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Take a look at this weeks astounding fan creations in this week’s Summoner Showcase, brought to you by your own League of Legends community.
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Our next featured streamer is one of the youngest professional League of Legends players in the world: Voyboy of Team Dignitas. In addition to earning the distinction of a sponsored placement on a pro team, this player has always been friendly with viewers and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship on and off the Fields of Justice.
A distinguished veteran of the League of Legends Challenger Circuit, Voyboy is considered one of the best solo top players in competition today. Team Dignitas has consistently dazzled audiences at IPL, MLG and IntelEM events, proving time and time again that their reputation as one of the best League of Legends teams in the world is well-earned. At the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in Hanover, Germany, Voyboy staged a nearly flawless performance in top lane, showing particular dominance with Lee Sin, and received the coveted “I Carried Today BIG” award based on community votes. In addition to his team’s accomplishments, Voyboy finished out ladder Season One in the top position on the ladder, and has continued to show excellence here in ladder Season Two.
The birthplace of Riot Games and first League of Legends community to open its doors, North America is where the international phenomenon began. What started as only a handful of developers in a small office building in Los Angeles, California has since grown to an organization of over 500 employees with offices in the United States, Ireland and Korea.
As one of the first to Western titles to fully embrace a free-to-play model, League of Legends had a lot to prove to a North American market accustomed to retail games played on console systems. Since launch, however, players have become so passionate about the game that friend referrals are now the most commonly reported reason that a North American player begins their career as a summoner. LAN centers and colleges across the nation often host competitive and social events centered on the game. Just this past week, schools like Michigan State and Michigan Tech kicked off their St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with a League of Legends meetup.
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Week two of the Great Hunt is underway, and with all these feisty yordles clamoring to claim the most impressive prey, we thought it might be time to change things up on your hunting expedition. This week of the Hunt we’ve got a whole new roster of famous yordle champions to help you get the drop on even the most dangerous game. You can get a closer look at some yordle hunting tactics by visiting the Great Hunt page below!
Whether you’re hunting dire wolves, dragon sharks, golems, lizards, ancient wyrms or the occasional armored bear, we’ve got just the yordle crew to help you bring home the bacon. Here’s a complete list of those yordles who will be on the hunt this week.
The following yordle champions will be available for 50% of from Tuesday, the 27th of March to Friday, the 30th of March!
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At your request, we give you: The Great Hunt wallpapers! Now you can set your desktops to these beautiful illustrations of yordles, proving that size is of no matter on the Fields of Justice.
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If you’re a natural history buff, you’ll be pleased to hear that some of the most prestigious yordle scientists that Valoran has to offer have just unearthed a truly groundbreaking discovery. Straight from the annals of pre-history, we’re proud to display Jurassic Kog’Maw – a primordial new take on the Mouth of the Abyss. Featuring a crumbling new death animation befitting his skeletal stature, this is one skin that’s sure to please any aspiring paleontologist.
And with the addition of this antediluvian new skin, we’ll also be permanently reducing the price on Monarch Kog’Maw from 975 RP to 520 RP. Whether you’re looking for a newly unearth or newly metamorphic take on your favorite denizen of the void, we’ve got you covered!
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Epik Gamer support player Nhat Nguyen will be streaming live today starting at 12 p.m. Pacific Time! In addition to being a distinguished veteran of Epik Gaming, Nhat Nguyen has proven time and time again that he is one of the best support players in League of Legends. Since he joined, Epik has dazzled audiences with impressive performances at many Challenger Circuit events, including two runner up finishes in both IPL and MLG.
Click below to take in a few pro tips from one of the best support players in League of Legends!
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Another week means it’s time for some more great offers on a few skins for some of your favorite champions of the League. From Friday, March 23rd, through Monday, March 26th, the Renegade Talon, Shadow Prince Malzahar, and Outback Renekton skins will be available for 50% off !
- Renegade Talon (regularly 520 RP) will be only 260 RP!
- Shadow Prince Malzahar (regularly 520 RP) will be only 260 RP!
- Outback Renekton (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP!
After Monday, March 26th, these fantastic skins will be returning to their regular prices—so be sure to act now before it’s too late. Click on the Skins tab in the Store to take advantage of these fantastic deals.
