"We will be doing this. Details coming shortly."

"Yes. We will be announcing this.

Long story short, we're huge and most people have no idea just how big."

Hello summoners! I'm Moobeat and I maintain a League of Legends based news blog called Surrender at 20. I'd like to think everyone for their support of my blog by holding a wee little contest. 

I figured instead of some lame "follow me on Twitter!" or "post a comment on my blog!" sort of thing, I'd opt for something a little more creative. After several grueling hours of meditation, I have decided I'd like to see some awesome/poopy drawings of champions!

The rules are simple, just draw your favorite League of Legends champion(s) using a "primitive" graphics painting program, such as MS Paint. The champion(s) can be doing whatever you want them to do; they can be in battle, using abilities, chilling by the pool, or making a sandwich. Be sure to include a few things in your drawing: A title for your masterpiece, your Summoner name or Contact Email, and the words Surrender at 20 Contest. You can plaster this information where you please, but make sure you include everything! Entries lacking the proper information will be shunned. 

After you've gotten your painting together, information and all, make a post in this thread and attach your picture.Alternatively, if you wish your entry to be hidden until I choose the finalists because it's just that good,email your entry here.

Next Friday, the third of June, I'll pick my ten favorite submissions and either edit this thread or make a new thread with a poll so the community can choose the winners. The following Monday, I'll close the poll and get in touch with the top picks. I'll also pick two entries at random to receive a prize!

As of right now the prize pool is (5) $10 League of Legends Game Cards, one for each of the top three submissions and one for each of the random winners.

Thanks again for all of your support! I'm so completely pumped to check see the awesome generated by this contest.

Blog: Surrender at 20
Podcast: IP Boost
Twitter: @Moobeat

Oh, I also included an example drawing. It's a shame I can't enter the contest, because this bad boy would take the cake.

Hundreds of heartfelt messages, thank yous, and shenanigans found their way to the contest inbox and to the eyes of Rioters.

Wow.

From the bold to the subtle, the ridiculous to the humble, your message has been heard. Summoners, we love you, too.

We looked for the most bombastic, enthusiastic, and genuine videos of the bunch to become finalists on their way to the Season One Championship, but in the end we need your opinion to determine which summoner will visit Sweden with us. It only seems fair that we leave the choice to you.

Gilnim
Camelback
Eddy Eshkibabble
SneakyBacon
Xanthirius
mikelikeslights
Majistrate K and A Bad Idea
Poseid0n
CBR1000Rider
FatDudeinaDiaper
Yo Asakura
Captain Knots

Of the twelve entries here, you get to choose the top six to become super-finalists, guaranteeing them a Razer prize pack and the chance to win the grand prize. For four days, we’ll open up forum voting to determine the top six, then we’ll will hand-pick one of these super-finalists to accompany us to the Season One Championship at Dreamhack! 

Take a look, tell us what you think, and help these finalists’ Dreamhack come true.

 Summoners!

Over the past week we’ve watched you bring judgement to thousands of cases using the Tribunal! One piece of feedback that came up time and again was that you all wanted to do more and we’re happy to announce that starting today you’ll be able to complete up to ten cases per day.

Based on your decisions we have taken swift action against the worst offenders and, while we’re not ready to release the results yet, this is just the beginning. Your feedback has been fantastic and we’re working hard to incorporate what we can to make the Tribunal experience even better.

We hope that these extra cases slake your thirst for justice and if you have reached Summoner level 30 and have yet to add your voice to the Tribunal you can join in here.

Lore:

There once was a Piltovian man named Corin Reveck who had a daughter named Orianna, whom he loved more than anything else in the world. Though Orianna had incredible talent for dancing, she was deeply fascinated by the champions of the League of Legends. This fascination compelled her to begin training to become such a champion. It is unfortunate that her sheltered, wide-eyed naivete led her to take unnecessary and dangerous chances which ultimately led to her tragic demise. Orianna's death shattered Corin, driving him into deep depression and an obsession with techmaturgy. He could not stand the void his daughter's death left in his life, so he decided to build a replacement – one that would complete Orianna's dream of joining the League. What was created is the clockwork killing machine that Corin named after his daughter. Knowing that she was destined to be a champion and seeing the way the times were changing, he created The Ball as her pet and protector. This nearly symbiotic creation uses a different type of techmaturgy, relying more heavily on electricity than clockwork. 

