State of the League

There are a lot of League of Legends sites out there, and most of them have a lot of bloggers. It's a tall order to keep up with all of it, but don't you worry; we'll do it for you. We like you that much.

Each week, we'll keep track of the best blogs, vlogs, podcasts, sites and articles from the rest and compile them into one handy (and also dandy) post for you to use as a guide to the week's League of Legends happenings. But we're not perfect. Did we miss something? Let us know.

• DiffTheEnder interviewed Ego Ignaxio, who's famous for his Kennen play. Diff later took a stab at placing items into a tier list. ...I can't believe I just wrote that.
• Elementz went crazy with tier lists, converting his former solo queue and draft mode tier lists to tier lists for the individual roles. He's made tier lists for every role: AP mid, bruiser, jungle, AD carry and support. Due to some community, erm, feedback, he went into further detail about his reasons for the rankings and changes. He eventually got around to making a full tier list for the Hecarim era.
• Digital Noob's Nightelyn speculated on the super-secret "Supremacy" mode (if we can even call it that yet).
• French gaming organization Eclypsia announced a second League of Legends team, this time made entirely of women. CLG's Methis translated an interview with Amélie "Mel" Nay, the AP carry for this new team.
• Russell Holly of geek.com compared League of Legends and Dota2 from a beginner's perspective.
• Stonewall tweaked his Hecarim-era jungle tier list. He also talked about Twitch's place in the jungle spectrum.
• FYA Umashi managed to grab a moment of Dyrus' time.
• TheBirdofPrey discussed the cost of vision in League of Legends. He also took a look at the value of Catalyst. And just before our recap came out, he compared the efficiency of elixirs to item combinations of similar ilk.
• Only Jaximus began a new era of Twisted Treeline tier lists.
• Moobeat was back in action this week, catching discussion points on the PBE changes and the Irelia changes, among others.
• The Dignitas blogging team provided several entries on learning this week: reading the tells, tips for succeeding in bot lane, mechanics of support players and dealing with counter jungling.
• Zerockk was able to sit down with AL.EU's jungler, Malunoo.
• Redrover talked about the development of iLoL.
• Redditor games2007 used numbers to show how Ryze will be stronger if the current PBE changes make it to live. As numbers are my mortal enemy, I'm unable to understand what happened here... but the gist of it seemed to be "RYZE OP."
• SK Gaming's Leethal interviewed Nick Allen of IGN eSports.
• SK's Faerum, meanwhile, took an in-depth look at IPL4, discussing the overall tournament, its top picks and bands, and the overall strategy of sustain.
• Ocelote began a series on leadership. In his first episode, he talked about what it takes to jump from solo queue pubstar to the big leagues, including how to establish one's name and how to get the attention of professional organizations.
• ggChronicle's MonteCristo brought back his series, "The Upper Bracket." In the latest installment, he discussed the significance of coaches in the American League of Legends scene.
  
• ggC's Sotere took a look at the minor (but significant!) changes of the Hecarim patch.
• And here are the week's shows, recurring vlogs and podcasts: Chaox's vlog 4-26, Dyrus' vlog 4-23,  LoLPod ep. 39, Saintvicious Daily ep. 12, State of the League ep. 31, Trinity Force podcast ep. 26, TheOddOne's vlog 4-26, Sotere's Wake-Up Rundown 04-24

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