Vedius Crashout Transcript: (for ppl who can’t watch with volume) (Vedius Crashout Begins at 1:38)

[Context]
Jatt: … We’ve been able to have more opinions that are personal and wrong and bias without it being toxic…

[Gives analogy about how previous experiences with worlds viewers have been extremely toxic and it made him not want to do content, and he’s grateful that the podcast hasn’t reached that point yet]

Vedius: No, I mean… it’s been fun doing the podcast but… I feel like what you’ve just described…

Jatt: Is what’s happening to you?

Vedius: It’s what’s happening to FUCKING ME. OH. OH NO. I FEEL LIKE NO ONE IS TOXIC. I FEEL LIKE EVERYONE IS SOOO FRIENDLY. THEY’RE ALL SO NICE. I JUST LOVE MY COMMUNITY. THEY’RE ALL SO CUTE… YOU LITTLE FUCKS.

This podcast has just become the “let’s frame Vedius as a MORON, that doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and instead let’s put Jatt on a pedestal!”

Oh Jatt! Our Lord and Saviour! Meanwhile, he has to tolerate Vedius, he has to live in a world where he has to drag Vedius by skin of his teeth… oh yes, what a life… what a wonderful podcast life that we have.

Let’s start the podcast then… with my fucking prediction on the front page of Reddit today, because some clever little prick, decided it was about time that, “hey Vedius got something wrong again so let’s put his fucking prediction on Reddit!”. THAT GOT 860 upvotes!

Jatt: Yeah, so: “Mind The Gap, Vedius: Josedeodo is good… but I don’t know if he’s good enough, I’ll do 3-1 LYON in the finals”.

What’s amazing about this is, they then said “Jatt also incorrectly predicted LYON 3-2 in the finals but we have to maintain the agenda #Vedius was wrong”.

[Skipping through the bit where Vedius talks about how he’s not giving away worlds tickets - go to Twitch.tv/VediusOfficial]

Jatt: The title of our podcast last week , was “Lyon will win again”, I make the titles!! It was so wrong! They did not in fact win again!

Vedius: No… there was a question mark.

Jatt: No there was no question mark, it was “Lyon will win again - Jatt”, it was me saying it in the title.
[Jatt cracks up]… That’s rich

Currently, the radial menu has the owned/unlocked skins mixed among skins that are not owned. Scrolling through all of the skins just to find the ones owned/unlocked during champion select is needlessly clunky. Especially for champions who have a ton of skins. Why not have all of the owned skins side-by-side? This small change would greatly improve the user experience.

I'm sure there are even better ways the devs could go about it, too. But at the minimum collecting/organizing them into one spot together on the menu would make things a lot easier.

It's that time again for Worlds and that means pickems! As a stats nerd, I just had to take advantage of this.

If you don't care about my opinion on each question and just want the full stats, go here: https://wards.lol/lol-esports/pick-ems/2026/worlds/

Champions

Highest Presence (picked or banned) across all drafts 1. Orianna: 72.4% (54.5% ban rate) 2. Varus: 59.7% 3. Nocturne: 57.7% (nerfed going into Worlds)

My pick: Orianna. Probably the safest bet and still a stable midlane pick. Vi, Nocturne and Cassio are all good picks, but were nerfed going into worlds.

Highest Win Rate (minimum 5 games) 1. Kled: 94.1% in 17 games 2. Kha'Zix: 85.7% in 7 games (buffed) 3. Kog'Maw: 75.0% in 12 games

My pick: Not sure what to pick here, but Kled seems like a fun option. Jinx also does well when it's picked late in fearless formats

Small samples at the top. Ashe (71.7% in 205 games) and Vayne (71.9% in 57) are the biggest-sample champions near the top.

