
Sat, January 21st: $1000 Mastering Runeterra Open!
December’s MaRu Open was a success, with the LoR community contributing more than 50% of the $2,188 prize pool. The next MaRu Open will take place next Saturday – and we’ll be doing these all year!
December’s MaRu Open was a success, with the LoR community contributing more than 50% of the $2,188 prize pool. The next MaRu Open will take place next Saturday – and we’ll be doing these all year!
On resilience, self-control, and grinding ourselves to greatness by silencing that little nagging voice that whispers, “You can’t.”
Leer breaks down the Worlds meta, and how Championship decks are affecting the LoR ladder meta.
These are all the decks that the World Championship competitors will bring to the fray.
For his first MaRu article, Seasonal Champion 4LW shares new Kayle decks to try on Patch Day!
World Ender Champs are cool, but what about mixing Old Champs with new toys? Shadawx shares seven decks with Poros, Overwhelm, Ephemerals, Acolytes, and more!
Our brand-new deck builder, with all the new World Ender cards, is up and running!
Yangzera shares his thoughts and ratings about all the new World Ender cards!
Create a free account on Masteringruneterra.com and you will be entered to win one of forty Arclight Seraphine Skins on Nov 30th!
Five decks to try with buffed cards from Legends of Runeterra’s patch 3.19.0: Taliyah’s Row, Jax Ornn, Ashe Fiora, Paparo the Great, and Draven Jinx!
Old Champs deserve cool new toys too – Shadawx shares insights on how to rejuvenate Renekton Sej, Ashe LeBlanc, Lulu Fizz YiA, and two flavors of Draven Discard!
Following his Seraphine article, here are Yangzera’s six Early Access decks for Vayne!
After his Top 16 and ticket to Worlds from last Seasonal, Yangzera got a backstage pass to Seraphine’s new show – here are six Early Access Seraphine Decks to try on Day One!
Ryan shares a peek of some of the best APAC players to keep an eye on in the upcoming Awakening Seasonal.
New LoR Decks to try on day one of the Patch 3.16: Leona Shen, good ol’ (and spiced-up) Swain TF, Gnar Sejuani, and Nocturne Elise!
MaRu’s first Anniversary Tournament is coming on Oct 1st, and we’re holding a tournament to celebrate it for our premium members!
Five versus five, honor and $1000 on the line!
The beginning of the Darkin Saga is here, and here are four decks with the five new champs!
Our next open tournament is scheduled for August 20th, just after the new patch. and is now open for registration.
MaRu Captain Jason Fleurant writes about why Competitive (or better said, as he explains in detail, Organized Play) is important for LoR.
The Worldwalker AM Seasonal has concluded with Trivo the Champion! Learn about what made the cut here!
The official coverage stream for Worldwalker Seasonals will be casted by Aikado and Majiinbae this Sunday!
The GGtoor x MasteringRuneterra cup concluded with Squallywag taking home the crown, see what made the cut!
In his first MaRu article, Boulevard reflects on the recent patch’s changes, and how they may affect the Ladder and upcoming Seasonal’s Meta.
Our newest data analysis tool is up and running with new patch data; The Meta Deck Statistics Tool!
Today Dave Guskin gave us a look at what to expect in the next expansion with a Dev Snapshot!
Leer retells his journey from try-harding Gwent, to fulfilling his dream of being cast by Panda – by winning two back-to-back Fight Nights.
MaRu Captain Jason Fleurant peeks behind the curtain to see what can be learned from the latest announcements
Our latest GGtoor Open has concluded, read a full breakdown of what came out and the top 8 lineups!
Shadawx shares some new decks to try out on Day One of the Worldwalker expansion!
Shadawx goes over the most impactful Worldbreaker cards revealed thus far (It is the 20th as this is being typed out), where they may belong and how much of an impact they’ll have.
We asked half a dozen Seasonal Top Cut pilots for their lineups, their thoughts behind their strategy, and how they navigated the Open Rounds to reach Top 32.
