Classic champion guides, kept as they were
OldMeta is a free archive of how the Rift was played before the game rewrote its own systems. Runes were bought, not chosen at champion select. Masteries ran 21/9. Items that no longer exist decided lanes. This site keeps those builds in the form they had, using the Season 3 client's own assets from patch 3.13.1, so a guide and the icons beside it come from the same year.
It also covers the Classic modes Riot is running now. Those pages are not nostalgia writing: the win rates and builds are collected from live games and refreshed with the patch, because what people actually build in the Classic queue drifts from what the original season looked like.
What is here
- Champion guides
Runes, 21/9 masteries, skill order and item builds for all 75 champions on the Season 3 roster, written against patch 3.13.1 and rendered with that patch's own Data Dragon art.
- Classic
Live win rates and builds for the 70 champions playable in the current Classic queue, collected from real games rather than copied from a wiki.
- Mayhem Classic
The same treatment for the ARAM-style Classic mode, where the item priorities and the summoner spells diverge from Summoner's Rift.
- Tier list
Lane by lane, which picks are carrying the current Classic patch, with the archive of how those tiers moved.
- Item codex
Every 3.13.1 item with its cost, build path, gold efficiency and the champions that actually buy it. Item ids were reused across patches, so a modern list will lie to you here.
- Runes and masteries
The tiered rune system and the 21/9/0 style mastery trees as they existed before either was removed.
- Match search
Look up a Riot ID to see recent games, with Classic and Mayhem matches marked and each champion linked to its guide. Nothing is stored.