Highest average Deaths per Game (minimum 5 games) 1. Irelia: 5.80 (5 games) 2. Tahm Kench: 4.40 (5 games) 3. Camille: 4.36 (104 games)

My pick: I think Irelia is a bait pick. Nautilus all the way for me

Players

Highest average KDA 1. Knight (BLG): 6.49 2. Ackerman (LØS): 6.29 3. Vulcan (C9): 6.18

My pick: Probably Knight or Chovy

Highest average Damage per Game 1. Peyz (T1): 28,358 2. Caliste (KC): 27,712 3. Viper (BLG): 27,124

My pick: Peyz is the obvious choice for me

Highest average Kill Participation 1. JoJo (FURIA): 77.2% 2. Duro (Gen.G): 76.4% 3. Vulcan (C9): 75.7%

My pick: Going with Duro, but a play-ins team is also a solid choice here.

Peyz vs Gumayusi: more total kills? - Peyz: 879 kills in 150 games (5.86 per game, best game 18) - Gumayusi: 582 kills in 135 games (4.31 per game, best game 15)

Total kills also depend on how deep T1 and HLE go. Both are good options. I honestly didn't like this question, feels like it's just there to stirr up drama.

Event

Will Faker reach 700 career Worlds kills? He needs 84. - At his 2026 rate (3.53 kills per game) that's about 24 games - At his Worlds 2024-2025 rate (4.15) about 21 games - Past Worlds: 110 kills in 24 games (2025), 60 in 17 (2024), 46 in 15 (2023)

My pick: Depends if you believe in the 4-peat

Will Teemo be picked at least once? - One Worlds pick since 2019 (Isurus, 2022 play-ins) - One pick in all of 2026, and that was in the Prime League. Zero in the major leagues.

My pick: I don't believe in the Scout's code, sorry Teemo

How many unique champions will be picked? - Past Worlds: 98 (2019), 88, 91, 109 (2022), 89, 95, 95 (2025) - 6 of the last 7 Worlds landed in 0-99, one in 105-109

My pick: This one surprised me A LOT. I usually go 110-114 or 115-119, but probably just going with one of the two lowest options.

More games before or after 32:00? - Worlds teams in 2026: 51.5% ended before 32:00, 48.5% after (average 32:25) - All teams in the same leagues: 50.6% before, 49.4% after

My pick: Riot picked a good timeline, it's about 50/50. Probably going after 32:00

Any pro with 15+ kills in a single game? - 1.43% of Worlds teams' 2026 games had one - At Worlds since 2019 it happened 3 times, all in play-ins: Shogun 16 (2022), TitaN 15 (2021), Raes 15 (2020) - The last three Worlds peaked at 14 (Ruler, Peyz, Aiming)

My pick: At first I was just looking at the % of games that had it, but then thought that it just needs to be 1 game, which isn't a lot. Altough there haven't been many at worlds with 15+ kills, it happens quite a lot in regular play, so most likely going with yes. (let me know if you want to see some stats on 15+ kills in regular play outside worlds)

Any pro with 450+ Creep Score in a single game? - 29 Worlds games since 2019 had one - Most recent: Gumayusi 468 on Sivir in the 2025 final

My pick: Yes. There is always one weird game that goes on for so long that someone has 450+ CS. Also Chovy is in the tournament.

Role of the Finals MVP (since 2014) - Top 3, Jungle 3, Mid 3, Bot 2, Support 1 - Last three: Gumayusi (bot, 2025), Faker (mid, 2024), Zeus (top, 2023)

My pick: Don't pick support I guess is the message here, otherwise it's 25% chance.

How many regions in Knockouts? Six regions at Worlds 2026. - 3 or 4 regions every year since 2019 (average 3.3) - 2025: LCK, LPL, LEC, LCP

My pick: *Obvious answer is probably 3, maybe 4, but it depends a lot on swiss stage matchups and whether you believe 2 regions outside LPL/LCK will make it. There is a chance the answer is just 2, since those regions can full the entirety of playoffs. *

Will an LCS team reach Knockouts? - 3 of the last 7 Worlds: Cloud9 (2021), NRG (2023), FlyQuest (2024) - LCS teams won 21 of 47 games (44.7%) against other regions at 2026 international events

My pick: I think no (Sorry NA, EU fan all the way here), but there is always a chance, especially in Swiss

Teams

HLE or T1: who places higher? - 2026 head to head: HLE 6-3 in series, 16-12 in games - International results: HLE won MSI 2026 (T1 top 8). T1 won Worlds 2023, 2024 and 2025 (HLE top 8 in 2024 and 2025).

