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How to play LoL Fantasy Worlds

You build a team of five real pro players and earn the points they score in real Worlds games. This tour explains everything you need, in the order you need it.

Create your teamBrowse players

Step 1What the game is

Every roster has one player per role: Top, Jungle, Mid, Bot and Support. Each player earns points in every real game they play, and your team score is the sum of your five players, with your captain counting x2.

Top
Jungle
Mid
Bot (ADC)
Support

You do not pick once and wait. Worlds is played in rounds (Swiss rounds, then the knockout stage), and you can adjust your roster before each one, within a budget and a few limits. The team with the most points at the end wins, and you can also play in private leagues against your friends.

Step 2The menus, one by one

Look at the bar at the top of every page. These are its items, from left to right. Prefer a guided look? The button at the top of this page points at each one.

1.Matches
Every match of Worlds, grouped by stage. Switch between Worlds 2026 and Worlds 2025 with the buttons at the top. Open a match to see its games, then open a game: all ten players are listed with the points each one earned, and a breakdown shows exactly where every point came from. This is the best place to learn how scoring works.
2.Players
Everybody you can pick, grouped by role, with their team and their price. Prices come from each player's recent games, adjusted for league strength. Read this before you build a roster.
3.Play
Your team. Name it, build a roster for each round, choose a captain and a chip, and see your points once a round has locked. The leaderboard sits at the top of this page. You need to be signed in.
4.Replay 2025
A practice run on last year's Worlds, played day by day with the prices you could have seen then. Same screen as Play, separate team, nothing here counts for Worlds 2026.
5.Leagues
Private leaderboards for you and your friends. Create a league and share its invite code, or join one with a code you were given.
6.How to play
This page. Come back any time.

On the right side of the bar:

Sign in / Sign out. You can read every match and player without an account. Playing, the replay and leagues need one.
Theme button. Switch between light, dark or follow your device.

There is no separate Leaderboard item: the leaderboard of all teams is at the top of the Play page, and each league has its own.

Step 3Create your team

Open Sign in and create an account with an email and a password, or sign in if you already have one.
Open Play. The first time, you see a single box: Name your team.
Type a name (up to 40 characters) and press Create team. The name is what everybody sees on the leaderboard and in leagues.

You get one team for Worlds 2026. The replay has its own, separate team.

Step 4Pick your five players

Once your team exists, Play shows the roster builder for the current round. Choose a player for every role. The rules are checked as you go, and you cannot save until all of them are met.

Budget12.5 / 60 Stars

Locks when the round's first match starts.

ANY

Shanks

12.5

Demo with real players from a Worlds 2025 quarterfinal: tap the map, nothing is saved.

Want the full walkthrough?A practice round with the real players of a real match: pick your roster from the player list, choose a captain and a chip, then review the match step by step and see how it scores you. Nothing is saved.

Budget: 55 Stars. Every player has a price, and your five must cost no more than the budget. Some later rounds have a bigger budget, see the table in step 5.
At most 1 player from the same team and at most 2 players from the same league (LCK, LPL, LEC, LCS, LCP, CBLOL). The limits relax when few teams are left.
Pick a captain. Their points count x2 for the round. Choose the player you expect to have the best games.
Players whose team has no match in the round cannot be newly picked. The builder tells you how many are affected.

Not sure who to pick? Players lists the price of everyone, and the schedule in the builder shows who plays whom.

Step 5Rounds and locks

Worlds is split into rounds, and each round has its own roster. A round locks when its first match starts: after that nothing can be changed, and your players earn points for that round with the roster you had at the lock.

Budget, and the most players you may take from one team and from one league, round by round.

Round	Budget	Per team	Per league	Locks
Swiss Round 1Locks Oct 23, 05:00 PM UTC	55	1	2	Oct 23, 05:00 PM UTC
Swiss Round 2Locks Oct 24, 05:00 PM UTC	55	1	2	Oct 24, 05:00 PM UTC
Swiss Round 3Locks Oct 25, 05:00 PM UTC	55	1	2	Oct 25, 05:00 PM UTC
Swiss Round 4Locks Oct 28, 08:00 PM UTC	55	1	2	Oct 28, 08:00 PM UTC
Swiss Round 5Locks Oct 31, 05:00 PM UTC	55	1	2	Oct 31, 05:00 PM UTC
QuarterfinalsLocks Nov 3, 10:00 PM UTC	60	1	2	Nov 3, 10:00 PM UTC
SemifinalsLocks Nov 7, 10:00 PM UTC	65	2	3	Nov 7, 10:00 PM UTC
FinalLocks Nov 14, 07:00 PM UTC	70	3	3	Nov 14, 07:00 PM UTC

Quarterfinals: The best players are all still in, so the budget is 60 Stars instead of 55 Stars.
Semifinals: Only four teams are left, so the limits are relaxed. The best players are all still in, so the budget is 65 Stars instead of 55 Stars.
Final: Only two teams play the final, so one team may bring 3 of your 5 players. The best players are all still in, so the budget is 70 Stars instead of 55 Stars.
The teams in this round come from only two leagues, so the limits are relaxed. (2 players per team, 3 players per league.)
All teams in this round are from one league, so there is no league limit.
Lock times follow the match schedule and can still move; the Play page always shows the current one.