Orianna and The Ball now fight as Champions in the League of Legends, using the Clockwork Girl's sometimes misguided morality as a compass. She tries in earnest to fit in with those around her. However, no matter how hard she tries, Orianna can never be human and there is always something unnerving and alien about her. Though she attempts social interaction with other champions in the League of Legends, there are few who can get past her exotic nature. To many, it's as if there's nothing inside, that Orianna is just a soulless clockwork shell – a dangerous and deadly one at that. However, all along she remains the perfect daughter in her father's eyes.

“Dance with me, my pet. Dance with me into oblivion.”

Abilities:

Passive – Clockwork Windup: Orianna’s autoattacks deal additional magic damage every hit, subsequent attacks on the same target within a few seconds will add more damage per hit. This bonus stacks up to three times. 

(Q) - Command - Attack: Orianna commands her ball to fly towards target location, dealing damage to targets hit but doing reduced damage for each additional target hit. Her ball remains behind at that location afterwards. 

(W) - Command – Dissonance: Orianna commands her ball to emit a magnetic pulse, dealing damage to units around it. Afterwards, the ball leaves a field behind for a few seconds that speeds up allies and slows enemies. 

(E) - Command – Protect 

• (Passive): The allied champion the ball is attached to gains bonus Armor and Magic Resistance.
• (Active): Orianna commands her ball to fly to and attach onto an allied champion, dealing damage to enemies it passes through and shielding the allied champion when it arrives.

(R) - Command – Shockwave: Orianna commands her ball to emit a shockwave after a short delay, flinging affected enemies in the vicinity into the air a set distance towards, and possibly over, her ball.

"I think as a proc item, it's not bad, but that active is super bad. We'll change it!"

"We wanted to do Kayle this patch, but needed to hold it back. It's on the docket for post-Orianna. We have some new updated Kayle animation work we're gonna roll out with it, too."

Summoners!

We’d love to give you a sneak-peak at some of Orianna, the Clockwork Girl’s gameplay features. We’re blazing new mechanical trails with this champion, and we want to share the excitement with you.

Orianna’s key gameplay hook is commanding her primary weapon – an animated hextech ball that she uses as a focus for her abilities. This ball acts as a focal point for all of her skills, allowing her to dynamically control space. By moving The Ball (as she named it) and then activating skills, you can use it to deal magical damage, attach it to allies (then use them as the focal point for your skills), shield friends, or even move enemies out of position. Knowing how and when to use Orianna’s abilities - combined with strategic setup - can deny entire areas of a combat zone or support a key ally and act as a force multiplier.

To add risk to the kit, her passive encourages her shorter-range auto-attacks to maximize her damage output. This means you can play safer and use the long range of Orianna’s ball, but to lesser effect than if you combine it with auto-attacks. We made this decision in order to create an interesting dichotomy of risk/reward that will allow expert Orianna players to stand out.

We want to push the boundaries in our champion creation and your impressions and feedback can help shape this. Let us know what you think!

If working on League of Legends for this long has taught us anything, it’s that when it comes to building a champion, it pays to have an eye for quality. Well, whether you’re a hextech enthusiast or you’re just in the market for a new watch, if you’ve got any appreciation for fine craftsmanship you should have a look at Orianna, the Clockwork Girl and her pet ball. That’s right, we said pet ball! And while it might be strange to see a metal lady walking around everywhere with a mechanical sphere, we’re willing to wager that once you see what she can do with it you’ll be in the market for a pet ball yourself. Just don’t tell your friends you’re headed down to the jeweler’s for a new pet. They might look at you funny.

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• Frostfire Annie
• Wasteland Miss Fortune
• Summoner Name Change

PVP.net v1.36.14

• Summoners can now setup multiple mastery pages in their Summoner Profile to select from during Champion Selection, up to a maximum of 10.

League of Legends 1.0.0.118b

Alistar

• Health per level reduced to 102 from 110
• Pulverize
  • Ability power ratio reduced to .6 from .8
  • Reduced the chance of failed knockups near terrain
• Headbutt
  • Base damage reduced to 85/130/175/220/265 from 85/135/185/235/285
  • Ability power ratio reduced to .8 from 1

Annie

• Disintegrate
  • Ability power ratio increased to .75 from .6
  • Damage reduced to 90/130/170/210/250 from 80/125/170/215/260
  • Mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 60/75/90/105/120
• Incinerate
  • Ability power ratio increased to .8 from .6
  • Damage reduced to 85/135/185/235/285 from 85/145/205/265/325
  • Mana cost reduced to 80/95/110/125/140 from 80/100/120/140/160
• Summon: Tibbers
  • Mana cost reduced to 125/175/225 from 150/200/250
  • No longer gives experience on death
  • Gold bounty increased to 50 from 15
  • Now gains health per rank: 1200/1600/2000
  • Now gains armor per rank: 30/50/70
  • Now gains magic resist per rank: 25/45/65
  • Lowered the duration to 45 seconds from 60 seconds
  • Area-of-effect burn damage is now 35 at all ranks from 40/60/80, but now has a 0.2 ability power ratio
• Restored old animation (skip hop run) to Annie

