League of Legends

Faerie Court Lux, Faerie Court Soraka, Faerie Court Lillia, and Faerie Court Tristana will be available May 15th, 2024 at 18:00:00 UTC.

We are moving Player Profiles inside of the social panel in order to consolidate client navigation (we needed more space). You can still customize your identity by going into your profile and clicking on the banner there!

You can now easily access the award-winning card game Legends of Runeterra right from the League client! You'll find the button right next to TFT in the main navigation of the client, which will redirect you to play, or install, LoR in your Riot Client. Legends of Runeterra is also available on mobile for both Android and iOS users to download at their respective app stores, so make sure you check those out as well!

Power up your favorite champions, embark on an epic single-player adventure, and grow your collection in this easy to pick up, easy to put down single-player strategy card game with some of the deepest lore in the Runeterran IP.

Finally, if you're looking for the latest and greatest news on Legends of Runeterra, you can always check out the LoR patch notes here!

The new and evolved Champion Mastery system is coming to League this patch! Champions are the core of League, and everyone has their favorites—and Champion Mastery helps reflect that passion in-game. It's also the way many players express skill growth, especially for those who don't play Ranked.

We're updating Champion Mastery to improve the system for players in a way that lives up to its promise. For example, you don't really stop mastering champions once you hit mastery level 7, and one of our goals with this update was to reflect that. But that's not all we have coming! With this update, we're also adding the following:

• Uncapped Champion Mastery Levels
• Per-split Mastery Progression & Rewards
• Per-split Mastery Champion Sets & Rewards
• Unlockable Champion Titles for Level 10 Mastery

Soon after Patch 14.10 release, Split 2 of Season 2024 will start May 15 at noon, local time.

Similar to previous seasons, with the split transition, the Account Transfer Service will be disabled before the split ends and turned back on after rewards are granted.

Ranked Queue will be disabled for short hours before the season starts, and be back as soon as patch deploy is done.

/dev: Split 2 Ranked Update provides an in-depth introduction of the Split 2 Ranked updates, here are some of the most important changes:

• Players will be able to place as high as Diamond III after provisional games (prev Emerald I)
• Demotion protection between divisions (eg. Silver II > Silver III) will be removed. Players will fluidly transition between divisions.
• Demoting from tiers will place players at 25 / 50 / 75 LP depending on the player's MMR at the time of demotion compared to their rank.
• Master Duo will be enabled in most regions (and will stop again at Grandmaster), excluding CN and KR.

Split Start Apex Duo MMR Restriction Disable Reminder:

• Similar to previous splits and years, for the first two weeks of a new ranked split (14.10 patch cycle), APEX Duo MMR restriction will be temporarily disabled, but the visual/earned rank duo restriction remains, following the updated Duo rule listed above.
• The APEX Duo MMR restriction will be turned back on in 14.11.

Split 1 2024 Season Reward Grant will happen shortly after the new split starts, and should be fully complete in 14.11.

We're modifying gold and experience income with the hope of closing some durability disparities across several roles. Bot laners and junglers tend to be 1-2 levels behind solo laners in the mid game before catching up late game due to champion kill experience. We're bringing up their mid-game levels by tweaking duo XP and early monster XP. Then to keep them from shooting ahead of solo laners, as junglers and bot laners participate in more late-game kills than other roles, we're bringing down late-game assisted kill XP.

We're also making some adjustments to gold income. As mentioned before, junglers and bot laners tend to shoot ahead in the late game through champion combat and we're giving them more experience to fight with, so we're lowering a little bit of PVP gold income.

Experience

• Duo+ Experience: 116% ⇒ 124%
• Jungle Monster Experience: 100/100/102.5/107.5/120/120/130/130/145% (Levels 1-9) ⇒ 100/100/125/130/135/140/145/150% (Levels 1-8)
• Scuttle Crab Experience: 100/105/110/115/120/125/130/135/140%, then +10% per level ⇒100/100/125/130/135/140/145/150% (Levels 1-8)
• Shared Champion Kill XP: 66.6% (1-6), 82% (7-8), 100% (9+) ⇒ 66.6% (1-6), 82% (7+), 90% (9+)

Gold

• 2+ Kill Streak Gold: 450/600/700/800/900/1000 ⇒ 400/500/600/700/800/900 1000
• CS Bounty: 50 gold at 300 extra cs gold + 50 per additional 200 ⇒ 50 gold at 300 extra cs gold + 50 per additional 250
• 1+ Death Streak Gold: 274/220/176/140/112/100 ⇒ 267/201/151/113/100

Corki

The Package has been removed, Corki's passive now deals bonus true damage, and most of his abilities have been buffed and converted to physical damage.

We're delivering a huge update to Corki this patch, returning parts of him to a long-past version with true damage on his passive and no Packages to pick up. Overall, our goals are to give Corki the power he deserves without turning his Pro games into stale, boring poke fests between objective timers.

We want Corki to be a relatively easy-to-play, aggressive champion who's pressured to end the game before his opponents out-scale him. To do that, he'll be rewarded for aggressive, cooperative moves, and shredding his opponents' resists while he gangs up on his prey with teammates. His damage is being converted largely into physical damage and he'll be rewarded for repeated auto-attacks on his opponents, tying much of his ultimate's power behind auto attacks to refund ammo. We're shifting power around to make sure each of his buttons has a place at all points in time, turning his late game combat pattern into an all-out assault with his entire kit, instead of just firing out Missile Barrage from maximum range.

We also hope that Corki will find a home in bot lane as well as mid lane. Currently, he's only really played mid, where he finds middling success. Ideally he finds success in both roles.

As one final note, we've converted most of his magic damage to physical and all but removed his AP builds. His recommended items have been manually updated to include both AD-haste and AD-crit builds, so follow either one to your heart's content, but items like Sorcerer's Shoes and Malignance will no longer be worth buying. Please don't!

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 610 ⇒ 640
• Health Growth: 103 ⇒ 100
• Base Armor: 28 ⇒ 30
• Armor Growth: 4.7 ⇒ 4.5
• Base Attack: 61 ⇒ 55
• Attack Speed: .638 ⇒ .644
• Mana Regeneration Growth: .55 ⇒ .7
• Acquisition Range: 500 ⇒ 550 . This is the range at which Corki acquires targets when attack-moving past them.
• Re-timed Corki's basic attacks to launch the attack at a more appropriate frame of his attack animation. Basic attacks come out slightly more slowly.

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Passive - Hextech Munitions

• Damage: 20% Physical & 80% Magic ⇒ 100% Physical & 15% True
• The Package: Removed

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Q - Phosphorus Bomb

• Damage: 75/120/165/210/255 (+70% bonus AD) (+50% AP) ⇒ 70/110/150/290/230 (+120% Bonus AD) (+70% AP)
• Cooldown: 8 ⇒ 9/8.5/8/7.5/7
• Mana: 60/70/80/90/100 ⇒ 60/65/70/75/80
• Missile Speed: 1000 ⇒ 1100
• Re-timed the animation to fire at a more appropriate point in the animation. 0.25s cast time unchanged.

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W - Valkyrie

• Mana: 80 ⇒ 80/85/90/95/100
• Now more consistently deals all its damage ticks. This is usually 10% more damage if your target was in the zone the whole time.
• Damage over time now lingers for 1 second after leaving the zone
• Can no longer deal more than the maximum damage if a target runs alongside Valkyrie's damaging zone
• Particle effects have been scaled up to match the damage radius
• Damage particles have been made less spammy

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E - Gatling Gun

• Damage Type: 50% magic & 50% physical ⇒ 100% Physical
• Damage: 120/170/230/280/320 (+250% bonus AD) ⇒ 100/150/200/250/300 (+200% bonus AD)
• Cooldown: 16 ⇒ 12
• Armor/MR Shred: 8/11/14/17/20 ⇒ 12/15/18/21/24
• Time to reach max shred: 8 hits (2 seconds) ⇒ 4 hits (1 second)
• Mana: 50 ⇒ 50/55/60/65/70

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R - Missile Barrage

• Damage: 80/115/150 (+25/50/75% AD) (+12%AP) ⇒ 80/180/280 (+70% AD) (AP ratio removed)
• Mana: 20 ⇒ 35
• Max Ammo: 7 ⇒ 4
• Recharge Rate: 12/11/10 ⇒ 20
• New - Basic attacks on-hit against champions reduce the recharge time of Missile Barrage by 2-4s based on critical strike chance
• New - Leveling the ability for the first time grants 2 ammo

Cho'Gath

E damage cap against monsters raised to a flat value, damage cap against minions removed.

Cho jungle isn't doing too great, and while looking for ways to open up jungle diversity we noticed his E monster damage cap was quite low, and scaled with E rank. Now Chungle players have a bit more flexibility in choosing what spell to max first! The minion damage cap was a holdover that no longer seems relevant, so this is also a buff to Cho clearing Super minions in general.

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E - Vorpal Spikes

• Damage cap against monsters: 80/100/120/140/160 ⇒ 200
• Damage cap against minions: 80/100/120/140/160 ⇒ Removed

K'Sante

Base Health Regen Growth and Health Growth increased. E Base shield increased.

Oh K'Sante. As a fairly new (...right?) and difficult-to-play champion, we don't expect him to have exceptionally strong performances on all but the most practiced players (read: Pros). That said, he took a hit last patch when we updated his hitbox and selection radius. As a result, he's performing worse in solo queue than we'd like, so we're shipping him some buffs. We're buffing E's rank-up since a decent portion of K'Sante players choose to max it second and we're comfortable with it being competitive with W. Otherwise we're just upping his baseline durability since he became easier to hit.

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Base Stats

• Health Regeneration Growth: .85 ⇒ 1
• Health Growth: 115 ⇒ 120

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E - Footwork

• Base Shield: 50/90/130/170/210 (+10% bonus health) ⇒ 50/100/150/200/250 (+10% bonus health)

Sett

E deals bonus damage to monsters.

Sett jungle players are few and far between, and the ones that do exist max W first in an attempt to make up for his poor AoE. Players should notice the biggest difference in their first clear where little raptors will die to your pet roughly 1 auto after you kill the big one.

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E - Facebreaker

• newNow has a 100 flat damage mod to monsters

Skarner

Q damage, mana cost, and max HP monster cap reduced. Q damage to structures increased. E damage reduced. R cast time decreased, unstoppable status removed, but can now queue other abilities while winding up.

We're making some small updates to Skarner now that he's been out in the wild for a bit. First, we're changing up part of his ultimate's cast paradigm. We're letting displacement effects affect Skarner while winding up Impale, which will do a couple of things. The most fun one is to let him cast it reactively to an incoming Blitzcrank hook, delivering even more suppressions per cast. This also leaves some room for opponent counter-play as astute players can preemptively throw out spells like Explosive Cask and push Skarner away before he can snag his prey. Because this change will make him less consistent, we're also hastening the cast time, giving him a better shot at landing it without setup CC.

We're also adding a little bit of QoL, allowing him to properly queue his spells before R. He still can't cast Q or E while Impaling someone, but in case it misses, he'll go right into his next cast.

He's also due for some meaningful nerfs as arguably the strongest high-MMR jungler in the game. We're happy with his level of crowd control and durability, so we're going after his ability to kill squishy champions quickly. We also know that there's a large community of Skarner top players who will be negatively affected by these nerfs, so we're delivering some small compensation buffs aimed at top lane. Between these compensation buffs and Fimbulwinter's buffs, we hope players will still enjoy him in both roles.

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Q - Shattered Earth / Upheaval

• Damage: 10/20/30/40/50 (+60% Bonus AD) (+5% Bonus HP) ⇒ 10/20/30/40/50 (+60% Bonus AD) (+4% Bonus HP)
• Mana Cost: 30/35/40/45/50 ⇒ 30
• Damage to Structures: 50% ⇒ 100%
• % Max HP Monster Cap: 150/225/300/375/450 ⇒ 150/200/250/300/350

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E - Ixtal's Impact

• Damage: 30/60/90/120/150 (+10% Skarner's Max HP) ⇒ 30/60/90/120/150 (+8% Skarner's Max HP)

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R - Impale

• Cast Time: .75 ⇒ .65
• Skarner is no longer unstoppable while winding up Impale
• Skarner can now queue his other skills while winding up Impale. Q/E still cannot be cast while impaling an enemy champion.
• Fixed a bug where Mark/Dash could be re/cast during Impale

Tryndamere

Passive critical strike chance cap increased.

Now that we're going back to 25% critical strike chance on legendary items, we're adjusting champions like Tryndamere that directly depend on certain thresholds. For Tryndamere, our goal is for him to hit 100% crit at 2 items and full Fury.

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Passive - Battle Fury

• Fury Bonus Critical Strike Chance: 0-40% (based on Fury) ⇒ 0-50% (based on Fury)

Viego

Q healing from minions increased.

Lane Viego was nerfed a few years ago to reduce his power in Pro play as a flex pick. Since then, we've nerfed him in other Pro-focused ways as well as lowered the amount of systemic sustain available in early lane, and think there may be room to give back a bit of wicked good lane power.

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Q - Blade of the Ruined King

• Mark Healing vs minions: 10% ⇒ 50%

Yasuo

Passive critical strike multiplier decreased, bonus AD for excess critical strike chance increased.

Now that we're going back to 25% critical strike chance on legendary items, we're adjusting champions like Yasuo that directly depend on certain thresholds. With Yasuo, our goal is for him to hit 100% critical strike chance once he hits 2 items.

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Passive - Way of the Wanderer

• Critical Strike Chance Multiplier: 2.5 ⇒ 2
• Bonus AD for Excess Critical Strike Chance: 40% ⇒ 50%

Yone

Passive critical strike multiplier decreased, bonus AD for excess critical strike chance increased.

Now that we're going back to 25% critical strike chance on legendary items, we're adjusting champions like Yone that directly depend on certain thresholds. Much like his brother, our goal is for Yone to hit 100% critical strike chance once he hits 2 items.

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Passive - Way of the Hunter

• Critical Strike Chance Multiplier: 2.5 ⇒ 2
• Bonus AD for Excess Critical Strike Chance: 40% ⇒ 50%

Corrupting Potion

Corrupting Potion has somewhat been forgotten for a while. We don't like when it's strong and dominates other early game item choices, so we've decided to remove it from the game for now.

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• removedRemoved from the game.

Dawncore

Dawncore was initially conceived as an enchanter capstone that could finish their builds. Of course, that's really lofty for a class that doesn't earn a lot of gold. We still want Dawncore to be a big-ticket item but are reshaping it a little bit, giving it much more up-front power while still having a bit of scaling that asks you to at least not buy it first.

So we're massively juicing up the AP and Heal/Shield Power in order to make it the best item for “I want really, really strong enchanter spells.” It's still more expensive than other options and is a greedier buy but is focused on making your kit as strong per-cast as possible. The math works out to an extra 32.5 Ability Power and 11.5% Heal/Shield Power if you buy it after something like Imperial Mandate or Shurelya's, which should more than compensate for the dropped haste.

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• Build Path: 2x Bandleglass Mirror (2700 gold total) ⇒ Blasting Wand + 2x Forbidden Idol (2700 gold total)
• newHeal and Shield Power: 16%
• Ability Power: 40 ⇒ 60
• Base Mana Regeneration: 150% ⇒ 100%
• First Light: 3% HS and 5 AP per 100% Base Mana Regeneration ⇒ 2% HS and 10 AP per 100% Base Mana Regeneration
• removedSummoner Spell Haste: 18 ⇒ Removed
• removedAbility Haste: 20 ⇒ Removed

Echoes of Helia

Echoes of Helia hasn't found its footing in the post-Mythic world so we're making the item more user-friendly and more powerful. Since it can be tough for a support to land multiple hits on an enemy, we're lowering the required hits between shields and heals for full effect and juicing up the per-cast impact. For those who were reliably getting three hits in between shields, this won't be a huge buff, but for anyone who had a hard time always casting at full stacks, these changes will be a significant improvement.

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• Max Stacks: 3 ⇒ 2
• Damage per stack: 45 ⇒ 60
• Heal per stack: 40 ⇒ 75
• Fixed a bug where it would damage enemies and still pop their spell shields. Now spell shields will properly block the damage.

Shurelya's Battlesong

Shurelya's Battlesong is on the strong side right now. It's reasonably appropriate on enchanters where there are a wealth of other options but it's too prevalent on solo laners for what's meant to be a supportive item. We're taking down its more selfish aspects to try to keep it as a niche purchase outside of supports.

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• Move Speed: 8% ⇒ 5%
• Ability Power: 55 ⇒ 50

We're taking a small pass over tank items, both the high-income and low-income varieties. Our first goal is to slightly raise the amount of ability haste in the tank item system. We don't think they should have as much as fighters do, but they should be able to easily get small to moderate amounts. To achieve that goal, we've placed ability haste onto their most generic items, which are Sunfire Aegis and Hollow Radiance.

Our second goal is to make pure health items appealing, which we achieved through strict buffs to the health items while also skewing their resist items to be more about resists and less about health, leaving more room for pure health to be an appealing stat line. Finally, we're also including a few generic buffs to underperforming items.

Anathema's Chains

Let's talk about pure health items, which have generally been quite ignored by players. Sometimes they just don't provide enough stats to be competitive but other times, there's just no need for more health because other items already provide a ton. We're hoping to fix up both of those areas by re-tuning pure health items and resist items in order to carve out a space for these ones.

That said, we thought long and hard about Anathema's and came to the conclusion that a version of Anathema's that was strong and prevalent would be quite bad for the game. Snowballing should feel good and players should be rewarded for their success. While strong defenses (armor, health, Zhonya's Hourglass, etc.) are good, an item that specifically disempowers a targeted player and makes them weaker in all cases wasn't something we wanted to keep around.

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• removedRemoved from the game

Warmog's Armor

Warmog's is receiving a hefty simple buff. At 3100 gold it's the second most expensive tank item in the game, so we decided to give it an eye-popping amount of health to stand out as a premiere tank item. We haven't changed the Warmog's Heart threshold, so it should be easy to activate in your second slot.

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• Health: 750 ⇒ 1000
• Health per 5 seconds: 200% ⇒ 100%

Fimbulwinter

We're giving Winter's Approach and Fimbulwinter some strict buffs and also playing up the mana build synergy. By doubling the value of the mana conversion for items like Frozen Heart and Rod of Ages, we hope there will be a subset of tanks and AP bruisers that are excited to try out high-mana builds. On average, the Awe change will be relatively neutral on most tanks unless they invest further into mana, but the 150 extra health is pure upside.

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• Health: 400 ⇒ 550
• Awe: 8% Max Mana as Bonus HP ⇒ 15% Bonus Mana as Bonus HP

Winter's Approach

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• Build Path: Tear + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal ⇒ Tear + Kindlegem + Giant's Belt
• Total Gold Cost: Unchanged
• Health: 400 ⇒ 550
• Awe: 8% Max Mana as Bonus HP ⇒ 15% Bonus Mana as Bonus HP

Bami's Cinder

We want to give tanks a small amount of extra ability haste, which we're doing through the Immolate system. We're compensating health here in order to give space for other health items (which have direct synergy with the Immolate passive) and also making Bami's Cinder a bit cheaper so that junglers and top laners can more reliably get it on their first recall.

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• Build Path: Ruby Crystal x2 ⇒ Ruby Crystal + Glowing Mote
• Price: 1000 ⇒ 900
• Health: 300 ⇒ 200
• newAbility Haste: 5

Hollow Radiance

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• Health: 600 ⇒ 450
• newAbility Haste: 10

Sunfire Aegis

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• Health: 500 ⇒ 350
• newAbility Haste: 10

Randuin's Omen

We're lightly re-designing Randuin's Omen for a few purposes: First, we don't want players to waste gold when building it alongside Frozen Heart. As the two most obvious anti-attack items, it felt bad to lose out when building them together, so now you can combine them without fear. This change was also convenient for simplifying the item as three unique effects is generally too many for an individual item in a post-Mythic world. Second, we continued reshaping resist items away from health. Third, we wanted to play up the active as a high-impact button, raising the cooldown to match its new power. In general, Randuin's should be clearly appealing when facing two crit users on the enemy team and a viable option when facing just one, as long as the Humility active is meaningful.

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• Health: 400 ⇒ 350
• Armor: 55 ⇒ 75
• Humility cooldown: 60 seconds ⇒ 90 seconds
• Humility slow: 55% ⇒ 70%
• removedRock Solid: Removed

Unending Despair

With Ingenious Hunter going the way of the dinosaur, we saw that Unending Despair was only strong when built alongside that rune, so we're buffing it with a substantially lower cooldown.

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• Anguish trigger rate: 7 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds

Abyssal Mask

Now let's talk about support tanks. In general we think their items are in a pretty good place overall but wanted to move a few things around to create some more options. Up first is Abyssal Mask. We expect support tanks and magic damage bruisers to be pretty excited, as it provides a lot of teamfight durability and helps themselves and their team deal with MR-stacking front lines.

Through an abundance of caution over this item creating stale AP vs. AP lanes, we're trying to ensure it's a weak rush item for most ranged champions through lower 1v1 gold efficiency and tying its durability more to team fights. It should be very strong in 2x magic damage teams, as % shred will do a lot against MR-stackers. And by no longer tying its aura to bonus health purchases, even supports like Braum can buy this in their second slot and feel like they've got another viable option for empowering their team. Finally, it's becoming unique with Void Staff and Cryptbloom, similar to how Black Cleaver cannot be stacked with Last Whisper upgrades.

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• Price: 2400 gold ⇒ 2300 gold
• Magic Resist: 60 ⇒ 50
• Unmake: -8.6 to 25 Magic Resist based on Bonus HP ⇒ -20% Magic Resist
• Unmake radius: 550 ⇒ 600
• Unmake magic resist: 9 per enemy ⇒ 10 per enemy
• newUnique with Void Staff and Cryptbloom

Knight's Vow

Knight's Vow is receiving a small simplification that should be mathematically very close to the old version and makes it easier for everyone to understand. We're letting the Knight's armor and magic resist apply to the redirected damage because we think it's thematically appropriate. We're also re-adding the health regeneration just in case your Worthy ally can't hit for a while, so that tanks wielding the item can still recoup some health by themselves.

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• Build Path: Kindlegem + Chain Vest ⇒ Kindlegem + Chain Vest + Rejuvenation Bead
• Total Gold Cost: unchanged
• new+100% Base Health Regen
• Armor: 45 ⇒ 40
• Damage Redirection: 10%, and then 20% below 30% max HP ⇒ 12% always
• Damage is now reduced by the Knight's Armor/MR

Zeke's Convergence

We're giving Zeke's the same build path as Locket. It's pretty hard for tank supports to build multiple items on their lower gold income and they don't have the luxury of counter-building a lane opponent. As such, we're making sure there are a couple of hybrid-resist support tank items and ensuring we have almost none for income tanks.

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• Build Path: Kindlegem + Glacial Shroud ⇒ Kindlegem + Cloth Armor + Null-Magic Mantle
• Total Gold Cost: unchanged
• Health: 200 ⇒ 300
• Armor: 30 ⇒ 25
• newMagic Resist: 25 Magic Resist
• Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 10
• removedMana: 250 ⇒ Removed

Banshee's Veil

We are generally happy with Banshee's Veil, so its Verdant Barrier component is updated without further adjustments.

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• Build Path: Needlessly Large Rod + Verdant Barrier + 150 Gold ⇒ Needlessly Large Rod + Verdant Barrier + 250 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: Unchanged

new Blackfire Torch

We have identified a problem that the mage item system is lacking a strong mana item option for sustained damage dealers. The introduction of Blackfire Torch and adjustments on Luden's Companion are both aiming to resolve the problem by offering a variety of mana item choices: Blackfire Torch is designed to appeal to battlemages and control mages that want to do sustained damage, while Luden's Companion can focus more on burst and AoE damage dealers. In terms of roles, we position this item to be good for both mage junglers and laners as long as it fits their needs.

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• Build Path: Lost Chapter + Fated Ashes + 700 Gold (2800 gold total cost)
• Ability Power: 90
• Mana: 600
• Haste: 25
• Baleful Blaze: Dealing damage with abilities causes enemies to burn for 20 + 2% AP magic damage per second for 3 seconds. Deals 20 bonus damage per second to monsters.
• Blackfire: For each enemy Champion, Epic Monster, and Large Monster affected by your Baleful Blaze, gain 4% AP

new Fated Ashes

With this new component we wanted to fill in two spaces: AP Junglers having access to a Bami's-like item that we can use to bolster their mid-game clears, and give a new epic for APs that can feel good to purchase and provide meaningfully different build paths without being particularly powerful

Ideally, adding this item to the game to bolster second-and-onwards clears for AP junglers should be accompanied by changes to AP junglers to accommodate some champions that are close but not quite there in power/feels. For example, Singed is currently ~48% in the jungle, and this item plus some feels improvements like making his passive work on large monsters would likely be enough to get him both into viability and put some attention on a champion like Singed in the jungle.

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• Build Path: Amplifying Tome + 500 Gold (900 gold total cost)
• Ability Power: 40
• Inflame: Dealing damage with abilities causes enemies to burn for 7 magic damage per second for 3 seconds. Deals 20 bonus damage per second to monsters.

Luden's Companion

The problem with previous Luden's Companion is that it was too general to be good for the majority of its user base. We had to balance it for the best users, which caused it to have a relatively low overall win rate. With Blackfire Torch serving DPS-indexed mages, we want to clearly push Luden's into a burst space. Making the effects only fire at max shots should increase the burst and overall satisfaction, because firing with low charges wasn't very noticeable. This change should introduce mage itemization and allow us to balance with more clear directions.

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• No longer a charge model (Unique Load is removed). Now has a 12 second cooldown and always fires with 6 shots.
• Fire Base Damage: 45 (+4% AP) ⇒ 60 (+4% AP)
• Repeat damage ratio on primary target: 35% ⇒ 50%

Liandry's Torment

As a mana item option, the new Epic item Fated Ashes is swapped in as a component.

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• Build Path: Haunting Guise + Blasting Wand + 850 Gold ⇒ Haunting Guise + Fated Ashes + 800 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: Unchanged

Verdant Barrier

We are comfortable with the power for Verdant Barrier but want it to become a more accessible pick up to counter mage and spell damage.

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• Build Path: Null-Magic Mantle + Amplifying Tome + Amplifying Tome + 450 Gold ⇒ Null-Magic Mantle + Amplifying Tome + Amplifying Tome + 350 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 1700 Gold ⇒ 1600 Gold

newOverlord's Bloodmail

Overlord's Bloodmail is intended to fill in the third-ish item slot for health-heavy fighter builds. We believe converting health into damage is a compelling fantasy for fighters and want to create it with this item.

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• Build Path: Tunneler + Tunneler + 1000 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 3300 Gold
• Attack Damage: 40
• Health: 500
• Tyranny: Gain 2% of your bonus Health as Attack Damage
• Retribution: Gain up to 10% increased Attack Damage based on your percent missing Health (Maximum Retribution bonus while below 30% Health)

Blade of the Ruined King

We’re updating Blade of the Ruined King's damage profile to be centered more about the stats the item provides rather than the on-hit damage. We’re also taking this opportunity to move the effect of clawing shadows back to be triggered after 3 hits instead of on first attack.

