UPDATED 3/14: Fiddlesticks' 'Terrify' ability, while retaining its general form through the rework, has a slight change in which a target that was recently terrified will take double damage instead of being terrified once again.
A full statement was given by LCS Commissioner Chris Greeley on the official LCS twitter account.
Apollo will be taking the place of Johnny "Altec" Ru in joining the Immortals LCS squad, and also reunites with his longtime Support Nickolas "Hakuho" Surgent.
Jensen spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie after TL's win over DIG to provide insight on the team's early-split issues, improvements in play since Broxah's arrival, and the team's current form relative to its floor and its ceiling.
Vulcan joined Inven Global's Nick Geracie after defeating IMT to break down the farming Tahm Kench strategy, discuss Cloud9's dominance throughout the LCS Spring Split, and to give his opinion on who could contest C9 down the stretch towards the Spring Playoffs.
V1per joined Inven Global's Nick Geracie after his team's most recent victory over Golden Guardians to discuss his relationship with FlyQuest Academy Top Laner Moe "Revenge" Kaddoura, the factors that led to FlyQuest's strong start this spring after a rough previous summer, and his former teammate Eugene "Pobelter" Park's mid-split joining of Counter Logic Gaming.
Nisqy sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie to discuss his increased flexibility within Cloud9's 2020 LCS roster, shed light on lessons learned from FunPlus PhoeniX Mid Laner Kim "Doinb" Tae-sang, and also shared his perspective on players moving from Europe to North America.
Dignitas snapped its losing streak against 100 Thieves to start Week 4 of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Spring Split. The team got off to a hot 3-0 start, but then lost as many games in succession as other teams in the LCS began to synergize. DIG went back to the drawing board and got creative to get itself out of its funk. Ornn was drafted for Mid Laner Henrik "Froggen" Hansen, and Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon threw the LCS a curveball by locking in the infamous top lane Soraka. Dignitas' trust in innovation paid off, rallying around the Miss Fortune of rookie AD Carry Johnson "Johnsun" Nguyen for the team's fourth victory of the season. After besting 100 Thieves, Huni sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie to discuss the team's adjustments heading into Week 4, top lane mages, and DIG's identity amongst its LCS peers.
Wildturtle spoke with Inven Global's Nick Geracie about FlyQuest's new acquisitions ahead of the 2020 season, the organization's rebrand and Go Green initiative, and shared some of his thoughts on the newest champions to join the League of Legends roster.
Froggen spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie about his 2019 season with Golden Guardians, joining Dignitas, and the team's strong start in the 2020 LCS season.
Team Liquid Support Jo "CoreJJ" Yong-in joined Inven Global's Nick Geracie to discuss developing synergy with Shern "Shernfire" Cherng Tai in light of Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen's visa issues, the differences between support play in LCS and the League of Legends European Championship, and gave some perspective on Yuri "Keith" Jew's roleswap to support for Golden Guardians.
On LCS Opening Day, sOAZ sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie to talk about the formation of the 2020 Immortals squad, not playing in Europe for the first time, and what he learned from his time on Misfits last season.
IgNar joined Inven Global's Nick Geracie after a 2-0 opening weekend to discuss re-uniting with his former mid laner Tristan "PowerOfEvil" Schrage, adjusting to North America, and why he's looking forward to playing against TSM's Vincent "Biofrost" Wang.
Golden Guardians Mid Laner Greyson "Goldenglue" Gilmer and Support Yuri "Keith" Jew joined Inven Global's Parkes Ousley to discuss re-uniting on a new organization, the unique forms of pressure on both players, and had some words their former jungler, Cloud9's Robert "Blaber" Huang.
The LoL Esports off-season is over, and with it, drought of competitive play has finally concluded. On January 13th, rain will fall in the form of the first match of the 2020 LPL Spring Split. The opening showdown will feature FunPlus Phoenix, the defending World champion, against 2018 World champion Invictus Gaming.
This is the first year in the KeSPA Cup's five year existence that an English broadcast will not be aired alongside the native broadcast in South Korea, and T1 Esports CEO Joe Marsh is having none of it. Marsh tweeted about the importance of an English broadcast for this year's KeSPa Cup, and put his money where his mouth is by assuring both SK Telecom T1 and fellow LCK organization Gen.G were ready and willing to share the costs of airing the separate production for English-speaking viewers.
The premiere North American LoL Esports competition returns with the 2020 LCS Spring Split on January 25th, and 12 days prior, IMT will host fans of all ages at Button Mash in Echo Park to commemorate its first split participation in two full seasons.
On Friday, December 13, G2 Esports uploaded a video to its twitter account featuring Bot Laner Luka "Perkz" Perković and Mid Laner Rasmus "Caps" Winther swapping into each other's roles for a Ranked game of League of Legends, with hints that the roleswap may be occuring on the actual team for the 2020 LEC Spring Split. Two days later, Jungler Marcin "Jankos" Jankowski provided context to G2's most recent roleswap on stream via Twitch.
100 Thieves' signing of ry0ma was first reported by ESPN Esports' Jacob Wolf on the ESPN League of Legends Free Agency show, and the now-confirmed transfer marks the first time a Mid Laner from the Oceanic Pro League will start in the LCS.
Despite only being within a game of Worlds qualification, both DragonX and TusiN agreed it would be best to go separate ways.
