UPDATE 10/20: Mark "RiotScruffy" Yetter has Tweeted changes coming to League of Legends in Patch 10.22 that he claims are 'not 100% locked but pretty close. In addition, it was confirmed in another Tweet that a bug affecting Kindred's Mark of the Kindred passive would be fixed in 10.22.
Riot devs have teased the next patch, one of the last before the preseason which is set to bring an entire overhaul to the current item system. They target some big picks (and unpickables) in solo queue to bring a little more diversity to the meta. Read more on the proposed changes here:
This off-season, DAMWON Gaming Mid Laner, ShowMaker, set off to climb to Challenger in Korea by playing only unique champions - meaning he would never play any champion twice. On May 16, he reached his goal, playing 87 games on 87 different champs, boasting a 69% win rate. Read more on his story here:
In yet another off-season change from Team Liquid, Academy Jungler, Shernfire, was released from the org on May 15th. He played with the team only one Split, starting off on the main TL roster during Broxah's visa delay, and then switching to Academy upon his arrival mid-season. Read more on his story here:
Riot Games has recently been under fire for not taking proper care of their solo queue environment. Even Voyboy made a video earlier this week, and now Riot has responded. Here's their plan to improve the playerbase.
In their most recent dev blog, Riot devs laid out their roadmap for 2020, including tweaks for autofill, punishments/bans, MMR transparency, etc. Read more on the story here:
The LCS Players Association met with Riot officials this off-season to work out a way to increase professional level practice. Pros can now stream their matches on the Tournament Realm - the same server used for official LCS matches based in LA.
There have been almost 100 unique champs picked this year at Worlds, and in them is Ornn, The Fire Below the Mountain. But why is he being played after being silent all summer? And how can you use him yourself?
100 Thieves won both matches in Week 6 of the 2018 NA LCS Summer Split. With the two wins, they managed to stay at the top along with Team Liquid. As Ssumday played actively, the mid and jungle helped