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• Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 55
• Attack Speed: 25% ⇒ 30%
• Lifesteal: 8% ⇒ 10%
• Passive - Mist Edge: 12% (melee) / 9% (ranged) ⇒ 9% (melee) / 6% (ranged)
• Passive - Clawing Shadows: Your next basic attack on-hit against an enemy champion is empowered and slows them by 30% (melee) / 15% (ranged) (15 second cooldown) ⇒ Every 3rd basic attack on-hit against an enemy champion is empowered and slows them by 30% (15 second cooldown)
• Passive - Mist Edge Monster Damage Cap: 60 ⇒ 100

Black Cleaver

We want Black Cleaver to be a core component of most fighter builds. One key tenet of fighter combat patterns is target agnosticism, which is one factor that differentiates them from assassins. Not only do we like when they're good at hitting the front line, we also want them to be a little bit cooperative, which allows some of their combat power to come from team fighting and not just side lane 1v1s.

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• Armor Reduction: 5% ⇒ 6%
• Max Armor Reduction: 25% ⇒ 30%

Plated Steelcaps

Plated Steelcaps have always stood out as a very powerful counter item. In this update we're going to make them more generically good against physical damage and less sharp against attacks.

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• Total Gold Cost: 1100 Gold ⇒ 1000 Gold
• Armor: 20 ⇒ 25
• Basic Attack Reduction: 12% ⇒ 8%

Boots of Mobility

We've decided to get rid of Boots of Mobility this split, they've been mostly kept underpowered for a long time and we didn't really enjoy the map movement they provided very early in the game.

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• removedRemoved from the game.

new Symbiotic Soles

This is a new boot meant to slightly replace Boots of Mobility as a tempo-oriented purchase. It's meant to help get back on the map faster and quickly get out of bad situations, while requiring an appropriate amount of time before granting its roaming-focused movement speed.

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• Total Gold Cost: 900 Gold
• Move Speed: 35
• Your Recall is empowered
• After Traveling 150,000 units, upgrades to Synchronized Souls

new Synchronized Souls

See above

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• Move Speed: 45
• Your Recall is empowered
• Gain 45 Move Speed when out of combat

Bloodthirster

Bloodthirster is once again leaving the crit system, and going back to its simpler roots of being a pure AD and lifesteal stick. With it, it's also regaining its passive ability to overheal. This will potentially open it up as an option for other classes to purchase it.

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• Build Path: BF Sword + Cloak of Agility + Vampiric Scepter + 600 Gold ⇒ BF Sword + Pickaxe + Vampiric Sceptre + 325 Gold
• Total Gold Cost unchanged
• Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 80
• No longer grants extra AD above 70% Health
• [NEW - Ichorshield: converts excess healing from lifesteal into a shield, up to 50-400 (based on level)
• Crit Chance: 20% ⇒ Removed

The Collector

Collector is a really good item to bridge some champions’ wants for both lethality and critical chance. With these changes, it'll be allowed to compete with other B.F. Sword recipes as an option to start with and to keep scaling other purchases with some additional AD

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• Build Path: Serrated Dirk + Pickaxe + Cloak of Agility + 625 Gold ⇒ BF Sword + Serrated Dirk + Cloak of Agility + 300 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 3100 ⇒ 3200
• Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 60
• Lethality: 16 ⇒ 15
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%

Essence Reaver

This one in particular is a pretty big change but we're taking away the Spellblade passive from Essence Reaver. It's instead becoming a stat stick with a very clear purpose, spell casting. It should still provide a near-unlimited supply of mana for those spells to be cast, as well as having a competitive stat line.

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• Build Path: Sheen + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 300 Gold ⇒ BF Sword + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 200 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 2900 Gold ⇒ 3200 Gold
• No longer a Spellblade item
• newBasic attacks refund 15 (+10% Bonus AD) mana on-hit
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 25
• Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 65

Immortal Shieldbow

Removing the lifesteal from shieldbow will allow it to fit as a third/fourth item to round out crit builds and offer a defensive choice that's not sustain-based.

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• Build Path: Pickaxe + Cloak of Agility + Vampiric Scepter + 625 Gold ⇒ Pickaxe + Noonquiver + 725 Gold
• Total Gold Cost unchanged
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 55
• Lifesteal: 12% ⇒ Removed

Infinity Edge

We wanted to bring back a more powerful version of Infinity Edge that feels like it's worth rushing. With these stats, it'll hold its own while waiting for other scalers to come into play and should bring back crit builds to some of the users that had some in the past.

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• Total Gold Cost: 3300 Gold ⇒ 3400 Gold
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Attack Damage: 65 ⇒ 80

Kircheis Shard

We're moving the energized system fully into Legendary items only, and have struggled to find a middle ground for this item to exist for it to only serve items from two distance systems. Since it doesn't serve a purpose anymore amongst the item changes we're making this patch, we're going to remove it from the catalog.

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• removedRemoved from the game.

Kraken Slayer

Kraken Slayer is getting a significant change as well. It's no longer a crit item, and instead being focused entirely on the on-hit side of things. It'll still be a strong contender as an early purchase but won't be able to provide all of the desired stats right away.

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• Build Path: Noonquiver + Cloak of Agility + Recurve Bow + 400 Gold ⇒ Rectrix + Hearthbound Axe + Recurve Bow + 200 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 3000 Gold ⇒ 3100 Gold
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ removed
• newMove Speed: 7%
• Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 50
• Attack Speed: 35% ⇒ 40%
• Bring it Down: Every third basic attack deals additional physical damage on-hit, increasing when hitting the same target repeatedly ⇒ Every third basic attack deals additional physical damage on-hit, increasing when hitting lower Health targets

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Ornn Upgrade

• Attack Speed: 45% ⇒ 55%

Lord Dominik's Regards

Dominik's is losing its Giant Slayer passive, but gaining raw stats to compensate for it. While it won't be as efficient as killing very high health targets, it'll provide more against others. We still believe there there should be enough ways to deal with those tanks and frontliners within the crit item system

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• Armor Penetration: 35% ⇒ 40%
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 45
• No longer deals increased damage based on target's max health advantage

Mercurial Scimitar

Scimitar is leaving the crit system to instead become a more accessible lifesteal item. This should still be a somewhat narrow purchase that feels okay to add to a build without ever having to worry about going over the crit chance cap.

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• Build Path: Quicksilver Sash + Cloak of Agility + Pickaxe + 225 Gold ⇒ Quicksilver Sash + Pickaxe + Vampiric Sceptre + 225 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 3000 Gold ⇒ 3300 Gold
• removedCritical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ Removed
• newLifesteal: 10%

Mortal Reminder

Mortal Reminder is getting the crit chance stat update as well.

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• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%

newNavori Flickerblade (Navori Quickblades)

Navori is getting a new name and icon! It'll still provide one of it's iconic cooldown reduction mechanics, but will now live as an Attack Speed item, typically paired with a big ticket AD item.

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• Build Path: BF Sword + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 300 Gold ⇒ Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 900 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 3300 Gold ⇒ 2600 Gold
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Cooldown Reduction refund: 12% ⇒ 15%
• newMove Speed: 7%
• newAttack Speed: 40%
• removedAbility Haste: 15 ⇒ Removed
• removedAttack Damage: 65 ⇒ Removed

Noonquiver

Noonquiver is staying around, but its purpose is changing entirely. Instead of being a perfect laning item to transition into first purchases, it’ll serve as a way to deliver AD and crit to items that focus on those stats.

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• Build Path: Long Sword + Dagger + Long Sword + 300 Gold ⇒ Long Sword + Cloak of Agility + 450 Gold
• new20% Critical Strike Chance
• removedBasic attacks deal 20 bonus physical damage on-hit against minions and monsters

Phantom Dancer

Phantom Dancer is getting a stat facelift focusing on attack speed and movement speed. It'll serve its purpose as a really strong way to multiple other sources of damage scaling.

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• Build Path: Zeal + Rectrix + 800 Gold ⇒ Dagger + Zeal + Dagger + 900 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 2800 Gold ⇒ 2600 Gold
• Move Speed: 10% ⇒ 12%
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• removedAttack Damage: 20 ⇒ Removed
• Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 60%

Rapid Firecannon

Rapid Firecannon is the only Energized item left in the marksman system, as it still serves a very useful function. It's losing its AD and instead being offered as a relatively cheap AS/crit item alternative.

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• Build Path: Long Sword + Zeal + Kircheis + 850 Gold ⇒ Zeal + Scout's Slingshot + 600 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 3000 Gold ⇒ 2600 Gold
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• removedAttack Damage: 30 ⇒ Removed
• Attack Speed: 20% ⇒ 35%

Runaan's Hurricane

We're giving Runaan's a new recipe, with it dropping the on-hit but gaining power on the bolts, ensuring itself as the premier AoE options amongst crit and AS items.

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• Build Path: Recurve Bow + Zeal+ 1000 Gold ⇒ Zeal + Scout's Slingshot + 600 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 2800 Gold ⇒ 2600 Gold
• removedOn-hit Magic Damage: 30 ⇒ Removed
• Bolt AD Damage Scaling: 40% ⇒ 55%
• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%

Statikk Shiv

Statikk Shiv is trading its energized pattern for a brand new on-kill effect. It's also no longer a crit item, but instead provides a good mix of attack damage and attack speed for champs trying to stabilize early on. It will still help with wave clear in its own way, plus potentially really shock opponents in a favorable teamfight.

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• Build Path: Noonquiver + Cloak of Agility + Kircheis Shard + 300 Gold ⇒ Scout's Slingshot + Hearthbound Axe + 700 Gold
• Total Gold Cost unchanged
• removedCritical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ Removed
• Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 40%
• newElectrospark: Killing non-champions fires chain lightning that deals 90 magic damage hitting up to 6 additional targets (3s cooldown, 500 bounce range)
• newElectroshock: Takedowns on champions instead deals x3 damage and has no cooldown, no bounce cap (technically 186 if you want to know), and 650 bounce range

Stormrazor

We're parting ways with Stormrazor again this split, in an attempt to streamline the energize system and have better early buys for champions, it left very little room for this item to shine as is.

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• removedRemoved from the game.

Terminus

Terminus is getting a new recipe this time around as well as some small alterations in stats.

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• Build Path: Recurve Bow + BF Sword + Recurve Bow + 300 Gold ⇒ Hearthbound Axe + Recurve Bow + 1000 gold
• Total Gold Cost unchanged
• Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 35
• Attack Speed: 30 ⇒ 35

Voltaic Cyclosword

We're giving Voltaic Cyclosword a new recipe now that Kircheis Shard no longer exists, but should still be a very easy path to be built into early on.

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• Build Path: Brutalizer + Kircheis Shard + 863 Gold ⇒ Brutalizer + Long Sword + Long Sword + 863 Gold
• Total Gold Cost unchanged

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newYun Tal Wildarrows

Our goal with Yun Tal Wildarrows is to add an additional option for AD/Crit users that enables them to keep building offensively while only choosing 1 (or zero) attack speed options. This item should be useful for for those who have a lot of AD (hello Jhin) or those that can quickly deal multiple critical strikes.

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• Build Path: Pickaxe + Noonquiver + 925 Gold (3200 gold total cost)
• Critical Strike Chance: 25%
• Attack Damage: 65
• Passive - Serrated Edge: Critical strikes deal 35% total AD additional physical damage over 2 seconds.

Zephyr

Zephyr is back! This is mostly an experimental take on attempting to give a class that already scales well a way to scale even better. We're mostly interested in seeing if there's any interest in this kind of “full build capstone” effect that we can add to make champions feel satisfied when their build is actually completed.

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• Build Path: Berserker's Greaves + 2000 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 3100 Gold
• Upgrade from Berserker's Greaves that becomes available after you reach level 15. Still counts as a Boots slot item.
• Attack Speed: 45
• Move Speed: 45
• Passive: Gain 5% Move Speed for 6 seconds, stacking up to 15%

Hearthbound Axe

With Hearthbound Axe we wanted to position it as a better Epic in some recipes as well as index it out of just pure Attack Speed. This should give it broader appeal now with less attack speed and more attack damage.

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• Build Path: Dagger + Long Sword + Dagger + 200 Gold ⇒ Long Sword + Dagger + Long Sword + 300 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 1150 Gold ⇒ 1300 Gold
• Attack Damage: 15 ⇒ 20
• Attack Speed: 25% ⇒ 20%

Recurve Bow

With Recurve Bow we wanted to make a small change to reduce the amount of magic damage being dealt in a non-intentional way by ADCs. We know this item has broader use beyond just ADCs but for an epic we feel it should feel a bit more simplified.

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• Damage Type On-hit: Magical ⇒ Physical

new Scout's Slingshot

Scout's Slingshot is coming in as a new attack speed component to help bridge some of the newer recipes that don't involve critical strike chance.

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• Build Path: Dagger + 600 Gold
• Total Gold Cost: 900 Gold
• Attack Speed: 20%
• Passive: Damaging a champion deals an additional 40 magic damage. Attacks reduce this cooldown by 1 second.

Zeal

To keep up with our critical strike chance changes across the board, Zeal is getting bumped up so that the effects can be felt immediately at the Epic level instead of having a more abrupt jump from 15 with zeal to 25 with a completed item.

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• Critical Strike Chance: 15% ⇒ 20%

Dagger

We're slightly adjusting the gold value of attack speed now that we feel comfortable adding it as a stat on items to make them desirable.

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• Attack Speed: 12% ⇒ 10%

We're taking a small pass on Summoner Spells this patch. Our first goal is to create more differentiation in Summoner Spell cooldown timing. Many Summoners only had 30 seconds separating their cooldowns, which meant windows of relative power were few and far between. We're enforcing at least 60 seconds between cooldown tiers, which should create more opportunities to utilize a Summoner advantage over your opponent. We generally took an approach of matching cooldowns to how combat-warping they are. Cleanse, Exhaust, and Ghost all have the ability to meaningfully change the outcome of a fight, so we chose four minutes as their timer. Meanwhile, Barrier and Ignite have more modest effects that are easier to outplay, so we kept them at three minutes.

Our second goal is to re-tune various Summoner Spells. We thought the rough power levels of Exhaust and Cleanse were fine, so we're buffing their power per-cast in conjunction with their cooldown increases. We thought Ghost was significantly overpowered, so we nerfed it in both duration and cooldown. And we thought Barrier was extremely weak.

Ghost

Ghost is an extremely combat-warping summoner spell, picked almost ubiquitously by ADCs and cheapening a lot of top lane fighter vs fighter combat. We think Ghost can do with a straightforward nerf, raising its cooldown to match its combat power and reducing its duration to keep it from completely dominating team fights.

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• Cooldown: 210 ⇒ 240
• Duration: 15 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds

Cleanse

Cleanse can really shut some champions down, which means it deserves a fairly long cooldown. But as it's not necessarily overpowered in current League, we're compensating its cooldown nerf with a small tenacity buff.

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• Cooldown: 210 ⇒ 240
• Tenacity: 65% for 3 seconds ⇒ 75% for 3 seconds

Exhaust

Exhaust is meant to be roughly as powerful as before. As a unique summoner spell with crowd control attached, we're choosing to play up its lockdown while raising its cooldown to match other high-impact Summoners.

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• Cooldown: 210 ⇒ 240
• Slow: 30% ⇒ 40%

Barrier

We're choosing 2.5 seconds for the shield duration in order to make it a moderately-forgiving button to press that should reliably block a solid amount of damage, which hopefully outperforms Exhaust in 1v1 cases. An additional 15% shielding on top should make Barrier a competitive option with other Summoners.

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• Duration: 2 seconds ⇒ 2.5 seconds
• Shield: 105-411 ⇒ 120 - 480

Heal

This is just a small tweak to make the spell a touch easier to use when aiding teammates.

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• Range: 826 to champion edge ⇒ 900 to champion center

Predator

We've been unhappy with Predator being strong and have intentionally kept it weak for a long time, now is the best time for it to finally go.

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• removedPredator has been removed.

Hail of Blades

Ranged users would risk far less to get the same value out of Hail of Blades, this should help even the risk reward structure.

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• Attack Speed: 110% ⇒ 80% (ranged champions) / 110% (melee champions)

Ingenious Hunter

Coming in at both a low engagement rate and low power level. We've tried just buffing it in the past but have been unsatisfied with those environments.

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• removedIngenious Hunter has been removed.

Sudden Impact

A sub-goal of these rune changes was to remove lethality and magic penetration from the rune system. This should keep the rune in a fairly similar place in both input and output power level while keeping its scaling more linear with time.

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• Dealing damage to an enemy champion within 4 seconds of using a dash or blink, or exiting from stealth, grants 9 lethality and 7 magic penetration for the next 5 seconds. 4 second cooldown. ⇒ Damaging basic attacks and ability damage deal 20-80 (based on level) bonus true damage to an enemy champion within 4 seconds of using a dash or blink, or exiting from stealth. 10 second cooldown.

Relentless Hunter

Relentless Hunter has been over performing so we want to try to adjust its baseline value to be a bit more in line with what we're expecting.

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• Out of Combat Movement Speed: 5 + 8 per stack ⇒ 0 + 8 per stack

Lethal Tempo

Lethal Tempo has been extremely disruptive to both the item system by allowing a huge number of champions and classes to bypass attack speed itemization, but also to gameplay patterns by allowing champions to miss a lot of key skills but still be able to just auto you down. We've been unhappy with this rune for a long time and figured now was the best time to make a big (but overdue) change.

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• removedLethal Tempo has been removed.

Press the Attack

To help catch the users displaced by the loss of Lethal Tempo, Press the Attack has had some major adjustments that change the rune from a single target debuff to a selfish self buff that allows front to back play and target swapping without losing the damage amplification. Keep in mind the self buff does not lock you out from getting future three-hit triggers!

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• Hitting an enemy champion with 3 consecutive basic attacks deals 40-180 bonus adaptive damage (based on level) rendering the target Exposed for 6 seconds, causing them to take 8% increased damage from all sources for the duration ⇒ Hitting an enemy champion with 3 consecutive basic attacks deals 40-180 (based on level) bonus adaptive damage and amplifies your damage dealt by 8% until you leave combat

Overheal

We've been unhappy with this rune when it's strong, but it has a very low pick rate when it's not overtuned, so we're replacing it.

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• removedOverheal has been removed.

new Absorb Life

This new rune is aimed to give Precision Tree users a way to heal back up between skirmishes.

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• newKilling a target restores 2-17 health

Legend: Tenacity

Within the Legend row, Tenacity was the least engaged with by far. We also want to make it a clearly presented opt-in stat, not hidden in minor runes. We'll be closely observing if this results in too little tenacity overall in the game and will act accordingly.

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• removedLegend: Tenacity has been removed.

new Legend: Haste

To replace Legend: Tenacity we wanted to target a new stat that would catch users that weren't already satisfied by Attack Speed or Lifesteal, but also fits within the Precision Tree theme.

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• newGain 1.5 per Legend stack bonus Basic Ability Haste, up to 15 at maximum stacks

Cut Down

Cut Down in its previous form was asking the player to opt-in to a counter to tanky champions before the game even started, and before any tanks in the game had a chance to be strong or weak. We want the decision to opt-in to anti-tank to be in the itemization space so you can select it reactively in the match rather than just guessing that tanks will be a problem in the pre-game.

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• Deal 5% to 15% increased damage (except true damage) to champions, based on how much more maximum health they have than you. Bonus damage scales up linearly against enemies with 10% to 100% more maximum health than you. ⇒ Deal 8% increased damage (except true damage) to champions above 60% maximum health.

Fleet Footwork

Fleet Footwork healing was too strong and with new sustain runes in the system we wanted to ensure users couldn't just wash lanes with too much healing. Shifting some power into the movement speed instead.

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• Heal: 10 - 130 (based on level) ⇒ 8-110 (based on level)
• Movement Speed Duration: 1 second ⇒ 1.25 seconds

Font of Life

Font of Life's input and output pattern was something we were unsatisfied with. Due to the complexity of the rune and overall unsatisfying output, it had a low engagement rate and was a good target to update and clean up.

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• Slowing or immobilizing an enemy champion marks them for 4 seconds. Allied champions (excluding you) that use a basic attack against marked enemies are healed for 5 (+ 0.9% of your maximum health) over 1.75 seconds. ⇒ Slowing or immobilizing an enemy champion heals you and a nearby ally with the least health for 10-50 health (70% for ranged users). 20 second cooldown.

We're going to be rearranging the Inspiration tree with these changes and it should now be the following:

• Row 1: Hextech Flashtraption, Magical Footwear, Cash Back
• Row 2: Triple Tonic, Timewarp Tonic, Biscuit Delivery
• Row 3: Cosmic Insight, Approach Velocity, Jack Of All Trades

Future’s Market

Future's Market had a low pick rate and players in general didn't want to go into debt. It also enabled some gameplay patterns we were generally unhappy with if they were too good.

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• removedFuture's Market has been removed.

new Cash Back

Who doesn't love getting a little money back on their big purchases? Either get closer to your next big spike quicker or pick up some control wards for the team.

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• newGet 6% gold back on purchase of a Legendary item

Minion Dematerializer

Dematerializer was a needlessly high complexity solution to a lot of champions laning issues. We'll be monitoring champions who look like they struggle with its removal and help them.

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• removedMinion Dematerializer has been removed.

newJack of All Trades Jack of All Trades

A new rune that rewards those who plan ahead and cook up crazy builds. There's some really powerful things you can do with this rune, but you have to be creative to unlock its potential!

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• For each unique stat on items you have purchased, get a stacking bonus:
• Get 1 Ability Haste per stack
• At 5 stacks, get 10 Adaptive Force
• At 10 stacks, get 25 Adaptive Force

Time Warp Tonic

Some huge buffs to the healing of Time Warp Tonic, no more healing reduced on your lingering heal, and even more up-front healing.

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• newNo longer reduces the healing of potions.
• Upfront Healing: 30% ⇒ 40%
• removedRemoved the bonus movement speed for the duration of potions

First Strike

Lowering the ceiling for gold gain while bringing up the floor. Gold gained in most games should remain the same while someone snowballing will not be able to spike gold to an unhealthy degree.

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• Gold Gained: 5 (+8% damage dealt) ⇒ 15 (+4% damage dealt)
• Damage Amp: 7% ⇒ 8%

Hello ARAMers! We hope some of you are enjoying the return of Arena. For this patch we're buffing our assassins given their decreasing pickrate and winrate in aram. We've also heard some feedback on Jinx and Kog'Maw, but we want to hold off on any adjustments just yet as 14.10 introduces a lot of changes that we want to see play out.

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Buffs

• Briar: Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 105%; Healing Done: 115% ⇒ 120%
• Kha'zix: Damage Dealt: 105% ⇒ 110%
• Leblanc: Damage Dealt: 105% ⇒ 110%
• Naafiri: Damage Dealt: 105% ⇒ 110%
• Qiyana: Damage Dealt: 110% ⇒ 115%
• Rengar: Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 105%

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Nerfs

• Sejuani: Damage Taken: 92% ⇒ 100%

System Changes

Reviving

• Time Before You can Start Reviving your Ally: 11-8 seconds (based on round, 8 seconds at round 11) ⇒ 12-8 seconds (based on round, 8 seconds at round 11)

Matchmaking

• Ranked will be enabled starting this patch!
• MMR will be soft reset, especially if above Gladiator MMR
• Improved matchmaking for new Arena players

• High-stakes rounds now grant hats to the winning team
• Eliminating a team now grants hats to the winning team

Miscellaneous

• Arena God Title Required Wins: 168 ⇒ 60
• Right clicking augment or anvil selection cards no longer selects them
• Champion Select now always randomizes pick order within each team

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Cameos
Jhin

Jhin was a bit too good of a sniper, often becoming frustrating to deal with because of how reliable his damage was. In this patch we're reducing his missile speed, and angle of attack to make his shots much easier to dodge, but still something you can take advantage of in combat.

• Missile Speed reduced from 8000 ⇒6000
• This should be easier to dodge, and manageable with boots
• For context Jhin (champion)'s R Missile speed: 5000
• Jhin would sit behind the team with more team health ⇒ Jhin Cameo now sits at a 90-degree angle of both teams, regardless of how much team HP they have

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Augments and Prismatic Items
Augments

We've made many improvements to the rules behind what augments you are offered. We're not going to go into explicit detail here, but our goal is to reduce the chances you'll get an augment that you literally can't use. And allow certain augments or items to add augments to your pool.

It's fun to make things big. Your clones should be big too.

• Size adjustments now apply to clones. Goliath, Mad Scientist, and RaidBoss now grant their size adjustments to clones. This stacks with Minionmancer.

Prismatics

We've heard your pain when rerolling your prismatic and still not getting something you feel you can build around. So we've increased the odds that you'll get a Prismatic tailored to your champion/class. We still think there is plenty of room to adapt when you get something other than your ideal pick, but we want to reduce the frequency of worst-case scenarios where you spend multiple rerolls and can't find something interesting or playable.

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Balance Adjustments

Augments

Augment Buffs

Orbital Laser

• Maximum Health Damage: 20% ⇒ 30%

Earthwake

• Physical Damage: 125-2000 (+ 135% bonus AD) ⇒ 125-2000 (+ 150% bonus AD)

Accelerating Sorcery

• Ability Haste Per Cast: 9 ⇒ 10

Quantum Computing

• Base Damage: 100-250 ⇒ 200-350 (based on level)

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Augment Adjustments

Vulnerability

• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Critical Strike Damage: 50% ⇒ 45%

Tank It Or Leave It

• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Max Defend Chance Based on Critical Strike Chance: 60% ⇒ 50%
• Damage Reduction: 25% ⇒ 20%

Soul Siphon

• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Heal Percentage: 15% ⇒ 12%

Jeweled Gauntlet

• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
• AP To Critical Strike Chance Conversion: 5% ⇒ 4.5%

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Augment Nerfs

Spellwake

• Magic Damage: 40-250 (+20% AP) ⇒ 40-200 (based on level) (+20% AP)

Raid Boss

• Stat Increase: 50% ⇒ 40%

Holy Fire

• Maximum Health Percent Burn: 7% ⇒ 5%

Rabble Rousing

• Heal: 5-90 (+1% maximum health) ⇒ 5- 60 (based on level) (+1% maximum health)

Thread the Needle

• Armor and Magic Penetration: 25% ⇒ 20%

Wooglet's Witchcap

• Needlessly Large Rod AP: 150 ⇒ 120

Firebrand

• Maximum Health Damage per 5 seconds: 2.5% ⇒ 2%

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Champions

Champion Buffs

Gnar

• Passive - Tired After Transformation Duration: 8 ⇒ 5 seconds
• Q Cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10 ⇒ 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 seconds
• Q Mini Form Slow: 15/20/25/30/35% ⇒ 25/30/35/40/45%
• Q Mega Form Slow: 30/35/40/45/50% ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60%
• E Cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10 ⇒ 16/14/12/10/8 seconds

Blitzcrank

• Passive Shield Cooldown: 30 ⇒ 20 seconds
• W Slow Duration: 1.5 ⇒ 1 second
• W Bonus Attack Speed: 30/40/50/60/70% ⇒ 50/60/70/80/90%

Aurelion Sol

• Stardust Stacks Per Round: 26.66 ⇒ 40
• W Cooldown: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 ⇒ 15/14/13/12/11 seconds

Irelia

• Health Growth: 124 ⇒ 136
• W Cooldown: 20/18/16/14/12 ⇒ 16/15/14/13/12
• R Cooldown: 125/105/85 ⇒ 40 seconds

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Champion Nerfs

Galio

• Q Base Damage: 100-280 ⇒ 70-210
• W Passive Shield: 10-20% maximum health ⇒ 7.5-13.5% maximum health

Zed

• Q Damage: 80/130/180/230/280 (+130% AD) ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240 (+130% AD)
• R Damage Stored: 30/45/60% ⇒ 25/40/55%

Swain

• R Damage Per Second: 20/40/60 (+10% AP) ⇒ 20/30/40 (+10% AP)
• R Heal Per Second: 15/27.5/40 (+ 18% AP) ⇒ 12/22/32 (+ 18% AP)

Brand

• Passive Percent Health Damage: 1.75% ⇒ 1.5%
• E Magic Damage: 60-180 (+60% AP) ⇒ 60-180 (+45% AP)
• R Magic Damage: 75-225 (+25% AP) ⇒ 75-175 (+25% AP)

Illaoi

• Passive Heal: 3.5% Missing Health ⇒ 2.5% Missing Health
• Q Tentacle Damage Increase: 5-25% ⇒ 4-20%
• W Cooldown: 4 ⇒ 6 seconds

Lillia

• Passive Maximum Health Damage: 5 (+1.25% per 100 AP) ⇒ 4 (+1.25% per 100 AP)
• Q AP Ratio: 35% ⇒ 30%

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Items

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Item Buffs

Decapitator

• Adaptive Force: 70 ⇒ 80

Hamstringer

• Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%

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Item Nerfs

Cruelty

• Ability Power: 100 ⇒ 80
• Passive Health Ratio: 5% ⇒ 4%

Innervating Locket

• Ability Haste: 25 ⇒ 20
• Ability Power: 80 ⇒ 70

Reality Fracture

• Voidgrub Damage: 10 (+ 10% AP) (+ 5% AD) ⇒ 8 (+ 8% AP) (+ 4% AD)

Horizon Focus

• Ability Power: 100 ⇒ 80

Liandry's Torment

• Ability Power: 70 ⇒ 60

Guardian's Shroud

• Health: 350 ⇒ 300

Sundered Sky

• Heal AD Ratio: 130% ⇒ 110%
• Health: 400 ⇒ 350

Eclipse

• Melee Maximum Health Damage: 8% ⇒ 6%

Divine Sunderer

• Melee Max Health Damage: 5% ⇒ 4%

Guardian's Blade

• Health: 300 ⇒ 250

Guardian's Horn

• Incoming Damage Reduction: 15 ⇒ 12
• Health: 350 ⇒ 300

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Item Adjustments

Sanguine Gift

• Damage Store: 10% ⇒ 15%
• Ability Power: 90 ⇒ 80

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14.10 SR Item Changes for Arena

• Zephyr: Removed from the Shop since its new form doesn't function as well in Arena compared to Summoner's Rift.
• Statikk Shiv - Slightly different passive that should be more functional in Arena. Passive: On Attack, fire chain lightning that deals 90 magic damage, hitting up to 6 targets (6 second cooldown).