Just in time for our charity tournament and Seasonals, Mastering Runeterra is launching their brand new Best of 3 Ban Helper AND a Matchup Table!
A new tool is now available on masteringruneterra.com; a fully functional and sortable Meta Tier List!
Riot tweeted a special look at Patch 3.6.0, leaking the buffs and nerfs to expect, the new cards on the way, new keywords and more!
An explosive patch landed, a new pro team launched, and we’re getting actual dev communication!? All this and more on Shadawx’s Weekly Watch!
The Squad is a new competitive LoR team under the Mastering Runeterra umbrella, learn more about them and see the first episode of their podcast
This week Shadawx checks tournament results of the week, checking out the front page of ladder decks, and more!
In his Weekly Watch, Shadawx covers community news, Ladder watch, Tournament results & thoughts about the Tournament meta, and more!
This week’s Runeterra Show focuses in on the upcoming champion reworks, and the current meta and the nuances of such.
In his Weekly Watch, Shadawx covers the Worlds Announcement, Amwe’s blog post on overcoming LoR challenges, and more coming up.
Pandex eSport challenged the MaRu writers to honorable combat — five decks, five pilots per team, last pilot standing!
A sad Sunday it was for literacy: despite their worldly wordiness, our Writers were thoroughly and decisively vanquished by the waggly Wombat horde.
Hey everyone, Shadawx here with the Weekly Watch. This week we got a new Fervor Face video, front page masters of the new season, Mastering Runeterra Pros vs Writers competition and more coming up.
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Your Nominees are IN!
After having tallied up your previous nominations, the top 5 Nominees from each category will now go through one more round of voting to determine the winner and runner ups. You can vote for your two favorites. Get your votes in!
Kindergarten teachers, door-to-door vendors, pediatric physical therapists, Army officers who never made Masters, engineers who walk through the Valley of Death…
Meet the remaining Competitors for the upcoming $5K MaRu Invitational!
Poetry teachers, documentarists, a father of eight…
Meet twenty-four of the Competitors for the upcoming $5K Mastering Runeterra Invitational!
Philosophers, bartenders, computer scientists… Meet sixteen of the Competitors for the upcoming $5K Mastering Runeterra Invitational
Today the topics include the constantly churning meta and theories as to why it’s changing so much, how the tournament scene has developed over Legends of Runeterra’s lifetime, the upcoming Roadmap and competitive announcement and speculations upon such.
According to our favorite datamancer, Balco: “Yes… but not much.” Unless your name’s on Pyke’s list!
Monte’s back with another patch note rundown! This month’s patch is focused on improving meta and region diversity with a focus on Freljord!
How was 2021 for Runeterra? CastMin interviews nearly two dozen top players, talented casters, and tournament organizers to find out.
Most articles in our website revolve around two things: decks, and numbers.
Where do the numbers come from? And who are the folks behind those numbers?
As we approach the third 5K Championship Qualifier this Sunday we wanted to share the updated points race. There is still lots of time to get more points or bink a top 4 qualification.
CastMin sits down for an in-depth chat with the latest LoR Seasonal Champions: Painas, TheBlackBoss & AG Realer.
Hello everyone MonteXristo here, welcome back to another RubinZoo stream recap! This month we’re going to change it up a bit and only release two recaps. Each recap will cover the past two streams, please let us know what you think of this release schedule; we hope it will lead to a better reading experience.
Substantial hotfixes have been announced on Twitter, targeting most of the top Meta decks.
Magic Misadventures – 43 new collectible cards, including four new champions – Ahri, Kennen, Rumble, and Patheon.
$8,000 in prizes up for grabs in this first of it’s kind Legends of Runeterra Tournament Series! Sponsored by CommunityGaming.IO
CastMin interviews SWATblues, WhatAmI & MajiinBae after their Top 32 finish in the Seasonal Open Rounds.
More information to come at https://masteringruneterra.com/ shortly but here is what we can share. All tournaments will be held on https://www.communitygaming.io/ Registration will be open Monday Dec 6th for all qualifiers.
