He posted "R1" on Tuesday. By Friday morning Riot had wiped all 4,697 LP off his account and banned him.
Here's what actually happened, and why it might not be over.
Jul 31, 2026
Jul 30, 2026
Top 10 Hardest Champions for Riot to Balance
We counted every buff and nerf across 219 patches going back to 2013. Ten champions have dragged Riot back to the drawing board so often it still doesn't know what to do with them.
Riot has touched the average champion 17 times. Everyone on this list has taken at least 30. And the champion at number one has flip flopped so relentlessly you can see the pattern from orbit.
Top 10 Champions With the Best Ultimates
Some ultimates just win the fight the moment they land. These ten do it more reliably than almost anything else in League.
Every role has a signature ultimate that can flip a game by itself, whether it is a global execute, a point and click stun, or a rock that flies across the map to end someone's day. These ten are the ones that make opponents check the minimap every three seconds.
Jul 29, 2026
Sylas Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Nothing in the game stings quite like losing a fight to your own ultimate, which is the entire reason he feels so much worse to face than a normal melee mage.
Hijack is what makes him infuriating. It is also the part of him you can plan around in champion select, and once you do, he is a melee mage with one dash and a lot of cooldowns.
Check out our top Sylas counters below for more information on how to beat him!
Xerath Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Xerath is the only champion on the ladder holding S tier in three separate roles this patch, and he still has less mobility than any of them.
He is mid lane, bot lane, and support, and in all three he does the same thing: stand very far away and hit you. Every champion beating him right now is one that solves distance.
Check out our top Xerath counters below for more information on how to beat him!
Teemo Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Nothing on the ladder is more irritating to share a lane with than Teemo, and nothing stops mattering faster once you know what Blinding Dart actually turns off.
He wins games at low elo by making a lane and a jungle path miserable, and every answer to him is available to anyone who knows what Blinding Dart actually stops.
Check out our top Teemo counters below for more information on how to beat him!
Master Yi Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
Master Yi has one gap closer, no crowd control and no way to disengage, and he still runs away with low elo games because nobody actually stops him.
The reason he takes over games is that the answers to him are cheap and almost nobody buys them. Stopping him is far easier than it looks.
Check out our top Master Yi counters below for more information on how to beat him!
Morgana Counters: Best Counter Picks and Tips
The whole Morgana matchup is one question, asked over and over: does Dark Binding land? Everything infuriating about her follows from the answer.
A 1250 unit root on a 10 second cooldown decides games at every rank where players stand still. Higher up, they stop standing still, and Morgana quietly turns into a normal support.
Check out our top Morgana counters below for more information on how to beat her!
Weird Pick #161: Mid Lane Alistar
He is not a tank, he is not a support, and he is not standing in bot lane. Mid lane Alistar builds like a mage and hits like one too.
Alistar does not show up anywhere in the mid lane numbers in Ranked Solo/Duo right now, and there is a reason for that beyond just habit. His kit was never designed around a lane where he has to fight alone, but his ability power ratios were never designed for a support item budget either, and an AP build finally lets those ratios do what they were always capable of.
So how does this actually work?
