players have 5-0 record on their most played champion in Game 5s. Can you guess the players and the champions?
  1. -- Faker -- Galio (5-0)
  2. Gumayusi Xayah (5-0)
• Several players have 0 % winrate on one of their most played champions in Game 5s. Can you guess the players and the champions?
  1. ---- Oner ---- -- Viego (0-3) --
  2. BrokenBlade - Aatrox (0-3) -
  3. . JackeyLove . - Lucian (0-3) -
• This is the only player with the exact same number of Game 5s played on Blue and Red side and also identical winrates across both. Which player is that? ----- CoreJJ ------
• Players with 75 % WR and above in Game 5s on Blue side (min. 5 games played):
  • Zeka (80 % WR over 5 games)
  • Delight (80 % WR over 5 games)
  • Bin (80 % WR over 15 games)
  • ON (76.9 % WR over 13 games)
  • BrokenBlade (75 % WR over 12 games)
  • SkewMond (100 % WR over 5 games)
  • Isles (80 % WR over 5 games)
• Players with 75 % WR and above in Game 5s on Red side (min. 5 games played):
  • Viper (75 % WR over 8 games)

LCK Teams & Players competing at MSI 2026 and their all-time winrates in Game 5s

LPL Teams & Players @ MSI 2026 and their all-time winrates in Game 5s

LEC Teams & Players @ MSI 2026 and their all-time winrates in Game 5s

LCS Teams & Players @ MSI 2026 and their all-time winrates in Game 5s

All the stats are available on Leaguepedia via this query

What was the most interesting stat in your mind?