Check out the winning decks and line ups in last weekend’s OLS tournament! These line ups can give you insight into what to except at Seasonals this Saturday!
A few years have passed since the end of Act One. Hextech gates are now fully operational in Piltover, heralding an era of progress and untold riches… and increased tension among Houses and criminal kingpings, as they wrestle each other for a slice of the Hextech pie.
Check out the winning decks and line ups in last weekend’s OLS tournament! There are so many spicey lists in this top cut, it really gives hope that this tournament meta will be diverse and interesting leading into Seasonals.
Patch 2.19 brings Riot’s Arcane event to Legends of Runeterra!
As part of the event, we’re getting a complete overhaul of the existing PvE labs. The Saltwater Scourge lab has been retired to make way for, “The Path of Champions”.
This week’s notes brought us some very exciting news! The Arcane event launches tomorrow, 10/11/2021, at 10 am PDT! This is set to be LoR’s largest event ever and the event pass comes with a total of 35 rewards!
https://masteringruneterra.com/ brings you The Runeterra Show! This was recorded Monday before the patch notes were officially out so we missed a few cards in our review.
Hey guys! Monte here again and this week’s recap has some great stuff for anyone looking to step up their game! Rubin spent a good chunk of the stream talking about how you can improve at card games. I certainly learned a lot from him and I hope you will too!
Riot’s first foray into the entertainment universe has, so far, been a complete success! With the release of Arcane part 1, Riot has put themselves on the sumpworks map! Where other game studios, like Blizzard, have tried and failed, Riot has managed to find a footing.
Our newest MasteringRuneterra.com Pro Team member AikadoLoR fills in for MajiinBaeLoR for today’s episode! The boys get down and dirty talking about all aspects of Runeterra.
What’s up, gamers? Monte here, back to bring you guys another RubinZoo stream recap! This week’s recap won’t be quite as long as the previous one and I’ve attempted to put sub-header’s with timestamps for every major point. There was a lot of discussion surrounding the changes to Targon in the last patch so I’ve clustered those into their own section.
Wednesday Night Runeterra is designed to be a beginner-friendly introduction to tournament play. While still having high level competition for everyone.
Congrats to Seku for winning the GGTooR $300 tournament in yet another star studded field. Mastering Runeterra Pro Team Member and Mulligan Master WhatAmI made yet ANOTHER top cut. Seeing the same players in the top cut of tournaments weekend in and out really shows how high skill expression is in Legends of Runeterra and bodes well for it becoming an Esport with the same players rising to the top consistently.
Check out the winning decks and line ups in last weekend’s OLS tournament! There are so many spicey lists in this top cut, it really gives hope that this tournament meta will be diverse and interesting leading into Seasonals.
Legends of Runeterra’s most prolific developer RubinZoo has started occasionally streaming on Twitch, you can find and follow his channel here to be notified when he next goes live!! Rubin has been using his streams as a way to interact more directly with the community and we here at Mastering Runeterra have loved watching every minute of it!
Its Jasensational, back at it again to review the latest patch together with all of you. With patch 2.18 introducing a whopping 25+ nerfs and buffs to cards, there’s a lot to cover.
This patch touches on almost every strong card in the format and buffs a lot of other cards. So my assumption is that going forward we will see much larger patches which I am all for.
With the Beyond the Bandlewood Expansion, we’ve had, in my opinion, one of the most diverse and quickly evolving metas in RuneTerra, both on ladder and in tournament formats.
Check out the winning decks by our latest Seasonals Champion OCITI and the rest of this Seasons top 8!
Without the aspect of LANs, pro players are not receiving nearly as much recognition as their Valorant or League of Legends counterparts, one comes to wonder; What is it like to be a pro player in LoR?
While today’s patch notes didn’t bring us any balance changes they did bring the Battle Academia skin line to LoR! The Battle Academia line is one of League’s most popular and I’m thrilled to know I will soon be able to use this alternate art for some of my favourite champs!
Looking for a line up for Seasonals? We’ve got some unique line ups and decks in this top 8!
Looking for a line up for Seasonals? Check out these top 8 line ups!
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