Over the holiday season, despite my best efforts to play more Hollow Knight: Silksong and Expedition 33, I felt the weird haunting pull of League of Legends again. There are so few five-player versus five-player competitive experiences with such a rich cast of characters that I’ve essentially grown up alongside.
League of Legends is entering its seventeenth year in gaming and it looks like it has no intention of slowing down yet. A new season starts in January, and Inverse got an early look at what Riot developers have planned to keep the game fresh and entertaining. From adding a new champion who’s supposed to be an old noble god, to rebalancing the competitive mode, League has a full list of complex patch notes that luckily I can help make sense of. As a returning player who started back in 2015, I’ve had the special experience of having to get used to League in 2025, and now, anticipating immediate changes in the new year.
