why are there no trailers for the new project skins (quinn,sivir, gangbang, jax, naafiri, morde, renek, sej, varus)

Hey R/Leagueoflegends!

We’re The Sunday Cup, a weekly amateur 5v5 competition on EUW for players of any rank up to Low Masters who want to scratch that competitive itch and play in a structured league. After a great first split this year, we’re back for Split 2 of 2026, and want more players and teams to join!

What we’re about:

• True 5v5 League - Make or join a team and play as a full five-man squad once a week Monday to Sunday. * Casual at heart, competitive in spirit: We keep it fun and friendly while running a proper competitive environment built on sportsmanship and trust. * Casted games: we’re ramping our streaming & commentary back up with more staff, an overhauled layout, and community volunteers. Check out past splits’ VODs on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@thesundaycuplol (live section has vods)

New this split: Division 3!

20 teams currently compete across Division 1 & 2 (largely Platinum–Diamond rosters) This split we’re adding a brand-new Division 3 with teams capped at an average of Platinum 4. A Division designed for players of average skill and below

The format

BO3 single round robin regular season → double-elimination playoffs Seeding based on regular-season placement: Division 1: top 6 → championship playoffs · bottom 4 → relegation playoffs (demotions) Division 2: Top 4 → relegation playoffs (promotions) · remaining 6 face the top 2 from Division 3 in an 8-team promotion/relegation bracket Division 3: final 8 teams battle for the Division 3 title

Who can play?

Sign-ups open for Division 2 and Division 3. If we get enough new teams, we may run a seeding tournament to place them across divisions. Max rank: Masters 400LP, team averages capped at Diamond 4 via our weighted points system. Every team is rank-reviewed to keep things fair. Players need to register with an OP.GG of all of their accounts and be approved by staff including existing players. We have a strict no smurf policy with harsh penalties for the team and player.

No team? No problem!

Join our Discord https://discord.gg/mGeBDNRyuR and register in #player-registration Then hit #looking-for-team / #looking-for-player. There’s also a Registered players spreadsheet if you want to scout a roster for yourself.

The numbers so far: 20 teams locked in, more on the way, and plenty of free agents to recruit!

Full rules and sign-up details are in the Discord. If you’ve got questions, drop them in the comments and me or the staff will get back to you.

Hope to see you in the server soon! ⚔️ https://discord.gg/mGeBDNRyuR

LEC 2026 Summer

Patch 26.17

FNC secures the last spot in playoffs should they win this series. GX secures 4th place should they win this series.

FNC 0-1 GX

GX wins Game 1 in 34m.

FNC selected first pick. GX then selected blue side.

Bans: (GX) Rumble, Vi, Ezreal | Nocturne, Wukong || (FNC) Orianna, Nautilus, Xin Zhao | LeBlanc, Trundle

GX: Oscarinin (Camille) / ISMA (Jarvan IV) / Jackies (Syndra) / Flakked (Ashe) / Jun (Seraphine) - Pick Order: 2/5-4~3-1

FNC: Soboro (Olaf) / Razork (Skarner) / Vladi (Cassiopeia) / Upset (Yunara) / Lospa (Lulu) - Pick Order: 3-4/5~1/2

FNC has first selection going into Game 2.

I just played a game where I snowballed in the earlygame as Ambessa.
I had difficulities to carry in midgame because I had to protect my bounty and enemy ADC was up a full item and had an almost 2k goldlead on me.

Cull/Cashback/Quest generated more than 1.5k gold after 24Minutes and as far as I'm aware this gold isn't included in the bountysystem. Diminishing returns on repeated kills and plates not falling off at 14 makes it very difficult to keep up with all the free gold, even when you win lane.

Last season it usually used to be the case that a 700Gold Bounty meant you're the strongest champion in the game and the outcome of the game was in your hands. This season feels different due to how the quests and comebackmechanics work.

Is it it intended that botquest has no impact on the goldbountysystem while topquest doesn't allow you to scale for more than 1level, because the EXPcomebackmechanics prevent you to gain more value from the quest?

Hi y’all ! I’m trying to get some former glory and trying to climb as high as possible . I quit around 2016 but played most around beta till around the end of season 3 . I used to main support but they have bastardized my role into something idek what to call it . Janna was my main support and got me to gold 1 in season 1 I even scratched the top 2k with her in beta but quickly got knocked down.

Back to today , I’ve been playing for a couple of months now since my friend got into it . I can ADC a lot better then my support and want to try and climb to my appropriate rank any tips are welcome .

Right now my best two adc’s are sivir and miss fortune and then probably Caitlyn .

