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    May 24, 2020

    League of Legends Monday Megathread! Ask questions and share knowledge; newcomer questions encouraged!

    Monday Megathread! Ask questions and share knowledge; newcomer questions encouraged!

    Posted: 24 May 2020 07:33 PM PDT

    Welcome to the latest Monday Megathread, where you the community get to ask your questions and share your knowledge.

    Need help against a certain champion? Unsure how and where to ward? Looking to improve your csing? This is the place to ask. This weekly thread is a place for new players to ask questions and get help/advice from more experienced players. So, don't hold back, get your game related questions ready and post away, and hopefully someone can answer them!

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    Looking to chat with people live? Come check out our discord channel here! We also have the channel #new-player-help if you want to ask questions there.

    If you are willing to learn, /r/SummonerSchool and its respective discord are always willing to teach.

    Basic Mechanics explanation in our Wiki

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    Please sort this post by new, so that you can see the newer, unanswered questions.

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    Despite my sister being 0/3, 41 cs and a level behind, she managed to outplay Orianna

    Posted: 24 May 2020 01:55 PM PDT

    How long do we need to suffer by this pc freeze on honor screen any more?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 10:25 AM PDT

    It's been an issue since WEEKS.

    I don't care about me not being able to honor my teammates, no, but it lets EVERYTHING freeze on my pc, even discord, webbrosers etc etc.

    Do we have any informations regarding that problem? It gets annoying pretty much.

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    Also this : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/508244694094970900/714169357827309618/kaylebait.gif

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    Thanks for that aswell. :)

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    I didn't think League could get any more toxic until I heard a knock at my door...

    Posted: 24 May 2020 06:07 AM PDT

    It was May 23, 2020 - late in the evening.

    I woke up from a nap and turned on my computer to play a game of League. First game didn't go so well and I watched as my teammates flamed each other into the ground. After seeing the defeat screen, I quickly left to ignore the normal post-game lobby talk and started up another queue.

    As we entered Champion Select, our ADC hovered over Ezreal.

    Immediately, our support responded, "I don't want to be that guy, but pick another ADC".

    My heart dropped. That feeling of knowing that your next ~30 minutes enjoying the game would be spent looking at your teammates who are busy providing extra vision at the fountain with their trinkets, screaming that "the game is hopeless".

    The ADC replies, "Hey man, I totally understand why you would feel that way. I'll cut you a deal: If we win, I'll get you guys a Big Mac"

    My eyes lit up...I haven't ate. With the quarantine and money getting tight, I wished he picked Ezreal. If we just happened to win, dinner wouldn't be an issue for today!

    The game officially starts and we're off! I've been in the mood for Kayle but her abysmal early game and my trash skills makes it hard to control the demon of the north: Teemo.

    He pushes me to my tower and my Jungler does his best to help me but I end up giving a kill to the counter-ganking Kha'Zix. The Demon hits us with the /all and spams his laugh emote as he's pushed further ahead.

    Mid-game rolls around and my laner is nowhere in sight. I can hold the wave and farm safely at my tower...until my eyes dart over to the mini-map where The Demon has teleported to botlane and destroyed their turret plus racking up some kills.

    Ezreal, ever so silent, continues to play the game.

    The game slowly turned around until eventually, the blue Victory banner stretched across my screen. We did it! We won!

    As we moved into the end-game lobby, Ezreal tells me to add him. We won right? He's probably going to honor his deal? He's probably happy that we won!

    He tells me, "If you want a big mac, I gotchu. I'm a man of my word."

    I hesitantly replied, "What do you need from me?"

    He told me two words: "Delivery Address".

    I mean, what's the worse that can happen? We won? He can't be that mad that Teemo roamed bot and screwed up their laning phase. After some time passes by, I get a harsh knock on the door. There's a man with a mask, holding a brown paper bag with outstreched arms.

    He tells me, "This is from Zhu."

    He then hands it off and quickly leaves without another word.

    I open the bag slowly, imagining what could possibly be in there.

    Will it be empty? Maybe some powdered Anthrax? Some rope and a note telling me to go kill myself?

    I peered inside and saw an entire meal from McDonald's! Packed to the brim with food! Big Mac, fries, drink...it was the whole nine yards!

    I look at League Chat and he wrote:

    "Just keep killing it top lane bro. Eat up."

    -----

    I decided to post this because I've just been reading about how much more toxic League has become. Although it does seem to be true ever since I've came back, I think that it's more important now than ever to show that there are also some great things about the community as well. Thanks Zhu; you really made my day.

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    tl;dr I got sent McDonald's food from a random teammate on League. I hear McDonald's food is pretty toxic but it sure hit the spot. I guess you can say he fed me IRL.

    https://imgur.com/a/OqfYc1B

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    As an AD main, I agree the role has lots of problems. But seriously, some of you guys are blaming the role sucking when in reality it's probably just you.

    Posted: 24 May 2020 02:30 PM PDT

    I get that the role sucks. But the stuff I'm reading makes it seem like many AD mains just refuse to take responsibility for anything because "adc useless role". Here are some common things I'm reading that I'm pretty skeptical about:

    I can be 8/0 out of lane and the 0-3 zed will just pick up a free shutdown by walking bot.

    So there are marksmen that can outplay an assassin, and marksmen that can't. If you have 8 kills on Lucian, for example, and a 0/3 zed tries to 1v1 you, chances are you SERIOUSLY fucked up if you actually lost that. Don't blame the role. On the other hand, if you're on like Jinx and you're 8/0, you shouldn't be in a position for an assassin to kill you solo. Assassins have ALWAYS been able to kill immobile teamfighting marksmen in a 1v1 setting, that's nothing new (and it's completely fair).

    Last season I was D4 and now I can't get out of Plat 4. Shit role.

    Last season was extremely inflated in terms of ranks. I've looked at the op.ggs of some people who have said things similar to this, and it's usually something along these lines: 4+ seasons gold/plat, S9 D4, S10 plat 4. In all honesty, if you were a much higher rank last season, your current ranking this season is closer to your actual skill level. The role might make it harder to climb, but it's probably just you.

    I can't carry bot because it's all up to my support to make the play.

    Yes, the supports usually start the plays. But if you're so sure that a play can work out, use your pings. Type something. Most supports are friendly people that don't want to throw a lane by not being on the same page as their AD. If you're sure about a play, let them know. A simple ping plus telling the support "we can play more aggressive this lane" will do the trick much of the time.

    It feels like every game is over before I can do anything

    It may feel like for many games, but statistically speaking if you win your lane every game then you will climb. If you're not climbing then you're probably losing more lanes than you remember and making a lot of really big macro mistakes, getting caught, etc.

    I think there's a lot of problems with the role. More games than ever have felt out of my control and I've felt more helpless than ever. But truth of the matter is, for many people in this subreddit, the problem isn't the role as much as the players making really blatant mistakes that may cost them the game. You can either complain about how awful the role is, or you recognize that you're probably just making a lot of mistakes that aren't related to the role, but to you as a player.

    rant over

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    It's a common misconception that the frustrations of ADC players stem from their class, the "ADC role". They're not. "ADC issues" are "bot lane carry" issues. An in-depth take on the matter from a high Diamond/Master tier ADC main

    Posted: 24 May 2020 04:53 AM PDT

    The other day this thread hit front page detailing the Rioter GreaterBelugaWhale's thoughts on ADCs complaints about having no agency. In it he talks about how the ADC role is built around the reliable output of their unmissable auto-attacks, and in order for this to come close to being balanced (though he believes the ADC role is overpowered, intentionally so) they need to have very low agency to compensate.

    I fundamentally disagree in two ways. I think the lack of agency in the ADC role has nothing to do with the champions themselves, and I think agency and balance have nothing to do with each other. This post will mainly focus on the former because it's the most common misconception which I believe is vital to clear up if the community (including Riot) are to have productive discussions on this matter.

    A champion like Lucian doesn't lack agency, in fact he has agency up the ass. He's a strong duelist, he has outplay potential, he can carry. Put him on a solo lane and his agency is painfully obvious to his opponent, he'll constantly dash forward for force trades which he crushes, he has high kill potential after level 6 since he can use Culling to finish off anyone who gets too low from his engages. Compare him to a champion like Orianna and he should stand out as a relatively high agency champion.

    His agency tools allow him both to force fights more easily in favourable situations (Orianna has to wait for them to get into her QR range, she can't reposition herself into that range), and his high in-combat mobility especially at level 13+ allows him in-combat agency too, that is, greater ability to outplay his opponents (such as, dodging a perfectly aimed Orianna QR because he has plenty of time to see it casting and press E to dodge if he's good enough).

    Mid-late game he's an ADC like any other, and if he's played well, he's not only going to be the most fed champion in the game but also the highest level champion in the game. Pretty much no champion would expect to be able to walk up to him on a side lane and 1v1 him.

