How Fantasy LoL works

Fantasy sports for professional League of Legends. Pick five pros, one per role (Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC, Support), and let real pro games decide who called it right. Play solo on the Ladder, or draft a league with friends. Leagues run through each region's regular season and at the big international events like Worlds, and the Ladder runs alongside both whenever pro games are on.

What is Fantasy LoL?

It's fantasy for League of Legends esports, the same idea as fantasy football or fantasy basketball but built around pro LoL. Your players' real match performances turn into fantasy points, and there are two ways to play:

• The Ladder: you alone. Pick any five pros and get ranked against everyone else playing. No friends, no draft, no invite code.
• Leagues: you and your friends. Draft against each other, then sweat every game. In a regular-season league you face one friend each week and play for a spot in the playoffs; in an event league everyone races on points, and in Worlds leagues the top four then play off.

Both run on the same real match data and the same scoring, and both are free.

Getting started

1. Make an account. A username, an email and a password. It's free, and the email is only for password resets and the reminders you choose to get.
2. Pick your five. One pro per role: Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC and Support. On the Ladder there's no salary cap, so take the five you believe in.
3. Save before the lock. Each week locks when its games begin, and the Ladder shows the exact time. A save after the lock counts from the next week.
4. Check your rank. When the week's games are in, your five is scored and you're ranked against everyone else playing.
5. Bring friends (optional). Start a league, share the invite code, draft, and sweat every game together.

New here? Open the app and the short tour walks you through it. The rules cover scoring, locks and the Worlds playoff.

How does the Ladder work?

The Ladder is the quickest way in. Pick one pro per role from the pool, with no salary cap, and save your five. Each week of real games scores your roster, and you're ranked against every other entrant:

• This week: that week's scores, best first.
• Total: every week you've been in, added up.
• Average per week: points per week played, so joining late never rules you out.

Your five is a standing pick you can edit until a week locks, and the Ladder shows the exact lock time. It covers every stretch of pro games, regional seasons and international events alike, appearing on its own while games are being played. The Ladder rules have the lock details.

How do I start a league with friends?

Create a league, pick a region or an event, pick a format, and share the invite code or link with up to 11 friends (the player pool limits how many managers a snake draft can seat). You can also list it as a public lobby so anyone can join. The commissioner, who is whoever created it, sets the league's rules in the lobby before the draft: the manager limit, how long trade offers stay open, and any event options. Once everyone's in, the league drafts, and scoring starts from real games. No app to install and no spreadsheet to maintain.

What's a salary-cap draft vs. a snake draft?

In a salary-cap draft, every pro has a price and each manager builds a five-role roster under a shared salary cap (a $42,000 cap by default), closer to daily fantasy, where the trade-off is star power vs. depth. In a snake draft, managers take turns picking players in reversing order (1-2-3…3-2-1) until every roster is full: the classic fantasy-league draft, no prices involved, and each pro belongs to one manager. Both are one player per role: Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC, Support. Event leagues, including Worlds, are snake drafts.

How does Worlds 2026 work?

Worlds is the biggest event of the year and a limited-time event here: it runs from the Play-In on October 15 to the Grand Final on November 14. The real tournament has three stages, and we score it in five weeks:

• Play-In (October 15 to 18): four teams, one spot in the main event. This is week 1.
• Swiss Stage (October 23 to 31): 16 teams play five rounds against opponents with the same record. A team is through with 3 wins and out with 3 losses, so its players stop scoring once it's done. These are weeks 2 and 3.
• Knockouts (November 3 to 8): the top 8 play best-of-five quarterfinals and semifinals. This is week 4.
• Grand Final (November 14): one best-of-five for the title. This is week 5.

On the Ladder, every week is its own board, and you can change your five at each lock, which matters because eliminated teams stop scoring. In a league, everyone plays the whole event and the leaderboard is the running total of points. The league page also splits the event into stages, the Swiss Stage (with the Play-In), the Knockouts and the Finals, each with its own podium and stage winner.

Which leagues and regions are covered?

The five major professional League of Legends regions, pulled from real match data (Oracle's Elixir and Leaguepedia) and refreshed as games finish, plus the international events. A regular-season league can span every region or lock to just one:

• LCK (South Korea): League of Legends Champions Korea, widely regarded as the strongest region, home of T1 and Faker and a long record of international titles.
• LPL (China): League of Legends Pro League, the largest major by team count, known for a fast, skirmish-heavy style and multiple World Championship titles.
• LEC (Europe, Middle East & Africa): the League of Legends EMEA Championship, famous for creative drafting and the long-running G2 Esports vs. Fnatic rivalry.
• LCS (North America): the League Championship Series, North America's top league, now competing under the LTA (League of Legends Championship of the Americas) banner.
• LCP (Asia-Pacific): the League of Legends Championship Pacific, launched in 2025 by merging the former PCS and VCS regions (Taiwan, Vietnam, Southeast Asia and Oceania).

International events bring those regions together: First Stand, MSI, the Esports World Cup and the World Championship. Worlds 2026 is the one running now.

Is it free?

Yes. No purchases, no ads, no paid tiers, just an account and a league code.

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