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Arena Bugfixes & QoL Changes

QoL Changes

• Improved Replays camera navigation when following a specific team.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where players could not spectate games of Arena from the friends list.
• Fixed the Loading Screen ranked borders from properly updating when clicking to different teams.
• Fixed an issue where certain movement triggering spells (Zeri W, Poppy R) could path champions to a spot outside of the arena.
• Fixed end of game screens properly displaying your placement.
• Lee Sin + Chauffeur: Casting on your ally now correctly grants a shield and breaks the tether.
• Pyke + Chauffeur: Now allows Pyke to Dash with his W.
• Dematerialize now correctly grants 30 Adaptive Force when taken as the second augment.
• Phenomenal Evil now correctly grants Ability Power when taken as the second augment.
• Spirit Link now assigns the correct amount of damage to the ally.
• Fixed many instances where Force of Entropy could allow opponents a frame of action when critting knock ups/knock backs.
• Mirage Blade now reduces the cooldown of item actives that are dashes.
• Fixed an issue where Moonflair Spellblade was unintentionally giving attack speed.
• Fixed an issue that prevented icon images from displaying and instead showing debug text.
• Fixed an issue that caused Jhin's Cameo mark icon to be missing the image and displayed debug text.
• Fixed an issue that caused the homeguard icon to show an invisible icon when interrupted.
• Fixed an issue that caused Moonflair Spellblade to trigger off non-fully charged Zeri passive attacks.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Turbo Chemtank slow debuff icon from displaying.
• Fixed an issue that caused both debuffs icons from Hamstringer to not display.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Profane Hydra's passive cleave to remain after selling the item.
• Wooglet's Quest will now correctly give a Needlessly Large Rod so long as there is an open item slot.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Hold Very Still augment to display debug text in the description.
• Fixed an issue that caused Gragas to gain extra stats after using his W after casting his R twice with Ultimate Revolution.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Stridebreaker's passive from working.
• Striderbreaker also had a couple of tooltip issues, we fixed those too.
• Fixed an issue that caused Serpent's Fang to display an incorrect tooltip
• Fixed an issue that caused Kraken Slayer to display incorrect stats
• Fixed an issue that allowed Divine Sunderer to stack with multiple spellblade items.
• Turns out if you have the Conqueror rune then take Circle of Death, Symphony of War, and From Beginning to End it could cause an infinite damage loop and then cause a server crash. We fixed that.
• Fixed an issue that caused Rek'Sai's Q tooltip to display incorrect information.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Earthquake augment from triggering when casting certain blink abilities.

Now Available

• Prestige Arcade Caitlyn
• Prestige Nightbringer Kayn
• Prestige Fuzz Fizz
• Prestige Ascended Pantheon

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Leaving the Mythic Shop

• Prestige Nightbringer Lee Sin
• Prestige Porcelain Lissandra
• Prestige Bewitching Miss Fortune
• Prestige PROJECT: Sylas
• Prestige Coven Zyra

QoL Changes

• Azir W auto attacks no longer go through dodge (i.e. Jax E, Shen W)

Ashe Visual Clarity Update

• R Ground Decal: Base and all Live Skins have a secondary VFX element added to the ground below the arrow to better communicate its hitbox.
• R Arrow Hitbox Adjustment: Base and all Live Skins have had the arrow pushed up just slightly to more accurately match its gameplay hitbox.
• R Readability Updates for: Heartseeker, PROJECT, and Fae Dragon. These mostly consist of adding more volume to the arrow trails and glow to better match the hitbox.

Nidalee Visual Clarity Update

• Base, Snow Bunny, Leopard, French Maid, Pharaoh, Bewitching, Headhunter, Warring Kingdoms, Challenger, and Super Galaxy have had visual fidelity updates.
• Most skins have had an adjustment to Cougar W (Pounce) to better communicate the AoE hitbox.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Gangplank's E barrel-combo to be inconsistent.
• Fixed an issue where Katarina ult would go on cooldown and do animation without damage if used immediately after being CC'd.
• Fixed an issue with Lee Sin Q2 scaling with 200% bonus AD instead of 115% bonus AD.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Sylas to keep stolen abilities if his R ended as you casted Empowered Recall.
• Fixed an issue that caused Skarner's base taunt to play the SFX from a different skin in Russian.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Jax's R stats to not include AD/AP from Adaptive Force and stat conversions.
• Fixed an issue that caused Azir's W auto attacks to not trigger Bramble Vest.
• Fixed an issue that caused Shyvana's Q to not count as two auto attacks in specific instances.
• Fixed an issue where Lee Sin could do more damage than intended when R2 damaged an unstoppable enemy.
• Fixed an issue where Kassadin's Q could interrupt Sion's R.
• Fixed an issue where Javan IV's damage cap on his passive would apply to champions as well as non champion units.
• Fixed an issue that caused Vi's Q charge VFX to sometimes be missing.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Volibear to rarely teleport over a wall during his Q wind up.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Scuttle Crabs from auto-transforming after Baron spawns.
• Fixed an issue where Alistar's W hitbox would be extended when impacting an enemy at close range.
• Fixed an issue that would cause Urgot and Skarner to be locked in a brutal, never ending, tug of war if the both ult each other at the same time.
• Fixed an issue that caused Echoes of Helia's Soul Siphon damage to not be blocked by Spell Shield despite consuming them.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Hwei to lose access to his spellbook if he disconnected.
• Fixed an issue that caused Chemtech plants to spawn on top of each other.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Kindred's idle VOs from playing.
• Fixed an issue that prevented some of Star Guardian's Rakan's VO from triggering.
• Fixed a bug where Star Guardian Ahri's model was disappearing after dying and reviving.
• Fixed a bug where multiple Lux skins were missing their Recall (B) Wind Down Animation.
• Fixed a bug where multiple Lux skins were missing their Respawn Animation.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Empyrean Akali, Empyrean Brand, Empyrean Kayle, Empyrean Malzahar, Empyrean Nocturne, Empyrean Varus, and Prestige Empyrean Kayle will be available May 1, 2024 at 19:00 UTC.

With 14.9, Vanguard, Riot’s proprietary Anti-Cheat system will be deployed and active in League of Legends. This means that active enforcement of Vanguard will be in effect and working hard to make sure your queues are free from scripters, botters, and cheaters! We recently released a blog detailing the “why” behind bringing Vanguard to League that you can check out here. It’s a bit of a long read, but it does have some pictures.

If you’re wondering what all you need to do to keep playing League, all you need to do is install Vanguard. If you do not have Vanguard installed when you launch the Riot Client or League it will prompt you to install it and then restart your system to ensure Vanguard is active. You will be unable to queue for or play League until Vanguard is installed and active.

If you run into any issues please check out our support articles for any troubleshooting needs involving Vanguard.

With 14.9 we will be ending DirectX 9 support for League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. To maintain the stability and performance of our games we need to deprecate support for older hardware or software that isn't widely used by players anymore. If you're currently opted into using DirectX 9, the game will automatically disable this option when we remove the support. If you were running in DirectX 9 due to hardware incompatibility issues, we recommend upgrading your devices as soon as possible, so you may continue to play.

For more information on making sure your DirectX version is up to date and troubleshooting any issues related to it check out our support article. (The link should take you directly to the DirectX section, if not you can find it there).

Lee Sin’s long awaited Art and Sustainability Update is here! We’ve been hard at work modernizing the blind monk for the past year, and now he’s finally ready to hit the Rift. Equipped with a brand new rig, animations, and audio we made sure to honor many of the aspects Lee Sin players have come to appreciate about him while giving him the update his dedicated players deserve. We can’t wait to see all of you try him out and InSec your opponent in style.



Speaking of skins, we’ve also made updates to 16 of them! Due to the scope of work and increased skin quality, 2 of the 16 will be receiving a small price increase accordingly. If you already own these skins you’re good to go and you’ll get the update for free, but if you don’t have them yet but want to get them at their current lower prices make sure to pick them up before Lee Sin’s ASU goes live tomorrow!

• Base Lee Sin
• Traditional Lee Sin (price increased from 520 RP to 750 RP)
• Acolyte Lee Sin
• Dragon Fist Lee Sin (price increased from 975 RP to 1350 RP)
• Muay Thai Lee Sin
• Pool Party Lee Sin
• Knockout Lee Sin
• Nightbringer Lee Sin
• Prestige Nightbringer Lee Sin
• Prestige Nightbringer 2022 Lee Sin
• Zenith Games Lee Sin
• God Fist Lee Sin
• Storm Dragon Lee Sin
• SKT T1 Lee Sin (Legacy skin, returning for 2 weeks)
• Playmaker Lee Sin (Legacy skin, returning for 2 weeks)
• FPX Lee Sin (Legacy skin, returning for 2 weeks)

Here’s a reminder that the Split 1 end date is quickly approaching! If you’re on the cusp of hitting your Ranked goal for the season or if you’re determined to push for another two ranks, make sure to mark your calendars and get those games in because this is the last patch of Split 1. Split 2 will kick off the following day, May 15th, at noon so get ready!

• Split 1 End Date: May 14, 2024 at 23:59:59 according to your server’s local time
• Split 2 Start Date: May 15, 2024 at 12:00:00 according to your server’s local time

Are you ready to RUUUUUMBLE!? Arena is BACK for round 3 with all the crazy shenanigans you’ve all come to learn and love. But it’s not coming back exactly as you remember it, because we’ve been cooking up a lot of changes behind the scenes. You can read more about the exciting additions coming in round 3 here, but here’s a quick TL;DR:

• We’ve doubled the lobby size from 2v2v2v2 to 2v2v2v2v2v2v2v2 to help create a wider diversity of team comps, strategies, and scenarios so each game feels unique. You’ll now also be able to queue up with party sizes between 1-8 players, so get ready to party with your friends!
• There’s a new item tier called Primatic—these are build-defining items that should allow you to achieve build fantasies that you normally wouldn’t be able to! But they’re distributed just like Augments, so no guarantees you’ll always get the same ones.
• We also added Anvils! They’re purchasable consumables that, when used (or automatically consumed), present three randomized selections within a defined category (similar to how augments present themselves to you). You can always re-roll… but this system will share re-rolls with your augment selections, so make sure you do so wisely!
• If you feel lost, you might be in our new map! The Koi Pond enters Arena with this release. This map should feel pretty different than what you’re used to. You can’t always easily access areas of the map, but what we’re calling the “Bloom Bridge will open for you to run across throughout a particular round.. You COULD use portals and blast cones… but you might find yourself outnumbered if you play too aggressively.
• Did we mention that Arena is coming back for a FOUR MONTH RUN this time? While it isn’t permanent, we want to see how players like the mode and play it when it's live for a longer period of time.
• Quick heads up that the ladder won’t go live until next patch, 14.10 - so use this patch as an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the changes! Oh, you want us to list out the changes? Well, that would take away the excitement wouldn’t it?
• Improvements to the Arena new player experience that should result in them being placed in more skill appropriate level games and decreased queue times.
• (New) Challenges are here!

ARENA CHAMPION BALANCE CHANGES

Ahri

• W bonus decaying movement speed: 40% ⇒ 50%
• W base magic damage: 50/75/100/125/150 ⇒ 70/95/120/145/170
• E cooldown: 12 ⇒ 10 seconds
• R recasts on kill: 1 ⇒ 2

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Azir

• Bonus Health: 0 ⇒ 0-187 (levels 1-18)
• Q Cooldown: 14/12/10/8/6 ⇒ 12/10.5/9/7.5/6
• W Damage: 0-77 (based on level) (+ 50/67/84/101/118) (+55% AP) ⇒ 0-77 (based on level) (+ 55/72/89/106/123) (+55% AP)
• E Cooldown: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 ⇒ 18/17/16/15/14 seconds

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Gnar

• Bonus Health: 0 ⇒ 0-357 (levels 1-18)
• Passive “Tired” duration: 15 ⇒ 8 seconds
• Q Cooldown: 20/17.5/15/12.5/10 ⇒ 18/16/14/12/10 seconds
• Q Base Damage: 5/45/85/125/165 ⇒ 20/65/110/155/200
• W decaying movement speed duration: 3 ⇒ 4 seconds

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Karthus

• Bonus Health: 0 ⇒ 0-314 (levels 1-18)
• Q Magic Damage: 45/65/85/105/125 (+35% AP) ⇒ 60/80/100/120/140 (+45% AP) (Note: This is still doubled when hitting a single target.)
• W Cooldown: 15 ⇒ 12 seconds
• R Cooldown: 200/180/160 ⇒ 60 seconds

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Lux

• Passive AP Ratio: 45% ⇒ 50%
• E Slow: 25/30/35/40/45% ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60%
• R Cooldown: Cooldown: 60/50/40 ⇒ 30 seconds

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Shen

• Bonus Health: 0 ⇒ 0-187 (levels 1-18)
• R Cooldown: 200/180/160 ⇒ 60 seconds

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Vex

• Bonus Health: 0 ⇒ 0-612 (levels 1-18)
• W Damage: 70/115/160/205/250 (+70% AP) ⇒ 90/135/180/225/270 (+80% AP)
• W Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 ⇒ 13/12.5/12/11.5/11 seconds
• E Cooldown: 13 ⇒ 10 seconds
• E Slow: 30/35/40/45/50% ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60%

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Xerath

• Bonus Health: 0-255 ⇒ 0-493 (levels 1-18)
• W Damage: 60/95/130/165/200 (+60% AP) ⇒ 90/125/160/195/230 (+60% AP)
• W Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 ⇒ 10 seconds
• R Cooldown: 130/115/100 ⇒ 50 seconds

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Ziggs

• Bonus Health (levels 1-18): 0-255 ⇒ 0-493
• Q Cooldown: 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 ⇒ 4 seconds
• W Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 ⇒ 12/11/10/9/8 seconds
• R Base Damage: 250/400/550 ⇒ 300/450/600

These are big changes, like the kind you’ll want to read about because these are the most important changes in the patch. We’ve got plenty of smaller scope balance changes but if you want the ones with the largest gameplay impact, start with these.

We’re re-tuning a bunch of fighter itemization and re-designing the purpose of Maw of Malmortius. We’re also reshaping Akshan, Bel’Veth, and Nilah while Kennen gets a new animation for his ultimate with some updated functionality. Lastly, Sejuani is getting some big buffs and Skarner is getting some big nerfs because he needs them.

Hexdrinker

We’re making a small change to Hexdrinker because we’re making a bigger change to Maw of Malmortius (read more on that directly below). Our main goal here is to make MR fighter items less oppressive against AP champions while maintaining them as effective item options. For Hexdrinker, we’re simply buffing the build path while nerfing the MR which shouldn’t change too much.

• Item Recipe: Long Sword + Null-Magic Mantle + 500 gold ⇒ Long Sword + Long Sword + Null-Magic Mantle + 150 gold
• Magic Resistance: 35 ⇒ 30

Maw of Malmortius

We’re reshaping Maw this patch by trying to make it a powerful light fighter item (think Riven or Fiora). Omnivamp is a much more attractive stat than life steal for these fighters and some added Ability Haste should sweeten the offer. On the flip side, we’re bringing down the MR in order to make it a more clearly aggressive purchase. We also want to load its defensive power into more burst resistance and less of shutting down a mage in the 1v1. Ideally, mages can wait out the shield duration and then resume their assault while light fighters can feel like this is a more worthwhile purchase.

• Total Price: 2800 ⇒ 3100
• newAbility Haste: 0 ⇒ 15
• Magic Resistance: 50 ⇒ 40
• Attack Damage: 65 ⇒ 70
• Lifeline Duration: 2.5 ⇒ 3 seconds
• Lifeline Buff: 12% Lifesteal ⇒ 10% Omnivamp

Death’s Dance

We’re buffing Death’s Dance with a similar goal to Maw of Malmortius: make it clearly good for aggressive, high-AD fighters. We’re wary of just how snowbally fighters can get, but being forced into melee range already makes fighter’s lives tough enough. We’ll be keeping an eye out to make sure fighters don’t get too snowbally though.

• Item Recipe: Steel Sigil + Caulfield’s Warhammer + 1000 gold ⇒ Steel Sigil + Caulfield’s Warhammer + Pickaxe + 125 gold
• Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 60
• Defy Healing: 50% bonus AD ⇒ 75% bonus AD

Sterak’s Gage

Sterak’s Gage has been the best-performing defensive fighter item this season so it’s receiving a nerf alongside the item buffs to Maw and Death’s Dance. The goal here is to have each of these three items serve a core subset of the fighter space: Maw for MR, Death’s Dance for armor, and Sterak’s for health.

• Total Price: 3000 ⇒ 3200
• Lifeline Cooldown: 60 ⇒ 90 seconds

Sundered Sky

Sundered Sky, along with Sterak’s and Eclipse, is another of the best-performing fighter items. We’re bringing down its teamfight output a little by reducing the healing and how often it can be procced in a fight.

• Lightshield Strike per Target Cooldown: 6 ⇒ 8 seconds
• Lightshield Strike Healing: 140% base AD (+6% missing health) ⇒ 120% base AD (+6% missing health)

Eclipse

Eclipse is currently the best-performing first slot fighter item, so we’re taking a little bit off the front-end burst in order to open up some alternative itemization options. It’ll still be the earliest power spike you can receive with its low 2800 gold price point but now it won’t be able to let you win the lane quite as hard.

• Ever Rising Moon Damage: 8% (melee) / 4% (ranged) of target’s maximum health ⇒ 6% (melee) / 4% (ranged) of target’s maximum health

Akshan

Q movement speed on champion hit no longer scales with level, damage to non-champions decreased. R minimum damage per shot increased, maximum damage adjusted.

Akshan has long had two problems: First, he’s been a fairly frustrating top and mid laner to face, staying just out of reach from his melee opposition while also having incredible roam power. Second, his baseline reliability is quite low, making him incredibly hard to approach in lower-skilled play. We expect Akshan to require a lot of practice to get the most out of him, but we think we can still bring up his baseline. Due to how fair his R is (minions and turrets can block shots, in addition to champions), we think this ability could use some strong buffs that won't compromise the ability’s counter-play. These R buffs should result in up to 50% more ultimate damage in the most extreme cases late-game, but will typically be closer to 10% against low-health opponents.

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Q - Avengerang

• Move Speed on Champion Hit: 20/25/30/35/40% (+5% per 100 AP) ⇒ 20% at all ranks (+5% per 100 AP)
• Damage to Non-Champions: 40/52.5/65/77.5/90% ⇒ 40/50/60/70/80%

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R - Comeuppance

• Minimum Damage per Bullet: 20/25/30 (+10% total AD) ⇒ 25/35/45 (+15% total AD)
• Maximum Damage per Bullet: 80/100/120 (+40% AD) ⇒ 75/105/135 (+45% total AD)

Bel’Veth

Passive bonus attack speed adjusted, Q damage decreased, Q damage to monsters increased early game.

Bel’Veth has continued to terrorize the jungle in higher levels of play, so we’re taking a decent-sized swing at her PVP combat power in this patch. As compensation for lower-skilled play, we’re making her jungle a little more forgiving by buffing her early game monster damage. This monster damage buff then becomes a nerf at about 65 bonus AD while her PVP damage is always lower which should result in the high skill skewed nerf that the Void Empress needs.

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Passive - Death in Lavender

• Bonus Attack Speed per Stack: 0.28%-1% (levels 1-13) ⇒ 0.28%-1% (levels 1-17) (Note: This means that at levels 2-16, Bel’Veth will have slightly less attack speed, this is most pronounced at level 13.)

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Q - Void Surge

• Damage: 10/15/20/25/30 (+110% total AD) ⇒ 10/15/20/25/30 (+100% Total AD)
• Monster Damage Modifier: 140% total damage ⇒ +45/55/65/75/85 flat damage (Note: This is a buff until 136 total attack damage.)

Kennen

E damage range indicator added. R animation added, can now cast while moving.

Kennen’s a pretty sad yordle in his current state, and that’s Amumu’s job. We’re giving Kennen a meaningful buff by way of making his kit more synergistic with itself. This fast-moving, zapping ninja no longer stands in place when powering up Slicing Maelstrom. We’re turning this anti-synergy with Lightning Rush into a positive one, allowing him to more quickly reach his targets. He’s also got a brand new animation for powering up his R to match the new cast paradigm!

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E - Lightning Rush

• newAdded a range indicator for the damage radius.

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R - Slicing Maelstrom

• newNew animation has been added for Slicing Maelstrom.
• newKennen can now cast his ultimate while moving.

Nilah

Q minimum damage decreased, bonus attack speed increased, bonus damage based on critical strike chance decreased.

Back in 13.22, we nerfed Nilah’s attack speed from Q, which ended up nerfing her more in high level play. We’re reverting that nerf and nudging her gameplay toward consistent DPS as opposed to burst damage, so we’re returning that attack speed and instead reducing some up-front burst damage on her active instead. Nilah is a bit stronger than where we think she should be, so our intent for these changes to leave Nilah a bit weaker than she currently is, especially in lower-skilled play.

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Q - Formless Blade

• Minimum Damage: 5/10/15/20/25 (+90/97.5/105/112.5/120% total AD) ⇒ 5/10/15/20/25 (+90/95/100/105/110% total AD)
• Bonus Attack Speed: 10-50% (based on level) ⇒ 10-60% (based on level)
• Critical Strike Chance Damage Modifier: 100-220% (based on critical strike chance) ⇒ 100-200% (based on critical strike chance)

Sejuani

Passive bonus resistances increased. W damage adjusted.

Sejuani’s had the unfortunate fate of being left weaker than she ought to in order to not make the pro play jungle pool too boaring. Now that we won’t see Pro play for a few patches, we’re rushing to her aid. We’re trying to give her a mix of added damage and durability that strongly scales with her gold income, as pro junglers tend to get much less gold than the rest of us.

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Passive - Fury of the North, Frost Armor

• Bonus Resistances: 10 (+50% Bonus Armor/Magic Resistance) ⇒ 10 (+75% Bonus Armor/Magic Resistance)

W - Winter’s Wrath

• First Hit Damage: 10/15/20/25/30 (+20% AP) (+2% of her maximum health) ⇒ 5/15/25/35/45 (+20% AP) (+4% of her maximum health)
• Second Hit Damage: 20/60/100/140/180 (+60% AP) (+6% of her maximum health) ⇒ 5/25/45/65/85 (+60% AP) (+8% of her maximum health)
• Maximum Damage: 30/75/120/165/210 (+80% AP) (+8% of her maximum health) ⇒ 10/40/70/100/130 (+80% AP) (+12% of her maximum health)

Skarner

Mana regen growth increased. Q damage decreased, buff no longer refreshed when hitting wards/plants. W slow decreased.

Skarner is currently very overpowered, especially in elite play, where he’s making the Rift AND enemy’s boots quake. His potent early game often ends games before other champions can reach their power spikes which is why we’re going after his early game. We’ll be doing this by taking down a mix of his early damage and his sticking power with his Q and W. The mana regen line is here to give him a bit of compensation in top lane, as he’s currently a much stronger jungler than top laner and players are clearly happy to play him in both roles.

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Base Stats

• Mana Regeneration Growth: 0.6 ⇒ 0.75

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Q - Shattered Earth / Upheaval

• Damage per Hit: 10/25/40/55/70 (+60% bonus AD) (+5% of his bonus health) ⇒ 10/20/30/40/50 (+60% bonus AD) (+5% of his bonus health)
• removedQ no longer refreshes the buff duration upon attacking Wards or Plants.

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W - Seismic Bastion

• Slow: 20/25/30/35/40% ⇒ 20% at all ranks
• Shield: 9% maximum health ⇒ 8% maximum health

This patch we’re re-tuning champion collision, pathfinding, and selection radii in order to match gameplay with visuals more consistently.

Selection Radius is when a player's client registers that they're hovering over the target champion for declaring attacks and targeted spells. This doesn't affect attack ranges, skill shot accuracy, or anything else of that nature, just make it easier to select an enemy champion. Most champions have between 100 and 140 Selection Radius, tightly correlated with their gameplay and visuals. The changes here amount to moving champions into more normal bounds to make gameplay feel more consistent.

Gameplay Collision Radius does have gameplay impact. (It’s in the name!) Auto attack range and collision with missiles are both affected here. These changes are meant to make the game feel consistent (reduce instances of "why didn't I hit that champion?"), not make any particular champions stronger or weaker. These new values are meant to match with how big champions look in game and thus should feel better for players.

Pathfinding Radius also has gameplay impact and determines how closely units can stand together. There are several pathfinding outliers who haven’t been touched yet, but we didn’t want to let that work hold up rolling out these quality of life improvements. This patch, we generally matched champions with the standards for their new size.