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It’s a new week, so it’s time for some special offers on a few of your favorite champions of the League. From Friday, March 23rd, through Monday, March 26th, the Nocturne, Leona, and Dr. Mundo champions will be available for 50% off !
- Nocturne champion (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP
- Leona champion (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP
- Dr. Mundo champion (regularly 585 RP) will be only 292 RP
After Monday, March 26th, these fantastic champions will return to their regular prices—so be sure to act soon, before it’s too late. Click on the Champions tab in the store to purchase these champions at their discounted prices.
It seems like everybody is rockin’ and reppin’ the League on this week’s Summoner Showcase! Take a look at these amazing creations brought to you by the League community everywhere!
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In response to your feedback, we’re continuing to bring you even more value for your IP by reducing the IP prices on more of your favorite champions. This week, we’ll be slashing the IP prices of Galio and Swain.
The new IP prices for these champions are:
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With the wintry times of Snowdown and the Lunar Revel behind us, it’s time to start celebrating the rebirth of nature as we move into springtime. And what better way to celebrate the rebirth of nature than by kicking off a massive hunting competition! Each year after the snows melt and the animals come back out of hibernation, the yordles of Valoran band together for the Great Hunt, staging massive competitions to see who can bring home the most impressive wild game. You can get a closer look at how some of the Valoran’s most famous yordles are celebrating by clicking the link below!
With the Great Hunt taking place from March 20 to April 2, we thought it might be a good time to offer you a hand selecting your own yordle hunting partners. Each week that the Hunt goes on we’ll be holding a sale on a different group of Valoran’s most famous yordle champions to help you get your hunting party off on the right foot.
The following yordle champions will be available for 50% of from March 20 to March 23!
- Teemo will be lying in wait for the most dangerous game this season. Pick up the Swift Scout (normally 585 RP) for only 292 RP.
- Tristana is ready to draw a bead on the most ferocious animals the wilds of Runeterra have to offer. Pick up the Megling Gunner (normally 585 RP) for only 292 RP.
- Kennen (normally 975 RP) can help you chase down even the swiftest wild game for only 487 RP.
Lulu, the Fae Sorceress, has frolicked into the League of Legends. With her fae companion Pix in tow, Lulu is capable of boosting her allies while disrupting the enemy team on the Fields of Justice. For her ultimate, Lulu empowers an ally, increasing their survivability and granting them with an aura that slows enemies while they lead the charge!
Welcome to the Lulu Champion Spotlight, summoners! Lulu’s suite of tricky plays can turn the tide of any battle. Whether she’s turning her opponents into cuddly little two-tailed squirrels (or other critters), lining up two skill shots at the same time, or making a six-stack Cho’Gath even bigger, Lulu is sure to win the hearts of every player. For those interested in learning a new support with an over-abundance of cuteness, take a look at the Lulu Champion Spotlight!
Our next featured streamer is widely considered one of the best support players in the world: Nhat Nguyen of Epik! In addition to being one of the top competitors on both the national and international stage, Nhat is particularly famous for his dominant Soraka performances.
A distinguished veteran of the League of Legends Challenger Circuit, Nhat Nguyen has consistently proven himself to be one of the best support players competing today. Epik has consistently dazzled audiences at IPL, MLG and IntelEM events, proving time and time again that their reputation as one of the best League of Legends teams in the world is well-earned. Moreover, Nhat consistently demonstrates a focused, positive and constructive attitude on and off the Fields of Justice.
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We’ll be rolling out some changes to Hexdrinker along with a new upgrade for this important anti-magic item in the upcoming Lulu Patch. To help keep Hexdrinker a viable selection throughout a full game of League of Legends, we’ve repositioned this powerful anti-caster weapon as an earlier game item and added the option to upgrade it later in the game. This new upgrade, dubbed the Maw of Malmortius, will be geared towards giving you some additional late game punch from this powerful anti-caster item.
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High burst damage teams have always been problematic for fragile, heavy-hitting melee DPS champions. For this reason, we wanted to provide an item that would give these champions a specialized defensive option when they took to the field against this type of team. Hexdrinker was always intended to be a reactive purchase by melee champions who found themselves in the danger zone against a heavy burst team.
