Discussion: League of Legends patch 26.19 targets Worlds prep, team voice delay and champion shake-ups

[GAMER2GO Newsroom]

Riot is tuning Summoner’s Rift for the Worlds patch, postponing Team Voice and adjusting a long list of champions, items and Teleport.

Read the full story. What do you think?

[goatSmoke]

The Teleport tweaks are the part that will matter most for Worlds prep. Cutting the top quest free TP from 420 to 390 and the upgraded version down to 300-210 changes how often top laners can force map states, even if it looks tiny in a note. Riot calling that a map influence buff makes sense, because in pro play small timer changes snowball into objective control way faster than solo queue players expect.

[arjun9]

"map influence" is doing a lot of work there. Top lane has spent years being the place where Riot decides whether it wants a side-lane brawler or a teleport accountant, and this leans harder into accountant.

[jasonmage]

I am more amused that Nasus got singled out in the pro-focused pass. That is such a Riot sentence – one of the oldest stat-check champs still gets a special mention like he is a recurring villain in the meta.

[Olivia_ninja]

The Classic additions are what I wish Riot did more often. Bringing back Graves, Fizz, Nami and Nautilus in old-era kits gives the mode a reason to exist beyond nostalgia, and the old items make it feel like a real sandbox. If they keep balancing it separately, it can stay weird in a good way without breaking the main game.

[goatSmoke]

That separate balancing part is key though. Classic only works if Riot accepts that a pre-rework Graves or old Zz'Rot is not meant to be "fair" in the same way Summoner's Rift is – it is meant to be its own little chaos pocket. The minute they chase perfect parity, the mode loses the whole point.

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