SELECTION RADIUS

• Alistar: 145 ⇒ 140
• Aurelion Sol: 165 ⇒ 150
• Azir: 88 ⇒ 120
• Bard: 88 ⇒ 130
• Blitzcrank: 165 ⇒ 140
• Brand: 65 ⇒ 120
• Braum: 100 ⇒ 130
• Briar: 111 ⇒ 120
• Darius: 125 ⇒ 120
• Diana: 75 ⇒ 120
• Gangplank: 85 ⇒ 120
• Garen: 75 ⇒ 120
• Gragas: 155 ⇒ 140
• Jayce: 75 ⇒ 120
• K’Sante: 102 ⇒ 140
• Leona: 75 ⇒ 120
• Lissandra: 88 ⇒ 120
• Malzahar: 88 ⇒ 120
• Malzahar: 88 ⇒ 120
• Mega Gnar: 180 ⇒ 140
• Naafiri: 111 ⇒ 120
• Neeko: 90 ⇒ 120
• Nilah: 75 ⇒ 120
• Poppy: 95 ⇒ 100
• Rengar: 70 ⇒ 120
• Rumble: 165 ⇒ 140
• Veigar: 93 ⇒ 100
• Vel’Koz: 88 ⇒ 120
• Viktor: 160 ⇒ 120
• Warwick: 111 ⇒ 120
• Xerath: 88 ⇒ 120
• Yasuo: 75 ⇒ 120
• Yone: 75 ⇒ 120
• Yuumi: 120 ⇒ 100
• Zac: 90 ⇒ 140
• Zoe: 120 ⇒ 100

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GAMEPLAY COLLISION RADIUS

• Aurelion Sol: 65 ⇒ 80 (Note: Pathfinding radius unchanged at 35.)
• Briar: 55 ⇒ 65 (Note: Pathfinding radius unchanged at 35.)
• Darius: 80 ⇒ 65 (Note: Pathfinding radius unchanged at 26.)
• K’Sante: 65 ⇒ 80. Pathfinding radius: 35 ⇒ 50
• Lulu: 65 ⇒ 55 (Note: Pathfinding radius unchanged at 30.)
• Milio: 65 ⇒ 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 ⇒ 30
• Naafiri: 55 ⇒ 65 (Note: Pathfinding radius unchanged at 35.)
• Vex: 65 ⇒ 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 ⇒ 30
• Warwick: 55 ⇒ 65 (Note: Pathfinding radius unchanged at 35.)
• Yuumi: 65 ⇒ 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 ⇒ 30
• Zoe: 65 ⇒ 55. Pathfinding radius: 35 ⇒ 30

These are smaller changes, like the kind you might not have to read, but the kind that might have made the difference in that one teamfight that cost you the game when you were Gold I at 94 LP.

Ahri

W damage decreased. R cooldown increased.

As Ahri players have embraced Malignance for its strong synergy with Spirit Rush, her late-game mobility has simply gotten too high as a result. In combination with her extra R casts, her damage output has become too reliable. Nerfing the uptime of Ahri’s R and the damage output of Fox-Fire is meant to make her rely more on her skill shots and patience to achieve the same levels of success.

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W - Fox-Fire

• Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+30% AP) ⇒ 45/70/95/120/145 (+30% AP)

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R - Spirit Rush

• Cooldown: 130/105/80 ⇒ 130/115/100 seconds

Amumu

Base AD and base armor increased.

Amumu is one of the easiest champions to play in the game and, as a result, we expect him to be quite powerful in lower skill brackets. Right now, Amumu barely has a passing grade for most players, which means he’s just extremely weak. This patch we’re bringing up a bunch of baseline reliability in order to make his early game more comfortable and make him a bit less sad. But still a little sad because that's his thing.

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Base Stats

• Base Attack Damage: 53 ⇒ 57
• Base Armor: 30 ⇒ 33

Aurelion Sol

E damage decreased.

Patch 14.3’s changes gave Aurelion Sol much more agency over his fate and turned him from a passive E-and-wait champion into an active participant in game. Those changes have been extremely effective, as evidenced by both a massive increase in pick rate, but also ban rate. Now that he’s got much more agency over the game, his resting win rate simply can’t be so high any more. We’re taking down his E damage, which is disproportionately powerful in lower skill brackets, just like ASol in general.

One extra call-out for those of you who are currently banning him. He received several bug fixes during 14.7 that made his Q not sneak past minions anymore and properly draw minion aggro, so you may want to try your luck against him again.

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E - Singularity

• Total Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+100% AP) ⇒ 50/75/100/125/150 (+80% AP)

Blitzcrank

Passive shield duration decreased. W initial bonus movement speed decreased.

Blitzcrank is in an interesting space. First, they’re one of the easier supports to play, which means if we expect that every champion loses some win rate from having some unskilled players, Blitzcrank should be one of the better performers. Second, Blitz is the go-to pick for auto-filled supports, which means we should see win rates lower than their actual power level. Ultimately, we think Blitzcrank is a bit too reliably able to engage without their hook or run away from mistakes. The shield duration makes it clearly long enough to tank an up-front burst of damage, but now gives opponents the option to wait it out. Overdrive’s move speed nerf makes it a bit less likely for him to close the gap for E or escape from a bad time, so make sure to use it wisely!

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Passive - Mana Barrier

• Passive Shield Duration: 10 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds

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W - Overdrive

• Initial Bonus Movement Speed: 70/75/80/85/90% ⇒ 60/65/70/75/80%

Evelynn

W slow decreased. R damage decreased.

Like Bel’Veth, Evelynn has been a large threat in higher skilled brackets of play, and as a high skill cap champion, some of that is to be expected. But even with that in mind she’s overperforming. This patch we’re taking down her ability to one-shot victims by reducing her ultimate’s AP ratio, which should make hitting the execute threshold more important to achieve kills. Nerfing her W slow also makes her have to wait to kill her prey more commonly, though it also gives her the option to drag opponents farther with the charm effect since they aren’t as slow anymore.

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W - Allure

• Slow: 65%⇒ 45%

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R - Last Caress

• Damage: 125/250/375 (+75% AP) ⇒ 125/250/375 (+65%)

Janna

W damage decreased. E shield increased.

We’ve known that Janna’s been on the strong side for a while, but wanted to see the results from the nerfs to Zaz’Zak’s and Imperial Mandate before accidentally hitting her with a double nerf. With the dust settled, we’re aiming to nerf Janna a bit while bringing her two core builds of W-max and E-max closer together. She’ll deal less damage and be less threatening as an early roamer, but still able to peel and protect her back line like the best of them. Our hope is that whichever style of Janna you prefer, you’ll have a good time playing a fun champion.

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W - Zephyr

• Damage: 55/90/125/160/195 (+60% AP) (+30% Bonus Movement Speed) ⇒ 55/85/115/145/175 (+50% AP) (+30% Bonus Movement Speed)

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E - Eye Of The Storm

• Shield: 80/115/150/185/220 (+55% AP) ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240 (+55% AP)

Jinx

R cooldown increased.

Jinx is currently the most picked ADC in the game and it’s extremely… not even close. That isn’t necessarily a problem, but she’s also performing much better than she ought to, especially in higher skilled play where we expect coordinated dives and flanking to more easily shut her down. As a result, we’re taking a shot at one of her elite-skewed aspects—her ability to throw out rockets in the early game just to stop recalls to gain tempo in lane.

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R - Super Mega Death Rocket

• Cooldown: 70/55/40 ⇒ 85/65/45 seconds

Karma

Q slow increased. R+E shield on secondary targets increased, bonus movement speed increased.

After the dust has settled from her previous changes, Karma’s currently a little weaker than she should be, so we’d like to give her back some power that will improve her for her primary player base in support. We’re happy that she’s also viable in mid, but we’re being cautious around her potential frustration in that role forcing her ban rate back up. As a result, we’re juicing up her utility aspects more than her damage this go around.

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Q - Inner Flame

• Slow: 35% ⇒ 40% (Note: Mantra Q slow is unchanged at 50%.)

R + E - Mantra Defiance

• AoE Shielding on Secondary Targets: 90% of Primary Target’s Extra Shield ⇒ 100% of Primary Target’s Extra Shield
• AoE Movement Speed Bonus: 12% ⇒ 15%

Kassadin

E damage decreased.

Kassadin has been popping off recently and is due for a nerf to bring him back into line. We’re specifically leaving Riftwalk untouched as a large portion of his damage budget so that he has to commit to melee range in order to succeed, instead of using Riftwalk as a spacing tool and killing his opponents from range.

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E - Force Pulse

• Damage: 60/90/120/150/180 (+80% AP) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+70% AP)

Malzahar

Q mana cost decreased. E cooldown decreased.

Malzahar hasn’t been in the best spot for a while now, especially in higher-skill brackets where the early game matters much more. We’re giving him some early game focused buffs this patch, which should also make some of his laning pain points feel a lot better without making his lanes more un-interactive for opponents.

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Q - Call of the Void

• Mana Cost: 80 ⇒ 60/65/70/75/80

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E - Malefic Visions

• Cooldown: 15/13/11/9/7 ⇒ 11/10/9/8/7 seconds

Master Yi

E bonus true damage decreased.

While popular opinion places Master Yi as a straightforward menace in lower-skill levels with an extremely lofty late game, that’s simply not true anymore. He’s actually equally performant across all levels of play and is just about as strong in the early game as he is in the late game. He’s also simply overpowered, so we need to nerf him a bit. Tactically, we’re going after these unexpected early game strengths, which we know will disproportionately affect him in higher skill levels. We’d like if Master Yi’s power level was the result of straightforward late game DPS more than early game dueling.

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E - Wuju Style

• Bonus True Damage: 30/35/40/45/50 (+30% bonus AD) ⇒ 20/25/30/35/40 (+30% bonus AD)

Olaf

Q damage decreased, bonus damage to monsters increased. R passive resistances decreased.

Olaf is currently too lane dominant up in top lane and his late game resists make him disproportionately good against magic damage, specifically flat magic penetration, which we’d like to soften. This still leaves Olaf as a fairly tanky late game champion, but makes him rely more on his W and life steal to achieve that.

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Q - Undertow

• Damage: 65/115/165/215/265 (+100% bonus AD) ⇒ 60/110/160/210/260 (+100% bonus AD)
• Bonus Damage to Monsters: 5/15/25/35/45 ⇒ 10/25/40/55/70

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R - Ragnarok

• Passive Resistances: 10/20/30 ⇒ 10/15/20

Pyke

W mana cost increased, cooldown increased.

Pyke’s had his ups and downs throughout the years and right now he’s on one of his stronger stints. We think his damage is at an appropriate level for what Pyke needs to succeed, but we’d like to weaken his roaming power and ability to bypass wards, as he’s especially stronger in higher-skilled play for those very reasons.

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W - Ghostwater Dive

• Mana Cost: 50 ⇒ 65
• Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8 ⇒ 14/13/12/11/10 seconds

Seraphine

Q AP ratio increased.

With bot lane APC Seraphine becoming weaker, Seraphine support finally has room for buffs! We’re playing up her damage a little bit as we think she can comfortably sit as one of the higher damage supports.

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Q - High Note

• Damage: 60/85/110/135/160 (+50% AP) ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160 (+60% AP)

Taliyah

Q mana cost increased, damage to monsters decreased.

Taliyah has been rocking in the mid lane for a while now, so we’d like to bring down her laning phase power a bit via how many rocks she can throw. We’re making a smaller nerf to her jungle by slowing her mid- and late-game jungle clears, which are exceedingly fast at the moment. She’ll definitely still be strong, but that’s intended since she provides variety as one of few notable mage junglers.

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Q - Threaded Volley

• Mana Cost: 55/60/65/70/75 ⇒ 65/70/75/80/85 (Note: Mana cost of 20 on Worked Ground unchanged.)
• Bonus Damage to Monsters: 25 (+10% AP) ⇒ 25 (+5% AP)

Twitch

Base health decreased, health growth increased. W slow AP ratio decreased. R bonus AD decreased.

Once Infinity Edge was buffed, Twitch started to catch on as an under-the-radar strong ADC, steadily increasing his pick and ban rates over the last couple patches. As our nerf strategy tends to be that we’ll only nerf things once players have caught on, players have officially caught on—so we’re nerfing him. The goals of our changes here are to nudge Twitch away from simply being yet another late-game hyper carry (as there are already plenty of those). We’re also lightly tapping down AP Twitch so that it doesn’t become his de-facto build as it’s already strong too.

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 682 ⇒ 630
• Health Growth: 100 ⇒ 104

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W - Venom Cask

• Slow: 30/35/40/45/50% (+6% AP) ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50 (+5% AP)

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R - Spray and Pray

• Bonus Attack Damage: 40/55/70 ⇒ 30/45/60

Urgot

Armor growth decreased.

Urgot’s one of top lane’s top performers at the moment, so we’re giving him a fairly small nerf. We’re picking his late-game armor as it’s one of the highest in the game, and his stat line isn’t meant to read so similarly to pure tanks.

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Base Stats

• Armor Growth: 5.45 ⇒ 5.0

Hello ARAMers,! We’re wrapping up our work on Arena this week so we have another light patch for the Howling Abyss in store.

At this point it’s quite clear that Smolder is becoming an ARAM menace, so we’re aiming to tune him similar to other infinite stacking champions. We will keep an eye on him to see whether spell specific tuning is needed after these changes though. We’ll also be slowly removing Hwei and Nami buffs since they’ve gotten some buffs on Summoner’s Rift recently (which are all inherited by ARAM).

Lastly we have Hubris. We’re experimenting with this split in ARAM to target buffing melee assassins without buffing AD casters too much. Let us know how it feels and hope you guys enjoy ARAM and Arena!

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NERFS

• Hwei: Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 10
• Nami: Healing Received: 95% ⇒ 90%; Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 95%
• Smolder: Ability Haste: 0 ⇒ -10; Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 105%

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ITEM ADJUSTMENTS

• Hubris: Passive: 10 + (1*statues) AD, Buff duration 45 seconds (all users) ⇒ 15 + (2*statues) AD, Buff duration 90 seconds (melee users), 10 + (1*statues) AD, Buff duration 45 seconds (ranged users) (Note: This passive change will also be inherited by the Ornn upgrade, Ataraxia.)

It’s time for the MSI Clash tournament! What better way to celebrate the best coming together to fight it out than with a tournament of our own. And while winning might not get you a ticket to Worlds, you can win the hearts of your teammates (not guaranteed though).

• Registration Begins: April 29 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
• Tournament Dates: May 4 and 5 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)

If you have any questions or you're just looking for the full 2024 clash schedule, make sure to check out our Clash FAQ support page.

While we do punish leavers, chat abusers and players who exhibit other disruptive behaviors, we also know that being on the receiving end of this behavior isn’t fun for anyone. And getting indirectly punished by losing LP or having your time wasted can be frustrating. In order to make this less painful moving forward, we’ll be providing consolations when a verified leaver or feeder is identified in your game. Depending on your situation, these consolations may include the following:

• LP Consolation
• Autofill Protection
• XP Boost
• ARAM Rerolls

Additionally, warnings will now be issued for players who have received a large volume of reports, requiring them to review and accept our Code of Conduct before proceeding. If the player continues to receive high volumes of reports they will be punished.

LEE SIN ASU "KICK"OFF

• Where could Lee Sin hop to without a reliable ward(robe). With Lee Sin’s ASU making its way onto the rift we’re bringing back his Prestige Nightbringer skin in the Mythic Shop. Act fast because it’ll be gone in the shop rotation coming in 14.10, next patch.

QoL CHANGES

• Fiora’s E now defaults to the highest damage effect between Sundered Sky and her E2 when Sundered Sky and E2 are both active at the same time.

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BUGFIXES

• Fixed a bug that caused buying and selling / refunding the jungle item immediately to give reduced XP from lane minions for the rest of the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused Master Yi’s double strike to consume Hail of Blades stacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused Graves’ auto attacks to not utilize Sundered Sky.
• Fixed a bug that caused Aatrox’s W chains to deal damage after the target had left the applicable zone.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kled’s W to not apply spell effects on the fourth hit.
• Fixed a bug that caused Yone to gain a charge on his Q if the target had dodged the spell.
• Fixed a bug that caused Gwen W to not factor in AP from conversions or adaptive force when calculating the armor and magic resistance buff.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sylas to not gain a charge of Essence Rush on takedown when he had stolen Ahri's ultimate.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rengar to lose the reduced cooldown from Navori Quickblades after exiting his empowered state.
• Fixed a bug that caused Knight’s Vow’s VFX to be visible to the enemy team.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner to be able to refresh his Q buff duration by hitting wards or plants.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner to be able to take Hexgates while using his Impale.
• Fixed a bug that caused Nocturne’s Passive VFX to persist if the passive came off of cooldown while he was Polymorphed by Lulu.
• Fixed a bug that caused Illaoi’s E to make Briar’s R to last indefinitely.
• Fixed a bug that caused Neeko recasting W to move her clone to count as a spell cast towards abilities such as Kassadin’s E stacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sylas hijacking Taliyah’s R, mid-cast, to give Sylas only the recast option of the ability.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner’s Impale to make him briefly invisible inside of bushes.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner’s E to sometimes make both Skarner and enemies being moved through a bush to briefly disappear.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner’s E to not proc Fiora’s W, meaning she couldn’t stun enemies after parrying.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner’s E to be unable to stun an enemy if the wall he moved them into was too thin.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner’s E to stop if the targeted champion was hit by CC while having a spellshield.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner’s E to cause unnatural camera movement if grabbing an enemy from the other side of a wall.
• Fixed a bug that caused Smolder’s ultimate ability icon to show as available after casting it.
• Fixed a bug that caused Lux’s E and Xerath’s W to fail to detect enemies when cast into certain walls.
• Fixed a bug that caused several issues with Sandscourage Skarner’s SFX.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner’s exit wall SFX to play later than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mikael’s Blessing to not Cleanse Renata’s R from allied champions.
• Worldbreaker Malzahar’s Nether Grasp (R) VFX now fires from his mouth as intended.
• Arclight Brand’s Blaze (P) VFX no longer renders over impassable terrain.
• Apocalyptic / Vandal / Arclight / Eternal Dragon Brand's Blaze (P) no longer causes red pixel VFX to appear when enemies are affected while Players hover cursor over.
• Immortal Journey Kayle now has a unique HUD portrait splash art at pre-level 11.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Blood Moon Fiddlesticks, Blood Moon Zed, and Blood Moon Zyra will be available April 17, 2024 at 19:00 UTC.

Beginning with this patch, Vanguard will officially be turned on in the Philippines on the live servers. This means that enforcement of Vanguard will be in effect for that region, and you will be unable to queue unless you have Vanguard on.

For the rest of the world, this patch will contain a popup to check your compatibility. It will check to make sure your Operating System is up to date, and that you have TPM 2.0 enabled (if you're on Windows 11). If you fail any of these checks, it will give you a fail state and ask you to resolve those issues, but it will not prevent you from playing at this time. We highly encourage you to resolve any of those issues quickly so that when we turn on enforcement, you will be able to continue playing Teamfight Tactics PC and/or League of Legends. At this time, we're planning to turn on Vanguard for all regions (except China), starting with patch 14.9 (next patch). If anything changes, we'll update you all ASAP on any changes to this rollout.

Please check out our devblog and player support articles for any help troubleshooting or info about Vanguard.

Akali

Base health increased.

We're raising Akali's early game health to help her get to her mid-to-late-game state more consistently. Her base health was uncharacteristically low compared to other champions, so this should bring her more in line with her peers.

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 570 ⇒ 600

Azir

Base health regen decreased. W damage decreased.

Azir has been a Pro play staple for an incredibly long time thanks to his passable laning phase paired with an incredible late game and playmaking potential. We'll be adjusting his early game safety by lowering his base health regeneration, and lowering the early damage of his W with a goal to give his counter picks a better opportunity to beat him in lane.

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Base Stats

• Health Regeneration per 5 Seconds: 5 ⇒ 3.5

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W - Arise!

• Magic Damage: 0-77 (based on level) (+50/67/84/101/118) (+55% AP) ⇒ 0-77 (based on level) (+50/65/80/95/110) (+55% AP)

Briar

Health growth decreased. Q range increased. W bonus attack speed decreased.

Briar continues to be very strong in lower skill levels so we're taking another pass at her to address this. The bug fixes to Sundered Sky (one of her core items) were a contributor to some of her power, so we're nerfing her sustained output while giving another minor buff to Q for skilled players who like switching targets and cosplaying Lee Sin hopping to wards.

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Base Stats

• Health Growth: 100 ⇒ 95

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Q - Head Rush

• Range: 450 ⇒ 475

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W - Blood Frenzy

• Bonus Attack Speed: 54/68/82/96/110% ⇒ 55/65/75/85/95%

Draven

Q damage increased.

Despite what he might admit, Draven's early game lacked the power that gave him the ability to control the laning phase. We want to reestablish Draven's ability to be a lane bully, so we're putting a bit more power into his Q's to let him be just that.

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Q - Spinning Axe

• Bonus Physical Damage: 40/45/50/55/60 (+75/85/95/105/115% bonus AD) ⇒ 45/50/55/60/65 (+75/85/95/105/115% bonus AD)

Galio

Base movement speed increased. Q cooldown decreased early.

Galio is close to a reasonable power level, but he's not fully there yet. In order to get him there we're giving him two smaller buffs to increase his power and to ensure he becomes an interesting pick for Pro play. We're increasing his base movement speed, as it's a stat he highly values, especially since he needs the target access for multiple passive procs. We're also including a small reduction to his early Q cooldown to help him get more passive refunds.

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Base Stats

• Base Movement Speed: 335 ⇒ 340

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Q - Winds of War

• Cooldown: 12/10.75/9.5/8.25/7 ⇒ 11/10/9/8/7 seconds

Graves

Passive reload time scaling adjusted, critical damage ratio per pellet increased.

We're giving Graves some much-needed buffs while skewing him toward crit itemization and repeat attacks, which we think is a healthier spot for his gameplay as opposed to lethality burst. While this reload speed change is a bit of a riskier buff, we think it'll be good for Graves and we'll follow up if his power level ends up wildly out of line.

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Passive - New Destiny

• Attack Speed Scaling: Increased Attack Speed scaling from non-level sources towards reload time by 35%
• Critical Damage Ratio per Pellet: 40% ⇒ 45%

Hwei

Passive bonus magic damage increased.

We expected we’d have to balance Hwei around Pro play with pretty low win rates for regular players. However, as the Pro season has developed, it looks like we have more room than we initially thought, so we’re giving him a small buff to his passive, which brings him up a touch in lower-skilled brackets where players don’t dodge away from the damage as well. Our goal is that he’ll be a moderate-presence champion in Pro play while also being as successful as most other mages in solo queue.

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Passive - Signature of the Visionary

• Bonus Magic Damage: 35-180 (based on level) (+30% AP) ⇒ 35-180 (based on level) (+35% AP)

Jarvan IV

Passive damage increased.

Jarvan IV is one of the simpler junglers to play, so any time his win rate in lower-skilled brackets barely crests 50%, it means he's actually weak and needs some help. To buff him, we're partially reverting the 13.18 passive nerf as it was a satisfying aspect of his kit that gave better clear speed and kill-securing that benefits players of all calibers.

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Passive - Martial Cadence

• Bonus Physical Damage: 6% of target's current health ⇒ 7% of target's current health

Jhin

Bonus movement speed on crits increased. Q damage increased.

As a uniquely utility-focused ADC, we think Jhin can be a high performer without causing too much trouble. Plus he's a little on the weak side right now, especially in higher skill brackets. Not only are we adding several more 4s to his tooltips, we're also powering up the more skill-expressive parts of his kit with his ability to kite early and the power of his ramping grenade bounces.

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Passive - Whisper

• Bonus Movement Speed on Critical Strike: 10% (+0.4% bonus Attack Speed) ⇒ 14% (+0.4% bonus Attack Speed)

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Q - Dancing Grenade

• Minimum Physical Damage: 45/70/95/120/145 (+35/42.5/50/57.5/65% AD) (+60% AP) ⇒ 44/69/94/119/144 (+44/51.5/59/66.5/74% AD) (+60% AP)

Kai'Sa

Q damage increased.

We wanted to buff Kai'Sa to encourage more ADC diversity in solo queue and Pro play without touching her AP builds, which can be problematic. We wanted to increase the AD ratio on Kai'Sa's Q to emphasize damage that required higher commitment and played up her unique assassin-like characteristics.

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Q - Icathian Rain

• Damage per Missile: 40/55/70/85/100 (+50% bonus AD) (+20% AP) ⇒ 40/55/70/85/100 (+55% bonus AD) (+20% AP)

LeBlanc

Q damage increased. W cooldown decreased.

Leblanc is struggling in solo queue and also isn't seeing much presence in Pro, so we're giving her a bit more power to play with. We're lowering her early W cooldown to increase her agency in lane, as its level 1 value is currently a bit too high. We're also increasing her Q base damage, as it's quite impactful for her early laning phase in high skill brackets, but should be felt by all due to its last hitting benefit.

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Q - Sigil of Malice

• Magic Damage: 65/90/115/140/165 (+ 45% AP) ⇒ 70/95/120/145/170 (+ 45% AP)

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W - Distortion

• Cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10 ⇒ 15/13.75/12.5/11.25/10 seconds

Mordekaiser

Q cooldown decreased. E damage decreased. R is no longer escapable with certain abilities/items.

Mordekaiser has long suffered from being very powerful in lower-skilled games while being too inconsistent in highly-skilled ones. Some of this disparity is due to his weak early lane and his ultimate being easily countered by an inexpensive item and certain champion interactions. This patch we're hoping to shore up both of those pain points while making a small compensation nerf to his damage.

We acknowledge that this change to his ultimate is quite risky. It's possible that Mordekaiser is not balanceable without such strong counters and that ultimately Mordekaiser players would be happier with a highly unreliable ult but a stronger base kit. But we're going to support this version of Mordekaiser and do our best to balance him with these new strengths in mind.

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Q - Obliterate

• Cooldown: 9/7.75/6.5/5.25/4 ⇒ 8/7/6/5/4 seconds

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E - Death's Grasp

• Magic Damage: 80/95/110/125/140 (+60% AP) ⇒ 70/85/100/115/130 (+60% AP)

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R - Realm of Death

• newDeath Realm Escape Interactions: Champions can no longer escape Mordekaiser's Death Realm by using Quicksilver Sash, Mercurial Scimitar, Alistar's Unbreakable Will, Gangplank's Remove Scurvy, Milio's Breath of Life, Olaf's Ragnarok, or Rengar's Ferocity Battle Roar. However, crowd control immunity will still prevent the application of Realm of Death.

Olaf

Q bonus damage to monsters increased.

Olaf gained a lot of jungle power last patch but he still needs a bit more help before he's in a solid spot. Similar to Sylas, he feels a bit constrained within his main role, so we're focusing on increasing his jungle power. His first clear is already good, but his consecutive clears have room to be better since he should be one of the fastest in the game.

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Q - Undertow

• Bonus Damage to Monsters: 5/10/15/20/25 ⇒ 5/15/25/35/45

Ryze

W slow increased, cooldown decreased early.

We're giving Ryze some power tailored to the average player by giving him access to a more reliable slow with a lower cooldown, which should bring up his baseline utility to his teams.

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W - Rune Prison

• Slow: 35% ⇒ 50%
• Cooldown: 13/12/11/10/9 ⇒ 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds

Skarner

Rune and item recommendations updated. Mana growth decreased, mana regen growth increased. Q damage increased, mana cost decreased, buff duration increased, Upheaval recast lockout time decreased, Shattered Earth cast time decreased. W mana cost increased, damage decreased.

Skarner's rework launched last patch with low jungle power and very strong performances in top lane. We expect he'll perform better as players continue to learn his nuances but there's a lot of room to make the experience of playing Skarner much nicer.

First, we're updating his recommended jungle runes and items. Every recommended page now suggests Resolve runes in the primary or secondary tree and includes an Aftershock page, as it's been a great rune for him. To our surprise, Heartsteel appears very good as well, so it's replacing Iceborn Gauntlet in his item recommendations.