Welcome to the Lulu Patch Preview, summoners! In the Patch Preview, we’ll be looking into gameplay changes for existing champions, items, and other gameplay, as opposed to information about Lulu herself. In this episode, we discuss our changes for Rammus, Shaco, Jax, Irelia, and a few items! For more information about these updates, take a look at the video!
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A few people have been asking when we’ll be adding another support champion to League of Legends. I’m happy to answer that with a resounding “now!” Join me in welcoming Lulu, the Fae Sorceress, as our newest support champion.
As a yordle (or “suppordle,” in this case), Lulu brings a sense of twisted mischief to the League. With the help of her fairy companion Pix, she is equally adept at disabling foes as she is assisting and supporting allies.
Is the enemy Nocturne being a big jerk and killing your friends? Is that Alistar just not squirrelly enough for you? That’s an easy fix with a quick cast of Whimsy, which will make an enemy champion 100% more adorable and 100% more harmless by turning them into a fuzzy critter that can run around, but can’t attack or use abilities.
Come one, come all, to the new Summoner Showcase! This week highlights the unique: creations of a sort you may not have seen before. Check it out!
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Interested in entering the “I Heart LoL” Photo Contest? You still have time! Rioters joined in the fun to show their League pride! Are you up to the challenge?
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St. Patrick’s Day is on the horizon, so if you’re ready to toast your mates, hoist a glass and belt out a drinking song, we’ve got just the thing to get you in the mood this year. Starting on Friday, March 16 and concluding on Monday, March 19, both Leprechaun Veigar and Shamrock Malphite will be on sale. That’s right, in honor of St. Patrick we’re bringing Shamrock Malphite back from the Legacy Skins vault for another round in the League of Legends Store for the first time ever!
- Leprechaun Veigar (normally 520 RP) will be only 260 RP.
- Legacy Skin Shamrock Malphite will be available for a limited time for 260 Riot Points!
So there you have it summoners! Head on over to the League of Legends Store to take advantage of these great deals before they’re off on the rocky road back to Dublin. And don’t forget to take advantage of this rare opportunity to pick up Shamrock Malphite before he returns to the vault!
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We’re going to be picking up the pace on our Legacy Skin sales, so pay attention! Starting on Friday, March 16, we’ll once again be cracking the seal on the Legacy Skins vault to lay 12 more of our venerable champion skins to rest.
That’s a lot of skins, so be sure to pick up your favorites before they become rare collectibles. Remember that once a skin becomes Legacy, it is retired from the store and will only make temporary guest appearances in the event that some extra special occasion should warrant it.
This could very well be your last chance to get ahold of the skins on this list, so we’re holding a special sale to make sure they get the sendoff they deserve. Just in case you’re not emotionally prepared to bid a fond farewell to these classics, we’ll be knocking 75% off each of them before we cart them off to the vault. And just for good measure we’ll also putting their associated champions on sale for 20% off.
Our next stop on the League of Legends World Tour is once again on mainland Europe, where we’ll visit Germany. As longtime PC gamers, German gamers have always been avid participants in the online gaming space. From first person shooter titles to real-time strategy games to multiplayer online battle arenas, if it’s online and it’s competitive, the odds are good that you’ll find German teams somewhere in the lineup. With this in mind it should come as no surprise that Germany quickly established itself as the largest and fastest growing League of Legends community in Europe from the moment the doors opened on the platform in October of 2010 – a distinction that they have continued to maintain to this very day.
Although German players get most of their everyday gaming done from home, LAN parties and major gaming conventions are a regular occurrence all across the country. Of these LAN parties, the largest is NorthCon, which is held each year in Neumünster, Germany, and seats nearly 3,400 people. In addition to these LAN events, however, Germany is also home to GamesCom and CeBIT, two of the biggest gaming and technology conventions in the world. Both of these events host hundreds of thousands of people, and are regularly used as venues for some of the biggest and most important League of Legends tournaments.
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the course of the years it’s that great art can come in many shapes and sizes, colors and forms. With all these different creative mediums in the mix, there’s really no telling where the inspiration for a champion could come from. And while we’re on the subject of unexpected changes, just the other day our artist Kienan Lafferty told us he’d come up with a brand new look for Lulu, the Fae Sorceress and her signature polymorph ability.
Please enjoy this high speed rendition of Kienan showing us just how unpredictable Lulu can be!