Overview
- Riot Games will add League of Legends Classic to the Riot Client on July 29, making the mode available for free to all existing League players.
- Classic restores legacy systems from around Season 3, including the three-tree Masteries, runes, older item builds, and original summoner spells to recreate early metas.
- The mode launches with a curated 60-champion slate—Riot says the original 40 will be present and 20 additional 'classic' champions will follow with some unlocking over time.
- Riot scheduled a PBE deployment and a developer blog before launch to clarify how skins, modernized champion models, and visual presentation will be handled.
- Riot showed Classic at the MSI Finals in Korea with a live showmatch that highlighted both return mechanics and modern art choices, and the studio plans to use PBE testing and player votes to guide future champion additions up to a 2013 cutoff.