Second, we're doing a sweep of feels improvements to his Q, which should make him feel much more mobile and usable in fights at large.

Third, we're shifting around power from his W into his Q. As it turns out, W-max top lane Skarner is significantly stronger than regular jungle Skarner with low counter-play, so we're trying to put these builds into similar power and fairness levels. We're also buffing the Q AD ratio to make juggernaut alt-builds more functional.

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Recommended Runes and Items

• Recommended Rune Pages: Updated to offer the following rune pages: Aftershock, Phase Rush, and Conqueror
• Recommended Items: Added Heartsteel, moved Iceborn Gauntlet later, increased priority of Dead Man's Plate

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Base Stats

• Mana Growth: 45 ⇒ 40
• Mana Regeneration Growth: 0.45 ⇒ 0.6

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Q - Shattered Earth / Upheaval

• Damage per Hit: 10/20/30/40/50 (+40% bonus AD) (+6% of his bonus health) ⇒ 10/25/40/55/70 (+60% bonus AD) (+6% of his bonus health)
• Mana Cost: 40/45/50/55/60 ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50
• Buff Duration: 3.5 ⇒ 5 seconds (Note: the buff will still refresh on attacks and upon casting E)
• Upheaval Recast Lockout Time: 0.75 ⇒ 0.5 seconds
• Shattered Earth Cast Time: 0.5 ⇒ 0.35 seconds (Note: this is how long Skarner stands in place pulling the boulder out of the ground before being able to move or attack)

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W - Seismic Bastion

• Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 ⇒ 60/65/70/75/80
• Magic Damage: 60/90/120/150/180 (+80% AP) ⇒ 50/75/100/125/150 (+80% AP)

Sylas

Q explosion damage to monsters increased.

We're further buffing Sylas jungle now that we have data on how his Q modifier affects his win rate, especially since we think he could appear at MSI as a flex pick. Since he lacks any room for mid lane oriented adjustments at the moment, we'll be completely removing the Q monster modifier, as his clear still has plenty of room to go down.

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Q - Chain Lash

• Damage to Monsters: 70% ⇒ 100%

Thresh

Base armor and magic resist growth increased.

Thresh is a little bit weaker than we think he should be, and since he's an exciting champion to watch on the big stage we want to give him a small buff. We think he deals enough damage already, so we're playing up his tankiness this patch, nudging his resists closer to true short-range or melee champions.

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Base Stats

• Base Armor: 31 ⇒ 33
• Magic Resist Growth: 1.3 ⇒ 1.55

Zac

Base health regeneration decreased.

Zac has been bouncing around and dominating top lane for a while now, much to his opponents' chagrin. He's a pretty well balanced jungler, but a pretty noninteractive and overbearing top laner. So we're looking to reduce his early game lane safety by bringing down his passive regeneration, requiring him to risk reprisal from his lane opponents if he wants to sustain back up.

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Base Stats

• Base Health Regeneration per 5 Seconds: 8 ⇒ 5

Zeri

Base health decreased.

Zeri was a big winner from 14.6's crit item buffs. Though we brought down Statikk Shiv a little, she risks becoming the most sought-after champion at MSI, so we're taking away a little bit of early game durability to open up lane bullies as a tactical counter in lane.

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 630 ⇒ 600

Baron Nashor

• Acid Pool Magic Damage: 10% AD ⇒ 200 (+10% AD)
• Acid Pool Slow: 50% ⇒ 60%
• Territorial Baron Pull Magic Damage: 75 ⇒ 300
• Hunting Baron Lightning Magic Damage: 15% of target's current health ⇒ 20% of target's current health
• Acid Shot Magic Damage: 20% AD ⇒ 200 (+50% AD)
• Tentacle Knock Up Magic Damage: 25% AD ⇒ 200 (+25% AD)

Voidgrubs

• Initial Voidgrub Spawn Time: 5 ⇒ 6 minutes
• Touch of the Void Damage per Stack: 6 (halved to 3 for ranged champions) true damage per second over 4 seconds ⇒ 8 (halved to 4 for ranged champions)
• Hunger of the Void Threshold: 5 Touch of the Void stacks, gain a 2nd summon at 6 stacks ⇒ 4 Touch of the Void Stacks, gain a 2nd summon at 6 stacks

Now Available

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Leaving the Mythic Shop

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Hello ARAMers! We have a light patch this time as we're wrapping up on Arena, so get excited! We're continuing to remove nerfs on champions with the goal of bringing them back to how they feel compared to Summoner's Rift. In terms of nerfs this patch, we overbuffed Zyra last patch which contributed to her zone control being a bit more frustrating than other mages so we're dialing them back. Meanwhile, Vi has been benefiting from her current buffs so we're aiming to slowly remove the extra ones.

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Buffs

• Illaoi: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Leona: Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%
• Nautilus: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Xerath: Damage Dealt: 93% ⇒ 95%
• Ziggs: Damage Dealt: 85% ⇒ 90%

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Nerfs

• Vi: Ability Haste: 10 ⇒ 0
• Zyra: Ability Haste: 0 ⇒ -10

Players' assigned position icons are added to the Quickplay loading screen, offering additional clarity on role assignment for Quickplay before the game starts.

Quality of Life Updates

• Updated Guardian of the Sands Skarner's recall animation.
• Chroma names of the April Fools skins released last patch have been updated to be 107% MORE delicious.
• Rengar Q and empowered Q now apply critical strike modifiers from items.
• Malignance will now proc on ultimates that are considered auto attacks, like Warwick or Twitch's R.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed various issues related to spell queueing, such as Yasuo being unable to cancel his queued E's with movement commands.
• Fixed a bug that caused Brand's Passive to not proc Dark Harvest.
• Fixed a bug that caused Teemo's E to not proc Dark Harvest
• Fixed a bug that caused Renekton's W to not apply spell effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mordekaiser's passive to gain stacks for dodged auto attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused Shyvana's Dragon form Q to consume Hail of Blades when used as an auto attack reset.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rengar to lose the reduced cooldown gained from Navori Quickblade after becoming unempowered.
• Fixed a bug that caused Blade of the Ruined King to not display its cooldown on the scoreboard.
• Fixed a bug that caused Baron's pull attack to not deal damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused Moonstone Renewer to be audible through the fog of war.
• Fixed a bug that caused the terrain changes to temporarily make the screen jittery when spectating.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner's R to not apply a stack of his Passive to minions and monsters when used.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner's W to have a small hole in the damage application area.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner's exit terrain VFX to trigger later than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused Skarner's W to not hit all enemies in range if Flash was used during its windup.
• Fixed a bug that caused Volibear's passive attack speed scaling to not include adaptive or converted stats.
• Fixed a bug that caused Battlecast Skarner's walk animation to sometimes override his W animation.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Skarner's second Q cast to dissolve if it was used at the same time as his Flash.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rift Herald to spawn looking towards the right of the Baron Pit as opposed to the entrance.
• Fixed a bug that caused Evelynn's VO to mix up first encounter lines for Brand and Dr. Mundo. I mean, they look kind of similar… right?
• Fixed a bug that caused Evelynn's R VO lines to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain single target abilities to not deal correct amounts of damage to Zyra's plants.
• Fixed a bug that caused Briar's W to not grant vision of the nearest target while she was nearsighted.
• Fixed a bug that caused Taliyah's dance emote to not play the associated VO.
• Fixed a bug that caused Guardian of the Sands Skarner's taunt animation to not include the shockwave VFX.
• Street Demons Zyra's Stranglethorns (R) AoE indicator now renders correctly under impassable terrain.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Cheddar Chief Twitch, Durian Defender Rammus, Choo-Choo Train Ornn, Toy Terror Cho’Gath, and Zesty Dip Zac will be available April 3rd, 2024 at 18:00 UTC.

”Your impact on this world is but a grain of sand in a vast desert! Let me show you.”

Do you feel the earth tremble beneath you? That’s because Skarner’s VGU is now live with this patch!

Skarner Abilities Rundown

Skarner Champion Bio

Skarner Champion Trailer

Skarner Champion Theme

Starting on April 9, 2024 we’ll be spinning down support for our online shopping site, shop.riotgames.com. This means RP purchases, LoL PC event skins, and weekly skin sales will no longer be available on this site. While you’ll still be able to redeem codes via the website, we recommend using the client in place of the website going forward.

To maintain the stability and performance of our games we need to deprecate support for older hardware or software that isn't widely used by players anymore. To that end, some time in the next few patches we will remove support and the ability to manually opt for DirectX 9 for League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. If you're currently opted into using DirectX 9, the game will automatically disable this option when we remove the support. If you were running in DirectX 9 due to hardware incompatibility issues, we recommend upgrading your devices as soon as possible, so you may continue to play.

We’re currently targeting 14.9 for the end of DirectX 9 support, however if we change these plans we’ll continue to update you in future patch notes.

For more information on making sure your DirectX version is up to date and troubleshooting any issues related to it check out our support article. (The link should take you directly to the DirectX section, if not you can find it there).

Camille

Q bonus move speed increased, cooldown decreased. W outer cone damage increased. E damage decreased.

Camille has been pretty sad in top lane ever since the walls got pushed back. We think she could use some larger scope work in the future, but that doesn’t mean we can’t buff her right now. So we’re playing up some top-specific strengths targeted primarily at her laning phase, which is power she’ll carry into the rest of the game. We’re mostly giving her better sustained target access, which she’ll actually appreciate when she’s got solo lane levels of gold and experience. Because we’re concerned about support Camille’s power level, we’re bringing down her Hookshot burst a little as compensation. Our hope is that she remains viable in both roles and that top laners specifically feel more impact.

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Q - Precision Protocol

• Bonus Move Speed: 30/32.5/35/37.5/40% ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50%
• Cooldown: 9/8.25/7.5/6.75/6 ⇒ 9/8/7/6/5

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W - Tactical Sweep

• Outer Cone Base Damage: 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% Max HP ⇒ 6/6.5/7/7.5/8% Max HP

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E - Hookshot

• Damage: 80/110/140/170/200 (+90% bonus AD) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+90% bonus AD)

Fiora

Base attack damage decreased.

Fiora’s a bit too strong, especially in early game where they’re supposed to be more of skill matchups than feel like she’s winning by default. So we’re going to adjust her ability to win sustained fights against other fighters by making a small change to her base AD.

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Base Stats

• Attack Damage: 68 ⇒ 66

Galio

Passive damage increased. W damage reduction increased. E damage increased.

Last patch, we preemptively nerfed Galio to ensure the changes didn't land too strong. Since he landed weaker than we expected, we'll be walking back on these nerfs as they're no longer necessary. We're specifically reverting nerfs that affect him more while he's in melee range, as he needs the durability from W and the damage from passive and E to secure kills during that window. While the passive ratio buff will also strengthen his full AP builds, we're okay with that result because it skews him mid and is still helpful for his AP and HP builds.

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Passive - Colossal Smash

• Magic Damage: 15-115 (based on level) (+100% AD) (+40% AP) (+60% Bonus Magic Resistance) ⇒ 15-115 (based on level) (+100% AD) (+45% AP) (+60% Bonus Magic Resistance)

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W - Shield of Durand

• Magic Damage Reduction (halved for physical damage): 20/25/30/35/40 (+4% per 100 bonus magic resistance) (+1% per 100 bonus health) ⇒ 25/30/35/40/45% (+4% per 100 AP) (+8% per 100 bonus magic resistance) (+1% per 100 bonus health)

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E - Justice Punch

• Damage: 75/115/155/195/235 (+90% AP) ⇒ 90/130/170/210/250 (+90% AP)

Karma

W root duration decreased at lower ranks. R+E AoE shield increased.

Karma’s changes last patch landed very close to our goal, but we still want to do a little more to preserve her support power level. In order to do this, we’re decoupling her E ranks from the Mantra-E numbers to make it more in-line with the rest of her abilities, and make it less punishing if you don’t dump skill points into E. These changes should net around a 20-25% increase in shielding to her secondary targets through Mantra-E.

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W - Focused Resolve

• Root Duration: 1.4/1.55/1.7/1.85/2 ⇒ 1.6/1.7/1.8/1.9/2

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R - Mantra

• R+E AoE Shield: 39-129 (based on E and R ranks) (+31.5% AP) ⇒ 45/81/117/153 (based on R ranks) (+40.5% AP). (Note: Move speed and single-target shield unchanged)

Kayn

Q Damage increased.

Shadow Assassin Kayn took a huge hit last patch, largely due to his synergy with Profane Hydra being heavily nerfed. He’s still got some half-decent builds with other items, so we’ll be buffing him with those in mind, since we expect him to climb as players adapt to the new normal. These changes will also slightly buff Rhaast, since he uses the basic version of Q before he transforms.

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Q - Reaping Slash

• Damage: 75/95/115/135/155 (+80 Bonus AD) ⇒ 75/95/115/135/155 (+85% Bonus AD)

Lux

Passive magic damage increased. Q magic damage increased.

Lux support is getting hit by the Zaz’Zak's change this patch, and since she's currently at a reasonable power level we'd like to give her a compensation buff. So we're buffing her ratios in a way that both roles will appreciate, but it should have slight skew for mid due to the wave clear benefits.

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Passive - Illumination

• Magic Damage: 30-200 (based on level) (+25% AP) ⇒ 30-200 (based on level) (+30%AP)

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Q - Light Binding

• Magic Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+60% AP) ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240 (+65% AP)

Nami

W magic damage decreased, healing increased, and bounce fall off reduced. E magic damage decreased.

Nami is at one of her historically weakest points and we think she could use a little love. In line with our other changes around support damage, we’re pulling out some mid-game damage through her E rank up and W AP ratio and re-adding it into her healing and overall teamfight output with W’s bounce power.

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W - Ebb and Flow

• Magic Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+55% AP) ⇒ 60/95/130/165/200 (+50% AP)
• Healing: 55/75/95/115/135 (+25% AP) ⇒ 55/80/105/130/155 (+40% AP)
• Bounce Falloff: -15% (+7.5% per 100 AP) ⇒ -10% (+10% per 100 AP)

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E - Tidecaller’s Blessing

• Magic Damage: 20/35/50/65/80 (+20%AP) ⇒ 20/30/40/50/60 (+20%AP)

Nasus

Passive life steal increased. Q bonus physical damage increased.

Nasus hasn’t been performing so well in Solo Queue. We feel that he scales really well but struggles in lane, as he's able to be punished harshly. We'd like to reduce some of that harshness by increasing his Q damage to help him stack and trade better when using it on his opponent early. We’re also pairing this with an increase to his passive as we nerfed it when Divine Sunderer was still around and it’s no longer necessary to keep it lower.

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Passive - Soul Eater

• Life Steal: 11/16/21% (based on level) ⇒ 12/18/24% (based on level)

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Q - Siphoning Strike

• Bonus Physical Damage: 30/50/70/90/110 (+Siphoning Strike stacks) ⇒ 40/60/80/100/120 (+Siphoning Strike stacks)

Olaf

Q bonus monster damage added. W bonus attack speed duration increased and mana cost increased. E cooldown refund increased when hitting monsters.

Olaf is intended to be a solid jungler but has had a hard time lately, and similar to Sylas, he’s already strong in solo lanes. We’d like to give him better tools to succeed as a jungler by increasing his clear speed, as it should be one of the highest in the game since objective control is his primary strength as a jungler.

While these changes will mostly help Olaf jungle they will still help him top some, so we're including an increase to his ultimate mana cost. We'll pay attention to how this lands and if it ends up restricting his mana pool by too much, we'll follow up to make sure he's still viable in top lane.

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Q - Undertow

• newBonus Monster damage: 5/10/15/20/25

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W - Tough it Out

• Bonus Attack Speed Duration: 4 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds
• Mana Cost: 30 ⇒ 50

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E - Reckless Swing

• Cooldown Refund: 1 second per basic attack ⇒ 1s per basic attack, increased to 2 seconds when hitting monsters

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R - Ragnarok

• Mana Cost: 0 ⇒ 100

Rek’Sai

Passive fury gained from hitting minions, wards, and plants reduced and healing reduced at lower levels.

Rek’Sai is slightly too strong as a jungler, but not unreasonably so. As a top laner, though, she’s an immovable object. We’re pulling her top-lane specific levers in order to bring down that early sustain with a smaller nerf expected for her in the jungle.

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Passive - Fury of the Xer’Sai

• Fury gain from minions, wards, and plants: 12.5 ⇒ 5
• Heal: 12-20% Max HP (based on level) ⇒ 10-20% Max HP (based on level)

Rell

Base magic resist growth increased. Q bonus monster damage removed. W bonus monster damage removed. E bonus monster damage removed.

Rell has long held a spot in Pro play as a low-economy jungler who excels at securing objectives and succeeding on very little gold income. However, this specific set of strengths for this very small set of players have often prevented us from making adjustments that would be good for the 90% of Rell players who enjoy her in support. So we’re ripping off the bandage and removing all of Rell jungle’s monster modifiers, effectively removing her secondary role from the game. As these modifiers carried a little bit of power for her support gameplay, we’re giving her a small direct buff as compensation. If it’s not enough, we’re happy to give her a little more in two weeks' time.

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Base Stats

• Magic Resist Growth: 1.85 ⇒ 2.05

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Q - Shattering Strike

• Bonus Monster Damage: Removed

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W - Crash Down / Mount Up

• Crash Down - Bonus Monster Damage: Removed
• Mount Up - Bonus Monster Damage: Removed

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E - Full Tilt

• Bonus Monster Damage: Removed

Senna

Fewer souls dropped from allied support items killing minions, more souls dropped from Senna killing minions.

We noticed a bug that arrived in patch 14.1 that made Senna get the full drop chance from allied support item executes, which substantially increased her power as a farming bot laner. We’re fixing that bug in this patch and returning her on-kill drop chance near where it was before.

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Passive - Absolution

• Soul Drop Chance on Allied Support Minion Kill: 28% ⇒ 8.4%
• Soul Drop Change on Minion Kill: 2.8% ⇒ 8.4%

Smolder

Base armor increased. Q bonus damage based on crit chance increased.

Smolder got hit a bit harder than we wanted to last patch, so we’re returning some power in ways we think won’t be terribly frustrating. Now that he’s less evasive through E, he can stand to be more baseline durable. And now that his late-game power isn’t nearly as guaranteed, we’re going to return some damage in a way that asks him to build squishier items and be closer to his target.

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Base Stats

• Armor: 24 ⇒ 26

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Q - Super Scorcher Breath

• Bonus Physical Damage based on Crit Chance: 0-30% ⇒ 0-50%

Sona

Passive Staccato damage increased. Q ally bonus magic damage reduced. W heal increased. E ally move speed increased.

Sona, like Nami, is getting her defensive and utility outputs buffed with a compensation damage nerf in the fairly invisible Q aura. We’re juicing her Q-passive just a little as it’s currently the weakest option and is a more appreciable place to give her damage. We expect these changes to be power and appreciation up for Sona and her allies.

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Passive - Power Chord

• Staccato Damage Bonus: 40% ⇒ 50%

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Q - Hymn of Valor

• Ally Bonus Magic Damage: 10/15/20/25/30 (+20% AP) ⇒ 10/15/20/25/30 (+10%AP)

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W - Aria of Perseverance

• Heal: 30/45/60/75/90 (+15% AP) ⇒ 30/45/60/75/90 (+30% AP)

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E - Song of Celerity

• Ally Move Speed: 10/11/12/13/14% (+2% per 100 AP) ⇒ 10/12/14/16/18% (+2% per 100 AP)

Volibear

R cooldown increased.

While we deeply love the bear (Editor add, not designer note), he’s still been a bit too much of a menace in Solo Queue and we’re not seeing that slow down much despite the previous nerfs. First, we’re removing an expectation-breaking interaction between his Q and Sundered Sky, which was granting him extremely large amounts of burst damage. Second, we think he needs a little bit more siphoned off and we feel like the bear enjoyers out there value the move speed from his Q more so than the frequency of the R so we want to pull back some of that previous R cooldown buff that we gave him.

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Q - Thundering Smash

• Crits only increase Volibear’s attack damage instead of total ability damage

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R - Stormbringer

• Cooldown: 140/120/100 ⇒ 160/135/110

Sylas

Q monster damage increased.

Sylas jungle has been quite a weak link for him lately, but he has a playerbase that we'd like to support. Since he lacks any room mid, we’re separating his Q modifier to hasten his jungle clear. This change isn't intended to make Sylas a top tier jungler, but rather to make him more functional for those who play it. For now, we’re staying on the safer side for this initial buff and will revisit his jungle clear as needed.

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Q - Chain Lash

• Minion and Monster Damage: 40% ⇒ 40% for minions and 70% for monsters

Zaz’Zak’s Realmspike

We’re taking a long look at the damage coming out of the support role and this patch we’re going after some exclusively-damage sections.

Zaz’Zak’s is bound to mage supports where champions like Xerath and Lux have support as their strongest role, which leaves us little room to buff them in places like mid lane. Bloodsong creates similar problems for fighters like Camille and Pantheon with respect to their top lane power. In general, we don’t expect these damage-focused champions to switch support items, but would like if enchanters and tanks would build these items less frequently. Imperial Mandate rounds out this list as a support item that provides almost exclusively damage.

• Void Explosion Damage: 20 (+20%AP) (+4% Target Max HP) ⇒ 10 (+20% AP) (+3% Target Max HP)
• Cooldown: 8/7/6 at level 1/11/16 ⇒ 10

Bloodsong

See Zaz’Zak for more context.

• Spellblade AD Ratio: 150% ⇒ 100%

Imperial Mandate

See Zaz’Zak for more context.

• Current HP Damage: 12% ⇒ 10%

Statikk Shiv

Statikk Shiv is a bit too strong now that crit ADCs have a great late game awaiting them. So we’ve adjusted the cost so that it doesn’t hastily bring them to the late game as much as it did in the past.

• Total Cost: 2700 ⇒ 2900

World Atlas

While we've seen a decline in double support items in most regions, we're still seeing some teams do double or more support items. This change should ensure that it's no longer a thing and that support items are only appearing on the intended role that should be grabbing them.

• Excessive Minion Kill Threshold: 20 minions in 5 minutes ⇒ 20 minions (divided by the number of support items on your team) in 5 minutes. This update applies to all support items.
• For additional clarity this would be 10 minions over 5 minutes if two people on your team have World Atlas, then 7 minions over 5 minutes if three people have it, etc.

We’re continuing the ongoing work to reduce the amount of durability debuffs on champions that are generally more engaging supports and tanks. This process overall is going to take us a few iterations and will have some knock on impacts to anti tank options so we’ll work on continuing to address those as well. Our goal is to be assessing more archetypes of champions more often so that we’re allowing each playstyle to have its fun in ARAM.

Next up on the list later on is for assassins and mages in the near future!

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Buffs

• Galio: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Morgana: Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 95%
• Rell: Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%
• Sett: Ability Haste: -20 ⇒ 0
• Singed: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Sona: Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Teemo: Damage Dealt: 85% ⇒ 90%
• Urgot: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Zyra: Ability Haste: -20 ⇒ 0

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Adjustments

• Cho’Gath: Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 110%
• Taric: Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 110%

As a post-launch follow up, we’ve bundled Quickplay bug fixes and quality of life improvements with a visual update. The key improvements are focused on predictability and usability.

Predictability in this case means knowing that you’re going to get into game with one of your selections. Far too many players found themselves on the loading screen with the wrong runes—which is a terrible way to start a match. We found that one reason this occurs is that selections made while in queue do not stick, so we made a change to prevent it from happening in most cases. Another issue we tracked down is if a player has an invalid or incomplete rune page equipped, the system will assign them a different valid page. Our fix drives more awareness that there’s an issue with your current rune page so you can resolve it yourself.

Usability-wise, the new layout has larger hitboxes for the important choices and gives you a much clearer view of all current selections in each slot. We heard feedback that it was too easy to get into game with the wrong Summoner Spells and we saw lots of triple Smite screenshots. In addition to a clearer top down view so you can spot any issues, we made some changes to auto spell selections. In the previous version, when you selected jungle, we gave you Smite, but when you selected from jungle to another position, we left it up to you to change spells. Our fix will give you a position appropriate spell in that case, for example: ignite if you select from jungle to mid. Of course, you can change it to whatever you want, but this should put most players in a better state.

We also heard concerns that Ranked restricted players were abusing Quickplay and other Normal games to force a remake. This was addressed in the last patch across all queues so that remakes no longer count towards lifting their restriction.

• Fixed an issue that caused Sundered Sky to not crit after canceling the previous auto attack.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Rift Herald to stay in its original position after Evelynn jumps in it while leaving camouflage radius until she crashes or reveals herself later. (Editor’s note: bruh what?)
• Fixed a bug where Porcelain Protector Aurelion Sol’s The Skies Descend (R) VFX were not consistently aligned with the trail VFX from enemy perspective.
• Fixed a bug where God-King Darius’ Noxian Guillotine (R) would damage the target enemy if Darius was stunned before the ability animation played.
• Fixed a bug where Battlecast / Arclight / Bee'Koz's Void Rift (W) stole VFX from Star Guardian Rell's Magnet Storm (R).
• Fixed a bug where Twitch’s Ambush (Q) range indicator was not rendering over impassable terrain on Shadowfoot, Dragonslayer, and High Noon skins.
• Fixed a bug where Shan Hai Scrolls Cho’Gath’s arm readjusted its position abruptly after basic attacks.
• Fixed a bug Thunderlord Ornn’s Call of the Forge God (R) elemental ram VFX had partially black textures.
• Fixed an issue where Guinsoo’s Rageblade decided to not show up in the Attack Damage section.
• Fixed an issue where Graves was unable to cast R while grounded.
• Fixed an issue where enemies could sometimes flash out of Yone’s R after it landed placing them in a new spot but still taking the damage/stun.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Spear of Shojin from increasing damage from passive abilities.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Jax’s passive buff icon and fishing buff icon from appearing.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Viego to cast Yone E after changing into another champion.
• Fixed an issue that caused Ornn’s Masterwork Items to not display damage counters.
• Fixed an issue that caused enemies to sometimes die in Kindred’s R while affected by Renata Glasc’s W.
• Fixed an issue that caused Caitlyn’s headshot passive to be consumed when comboing her E and W.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Miss Fortune from gaining conqueror stacks when her basic attacks were empowered by her Passive.
• Fixed an issue that caused Briar to sometimes not display her ability icons.
• Fixed an issue that caused Ryze’s VFX to not display when casting his R near elevated terrain.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Rek’Sai from gaining stacks of certain runes and Eclipse’s passive when she uses Q.
• Fixed an issue that caused Profane Hydra and Titanic Hydra to have no effect when using them via Zoe’s spell thief.
• Fixed an issue that caused Smolder’s R to be more whiny in spectator mode (it was playing the SFX twice for some reason).
• Fixed an issue that allowed Neeko’s W clone to dance and move at the same time.
• Fixed an issue that caused champions to be unable to auto attack after using attack move commands while rooted/snared.
• Fixed an issue that caused champions to auto attack unintentionally after being hit by a root/snare.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

Due to a small issue Zesty Dip Zac and Cheddar Chief Cheese will be releasing with less delicious chroma names than intended. Check out the chroma names in patch 14.8 for a sweet (or savory?) surprise!

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Crystalis Indomitus Kha'Zix, High Noon Evelynn, High Noon Gragas, High Noon Rell, High Noon Yone, Peacemaker High Noon Yone, and Prestige High Noon Evelynn will be available March 20, 2024 at 19:00 UTC.

