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Patch 26.23 Preview! It's the second last patch of the year and we're continuing to adjust champs that have had adverse effects from Pro Play and tap down a few strong champs for regular play that have been on the higher ratings for frustration surveys Voltaic Cyclosword - After nerfing Bastionbreaker a few patches ago, we also think Voltaic is slightly too strong currently - There need to be powerful Assassin first items! And Voltaic competes against things like Umbral, Hubris, Profane Hydra, Youmuus, which we think could see more representation in the environment - Even then, it's still a little too strong, so we're looking to tap it down a bit Yi, Syndra, Leblanc - Yi and Syndra continue to be champions that rate highly on our frustration surveys - Yi for regular play and Syndra and Leblanc for the higher levels of play - Syndra got a nerf a few patches ago and it was not super heavy by intention, so as to not go further than we need to, but we think she could use another tap down this patch Mel - So far, Mel has landed in a pretty stable spot, with a decently low banrate (touch wood) - That said, at this power level, we aren't really able to test our hypothesis of whether she is less frustrating when she's at a power level, so we're giving her some buffs to let her sit at a normal power level for a champion of her type of shape and mastery curve - She shows a bit of a bot skew, similar to many other mages that have been inhabiting bot lane recently - This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but just something to watch Buffs - Of the interesting buffs, many of the historical Pro staples are receiving buffs this patch to round out the year for average play - These include champs like Azir, Galio, K'Sante, Ezreal, etc. - Many of these champs feel pretty weak, even in the highest levels of Solo Queue, because they just don't thrive as much in non-coordinated environments (Ezreal a bit less so)

[OFFICIAL] GEN Canyon 🇰🇷 has been voted MVP of the series against Invictus Gaming 🇨🇳! He finishes with an outstanding KDA of 12.75, dying only 4 times across 3 games!

🚨 WORLDS 2026 4TH QUARTERFINAL 🚨 ⚔️ KC vs T1 ⚔️ 🇰🇷 Canna vs Doran 🇰🇷 🇸🇪 Yike vs Oner 🇰🇷 🇰🇷 kyeahoo vs Faker 🇰🇷 🇫🇷 Caliste vs Peyz 🇰🇷 🇵🇱 Busio vs Keria 🇰🇷 Traders give T1 42% chance to make Grand Finals ‼️ Who takes it? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/y9aftWt

🚨 WORLDS 2026 3RD QUARTERFINAL 🚨 ⚔️ DK vs BLG ⚔️ 🇰🇷 Siwoo vs Bin 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 Lucid vs Xun 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 ShowMaker vs Knight 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 Smash vs Viper 🇰🇷 🇰🇷 Career vs ON 🇨🇳 Traders give BLG 35% chance to make Grand Finals ‼️ Who takes it? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/4g5sukX

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🚨 WORLDS 2026 1ST QUARTERFINAL 🚨 ⚔️ TES vs IG ⚔️ 🇨🇳 369 vs TheShy 🇰🇷 🇨🇳 Tian vs Wei 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 Creme vs Rookie 🇰🇷 🇨🇳 JackeyLove vs JiaQi 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 Zhuo vs Meiko 🇨🇳 Traders give IG 10% chance to make Grand Finals ‼️ Who takes it? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/cLXAIow

🚨 PSA: #Worlds2026 Quarterfinals matchups are set ‼️ 🇰🇷 DK vs BLG 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 KC vs T1 🇰🇷 🇨🇳 TES vs IG 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 GenG vs LYON 🇲🇽 ▫️who makes it to Semifinals? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/7xwpdCh

🚨 BREAKING: Traders now give 43% chance for Caliste 🇫🇷 to get the most kills at Worlds 2026 🚀 💥 𝘀𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 from 12% in 24 hours 📈 🥇 🇫🇷 Caliste 43% 📈 +31% ⚔️ 🇰🇷 Zeka 18% ⚔️ 🇰🇷 Ruler 13% --- 🗡️ 🇨🇳 JiaQi 6% 🗡️ 🇰🇷 Gumayusi 5% ▫️who ends with the most kills? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/R19qczr

