According to the rumor, Teddy was planning to go part ways with T1. It’s true!

Teddy has decided to pursue his career by leaving T1. In the past, he was benched at the end of 2021 due to the new T1’s youth ADC – Lee “Gumayusi” Min-hyeong was promoted to the T1’s main lineup.

Joe Marsh – CEO of T1 said: “This was not an easy decision but was the right thing for Teddy to be able to continue his career and have a chance to find a team where he can start,” This is true as lots of LCS team are already offering Teddy his spot at their line-ups. While playing under T1’s shirt, he and his team had achieved 3 LCK titles and helped to bring his team to the Semi-Final at Worlds 2021.

Yone – Academy/Challenger

We can’t start this list without mentioning Yone – TFT:

• Soul Unbound: Yone summons his spirit to attack an enemy up to 3 hexes away for a few seconds. The spirit is an untargetable, invulnerable copy of Yone and heals him for % of the damage it deals. If Yone dies, his spirit dies with him.

Riot provides him with such high scaling ability. Not only does he deal insane damage during team fights, but he can also proportionally heal himself back up to wait for his back-line units to assist him. However, as Yone is currently one of the strongest and most contested units on the board, you will have to have a decent plan before boarding him. He fits with:

• Academy/Enchanters.
• Enchanters/Challengers.

Yone is now standing at a 19.4% rate and getting an impressive 13.3% win rate.

Orianna – Clockwork/Enchanter

Surprisingly, being thought of as a Support, Orianna is totally a game-changer unit when it comes to the right moment. Not only she is decent by herself and fits in many late-game TFT team comps, but you can also build her as the main carry for your line-up. She is now standing at 21.3% pick rate and 15.1% win rate.

• Command: Shockwave: Orianna sends out her ball towards the largest group of champions, then commands it to release a shockwave. Allies within 2 hexes gain shield for 4 seconds, while enemies within the area are briefly knocked up and dealt magic damage. Enemies adjacent to the ball are drawn in and stunned.

Orianna has almost everything you want for a semi-support unit. She provides shields, damage, and a really decent crowd-control that will hit hard if place properly. The last but not least, unlike Yone, Orianna can fit in almost any TFT comps you can think of:

• Chemtech/Twinshots.
• Enchanters/Challengers.
• Innovators.
• Scrap/Enforcers.
• Syndicate/Assassins.
• Chemtech/Scholars.

Dr. Mundo – Chemtech/Mutant/Bruiser

Yes, Dr. Mundo as a Tank, has finally found a decent home. Unlike other TFT’s sets where Bruisers just stand their absorbing damage, Dr. Mundo actually owns a way to regenerate himself (even without items) and also adds up some damage down the road.

• Zap Dose: Dr. Mundo injects himself with “medicine”, restoring 40% of his maximum Health and becoming energized for 5 seconds. While energized, he restores an additional 100% of his maximum Health over the duration and deals magic damage to a random nearby enemy each second. When the “medicine” expires, Dr. Mundo expels a burst of electricity that deals % of his current Health as magic damage to all enemies within 2 hexes.

Also, by adding some items into his kit, he scales terrifically. Just top him up with Bramble Vest, Dragon’s Claw, and a Warmog’s Armor, he will be just as good as any core unit that you put your faith in your backline. He fits in:

• Chemtech/Twinshots.
• Twinshots/Mercenaries.

Janna – Scrap/Enchater/Scholar

Janna might be a controversial unit when talking about how strong/valuable they are. Even though Janna is not a unit that you will invest heavily in, the way she fits in the TFT meta is way too good that she always deserves a place on your board.

• Monsoon: Janna summons a Monsoon, knocking back nearby enemies and stunning them. The Monsoon heals your team over 3 seconds.