One for All also returns this patch, so be sure to check it out and experience the fun chaos that can only happen when you lock in as five Yuumis! OFA will be going live on March 20, 2024 at 16:00 UTC for EUW, EUN, RU, and TR. All other Riot regions will have the mode turned on three hours later at 19:00 UTC.

Sometime in the next few patches, we will remove support and the ability to manually opt for DirectX 9 for League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. To maintain the stability and performance of our games we need to deprecate support for older hardware or software that isn’t widely used by players anymore. If you’re still opted into using DirectX 9, the client will automatically turn off this option when we remove the support. However, if you were running it due to hardware reasons we recommend resolving that before we make this change so that you can continue playing when it’s removed.

Continuing on with our updates to the LP system, now that we’ve made promoting much easier we’re also adjusting the LP that players are set to once demoted. In its current state, demotions are a bit too forgiving, meaning some players are playing a rank above their actual skill level which results in negative LP gains. In order to help address this problem, we’ll be lowering the demotion LP starting point from 75 to 50 to help make those demotions more meaningful.

For more information on Placements, Promotions, and more check out our support page here.

• Demotion LP adjusted from 75 LP to 50 LP

Coming in this patch is our new Bot AI technology! Coming to Co-op versus AI: Intro, Beginner, and Intermediate queues, our new bots have picked up a few skills like jungling, taking objectives, ganking, and more. Our primary goal is that this new AI will provide newer players with a space to learn and grow while providing our experienced players with a lower-stress mode to enjoy. At the end of the day, we wanted to create an experience that feels much more like what you would see gameplay-wise in your normal games of Summoner’s Rift and we’re excited for our bots to do just that!

For more about the development of our new bot AI, check out the following dev blogs:.

• /Dev: Leveling Up Bots
• /Dev: New Bot AI, Oh My! Coming 14.6!

Briar

Q can now jump to wards. W bonus attack speed decreased, healing decreased. R damage decreased.

Briar is currently struggling to find her footing in higher skill brackets of play while also overperforming in lower skill brackets. We’re introducing some skill level skewed nerfs and throwing a bone to Briar players who want to cosplay as Lee Sin.

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Q - Head Rush

• Ward Watch: Q can now jump to wards.

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W - Blood Frenzy

• Bonus Attack Speed: 55/70/85/100/115% ⇒ 54/68/82/96/110%

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W - Snack Attack

• Healing Based on Damage Dealt: 25/30/35/40/45% ⇒ 24/28/32/36/40%

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R - Certain Death

• Damage: 150/300/450 (+50% bonus AD) (+120% AP) ⇒ 150/250/350 (+50% bonus AD) (+120% AP)

Cho'Gath

W cooldown decreased. E damage increased.

Cho’Gath isn’t doing too hot up top, so we’re here to help this Void monstrosity become a bit more monstrous. We’re specifically targeting his early W cooldown and E damage in order to give him some better trading power and waveclear in lane.

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W - Feral Scream

• Cooldown: 13/12/11/10/9 ⇒ 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds

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E - Vorpal Spikes

• Damage per Spike: 22/34/46/58/70 (+3% (+0.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health) ⇒ 22/37/52/67/82 (+3% (+0.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health)

Diana

Attack speed ratio increased, growth decreased. Passive bonus attack speed decreased, scaling adjusted, empowered bonus attack speed duration increased.

While Diana has been successful as an assassin in the mid lane this season, Jungle Diana has suffered due to her need to be an auto attacker. This patch, we're amping up her synergy with sustained combat builds without giving too much extra power to bursty ones.

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Base Stats

• Attack Speed Ratio: 0.625 ⇒ 0.694
• Attack Speed Growth: 2.25% ⇒ 2%

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Passive - Moonsilver Blade

• Bonus Attack Speed: 15-39.96% (scaling every 3 levels) ⇒ 15-35% (scaling linearly) (Note: Added scaling past level 18 for alternate game modes.)
• Empowered Bonus Attack Speed: tripled for 3 seconds ⇒ tripled for 5 seconds (Note: this tooltip is bugged and will not reflect the change until the next patch.)

Galio

Large adjustments to passive. Q damage decreased, cooldown decreased. W damage decreased, damage reduction adjusted. E damage decreased, damage to non champions increased.

In this patch, we’re making several adjustments to Galio with the goal of making his damage more consistent over fights and to increase his synergy with more durable AP items such as Rod of Ages and Riftmaker. The largest change we’re making is an increase to his Passive cadence throughout the game in order to require Galio to be in melee range for longer to access his full potential (this does however come at the cost of some damage). Since these changes incentivize Galio to use his passive more, we’d like to make it feel better to use by increasing his attack speed while it’s up.

The second largest change here is a new health ratio on his W, which should make purchasing AP and health items feel much better. The rest of the changes are focused on ensuring tank Galio doesn’t become too strong by toning down base damage while ensuring we keep the AP ratios high. Lastly, we’re including a buff to his E waveclear, as we expect these changes to hurt his waveclear due to the base damage nerf on his passive.

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Passive - Colossal Smash

• Magic Damage: 15-200 (based on level) (+100% AD) (+50% AP) (+60% bonus magic resistance) ⇒ 15-115 (based on level) (+100% AD) (+40% AP) (+60% bonus magic resistance)
• newHitting enemy champions or Epic monsters with abilities reduces this cooldown by 3 seconds, once per cast.
• newColossal Smash now triggers spell effects.
• newGalio now gains 40% attack speed while his passive is available.
• removedColossal Smash is no longer affected by Ability Haste.

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Q - Winds of War

• Magic Damage: 70/105/140/175/210 (+75% AP) ⇒ 70/105/140/175/210 (+70% AP)
• Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8 ⇒ 12/10.75/9.5/8.25/7 seconds

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W - Shield of Durand

• Magic Damage Reduction: 25/30/35/40/45% (+5% per 100 AP) (+12% per 100 bonus magic resistance) ⇒ 20/25/30/35/40% (+4% per 100 AP) (+8% per 100 bonus magic resistance) (+ 1% per 100 bonus health)
• Minimum Magic Damage: 20/35/50/65/80 (+30% AP) ⇒ 20/30/40/50/60 (+30% AP)

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E - Justice Punch

• Magic Damage: 90/130/170/210/250 (+90% AP) ⇒ 75/115/155/195/235 (+90% AP)
• Reduced Damage to Non-Champions: 50% ⇒ 20%

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Bugfixes

• Galio's passive now correctly executes minions when using the support item.

Gragas

Base health decreased. Q mana cost increased.

Gragas is currently performing too well in solo queue, particularly in higher skill brackets, so we’ll be nerfing him there specifically. We’re doing this by reducing his base health, as it’s currently quite high, which should increase his early vulnerability and give his opponents more of a window to kill him, while also slightly reducing some of his passive power. We’re also including a nerf to his Q mana cost to reduce how frequently he can spam his Q before purchasing items.

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 670 ⇒ 640

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Q - Barrel Roll

• Mana Cost: 80/75/70/65/60 ⇒ 80 at all ranks

Karma

Mana growth decreased, mana regeneration growth increased. Passive cooldown refund decreased. Q mana cost increased. R cooldown increased, E+R bonus shield increased.

Right now Karma is a reasonably powerful support but an oppressive mid laner who makes it difficult to do anything against her in the mid game. We want Mantra to be a button that she has to consider when to press and think of the best situations to use it. With Karma’s easy access to Ultimate Haste, that strategic choice has lost value as she’s casting Mantra too frequently. We have some nerfs to address this, but plan to offset these for support Karma by shifting her toward mana regen and including a buff to Defiance to preserve its current power level.

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Base Stats

• Mana Growth: 50 ⇒ 40
• Mana Regeneration Growth: 0.5 ⇒ 0.8

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Passive - Gathering Fire

• Cooldown Refund: 5 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds

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Q - Inner Flame

• Mana Cost: 45 ⇒ 40/50/60/70/80

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R - Mantra

• Cooldown: 40/37/34/31 ⇒ 40/38/36/34 seconds
• R+E Defiance Bonus Shield: 25/75/125/175 (+45% AP) ⇒ 50/90/130/170 (+45% AP)

Kayn

Darkin Q damage increased, Q animation now prevents use of item actives. Shadow Assassin R damage decreased.

Thanks to the last patch, fighter items now appear to be optimal on Rhaast. So mission accomplished there! That said, Kayn's two forms are still pretty far apart in power level, so we’re nerfing Shadow Assassin and buffing Darkin a bit more. We’re also specifically hitting his ability to activate items during his Q, as those items are meant to have their own cast times without being hidden inside of other spells.

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Q - Reaping Slash

• Darkin - Damage per Hit: 65% Total AD + 5 (+3.5% bonus AD)% target's maximum health ⇒ 65% Total AD + 6 (+3.5% bonus AD)% target's maximum health
• newReaping Slash's animation now locks Kayn out of using item actives.

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R - Umbral Trespass

• Damage: 150/250/350 (+175% Bonus AD) ⇒ 150/250/350 (+150% Bonus AD) (Note: This does not affect Darkin form ultimate damage.)

Ornn

E cooldown decreased.

Ornn is a little sad but isn’t quite as bad as some stats may lead you to believe, as experienced Ornn players are optimizing him by lowering their Searing Charge cooldown in the mid game by maxing it second. We’d like if E and Q max second were a little closer in power level, so we’re giving some of that E max power for free as an early game buff to everyone and a late game buff to players who continue to max Q second.

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E - Searing Charge

• Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 ⇒ 14/13.5/13/12.5/12 seconds

Rek'Sai

W bugfix. R QoL change and bugfix.

When we changed Burrow to always damage everyone inside the circle, we mistakenly removed its ability to always hit her auto-attack target, regardless of its actual range. We’re returning that functionality to this patch in addition to fixing another bug where her R could fail to cast in very specific scenarios.

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W - Burrow

• Bugfix: Attacks should now always damage and knock up the primary target when right-clicking, even with enhanced range via Milio or Rapid Firecannon. This was also partially fixed in a micropatch during 14.5.

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R - Void Rush

• QoL Update: R can now be queued up from outside of cast range, prompting Rek'Sai to walk into range to cast the spell
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where if Rek'Sai was stunned on the very next frame after casting R, it would fail

Senna

Passive Mist Wraith drop rate decreased.

While we think Senna is appropriately powerful as a support in the hands of most players, she’s currently far too strong as a farming bot laner. While we targeted both her primary roles last patch, we’re specifically reducing the power of her bot lane carry performance this time.

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Passive - Absolution

• Mist Wraith Spawn Rate on Minion Kill: 8.333% ⇒ 2.8%

Shen

Passive cooldown adjusted.

Shen is a unique tank with strong 1v1 dueling potential and we’d like to make sure he continues to live up to that standard. So this patch we’re amping up his mid-game selfish combat power by adjusting the scaling of his passive’s cooldown refund for better trading potential.

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Passive - Ki Barrier

• Cooldown Refund: 4/4.5/5/5.5/6/6.5/7/7.5 (levels 1/6/9/12/14/16/17/18) ⇒ 4-7.5 (linear level scaling) (Note: This is a buff from levels 2-17 and is most pronounced at levels 8-16.)

Sion

Q damage increased. W shield increased.

Once Sion lost his hard-binding to Heartsteel, he lost a lot of scaling, a lot of damage, and a lot of functional health, since the whole system fed back into itself. This patch, we’re attempting to bring Sion back to his scaling tank glory days, letting him truly shine in games where he’s performing well.

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Q - Decimating Smash

• Minimum Damage: 40/60/80/100/120 (+45/52.5/60/67.5/75% total AD) ⇒ 40/60/80/100/120 (+40/50/60/70/80% total AD)
• Maximum Damage: 90/155/220/285/350 (+135/157.5/180/202.5/225% Total AD) ⇒ 90/155/220/285/350 (+120/150/180/210/240% Total AD)

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W - Soul Furnace

• Shield: 60/85/110/135/160 (+8/9/10/11/12% maximum health) ⇒ 60/75/90/105/120 (+8/10/12/14/16% maximum health)

Smolder

Q execute threshold decreased, conditions adjusted. W width decreased. E movement speed decreased.

Smolder is just a lil guy, but this lil guy’s dream of scaling with his stacks can feel like an inevitable nightmare for his opponents. While we don’t believe he’ll be problematic in the long term, there are quite a few frustrating or overpowered parts of his kit right now that we’re looking to address this patch. First, his execute scaling based on stacks has been too powerful, so we’re capping it at 6.5%. Second, the safety from his E and mismatched hitbox with his W visuals can be quite frustrating to go up against and help him scale more easily, so we’re nerfing them both with the goal of making Smolder’s early game weaknesses more noticeable for players that find themselves matched up against him.

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Q - Super Scorcher Breath

• Execute Threshold: 2% (+0.025 % per stack) ⇒ 6.5% (Note: This started at 7.625% at 225 stacks.)
• Execute Conditions: Smolder only checks to execute units after Smolder's damage, meaning it will no longer execute off of allies' damage.

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W - ACHOOO!

• Missile Radius: 125 ⇒ 115

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E - Flap, Flap, Flap

• Movement Speed: 100% ⇒ 75%

Tryndamere

Attack speed growth increased.

Tryndamere lost some power back in the patch 14.4 nerf to Lethal Tempo, so we'd like to give some back in a way that doesn't buff his level 1 all-in. In this patch, we’re giving him some more Attack Speed growth as compensation for his primary rune being nerfed, as he didn't deserve (nor have room for) the collateral damage there.

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Base Stats

• Attack Speed Growth: 2.9% ⇒ 3.4%

Volibear

Q bonus movement speed decreased. R cooldown increased.

Volibear jungle is currently performing too well after our recent buffs and we’re back this patch to rein him in a bit. We’ll be walking back on some of the Q bonus movement speed and R cooldown buffs, but overall ensuring they’re still meaningfully stronger than before.

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Q - Thundering Smash

• Bonus Movement Speed: 12/17/22/27/32% ⇒ 12/16/20/24/28% (Note: This is doubled when moving towards visible enemy champions.)

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R - Stormbringer

• Cooldown: 130/115/100 ⇒ 140/120/100 seconds

CRIT MARKSMEN BUFFS

Crit marksmen as a whole feel pretty sad right now, so we’d like to power up the subclass as a whole. We’re doing this through their big-ticket multipliers and amping up their specific strengths as tank busters so that they strategically stand out from other marksmen who peak earlier in the game.

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Infinity Edge

• Critical Strike Damage: 40% ⇒ 50%

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Navori Quickblades

• Item Recipe: Pickaxe + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 725 gold ⇒ B.F. Sword + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 300 gold (Note: Total cost unchanged.)
• Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 65

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Lord Dominik's Regards

• Armor Penetration: 30% ⇒ 35%

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Mortal Reminder

• Armor Penetration: 30% ⇒ 35%

EARLY DORAN'S ITEMS FOR JUNGLERS AND SUPPORTS

In this patch we’re updating the rules around Doran’s Blade/Ring/Shield, World Atlas, Runic Compass, and the Jungle egg “Starter” items. Owning one Starter item listed here precludes you from buying the others. This means supports who start with a Doran’s Blade or Doran’s Ring will be unable to buy their support quests without first selling their Doran’s item and Junglers will be unable to buy an early Doran’s until they finish evolving their pet. We’re doing this to maintain Doran’s items as exclusive tools for laners as a way of giving them early agency over other roles (jungle and support) who aren't innately tied to being in lane and thus are more easily able to 2v1 or 3v1 their opponents. For more context, make sure to read about the support item changes below.

• One at a Time: Doran's Blade, Doran's Ring, and Doran's Shield may no longer be purchased if World Atlas or Runic Compass is already in the player's inventory. This also applies to the Mosstomper, Gustwalker, and Scorchclaw starting jungle items. Growing your jungle pet all the way and upgrading your support item to its final form removes this restriction.

EARLY INCOME FOR SUPPORTS

Supports have gained a lot of power this season, specifically from their ability to hit two-item spikes (such as Zaz’Zak’s plus Liandry’s) very quickly. In this patch, we’re delaying their “second” item by lowering the amount of upfront gold that comes from their support items while still allowing their wards and quest completion to come in at the same time.

Additionally, we’re hitting PVP—specifically ranged PVP gold—slightly more than the other sources. These changes are meant to slightly weaken roaming as a method of quest completion and also bring ranged and melee users closer to quest completion parity, as ranged champions typically complete their quests 10-15 seconds faster than their melee counterparts.

We’re also delivering another direct nerf to Solstice Sleigh. Last patch we got its power level very close to where we wanted it but it needs one more small hit to get to an appropriate power level.

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World Atlas

• Gold per Minion Kill: 20 ⇒ 15
• Gold on Damage to Champions (Melee): 30 ⇒ 22
• Gold on Damage to Champions (Ranged): 28 ⇒ 20
• Gold Required for Upgrade: 500 ⇒ 400
• newWorld Atlas is no longer able to be built if Doran's Blade, Doran's Ring, or Doran's Shield are in the player's inventory.

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Runic Compass

• Gold per Minion Kill: 28 ⇒ 20
• Gold on Damage to Champions (Melee): 34 ⇒ 24
• Gold on Damage to Champions (Ranged): 32 ⇒ 22
• Gold Required for Upgrade: 1000 ⇒ 800
• newRunic Compass is no longer able to be built if Doran's Blade, Doran's Ring, or Doran's Shield are in the player's inventory.

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Solstice Sleigh

• Bonus Movement Speed: 25% for 3 seconds ⇒ 20% for 2.5 seconds (Note: Bonus health duration also decreased to 2.5 seconds.)

EPIC ITEMS

In this patch we’re taking a pass on Epic items with a couple goals in mind. First, we want to lower the number of times a lane can feel “over” due to one gank or single kill. The gold and experience difference will still be valuable, but the advantage doesn’t need to compound with overly strong early item spikes. We’re preserving the full power of Legendary items and making sure that you have to wait for those item spikes to really surge ahead of their opponents. Second, with piecemeal Epic items like Serrated Dirk being so easy to purchase, even when you had 1300 gold for an expensive component like B.F. Sword or Needlessly Large Rod, it was frequently incorrect to buy them. With those more expensive components being more difficult to buy, we believe that players should be rewarded when they’re able to make those big ticket component purchases.

Additionally, we’re doing some light cleanup on Glacial Buckler and Steel Sigil, whose build paths are now cleaner, and Spectre’s Cowl, whose completed Legendary items simply gave health regen instead of the Incorporeal passive.

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Bami's Cinder

• Immolation Damage: 12 (+1% bonus health) ⇒ 13 (+0.5% bonus health)

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Caulfield's Warhammer

• Attack Damage: 25 ⇒ 20

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Fiendish Codex

• Ability Power: 35 ⇒ 25

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Glacial Buckler

• Item Recipe: Cloth Armor + Sapphire Crystal + 250 gold ⇒ Cloth Armor + Glowing Mote + Sapphire Crystal + 50 gold
• Total Cost: 900 ⇒ 950 gold

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Haunting Guise

• Ability Power: 35 ⇒ 30

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Hearthbound Axe

• Attack Damage: 20 ⇒ 15
• Total Cost: 1200 ⇒ 1150 gold

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Hextech Alternator

• Ability Power: 50 ⇒ 45

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Kircheis Shard

• Energize Bonus Damage: 60 ⇒ 50

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Serrated Dirk

• Attack Damage: 25 ⇒ 20

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Spectre's Cowl

• Item Recipe: Ruby Crystal + Null Magic Mantle + 400g ⇒ Ruby Crystal + Rejuvenation Bead + Null Magic Mantle + 100g
• Health: 250 ⇒ 200
• removedUnique Passive Incorporeal - Gain 150% base health regen for up to 10 seconds upon taking damage from a champion
• new100% Base Health Regen

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Steel Sigil

• Item Recipe: Cloth Armor + Long Sword ⇒ Cloth Armor + Cloth Armor + Long Sword

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The Brutalizer

• Lethality: 8 ⇒ 5

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Tunneler

• Total Cost: 1100 gold ⇒ 1150 gold

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Verdant Barrier

• Total Cost: 1800 gold ⇒ 1700 gold

VOIDGRUBS

This patch, we’re changing the shield buff that Voidgrubs receive to a heal. This is intended to eliminate any confusion on when to smite a Voidgrub since the shield was not accounted for in the displayed health amount. This should function fairly similarly to before and we hope this change helps junglers with timing their smite and securing that sweet, voidy, grubby buff.

• Voidgrub Death Buff: On death, remaining Voidgrubs receive a 25% maximum and missing health shield that decays over 10 seconds ⇒ On death, remaining Voidgrubs receive a 30% maximum and missing health heal that decays over 10 seconds. Any excess healing temporarily increases their maximum health.
• The Voidgrub buff VFX will now stay throughout the entire duration of the buff.

In this patch, we have a few straightforward damage dealt and taken adjustments, but we’re also trying out something new with Ziggs. We’ve seen players get frustrated by the flat 20% damage reduction nerf Ziggs has on ARAM, but we want to be cautious with his overall power level so he doesn’t insta-win games. We’re giving him some damage back this patch, but aiming to keep him in check by decreasing the amount of damage he can do to structures. Let us know how you like this one!

We also want to reassure you that Smolder is definitely on our watch list, but since he’s getting nerfed this patch we want to see how those changes land on ARAM before potentially overnerfing the lad.

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BUFFS

• Alistar: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Diana: Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 95%
• Lillia: Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 95%
• Ornn: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Twisted Fate: Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%

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ADJUSTMENTS

• Janna: Q Cooldown: 14 ⇒ 16 seconds; Shielding Done: 90% ⇒ 95%
• Ziggs: W Tower Execute: 25/27.5/30/32.5/35% ⇒ 12.5/15/17.5/20/22.5% of tower's maximum health; Passive Damage to Structures: 250% ⇒ 150%; Damage Dealt: 80% ⇒ 85%

Our next Clash tournament for ARAM kicks off this weekend!

• Registration Begins: March 18 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
• Tournament Dates: March 23 and 24 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)

If you have any questions or you're just looking for the full 2024 clash schedule, make sure to check out our Clash FAQ support page.

Starting with this patch, we'll be making some updates to the replay system. While you won't notice any changes on your end, this will help us make improvements behind the scenes. This update will remove any saved replays created during this patch earlier than usual, but as soon as the update goes through the replay system will return to saving and storing replays for ~14 days as normal.

We're rolling this change out one or two regions at a time, so make sure you check the below list to know what date to save your replays by:

• OC: March 25, 2024
• JP: March 25, 2024
• NA: April 2, 2024

UPCOMING ROTATIONS

We're back with another bulk update for the Mythic Shop rotation. Similar to the patch notes from earlier this year, here are the rotations for the next ~3 months of Mythic Shop.

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NOW AVAILABLE

• Prestige PsyOps Ezreal
• Prestige Winterblessed Warwick
• Prestige Duality Dragon Volibear
• Prestige Space Groove Nami
• Dark Star Cho'Gath
• Hextech Renekton
• Crystalis Indomitus Kha'Zix
• Crystalis Indomitus Kha'Zix Chroma (Fractured)
• World is Delicious Emote (Crystalis Indomitus Kha'Zix)

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LEAVING THE MYTHIC SHOP

• Prestige Mythmaker Sivir
• Prestige K/DA Ahri
• Prestige Battle Academia Leona
• Prestige Star Guardian Neeko
• Prestige Porcelain Kindred
• Hextech Alistar
• Hextech Malzahar
• Crystalis Motus Ashe
• Crystalis Motus Ashe Chroma (Reclaimed)
• Oops, Did I Do That? (Crystalis Motus Ashe Emote)
• Crystalis Motus Ward

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FUTURE ROTATIONS

COMING IN PATCH 14.8

• Prestige Porcelain Lissandra
• Prestige Bewitching Miss Fortune
• Prestige PROJECT: Sylas
• Prestige Coven Zyra

COMING IN PATCH 14.10

• Prestige Arcade Caitlyn
• Prestige Nightbringer Kayn
• Prestige Fuzz Fizz
• Prestige Ascended Pantheon

PATCH 14.12

• Prestige Faerie Court Katarina
• Prestige True Damage Senna
• Prestige Brave Phoenix Xayah
• Prestige Coven LeBlanc
• Dawnbringer Karma
• Hextech Nocturne
• Crystalis Indomitus Xerath

• Fixed an issue where Vandal Gragas Drunken Rage (W) animation could override other abilities’ animations.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rift Herald to charge towards the bottom left of the map by default. Rift Herald and Hexgates will now automatically move you toward the direction your cursor is hovering without needing to right click.
• Fixed a bug that caused remakes to count towards reducing players’ Ranked Restrictions
• Fixed a bug that caused Volibear’s W to be able to apply a mark and heal through Jax’s Counter Strike.
• Fixed a bug that caused Diana’s E to sometimes not reset.
• Fixed a bug that caused Diana's initial W shield to last 1 second shorter than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused Vayne’s Q animation, when used during her R, to stutter under specific circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused Cloud and Ocean Soul to not persist through revival effects like Guardian Angel, Zac’s Passive, or Zilean’s R.
• Fixed a bug that caused Urgot’s W to not apply spell effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused Twisted Fate to cancel a recall or Hexgate channel if he locked in a card during his W shuffle.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rengar’s Q to not apply spell effects when leaping from a bush.
• Fixed a bug that caused Shyvana’s Q to consume 2 stacks of Hail of Blades.
• Fixed a bug that caused Chemtech terrain plants to sometimes spawn on top of one another.
• Fixed a bug that caused Scrying Orb’s placement SFX to be audible while in the Fog of War.
• Fixed a bug that caused Azir to sometimes freeze during his E + Q combo animation.
• Fixed a bug that caused Neeko to retain a red health bar when viewed by an enemy Ivern if she was disguised as a monster.
• Fixed a bug where Worlds 2018 Kha'Zix’s Evolved Void Assault (R) textures were not changing after evolving the ability.
• Restored Drunken Rage (W) overlay for Santa Gragas. Ho ho ho!

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

PROJECT: Naafiri, PROJECT: Jax, and PROJECT: Gangplank will be available March 6, 2024 at 20:00 UTC.

Now that we're two months into Season 2024 Split 1 we wanted to take a moment to share the Split 1 end date so players with ambitious ranked goals (or those that have been procrastinating their climbs like me) can plan ahead!

• Split 1 End Date: May 14, 2024 at 23:59:59 according to your server's local time
• Split 2 Start Date: May 15, 2024 at 12:00:00 according to your server's local time
• Bugfix: We're aware of a bug that is causing the ranked countdown timer in the client to count down to the Split 1 end date based on last year's end date. We have a fix prepared and it will be going live in Patch 14.6 to match the dates and times mentioned above.

Bel'Veth

E damage reduction decreased. Bugfix to passive that gave Bel'Veth too many stacks from Epic Void monsters.

Bel'Veth is currently the Empress of the Void and dueling in the early game. The damage reduction coming from her E is a key contributor to this, so we're bringing it down a notch while also addressing some grub bugs that were working in her favor.

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Passive - Death In Lavender

• Bugfix: Fixed a bug that caused Bel'Veth to get three stacks for each Epic Void monster. She now properly gets two Death in Lavender stacks per Void Grub (for a total of six if she gets all three of them) and two for Rift Herald.

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E - Royal Maelstrom

• Damage Reduction: 42/49/56/63/70% ⇒ 35/40/45/50/55%

Brand

Passive damage to monsters increased. R damage decreased, cooldown increased.

While we feel Brand's power level is appropriate in the jungle, he's far too dominant in mid and support in Platinum and below. As such, we'll be reducing his explosive burst damage, which is disproportionately more powerful in these skill brackets.

