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Riot Games has announced the League of Legends (LoL) 2025 Clash schedule in this week’s LoL patch 25.04 notes, as well as details of an Honor revamp.
The patch is due to release today (February 19th 2025).
LoL 2025 Clash schedule: Dates, tournaments and rewards
Riot is reducing the amount of Clash tournaments in LoL in 2025 from 12 to six total.
“But we are going to be experimenting with some new tournament formats like ARURF Clash and bringing back player favourites like the ARAM Cup, and recalibrating the VP required for each tier of rewards” Riot said. “So get your teams together and we’ll see you on the Rift (or Howling Abyss)!”
The LoL 2025 Clash tournaments and dates are as follows:
- ARURF Cup: March 1-2
- Summoner’s Rift Cup: April 19-20
- MSI Clash: June 21-22
- ARAM Cup: August 16-17
- Worlds Clash: October 18-19
- ARAM Cup 2: December 13-14
The new VP requirements are:
- Random Icon: 100 VP (unchanged)
- 2025 Clash Contender Title: 200 VP (unchanged)
- Contender Banner: 1000 VP⇒500 VP
- Random Summoner Icon: 2000 VP⇒1000 VP
- 2025 Clash Conqueror Title: 3000 VP⇒1500 VP
- Conqueror Banner: 4000 VP⇒2000 VP
- Random Icon: 5000 VP⇒3000 VP
- 2025 Clash Champion Title: 6000 VP⇒3500 VP
- Champion Banner: 7000 VP⇒4000 VP
The changes received some criticism on the LoL subreddit.
Honor revamp in LoL patch 25.04
As of this patch 25.04, the Honor behaviour system in League of Legends has been revamped.
Instead of steadily progressing over a Season (unless you’re penalised), a player’s Honor now updates regularly based on their recent behavior. Orbs and capsules have been replaced with Battle Pass XP drops.
Honor checkpoints and seasonal resets are gone, and demotion warnings will be issued when Honor is sliding down to a previous level.
Honor 3 now represents neutral players who aren’t being disruptive or positive. All the baseline features to play and communicate with your team are available at this level.
Higher levels of Honor are reserved for players who are ‘consistently positive, respectful, and collaborative’. These players are rewarded Battle Pass XP drops and benefits like visible Honor levels. At Honor 5 you’ll gain access to ally-targeted pings to call forth things like Karthus’ ultimate.
Riot said:
“Our goal with these changes was to make Honor about how you show up and the positive impact you have on your teammates, not just how many games you’ve played. As always, we want this system to create a safer and more positive environment for everyone in the community and we believe these changes will help get us there.”
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“Honor levels 1 and 2 indicate an active penalty on your account due to recent disruptive behavior and, as a result, access to rewards and some chat usability will be restricted.”
In terms of rewards, after LoL patch 25.04, the first time you reach Honor 5 you will be permanently awarded the Three Honors Malzahar, Shen, and Akshan skins, alongside Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch and their chromas.
And any remaining Honor 5 tokens in loot will be converted into 1050 Orange Essence at the start of LoL patch 25.06.
These updates will go live on February 20th at 9pm UTC, shortly after the patch goes live. There’s more info in Riot’s LoL Honor FAQs page.
Riot changes patch name format again
“We initially went to 25.S1.1 with the hopes of tying patches more closely to seasons, and after a couple of patches we’ve realised it’s not the easiest thing to communicate and wasn’t really hitting the mark the way we hoped,” Riot admitted.
“So this patch is 25.04, withthe last patch this year being 25.24. Then come January 2026 it’ll be 26.1, you get the idea. This will also tie the patch numbering to how we talk about our other events like Worlds much closer each year.”
There’s more in the LoL patch 25.04 notes page
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