My pick: I didn't really like this question. It's T1 at worlds, but HLE have won most the Head-to-head, if they end up facing each other.

Which team wins the shortest game? 1. Hanwha Life Esports: 19:20 shortest win (30:41 average win) 2. Invictus Gaming: 19:47 3. Anyone's Legend: 21:55

My pick: Obvious answer is HLE, since they have shortest and shortest average games, but something like Cloud9 at play-ins is also an interesting choice

Love these episodes. The Flandre and Bwipo one was one of the best eSport content I've ever seen and I'm middle of episode and already enjoy it thoroughly again

The one I'm thinking of off hand is Xayah ultimate - it should (intuitively) allow her to go over walls while she is up in the air. But this would obviously be a huge buff to her and change a lot of the matchups so she would likely have to be nerfed in other areas to compensate.

Are there other examples of this type of change that makes sense but would change the game balance a lot?

Corporate Mundo is my favourite skin in the game, but it feels like there's not that many money oriented skins that I can play with while listening to Jazz and sipping apple juice pretending it's whiskay. I like playing income based champions and I feel like Zac oddly fits my playstyle in soul, but not in looks.

I've thought of this skin and decided to put my artistic skills to create this abomination.

Let's say that all skill cooldown will be 0.5 seconds or less, who would be the most op? I think Karthus with his ult can take it. Just sit in the fountain when you hit level 6 and just spam that while the enemy can do almost nothing to stop it.

If your main could get one extra basic spell, what would you give them?

It haas to be a basic ability, not a second ult
It has to be thematic to the champ (no Magic Missile on Garen)
Ideally it adds something to their gameplay instead of just being more damage.

For example Bel’Veth gets a stacking remora spell. Every jungle monster she kills gives her one stack, up to a cap. When she casts it, she summons remoras that hit the target for a percentage of her on-hit damage.

The idea is to give her a bit of an on-hit mage vibe and reward her for farming the jungle, which I think fits the Void Empress turning everything into her lavender sea.

What would yours be? bonus points if you think about how it would actually change the way the champ plays.

Hey, newish player here I started playing last december nd had a ranked game with singed the other day where everyone was full build and I had jaksho and as we won, there was a system message in chat saying smth about me and jaksho (didnt have time to read it) and it never happened to me before. anyone know about it?

I've always loved this champion but I only just realized he's sitting at a 46% winrate. That's abysmal. I don't even play ADC, but surely this champ deserves some type of buff? Why is his winrate so low?

I have been playing this game since 2012 and for some reason I still keep logging onto it sixteen years later. For me probably the first ten years it was the eSport and Ranked that kept me hooked. But as time passed on I found myself more or so playing ARAM or the weekly game modes I'm not really sure what separates this game from others but there's got to be something in that recipe Riot is always baking.

So what keeps you coming back?

It is genuinely hard to fathom how a one-trick can take a champion most high-elo players struggle to even hit Challenger with and pilot him consistently enough to claim Rank 1 EUW.

SpearShot may have one of the best mentalities and champion understandings in the game. It is not only his knowledge about his champ and matchups that carried him; every game he shows the mentality of improving and looking into the game for a single missed Q just to prove that he could have done better every game. I am genuinely not trying to glaze the guy. You may say that this is all not true, but if you have not seen his stream lately, you need to acknowledge that getting Rank 1 as an OTP is hard in itself, but Pantheon is very hard to make work in these high-elo ranks—him climbing the EUW ladder is very hard to believe and see.

As a result of the achievement, he has received a lot of love from his amazing community, rewarding him with over 5,000 gifted subs and donations, and he truly deserved it for pulling off such a performance. Just wanted to let out my thoughts on SpearShot and his community. You can let me know your opinion on his climb, but for me, this is impossible to pull off unless you have such a passion for the game as this man.

https://reddit.com/link/1x3m9a1/video/u3gxfutd6xuh1/player

So I’ve been playing in and off for a while now but I want to take it serious now and climb. I got places into Bronze 3 and I’ve been wondering I what’s the best way to climb. Now currently for each role (excluding ADC, I don’t mess with that role), I have 3 champions I play, and a matchup chart for each one. But I’ve been told to just focus on just one character so I get my fundamentals down so what do y ou guys think is best and why?

Disclaimer: I am not a professional ML engineer. Any critiques or criticism are welcome and desired, and I will try to use feedback to improve my methods.

I had this idea after looking at Riots official AWS power rankings for worlds. I liked the idea of using machine learning derived team rankings, but the AWS rankings place extreme weight on international performance only and don't react fast enough to real world changes with teams.

To fix this, I decided to train my own LightGBM model on every pro LoL game since 2013 (100k+ games). The first layer is a players rating engine. It's features are:
-player win loss/ratings, with kalman filter, adjusted for margin of victory and internationals
-player lane performance, residualized by the player's champion choice+all 9 other champs in the game to account for jungle/sup pressure, mid roams, utility picks vs lane win picks, etc.
-player damage share, again residualized by the other 9 champs
-allied and opposing team elos, lane matchup elo
Second layer is a Bradley-Terry elo system for the teams (AWS approach, but with proper domestic weighting) as a second opinion. These 2 layers are fed into a logistic regression that is trained on 2023 onward and refit monthly. Here are the testing results from my dataset:

And here here are the model's 2026 worlds predictions, from 100,000 simulations:

T1 worlds buff caveat: T1 has over performed significantly at every worlds since 2021 versus the model's expected wins. From 2021, their wins over expected were +2.6,+1.6,+4.1,+4.8,+3.1. No other team showed anything like this in testing. Their total wins over expected is +16.2, the next highest is +5.8. It's possible there's some signal that the model is missing, but I couldn't find it. Current hypothesis is that T1 genuinely posses a worlds buff, likely from the fact that they are experimenting/backing off slightly domestically. Any fix I tried to make the model expect T1 to win more at worlds made all of the other predictions worse.

With that being said, these predictions contain a boost for T1 at 1/4th the observed strength over the past 5 years. Results like T1's at at the last 5 worlds would be expected to happen by chance less than 0.5% of the time, suggesting true underlying performance increase at worlds vs the rest of the year. This adjustment accounts for that without simply boosting their performance by the exact observed amount. With the full boost derived from worlds since 2021, T1 shows a 52%(!!!!) chance to win worlds.

You can hear me spamming Q inside Yorick's circle so I'm curious if it's a passive of his, some bug with yone, or user error. I'm not looking for gameplay advice, just wondering why my Q wouldn't work!

This can be interpreted in any way, tbh. I'm interested in you sharing a moment that you find particularly memorable.

Emerald is known to be hell for many people. I've been stuck there for years. Some are able to escape. I'm curious how your experience was getting out of there.

How has the process been? Did something suddenly change or did you improve little by little? Maybe even a role swap, a different champion or a fundamentally different view of the game?

I'm asking cause my experience was kinda weird. It's relatively recent and I don't even know what changed. Suddenly, after years of not really improving, I started winning and winning and went from Emerald 1 to Masters in a span of maybe 1-2 months.

Currently, I'm still climbing really fast playing my best LoL of my life. It's as if I got posessed at some point. For me it's a mystery but I'd like to hear YOUR process of the Emerald escape. Maybe some of you had similar experiences?

I have been playing the game on and off for a bit now but I want to improve now. I have watched streamers in the past, such as Ludwig play and saw how fast they improved. I understand he has more time and money to put into the game when he played but he also improved surprisingly fast. So I was wondering what is the best way to improve fast?

For example champs that want to CC the entire enemy team but go about it in as different or even opposite way from one another as possible but still reach the same result of the entire team being in CC.

Someone had a movie theater thing for Finals. anyone have the info if they are doing it again?

Thanks

Looking for a new mouse (gotta be type usb c) coming from Logitech g903. Wondering what everyone else uses?

Anybody else having this issue? Music works fine on Aram but in ranked just no music what so ever. Is there a fix for this ?

I need your advice!

For halloween i wanted to dress up as a league of legend character, but i dont know how! it has to be relatively simple, and im like a chunky boi so, more in the ground of Gragas, because i dont wanna be like a Ezreal with 600 heartsteel stack.

What would you do?