Even though she is quite fragile, when she is given enough time, her skill not only can counter Assassin team comps but also provides massive healing for her team. The game-breaking change that she received is that now she has knock-back. This in the right moment can eliminate almost any threat that is approaching your main unit. Pair her with Orianna, killing their enemy back-line will not be an easy task in TFT set 6. She fits in:

• Academy/Enchanters.
• Arcanists.
• Chemtech/Twinshots.
• Innovators.
• Enchanters/Challegers.
• Chemtech/Scholars.

Riot uploaded some brand new pictures about the upcoming changes for the League of Legends’ interface that will be available on the PBE server and is pretty sure that they will appear in the stable client soon. For more information about PBE changes and especially these changes, you can read them in detail here.

The Challenges Tab

Similar to Eternals, they are sets of challenges that players can aim to tackle down alongside their traditional game mode that we’ve been used to. The only difference is that they are global achievements, which means whatever you play, you are still counted. They are split into 5 categories: Imagination, Expertise, Teamwork & Strategy, Veterancy, and Collection.

Lobby

Firstly, the PBE’s user interface while waiting in the lobby has changed. Instead of a set of armor covering the players’ avatar, they have been changed to be more soft, delightful, and colorful – they named it “Crest”. Additionally, they added the Challenge Crystal – by hovering the cursor at their Summoner Icon, there will be some additional information that you can learn more about their past (their rank, the icon information, and detailed Challenged).

Moving a bit below your player name, display your Title where you can show your bitter-sweet earned Title. The last but not least, the Challenge Tokens which you will be able to show up to 3 icons of your choices. Take these changes as a reward for your dedication and make sure other players will have a better understanding of who you are and what your playstyle is.

Loading Screen

The PBE’s loading screen also received a mini revamp. You are now much more distinct than ever! The player cards will contain 3 pieces of information:

• Game information: Champion/Skin, Ranked Border, First Strike Border, Summoner Name, Title, Icon, Summoner Spells, Runes, and Honor.
• Champion information: Champion Mastery and Eternals.
• (New) Player information: Rank, Challenge Crystal, Challenge Tokens.

End of Game

One of the biggest changes is the “End of Game” tab. It is now split into 2 tabs. The first one will be used for your personal progression which help you to significantly notice what you have accumulated throughout games.

The second one is a revamp of your traditional End Game tab, but more detailed. They also added some formulas for easier accounting and moved most of the featured from the previous Stats tab into the main tab:

• K/DA.
• Gold earned via farming.
• Damage dealt to champions, damage taken from champions, healing/shielding done, and CC score.

Among the Mythical items for Bruisers, the Divine Sunderer proved to be the most inferior item before Patch 11.11. In terms of direct healing or mobility, this item is completely weaker than the Goredrinker and the Stridebreaker. However, everything changed in the latest Patch when the Divine Sunderer suddenly became an extremely popular item. It even entered the top 5 most purchased equipment in League of Legends according to LeagueofGraphs.

The biggest reason for this change is that the Divine Sunderer was buffed directly in Patch 11.11. Specifically, the target’s maximum health damage from the Spellblade effect has been increased to 12% from 10% as before. Moreover, the healing ability of this item is also buffed in both melee and ranged champions. Therefore, it has become an extremely powerful weapon when providing an outstanding amount of damage and healing.

Not stopping there, the Divine Sunderer is also extremely supported by the meta when the tanky bruiser’s champions are gaining more popularity at the moment. By acquiring the Goredrinker or the Stridebreaker combined with Sterak’s Gage, they can reach more than 2000 HP at the early stage. In order to counter that, the Spellblade effect of D.S will deal more than 200 damage with a cooldown of 1.5 seconds and provide powerful damage over time ability.

In addition, the good thing about Divine Sunderer is that the ability to recover from this equipment is almost unstoppable. For example, with equipment with other Spellblade effects like Essence Reaver, if your skills or attacks are blocked, this item cannot restore mana. However, the healing ability of D.S is still activated in those cases. Therefore, champions using it are very rarely fully countered in the match.