Changes for a round open once the previous round's last match is over and close when the round locks. The first round is open from the start.
If you submit nothing for a round, your latest roster carries over. A chip does not carry over.
Use the round buttons on the Play page to look at any round. Locked rounds show what each player scored for you.

Step 6Transfers

A transfer is a player you swap out compared with your previous roster. Your first roster is free. After that you get 2 free transfers per round. Every extra transfer costs 8 points for each game the new player plays, taken off that round's total.

Dropping a player whose team has no match that round is free and does not use up a free transfer. The builder shows the cost of your changes before you save.

Step 7Chips

A chip is a limited-use advantage you attach to a round's roster. You choose it in the builder, and you can play at most one chip per round.

No transfer fee this roundChange as many players as you like without losing points.2 times in the whole tournament
Captain x3Your captain's points are multiplied by 3 instead of 2 in the round you play it.Once in the whole tournament
Budget Boost +5Your budget is 5 Stars higher in the round you play it, so you can afford a pricier player.Once in the whole tournament

Step 8How points are scored

Points are given per game, per player. Your round score is the sum of your five players over every game they play in that round, with the captain multiplier applied, minus any transfer penalty.

Start

15 points to start

+ Win

+6 if their team won the game

+ Stats

Plus or minus, role by role

Details below

+ Highlights

Flat points for rare moments

Details below

An average player ends a game on about 18 points; a great game lands far above that and a bad one far below. Every game is scored on its own, so a player who plays more games earns more.

How a stat turns into points

Each stat is compared with the average of the same role: a Top laner is measured against Top laners, a Support against Supports. The gap, measured in standard deviations, is multiplied by the stat's weight. Better than average adds points, worse subtracts them. One stat can never move the score by more than 3 standard deviations, so a single freak number cannot decide a game.

Scores do not depend on game length. Kills, deaths and assists are counted per 30 minutes, the other rates per minute, and a game shorter than 20 minutes is treated as if it lasted 20, so a quick stomp does not inflate anybody.

What each role is paid for

Biggest weight first. Red items cost you points when a player does more of them.

Top
- Deaths
- Kills
- Assists
- CS lead over lane opponent
- Share of team damage
- Damage taken for the team
- Crowd control
Jungle
- Deaths
- Kills
- Assists
- Damage taken for the team
- CS lead over lane opponent
- Share of team damage
- Crowd control
Mid
- Kills
- Deaths
- Assists
- CS lead over lane opponent
- Share of team damage
Bot (ADC)
- Kills
- Deaths
- Share of team damage
- Assists
- CS lead over lane opponent
Support
- Assists
- Deaths
- Kills
- Crowd control or healing and shielding (the better one counts)
- Vision
- Enemy wards cleared
- Control wards

Highlights are flat points

Rare moments are not compared with anybody: they are simply worth a fixed amount each time. A multikill counts once, at its highest tier.

Solo kill +3
First blood +2
Triple kill +4
Quadra kill +8
Pentakill +16
Epic monster steal +6
Assist on first blood +1 (Support only)

Reading a score

Game pages show each player's score as a badge. The colour tells you how big the game was: green is a big game, grey about average, amber below it, red a bad one. The MVP of a game gets a crown.

MVP31points

21points

14points

8points

3points

Review a real match

The deciding game of a Worlds 2025 quarterfinal, revealed step by step: the result, kills, deaths and assists, CS and damage, vision, then the points. Open any player for the same breakdown a real game page shows, then try a chip and some transfers. The practice round in step 4 lets you pick your own roster first.

Real data from a Worlds 2025 quarterfinal, Game 5: Anyone's Legend (blue side) vs T1 (red side). The points are the real ruleset v7 scores. This is a tutorial: nothing here is saved.

Worlds 2025 quarterfinal, Game 5

ANY

Anyone's LegendvsT1T1

ANY Anyone's Legend

AAFlandre Your playerAatrox
SETarzanSejuani
SYShanks Your playerSyndra
JIHopeJinx
LUKaelLulu

T1 T1

REDoranRenekton
DROner Your playerDr. Mundo
MEFakerMel
ASGumayusi Your playerAshe
SEKeria Your playerSeraphine

See it on a real game

Open a game and look at any player. Each one has a breakdown listing the base points, the win bonus, every stat and every highlight.

Step 9Leagues and the leaderboard

The leaderboard on the Play page ranks every team, with the points of each locked round. A league is the same ranking limited to your friends.

Open Leagues (you need a team first).
To start one, type a name and press Create. The league gets an invite code, shown on the league page. Send it to your friends.
To join one, type the code you received and press Join.

Your team is the same in every league you join, so there is nothing to build twice. Only members can open a league.

Step 10Practise with the replay

Replay 2025 lets you play last year's Worlds from the first day, with the prices of that time. Build a roster, then follow the days as they unfold. It uses the same builder, the same rules and the same scoring, so a few minutes there teach you the real thing.

Create your team Try the replay