    Put him on bot lane though? He can't just dash forward to force a trade against that weak early-game Vayne, Janna would hammer him back with W and together they'd beat him. He can only trade when his Thresh is also in range to hit her so the trade is 2v2 instead of 1v2, but Vayne/Janna will back off any time Thresh approaches since they know they lose all-ins so they don't want to get Flayed.

    So while the Lucian player may have all those high-agency tools to succeed, and occasionally he may indeed find a window to make a small trade, for the most part he's just spending laning phase waiting for Thresh to land a hook. Whether Lucian stomps or plays passive doesn't mostly depend on how he wants to play, it depends mostly on whether Thresh can hit a hook or not. Whether Lucian wins lane or not doesn't mostly depend on how well Lucian executes trades, it depends mostly on whether Thresh will walk up and Flay Vayne while she's over-extended, or whether he'll overextend trying too hard to force and die.

    And his reward for winning lane, whether he deserved to or not? He's 3 levels behind whichever top laner won their lane. If he's 10 kills up on the enemy top laner, he's probably still scared to quickly shove a side lane without his support coming with him in case the 0/4 enemy top laner (or mid laner, or jungler) happens to be nearby and decides to one-shot him.

    Mid lane Lucian has agency in just the simple act of choosing to go push out a side lane, because unless he's behind he's confident that if the enemy mid/top/jungle is nearby and wants to contest him pushing out the wave that they have no fundamental advantage over him and would need to outplay him to kill him. ADC Lucian, or more accurately bot lane Lucian, even as the same champion with the same build, would have to do the same act praying that no one will punish him for it, because unless he's extremely ahead there's no way he's even in levels and even being only 1 level behind would be a blessing.

    At high levels, the ADCs give up side lane farm entirely while solo laners go to pick up side waves and potentially shove them out or stay to split because the ADC can't safely do that without their support coming with them to protect them, and sending 2 people to bot/top just for one of them to farm while the team is playing through mid lane is extremely inefficient. But if the ADC goes on his own, he risks death, so with an uncoordinated team, where he can't tell the support to come with him to pick up a bot wave then shove it out, and he can't tell his mid laner to leave mid farm to him and go pick up that bot wave instead, his options are to potentially die trying to farm efficiently, or have to share mid lane farm with his teammates all game.

    Fortunately at low Elos, just as their teammates will fail to naturally understand what they must do for the ADC to be able to efficiently farm, the enemies will frequently fail to realize that they have an opportunity to punish a solo farming ADC. But the agency is all on them, it's the ADC that's making a mistake trying to do something any solo laner wouldn't struggle doing, and it's the solo laner that has the ability to punish or not punish it. The ADC, even as a champion like Lucian who fundamentally is both a strong duelist and a safe champion, cannot safely farm a side lane for 20 seconds for fear of being matched by a solo laner 2-3 levels above him.

    ADC champions don't lack agency. The ADC role lacks agency. And it's true that that it's for good reason that they lack agency; the average fed ADC is more fed than the average fed top laner, because bot lane is a 2 man role. If you wipe out the enemy laners on bot lane you're getting 2 kills rather than one, and bot laners have to be balanced around this.

    But in reality, 2v2 wins aren't always 2 kills, and nor is 2 kills guaranteeing that the ADC is getting fed; you can ace your lane twice in a row only for Nautilus to use those 4 kills to buy Mobis and Chain Vest while Lucian's 4 assists allow him to buy a Long Sword along with the BF Sword he'd already farmed up. But you can't balance the game around the ADC getting unlucky, you have to assume that the guy who's meant to be fed kills is indeed receiving his kills when he wins lane, and balance according to that.

    I feel like Rioters and Redditors alike tunnel too hard on the champions' kits/itemization when thinking about what makes the ADC role so frustrating to play for ADC players, when there's really nothing wrong with either of those things. Nobody plays Tristana mid and one-shots every mage that dares to step foot past their tower and complains "but I have 0 agency!". Their problem is that they're playing bot lane so they can't walk up past the halfway line without a mage that's constantly out of vision every 30 seconds walking up and one-shotting them because of the massive level advantage they have throughout the game.

    Aside from just having 6 sooner, do you know how squishy you are compared to a champion 2-3 levels higher than you? Practice tool lacks a way of measuring DPS onto your champion so there's only so many ways you can test it in a manner that shows you just how massive the difference is, but I picked Lucian and tested how much tower damage I took from 5 tower shots from a tower with 243 AD (though remember the damage escalates) at level 14 vs level 17. At level 14 I survived with 8 HP, at level 17 I survived with 380 HP.

    Because of the scaling armor/HP given by each levelup, taking the same damage from the same source, one is able to withstand nearly 400 more damage from the other? Imagine how one-sided a duel between a level 17 Lucian and a level 14 Lucian would be regardless of how much better the level 14 player might be? Without even getting into the levelups impact over their respective DPS (here is an idea of how one-sided a duel would be with a champion 2 levels above you, when they can do that much damage in just a 0.5 second window of fighting back as a result of their levels). All because the level 17 Lucian was picking up solo XP in laning phase which then allowed him to safely pick up solo farm throughout the rest of the game, while the level 14 Lucian was stuck in his usual self-fulfilling prophecy of being underlevelled because he was on a 2v2 lane, then being too underleveled to contest farm on his own and needing to keep his support around taxing XP in order for him to farm safely.

    Regardless of individual champion strengths, bot lane ADCs are held back by their role, not their class, making them massively behind by default. It takes a huge item advantage to make up for the standard 2-3 level deficit that a bot laner averages vs a solo laner that isn't behind.

    If the problem is limited to bot lane and not solo lanes, then why doesn't every ADC just play solo lane ADCs? It's for the same reason that the top 3-5 highest winrate bot laners for the past 2 years have all been mages on almost every patch and yet mage players continue to only queue mid lane, and those 5 high winrate bot lane mages continue to average a combined 2% pickrate.

    Bot lane is where ADCs are used to playing, it's where all their practice has been put towards, it's where all their game knowledge lies, it's where they've developed an understanding of matchups. Making the transition to suddenly being mid/top lane mains would be wasting so much of their development as players.

    But even aside from the practicality of that transition, there's also the matter of incentive. There's an extremely limited pool of ADCs that can be played on solo lanes, so while you may enjoy Lucian who can be played mid lane, what if your champion pool consists of Lucian/Jinx/Miss Fortune/Caitlyn/Jhin/Kai'Sa? You're just going to pack it all up and live your life as a Lucian one-trick, even if he's only your 4th favourite ADC? No, you're going to continue playing bot lane for those champions, and even when you pick Lucian, you're going to be doing it bot lane because you were queued up for bot lane when you found the right comp to play him in.

    Speaking of Jinx/Miss Fortune/Caitlyn, they might come to mind as ADCs who do lack agency even if they were on solo lanes. And that's true, they do lack agency, but that's because they actually do fit the description of the Rioter GreaterBelugaWhale; they do very little other than walk up and hit you with unavoidable damage.

    But no one makes a distinction between the lack of agency of an ADC like Jinx, and the lack of agency of an ADC like Lucian. Because they're not talking about the agency, or lack thereof, within the champions' kits, but within the role they queue up for. They're both tied to living or dying by their support's actions, and both are rewarded for getting through the support coinflip in laning phase with being behind by default vs any solo laner, even if that solo laner is another ADC.

    For proof of this, look no further than Kayle. Kayle is nothing more than a magic damage-dealing ADC, and hypercarry at that, who has 0 agency in laning phase and even after still has her agency limited to walking up to people and hitting them with unavoidable damage.

    But while people may complain about finding her boring and not liking her pre-6 weakness, not even the most delusional Kayle player in the world is whining about being a walking sack of gold to junglers/mid laners/bot laners. Yeah she has the invulnerability from her ultimate, but these days she can't even auto-attack for half of it, and level 11 onwards (if not sooner) she can 1v1 most champions on the map without needing her ultimate unless they're fed or particularly bursty.

    People might not enjoy the steepness of her power curve, but no one complains that she's a minion pre-6 only to stay irrelevant even at 30 minutes. Do hypercarries on bot lane have to suffer through his laning phase with the reward of being the strongest champion on the map at 30+ minutes onwards? No, Kog'Maw players can go 10/0 and still be legally classified as inters if they try to side lane against a mage, or a bruiser or... literally anyone. Jinx players have their traps to potentially outplay any bruiser trying to make a solo play on them, and that outplay will buy them 1 second of time to chunk out 30% of that bruiser's HP before they get unrooted, Flash on Jinx and one-shot her.