It is for the above reasons that the Divine Sunderer is becoming an extremely hot item and is used on many generals. For top lane Bruisers: Camille, Wukong, or even Gnar make good use of all the stats of this item. Not to mention that the Divine Sunderer helps the above names to counter their counterparts of the enemy team. From there, it can open up an extremely strong snowball situation for your team.

Recently, Riot Games has revealed the first information about the new game mode of League of Legends with the keyword “Ruined King“. Almost 99% of this game mode will be the content of the event related to the Ruination. Even in the latest move, some rumor sources also assert that this will be “the biggest event in the history of League of Legends”, more than the Burning Tide event back then.

This event, temporarily called the Ruination, will include a series of story updates, game content, and the launch of one or more new champions that are directly related to Viego. And on top of that, the unveiling of a brand new game mode at Summoner’s Rift.

Some of the first images of the new Summoner’s Rift map have appeared on the test server. It can be seen that a mythical area of the Runeterra universe has been swallowed by the black mist, with creatures and terrain completely corrupted.

Currently, it is not clear how the Ruined King game mode will bring changes compared to the familiar traditional game modes on the old Summoner’s Rift, most likely this will be a variation similar to Blood Moon Hunt – A game mode that debuted at Summoner’s Rift before, where players could only use Assassin champions to compete against each other.

Notably, both Dragon and Baron’s visuals have been changed in the Summoner’s Rift version of Ruination, and this could be a sign that new and interesting mechanics will appear in the mode. If this rumor is right, it is expected that the Ruination event will officially be launched soon in the next few patches.

Riot Games updated the PBE server to Patch 11.13 with plenty of new content. However, besides the new skins and chromas, the thing that makes players pay the most attention is the rework of Tahm Kench. As promised before, Riot has swapped Devour and Abyssal Voyage in the “new” Tahm Kench’s skill set. Specifics about Tahm Kench’s skillset after the rework:

Ability Descriptions

Passive – An Acquired Taste

Attacks deal 14 = (2.5%) bonus magic damage. Against champion, they add a stack of An Acquired Taste for 5 seconds, up to 3 times.

At 3 stacks, Tongue Lash and Devourer become empowered against that champion.

Q – Tongue Lash

Deals 80 = (80 + 70% p) magic damge to the first enemy hit and slows them by 40% for 2 seconds.

On Champion hit, heals Tahm Kench for 6% of his missing health and applies a stack of An Acquired Taste. If that Champion already had 3 stacs of Tahm Kench’s passive, they will also be stunned for 1.5 seconds, consuming the stacks.

Activate Devourer while your tongue is in midair to devourer enemy champions who already have 3 stacks of An Acquiring Taste in a distance when you hit them.

W – Abyssal Voyage

Dive down and then re-appear at target location, dealing 100 = (100 + 100% p) magic damage and knock up all enemies in an area for 1 second.

Devoured allies units can be taken along for the ride (but can always hop out early).

E – Thick Skin

Passive: 45% of damage Tahm Kench takes is stored by his Thick Skin. While out of combat for more than 4 seconds. Thick Skin will rapidlly be consumed to heal him for 30% = (30% – 100%) of it’s value.

Active: Convert all of your Thick Skin’s passive into shield, lasting 2.5 seconds.

R – Devourer

Tahm Kench devours a champion for a few seconds. He can re-cast to spit them out.

Enemy Champions: Require 3 stacks of An Acquired Taste to devour up to 3 seconds and take 100 (+15% = (+15% + 0.05% @) at their Max Health) magic damage, Tahm Kench is slowed by 40% and Grounded during this effect.

Ally Champions: devour for up to 3 seconds and are granted a shield blocking 300 = (300 + 100%) damage for up to 2.5 seconds after being split out. Allies can choose to exit early. Tahm is slowed by 40% and Grounded during this effect.

Conclusion

The most important change of this rework is the W has been changed to Abyssal Voyage with stun and area of damage. This will make Tahm Kench a lot more dangerous in 2v2 at bot lane instead of the old passive playstyle. Moreover, this also allows him to roam and support other teammates very early, rather than waiting until level 6.

