{"id":1763,"date":"2026-07-28T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:59:37","slug":"lol-classic-champion-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/","title":{"rendered":"LoL Classic Champion List: All 60 Champions at Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LoL Classic champions roster ships with roughly 60 picks at launch on July 29, 2026, built on the original 40 champions from 2009 plus a handful of extras Riot pulled forward from the early seasons. If you only remember one thing: the base is that first-40 wall of Season 3-era nostalgia (Ashe, Annie, Master Yi, the whole gang), and the spice comes from reworked champions like Graves, Urgot, and Sion returning in their original kits, not their modern ones. Here is every champion Riot has named so far, grouped by role, plus how the roster keeps growing through community voting after launch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" 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href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Named_launch_champions_by_role\" >Named launch champions by role<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Reworked_champions_and_which_version_you_get\" >Reworked champions and which version you get<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#How_the_roster_grows_after_launch_The_Council\" >How the roster grows after launch: The Council<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Why_the_roster_is_capped_instead_of_full-size\" >Why the roster is capped instead of full-size<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Frequently_asked_questions\" >Frequently asked questions<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#How_many_champions_are_in_LoL_Classic_at_launch\" >How many champions are in LoL Classic at launch?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Which_reworked_champions_are_in_Classic_and_are_they_the_old_versions\" >Which reworked champions are in Classic, and are they the old versions?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Can_I_play_champions_released_after_Season_3\" >Can I play champions released after Season 3?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Is_the_LoL_Classic_champion_roster_final\" >Is the LoL Classic champion roster final?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Do_I_need_a_separate_account_or_download_to_play_Classic\" >Do I need a separate account or download to play Classic?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-champion-list\/#Are_champion_kits_identical_to_a_specific_old_patch\" >Are champion kits identical to a specific old patch?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_short_answer_about_60_champions_original_40_at_the_core\"><\/span>The short answer: about 60 champions, original 40 at the core<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>League Classic drops you back into a Season 3-flavored Summoner&#8217;s Rift with a starting pool of around 60 champions. The backbone is the original 40 that shipped when the game launched in 2009, and Riot topped that up with picks from the first few seasons so the drafts actually feel like 2013 instead of a museum diorama. It&#8217;s a featured game mode inside the normal Riot Client, not a separate download or a second account, so switching into Classic is a click, not an install.<\/p>\n<p>The nuance that matters for anyone who mains a reworked champion: several of these come back as their old selves. Graves has his cigar and his old auto-attack pattern instead of the burst-shot rework. Urgot is the stubby ranged poke-lord, not the crab-legged executioner. Sion plays like the pre-2017 tank-caster rather than the wall-charging juggernaut. If your muscle memory is from the last five years, expect a re-learning curve on those three specifically.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"bm-video\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lM9A7vy4s6I\" title=\"League of Legends Classic champion roster and Season 3 systems overview\"\n      style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;\"\n      loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen allow=\"encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"\n      referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><figcaption>Overview via 3 Minute League of Legends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Named_launch_champions_by_role\"><\/span>Named launch champions by role<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Riot has publicly confirmed a big chunk of the launch list, and the rest fills out the original 40. Here are the champions named so far, sorted into the lanes they actually got played in during the Season 3 era. Roles were looser back then: Twisted Fate roamed everywhere, Annie showed up mid and support, and half the roster could jungle if you were stubborn enough.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Role<\/th>\n<th>Confirmed named champions<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Top<\/td>\n<td>Nasus, Jax, Gangplank, Teemo, Sion, Urgot<\/td>\n<td>Sion and Urgot return in their original kits. Old Urgot was a mid or top poke pick, not a jungler.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jungle<\/td>\n<td>Master Yi, Amumu, Warwick<\/td>\n<td>Old Warwick with his original ultimate and lifesteal-heavy clear. Classic jungle has no scuttle crab.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mid<\/td>\n<td>Annie, Ryze, Twisted Fate, Veigar, Katarina, Morgana<\/td>\n<td>Ryze and Katarina in their Season 3-era forms. Veigar still caps your AP off kills.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bot (ADC)<\/td>\n<td>Ashe, Corki, Sivir, Tristana, Graves<\/td>\n<td>Graves returns as an original ranged marksman, cigar and all, not the modern jungle version.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Support<\/td>\n<td>Alistar, Blitzcrank, Morgana<\/td>\n<td>Blitzcrank hook still decides games. Morgana flexes between mid and support like she always did.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>That&#8217;s 20-plus champions named outright, with Graves and Urgot singled out because their reworks make them the biggest &#8220;wait, which version?&#8221; question marks. The remaining slots up to roughly 60 come from the rest of the original 40 (think Sona, Fiddlesticks, Karthus, Kayle, Soraka, Tryndamere, Zilean, and the other early-roster staples), which Riot has confirmed are all included even where they haven&#8217;t been individually spotlighted. For where these picks actually land on the ladder, our <a href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-tier-list\/\">LoL Classic tier list<\/a> breaks down which of them carry games in the current Classic meta.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Reworked_champions_and_which_version_you_get\"><\/span>Reworked champions and which version you get<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is the part that trips people up, so it earns its own section. Classic is Season 3-inspired, which means any champion who got a full gameplay rework after that era shows up in the older kit. Riot is chasing the feeling of that period, not a modern champion cosplaying as a throwback.