🚨 NEW: Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage Round 5 Knockout Stage odds per Polymarket ‼️ 📅 Saturday, Oct 31 (CET) ▫️18:00 🇫🇷 KC 59% vs 49% MKOI 🇪🇸 ▫️21:00 🇧🇷 LØS 30% vs 74% LYON 🇲🇽 📅 Sunday, Nov 1 (CET) ▫️00:00 🇰🇷 HLE 66% vs 46% BLG 🇨🇳 ▫️who is making it to knockouts? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/dG4qt93

🚨 BREAKING: Traders now give 26% chance for IG 🇨🇳 to make the Worlds 2026 Grand Final 🚀 ▫️𝗷𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗱 from 12% in 24 hours 📈 1️⃣ 🇰🇷 GenG 60% 2️⃣ 🇰🇷 DK 34% 3️⃣ 🇰🇷 T1 28% 4️⃣ 🇨🇳 IG 26% 📈 +14% 5️⃣ 🇰🇷 HLE 20% 6️⃣ 🇨🇳 BLG 19% 7️⃣ 🇨🇳 TES 10% 8️⃣ 🇫🇷 KC 6% ▫️who makes the final? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/fKQrrSN

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🚨 NEW: Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage Round 4 Day 3 Knockout Stage odds per Polymarket ‼️ 📅 Friday, Oct 30 (CET) ▫️21:00 🇺🇸 TL 37% vs 3% LØS 🇧🇷 📅 Saturday, Oct 31 (CET) ▫️00:00 🇪🇺 G2 31% vs 66% HLE 🇰🇷 ▫️who is getting eliminated? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/MWVUjla

🏆 Worlds 2026: Current Winner Odds per Polymarket ‼️ 🥇 🇰🇷 GenG 44% ⚔️ 🇰🇷 T1 17% ⚔️ 🇰🇷 DK 13% ⚔️ 🇨🇳 BLG 12% --- 🐴 🇰🇷 HLE 10% 🐴 🇨🇳 IG 5% 🐴 🇲🇽 LYON 2% 🐴 🇨🇳 TES 2% --- 💀 🇪🇺 G2 0.9% 💀 🇫🇷 KC 0.8% 💀 🇺🇸 TL 0.7% 💀 🇪🇸 MKOI 0.5% 💀 🇹🇼 CFO 0.1% 💀 🇧🇷 LØS 0.1% ▫️who lifts the trophy? 🤔 Predict here: 🔗polymarket.com/r/u0qXYIL

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Patch 26.22 Preview! Hearts go out to Cyanide and saddened to hear of his passing 😭; on top of being an incredible player, he was a super funny guy and many of his quotes are legendary. He will be missed :( Mel - Mel's mini-update will be Live on Patch 26.22 - When we released Mel, we intentionally went for a new ability that was pretty ambitious; we like to try to push the boundaries with new champions and mechanics to give players new puzzles to solve with each release - After being on Live for a while, it's clear that many players feel that Mel's reflect was too frustrating to play against - There are things in League that are allowed to be frustrating, as that can create a feeling of triumph when overcoming it and challenging players to grow, but there are some things that are too frustrating even given those upsides - Realistically, every champion should have something that they do uniquely that other players might feel is frustrating - So we're reworking Mel's W to keep the feeling of destroying projectiles, but not have it hard counter some subsets of the roster - We tried many versions of Mel's W that tried to retain the reflect, but we couldn't find one that would hit the mark for Mel players and would be satisfactory for opponents - We know this is disappointing for Mel players and we're sorry we couldn't uphold this end of the contract with you all - That said, we hope this will allow Mel to be balanced at relatively higher resting power levels and be more effective for Mel players Systems - Overlord's Bloodmail has been pretty weak overall and it's pretty hard bound to Sett as currently tuned - We're looking to try to buff this for other users who should be interested in an item that converts Health to Damage (Mundo, Sion), but some aspects of the item make it too Sett skewed [eg. the missing HP portion] - Doran's Bow has been a bit too strong relative to Doran's Blade, especially at higher levels of play - So we're looking to balance out the relative tradeoffs of the items a bit - We're overall happy wtih the direction of how the tradeoffs are playing out though! Just that the magnitude is a bit off