Tahm Kench’s “new” Devour is basically not too different when used on enemy champions. However, a special feature here is that when used on an ally, he will not only protect the ally for 3 seconds, but he also grants that ally an extremely thick shield for 2.5 seconds more. Therefore, his capability to protect the main carry after the rework is much stronger than before. In return, the cooldown of this skill has been increased.

With the reworked kit, the new Tahm Kench is expected to be better offensive and defensive. The River King will be deadlier since he can open a fight actively right before level 6. It won’t be too surprising when Tahm Kench becomes an extremely hot Support champion in patch 11.13 when the rework of this champion is expected to be released.

Skins Rework

In some of the last patches of League of Legends Season 11, champions with the ability to quickly clear the jungle are dominating completely in the role of Jungle. Names like Udyr, Hecarim, Morgana, Rumble… are representative of this. That’s why champions that don’t have wide area damage skills and slow clearings like Trundle are becoming “out meta” very heavily in the Jungle position.

However, Trundle is trusted by a player from EU Nordic & East to climb the rank in a position that few people think about – Support. Specifically, the player named in-game Shetanin has continuously used him as a support to climb to Master with a win rate of up to 56%. So why is this strat so effective? Let’s find out together.

Why Trundle?

Basically, Trundle is a champion with powerful fighting ability in the early levels. With Q – Chomp at level 1, he will reduce your team’s ADC champion’s attack damage by 10 and make a huge difference in damage. So in bot lane exchanges, the side that owns him is usually the one with the advantage. Even when being poked, his passive also helps this champion heal very well for free.

To gain an advantage when laning with Trundle, Shetanin usually goes for E – Pillar of Ice at level 1. Although this ability deals no damage, it has a slight knock-on effect when cast and slows for a duration. This skill will help your ADC to reach and deal continuous damage to the target and create a great advantage even at level 1. When reaching level 2 and possessing Q – Chomp, you can even kill or force your opponent to use Flash.

Builds

Runes

What we should learn from the player Shetanin is that he always maxed out his E – Pillar of Ice in every match. With Trundle Support, you can’t deal too much damage from basic attacks because gamers only own a limited amount of items. Maximizing E – Pillar of Ice will increase his versatility in the mid-game.

As for building runes, you will choose the Guardian keystone in the Resolve branch to reduce the amount of damage that the ADC takes. You should then choose the Font of Life gem to increase your teammates’ healing when they attack an opponent slowed by E – Pillar of Ice.

In the Inspiration sub-branch, the 2 Biscuit Delivery and Approach Velocity points are crucial to Trundle. Approach Velocity will help Trundle get close to the target, slowed by the pillar quickly with not too many gaps-closing skills. The Biscuit Delivery will help Trundle solve some of the mana shortage problems.

Items

As for Support Trundle’s build, Steel Shoulderguards is the perfect starter item. It would help if you then bought the Ionian Boots of Lucidity to increase the number of times you use E in combat. Next, the Mythical equipment that you should aim for is the Locket of the Iron Solari to protect allies better. After that, resistance items such as Thornmail, Dead Man’s Plate… are all good choices for Trundle.

Usually, it is only in the One For All game mode that players can select and use the same champion in the same team. However, the League of Legends community was recently surprised by two identical champions who appeared on the same team in the Howling Abyss.

According to the community’s analysis, the power of the Kai’Sa duo is much stronger than other champions because they can proc each other’s passive. Moreover, many other interactions with the ultimate also help this duo increase their survivability in combat. So this Kai’Sa duo won is not too surprising.

In fact, this has happened before on several other servers. But after 2 months, this bug still occurs in Howling Abyss. Despite being the winner, gamers who suffered the above bug were not happy when they could say they had experienced an “incomplete” match. Besides, having a buggy client also makes many gamers frustrated.