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Passive - Blaze

• Damage to Monsters: 200% ⇒ 215%

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R - Pyroclasm

• Damage per Hit: 100/200/300 (+25% AP) ⇒ 100/175/250 (+25% AP)
• Cooldown: 105/90/75 ⇒ 110/100/90 seconds

Evelynn

Q damage decreased.

Evelynn has been dominating the top skill brackets of solo queue for a while now, so we're taking a swing at how quickly she can snowball with a gold (and Dark Seal stack) lead.

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Q - Hate Spike

• Damage: 25/30/35/40/45 (+30% AP) ⇒ 25/30/35/40/45 (+25% AP)

Jarvan IV

Armor growth increased. Q cooldown decreased.

After the changes to Spear of Shojin earlier this year, Jarvan no longer has to be tuned around excessively high ability haste. Since he's currently in need of a little extra power, we're reverting some changes we originally made when Shojin was much more powerful on him.

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Base Stats

• Armor Growth: 4.8 ⇒ 5.2

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Q - Dragon Strike

• Cooldown: 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds ⇒ 10/9/8/7/6 seconds

Kayn

Passive Darkin healing increased. R Darkin healing increased.

Red Kayn is currently feeling pretty blue. After losing access to Goredrinker and nerfs to his passive, he no longer feels like he's able to drain-tank fights and thus has to build lethality to do slightly better than if he were to build fighter items… which admittedly still isn't great. We'd like to raise the power level of Darkin Kayn while also nudging that performance toward fighter items, so we're opting to increase his self-healing which synergizes better with his fighter builds.

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Passive - The Darkin Scythe

• Darkin Bonus - Healing: 25% ⇒ 25% (+0.5% per 100 Bonus Health)

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R - Umbral Trespass

• Darkin Form Healing: 65% of damage dealt ⇒ 75% of damage dealt

Kog'Maw

Passive bonus movement speed increased. Q cast time adjusted. E slow increased. R damage increased.

Kog'Maw is a sad Void puppy who's very reliant on just his W. We're looking to reinforce that Kog'maw feels like his whole kit is useful and feels good for his primary playstyle. These changes include letting him weave Q into his pattern a bit more (this also might make Trinity a bit better which is a cool option for him, but not the goal here). We're also making E a spell worth casting, as currently a number of Kog'Maws (Kog'Mi?) don't even put points into E. Finally, we're making Kog'maw's passive a bit more reliable and buffing his R up in AD builds.

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Passive - Icathian Surprise

• Bonus Movement Speed: 0-40% over 4 seconds ⇒ 10-50% over 4 seconds

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Q - Caustic Spittle

• Cast Time: 0.25 seconds ⇒ now matches Kog'Maw's auto attack frame time

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E - Void Ooze

• Slow: 30/35/40/45/50% ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60%

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R - Living Artillery

• Minimum Damage: 100/140/180 (+65% bonus AD) (+35% AP) ⇒ 100/140/180 (+75% bonus AD) (+35% AP)

Maokai

Base movement speed decreased. Q bonus damage to monsters increased. W cooldown increased.

Maokai is still performing far better than he needs to at support, although some of that is due to Solstice Sleigh being overpowered. We believe that a mix of Solstice getting nerfed this patch and some direct changes should get Maokai support into an appropriate state. But even if we're nerfing him as a support, we want to maintain his viability as a jungler, so we'll be hastening his first clear which has become pretty slow after the recent nerfs to his Q and E.

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Base Stats

• Base Movement Speed: 335 ⇒ 330

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Q - Bramble Smash

• Bonus Damage to Monsters: 80/100/120/140/160 ⇒ 120/130/140/150/160

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W - Twisted Advance

• Cooldown: 13/12/11/10/9 ⇒ 14/13/12/11/10 seconds

Nidalee

Base movement speed decreased. Cougar Q bonus damage to hunted targets decreased.

Nidalee is in a pretty stable place right now, but that's only if you look at Emerald and below. In high Diamond and above she's at Apex predator levels of powerful. In order to keep her in a good state for the majority of players, we're hitting her with some high skill skewed nerfs, namely her base mobility and Q follow up damage.

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Base Stats

• Base Movement Speed: 340 ⇒ 335

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Q - Takedown

• Bonus Damage to Hunted Targets: 40% ⇒ 30%

Rek'Sai

Various QoL updates and bugfixes. E damage and monster cap increased. R damage increased.

Rek'Sai's kit update has done a lot for raising interest (her play rate initially doubled) but she landed weaker than we hoped, so we're coming in with a large array of buffs. Most notably, her attack animations are being sped up and we're returning the un-cancelable Queen's Wrath attack, which was temporarily removed to prevent another bug that has since been fixed. Additionally, we're buffing her strongest E and R to help them have a satisfying amount of damage.

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Base Stats

• Attack Windup: 26.67% (+100% Attack Speed) ⇒ 20% (+60% Attack Speed) (Note: This means attacks take 25% less time to fully animate at level 1, down to 3% less time with Stridebreaker, runes, and Q active at level 18.)
• Basic Attack Cast Frame: 12 ⇒ 10 (Note: This means attacks deal their damage about 20% earlier in the animation.)
• Critical Strike Cast Frame: 9 ⇒ 10

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Q - Queen's Wrath

• QoL Change: Attacks can no longer be canceled mid-attack, now matches most other empowered attacks
• Cast Frame: 12 ⇒ 9 (Note: This means the attack strikes the target about 33% earlier in the animation.)
• Bugfix: Attacks now stack Spear of Shojin when hitting only one champion

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W - Burrow / Unburrow

• newAn Uplifting Change: Unburrow will now knock up all Large Monsters in range if they're eligible
• newAn Non-Lifting Uplifting Change: Unburrow can now damage (but not knock up) targets who were recently knocked up and immune to Unburrow
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where Rek'Sai could stop auto-attacking after burrowing and quickly unburrowing

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E - Tunnel

• Bugfix In Progress: Reduced the frequency of a bug that caused Rek'Sai to occasionally fail to dash when crossing walls. We'll be keeping an eye out for more instances of this bug occurring and work to resolve them as we're able to.

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E - Furious Bite

• 100 Fury Bonus Damage: 6/8/10/12/14% of target's maximum health ⇒ 8/9.5/11/12.5/14% of target's maximum health
• Monster Bonus Damage Cap: 60-400 (based on level) ⇒ 75-400 (based on level)

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R - Void Rush

• Damage: 100/250/400 (+100% bonus AD) (+20/25/30% of target's missing health) ⇒ 150/300/450 (+100% bonus AD) (+25/30/35% of target's missing health)

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Miscellaneous

• Made minor updates to tooltips to improve clarity.

Senna

Q damage decreased.

Senna is quite powerful at the moment, dominating as a conventional bot laner in Solo queue and as a support in Pro play. In order to bring her down a notch we're taking off a chunk of her Q AD scaling which should bring down her damage while preserving her utility outputs.

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Q - Piercing Darkness

• Damage: 30/60/90/120/150 (+50% bonus AD) ⇒ 30/60/90/120/150 (+40% bonus AD)

Seraphine

All abilities adjusted.

The vast majority of Seraphine's player base is in support, where she's currently critically weak. Typically, we'd just buff her, but she's also significantly overpowered as a bot lane AP carry, which means simpler tactics aren't available. So we're trying again to close the gap between these two roles while being mindful of what players find fun about her in each play style.

For APC Seraphine, we're playing up her repeated damage. Q's missile speed and execute damage against champions has gone up and E is now worthy of maxing over W with a better AP ratio to boot. As compensation, she's losing a lot of power against minions and a bit of top-end ultimate power.

For support Seraphine, we're embracing her various builds. There's a logical case for every conceivable skill order and we're trying to make those choices viable based upon what game you're facing: Want to be primarily about shielding? It should be equally viable to max Q or E instead. Want to cosplay as a full mage and just deal as much damage as possible? Go right ahead, we think that option should also be supported.

We're also delivering some small support-skewed changes like shifting her mana toward regeneration, which synergizes with the support item, plus some base move speed, which is more important to a more roam-centric role.

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Base Stats

• Movement speed: 325 ⇒ 330
• Mana Growth: 50 ⇒ 25
• Mana Regeneration: 0.4 ⇒ 0.95
• Base AD: 55 ⇒ 50

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Passive - Stage Presence

• Damage: 5/10/18/30 (+5% AP) (levels 1/6/11/16) ⇒ 4-25 (based on level, linear) (+4% AP)
• removed300% minion damage modifier has been removed

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Q - High Note

• Missile Speed: 1200 ⇒ 1300
• Cooldown: 10/8.75/7.5/6.25/5 ⇒ 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds
• Mana Cost: 65/70/75/80/85 ⇒ 60/70/80/90/100
• Damage: 55/80/105/130/155 (+50% AP) ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160 (+50% AP)
• Maximum Damage Amp based on Missing Health: 50% ⇒ 60%
• removedDamage amp no longer affects non-champions
• removedNo longer prevents minions from dying to other minions while in flight

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W - Surround Sound

• Cooldown: 28/25/22/19/16 ⇒ 22/21/20/19/18 seconds
• Mana Cost: 80/85/90/95/100 ⇒ 70/75/80/85/90
• Shield: 50/75/100/125/150 (+20% AP) ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160 (+20% AP)
• Seraphine Bonus Movement Speed: 20% (+4% AP) ⇒ 20% (+2% AP)

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E - Beat Drop

• Cooldown: 10 ⇒ 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds
• Mana Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 ⇒ 60 at all ranks
• Damage: 60/95/130/165/200 (+35% AP) ⇒ 70/100/130/160/190 (+50% AP)
• Slow Duration: 1.25 ⇒ 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 seconds
• Minion Damage: 100% ⇒ 70%

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R - Encore

• Damage: 150/200/250 (+60% AP) ⇒ 150/200/250 (+40% AP)
• Cooldown: 160/130/100 ⇒ 160/140/120 seconds

Sivir

Base armor increased.

Sivir has been weak for a while, and while examining where we could give her some power, we noticed that with such a short attack range, it's hard for her to have an interactive laning phase. As such we're bringing her up to a much higher base armor value to let her trade and scrap in lane more effectively.

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Base Stats

• Base Armor: 26 ⇒ 30

Smolder

Q damage adjusted. E bolt quantity adjusted. R damage decreased, sweet spot damage increased, self heal increased.

Smolder is currently in a healthy spot and we’re generally happy with how he’s landed on the Rift. In this patch we’re making some adjustments to how he scales and interacts with the item system to disincentivize tankier builds and to put even more emphasis on his stacking and late game dragon fantasy. We also want proactive E casts to matter more for all builds, not just crit ones. Finally, R’s sweet spot mechanic is a little underemphasized so we’re aiming to make it matter more!

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Q - Super Scorcher Breath

• 3rd Upgrade Bonus True Damage: 6.5% of target's maximum health ⇒ +2% bonus AD (+1% AP) (+0.8% of Dragon Patience Stacks) of target's maximum health

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E - Flap, Flap, Flap

• Number of Bolts: 5-10 (based on critical strike chance) ⇒ 5 (+1 per 50 Dragon Patience Stacks)
• Tooltip has been updated to clarify that these bolts are not attacks

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R - Mmooommmm!

• Damage: 225/350/475 (+110% bonus AD) (+100% AP) ⇒ 200/300/400 (+110% bonus AD) (+100% AP)
• Sweet Spot Increased Damage Multiplier: 30% ⇒ 50%
• Self Heal: 110/160/210 (+75% AP) ⇒ 100/135/170 (+50% bonus AD) (+75% AP)

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Miscellaneous

• Frame data on basic attacks has been adjusted to better match Smolder's animations.

Twisted Fate

E bonus attack speed and damage decreased.

Twisted Fate's continuing to soar up the ban rate charts while being a top performer, even with the recent nerfs. Ultimately, we want to ensure AP Twisted Fate is the stronger way to play him while also getting AD Twisted Fate into the “viable” category of champion builds. But at the end of the day we don't want AD TF to be stronger than other champions in their respective roles.

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E - Stacked Deck

• Bonus Attack Speed: 10/22.5/35/47.5/60% ⇒ 10/20/30/40/50%
• Bonus Damage: 65/90/115/140/165 (+75% bonus AD) (+40% AP) ⇒ 65/90/115/140/165 (+20% bonus AD) (+40% AP)

Vayne

Passive bonus movement speed decreased. Q cooldown increased early.

The Vayne changes from 13.6 did a lot to give her a fighting chance in early trades in lane, but at this point it's become clear that Vayne is just far too strong, especially as a top laner. We'd like to preserve Tumble as a satisfying button to press in the early game as it gives her a fighting chance against other ranged champions, but don't want her choking out and running down her melee competition in top lane.

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Passive - Night Hunter

• Bonus Movement Speed: 45 ⇒ 30 (Note: Bonus movement speed during Final Hour will be unchanged at 90.)

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Q - Tumble

• Cooldown: 4/3.5/3/2.5/2 ⇒ 6/5/4/3/2 seconds

Veigar

Q damage increased. R cooldown decreased.

Season 14 nerfed Rabadon’s Deathcap’s AP multiplier, and we’ve generally lowered the AP ratios on items, which haven’t been the kindest to Veigar. Despite our efforts in Patch 14.2 he’s still coming up a bit short compared to where we’d like him to be in terms of power. In this patch we’ll be giving him a small buff to his Q to help it hit a little harder and easier to stack with, while also giving him a bit more threat with his ultimate in the earlier stages of the game.

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Q - Baleful Strike

• Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+45/50/55/60/65% AP) ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240 (+50/55/60/65/70% AP)

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R - Primordial Burst

• Cooldown: 120/90/60 ⇒ 100/80/60 seconds

Vex

Passive damage increased. E and passive interaction adjusted.

Vex doesn’t quite have the damage she needs to chain together multikills like she could last season, so we’re amping her damage when played as an anti-mobility mage.

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Passive - Doom ‘n Gloom

• Gloom Detonation Damage: 30-140 (based on level) (+20% AP) ⇒ 40-150 (based on level) (+25% AP)

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E - Looming Darkness

• newKilling units with Looming Darkness now grants Doom ‘n Gloom's passive refund.

Wukong

Passive maximum stack decreased, percent amplification per stack increased, stack falloff rate adjusted.

Wukong isn't performing quite as well as we'd like him to in the top lane, and his current state has him a bit too late game skewed, so we're making some changes to his passive this patch to make him a bit more powerful in the early game. As it is today, his passive regularly hits max stacks as a jungler when he's fighting camps, but struggles to get value against champions in lane. These changes should help him get more out of his passive in lane while also slightly helping his jungle performance.

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Passive - Stone Skin

• Maximum Number of Stacks: 10 ⇒ 5
• Percent Amplification per Stack: 50% ⇒ 100%
• Stack Falloff Rate: All at once ⇒ One at a time

Yorick

E bonus damage to cursed enemies decreased. R Maiden armor and magic resist increased, no longer reduces AoE damage by 50%, bugfix to Evasion interaction.

In her current state, the Maiden of the Mist is currently too tanky against some champions while simultaneously being too squishy into others. Our goal with these changes is to make facing Maiden a more consistent experience for opponents that find themselves matched up against her while also lowering Yorick's overall power which is currently just a tad over the line.

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Passive - Shepherd of Souls

• Tooltip clarified to state that only Mist Walkers take reduced damage from monsters.

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E - Mourning Mist

• Cursed Bonus Damage for 8 Attacks: 30% ⇒ 20%

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R - Eulogy of the Isles

• Maiden Armor and Magic Resist: 10-50 (based on level) ⇒ 30-90 (based on level)
• removedMaiden no longer reduces Area of Effect damage by 50%.
• Tooltip now clarifies that Maiden takes 70% less damage from lane minions.
• Bugfix: Maiden's 1/2/3% maximum health damage no longer bypasses Evasion like Shen's W. (Note: Blind, Dodge, and Evasion all work appropriately against the rest of Maiden's attacks.)

Zac

W damage decreased.

Zac has been taking over top lane, but his power as a jungler is still in a relatively healthy spot. So we're aiming to give him some top lane specific nerfs. Since top lane Zac maxes W first while jungle Zac maxes E first, reducing the scaling per rank on his W should bring down his power up top while minimally affecting his jungle power (if not giving it a very small boost at rank 1 for early clearing).

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W - Unstable Matter

• Damage: 35/50/65/80/95 (+4/5/6/7/8% (+3% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health) ⇒ 40/50/60/70/80 (+4/5/6/7/8% (+3% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health)

Celestial Opposition

While we're nerfing Solstice Sleigh this patch (more on that below), we want to also give Celestial Opposition a bit more power to help dethrone Sleigh's position as the premier tank support item as simply nerfing Sleigh wouldn't quite be enough to close the gap between the two. We're primarily targeting melee-specific outputs as we don't want it to become dominant on enchanters.

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• Cooldown: 20 ⇒ 18 seconds
• Slow Duration: 1.5 ⇒ 2 seconds
• Slow Strength: 50% ⇒ 60%

Dream Maker

Following up on our work last patch, we're continuing to retune the support items to make their power spikes less immediate and, in exchange, making their scaling into the late game more powerful and we expect these changes to scaling to do just that. As a whole, we hope these changes will be slightly power positive on most enchanters.

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• Blue Bubble Damage Reduction: 140 ⇒ 75-255 (levels 6-18)
• Purple Bubble Bonus Damage: 90 ⇒ 50-170 (levels 6-18)

Frozen Heart

Frozen Heart is currently the most built tank item in the game. For a niche item that is hyper focused on hampering one specific style of one damage type, that means the item is overperforming. This patch we're nerfing Frozen Heart's more generic strengths in order to preserve its usefulness as a specific counter as opposed to a generic tank item.

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• Total Price: 2400 gold ⇒ 2500 gold
• Armor: 70 ⇒ 65

Heartsteel

Heartsteel currently isn't worth purchasing on many champions, even those with respectable health ratios or easy access to the gameplay pattern this item is built to support. In this patch we'll be buffing the item's scaling while keeping the early game similar to let players live their best bonking fantasy. (Note: the tooltip in 14.5 will not reflect this change, but we're working on having it corrected in 14.6.)

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• Proc Bonus Damage: 100 (+10% bonus health from items) ⇒ 80 (+12% bonus health from items)

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Leviathan (Ornn Upgrade)

• Proc Bonus Damage: 100 (+10% bonus health from items) ⇒ 80 (+12% bonus health from items)
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug that gave Leviathan 25 Ability Haste

Solstice Sleigh

Solstice Sleigh is currently sleighing as the best tank support upgrade option, outperforming Celestial Opposition by a large margin. In order to bring this item into line with other options we need to bring its power down.

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• Cooldown: 20 ⇒ 30 seconds
• Bonus Health: 7% of maximum health ⇒ 50-230 (levels 6-18)
• Bonus Movement Speed: 30% ⇒ 25%
• Item tracker flavor text updated

Spear of Shojin

Our goal with these Shojin changes is to make it synergize better with champions that should be primary users of the items, so these should help move it in the right direction for those champs. (Note: This change was implemented in Patch 14.4.)

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• Spells now only grant 1 stack per cast, up to 1 per second for spells that deal damage over time
• Attack-based spells now add a stack and get their damage improved by the spell amp
• Damage from champion passives should no longer grant stacks for Focused Will

Sunfire Aegis

Based on our reads back in Patch 14.1, Sunfire Aegis was over performing and required a tap down in power. However, now that the dust has settled, it's become apparent that these nerfs weren't necessary, so we're walking them back now.

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• Health: 450 ⇒ 500
• Immolate Base Damage: 12 ⇒ 15

A few of our AP assassin items are mistuned, leading to players in higher skill brackets to almost always buying the same items, regardless of which specific AP assassin they're playing. We're hoping to nudge up some level of choice by making these three items closer together in power level.

Lich Bane

• Spellblade Damage: 75% base AD (+50% AP) ⇒ 75% base AD (+45% AP)

Stormsurge

• Movement Speed: +5% ⇒ +8%

Hextech Rocketbelt

• Total Price: 2500 ⇒ 2600
• Ability Power: 60 ⇒ 70

In this round of ARAM balance changes we're looking to inject some new life into tanks that we haven't touched for a while now that we have a better read on where they've landed within the new item system. We're also looking to make Camille and Naafiri a bit more approachable for players by giving them some additional Ability Haste and thus creating more opportunities for them to use their abilities within any given game.

On the nerfs side of things we're doing follow up work on some of the 14.4 changes geared towards Summoner's Rift gameplay that pushed some champions a bit over the line in ARAM. We're also giving Zac a small ARAM specific nerf this patch (in addition to the SR ones he's getting) while doubling down on Illaoi's healing as she's proven to be resilient to the changes last patch thanks to Sundered Sky and her E.

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Buffs

• Camille: Shielding Done: 120% ⇒ 110%; Ability Haste: 0 ⇒ 10
• Dr. Mundo: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Naafiri: Ability Haste: 0 ⇒ 10
• Nasus: Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 105%

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Nerfs

• Anivia: Damage Taken: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Illaoi: Healing Done: 90% ⇒ 80%
• Karma: Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 95%
• Lulu: Shielding Done: 110% ⇒ 105%
• Renekton: Healing Done: 120% ⇒ 105%
• Zac: Healing Done: 120% ⇒ 110%

QoL Changes

• Improved inhibitor VFX to more clearly indicate when it will respawn.
• Adjusted Diana's E recast cooldown from 0.5 to 0.25 seconds as a small quality of life improvement.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that caused Azir's passive tower creation SFX and VFX to play repeatedly upon spawning the tower.
• Fixed a bug that caused Diana's passive to sometimes desync and proc every 2 or 4 auto attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused Diana to sometimes be able to triple dash with her E.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ivern's passive to be unable to take down Voidborne Rift Scuttler.
• Fixed a bug that caused the item recommender to stop recommending items once the player had reached full build.
• We recently identified a bug where players with power summoner levels over 1000 had stopped receiving rewards. We've implemented a fix to both grant the rewards that were already earned by leveling up as well as continue to grant rewards as you keep leveling up. The retroactive rewards won't have a notification, so please check your loot tab after you've played some games in this patch. We're also working on a fun capstone reward for our most dedicated players later this year, so stay tuned!
• Fixed a bug that caused critical strikes applied by Sylas' passive to apply critical damage modifiers and lifesteal.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sylas's W to not correctly cause minions to aggro the opponents when used on an enemy champion.
• Fixed a bug that caused in URF that caused Seraph Embrace's bonus Mana to not convert into Health.
• Fixed a bug that caused Profane Hydra's passive AoE to proc lifesteal.
• Fixed a bug that caused various champion's abilities to not apply spell effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused Smolder's E to be unable to Flap Flap Flap over Taliyah's R wall.
• Fixed a bug that caused LeBlanc's E tether to root opponents while she was dead if the initial tether connected.
• Fixed a bug that caused Miss Fortune's Q to interrupt auto attacks if these was not a secondary target to bounce towards.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sylas' R to convert AD ratios to AP, even when his adaptive damage type was AD.
• Fixed a bug that caused Trundle's E pillar to grant vision around itself.
• Fixed a bug that caused Oracle Lens to disable wards for longer than intended when walking outside of the sweeping range.
• Fixed a bug that caused Oracle Lens to disable wards for shorter than intended if the ward was revealed as Oracle Lens expired.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viktor's passive to grant ability stacks by taking down Voidmites.
• Fixed a bug that caused Hubris and Ataraxia's VFX to disappear if a player with the item disconnected and reconnected to the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused Dreamshatter's movement speed buff to decay faster than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ornn to be able to purchase multiple Rod of Ages after upgrading the first into its Masterwork counterpart. Yer not a wizard Ornn.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Monster Hunter gold penalty on minions to sometimes grant negative gold on takedowns.
• Fixed a bug that caused Volibear's Q and W to not correctly have allied minions aggro a targeted champion.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kai'Sa's R range indicator to not match the changes introduced in the last patch, despite the gameplay changes still going through.
• Fixed a bug that caused Aatrox's passive proc to reduce its own cooldown.
• Fixed a bug that caused Briar to repeatedly cancel auto attacks if her attack speed value was low enough.
• Fixed a bug that caused Infernal Cinder's VFX to be visible in the Fog of War.
• Fixed a bug that caused Twitch's emote SFX to continue to play even after the emote was stopped.
• Fixed a bug that caused users of World Atlas to be able to trigger the minion execute passive if their teammate was on the very edge of the item's range, but not grant gold nor consume quest stacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused takedowns on Voidgrubs to immediately appear on a player's CS score without the enemy having been revealed first.
• Fixed a bug that caused Bounty of World's upgrade VFX to appear on clones if the original user had already upgraded the item.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ashe's Q to stop the interaction between Kraken Slayer and Guinsoo's Rageblade.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Baron Pit music to continue playing outside of the range of Baron Pit.
• Fixed a bug that caused Echoes of Helia's heal and healing shards to only be usable when enemies were nearby.
• Fixed a bug that caused Echoes of Helia's Soul Siphon to not trigger when a player gave a shield to a full health ally.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sion to be able to stack his passive on Voidmites.
• Fixed a bug that caused Hwei's spellbooks to share the cooldown of his last used basic spell.
• Fixed a bug that caused Lillia's E cone VFX hit indicator to not appear for enemies when colliding with terrain.
• Fixed a bug where Gun Goddess Miss Fortune's right arm would twist unnaturally during her Joke (Ctrl+1).
• Fixed a bug where Neo Pax Jax's idle fish VFX weren't appearing as intended when he idled in the River.
• Fixed a bug where the VFX connecting the barrels for FPX Gangplank and Gangplank the Betrayer did not transition in as intended.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

As mentioned in the last patch notes, the Opulent event chromas for Porcelain Aurelion Sol, Darius, Graves, Morgana, Miss Fortune, and Irelia will be turned on in the event shop this patch so make sure you go check them out!

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Porcelain Protector Aurelion Sol, Porcelain Darius, Porcelain Graves, Porcelain Morgana, Porcelain Miss Fortune, Porcelain Irelia, Prestige Porcelain Kindred, and Victorious Tryndamere will be available on February 22, 2024 at 20:00 UTC.

We've been communicating in the past few patch notes that Vanguard was coming, but after some time on the PBE testing the diagnostics check, we've elected to change the rollout plan. Instead of a Global rollout, we're going to be releasing in a single region first with patch 14.5. This allows us time on live servers to evaluate how Vanguard is functioning and being experienced before making adjustments if required.

For more information on Vanguard or help making sure you're ready for Vanguard please check out our support article so that you can continue to play League once Vanguard is required.

As of this patch, our minimum system requirements have been updated and we will no longer be supporting Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 for all League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics games. To maintain the stability and performance of our games, we sometimes need to deprecate support for legacy operating systems that aren't widely used by our players. If you're still playing on these versions of Windows, please consider updating to continue playing. Please see our min spec support page for more details.

Ahri

Health growth increased. Q damage increased.

With the removal of Everfrost, Ahri lost a lot of the reliability an additional root could create and the durability the item provided. We want to give her power back in some more exciting aspects of her kit, so we're increasing the damage of her Q for two reasons. First, when it came down to more reliability versus more damage, we thought Ahri players would appreciate more potent damage. Second, being able to land both parts of her Q also rewarded more skill expression. We're also giving her a bit more health so she can afford to take some damage while she's kiting around fights with her ultimate.

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Base Stats

• Health Growth: 96 ⇒ 104

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Q - Orb of Deception

• Magic Damage per Pass: 40/65/90/115/140 (+45% AP) ⇒ 40/65/90/115/140 (+50% AP)

Aurelion Sol

Q Bonus Magic DPS decreased.

