The Riot Games balance team has started tempering players’ expectations for its League of Legends plans in 2025, despite the game’s director Pu Liu famously declaring as recently as nine months ago that League would be “changing forever” with everything the developers had planned for next season and beyond.
There is “cool stuff coming,” League‘s studio head Andrei van Roon said this weekend, but the idea it would change the game forever may have been “a bit of an oversell.”
“I’m really glad Riot Pupulasers [Liu’s in-house gamertag] is super excited about things being worked on, we’re not redefining what LoL means, upgrading everything at once, or anything at that sort of level though,” van Roon admitted.
It’s hard to sugarcoat how disappointing this update from Riot has been around the League community, especially because many already considered 2024 a “holding year” before the much-hyped League reset came next season. Some had expected grand new features like showcase models, Chroma splashes, and core code updates, while others had been crossing their fingers for another much-needed client rework.
None of that seems to be on the cards though; Riot has remained quiet on what exactly “cool stuff” means for the game, but more events and skins are likely.
Dot Esports also revealed in late July that plans have changed behind the scenes at the League development offices, with more game modes like Arena and Swarm—both of which were huge, huge successes—now on the menu. Any new playlists like those could very easily fall under “cool stuff” as billed by the developers.
There’s also going to be more fiddling with League‘s matchmaking and ranked ecosystem, with Riot recently admitting it’s very unhappy with where things are. It’s a little harder to brand anything on that front as “cool” though, honestly.
As for when we’re going to see anything else regarding the 2025 League season has been just as shrouded in mystery, with the Rioters now suggesting we’ll get more news on that front in September. That update on plans—which are hopefully brighter than this week’s—will mostly be focused on gameplay.
Then in November, van Roon added, there’s going to be “a lot more about details.” We imagine this will include what the 15th League preseason is going to look like.
