Viktor Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips

Viktor doesn't need to kill you in lane. He needs the lane to belong to him, and Gravity Field [W] takes it one circle at a time.

Laning against Viktor is a slow eviction. There's a circle where you can't stand, a line you can't cross to farm, and a storm that follows you afterward. He can also be picked up bot lane now, which means twice as many players get to learn this the hard way. The good news is that he has no dash, no blink and no escape, and every answer to him starts there.

Check out our top Viktor counters below for more information on how to beat him!

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Every Summoner's Rift Objective Explained (Season 16)

Patch 26.1 deleted Atakhan, deleted Feats of Strength, and moved Baron back to twenty minutes. Almost every objective guide online still describes the old map. Here's what actually spawns on Summoner's Rift right now, when it spawns, and what taking it gets you.

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FOTM Report: Poppy Support | Patch 26.15 Build and Runes

She has a better win rate than most of the supports above her, a third of their pick rate, and almost nobody bans her.

Patch 26.15 doesn't mention Poppy anywhere. She climbed anyway, and the reason has more to do with what everyone else is picking than anything Riot did to her.

Check out the details on runes and builds below!

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Lee Sin Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips

Lee Sin's problem isn't that he outscales you. It's that he owns the first fifteen minutes of the map and you're just living in them.

Every lane that loses to a Lee Sin loses it the same way. He's there at level three, he's there again at four, and by the time your jungler answers, three plates are gone and the whole map is tilted. He does fall off, and the answer to him is built on that, but nobody wants to hear it while they're getting kicked into a tower.

Check out our top Lee Sin counters below for more information on how to beat him!

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FOTM Report: Xerath Mid | Patch 26.15 Build and Runes

Patch 26.15 never mentions Xerath once. It spent the whole patch nerfing the champions who keep him honest, and he climbed into God Tier without lifting a finger.

As of Patch 26.15, Xerath sits in God Tier on the solo queue tier list with no changelog entry of his own. Riot reined in Locke, Naafiri and Sylas in the same patch, and those are three of the exact champions built to punish a mage who can't move. He's now one of the three most banned champions in the game.

Check out the details on runes and builds below!

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Swiftplay Explained: What Replaced Blind Pick and Quickplay

Blind Pick is gone. Quickplay is gone too. Swiftplay is what replaced both, and it isn't just Summoner's Rift with the timer sped up. Here's what's actually different, and who it's for.

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Viego's Boot-Selling Bug Is Fixed, and Riot Is Banning the Abusers

Viego bot lane found a way to sell boots he never paid for, up to 875 gold a kill, over and over. Riot hotfixed it on August 4 and immediately announced a ban wave.

Here's how the exploit actually worked, and what happens to the people who ran it.

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Top 10 Champions Riot Built for the Wrong Lane

Riot designs a champion for one lane. The playerbase reads the kit, ignores the pitch, and puts them somewhere else entirely. These ten never went back.

Every champion ships with an intended home. A mid lane mage, a bot lane marksman, a top lane juggernaut. Sometimes that intention survives contact with a few million ranked games, and sometimes players find the lane the kit was actually built for, whatever the release notes said.

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Weird Pick #162: Support Kog'Maw

No shield, no heal, no hard engage, and somehow still a support pick worth trying. AP Kog'Maw plays the botlane like a long-range artillery piece instead of a peel bot.

Kog'Maw doesn't show up anywhere in the support numbers in Ranked Solo/Duo right now, and the reason is obvious the moment you look at his kit: no shield, no heal, no hard crowd control. But Living Artillery [R] has some of the longest range of any ability in the game, and a full mage build finally lets his poke tools do damage that actually matters instead of scaling off a support item budget that was never built for him.

So how does this actually work?

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