Aurelion Sol is still performing too well and we've decided to reduce some more of his power. He now gets more stacks from Q, both because the stack gain was increased and also because he can cast it more frequently due to the potent mana buffs. We'd like to retain how well it stacks and scales with Stardust, but nerf its AP ratio and some base damage to account for that.

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Q - Breath of Light

• Bonus Magic Damage per Second: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 (+ 35% AP) (+ (3.1% Stardust)% of target's maximum health ⇒ 55 / 65 / 75 / 85 / 95 (+ 30% AP) (+ (3.1% Stardust)% of target's maximum health

Bard

Armor growth decreased, level 1 attack speed and attack speed ratio increased. Passive bonus damage increased. Q damage increased.

Bard is currently quite powerful and is especially durable due to having more than enough base values on his kit to not require anything but tank items. In this patch, we're closing the gap between tank and mage/enchanter-style builds by lowering his base values while preserving his AP scaling to nudge him toward those purchases more often. On top of that, he gets a guaranteed 200 HP from the new support items, so he's generally a bit too durable.

As one final set of changes, we're making discharging Meeps feel a bit better by increasing his overall attack speed. Nashor's Tooth, anyone?

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Base Stats

• Armor Growth: 5.2 ⇒ 5
• Level 1 Attack Speed: 0.625 ⇒ 0.658
• Attack Speed Ratio: 0.625 ⇒ 0.658

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Passive - Traveler's Call

• Damage: 35 (+14 per 5 Chimes)(+30% AP) Bonus Magic Damage ⇒ 35 (+10 per 5 Chimes) (+40% AP) Bonus Magic Damage

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Q - Cosmic Binding

• Damage: 80/125/170/215/260 (+65% AP) ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240 (+80% AP)

Fiora

W attack speed slow decreased.

In this patch, we want to address Fiora's trading pattern in certain matchups where her W attack speed slow is hard to answer when used as an opener. She's currently performing quite well and has room to lose some power, so we'll be halving the attack speed slow to provide more counterplay for players that find themselves matched up against the Grand Duelist.

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W - Riposte

• Attack Speed Slow: 50% for 2 seconds ⇒ 25% for 2 seconds

Illaoi

Passive damage decreased.

With last patch's tentacle range increase, Illaoi ended up being a bit more powerful than anticipated. As her full attack damage build is massively outperforming her tankier options, we're addressing her power by adjusting her passive damage.

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Passive - Prophet of an Elder God

• Damage: 9-162 (based on level) (+115% Total AD) ⇒ 9-162 (based on level) (+100% Total AD)

Jayce

Base AD increased. W mana restoration increased and magic damage increased. E now roots enemies on initial cast.

Jayce's E sometimes suffered from a weird effect, occasionally throwing players in an odd direction when cast during an opponent's dash. To resolve this, we adjusted it to work more like Lee Sin's R, now rooting on cast. This also means it will no longer knock enemies outside of auto attack range when cast at max range.

Additionally, we're looking to flatten Jayce's power curve slightly, giving him a bit more agency (and mana) to skirmish in lane. This should make him less dependent on Muramana and make early mana runes feel more valuable.

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Base Stats

• Attack Damage: 57 ⇒ 59

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W - Lightning Field

• Mana Restore: 10/12/14/16/18/20 ⇒ 15/17/19/21/23/25
• Magic Damage per Second: 35/50/65/80/95/110 ⇒ 40/55/70/85/100/115

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E - Thundering Blow

• newGrounded in Science: Now roots enemies on initial cast. (Note: Similar to Lee Sin's R root.)

K'Sante

Base health and mana increased. Q no longer slows during All Out. W bonus armor and magic resist ratio increased, no longer reduces minimum channel and cooldowns. E dash speeds decreased.

K'Sante doesn't leave a lot of room for counterplay during All Out (you might even say his opponents are all out of counter play options), so we're aiming to address his opponents' ability to outplay him, or at least give them the time to process what he's doing. We think that these changes will result in some degree of lost power, but we believe that these adjustments should help get K'Sante in an overall better state long term.

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 570 ⇒ 625
• Base Mana: 290 ⇒ 320

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Q - Ntofo Strikes

• removedAll Out of Slows: No longer slows during All Out

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W - Path Maker

• Bonus Armor Ratio: 50% ⇒ 85%
• Bonus Magic Resist Ratio: 50% ⇒ 85%
• removedAll Out Minimum Channel Time: All Out no longer reduces the minimum channel to 0.5 seconds
• removedAll Out Cooldown Reduction: All Out no longer reduces the cooldown to 18/16.5/15/13.5/12 seconds

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E - Footwork

• Dash Speed: 1500 ⇒ 900
• Ally Dash Speed: 1800 ⇒ 1100 + Movement Speed
• All Out Dash Speed: 2100 ⇒ 1450

Kai'Sa

Ult range increased.

Kai'Sa has been pretty weak this season but has begun to find her footing with Eclipse and Statikk Shiv starts, resulting in a steady climb to her pick and win rates. Even with this newfound tech, we think she's still a little bit underpowered so we're giving her a very small bump to her unique ability to join the fray at a moment's notice.

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R - Killer Instinct

• Cast Range: 1500/2250/3000 ⇒ 2000/2500/3000

Kalista

Passive bugfix. E damage decreased.

Now that much of the Season Start dust has settled, Kalista has found herself as one of the premier bot laners in Pro play and we'd like to open that role up to a bit more variety. Also, she's receiving a meaningful bugfix this patch, so we're also compensating for that bit of extra power.

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Passive - Martial Pose

• Bugfix: Kalista now properly gains dash distance with basic Boots of Speed.

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E - Rend

• Physical Damage: 20/30/40/50/60 (+70% AD) (+20% AP) ⇒ 10/20/30/40/50 (+70% AD) (+20% AP) (Note: Per-stack damage unchanged.)

Lulu

Q second bolt damage increased. E magic damage and shield value increased. R bonus health increased.

Lulu has been a bit taxed getting ready for Bandle Tale and all, so she's been slipping in League. But don't worry—we're here to help her get back up to full power! In this patch, we want to increase her power in a way that will feel exciting to her players, namely more poke damage for her opponents and more I-will-not-let-you-die-no-matter-how-hard-you-try power for her allies.

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Q - Glitterlance

• Second Bolt Damage: 25% of Primary Bolt damage ⇒ 50% of Primary Bolt damage

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E - Help, Pix!

• Magic Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+50% AP) ⇒ 80/125/170/215/260 (+50% AP)
• Shield Value: 75/115/155/195/235 (+55% AP) ⇒ 80/125/170/215/260 (+55% AP)

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R - Wild Growth

• Bonus Health: 275/525/575 (+45% AP) ⇒ 275/525/575 (+55% AP)

Maokai

Base armor decreased. Q damage decreased. R root duration decreased.

Maokai is currently still the best support in the game, branch hands down. And while last patch closed the gap between his power as a support and as a top laner/jungler, he's in a state where we simply need to siphon off some of his baseline power to keep him in check.

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Base Stats

• Base Armor: 39 ⇒ 35

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Q - Bramble Smash

• Magic Damage: 70/120/170/220/270 (+2/2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's maximum health) (+40% AP) ⇒ 65/115/165/215/265 (+2/2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's maximum health) (+40% AP)

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R - Nature's Grasp

• Root Duration: 0.8-2.6 seconds (based on distance traveled capped at 1000 units) ⇒ 0.75-2.25 seconds (based on distance traveled capped at 1000 units)

Rek'Sai

All abilities adjusted.

In her current state, Rek'Sai tends to feel non-functional as a fighter, causing her core builds to often be full lethality just to accomplish anything in game. This patch, we're hoping to give Rek'Sai some exciting things to do in early, mid, and late game. The primary buffs are substantially snappier tunnel usage and a super juiced passive that plays up her ability to weave in and out of combat to recoup health between cooldowns. As there's a lot of power in these gains, we'll be taking down her burst damage to prevent her from getting out of hand.

We also have a host of modernization and re-scripting updates to Rek'Sai. Queen's Wrath is now an auto attack instead of a spell, meaning it scales appropriately with attack speed. Tunnels no longer have hitches in the middle of their animations when you're entering them. Her cooldowns have been synced up to make jungling more intuitive as Burrow, Prey Seeker, and Unburrow will line up from level 2. These changes, in addition to a whole host of adjustments on the backend, should also make her easier to update going forward. One thing we'll be keeping our eyes on is her balance between fighter and tank builds, which will thankfully be really easy to tweak!

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Base Stats

• Base Movement Speed: 335 ⇒ 340
• Base Health Regeneration: 7.5 ⇒ 2.5
• Health Regeneration Growth: 0.65 ⇒ 0.5

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Passive - Fury of the Xer'Sai

• Maximum Healing: 10 (+2-10% (based on level) maximum health) ⇒ 12-20% (based on level) maximum health
• newFury Generation from Non-Champions: Attacks against minions, plants, and wards restore 50% less Fury.

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Q - Queen's Wrath (Unburrowed)

• newAttack Type: Queen's Wrath now functions as a basic attack instead of a spell, meaning total attack time and time between attacks is based on Rek'Sai's actual attack speed.
• newBonus Attack Speed: Queen's Wrath now grants 45% bonus attack speed for its 3 attacks. (Note: This results in a similar-feeling attack flow to the old spell-based version.)

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Q - Prey Seeker (Burrowed)

• Cooldown: 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds at all ranks
• Damage: 60/95/130/165/200 (+50% bonus AD) (+70% AP) Physical Damage ⇒ 50/80/110/140/170 (+25% bonus AD) (+70% AP) Magic Damage

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W - Burrow

• Bonus Movement Speed While Burrowed: 5/10/15 (levels 1/6/11) ⇒ 5/10/15/20/25 (based on rank)
• Vision Radius: 25% ⇒ 35%

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W - Unburrow

• newGrouping is Scary: Unburrow now knocks up all champions for 1 second, not just the primary target.
• removedRun!: Unburrow no longer slows enemies by 40% for 0.5 seconds post-knockup.
• Damage: 50/85/120/155/190 (+80% bonus AD) Physical Damage ⇒ 50/75/100/125/150 (+80% AP) Magic Damage

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E - Tunnel

• Cooldown: 26/24/22/20/18 seconds ⇒ 18/17/16/15/14 seconds
• Tunnel Reuse Cooldown: 10/8/6/4/2 seconds ⇒ 6/5/4/3/2 seconds
• Manual Cast Dash Speed: 550 + Movement Speed from Boots ⇒ 500 + Total Movement Speed (Note: Now matches right-click dash speed.)
• removedQoL Adjustment: Removed the 0.05 second hitch when manually casting Tunnel
• newQoL Adjustment: Rek'Sai begins taking already-placed tunnels roughly 20% faster (Note: Final dash speed unchanged.)

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E - Furious Bite

• Physical Damage: 5/10/15/20/25 (+70% AD) ⇒ 100% of total AD
• 100 Fury Bonus: 2x Damage as True Damage ⇒ +6-14% (based on rank) of target's maximum health
• Cooldown: 12 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds
• newFlashy: E now displays a cosmetic critical strike when fully empowered.

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R - Void Rush

• Physical Damage: 100/250/400 (+175% bonus AD) (+20/25/30% of target's missing health) ⇒ 100/250/400 (+100% bonus AD) (+20/25/30% of target's missing health)

Renekton

Q champion healing increased. E cooldown decreased. R bonus health increased.

Simply put, Renekton is quite bad in his current state and in desperate need of some help. For starters we'll be increasing his Q healing now that he no longer has the reliable healing that Goredrinker provided him. We're also decreasing his E cooldown at later stages of the game so he can have better target access to squishies. And last but certainly not least, we're increasing the bonus health he gets from his ultimate to give him better survivability in teamfights and for better Sundered healing synergies as that's his most common first item at the moment. Overall, these should help make Renekton feel a bit more like the Butcher of the Sands he's meant to be.

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Q - Cull the Meek

• Champion Healing: 12/18/24/30/36 (+15% bonus AD) ⇒ 12/20/28/36/44 (+17% bonus AD)

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E - Slice

• Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 seconds ⇒ 16/14.5/13/11.5/10 seconds

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R - Dominus

• Bonus Health: 250/400/550 ⇒ 300/500/700

Smolder

Q additional fireball scaling decreased, now stacks if a targeted minion dies while Q is mid-flight. W cooldown adjusted, initial damage decreased, explosion damage increased. R will continue to cast when Smolder dies.

Smolder's W has proven to be a very powerful poking tool during the laning phase. While we're happy that players want to max and poke with it, we want to slightly reduce its power at lower ranks due to the PVP damage it can provide while also ensuring that it never one shots the wave, preventing Smolder from stacking with Q and scaling. We're also taking this opportunity to add in some QoL improvements and bug fixes that will help Smolder live his best dragon fantasy better.

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Q - Super Scorcher Breath

• Fireballs at 125 Stacks: 2 (+1 per 100 Dragon Patience Stacks) ⇒ 1 (+1 per 67 Dragon Patience Stacks)
• QoL Update: If a minion dies while Smolder's Q is in flight towards it, Smolder will still receive a Dragon Patience stack.

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W - Achooo!

• Cooldown: 13/12.5/12/11.5/11 seconds ⇒ 14/13/12/11/10 seconds
• Initial Physical Damage: 70/90/110/130/150 (+25% AD) (+35% AP) ⇒ 50/80/110/140/170 (+25% AD) (+20% AP)
• Explosion Physical Damage: 25/40/55/70/85 (+65% AP) ⇒ 25/40/55/70/85 (+25% bonus AD) (+80% AP)

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R - MMOOOMMMM!

• Fiery Fury: Smolder's Mom will no longer stop if Smolder dies. But she will be VERY angry. Shame on you.

Soraka

Passive movement speed increased. Q heal increased. E bugfix. R cooldown decreased.

Soraka is another champion still struggling to find her place within the new item system. Now that she has space for buffs, we want to give her some that Soraka players will find effective and fun—20% faster bananambulance anyone?

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Passive - Salvation

• Bonus Movement Speed: 70% ⇒ 90%

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Q - Starcall

• Total Heal: 50/65/80/95/110 (+30% AP) ⇒ 60/75/90/105/120 (+30% AP)

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E - Equinox

• Bugfix: E now silences enemies in the area instantly rather than after a variable delay.

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R - Wish

• Cooldown: 160/145/130 seconds ⇒ 150/135/120 seconds

Thresh

Base armor increased. E damage increased. R cooldown decreased.

With the changes to support itemization, Thresh is falling off faster in the midgame than he was in the previous seasons and we're looking to give him some power in the areas we feel he's most lacking. We'd like for him to be more able to aggressively take trades and use The Box in lane. Also, Flay isn't quite as good as a second max as we'd like, so we're giving it a bit of damage.

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Base Stats

• Base Armor: 28 ⇒ 31

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E - Flay

• Magic Damage: 75/115/155/195/235 (+70% AP) ⇒ 75/120/165/210/255 (+70% AP)

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R - The Box

• Cooldown: 140/120/100 seconds ⇒ 120/100/80 seconds

Twisted Fate

Attack speed growth decreased. W blue card damage decreased. E damage decreased.

Twisted Fate's update from 14.2 has done wonders for revitalizing his player base, having about three times as many players than before the start of the season. However, he's also dealing more damage than before and his opponents have begun to take notice. We don't think he's significantly over the line, but both his AP and AD builds are performing a little stronger than they should so we're stacking his deck a little less.

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Base Stats

• Attack Speed Growth: 3% ⇒ 2.5%

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W - Pick A Card

• Magic Damage: 40/60/80/100/120 (+100% AD) (+115% AP) ⇒ 40/60/80/100/120 (+100% AD) (+100% AP)

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E - Stacked Deck

• Bonus Magic Damage: 65/90/115/140/165 (+75% bonus AD) (+50% AP) ⇒ 65/90/115/140/165 (+75% bonus AD) (+40% AP)

Varus

Base AD decreased.

Varus currently has two viable builds: Lethality and on-hit. But despite being relatively balanced for the vast majority of players, he's dominating Pro play drafts. In order to address this, we're toning down a Pro-specific strength that will impact his early laning phase.

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Base Stats

• Base Attack Damage: 62 ⇒ 60

Volibear

Q bonus movement speed increased. E cooldown decreased. R turret disable duration decreased, cooldown decreased, crowd control resistances during leap adjusted.

Volibear is struggling and we'll be helping him out. We think that his R is a supremely cool moment for Volibear players, but the ability to disable turrets can remove his opponents' access to counterplay. In order to give Voli players more agency and more frequent access to his ultimate, we're trading some of his turret disabling power and CC immunity for a cooldown decrease. We're also including a Q movement speed buff so he can reach his targets more consistently, and a slight E cooldown buff for the magic wizard bears out there.

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Q - Thundering Smash

• Bonus Movement Speed: 8/12/16/20/24% ⇒ 12/16/20/24/28% (Note: this bonus is still doubled when moving towards an enemy champion.)

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E - Sky Splitter

• Cooldown: 13 seconds ⇒ 12 seconds

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R - Stormbringer

• Turret Disable Duration: 3/4/5 seconds ⇒ 2/3/4 seconds
• Cooldown: 160/140/120 seconds ⇒ 130/115/100 seconds
• Crowd Control Resistances during Leap: Crowd Control Immune ⇒ Unstoppable

Zyra

Passive plant damage decreased, bonus damage to non-epic monsters increased.

Zyra is currently overperforming as a support, but at the same time, as a plant champion, we want her to feel at home in the jungle. Just like Ivern and Maokai and Lillia. These buffs should help her find her roots in the jungle without giving her too much early power to take into the bot lane.

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Passive - Garden of Thorns

• Plant Magic Damage: 20-88 (based on level) (+18% AP) ⇒ 16-84 (based on level) (+18% AP)
• Bonus Damage to Non-Epic Monsters: 40-100 (based on level) ⇒ 60-100 (based on level)

BLACK CLEAVER

Black Cleaver is currently a bit underwhelming compared to other fighter itemization options in the game. And while we don't think it needs to be the default fighter item (League of Cleavers anyone?), we want to make sure it still feels worth picking up for the champions that appreciate it. To that end, we're giving Black Cleaver quite a few minor buffs that should make the item feel better for its users.

• Item Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + Long Sword + 750 gold ⇒ Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal + 400 gold
• Carve Armor Reduction per Stack: 4% ⇒ 5%
• Maximum Carve Stacks: 6 ⇒ 5
• Maximum Armor Reduction: 24% ⇒ 25%
• Fervor Bonus Movement Speed: 20 (melee) / 10 (ranged) ⇒ 20 for all champions
• Fervor Proc Conditions: On dealing Physical Damage that bypasses shields/invulnerability ⇒ All physical damage, even if mitigated.

HULLBREAKER

Hullbreaker currently has an extremely strong interaction with Urgot that makes him deal full damage with it through his W, Purge. We're changing Hullbreaker under the hood to interact properly with Urgot's on-hit damage reduction.

• newAttack Adjustment: Hullbreaker is now an on-hit item instead of an on-attack item.

RAVENOUS HYDRA

While all of the other Tiamat items have managed to find their respective niches within the item system, Ravenous Hydra in comparison is less powerful and less exciting in its current state. Our goal is for Ravenous to stand shoulder to shoulder with its counterparts, so in this patch we'll be leaning into its niche as the premier caster healing item, but in a way that doesn't have the same inherent problems that Goredrinker did.

• newRavenous Crescent Lifesteal: Ravenous Hydra now applies Lifesteal to its Ravenous Crescent active at 150% effectiveness

STRIDEBREAKER

Though we think Stridebreaker is appropriately powerful in its current state, it has a few bugs and pain points that keep it from feeling as good as it could. Though we may need to nerf Stridebreaker in the future, we don't want to let that get in the way of cleaning up some functionality so it can feel better today.

• Bugfix: Passive movement speed is applied as soon as you deal damage instead of after a short delay and now functions even if the damage is shielded.
• Bugfix: Active movement speed now properly decays over the full duration of 3 seconds instead of decaying to 0 over 1.75 seconds.
• Bugfix: Active movement speed now displays a buff icon for its duration.

TERMINUS

Terminus has cultivated a group of core users by being a source of percent penetration and durability for on-hit champions. While that's great, it's been pretty unsatisfying, and in some cases unapproachable, due to how long the item takes to stack up. In this patch, we're quickening its stack rate so that champions can use it at full power for more time in fights.

• Item Recipe: Recurve Bow + B.F. Sword + Dagger + 700 gold ⇒ Recurve Bow + B.F. Sword + Recurve Bow + 300 gold
• Juxtaposition Stack Cap: 5 each (10 total) ⇒ 3 each (6 total)
• Bonus Armor and MR per Stack: 3/4/5 (levels 1/11/14) ⇒ 6/7/8 (levels 1/11/14)
• Maximum Bonus Armor and MR: 15/20/25 (based on level) ⇒ 18/21/24 (based on level)
• Percent Armor and MR Penetration per Stack: 6% ⇒ 10%
• Maximum Percent Armor and MR Penetration: 30% (unchanged)

Supports got a lot more powerful in 14.1, largely due to gaining much more gold income and having overall stronger Sightstone items. Now that they're gaining a more or less complete item early on, we'd like to shift around their power curves to make them closer to other champions' power levels at various points in time.

Because their first legendary comes online at a similar time to their finished support item and other champions' first items, there's too much of an early power spike. Conversely, since they're permanently down an item slot in the late game, we'd like if they felt stronger than they currently do on completed builds. Thus, we're shifting some of these items toward a more scaling profile to keep up with the game as it goes late without being as strong initially.

We're also doing some clean up on the timing of when stacks come online. You'll now begin getting stacks sooner in the game with the second stack showing up about ten seconds into the second minion wave. This should still give players plenty of room to fight over wave control without executes winning the push by default. We're also specifically target nerfing the ability to start with a Doran's item only to receive all three stacks when purchasing the item later in the game, as it made many supports overly powerful in the early laning phase.

WORLD ATLAS

• Quest Charge Cooldown: 18 seconds ⇒ 20 seconds
• First Quest Charge Generated: 2:08 ⇒ 1:50 in-game time
• removedBuy Now!: World Atlas will no longer provide bonus stacks if purchased later in the game.

RUNIC COMPASS

• Quest Charge Cooldown: 18 seconds ⇒ 20 seconds

BOUNTY OF WORLDS

• Health: 100 ⇒ 200
• Health and Mana Regeneration: 50% ⇒ 75%

BLOODSONG

• Ranged Damage Amplification: 6% ⇒ 5%

SOLSTICE SLEIGH

• Going Sledding Heal: 120 health ⇒ 7% of user's maximum health
• Going Sledding Movement Speed: +90 flat move speed, decaying over 4 seconds ⇒ 30% bonus move speed, decaying over 3 seconds

ZAZ'ZAK'S REALMSPIKE

• Void Explosion Cooldown: 9-6 (based on level) ⇒ 8/7/6 (levels 1/11/16)
• Void Explosion Damage: 50 (+15% AP) (+3% of target's maximum health) ⇒ 20 (+20% AP) (+4% of target's maximum health)

Despite lowering gold costs of Lost Chapter items in patch 14.3, most mages are still performing a little worse on their first item power spike than we'd like them to. With this in mind, we're taking the changes last patch a bit further by giving a bit of extra Ability Haste to these items so mana mages can do their magic spell thing a bit more often.

ARCHANGEL'S STAFF / SERAPH'S EMBRACE

• Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 25

LUDEN'S COMPANION

• Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 25

MALIGNANCE

• Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 25

LETHAL TEMPO

In this patch we'll be bringing down the power of Lethal Tempo for its melee users due to it dominating early game fights. We'll be giving the Rune some compensation buffs that will help its late game, but our goal is to reduce how reliable certain champions are with it in their early laning. With that in mind, we're going to monitor how these changes affect users and make adjustments where needed in the future.

• Melee Attack Speed per Stack: 9-13.5% (based on level) ⇒ 5-16% (based on level)

We're also updating some in-game rune trackers to showcase more relevant information

GRASP OF THE UNDYING

• Damage Done ⇒ Total Max Health gained

LEGEND: ALACRITY

• Progress to Next Stack ⇒ Attack Speed gained

OVERHEAL

• Total Shield Created ⇒ Damage Blocked

In this patch, we'll be increasing fountain healing with the goal of slightly reducing how much time players need to spend in base at the early stages of the game. We think that the time players spend finding a safe spot to recall, recalling, waiting in the fountain to heal, and walking back to lane do a good job of creating opportunity costs for recalls. But there's a bit of room to speed this up to help pacing feel more consistent.

• Health Regeneration per 0.25 seconds: 2.1% of maximum health ⇒ 2.6% of maximum health

Have you ever had a moment where a LeBlanc E or Morgana ultimate tether was attached to you, but you saved your flash to get out of range at the last second only to get stunned anyway? This type of situation occurred with tethers due to the use of server frame checking which resulted in server ticks where the tether range was exceeded but did not break. In this patch, we're updating tethers to use area checking, which means that they should now break instantly, making these abilities more responsive and consistent when you're playing against them. While this may result in a small power loss for these champions, we'll be keeping an eye on them to see if any compensation buffs are necessary in future patches.

• Aatrox W (Note: Fixed a bug where the tether pull could sometimes ignore the tether range check in the last 0.25 seconds.)
• Fiddlesticks W (Note: Tether break range (not cast range) increased from 700 to 725 units.)
• Illaoi E
• Karma W and R+W
• Kled Q (Note: This ability cannot use area checking due to its changing tether range, however it now checks the range 20x per second instead of 4x per second.)
• LeBlanc E and R+E (Note: There is a 0.25 second grace period on hitting LeBlanc E + RE before the tether will break visually. This is intended so that the players can see that the tether hit a target, but it does mean that for 0.25s the tether will be attached and out of range.)
• Nocturne E
• Morgana R
• Renata Glasc Q
• Zac Q (Note: Tether check changed from center check to edge check, tether range decreased from 1000 to 900.)

The red team offset camera option has been adjusted to show more vision on the bottom of the screen compared to Live. This is intended to increase visibility for those who use this option as the UI should now take up less of the space you'd normally be clicking on. The left is before while the right image is after.

In this batch of changes, we're looking to reduce the power of some of the most powerful champions in Howling Abyss (your day of reckoning has come Illaoi) while helping out mages that were negatively affected by the item balance changes in the last patch. Overall, we believe item balance on ARAM is in a relatively good place. We have a few on our radar that are strong like Sundered Sky (whose strongest users are seeing nerfs this patch), but no outliers that are overpowered compared to the performance of other items on their best champions. That said, we'll take another look at those items if these nerfs don't pan out as intended.

And last but not least, we have some bugfixes to Malignance and Ornn item upgrades that were causing them to deal incorrect amounts of damage.

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BUFFS

• Annie: Shielding Done: 80% ⇒ 90%
• Lissandra: Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 95%
• Naafiri: Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%
• Syndra: Ability Haste: 0 ⇒ 15
• Xerath: Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 93%

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NERFS

• Aatrox: Tenacity: 120% ⇒ 100%
• Briar: Healing Done: 130% ⇒ 115%; Damage Taken: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Gragas: Damage Dealt: 105% ⇒ 100%
• Illaoi: Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 110%; Healing Done: 100% ⇒ 90%
• Rek'Sai: Healing Done: 120% ⇒ 100%; Tenacity: 120% ⇒ 100%
• Sivir: Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 108%; Damage Dealt: 92% ⇒ 90%
• Xin Zhao: Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 95%
• Hubris Bonus AD: 15 (+2 per statue rank) ⇒ 10 (+1 per statue rank) (Note: This change went live in patch 14.3 but was mistakenly not documented in the patch notes.)

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BUGFIXES

• