Reign of Gaming

Who are the best top laners in the NA and EU LCS scenes, and what champions they are playing most and best? Find out that -- and more -- after the break.

Doran's Shield has been an extremely dominant item in Season 4, but with patch 4.3, it received a huge nerf. Rushing in to fill the gulf has been Doran's Blade, melee and ranged auto-attackers, and AP tops. Find out more after the break!

Super Week has come and gone, and the data left behind is extremely meaningful due to one important change that hit the competitive field right before the games: the Doran’s Shield nerf.

TL;DR Reign of Gaming is moving forward with a new blog system (among other things), and I will no longer be a consistent author here, although I will continue to do guest posts from time to time. However, I wanted to give you all one last blog post. Today's topic? An in-depth analysis of picks and bans in the first half of the 2014 spring split of LCS.

If you've watched high-Elo or professional LoL, you've noticed that very few people build Bloodthirster on melee champions. However, Ravenous Hydra has seen a decent amount of play. Today, I'll be looking at the differences between Ravenous Hydra and Bloodthirster to explain why that is!