Korea saw an early revival of its famous Telecom Wars rivalry this year with a back and forth series between kt Rolster and SK Telecom. kt Rolster vs SK telecom T1, Game 3, LCK Week 2Few rivalries in all of esports can match the intensity and history of Korea’s Telecom Wars between kt Rolster and SK telecom. Royal Never Give Up vs LGD Gaming, Game 2, LPL Week 2LGD Gaming always seem to be on the outside looking in when it comes to the LPL. Fnatic vs H2K, EU LCS Week 1Most of the EU standings see

The NA LCS opened up play for the first time in 2018 this week and it may not have gone how most people were expecting. After the first week of NA LCS play, Team SoloMid and Counter Logic Gaming are both winless, while 100 Thieves and Echo Fox are undefeated. If you missed the games, or just want to make sense of what you saw, don’t worry, because we’re here to breakdown all the winners and losers from the first week of the NA LCS. Which is exactly where Team Liquid AD Carry Yiliang “Doublelift”

Swain’s rework has been finally been fully revealed after being teased earlier. Passive – Ravenous FlockRavenous: Swain can periodically right-click any nearby immobilized enemy champion to rip out a Soul Fragment, damaging and pulling them toward him. Q – Death’s HandSwain unleashes several bolts of eldritch power in front of him, each damaging the first enemy struck. Bolts pierce through units they kill, restoring a portion of Swain’s mana. The hand returns to Swain and explodes on the first e

Swain’s rework has been finally been fully revealed after being teased earlier. Passive – Ravenous FlockRavenous: Swain can periodically right-click any nearby immobilized enemy champion to rip out a Soul Fragment, damaging and pulling them toward him. Q – Death’s HandSwain unleashes several bolts of eldritch power in front of him, each damaging the first enemy struck. Bolts pierce through units they kill, restoring a portion of Swain’s mana. The hand returns to Swain and explodes on the first e

The first week of the NA LCS Academy League is in the books and a whole lot more players have gotten some professional League of Legends experience. While winning and losing may be the most important thing in the NA LCS, the Academy League is a little bit different. It may have only been the first week, but Echo Fox Academy have already gotten themselves out to a great start and set themselves apart with standout play from two young players. What we saw most in week one of the Academy League was

After one of the biggest and busiest off-seasons of all time, League of Legends is finally back in North America with the 2018 NA LCS Spring Split kicking off this weekend. Each team will play two matches a week with games being played on Saturday or Sunday. Also new to the NA LCS this year are four of the teams that will be competing each week. The NA LCS will still be broadcast live from the NA LCS Studios and can be seen on Riot’s lolesports site, the NA LCS Twitch channel or the LoL Esports

They launched their awesome Universe website and have been stepping up their game with new lore videos and all sorts of stuff. But it all begs the question, “Does the story really matter?” The shortest answer is obviously that it’s subjective. The gameplay is League’s main draw, therefor, if you don’t care about where and why, you’re not missing anything. While it doesn’t matter to the overall enjoyment of League, Riot still seems pretty intent on making the story matter. More importantly, it gi

Before we get into the rankings themselves, it’s worth remembering that this is the first ever split that teams won’t have to worry about relegation. With all that in mind, let’s see how each team stacks up ahead of the 2018 NA LCS Spring Split. Team SoloMidIf you have watched the NA LCS at all over the past five years this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Counter Logic GamingDuring last year’s Summer Split, CLG always seemed to be just one jungler away from a top team. In this particular N

The 2018 competitive League of Legends season is finally here and while some regions, like the China’s LPL and Korea’s LCK, have gotten a few games in already, this weekend marks the openers for all of Riot’s LCS leagues. This year, those leagues include the EU LCS, the NA LCS, and, the NA Academy League, which will make its stream debut on Friday, Jan 19. The EU LCS will play its matches on Friday and Saturday, the Academy League will play matches on Thursday that will be available on VOD at a

The start of the first ever NA LCS Academy League is right around the corner and Riot just announced the final details and rules that teams will have to follow. The first part of Riot’s announcement details the ways that the Academy League is different from the old Challenger Series. Perhaps the most important rule that Riot announced is how exactly player swapping will work between the Academy League teams and their LCS counterparts. Alongside this veteran player limit is a non-resident player

