Rise of the Underworlds Survival Guide - Everything You Need to Know & Day 1 Decks to Try

Legends of Runeterra's Rise of the Underworlds launches today, and we've put together all the information you're going to need to know for the release. This is the last expansion of Set 4, which brought us the Shurima region.

Rise of the Underworlds Fast Facts

• 43 new collectible cards including 3 champions.
  • Rek'Sai has joined Shurima.
  • Pyke has joined Bilgewater.
  • Ekko has joined Piltover & Zaun.
• New Keyword: Lurk
  • When you attack while I'm on top of your deck, I lurk, granting lurker allies everywhere +1|+0. Max once per round.
• 47 older cards have received balance updates as a part of a major overhaul.
• We've got new Champion Skins for Ekko and Pyke.
• The update goes live today around 10 AM PST.

New Champions

Here are your three new champions to play around with!

Region Road Updates

Before you craft anything, don't forget that you'll get some free copies of many of the new cards!

• The region rewards for Shurima, Bilgewater, and Piltover & Zaun's Region Roads have been extended by 4 levels each.

Updates in the Lab of Legends

Riot has added five champions to the Lab of Legends - two more than the new ones. Have fun!

• Ekko, Pyke, Rek’sai, Swain, and Shyvana have been added as selectable champions in Lab of Legends.

New Player Prologue Updates

The prologue has received a large update in 2.11.0. Here's Riot's post on the changes.

Quote From Riot

This patch brings a big update to the prologue - the part of a new player’s journey that happens after the first 4 tutorial games and guides them until they unlock the region reward roads.

A lot has been added to Legends of Runeterra in the year since launch, and even before then the early game could be tough for people not familiar with card games. To help new players find the fun of LoR, we’ve updated the prologue with three guiding principles:

1. Unlocking modes step by step - there are a lot of modes in LOR now, many of them expecting a more advanced understanding of the game (I wouldn’t suggest Ultra Rapid Draw for your 2nd game ever). The new prologue introduces the modes in a more structured way, so players can practice VS AI, use Challenges to learn, then unlock PVP before finishing with the rest of the competitive and advanced modes. It’s still a quick journey to unlock everything, but it’s not all at once right from the start.
   Current players who’ve already completed at least step 2 of the prior prologue will have every mode unlocked, so you won’t see any changes!
2. Improve the pace of progress - The update utilizes introductory quests that award XP, win or lose, so everyone makes progress and keeps a good pace towards the next reward.
3. More deck rewards - LoR has a lot more cards now than it did at launch, and we want new players to be able to try a variety of playstyles early on to find what they enjoy. We’ve added 4 additional complete decks as rewards into the prologue, and fewer random card capsules, so players will end the prologue with a total of 7 different starter decks. A discounted A Watery Grave deck is also available in the Store designed for new players who want to explore more options.
   Current players will also get all of the new decks in their Loot inbox, if you don’t have the cards already. If you already own 3 copies of each card, you’ll still get the decklists in your deck collection (if you have the space for them against the 50 deck limit).

Expeditions Gets New Archetypes

We're getting 7 new archetypes in Expeditions! Keep in mind that all these new archetypes will temporarily be four times more likely to appear in the initial champion picks. A future patch will remove this offering rate boost.

• TIME LORDS: Zilean and Ekko manipulate the future with Predict to enable big combos.
• PREDICT LURKERS: Manipulate your deck with Ekko and Predict to enable Pyke and Lurker combos.
• LURKERS: Rek'Sai, Pyke, and sharks lurking in you deck grow increasingly deadly with each attack.
• OPPORTUNITY ATTACKS: Use Irelia and Blade Dance along with Miss Fortune to trigger Plunder effects.
• SAND AND ASHES: Azir and Hecarim swam your enemy with ephemeral units.
• BRUTALITY: Kindred and LeBlanc use strikes and kill effects to decimate your foe!
• VULNERABLE: Renekton and Miss Fortune use Vulnerable to enable devastating attacks!

Share Your Own Decks

Have a deck that is working or you're theorycrafting? You can build decks with all the new (and old) cards in our deckbuilder. Bonus points if you write a guide after saving your deck to the site so that everyone can learn from your experience.

Theorycraft Decks to Try on Day 1

We've got the community building out some new decks to try for the patch. Although we can't guarantee any results, use these decks as they are or use them to gain inspiration to build your own.

Day 1 Ekko Decks

Day 1 Pyke & Rek'Sai Decks

Lurk in the house! Variants featuring Pyke & Rek'Sai.

More Rise of the Underworlds Day 1 Decks