New Ranked Team Rewards for the 2014 Season

Riot is introducing a new reward system for ranked teams. This is a point system that grants 1 point for win on 3v3 teams and 3 points in 5v5 teams. Players that receive many points will get special end of season rewards. One of the revealed rewards is a ward skin that you unlock as you earn more wins. Start your own ranked team as this is already in the PBE and might come to live really soon.

New Faces in the North American LCS!

While Europe was quiet with no changes, North America changed drastically after least week's promotion tournament. In an amazing 3-0 victory LMQ defeats and kicks XDG out of the LCS. This new team, shows so much potential that they might even be up for a top 4 spot in the upcoming summer split. Complexity Black also eliminated Team Coast in a 3-1 victory gaining a spot in the North America LCS. The only team that remained from the previous split was Evil Geniuses who won a 3-1 victory over the Challenger Champions Cloud 9 Tempest. Be sure to toon in back May 9th for some All-Stars action.

New Skins Revealed!

Dragon Slayer Braum- At 975 RP this release skin for Braum features a new recall animation and brand new particles for all his abilities.

Dragon Slayer Pantheon- At 1350 RP this new skin for Pantheon features all new animations and particles for all his abilities and grants the first recall animation for Pantheon ever.

Blade Queen Lissandra- At 1350 RP this new skin for Lissandra features all new animations and new particles for her abilities as well as a new recall animation.

Night Hunter Rengar- There have been a few changes to Night Hunter Rengar but he will still be at 975 RP and will have new animations.




Atlantean Syndra- Same as with Rengar, Atlantean Syndra will cost 1350 RP and has been updated with better particles and looks.




Be sure to check back as these new skins and Braum will be up in the next patch update.

Braum Revealed!

The new support champion Braum has finally been revealed to the fields of justice. This new tanky melee support offers protection like no other to fragile marksmen. His passive stacks up to 4 times at while also dealing magic damage, after the first stack is applied allies attacks will apply further stacks. His Q ability is a huge AOE slow that is a skillshot, it also applies a stack of his passive to all enemies hit. His W grants him and a target allied champion a huge amount of armor and magic resist while also dashing towards them. His E ability grants a wall blocking the first projectile and decreasing damage by all other enemy attacks by 30%. His R ability is a ranged knock up that travels in a path, after it ends it creates a huge slowing field around the line it passed. Be sure to check back for more updates on this new support, have fun trying him out on the PBE for now!

New Champion revealed!

What seems to be a new champion has finally been confirmed by Riot. According to sources like Surrender at 20 people speculate that this new champion is named Braum and is a Support Champion. Be sure to check back for more updates as many things will be released and check back to LoL main site tomorrow for the Patch 4.6 details.

Cloud 9 Dominate Team Solo Mid in the Finals!

In a dominating victory Cloud 9 take the title as the best team in North America. Winning 3-0 in a best if 5 against TSM, Cloud 9 gain the right to go to All-Stars to represent North America. This leaved Bjergsen from Team Solo Mid and Doublelift from Counter Logic Gaming to play in the All-Stars Challenge. Losing 0 games against TSM this split, Cloud 9 continues dominating North America as the best team with their second title in a row.

FNATIC wins the EU Spring Split for the 3rd time in a row!

In a fierce battle against SK for the spot at All-Stars, FNATIC emerge victorious once again. Winning 3-1 in a best of 5 they claim the title of EU 2014 Spring Split Champions. This also means that Rekkles and xPeke are eliminated from the All-Stars challenge as they are already in the invitational leaving Diamond from Gambit Gaming and Froggen from Alliance as the two who are going to the Challenge. FNATIC show that they are and have been the best team in Europe in this dominating victory.

 

May Champ and Skin Sale List

Riot has given us the full Sale list for May so that we can save up for things we are interested in. This is a really nice change to the weekly sales as it lets people know ahead of time what they can or want to buy. If you wanted to buy Gladiator Draven, now you don't have to waste RP since you know he will be on sale in less than  month. Hope Riot keeps doing this as it grants players even more freedom on purchases.




For the full schedule check http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/store/sales/may-champion-and-skin-sale-schedule .

Super Galaxy Rumble has arrived in style!

A new superhero has come to Runeterra, Super Galaxy Rumble. This new skin showcases what a legendary skin is truly about, great effects and an even better execution. The best skin for Rumble right now and one of the best in League, this is a great pickup whether you are a Rumble fan or not.

The skin is priced at 1820 RP so its a bit costly but worth it nonetheless.

Void Fizz comes out to play!