As mentioned, this is not the first time that the champion duplicate bug has occurred in League of Legends. The increasing popularity of the game content also leads to more problems. Who should fix these problems immediately instead of only when gamers voice their complaints repeatedly, yet Riot still doesn’t respond or even make promises to fix them.

Many comments from the community said that these problems continued to happen after many updates, proving that Riot Games was so negligent that they did not know their client had this bug or know this bug, but they also do not know how to fix it. Thus, allowing the League of Legends community to criticize and laugh at Riot Games’ “200+ collective years of professional game design experience”.

There is the fact that many gamers will notice that in League of Legends, there are still costumes designed by Riot Games based on the typical culture of some countries, such as Uncle Ryze (USA), Dynasty Ahri (Korea)… For China, the typical skin for this biggest region of League of Legends is not the Lunar New Year skin line, but its Lee Sin Dragon Fist.

This costume is inspired by the legend of Bruce Lee – The star of martial arts action movies that the Chinese are always proud of. But more importantly, with the “privilege” of being both the Publisher and the owner of League of Legends, Tencent has adapted many changes only for the Chinese region (such as changing the foreign language). Pictures of some generals associated with “skulls” and “blood” to suit the culture of this country). The Chinese League of Legends recently continued to amaze the international community when it released a series of splash-art separate for each of the many colors of the Lee Sin Dragon Fist costume.

More specifically, if a player buys Lee Sin Dragon Fist Multicolors: Pink – Blue – Emerald – Pearl at the Chinese League of Legends server, not only will the character’s in-game appearance be changed, but immediately, the original Lee Sin Dragon Fist costumes’ splash arts are also replaced with the corresponding new background image, bearing the style of Chinese martial arts.

In other words, for just a small amount of money to buy a Polychrome, Chinese gamers will receive an item pack equivalent to a complete skin, including a new character appearance, splash-art, and loading screen. Of course, this special “offer” is only for the Chinese League of Legends server.

Intending to expand the jungle champion pool so that players have more options for one of the roles that have a huge impact on the game, especially in the laning phase, Riot constantly has buffs and tweaks. As a result, many champions in specific positions such as Darius and Morgana can now enter the jungle effectively.

And the next name, another Support champion, was brought into the jungle by Riot in Patch 11.11. And the name mentioned here is Nautilus, the Titan of the Depths.

Overview of Nautilus, this is one of the most comprehensive tankers of League of Legends and has been very popular in recent seasons, although it has also undergone many tweaks. Unfortunately, it will be hard to find a sturdy champion, has many hard CCs, and has wide-area damage like him. And if this champion gets into the jungle, this will also be an extremely annoying match every time he ganks or starts a fight.

Nautilus’ E – Riptide now deals 150% damage to monsters, giving him the ability to clear the jungle faster to support other lanes. Not to mention, from Q – Dredge Line to R – Depth Charge, all are good moves to open combat, control, and burst damage. A successful gank or counter-gank of the team with him can add many advantages in terms of objective controlling as he is challenging to be slain and only needs about half a health bar to tank for his team; to get Drakes, Turrets, or Baron…

The rune for Nautilus in the jungle will still prioritize the Resolve primary path. Aftershock will be an essential rune for him as he has many hard CCs. Next, take Shield Bash, Conditioning, and Overgrowth to give him maximum sturdiness, making him a real tank in team fights and facilitating snowballing or ganking. Domination will be the Secondary path, following by Cheap Shot and Relentless Hunter, so that Nautilus’ skills can be used more often and more effectively.

The items will still prioritize making the Nautilus as sturdy as possible. Therefore, players should still go up in the optimal direction: Mercury’s Treads, Frostfire Gauntlet, Dead Man’s Plate, Abyssal Mask, Thornmail, Gargoyle Stone Plate.

Overall, Nautilus jungle is a unique matchup and is quite strong in ganking, team fights, or snowballing. However, because of his sluggishness, the player must calculate as properly and surely as possible to avoid situations when the team has to dive into turrets or start a team fight which will let him take too much damage, putting the whole team at a disadvantage.