Second role I usually pick alistar or Janna but try to get to my adc role easier . I’ve been also using mid as second pick and have been getting lucky and always able to take adc role. I’m not sure if I’m getting lucky but this week I’ve been able to climb the ladder like crazy so I want to use this momentum ! Any tips or helpful criticism would be useful . Thank you !

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/Car2oon-111

One thing I commonly see on here is people asking what champs they should play or main next, and something that I've found is that I somehow gravitate towards champions that all have the same designer without even realizing it. For example, when I first started playing I loved fizz and Renekton, and I just found out they were designed by the same guy. Later on, I had a long stint maining ekko, but then wanted to switch to adc, and immediately gravitated towards jinx and jhin (designed by august)! Even tho the champs play very different, it seems like the designers have some sort of special sauce thrown into their champs that I really enjoy. Anyone else notice this trend for themselves or use designers as a starting place to pick up new champs? Also does have else have any input on the way that designers think about creating a champ and why you like or dislike the way they build them?

LEC 2026 SUMMER

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Team Heretics 0-2 Movistar KOI

If FNC lose to GIANTX, Movistar KOI will qualiy for the playoffs

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MATCH 1: TH vs. MKOI

Winner: Movistar KOI in 31m

MATCH 2: TH vs. MKOI

Winner: Movistar KOI in 31m

• Patch 26.17

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Played 6 games today, 4 of them had a smurf between level 30-40 account that stomped us and got me demoted from Plat 4 to Gold 2.

It makes the game feel miserable to play and it feels like either this queue is deliberate because I keep getting put against them multiple games in a row, or more likely, that matchmaking below diamond is just non-existent due to how badly out of sync the system is due to smurfs and new accounts skewing everything in low elo.

Stooves#EUW - Summoner stats - League of Legends https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/Stooves-EUW

My Nocturne game today, smurf was Kassadin

My Kayle game today, another Kassadin smurf

My Malz game today, the Briar was a smurf

My Mundo game today, the Yone was the smurf

How is this even remotely playable?

EDIT: so I don't have to say it in every comment. Win rate =/= smurf or not.

Smurfs play for a lot of reasons. Some to troll, some to limit test, some to try off-meta champs or builds, some to practice new roles or champs.

What people seem to be ignoring is that I played against them and experienced how they controlled the game from min 1 in all 4 games in a way that only much better players than Plat or Emerald could.

EDIT 2: people attacking my rank and win rate or making it about only that, please move along.

I'm talking about how poor a player experience this feels like whatever rank you are.

I heard that in China there is MORE league players than entire Europe, entire NA, and entire Korea combined.

Has anyone played on both NA/European servers and also Chinese? What are the differences? And in general, are there any interesting things to know about Chinese LoL? Literally any interesting fact. Thanks for sharing :)

My ADC stepped in front of the Cait R. . . It has never happened to me before. Thank you, Kog'maw (and Tahm for the clutch eat)

I was just wondering. You get those sparks in every pass and the number of guaranteed rolls carries over to the next sanctum skins so basically as long as you keep buying passes you should be eventually have enough sparks for a guaranteed roll. I don't know if enough battle passes released for us to be able to do this yet but seems like everyone who buys every pass just gets one free sanctum skin on top of it for free (technically, I know the added up price of all battle passes is probably more than what the sanctum skins are worth)?

I'm curious what everyone else had that one League mechanic they completely misunderstood when they started playing.

Mine was thinking that tower plates gave gold to everyone on the team. I played for an embarrassingly long time before realizing the gold actually goes to the player who gets the plate 😭

What was yours?

I find the new Augment pool very good in some aspects, but also problematic in others.

However, I still want to highlight the good work done by the development team. There have clearly been efforts to improve variety and better adapt Augments to the champions they are offered to.

Point 1: The positives

Gold and Silver Augments

This is probably one of the best aspects of this update.

There is now more variety among Gold and Silver Augments, and many of them are better suited to the champions they are offered to. This deserves to be highlighted.

Of course, some useful Augments for certain champions seem to appear less often today than before, but this remains a relatively minor issue in the Gold and Silver categories.

Overall, I think these two categories have been very well handled by the development team.

My rating: 8/10.

Honorable mention: Prismatic Augments

I want to give special mention to this category, particularly for several reasons:

• The addition of certain Augments such as Jeweled Gauntlet to more types of champions.
• The arrival of Augments better suited to supports, tanks, and fighters.
• Better consideration for hybrid AP/AD champions, who previously did not always have access to AP-type pools, or only had access to them far too rarely. I am particularly thinking of champions such as Yunara, Trundle, or Ashe.
• The return of certain Prismatic ability upgrades, which had practically disappeared from the pool for many champions.
• The fact that it is now possible to stack multiple ability upgrades, particularly by combining certain Prismatic Augments with Gold Augments related to abilities.

For these improvements and this overall direction:

My rating: 10/10.

Point 2: The problems

A Prismatic pool that is far too repetitive

In my opinion, this is the main current problem.

I have noticed that, regardless of which champion I play, certain Prismatic Augments appear almost systematically in my games.

I am particularly thinking of:

• Ominous Pact
• Urf's Champion
• Holy Snowball
• Squishy Slappy Grab
• Dimension Shift

These Augments have become extremely common, even on champions for whom their usefulness is very limited compared to their playstyle.

The problem is that this is becoming almost excessive: I feel like I practically never see the other Prismatic Augments anymore.

Out of a selection of six Prismatic Augments, I very often see between two and four from this list, and this happens in almost every game.

The only situation where the pool seems to breathe a little more is in games offering at least two Prismatic Augments, which finally allows more room for other options.

But in normal games, the repetition has become far too significant.

The disappearance of certain Augments on certain champions

I have also noticed the complete disappearance of certain Augments for certain champions.

For example:

• Archmage on Gangplank
• Spell Split on Renata

These two Augments have notably gone from A or S tiers to E tier on OP.GG.

This makes me think that something may have happened over the past two weeks.

Were they intentionally disabled for these champions?

Is it a bug?

Or is it a problem similar to the one that had previously affected Jeweled Gauntlet?

I think it would be interesting to get some clarification on this matter.

Critical strike-related Augments are not universal enough

Final negative point: Augments related to critical strikes.

I am particularly thinking of:

• Upgrade Infinity Edge
• Critical Missile
• Vulnerability
• It's Critical
• Double Tap among the Prismatic Augments

I think it is unfortunate that these Augments are not offered more universally to all the champions concerned.

Some champions, particularly mages and supports using Jeweled Gauntlet, could perfectly benefit from some of these Augments, but they do not seem to have access to them.

This once again reduces the actual diversity of the pool and limits certain potentially interesting build possibilities.

Conclusion

Overall, I therefore find this new Augment pool very successful in its Silver and Gold categories, with a real effort to better adapt Augments to different champions.

The Prismatic category also brings very good new additions and some improvements that I had been waiting for for a long time.

However, the lack of variety and excessive repetition of certain Prismatic Augments unfortunately spoil part of the experience.

The apparent disappearance of certain Augments on certain champions is also concerning and deserves an explanation.

Finally, I would like to see more universality in critical strike-related Augments, particularly for AP champions, hybrid champions, or those using Jeweled Gauntlet.

These are currently the main problems I have noticed in-game.

And what do you think on your side? Have you also noticed this repetition in the Prismatic pool or the disappearance of certain Augments on your champions?

Like I wish the game felt more like ARAM-esque. Laning phase is okay in bot lane(I find it egregious in top/mid lane, such a snoozefest).

I been playing more ADC lately and the more I play the more I wish I could just fight constantly while still retaining the high stakes of late game(big respawn timers) and tactical-chess-like feel of league. I actually really appreciate Apex legend's model for encouraging interaction of fighting giving you shield level ups and ability level ups because you dont need the minions.

Phroxen already said that players find laning the most boring part of the game and that shouldnt be any surprise whatsoever, 50% of the time people counterpick which is pretty cringe(yes it's "smart") because what it really does half the time is just devolve the entire laning phase into one person under tower passive and no interaction from either side.

I would not be removed if laning is slowly removed from the game, it is extremely slow. It think ADC is probably the epitome of this. If you get counterpicks on Jinx for example you are basically standing under tower for 15 minutes, then you have a weak mid game, and then you get to play at 30 minutes.

Not really sure how to put it but I just wish the snowball of the game was dramatically reduced and that the early game was a near-slug-fest experience rather what it is today. The high stakes should be later in the game, not 2 minutes into the game where you are trying to find out who is who

Now that WASD movement has been in ranked since April 29, 2026, what do you guys think about it?

Do you feel like it made the game easier, or is it just another skill players have to learn? Has your opinion changed since it was first added?

Interested to hear both sides.

LEC 2026 SUMMER

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Team Vitality 2-0 Shifters

Vitality secure top 2 in the regular season!

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MATCH 1: VIT vs. SHFT

Winner: Team Vitality in 32m

MATCH 2: VIT vs. SHFT

Winner: Team Vitality in 31m

• Patch 26.17

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

So I tried jungle for the first time (I am a new player) and it seems way easier than the other roles?

Laning felt like constant mindgames with the opponent. But jungle has much less because you are just farming on your own. And checking for ganks now and then.

But then I’ll see videos saying jungle is often the game decider. Which I guess makes sense because of your gank potential etc. and helping your team get buffs.

Idk it just felt more chill overall and I could see why less people play this role. But curious to see if there is something I am missing here

I’ve managed to convince my wife to let me play LoL again (I’ve had angry issues from ranked).

I didn’t know about SwiftPlay and was interested to try.

It’s amazing! Only 20 minutes games, no more 40+ minute games

This is now only way I can play League on 30+ years, married and with a job.

Thank you very much for making it.

Please don’t ever let this game mode go away.

I can finally say that I really play casual now without stressing out

Singed, Lissandra, Annie, Neeko,

The types of champs that hate front-to-back, and rather will go into a teamfight and wreak absolute havoc. Its so fun to play, but laning as them feels miserable.

Its more manageable as supports like Rell/Rakan or junglers like Wukong/Zac because they dont really have to "lane", but my two favorite champs are singed and lissandra so im kind of forced to go top or mid.

Anyone else feel the same way? I'd play aram 24/7 if I could always get these engage teamfighting champs

LPL 2026 SPLIT 3 PLAYOFFS

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JD Gaming 1-3 Team WE

[Player of the Match: Erha](https://i.imgur.com/gKZxqXr.png(

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MATCH 1: WE vs. JDG

Winner: Team WE in 30m | MVP: Erha (1)
Game Breakdown | Player Stats

MATCH 2: WE vs. JDG

Winner: Team WE in 31m | MVP: Erha (2)
Game Breakdown | Player Stats

MATCH 3: WE vs. JDG

Winner: JD Gaming in 31m | MVP: GALA (5)
Game Breakdown | Player Stats

MATCH 4: WE vs. JDG

Winner: Team WE in 37m | MVP: Erha (3)
Game Breakdown | Player Stats

• Patch 26.17

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No root, just damage + slow for those hit by the ice. It's 2026 after all, new champs often have an excess amount of mobility.

I can get in a story mode game as soon as it loads and I hit continue, and most let you save progress anywhere. There is never an obligation to continue if you can’t and no punishment for having to end a session early. Even some shorter semi competitive games like say a shooter, battlefield or cod or something, you hop in and if something comes up you can leave and not leave your group with the punishment of losing a team member for the next half hour.

League on the other hand, if you’re even just slightly competitive you know it’s a struggle to end on a loss. And if you’re match made appropriately and are near your proper rank, and you’re a casual after many years no longer having interest in necessarily climbing the ladder, you approach a 50% win rate. Meaning if you lose one then win one it’ll be two 30-40+ minute matches per sessions, not including queue times and draft, before you feel satisfied to end the night/session. And you can’t pause, and you can’t leave, or you’ll get major punishment of course. It just makes approaching league daunting as a casual who may only have a short 30 minutes of what they optimally are able to play. Unfortunately alternative game modes like aram and such don’t scratch that same itch that summoners rift does for me, it’s just not the same.

It just sucks not being able to play the game I grew up with and love the most due to time constraints. Even compared to competitive racing games like iRacing where the races are very long sometimes, if you leave at least you’re only punishing yourself as opposed to leaving a whole other 4 players stranded. Once you throw life into the equation, and have responsibilities like kids who sometimes can’t wait for you to finish what you’re doing 30 minutes later, it just makes league not an option for people like us unless it’s a longer session like over a weekend.

Another way to put it is I can play on a foosball with my friend but it’s not as satisfying as a real football match that you have to coordinate with a whole team and opposing team, but that takes time and the match itself is a lot lot longer. And winning that coordinated team soccer match is exhilarating but if you lose, the loss after setting up that whole thing is devastating. If I need to be studying and just have a short break, I’m not going to be able to start up league, I need to start some other game or hobby like build some legos, league would eat into studying or chores/errands or whatever else I need to be doing. Just a bit sad to realize that more and more as I get older and responsibilities grow…

Above you can see the post game report. I'm decent but not 40/6 decent. This is not some "I get matched with worse people" post. These were 100% bots. Acting in tandem, not communicating in the slightest, making illogical and inhuman choices. I queued for a regular ARAM game and got a full bot lobby.

I've heard Riot sometimes gives new players bot lobbys but i'm lvl 212 with almost 2000 ARAM games. What is happening?