It seems that the Void is finally extending its grip into Runeterra as even champions are now falling victims to it. The most recent victim is Fizz, with a corrupted trident and a new monster buddy he makes quick work of all who stand up against the Void. 

This brand new skin is available at 975 RP until April 14 at which it will go up in price to 1350 RP so get it fast.

Gragas, Rengar and Miss Fortune Changes in Patch 4.5

Riot has released the new update to League of Legends. In this patch major changes to champions, items, runes, and even summoner spells.

Rengar

• Overall he got some damage nerfs on his basic numbers with better Attack Damage scaling making it so he has to itemize to a specific role instead of just killing Marksmen with a full tank build. His Bola Strike is now a skillshot and his Bonetooth necklace no longer has attack damage but is a now a trinket item.

Gragas

• Gragas got the Kassadin treatment this patch making him less of a sniper with his barrels and more of a brawler. The changes are relatively weird though as everything scales with Ability Power but you need to be close to hit people. I think these changes will just reduce the pick rate of Gragas a lot and might take him out of competitive play especially in the Mid lane. His major change is that his W does damage now but it no longer grants mana, he just got straight up nerfed overall though. 

Heimerdinger

• As soon as he just got noticed in the LCS, they nerf his base early game damage. It seems that this yordle never gets a break. Hopefully Heimerdinger will still be viable as they buffed his Ability Power ratios to compensate. 

Miss Fortune

• The markswoman just got a huge buff and gameplay changes. The major changes were to her W as it now stacks with her ultimate now. If you get a well timed ultimate you will get all stacks and will be able to basically two hit the tank. I think this change is just what she needed to get back into competitive play and her lack of mobility is now easily rivaled with her large single and AOE damage. 

Item Changes:

• Blue Trinket- The range and duration has been extended, maybe people will finally pick this up at the end of the game with the same range now as Ashe's Hawkshot ability.
• Feral Flare- An evolution to wriggles lantern this new item will give a lot of power to heavy jungle clear champions that are waiting for the late game as its passive is basically an inferior version of Nasus's stacks dealing damage the more you farm it.
• Aether Wisp- This new item grants a better middle ground when building toward your Lich Bane or Twin Shadows.
• Forbidden Idol- Building into Talisman and Morellonomicon it grants cooldown reduction to help supports get CDR when building towards their talisman.

Boot Enhancements:

• Alacrity- Grants 20 extra movespeed now.
• Capitan- Cost reduced and aura now grants 10% movespeed to your team.
• Distortion- Grants extra effects for Ghost, Flash, and Teleport as well as reducing these Spells' cooldowns.
• Furor- Cost reduced.
• Homeguard- Cooldown for the effect to take place has been reduced but no longer instantly restores health.

Rune Changes mostly affected Lifesteal and Armor Runes as they 

wanted people to have more diversity.

The mastery Feast was buffed to compensate with the Lifesteal rune changes and every champion got 4 extra armor to their base armor. 

Summoner Spells:

• Exhaust- Less Attack speed reduction, more base damage reduction.
• Heal- Lower cooldown, and now grants movespeed.
• Ignite- Grants vision.
• Barrier- Particle changes.

Dragon got some changes but they weren't major like at the start of the Season.

Ultra Rapid Fire April Fools All-Stars Exhibition Showdown Madness!

There is always that one time of the year when Riot decides to deliver everything in one day. Happy April Fools everyone and welcome to the new League of Legends Update Special. For the next preseason RiTo is changing the major elements of LoL. No Mana costs, 80% CDR, and huge buffs all around are needed to make the LoL experience better. Did I mention this will also be in the LCS? Riot has brought a Truly, Truly, Truly, Truly, Truly, Outrageous new game mode with Ultra Rapid Fire. Show your gems and shine with all these insane features throughout this week and play what is the best game mode brought to LoL ever.

Back to reality now,

In the All-Stars side of things, the new rankings are as follow:

North America Rankings

1. Bjergsen
2. Doublelift
3. Meteos
4. WildTurtle
5. Dyrus

European Rankings

1. Rekkles
2. Diamond
3. xPeke
4. Froggen
5. Darien

Remember that only the top 2 players will move to the All-Stars Challenge.

In the LCS,

This week is super week meaning there will be more matches than normal, it is also the last week for the Spring split and the top spot from each region will go to the All-Stars Invitational.

Cloud 9 and TSM also showcased the new Ultra Rapid Fire mode in an exhibition match which was clearly won by C9.

Remember to Vote for your favorite players for All-Stars Good Luck!