Welcome to the Patch Preview, summoners! In the Patch Preview, we’ll be looking into gameplay changes for existing champions as opposed to information about Draven, himself. In this episode, we discuss our changes for Ahri, Graves, Urgot, Swain, and Darius! For more information about these updates, take a look at the video!
Summoners!
Cases of air guitaring have reached epic proportions among the League of Legends fan base. We here at Riot Games care deeply about the Air Guitar epidemic, and are devoted to finding fantastic League-based licks for our fans to properly handle their obsession. If you’re an awesome musician who finds inspiration in League champions, we need your help!
Create a Song about Your Favorite Champion!
Enter our Songs of the Summoned III contest by submitting a song based on, inspired by or dedicated to your favorite champion! Send us an MP3 featuring you or your band performing your song. We’ll vet them for air guitar-osity, champion love levels and overall awesomeness, then post the best for every League air guitarist to strum their invisible chords to!
Summoners!
League of Legends makes its Pro Circuit debut June 8 through 10 at the MLG Spring Championship in Anaheim, California! 21 of the best teams in the world will battle for a prize pool of $40,000, as well as key circuit points in the Season Two Challengers Circuit. We expect big crowds onsite, and we’d love to see your face there! You can sign up for tickets now on MLG’s home page.
With all the excitement taking place just a short drive from Riot headquarters, we thought we’d add a few surprises into the mix. Multiple games take place every hour, so we’ve set up a massive four live streams to cover every moment of the action. Riot regulars Phreak and Rivington, as well as Joe Miller, Jatt, Studio and Dan Dinh will call the matches in front of a huge live audience, while free streaming on our event page brings the matches to off-site fans. The players themselves will play in soundproof booths on the main stage, keeping them focused on the match while the crowds in front of them go wild!
So who’s going into those soundproof booths to put their skills to the test? Take a look below:
Summoners,
This weekend from Friday, June 1st at 7pm PST, until Monday, June 4th at 7am PST, all League of Legends games in NA, EUNE and EUW will gain a double IP bonus. Yes, this 100% increase will work in conjunction with any IP and XP boosts you currently have on your accounts, too.
See you on the Fields of Justice.

Time for a new Summoner Showcase, with so much coolness stuffed in that we hardly have room to talk about it all! Sculptures, images, some wicked-looking swords and another rocking guitar riff highlight the latest batch of awesome fan creations!
Draven is poised to enter the League this coming patch. This champion of the arena knows the value of enjoying what you do – even if your line of work happens to involve grisly executions!
For a ranged Attack Damage champion like Draven, proper positioning is extremely important for maximizing your damage potential while remaining safe. For Draven, however, good positioning will also allow you to utilize your primary damage ability, Spinning Axe, to its fullest potential. Upon activation, Draven’s next basic attack will deal bonus damage and cause his signature throwing axe to bounce high into the air. Catching the axe will refresh the effect, causing Draven’s next basic attack to also become a Spinning Axe. After a couple of catches, Draven can even activate the ability a second time to utilize two Spinning Axes at once!
It’s the beginning of June and we have two great reasons to stay inside for the weekend: the Reign of Gaming Invitational and the Garena Premier League!
Reign of Gaming Invitational
The Reign of Gaming Invitational sprang from the fiendish minds over at Team Curse: set 32 teams from North America and Europe at each other’s throats until only four are left standing, then invite the finalists to San Francisco for an epic championship throwdown. The only thing left is to set the finalists loose and see who emerges with the championship trophy in their fists.
Teams arriving in San Francisco include two from Europe and two from North America:
Corporate Mundo read that whoever die with the most toys wins. Mundo not hear that rule before, but it worry Mundo. He not have that many toys: just sixteen cars, four yachts, six summer homes, two jets, twelve massage chairs, thirty racing horses, two hundred plasma TVs, three private satellite dishes, two martini makers, seventeen golf putters, three hot tub/SUV hybrids, and one statue of Mundo made of solid gold toy bricks. (Plus cleaver. Got to have cleaver.)
Mundo need more toys. Many, many more toys. So buy skins and champions in newest sale and pad Mundo’s slush fund!
Sometimes coming up with a great piece of artwork takes guts. Other times what you really need is a bit of flair to give it a little extra something special. For Draven, the Glorious Executioner, however, guts and flair often go hand in hand, usually while performing a particularly brutal execution on the arena floor.
Watch Draven finish strong in this high speed rendition of his champion splash art!
Summoners!
This Friday, June 1st, the Riot World Invitational broadcasts to the entire globe. Riot Games flew five of the best players in the world to Las Vegas to take on the five best Rioters in the entire company. The two sides will play a pair of matches – both produced exclusively by Riot – with ultimate bragging rights at stake. Broadcasting kicks off on Friday, June 1st at 12:00 PM Pacific Time. David “Phreak” Turley and Rivington the Third will call all the action. If you want to see how Riot fares against the best players in the world, check out the video below and tune in on Friday for the full event!
| Rank | Player | Wins | Losses | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 690 | 585 | 2660 | |
| 2 | 837 | 723 | 2648 | |
| 3 | 208 | 119 | 2640 | |
| 4 | 496 | 372 | 2635 | |
| 5 | 192 | 108 | 2627 | |
| 6 | 582 | 501 | 2588 | |
| 7 | 625 | 547 | 2545 | |
| 8 | 352 | 296 | 2545 | |
| 9 | 470 | 380 | 2537 | |
| 10 | 371 | 278 | 2536 |
| Rank | Player | Wins | Losses | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gucci Gamin | 26 | 0 | 1957 |
| 2 | Gyarados | 70 | 11 | 1955 |
| 3 | HaoZ and Friends | 64 | 5 | 1927 |
| 4 | 1300pro | 39 | 3 | 1911 |
| 5 | Virus Carries Us | 33 | 2 | 1878 |
| 6 | Twitch Lane Win Game | 30 | 4 | 1840 |
| 7 | Mighty Ultra Koalas | 26 | 3 | 1840 |
| 8 | For The Motherland | 29 | 5 | 1838 |
| 9 | The Backpack 4 | 33 | 2 | 1830 |
| 10 | just tryHard | 53 | 8 | 1814 |
| Rank | Player | Wins | Losses | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green Forest | 53 | 9 | 1951 |
| 2 | Counter Logic Gaming | 42 | 1 | 1948 |
| 3 | v8 eSports | 38 | 3 | 1932 |
| 4 | Kevin is a Noob | 27 | 4 | 1919 |
| 5 | Rev Gam1ng | 29 | 5 | 1916 |
| 6 | Team Dignitas | 27 | 4 | 1899 |
| 7 | Orbit Gaming LoL | 37 | 7 | 1893 |
| 8 | Just The Usual | 38 | 12 | 1883 |
| 9 | Rising Light | 28 | 6 | 1867 |
| 10 | Taipei As5as5ins | 24 | 1 | 1860 |