Patch Notes & Pain
This phrase appears when Riot buffs a champion you hate and nerfs the one champion you finally learned.
What are patch notes?
This skin rarity is usually not bought directly with RP and includes Prestige skins, Mythic Shop skins, and special limited-event cosmetics, because apparently owning a skin needed side quests.
What are Mythic Skins?
This champion’s kit includes Death in Lavender, Royal Maelstrom, and Endless Banquet, because apparently one Void manta ray needed a full Victorian dinner menu.
Who is Bel’Veth?
This fae companion helps Lulu turn normal fights into purple glitter lawsuits.
Who/What is Pix?
This champion’s passive is Martial Poise, and one of their abilities is simply called Sentinel, because apparently hopping sideways every auto needed a government name.
Who is Kalista?
This happens when a champion is so strong that everyone bans them, plays them, or writes a twelve-paragraph complaint about them.
What is being overpowered / OP?
This old Collector’s Edition skin belongs to a champion who says “moo” with violence and was tied to the Digital Collector’s Edition preorder.
What is Black Alistar?
This champion has Rock Surfing, Threaded Volley, Seismic Shove, Unraveled Earth, and Weaver’s Wall, also known as “the floor is now a geometry test.”
Who is Taliyah?
This Demacian eagle helps Quinn mark enemies, scout terrain, and commit bird-assisted aggravated assault.
Who is Valor?
This champion has Traveler’s Call, Caretaker’s Shrine, and Magical Journey, which sounds less like a kit and more like a confusing vacation package sold by a cosmic trumpet goblin.
Who is Bard?
This term describes the strongest champions, items, or strategies in the current game, also known as “why everyone is suddenly playing the same nonsense.”
What is the meta?
In 2019 Worlds Pick’em, perfect bracket prophets could win all five Ultimate skins available at the time. Name three of those five skins, you skin-hoarding oracle.
What are Elementalist Lux, Pulsefire Ezreal, Spirit Guard Udyr, DJ Sona, and Gun Goddess Miss Fortune?
This champion’s abilities include Royal Privilege, Terrashape, Audacity, and Supreme Display of Talent, because modesty was clearly banned in Ixtal.
Who is Qiyana?
This cowardly but beloved lizard mount decides whether Kled is a champion or a screaming elderly man with a hat problem.
Who is Skaarl?
This champion has ability pairs like Queen’s Wrath / Prey Seeker and Furious Bite / Tunnel, because one form was not enough paperwork for the tooltip department.
Who is Rek’Sai?
This is when Riot weakens a champion so hard they vanish from games and become a sad little portrait in champ select.
What is being nerfed?
This Ultimate skin was priced below the usual Ultimate mark because Riot said it delivered the experience, but not a totally “never-before-seen” moment. Translation: expensive, but with a coupon-shaped apology.
What is Gun Goddess Miss Fortune?
This champion’s ability names include Adaptive Defenses, Precision Protocol, Tactical Sweep, and The Hextech Ultimatum, which sounds less like a kit and more like a corporate assassination invoice.
Who is Camille?
This rocky friend is summoned by Ivern and exists to slap people with the energy of a polite forest bouncer.
Who is Daisy?
This champion’s kit includes Harrier, Heightened Senses, Vault, and Behind Enemy Lines, also known as “Demacia gave someone a bird and a hit list.”
Who is Quinn?
This dreaded patch-note phrase means your champion was not fully deleted, but their numbers were quietly taken into the woods.
What is an adjustment?
Acceptable: What is a “small nerf”?
This cosmetics category is described by Riot as League’s collector’s-edition flex, currently tied to Hall of Legends, directly purchasable with RP, and not planned to return or enter the reroll pool. In other words: “You had to be there, and also financially unwell.”
What are Transcendent Skins?
This champion has Signature of the Visionary, Subject: Disaster, Subject: Serenity, Subject: Torment, and Spiraling Despair, proving that one champion can have both an art degree and a mental collapse.
Who is Hwei?
Tibbers is the bear, but this is the fire demon bound inside Annie’s stuffed companion. Tiny child, enormous liability.
Who/What is Tybaulk?
This champion’s abilities include Neurotoxin / Venomous Bite, Volatile Spiderling / Skittering Frenzy, and Cocoon / Rappel, because Riot looked at one champion and said, “What if every button had a secret second tax form?”
Who is Elise?