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Champion<\/th>\n<th>Modern version<\/th>\n<th>Classic version you get<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Graves<\/td>\n<td>Reload-based jungle brawler with burst buckshot<\/td>\n<td>Original ranged ADC with a standard auto-attack and his old buckshot spread<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Urgot<\/td>\n<td>Melee juggernaut with leg shields and an execute<\/td>\n<td>Ranged poke champion with the position-swap ultimate, played mid or top<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sion<\/td>\n<td>Undead juggernaut who charges and revives on death<\/td>\n<td>Pre-rework tank-caster with the classic stun and lifesteal-shield toolkit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Warwick<\/td>\n<td>Blood-hunt jungler with a modern suppress ult<\/td>\n<td>Original Warwick clear and ultimate, built around raw sustain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Riot&#8217;s Meddler flagged old Urgot mid as a personal highlight, mostly because half the lobby back then genuinely didn&#8217;t know what the champion did, and that confusion was the point. If you never played the 2013 versions, the wiki&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.leagueoflegends.com\/en-us\/League_Classic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League Classic reference page<\/a> keeps a running list of exactly which kits are being restored, worth a skim before you first-time one of these in a real game.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_the_roster_grows_after_launch_The_Council\"><\/span>How the roster grows after launch: The Council<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The launch 60 is a starting line, not a ceiling. Riot is expanding the Classic roster through a community voting system called The Council, where players get a say in which champions and older kits get added next. The soft cutoff Riot has talked about sits around the 2013 champion pool, but Meddler has said that line is a target rather than a hard rule, and it will bend toward whatever Classic players actually want to see.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, the roster you play in launch week isn&#8217;t the roster you&#8217;ll have three months in. If your favorite early-era pick isn&#8217;t in the opening 60, The Council is the mechanism that could bring them in, and the voting leans on what the community shows up and asks for. It&#8217;s the same logic that keeps live League&#8217;s champion pool feeling alive, just pointed backward instead of forward.<\/p>\n<p>Grinding a nostalgia ladder is a different beast from grinding your real rank, and the two don&#8217;t share progress. If you&#8217;re pouring your Classic energy into re-learning old Urgot while your modern climb sits untouched, our <a href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/en\/league-of-legends-boost\">League of Legends boost<\/a> team can keep your live ranked account moving for when you head back to modern queues. Classic has no boost service, and we wouldn&#8217;t pretend otherwise, but the modern ladder is where the real placement pressure lives.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_the_roster_is_capped_instead_of_full-size\"><\/span>Why the roster is capped instead of full-size<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Live League has well over 160 champions. Classic ships with roughly 60 on purpose, and the reason is balance authenticity, not laziness. Season 3 simply didn&#8217;t have most of the modern roster, so including a champion released in 2020 would break the entire premise. Every pick in Classic has to have existed and made sense inside that early-seasons power curve, alongside the old items, the pre-2017 runes and masteries, and a jungle with no scuttle crab.<\/p>\n<p>That constraint is also why the mode feels coherent instead of scattered. A 60-champion pool with era-correct kits produces the kind of drafts and matchups that longtime players actually remember, rather than a modern champion dunking on a toolkit that was never meant to fight it. If you want the full picture of how these systems fit together, the <a href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-explained\/\">complete LoL Classic explainer<\/a> covers the runes, masteries, items, and jungle changes that pair with this roster. Riot&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagueoflegends.com\/en-us\/news\/dev\/tldw-classic-mayhem-more-dev-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Classic dev update<\/a> lays out the design reasoning if you want it straight from the source, and outlets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/league-of-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dexerto&#8217;s League coverage<\/a> have been tracking the roster confirmations as they land.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_asked_questions\"><\/span>Frequently asked questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_many_champions_are_in_LoL_Classic_at_launch\"><\/span>How many champions are in LoL Classic at launch?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Around 60. The core is the original 40 champions from the 2009 launch, with extra early-seasons picks added on top to round out the pool.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Which_reworked_champions_are_in_Classic_and_are_they_the_old_versions\"><\/span>Which reworked champions are in Classic, and are they the old versions?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Graves, Urgot, Sion, and Warwick are among the reworked champions in the launch pool, and yes, they play with their original Season 3-era kits, not their modern reworks. That&#8217;s the whole point of the mode.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_I_play_champions_released_after_Season_3\"><\/span>Can I play champions released after Season 3?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Not at launch. Classic is capped around the early-seasons roster, so most modern champions aren&#8217;t in the pool. The Council voting system may add more over time, but recent champions are unlikely to fit the era.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_the_LoL_Classic_champion_roster_final\"><\/span>Is the LoL Classic champion roster final?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>No. The launch 60 is a starting point. Riot expands it through The Council, a community voting feature, and has said the champion cutoff is a flexible target that depends on what Classic players want.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_I_need_a_separate_account_or_download_to_play_Classic\"><\/span>Do I need a separate account or download to play Classic?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>No. League Classic is a featured game mode inside the existing Riot Client, launching with Patch 26.15. You switch into it from the same client you already use, no second install and no second account.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Are_champion_kits_identical_to_a_specific_old_patch\"><\/span>Are champion kits identical to a specific old patch?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Not exactly. Classic is Season 3-inspired rather than pinned to one historical patch, so kits capture the feel and mechanics of that era without being a frame-perfect copy of any single old build.<\/p>\n<p>So the short version stays short: roughly 60 champions at launch, the original 40 at the core, reworked picks like Graves, Urgot, and Sion returning in their old kits, and a roster that keeps growing through The Council after July 29. Learn which of these actually carry before you queue by reading our <a href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/lol-classic-tier-list\/\">Classic tier list<\/a>, and when the nostalgia run is out of your system and you want your real rank climbing again, our <a href=\"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/en\/league-of-legends-boost\">League of Legends rank boost<\/a> team is ready for the modern ladder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LoL Classic champions roster ships with roughly 60 picks at launch on July 29, 2026, built on the original 40 champions from 2009 plus a handful of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[117,118],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-of-legends","tag-lol-classic","tag-season-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boostingmarket.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}