/dev: 2026 Season One Gameplay Preview

The 2026 Season One gameplay changes hit PBE today! Before they’re live, we wanted to talk you through the changes coming to Summoner’s Rift. We’re eager to hear your feedback, so make sure to hop onto PBE to test these updates out and give us your thoughts! Housekeeping Note: Work is still in progress on this first reveal, so don’t be surprised to see changes to things like visuals, item names, effect names, stat values, and more as we continue to refine these while they’re on PBE. Barring massive table-flips, this preview page won't be updated after publishing. Fear not though, when the 26.1 patch notes come out and the changes go live in January they'll have all the final details as usual. Before we get into the specifics of the changes we first wanted to cover some of the high level goals we had for gameplay going into Season 1. Over the last few years, League’s been largely about teamfighting over neutral objectives: fighting around grubs, dragons, Baron, or that vision ward you j