    That's the difference between a hypercarry balanced around being a solo laner and a hypercarry balanced around being an ADC. When Kayle is even, her ~1 second of invulnerability where she also gets to freely auto-attack will win her a duel against almost anyone. When Jinx is 5 kills up, her ~1 second of getting to freely hit her attacker buys enough time for a teammate to avenge her afterwards, because she needed to be 10 kills up to have any sort of chance at surviving if she tried to do anything other than run. Both champions fit the description of having "reliable output (repeatable ranged unmissable dps)", but their agency in the mid-late game is worlds apart.

    If Jinx were balanced around being a solo laner, I would happily play her in a solo lane and I would shut up about ADC issues. I happily play Kayle mid and I enjoy her whole hyperscaling aspect. Much of what I love about ADCs, I also find in Kayle, and much of what I hate about ADCs (which really just mostly comes down to bot lane issues, not issues of the champions themselves), I don't find in Kayle. But Kayle is just one champion, and I'm not about to main mid/top just because this one champion is on my list of top 20 favourite champions to play.

    And while I've played a lot of mid lane ADCs over the years where I found the ADCs strong enough on a solo lane to actually not be an awful pick, including mid Lucian, mid Tristana, mid Ezreal and even mid Graves before his rework, that just isn't a wide enough variety of picks to keep me satisfied, the only place I can play whatever ADC I feel like, as an ADC player, is bot lane.

    And even if I want to play one of those champions anyway, there's still the issue that balance-wise every single one of them is stronger on bot lane than on mid lane, which is where most of my practice and experience is concentrated in anyway. I would make the switch to mid lane in an instant anyway if ADCs were equally strong in both lanes, but losing 70% of the champions I enjoy playing just to switch to get to play on a more enjoyable lane doesn't feel worth the trade-off.

    Champions like Kayle are proof that ADCs can most definitely have agency/options without the entire game being about them, and champions like Corki/Kindred are proof that you don't have to fit into the extreme of either early-game curbstomper or lategame hyperscaler in order to have agency/options and not also feel overbearing towards opponents, regardless of the reliability of their output.

    ADC has become almost synonymous with bot lane for better or worse, and as a result of that, bot lane issues have been misinterpreted as "ADC issues". Go match a bot lane Syndra vs a mid lane Cassiopeia who's 3 levels above her and ask her how much agency she feels she has when her full one-shot combo with no spells missed only does 70% of Cassiopeia's HP. Do you think she's going to feel impactful compared to the Cassiopeia while Cassiopeia proceeds to 100-0 her in the time it takes for her Q to come back up, which still wouldn't even kill Cassiopeia if she did get a chance to cast it? Do you think Cassiopeia would feel any better if she were the bot laner and the Syndra 3 levels up on her one-shot her even without bothering to use W?

    There is no design/balance dilemna created by the ADC class. They are not overpowered for being the only class played on bot lane any more than they are underpowered for being the only class not strong enough to survive through solo lanes even though a minion like Kayle doesn't even struggle with that. ADC champions are in a perfectly fine balance state, and in a perfectly fine design state.

    What is in an awful state is the "ADC role", or the bot lane carry role, or whatever you want to call it. That role lacks agency, that role gets 1v1'd by any 0/5 solo laner or jungler, and that role is the one that doesn't have any obvious solutions for their XP starvation issues since if they did get equal XP despite having twice as many potential kills to obtain per fight, they would entirely control the outcome of the game.

    There is no ADC issue, there is only a bot lane issue.

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    Pobelter vs. 'enemy team'/(we've all been through this before)

    Posted: 24 May 2020 03:35 PM PDT

    Double Penta

    Posted: 23 May 2020 08:50 PM PDT

    TL;DR Lore: Timeline of Runeterra

    Posted: 24 May 2020 02:49 PM PDT

    Hey everyone!

    I wanted to try and give you all a overview of the history of Runeterra in a timeline of sorts, so this is my attempt! Tight on words here so just some stuff before we start:

    This is framed using the Noxian timeline from Realms of Runeterra. As such events will be dated as either being BN (Before Noxus) or AN (After Noxus). The current year in lore is 996. Some events aren't discussed here due to a lack of information about when they happened. If it's not here, that's likely why.

    Anyway, let's get started!

    Pre-Timeline: Pre-Runeterra

    • The Void doesn't exist.
    • The Celestial Realm comes to be. Aurelion Sol and similar celestial entities are born with it, and go on to shape the Celestial Realm, creating stars and other cosmic wonders.
    • The Watchers become aware of their own sentience and of reality itself, and set about erasing reality. This might be later, as it's currently unknown if the birth of the Celestial Realm or the creation of Runeterra is what caused it.
    • Bard, Soraka and the Aspects come in to existence at varying, unknown points in time.

    Pre-Timeline: Runeterra

    • An unknown group of celestial entities use the World Runes to create the realm of Runeterra. Runeterra is left incomplete, though how, and why, is unknown.
    • Runeterra exists as two realms: the Material Realm and Spirit Realm. The Material Realm is the physical part of Runeterra, composed of elemental magic and the physical world, while the Spirit Realm is its spiritual counterpart, containing the souls of every one, every thing, every place and every feeling. These two realms mirror each other and affect each other.
    • Runeterra's geography shifts with time, leading to the creation of new landmasses.
    • The God-Willow comes to be in a place called Omikayalan, located in Ionia.
    • Kindred comes to be.
    • The Freljordian demi-gods, among them Ornn, Anivia, Valhir (aka the Volibear), the Iron Boar, the Clever Lynx, the Seal Sister and a currently unidentified two-headed raven, come in to being and shape the ancient Freljord, which was then known as Vorrijaard, before the rise of mortals.
    • Among the mythical feats of the Freljordian demi-gods:
    • It is said that Ornn wrestled the land in to submission.
    • The Volibear cleaved the five fjords of Vorrijaard in to being with a single swipe of his claws, and killed the magma wyrm Rhond, it's body creating the Wyrmback Mountains and the first river of the Freljord.
    • Ornn created a house for himself, which Anivia accidentally burned down. With the help of the Seal Sister Ornn created his second home: Hearth-home, out of a volcano.
    • The above are mythical events. Whether they actually did, or happened in slightly different ways, is unknown, but both the Freljord's people and the demi-gods believe they did regardless.
    • Maokai is born along with the Blessed Isles as they are formed from a volcanic eruption at sea. He uses the magical waters beneath the isles to fill them with life.
    • Various sentient species develop cultures and societies across the world, including humans, yordles, trolls, minotaurs, brackern and yeti.
    • Fiddlesticks is summoned in to the Material Realm for the first time by an unknown mage.
    • The mystical, formless essence that would eventually become Evelynn is born.
    • Soraka comes to Runeterra, giving up her celestial immortality for a material form.

    10,000 Years Ago (9,000 BN): The Vastayashai'rei

    • A race of titans from beyond the sky (presumably the Celestial Realm) attack Ionia, negatively affecting the balance between the Material and Spirit Realms.
    • Several mortals use knowledge from their ancestors to tap in to the Spirit Realm and draw its power in to themselves, becoming the Vastayashai'rei.
    • They beat back the titanic entities and save Ionia.
    • They return to living among their mortal kin, and breed back in to the mortal population. This creates the vastaya.
    • The Vastayashai'rei's power eventually dwindles as the balance of the realms is restored, and the vastaya expand across Runeterra in various tribes named after individual Vastayashai'rei. The timeframe for this is unknown.

    10,000-9,000 Years Ago

    • Willump, Lissandra and Ivern are born.
    • Gnar comes to live among the yeti.
    • Avarosa, Serylda and Lissandra contend with the Void, Celestial Realm and Spirit Realm respectively as their denizens try to claim Runeterra. Supposedly, the Three Sisters manage to coerce Ornn in to creating the Howling Abyss, and the vast bridge that crosses it. From this Ornn created his own hammer, named Hammer.
    • The newly made nations of mankind throw off the demi-gods. Volibear and the Iron Boar don't like it and want to destroy them, while Anivia wants to help them. Volibear rallies his wildest and most ferocious of followers, the Ursine, and goes to Ornn to ask for weapons and armour. Ornn refuses, disliking their savagery, and the two fight. The battle winds up destroying the civilization around Hearth-home, collapsing the volcano and killing just about everyone there..
    • Ornn disappears from the material world for eons, while Volibear curses his name, casts off his old armour and wages war against the Three Sisters. He personally strikes down and blinds Lissandra.
    • Lissandra, after having walked in their dreams, makes a pact with the Watchers of the Void to gain a currenty unspecified power to beat back the other realm's forces. They're successful. In exchange the three sisters must prepare Runeterra for the Watcher's coming.
    • They create an empire of iceborn and begin spreading across the world.
    • The three sisters at some point seek out the wisdom of the yeti we know as Willump for unknown reasons.
    • Ivern the Cruel ventures to Ionia to find a power that can defeat them, and arrives at Omikayalan after being guided there by the local Ionians he was attacking. While his crew contends with the Vastayashai'rei, Ivern cuts down the God-Willow. As it dies it's magic infusses and transforms him in to the half tree, half man we know him as now.
    • Ivern spends 100 years in Omikayalan watching the passage of nature and reflecting on his own cruelty. Nature forgives him and sends him out to grow as a person, and later to help humanity grow.

