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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 the champions who win by snowballing and handing it to the ones who win by scaling. Nasus, Graves and Xerath all take hits at the top of their roles, so we expect Yone, Viego and Yasuo to fill the gaps, and Irelia to finally have a reason to play a long game.LoL 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: t...
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Patch Notes Summary Rundown
Patch 26.17: Rift Restoration
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 Classic XP, champion and role swapping in Champion Select, the first Council vote, and an art pass that pushes the Rift back toward the way it used to look. On the live Rift it's quieter. Irelia, Yasuo and Yone all get nudged toward scaling instead of snowballing, Vayne gets pulled out of top lane, and Xerath answers for that ban rate. Stormrazor and Sundered Sky both get touched. Two new skin lines land on the 26th, Heartsong Seraphine and Ocean Song Soraka and Jinx.
Buffs: Aurelion Sol, Cho'Gath, Irelia, LeBlanc, Qiyana, Trundle, Yasuo, Yone
Nerfs: Graves, Nasus, Nocturne, Thresh, Vayne, Xerath
The 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,...
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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.
Blitzcrank 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 tw...
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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 game and it's still valid, because no other champion converts a single mistake into a dead lane so efficiently. There's no counterplay after the grab lands, which is why every real answer to him happens before it does, or blocks it outright.
Check out our top Blitzcrank counters below for more information on how to beat him!
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 ...
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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.
LoL Gold Guide: Every Source of Income and What It's Worth
Everything in League is bought with the same currency, and most players know two of the ways to earn it. Here's every source of gold...
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Everything in League is bought with the same currency, and most players know two of the ways to earn it. Here's every source of gold, who each one pays, and the rule about spending it that decides more games than any of them.
Formerly OP #11: Old Darius
Riot rewrote one sentence of one tooltip five separate times across three years, and it still wasn't enough. Dunkm...
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Riot rewrote one sentence of one tooltip five separate times across three years, and it still wasn't enough.
Dunkmaster Darius, designed by Riot CertainlyT, was the first champion that designer released, and the one that made him notorious in the community for creating overpowered designs. Following him up with Thresh and Yasuo certainly just made things worse.
LoL Turrets Guide: Plating Gold, Tower Aggro and Why Towers Won't Fall
Turrets are the only thing in League you have to kill to win, and they're treated as scenery. A tower is a unit with a target priori...
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Turrets are the only thing in League you have to kill to win, and they're treated as scenery. A tower is a unit with a target priority, a damage ramp, two defensive mechanics and a gold table, and all four decide how your lane should go.
Red Post Roundup #4: Riot Explains Duo Queue MMR
Riot spent five days explaining what duoing does to your lobby, and above Emerald the answer is that it costs you. Mat...
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Riot spent five days explaining what duoing does to your lobby, and above Emerald the answer is that it costs you.
Matt Leung-Harrison put the duo penalty in rank order, Drew Levin defended it for four straight days, and the full 26.17 preview finally named its champions.