Cho'Gath

• Reduced the chance of Rupture failing to knock up the target

Galio

• Idol Of Durand's damage range now matches the taunt range

Irelia

• Bladesurge damage reduced to 20/50/80/110/140 from 20/55/90/125/160
• Transcendent Blades
  • Now heals for 10% vs minions, and 20% vs champions.
  • Ability Power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
  • Deals physical damage instead of magic damage.
  • Scales with attack damage and ability power

Kog'Maw

• Updated recommended items
• Caustic Spittle
  • Cast range increased to 625 from 600
  • Now lowers both magic resist and armor
• Bio-Arcane Barrage cooldown decreased to 15 seconds from 17
• Living Artillery now scales with attack damage and ability power at a 0.5 ratio
• Void Ooze width increased slightly

Rumble

• Junkyard Titan bonus damage on basic attacks no longer procs Rylais or works with Spell Vamp
• Flamespitter cooldown increased by 1 second
• Fixed a bug where Rumble's ultimate would display the wrong team indicator on some machines with low graphics settings

Sivir

• Boomerang Blade
  • Missile speed increased to 1350 from 1200
  • Attack damage ratio increased to 1 from .95
  • Base damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 75/120/165/210/255

Vayne

• Movement speed reduced to 305 from 310
• Range decreased to 550 from 555
• Tumble mana cost increased to 40 from 35.
• Silver Bolts base damage reduced to 20/30/40/50/60 from 30/40/50/60/70
• Condemn base damage reduced to 50/90/130/170/210 from 60/100/140/180/220

Vladimir

• Transfusion heal reduced to 15/25/35/45/55 from 17.5/28.75/40/51.25/62.5

Items

• Moonflair Spellblade combine cost lowered to 340 from 430
• Hextech Revolver's Spell Vamp component is now Unique

General

• Only very long-range abilities such as Enchanted Crystal Arrow will cast using the minimap, other spells will no longer cast using the minimap.
• Cursor-cast spells, which cast at the location of your mouse cursor without requiring a left-click, will cast through parts of the UI (including the minimap) as though you were targeting the ground underneath
• The Havoc mastery now increases total physical and magic damage dealt by 4%, instead of increasing base physical and magic damage dealt by 5%

- Lower base damage increase AP ratios for better late game scaling.
- Lower mana costs
- Tibbers buffed - survivability and damage improved.

- AP Ratios lowered slightly on Q and W.
- Base Headbutt damage reduced
- Base HP down a bit

- Nerf Damage on Q
- Ultimate is now has additive scaling, combining AP + AD.
- Ultimate now deals physical damage.
- Ulimate's heal reduced by 50% vs minions.

- The spell vamp on it is now unique.

- Q now reduces Magic Resist in addition to armor.
- Range of Q increased
- W's cooldown slightly reduced
- E is now wider on the "goop".

- Mana cost on Tumble increased slightly up
- True Damage  reduced on W
- Lowered Codemn's intial damage to encourage summoners to pin others to the wall.

"We have had a number of complications recently (including a power outage at the office) that hurt our designers' ability to improve and refine (and refine each improvement). After a large amount of deliberation, we decided that Orianna wouldn't hold up to the standards we put on our champions if we released her Tuesday.

It's likely that the next champion after Orianna will also be on a three-week cycle, partly due to Dreamhack considerations. Afterwards we should be back on a normal two-week cycle."

Kayle remake isn't happening on Tuesday. This is two-fold.

1: We are nearing the end of Season One, and while we will continue to make balance changes, we're going to finalize what patch we will use for the Season One regional qualifiers and the Season One final (this will be the same patch). We don't want to release major remake style changes into a build that's a contender for the Season One finals patch.

2. We still have work to do on Kayle. I think you guys will like it when it comes out 

However, a patch is happening (tentatively) Tuesday.

Patch Preview will come out Monday. It's going to be much more in-depth and hopefully really answer your guys' questions this time. I don't think I've been doing a good job at making them completely clear in the past, so this time Morello is back with very long-winded answers on what we're changing.