League of Legends has three kinds of game mode: permanent queues you can play any time (Ranked, Normal, Swiftplay, ARAM, and Co-Op vs AI), rotating featured modes that come and go (Arena, URF/ARURF, and ARAM Mayhem), and Teamfight Tactics, which is really a separate game inside the same client.
ARAM Mayhem is a rotating variant of ARAM that keeps the all-random, blind, no-bans champion select on the ARAM maps but layers on Arena-style augments, mode-exclusive items and summoner spells, and a 32-level Mayhem Progression Track. It launched on October 22, 2025 alongside Trials of Twilight: Act II and was
Arena is League of Legends' 2v2v2v2 featured mode: 8 teams of 2 (16 players) fight a random round-robin bracket on small battlefields ringed by a shrinking Ring of Fire, picking permanent augments and buying items between rounds. There are no lanes, no jungle, no minions, and no objectives. Champions start
URF (Ultra Rapid Fire) is a recurring featured game mode on Summoner's Rift where every champion gets 300 ability haste, no mana or energy cost on abilities, bonus movement and attack speed, and an attack speed cap of 10, producing short, frantic matches. ARURF (All Random URF) is the all-random
League of Legends has 10 ranked tiers: Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Emerald, Diamond, Master, Grandmaster, and Challenger. Iron through Diamond are split into four divisions (IV through I), while the top three tiers have no divisions and share a single leaderboard. All Ranks in Order TierDivisionsNotes IronIV, III, II,