After a decade standing behind its flagship MOBA, Riot Games is taking steps to expand its game offerings. The company is mostly expanding the League of Legends IP in several different ways. Legends of Runeterra is a collectible card game, League of Legends: Wild Rift brings the MOBA to mobile devices, and Riot Forge is developing third-party games in the form of Ruined King and CONV/RGENCE . Arcana is an upcoming animated series set in Runeterra, and Riot is even developing an MMO set in the League of Legends universe . Finally, with what first started as an in-game mode for League , Teamfight Tactics has turned into a full-fledged auto batt

While the numbers are one thing, other benefits are less tangible. For instance, I’m often reluctant to stream Apex Legends on Twitch because I’m not confident in my gameplay. Even such minimal improvements made me feel better about playing l

When I heard about Metafy , a venture-backed startup dedicated to matching video game players with top-caliber pros for coaching, I wanted to give it a try. For as little as $20 a session, I’d work with a professional player who could coach me in my game of choice, Apex Legends . The platform also hosts coaches for a variety of other games, including games with huge pro scenes like League of Legends as well as games with niche competitive communities like Civilization

FunPlus Phoenix completely overhauled their roster going into the 2019 season by adding Doinb and Tian to the team. The new roster consisted of GimGoon, Tian, Doinb, LWX, and Crisp who absolutely dominated the LPL in their first year together as a team. Going into 2019 Worlds, FunPlus Pheonix had a relatively shaky group stage performance putting up a 4 - 2 rec

In 2016, the new SKT T1 roster consisting of Duke, bengi/Blank, Faker, Bang, and Wolf got off to an electric start. The team absolutely demolished the LCK 2016 Spring Split before winning the playoffs and eventually taking the Mid-Season Invitational . In the 2016 Summer Split, the team showed the same dominance but fell short when playoffs rolled aro

In 2018, for the first time since 2012, a Korean League of Legends team would not hoist the Summoners Cup. After years and years of falling short, a team from China would finally take home the championship trophy. At the time, Invictus Gaming's roster consisted of TheShy/Duke, Ning, Rookie, JackeyLove, and Bao

Their passive abilities, however, is where much of their power is loaded. Both valorant points price increase their respective defensive stat with minion kills. Seeker's requires a bit more scaling, but the value is fairly equal. Most mages already will build Seeker's against an AD midlaner, but Verdant Barrier needs to be considered against AP-reliant compositions. For example, a Lillia/Syndra midlane combo would be ideal to build Verdant Barrier against. While not exciting items, defensive power is a great way to guarantee a player can scale into later stages of the g

Over the past 10 years of League of Legends world championship events, legacies have been forged, champions have been dethroned, and relatively unknown teams have taken home the cup. This list will rank the 10 world championship rosters based on factors of dominance at the time, as well as the overall cultural impact on the competitive League of Legends scene. All statistical and historical information throughout this article was obtained through Leaguepedia and Liquipedia's League Of Legends pa

The one, the only, the Moonstone Renewer. This item is the opposite of exciting, on the surface. Other items create impressive AoE effects, or amplify damage, or allow users to gain a second wind during a long fight. They create more damage numbers, and that's great. However, the Moonstone Renewer exists to fight back against damage by making it look like it never happe

The strength of Plated Steelcaps is easy to see. The item's unique passive reduces incoming damage from all basic attacks by 12%, excluding turret attacks. This also includes damage dealt by basic attack modifiers and abilities that act like a basic attack, even magic ones. The strength of this item is obvious; every champion uses auto-attacks in some form. While the item scales better with more armor, against hyper-carries and AD teams the item is too good to pass

Fnatic and their roster consisting of xPeke, Cyanide, Shushei, LamiaZealot, and Mellisan got off to a rocky start. They narrowly made it out of group stages. But the team went on to perform an incredible miracle run by defeating CLG and EPIK Gamer. They eventually defeated aAa in the finals. Unfortunately, this Worlds was not incredibly memorable due to the lack of a defined meta, player storylines, and the relative newness of the game as it had only launched in 2

Being able to completely shrug off a single powerful projectile-based ability can be the difference between a winning encounter and being crushed. Plus, putting Braum at the front of a fight can help to make tower pushes far easier in general if opponents are nearby with this abil