The Twitch stream started on the IRL channel, with Tyler1 welcoming his fans back to his channel and explaining how he spent some of his time during the ban — all this while dressed as his signature champion, Draven. From the moment the stream started, Tyler1’s loyal fans started resubscribing to his channel which seemed to gain a new sub every few seconds for at least the first hour. Tyler1 was banned by Riot Games in 2016 for his consistent toxic behavior on stream. His ban is one of the few i

The Twitch stream started on the IRL channel, with Tyler1 welcoming his fans back to his channel and explaining how he spent some of his time during the ban — all this while dressed as his signature champion, Draven. From the moment the stream started, Tyler1’s loyal fans started resubscribing to his channel which seemed to gain a new sub every few seconds for at least the first hour. Tyler1 was banned by Riot Games in 2016 for his consistent toxic behavior on stream. His ban is one of the few i

Former Phoenix1 mid laner Marcin “Selfie” Wolski has just been released into free agency after a brief contract dispute with current NA LCS organization Cloud9. According to Cloud9’s statement they bought Wolski’s contract from the, now defunct, Phoenix1 organization just before the contract liquidation deadline expired. Instead, Cloud9 chose to pay Wolski for the remainder of his Phoenix1 contract opting towards his termination clause which stated that he would be given two months additional pa

On Thursday, popular streamer and notoriously banned player, Tyler1 has said that he has been unbanned by Riot Games. Riot refers to bans on this level as ID Bans, they are the most severe bans that Riot serves to players and constitute bans on all known accounts. These bans are only reversed if Riot determines that they have convincing and overwhelming evidence of a player’s reformed behavior. According to a second tweet, Tyler1 will start streaming League of Legends again on Monday Jan. 8 at 3

The 2018 NA LCS Spring Split is about to begin and for the first time in the competition’s history, teams will be competing without the threat of relegation looming over their heads. Apart from the addition of franchising giving teams a little more stability, the NA LCS will look quite a bit different in other ways too. Replacing best of threes will be nine weeks of best of one matches. Each team will go head to head twice during the regular season in these single game matches with the top six a

Sometimes we rank players by how good they are, but sometimes we need a different way to rank players. I’ve done it and compiled all the professional League players and public figures with pets that I know of and ranked them by their pet. Makta is a good cat. By association, all of these players are good. They’re all good pets.

In its place Riot is introducing the brand new NA LCS Academy League, a developmental league that will run parallel to the larger NA LCS with 10 teams run by the partnered LCS organizations. With Riot bringing on a new league to start the new year, here’s everything you need to know about the 2018 NA LCS Academy League. The formatThe NA LCS Academy League is going to look a lot like the NA LCS proper. Riot has yet to release a schedule for the Academy League, which will debut on Friday Jan. 19,

Do you think that’s going to be easier with a lane that’s already got so much experience playing together? I think that’s important especially for rookies. SB: Yeah, that’s pretty much the — I don’t want to say the TSM way, but it’s pretty much the best way. SB: I don’t think it will be something I will think about. Like, I have a way to play against Zoe or my team has a way to play against Zoe and the other teams don’t I feel like that’s a big advantage, so I guess I don’t really mind it.

The graphic holds all kinds of interesting information including a look at the shortest game, just 15 minutes, or the longest, the 80 minute monstrosity from All-Stars just a few weeks ago. But perhaps the most interesting information for fans is just how many viewers were tuning in to some of the events throughout the year. According to Riot, the Mid-Season Invitational, the tournament that separates the Spring and Summer Splits for most regions, pulled in over 360 million viewers across the en

The graphic holds all kinds of interesting information including a look at the shortest game, just 15 minutes, or the longest, the 80 minute monstrosity from All-Stars just a few weeks ago. But perhaps the most interesting information for fans is just how many viewers were tuning in to some of the events throughout the year. According to Riot, the Mid-Season Invitational, the tournament that separates the Spring and Summer Splits for most regions, pulled in over 360 million viewers across the en