    9,000 Years Ago (8,000 BN): War of the Three Sisters

    • The unity of the three sisters fracture and a civil war erupts across the Iceborn empire.
    • The Watchers begin crossing in to Runeterra during the climactic battle at the Howling Abyss. Lissandra sacrifices her people, sisters, and the magic of the yeti to seal the Watchers in a bed of True Ice, where they have remained since.

    9,000-7,000 Years Ago

    • The Watchers who didn't get the chance to try crossing over in to Runeterra are horrified at what happened, and though they're unaware of the specifics, they're very aware of the fact they've been betrayed.
    • They realize they can't just enter Runeterra freely, and create a new plan: create Voidborn to enter Runeterra for them.
    • Vel'Koz is created, and sets out doing what Voidborn do; consuming everything living or magical in its way, eventually growing to become terrifyingly intelligent and powerful. He takes the task of feeding information about the world back to the Watchers, to keep them informed.
    • Lissandra sets out to changing the Freljord's history to cover up what she did, erasing the stories and myths of the old gods, and establishing a new religion to further weaken them. This religion is called The Faith of the Three.
    • The Volibear resists Lissandra's plot and refuses to be forgotten, though most of the Freljord's gods aren't so lucky.
    • Gnar is trapped in the bed of True Ice along with the Watchers, and remains there for eons.
    • The yeti become savage beasts without their magic, ending their civilization.
    • Willump is the only yeti to keep his magic, so he guards what little remains of the yeti's ancient power from then on. People try to claim it from him, resulting in him transforming in to a brutish monster like his kin. He would endure like this for millennia.

    7,000 Years Ago (6,000 BN): The Western Diaspora

    • Mortals from the far east (Beyond the map of the known world) expand across the south of the known world, establishing new civilizations. Among them are Ixtal, Buhru, Helia, Kalduga, Kahleek, Icathia, Faraj and the Ascetics of Targon. Most of these nations are on the southern continent, which they call "Shurima".

    7,000-6,000 Years Ago

    • The Helians encounter Maokai, and promise to preserve nature as they build their civilization. Maokai gives them his blessing and they follow through, building a scholarly society that would endure for thousands of years.
    • Janna is born by the prayers and hopes of sailors among the new peoples of Shurima.
    • The city of Oshra Va'Zaun is built. Janna is particularly revered here.
    • Vel'Koz becomes known to the people of Shurima as a demon from the underworld that steals the dreams of wise men. In this time knowledge of the Void is limited, so Vel'Koz's true nature is unknown to them.
    • The mortal civilizations of the diaspora become aware of the brackern, but the brackern are distrustful.
    • At some point the brackern decide to nope out of mortal conflicts and hibernate, figuring they'll outlive the mortals constant warring. The timeframe for this is unknown, but as we currently don't know of any ancient Shuriman Empire history concerning the brackern, it's likely it was before or during the early days of the Shuriman Empire.
    • Aurelion Sol is tricked by the Aspects in to coming to Runeterra fully, and their mortal aides from Targon gift him both his name and a crown of stars. The crown allows the Aspects to steal knowledge of Runeterra's sun from him, as well as keeping him away from Runeterra while forcing him to do their bidding.
    • Some of the mortal civilizations have the idea to unify as a singular force: The Shuriman Empire. The religious peoples of Targon are given guidance by the Aspects to this end, while Ixtal serves as one of its principal founders.
    • With the help of Targon they begin constructing a prototype of an artifact known as the Sun Disc above the city of Nerimazeth.
    • The story "Twin Dawns" happens.
    • While the prototype Sun Disc is being built Pantheon, with a human female host, calls Aurelion Sol to Runeterra to deal with an incursion of Voidborn. He does, obliterating the rift creating them and Pantheon's mortal host. In retribution the Aspects kill a star in the Celestial Realm.

    6,000 Years Ago (5,000 BN): Founding of Shurima

    • The Shuriman Empire is officially founded
    • The Nerimazeth Sun Disc fails for unknown reasons. The new City of Shurima has a new Sun Disc built above it, which stands there after and the city becomes the new capital. The consequences of the original Sun Disc failing are unknown.
    • The Sun Disc allows mortals to be transformed in to mighty god-warriors known as the Ascended, who take after cultural ideas about the celestial concepts the Ascended are infused with.
    • The Ascended are organized in to the Ascended Host; an army that then goes out securing the Empire's dominance.

    6,000-3,500 Years Ago

    • Rammus and Amumu enter the culture and history of Shurima, though their actual history is unknown.
    • Setaka becomes the leader of the Ascended Host.
    • Aatrox is born and later becomes an Ascended.
    • Icathia is conquered despite Mage-King Axamuk's appeals for peace. Axamuk is killed and his Kohari order all commit honorable suicide
    • Worship of beings that aren't approved by the Empire is forbidden and suppressed. Janna falls victim to this, but Oshra Va'Zaun keeps worshipping her in secret.
    • Jax is born. His father was alive when Icathia was conquered, and told him of what happened.
    • Nasus and Renekton are likely born somewhere between 3,850 and 3,830 years ago.
    • Renekton earns the title of "Gatekeeper of Shurima" after his legendary defense of the city of Zuretta.
    • Nasus and Renekton become Ascended around 3,800 years ago.
    • Nasus and Renekton get in to a spat during their conquest of Nashramae when Renekton led warriors to mercilessly slaughter the city's defenders. Renekton reflects, and is ashamed because of his actions.
    • Nasus discovers the Tomb of the Emperors beneath the City of Shurima.
    • Zilean is born.
    • Varus is born.
    • An earthquake occurs in the Icathian province of Saabera, revealing some currently unknown thing that has ties to the Void. The Icathians plot to use this as a weapon to claim their independence.

    3,500 Years Ago (2,500 BN): Rebellion of Icathia

    • The Icathians crown a new Mage King and openly rebel against the Shuriman Empire.
    • The story "Where Icathia Once Stood" happens.
    • Against an army of 10,000 soldiers and 9 Ascended the Icathians unleash the Void, unwittingly dooming their entire civilization.
    • Setaka and numerous other Ascended die.
    • Zilean saves some Icathians by displacing his tower in time, but in the process traps them all in stasis, which he is still trying to fix.
    • Jax goes to commit suicide, but finds an elemental brazier that is resistant to the Void. He is inspired by it and leaves with it.
    • Rek'Sai is created.
    • Ixtal draws the jungles around them using elemental magic to keep the Void at bay. They begin growing more distant from the rest of the empire, eventually leaving it entirely. As far as Ixtal was concerned from that point on, the rest of the world had been consumed by the Void.
    • Varus chooses duty over family and protects a temple, though this leads to his home being eradicated by the Void. Varus would later be chosen to become an Ascended, though when is unknown.
    • Aatrox, Nasus and Renekton fight against the Voidborn incursion alongside the rest of the Ascended Host
    • Ne'Zuk of Ixtal, with the aid of numerous other Ixtali Ascended and momentous slave labour creates the Monolith; a titanic flying city of elemental stone to fight the Void.
    • The Monolith is eventually brought down, opening up a huge crater that exposes the underground caverns, and by extension the Void, to the surface. Ne'Zuk is the only survivor. Most of the Monolith is lost in the Void, but some shards are broken off and land away from it. All but one of these shards are eaten away by the Void. This final, untouched shard becomes Malphite some centuries later.
    • The Ascended Horok delves in to the cavernous underground beneath Icathia to discover how to beat it. He takes this information back to the rest of the Ascended Host.
    • The Ascended scoured Icathia's lands, starving out the Void and sealing its greatest rifts. The Void was ultimately defeated.
    • Those Voidborn that survived fell in to a dormant state, awaiting new organic matter to come by to reawaken them.
    • The Ascended were all deeply traumatized by the conflict. They weren't "corrupted" by it; their trauma was all rooted in them still having mortal minds, and thus suffering from the same problems as mortal do, when faced with the reality of what they fought and what they had to do to stop it.

    3,500-3,000 Years Ago

    • Nasus buries Setaka in a tomb with the Chalicar and doesn't reveal its location to anyone.
    • Azir and Xerath are born.
    • Xerath is claimed as a slave by Renekton's warhost at Nerimazeth along with his parents.
    • Azir and Xerath meet, strike up a friendship, and Azir gives Xerath his name. Azir then takes Xerath as his personal slave and promises he will free Xerath in the future.
    • Renekton directly trains Azir throughout his life, teaching him martial skills, battle tactics and many of the skills he would need for commanding armies.
    • The royal family is attacked on a trip around the Empire. The Emperor is protected by Renekton, while Xerath and Azir fend off those attacking them, but all of Azir's brothers die. Azir was 15 at the time.
    • Azir's father hates Azir, and tries to have new heirs. If such a thing was to happen Azir's life would be forfeit, so Xerath uses dark magic to make Azir's mother miscarry multiple times. Eventually Xerath straight up murders Azir's mother and father, leaving Azir the chance to become Emperor.
    • Xerath is resentful over Azir having seemingly forgotten his promise and decides to claim his own freedom by stealing Ascension for himself. He convinces Azir to undergo the ritual and causes a distraction so Nasus and Renekton are absent for the event.
    • In reality Azir was trying to figure out how best to do things, as slavery had been a halmark of their empire for so long it might cost him his life if he missteped. He agrees with Xerath's plans because he believes, by becoming one of the Ascended, none would question his abolishment of slavery, and he'd lead Shurima in to a new golden age.

    3,000 Years Ago (2,000 BN): The Fall of Shurima

    • The story "Unbound" happens.
    • Xerath steals the Ascension of Azir, killing Azir, destroying the City of Shurima, breaking the Sun Disc and killing everyone in the city.
    • Nasus and Renekton fight Xerath but can't beat him. They trap him in a magic sarcophagus and Renekton drags him in to the Tomb of the Emperors, where Nasus seals them away.
    • The Shuriman Empire crumbles as the Ascended Host can't keep it together.
    • Somehow, Azir's bloodline survives, and continues on despite what happens. How specifically this happened is unknown.

    3,000-1,550 Years Ago

    • With no guiding purpose and still traumatized by the war with the Void, the Ascended start warring amongst themselves.
    • They expand well beyond Shurima to conquer other lands and mortal peoples, expanding this war beyond the known war. They become known as the Darkin.
    • The Darkin began dabbling in long forbidden techniques of flesh shaping and blood magic, allowing them to reshape themselves as even more deadly beings.
    • Aatrox, Rhaast and Varus all become Darkin.
    • Nasus, grieving about what he had to do with Renekton, grows depressed and goes in to self imposed exile.
    • Horok is betrayed by another Ascended named Ne'Zuk and killed. He is buried with his Nether Blade, but his other gauntlet is claimed by Ne'Zuk.
    • Ne'Zuk is presumed to have died at some point during this time.
    • The city of Oshra Va'Zaun is protected by Janna from the Darkin. Yes she did indeed do this. You're not reading it wrong. Janna is infact stupid powerful in universe.
    • Ixtal remains protected by the jungles and their elemental magic, and so survives the Great Darkin War.
    • Vladimir is offered to the Darkin by his kingly father as a hostage to secure his throne. His Darkin master lets him learn blood magic. He earned a favoured spot in the Darkin's warhost and was a tyrant.
    • Nasus kills the Darkin Moneerah when they try to get in to Nashramae's old ruined library. This is one of the only known times Nasus was active during the entire Darkin War.

    1,550 Years Ago (550 BN): The End of the Great Darkin War

    • The Aspects are forced to intervene, and begin planning to take down the Darkin.
    • The story "Twilight of the Gods" happens
    • The Aspect of Twilight, within the host Myisha, works with a Darkin named Ta'anari to reclaim the Chalicar. Twilight then uses Ta'anari and the Chalicar in experiments that lead to Targon's solution: sealing some of the Darkin in their own weapons, and leading mortals to reclaim Runeterra.
    • Aatrox, Rhaast, Varus, an unnamed female Darkin and at least one other Darkin are imprisoned, and wielded against the others. Varus is wielded by a flame-haired Warrior Queen.
    • Pantheon leads the mortal armies and the Darkin are defeated.
    • The Darkin weapons are unable to be destroyed as a result of how they were made, so they are instead sealed away across Runeterra.
    • Vladimir kills his master and goes on his own path, believing he can become a god.

    1,550-1,400 Years Ago

    • Mortals start getting back on their feet again, founding new nations and tribes.
    • Veigar joins a group of mortal sorcerers delving in to knowledge of the Celestial Realm.

    1,400 Years Ago (400 BN): Mordekaiser's Return

    • Sahn Uzal contacts a group of sorcerers, and is restored as a revenant. Under his Ochnun name Mordekaiser he then begins creating an empire of undeath, which endures for 300 years.

    1,400-1,100 Years Ago

    • Mordekaiser creates his fortress of the Immortal Bastion, where he does a lot of his dark sorcery.
    • Mordekaiser binds Veigar to the Material Realm and tortures him constantly, forcing him to perform profane acts.
    • LeBlanc is a part of Mordekaiser's inner circle, and plots to betray him.
    • Vladimir terrorizes the coasts of eastern Valoran, demanding sacrifices from the locals like some dark god. LeBlanc approaches him and they forge a pact.

    1,100-1,021 Years Ago

    • The united Noxii tribes fight against Mordekaiser and, due to LeBlanc's betrayal, are able to best him.
    • The Noxii claim the Immortal Bastion for themselves and colonized the surrounding lands.
    • LeBlanc keeps the stuff in the Bastion a secret from the Noxii
    • Veigar flees, though now thoroughly warped and twisted by what happened to him. He begins pursuing his goal of becoming the greatest terror Runeterra had ever seen, though his good nature still shows itself as he often ends up defeating great monsters or horrible tyrants and sorcerers who would be worse to people than Veigar ever could.
    • Mordekaiser is returned to the Spirit Realm, but he has used his powers to keep those he killed from passing on. He begins using their souls to create his new realm of death: Mitna Rachnun.
    • The man who would become the Ruined King, and his wife, are both born.
    • Kalista, Hecarim, Ledros are born in an unnamed kingdom.
    • Yorick is born on the Blessed Isles.
    • Ryze is born to the Noxii tribes.
    • Mihira and Kilam are born.
    • Hecarim becomes the leader of the Iron Order by leaving it's prior leader to die.
    • Kalista and Ledros become high ranking members of the king's military.
    • Ledros professes his feelings for Kalista, but she can't reciprocate.
    • Yorick joins the Brotherhood of Dusk due to his unique ability to commune with the dead, but finds himself scorned because with this ability he is able to prove and disprove certain aspects of their religion. He bears a vial of life giving water sourced from the pools beneath the Isles.
    • The soon-to-be Ruined King's empire is attacked by assassins, and his wife poisoned. His niece Kalista goes out to find the Blessed Isles and their magic waters to heal her.
    • The queen dies and the king goes mad with grief. His general Hecarim feeds in to this madness so the king will send him out on wars so he can kill people for his own enjoyment.

    1,021 Years Ago (25 BN): The Ruination

    • Kalista returns too late, Hecarim convinces her to bring them to the Isles anyway.
    • The Helians tell him they can't do anything for the queen so the king orders them killed. Hecarim betrays Kalista and Ledros and the king is led by Thresh to the blessed waters of the Isles.
    • The king puts his wife in the waters, which results in the Ruination. The mists surrounding the Isles become the Black Mist, and trap all souls within as unliving beings.
    • Thresh, Kalista, Hecarim, Ledros and the king, now the Ruined King, are raised as spectres of the Black Mist.
    • Maokai draws some of the still pure waters in to himself. The mist twists his body, but his heartwood is kept safe, so he survives.
    • Yorick survives because of the vial of waters from around his neck, but the Mist clings to him.
    • A group of survivors found the Sentinels of Light, spread across the world and pledge to fight the Mist wherever it appears.

    1,009 Years Ago (13 BN): The Rune Wars

    • With Helia no longer able to keep knowledge of them secure, information about the World Runes starts spreading across Runeterra.
    • Ryze and his master Tyrus try to appeal for peace and claim the Runes for safe keeping, but war erupts that nearly destroys the world.
    • The entire region where Ryze's home village of Khom once stood is turned in to a crater by World Rune usage.
    • Tyrus keeps going but eventually can't resist the Rune's power, and Ryze has to kill him, secure more World Runes on his own.
    • Ryze starts hiding the World Runes around Runeterra again.
    • The Noxii tribes hide out in the Immortal Bastion to stay safe. The Bastion stands despite the chaos of the wars.
    • Shadow mages create constructs within the Spirit Realm to wage war with. This results in Nocturne, who becomes self aware and kills them in retribution, but is ultimately trapped in his current state and has to use the dreams of mortals to have agency.
    • The collective torment of the Rune Wars causes Evelynn to be truly born as a full on demon.
    • Zoe becomes the Aspect of Twilight.
    • Mihira and Kilam ascend Mount Targon, and Mihira is chosen to become the Aspect of Justice. She is pregnant with twin daughters, Kayle and Morgana, who become naturally magical due to this.
    • Refugees led by Orlon flee mages in to a forest of petrified trees. These trees seemingly nullify, allowing them to turn the tables.
    • Along the way Poppy joins Orlon's knights and becomes a close friend of his
    • Orlon founds a fledgling nation called Demacia, and accepts refugees from all across Runeterra.
    • The Demacians figure that they can use the bark of the trees from before to make a stone called petricite, with the same properties. They use this to build their structures.
    • Mihira begins merging with the Aspect fully, and Kilam takes Kayle and Morgana to Demacia in fear.
    • LeBlanc disappears from history for a time.
    • A group of sorcerers venture through the jungles of Shurima and are attacked by the flowers within the Garden of Zyr. The magic unleashed destroys the area and irradiates it with magic. Centuries later Zyra would emerge from this land; a result of this magical catastrophe.
    • The Rune Wars end after a period of roughly ten years. The specifics as to why and how are unknown. A vast number of nations are decimated, with the survivors having to rebuild.
    • Kled leaves Bandle City behind to live among the Noxii tribes.

    996 Years Ago (Year 0): Founding of Noxus

    • Three years after the end of the Rune Wars, the Noxii tribes pull together as a single people: Noxus. With their nearby lands barren and poor for farming or any kind of natural resources, they begin setting out to claim new territories.

    996-704 Years Ago

    • The Battle of Drugne occurs, where a Noxian warhost faces a barbarian horde. Outnumbered and with their leader being useless as military commanders all seems lost, but then Kled and Skaarl enter the fray for the first time. The battle ends in victory for Noxus and both Kled and Skaarl are immortalized within Noxian culture from then on. The two also proceed to join every military campaign ever waged by Noxus.
    • LeBlanc and her organization, the Black Rose, begin working behind the scenes in Noxus, subtly twisting the fledgling nation for their own ends.
    • Kayle and Morgana receive their mother's sword directly from the heavens and it splits in two. Both twins sprout a pair of wings as a result. The sword's arrival is implied to be a sign of some dire portent within the Celestial Realm, but beyond that nothing else is known.
    • Kayle and Morgana become figures in Demacian society, contrasting but ultimately trusting each other.
    • Kayle's ally Ronas distrusts Morgana, and tries to take her in to custody. Morgana uses her magic to bind him, which kills him. Kayle, enraged, fights Morgana, and the two lay waste to the Great City of Demacia, resulting in numerous deaths, including their father Kilam.
    • Kayle realizes what she has done and heads for Mount Targon. Her aim is to reach the Celestial Realm to rid herself of her humanity so she can be a completely unbiased judge. Morgana, bitter at what transpired, recedes from society. The two are remembered as mythical figures, with Kayle being synchronized with The Protector while Morgana is known as the Veiled Lady.
    • Orlon dies, and passes on his hammer to Poppy, saying it was never meant for him. Poppy doesn't realize it's meant for her, and so vows to go and find the "hero".

    704 Years Ago (292 AN): Demacian Royalty

    • Demacia crowns its first king. This isn't to say that Demacia didn't have leaders beforehand, but it's at this point a true monarchy is established.

    647 Years Ago (349 AN): The Noxian Empire

    • After a series of forced annexations and the fall of the Drakkengate, the noble houses of Noxus swear to unify all of Runeterra under the banner of what will become known as the Noxian Empire.
    • A "Grand General" is elected to serve as the primary military leader of Noxus.

    224 Years Ago (772 AN): Tragedy of the River Pilt

    • To open a reliable trade route between the east and west of both Valoran and Shurima, Zaun plans to use chemtech to blow a hole in the isthmus connecting the two continents, opening a sea lane.
    • The plan works, but in a freak accident way more of isthmus is destroyed than intended, sinking large parts of Zaun and killing thousands.
    • The people in unison offer their prayers to Janna to save them. Before this worship of her had waned significantly, diminishing her, but with this surge of belief she returns, empowered, and saves thousands.
    • The date of this event, while a tragedy for Zaun, would later become a national holiday in Piltover known as Progress Day; the day the Sun Gates opened and riches began flowing in earnest.

    209 Years Ago (787 AN): Bilgewater

    • With Piltover's boom comes a boom in piracy. This leads to many being stranded around the Serpent Isles. The people of Buhru allow them to stay, and Bilgewater is founded.
    • The River King makes his way to Bilgewater after his stay in the Serpentine Delta, earning his current name: Tahm Kench. He will later find his way to Piltover.

    Around 200-140 Years Ago (780-720 AN): Ferros and the brackern

    • This is an estimate based on Camille's estimated age and that of her great great aunt, who was alive during this time.
    • The Ferros Clan in Piltover sets out and eventually discovers the brackern slumbering in the Crystal Scar. They begin attacking them with explosives and ripping out their lifestones.
    • Skarner resists the attack and lashes out, killing dozens of humans in the process. He tries to wake his kin but their shared trauma is too great for any of them to awaken, and those without stones that do wake up quickly die. Skarner sets out to recover the lifestones.
    • The story "Dreamsong" happens, several days/weeks after the attack.
    • These gems become the origin of hextech, though how long after is unknown.

    87 Years Ago (899 AN): The Delverhold and Noxus

    • The Delverhold citystate swears its allegiance to the Emperor of Noxus.

    24 Years Ago (972 AN): Irelia

    • Irelia is born in to the Xan family in Navori, Ionia.

    23 Years Ago (973 AN): Taliyah

    • Taliyah of the Nasaaj is born to the Nasaaj tribe in Shurima.

    22 Years Ago (974 AN): Basilich and Noxus

    • The territory of Basilich swears fealty to Noxus. Darius, Draven and their childhood friend Quiletta are conscripted as soldiers.

    19 Years Ago (977 AN): Akali

    • Mayym Jhomen Tethi and her partner Tahno, both members of the Kinkou Order have a child: Akali.

    19 Years Ago (977 AN): The Golden Demon

    • Master Kusho of the Kinkou Order, alongside Shen and Zed, begin investigating the mysterious golden demon.

    19 Years Ago (977 AN): Darius and Quiletta

    • Darius rendezvous with Quiletta and they share an intimate moment. Following this they are both sent to distant parts of the empire as part of their military obligations.

    19 Years Ago (977 AN): Lux

    • Lux is born to the Crownguard family.

    18 Years Ago (978 AN): Invetia

    • Quiletta gives birth to a girl named Invetia.

    16 Years Ago (980 AN): Khada Jhin

    • Master Kusho, Shen and Zed set a trap and finally manage to catch the golden demon that they now know as Jhin. Kusho orders Jhin to be incarcerated in Tuula prison.

    15 Years Ago (982 AN): Demacian Heart

    • After an incident involving a magical girl and the unintended deaths of two mageseekers, Sylas is forced in to hiding, but is ultimately incarcerated by the Mageseekers.

    12 Years Ago (984 AN): The Invasion of Ionia

    • Noxus begins its invasion of Ionia, scouring the western regions of the Navori province, along with other areas.

    12-10 Years Ago (980-984 AN): The Yanlei

    • Zed taps in to the Tears of Shadow, gaining the ability to use shadow magic. For this he is exiled from the Kinkou by Master Kusho. Zed begins making a new order called the Yanlei to fight Noxus.

    10 Years Ago (986 AN): Splintering of the Kinkou

    • After the Siege of Thanze, Zed returns to the Kinkou to claim the Tears of Shadow, so the Yanlei can better fight Noxus. He manages to convince Kusho of his plans, and they orchestrate Kusho's faked murder.
    • The Order of Shadows, claims the Temple of Thanjuul and offers some of the Kinkou the chance to join them. Some do, some don't, many die. The surviving Kinkou flee to Shon-Xan to regroup.
    • Shen becomes the new Eye of Twilight for the Kinkou. Kennen and Mayym are still alive and serving the Kinkou at this time. Akali is nine years old.
    • Kusho goes on to lead the Navori Brotherhood, though the specifics are when are unknown.

    10 Years Ago (986 AN): Great Stand of the Placidium

    • Jericho Swain, with the aid of some disenfranchised vastaya who willingly turned to join Noxus, the Placidium of Navori is claimed.
    • Swain holds the citizens hostage to lure other Ionians in to a trap.
    • One of the hostages, Irelia, manages to get free, greivously wounds Swain and saves the Placidium.
    • Swain's vastayan allies are killed.
    • Swain is disgraced publicly for this defeat, and returns to Noxus, but becomes aware the Black Rose is still around and starts planning.

    10 Years Ago (986 AN): The Bow, and the Kunai

    • The story "The Bow and the Kunai" occurs.

    9 Years Ago (987 AN): Chemical Weapons in Ionia

    • One Commander Emystan approaches Singed and procures the Mad Chemist's help in creating chem-tech weapons to use against the Ionians.
    • Darius and Quiletta witness the aftermath of a Zaunite alchymist's chemical weapons being used against Ionia's defenders.
    • Some months later Darius and Quiletta leave Ionia. Quiletta's right arm has to be amputated due to chem-poisoning.

    12-7 Years Ago (984-989 AN): The Invasion Continues

    • Most events during the Ionian Invasion have no specific dates, so this part will just consolidate them.
    • Wukong goes in to hiding after being attacked by Noxians in Zhyun.
    • Udyr and Lee Sin protect the Shojin Monastery from Noxian invaders. In the process Lee Sin invokes the dragon spirit and his eyes are burned out, but the Noxians are routed.
    • The village of Wuju is obliterated by Noxus after Master Yi and other Wuju disciples joined the war effort. Master Yi is the last survivor of the village of Wuju.
    • Karma obliterates a Noxian vessel. This disrupted the balance of her own soul as it caused issues with her connections to her prior lives.
    • Riven witnesses atrocities as Zaunite mercenaries use chemtech against the Ionians, with such an attack leaving her own regiment destroyed as well. She seeks atonement from one Master Souma, but as he tries to break her sword as part of this, a shard of it impales and kills him. She goes awol, eventually coming to live on a farm alongside an old couple named Shava and Asa.
    • Yasuo goes to help the war effort but Elder Souma is killed in his absence. Due to the circumstances of his death, it is assumed that Yasuo killed him, when it was in fact an accident. Yasuo is forced to go on the run and eventually has to kill his brother Yone to save himself.
    • The story "The Bird and the Branch" starts.
    • Taliyah is found by Noxus and quickly conscripted in to the military. She is sent to Ionia but is unwilling to kill, and as such is left to die. She survives and meets Yasuo, who then becomes her teacher.

    7 Years Ago (989 AN): Alistar's Freedom

    • A servant girl named Ayelia helps Alistar escape his life of slavery in Noxus. Due to the interference of Noxian agents, the two are separated on their way to a barge that would take them to safety. Alistar fends off the attackers, but Ayelia's fate is unknown.

    7 Years Ago (989 AN): Swain's Coup

    • Still in disgrace, Swain plots an overthrow of Boram Darkwill to take Noxus and restore it to its former glory.
    • They manage to get Urgot, chief headsman of Noxus and a supporter of Darkwill, out of Noxus and incarcerated in Zaun.
    • With the help of Draven and some unspecified support from General Du couteau he is successful, killing Boram and becoming the new ruler of Noxus.
    • Swain throws out the idea of Noxian emperors and installs the Trifarix; a group of three leaders representing the three principles of Noxus. After some work he gets Darius and an unknown individual known as The Faceless to join him.

    7 Years Ago (989 AN): The Invasion's End

    • A full retreat from Ionia is called. The war ends.
    • Irelia claims victory at the Dalu Bay and kills the general who killed her family.

    7 Years Ago (989 AN): Shurima's Rebirth

    • Because of the coup, Cassiopeia's mum pressures her to find Shurima's old god-like powers. Cassiopeia had already been searching with the help of Sivir, and they decide to head for the old capital.
    • Cassiopeia betrays Sivir, stabbing her in the back and using the Chalicar to open the Tomb of the Emperors, unwittingly freeing Xerath and a now insane Renekton. For her efforts, Cassiopeia is bitten by the magical tomb guardian, transforming in to her current snake self.
    • Sivir's blood triggers ancient magic within the city. This resurrects Azir and he takes Sivir's body to the restored Oasis of the Dawn, saving her life. Azir is granted his long denied Ascension, which he uses to restore the city.
    • Sivir flees the city, Xerath heads for Nerimazeth to set up a base of operations, and Azir pieces together how he died.

    8-6 Years Ago (988-990 AN): Warmother

    • The comic series "Ashe: Warmother" happens.

    7-6 Years Ago (989-990 AN): Rise of the Ascended

    • Following the restoration of Shurima, the following stories occur:
    • "Ourobouros"
    • "Darkness Renews"
    • "Water"
    • "The Bird and the Branch" ends.

    6 Years Ago (990 AN): Bloodline

    • The following stories occur:
    • "Bloodline"
    • "Homecoming" (Taliyah Cinematic)
    • "Echoes in the Stone"
    • "Confessions of a Broken Blade"
    • "Flesh and Stone"

    6 Years Ago (990 AN): Senna is Slain

    • Senna and Lucian confront Thresh, resulting in Senna's death. Lucian only finds out what happened to her soul some time later during "Shadow and Fortune".

    3 Years Ago (990 AN): Garen in the Vanguard

    • Garen is inducted in to the Dauntless Vanguard. Lux, 16 at the time, is at the ceremony with their parents.

    996 AN: Now

    • The following stories happen:

    • "Darius: Blood of Noxus"

    • "The Whispering Doodad"

    • "The Principles of Strength"

    • "Sisterhood of War"

    • "LUX and Aftermath"

    • "The Recruit"

    • "Turmoil"

    • "For Demacia"

    • "The Weight of Expectations"

    • "Terror in Demacia"

    • "Voices"

    • "The Shackles of Belief"

    • "Son of Ur"

    • "Child of Zaun, Warriors 2020 - Piltover/Zaun Section"

    • "Warriors 2020 - Shurima Section"

    • "Leaving Weh'le"

    • "ZED, The Man with the Steel Cane, Awaken 2019 (Jhin & Camille section)"

    • "Irelia: The Blade Dancer"

    • "Perennial"

    • "Dark Passage, The Climb, Shadow's Embrace"

    • "The Voices of the Dead"

    • "Silence for the Damned"

    ???: The Future

    • Warriors 2020 - Demacia Section
    • Awaken 2019 - Ionia and Noxian Sections
    • Sisterhood of War Parts 2-?

    …

    And that should be everything that I can reasonably time-line in here.

    I hope you enjoyed! If there's anything outstanding here that you're curious about, feel free to ask; it's likely either something I can try and extrapolate about, or something I forgot because I'm an idiot.

    Regardless, I hope you have a great day!

    TL;DR: ...yeah no. Sorry!

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    Lee Sin wanted to get rid of me too fast

    Posted: 24 May 2020 06:54 AM PDT

    Former Misfits ADC, BVOY is playing for Flamengo E-sports (CBLOL) this summer split.

    Posted: 24 May 2020 08:30 AM PDT

    Flamengo E-sports just announced that he will be playing this split for flamengo: https://twitter.com/flaesports/status/1264577122179469312

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    Thats a huge step up for our region and i am really excited for it.

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    Remember Double/Party Boost IP Weekends?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 07:20 AM PDT

    With all these returning game modes like Pick URF currently and Nexus Blitz later this year, I was reminiscing about what features the game has had that we're missing out on today. One such thing was Double IP Weekends. Hopping into back-to-back-to-back legendary games with your buddies during the 2014 Sugar Rush Event or Ocean Week getting some nice double IP was a time.

    Doing some research, I found what I believe to be the last such event, which was Xayah and Rakan release, almost exactly 7 months before IP merged with BE. Since the switch to BE I had been wondering if Riot would ever do a Double XP weekend (or 1.5x even), something fun and rewarding promoting play. Especially with many of us still (hopefully) self-isolating stuck at home, with not much to do, there would be a lot of people benefiting from this.

    Thoughts on this and do you think Riot will ever bring something like this back?

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    Did they remove key fragment notifcations?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 03:46 AM PDT

    I haven't received them in like 2 months, key fragments still appear in my loot tab though. Just no notifications..

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    Update on Smeb

    Posted: 24 May 2020 10:05 AM PDT

    Smeb on his stream last night:

    "What I have been up to? I have been trying my best in my games, and staying in touch with different teams"

    "Nothing's been decided yet. I didn't come here to make an announcement."

    "When will I be streaming again? Next week, that is to say, this week. I'll turn on my stream sometime this week. At least once. I might decide to stream in the middle of the night, but I'll make sure to stream at least once this week."

    "I'll return with a major announcement."

    Source: https://twitter.com/KevinKimLoL/status/1264461015615299587

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    I always wanted to do this..Flash E Shen under turret

    Posted: 24 May 2020 04:02 PM PDT

    Wolf's LCK Academy League

    Posted: 24 May 2020 10:17 AM PDT

    Early this year Wolf stated that he wanted to have a tournament between LCK teams Academy players to showcase their talent against each other. He plans to have a price pool for the tournament to reward the winning team.

    Wolf's update regarding his plans for LCK Academy League:

    • It'll take place between the Mid-Season Cup and the LCK Summer Split, sometime in June.

    • Close to confirming date and time, still under discussion with other teams.

    • Will give another update on June after MSC.

    • In talks with T1 regarding possibility of a prize pool.

    • Currently undecided on the actual name (title) of the competition.

    • Still in the planning stages, a work in progress.

    • The matches will likely be streamed on T1's official channel ("t1esports" on Twitch).

    Source: https://twitter.com/KevinKimLoL/status/1264597090895716353?s=19

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    PROJECT: Weapons (by Silvxs)

    Posted: 24 May 2020 07:19 AM PDT

    Your average master yi urf 1v1

    Posted: 24 May 2020 03:43 AM PDT

    The Geniuses of League's Forums - Gbay99

    Posted: 24 May 2020 12:05 PM PDT

    A 1v5 with 4 attacking me simultaneously

    Posted: 24 May 2020 09:32 AM PDT

    When you know you are getting ganked but you really need that cannon creep.

    Posted: 24 May 2020 07:11 AM PDT

    There is on average more than one smurf/game in my MMR. Maybe there is a problem?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 03:51 AM PDT

    I know this is a hot topic right now with a camp complaining about smurfs and the other saying they don't appear that often and you should learn from those you see. To people saying you can't get a smurf in every game, I'd like to demonstrate you basically can. I went to check my last 10 games. For reference, I am Plat3 (hardstuck for seasons now :/), which is where I imagine most smurfs get placed judging by the frequency I see them in my games. My LoL username is the same as Reddit username if you want to check it out for yourself.

    Game 1

    Pyke – my team – lvl36 – 66% WR

    Game 2

    None

    Game 3

    Qiyana – my team – lvl35 - 57% WR (doesn't look fishy but 64% when I got her in my game)

    Graves – their team – lvl40 – 74% WR

    Game 4

    None

    Game 5

    Hecarim – my team – lvl35 – 61% WR

    Game 6

    Kayn – my team – lvl32 – 75% WR – duo with ez

    Ezreal – my team – lvl34 – 67% WR

    Tryndamere – their team – lvl35 – 63% WR – duo with vlad

    Vladimir – their team – lvl31 – 63% WR

    Game 7

    None

    Game 8

    Aphelios – their team – lvl32 – 73% WR

    Game 9

    Katarina (?) – my team - lvl55 – 68% WR

    Game 10

    Gragas – their team – lvl33 – 78% WR – duo with vlad

    Vladimir – their team – lvl33 – 77% WR

    To people saying that you should learn from them, it's really only possible if they are on your lane. If they aren't, you face a monster with 10 kills by midgame and what do you learn other than that someone with better mechanics than your whole team and 10 kills obliterates everyone. It just makes the ranked experience pointless. If you want to climb, you should dodge every game where a smurf isn't on your team because he will likely be on the opposing team. If you go up further in my match history, the trend continues (with 8 smurfs in the following 10), it wasn't just an unlucky streak.

    I genuinely think this is a big issue and unranked to challenger streams are definitely not improving the state of the game. Having no agency over the result of your ranked games, basically fucking over 9 other people, because someone wants to have fun stomping noobies is something Riot should actually think about fixing instead of letting it be because muh skins.

    TLDR : I've had 12 smurfs in my last 10 games that basically dictated how the game went. It's not too fun.

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    “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, but love leaves a memory that no one can steal”

    Posted: 24 May 2020 12:33 AM PDT

    Pro View Spring Split VODs are now available for free.

    Posted: 24 May 2020 04:13 AM PDT

    I haven't seen anyone post this, but the pro view VODs for LCS and LEC are currently free due to COVID-19. Going to https://watch.lolesports.com/pro-view will prompt you to enter a given promo code and will give you access until September 13th for no cost. Also for people who have bought pro view this Spring Riot has refunded your purchase.

    Currently available to watch are:

    - LEC Summer 2019 and Spring 2020

    - LCS Summer 2019 and Spring 2020

    - LCK Summer 2019

    - MSI 2019 Main Event (Group Stage and Playoffs)

    - Worlds 2019 (All games including play-ins)

    - Rift Rivals EU/NA 2019

    Anyone looking to improve should definitely go sign up and watch games from the point of view of pros. Pro view was already worth the 15$ to get LEC and LCS games and with the inclusion of last years international tournaments for free this is one of the best free resources currently for learning league. Watching players in competitive games with pro view allows you to focus on mechanics and tactics of up to 4 players at a time that are frequently obscured by the observers panning to different lanes to show the whole game. For most players I think the best way to learn is to watch games with champions you play and compare their VODs versus yours to find ways to improve.

    Hopefully with it being free for the next few months Riot might allow content creators to analyze pro view games on stream until it is monetized again. Many streamers have asked for this so Riot might be enticed to promote pro view through streams.

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    What is so bad about High elo that everyone is smurfing this season

    Posted: 24 May 2020 11:49 AM PDT

    Proof 8/10 games

    I started noticing an influx of smurfs this season like nothing ever before so I decided to document how many I would get if I played 10 games in a row.

    I got 8/10 games had a Super blatent smurf with a level 30 account insane winrate.

    Nothing to do with my rank or complaining that I can't rank up. Im just curious as to whats up with the massive amount of bot accounts freshly made stomping in gold games.

    Is it to do with the ranked changes this season (+15lp -25) and the super grind?

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    An Insight on the ADC Exp Issue from a DotA Perspective

    Posted: 24 May 2020 10:42 AM PDT

    I've been a League Player for nine years and I've recently been playing some DotA 2 as well, and I think it would be helpful to see how the two games approach roles in the game:

    • First off, the only similarity between DotA and League is the fact that you have a map with three lanes (and the jungle), which essentially gives you 4 sources of income. The difference here is that in DotA, farming jungle camps give way less exp and gold compared to farming lane creeps. In League, however, junglers are able to circumvent this exp/gold differential simply because their jungle item allows them to. Thus, in DotA, there are only three reliable and efficient forms of income, while in League there are 4 (the three lanes and the jungle).
    • This leads into my second point of defined roles in the game. In League, it's obvious as to what the roles are (Top, Jungle, Mid, Bottom, and Support). However, in DotA, roles are defined by farm priority, with position 1 (who tends to be the hard carry) having the most farm to position 5 (who tends to be supports for the position 1) who gets the least farm. This actually leads to the same problem League had in Season 2/3, where supports spent their entire income on vision and nothing else because they gimp their income for their carries. However, I will explain how supports in DotA manage this exp/gold differential later on.
    • Furthermore, there is virtually no jungler role in DotA . How the lanes are usually set up in DotA is that you have your position 1 and position 5 going against the position 3 and position 4 (in League terms, it's as if you have your bottom laner and support is going against a top laner and second support). So essentially, there are 2 2v2's happening on the map (one on each side lane), and 1 1v1 happening down in the middle lane. Additionally, in order to allow for their position 1/position 3 get the sole exp they need so they don't get blasted by the midlaner who comes to gank with an exp advantage, the supports actually duke it out separately outside of exp range and occasionally come into lane to zone off the other farmer. So not only supports gimp their income for their carries, they are also gimping their experience as well just to give their carries levels and stats to survive an over-leveled midlaner.
    • So does this mean supports are forever gimped? Well no, because as the game progresses and the map is carved out by both sides of the team, what ends up happening is that the carries take farm on the safe side of the map while the supports try to catch up by farming the dangerous parts of the map. And sure, you can gank the supports more easily than the carries because they have less levels and items, but that's time and resources not pressuring the enemy carry. As a matter of fact, a support could care less if they die for farm because it's worth it for their carry to continue farming without dying.
    • So how does all this explanation relate to League? Well, think about the amount of resources the ADC is receiving in relation to other solo laners. They are essentially getting the same amount of gold, but carries have the experience of a support because that's who they are forced to lane with most of early game. Thus, what ends up happening is ganking an ADC is high reward, low risk because they don't have the levels and stats to fight back and you are essentially gimping the enemy's win condition if you kill off their ADC. Furthermore, because both ADCs are in the bottom lane, it only takes one fight to determine who gets to control tempo. However, in DotA, our position 1 carries do not face off against each other, and thus, two fights can occur simultaneously in an attempt to gimp the enemy carry. What ends up happening is that a trade-for-trade occurs in two separate lanes, rather than one big fight down in the bottom lane.

    Tl;DR: In DotA, carries are given experience priority in the early game and supports catch up in gold and levels later by farming dangerous parts of the map. In League, ADCs are on the same level as supports experience wise, and thus, killing the ADC is the most high reward, low risk maneuver you can pull off in order to ensure victory.

    EDIT: Guys, don't see this as a "DotA design > League design". As I've already mentioned before (and other commenters as well), League essentially has 4 sources of income (3 lanes and the jungle) and Riot should allow ADCs to go to other lanes instead of constantly relegating them to be with the support and split exp. But at this point, this is my opinion on how the game should be played, and I wouldn't be surprised if people heavily disagree with me on this.

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