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3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'

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New Champions will continue to roll out for now.
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Riot has announced the end of LoL Classic with the end of the 2026 season. For MeinMMO editor Niko the problem lies with the genre. The post LoL Classic was a really good idea, which should never have appeared so first appeared on Mein-MMO.

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Well, that was it again with League of Legends Classic. The mode will be discontinued again in January 2027. After all, the nostalgia mode was allowed to stay online for six months. Although it seems that many fans have been interested in such an immersion in old times, it often remained on a short trip into the past. more

[Digital Daily Reporter Lee Hak-beom] Riot Games is scaling back operations for 'League of Legends (LoL) Classic,' which was launched last July. Although it garnered user interest by appealing to the nostalgia of early LoL, the operational method is changing after only about three months. On the 15th, Riot Games revealed plans to change LoL Classic operations through its official developer blog. The Classic mode, currently in service, will conc…

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pcgamer broke the news on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
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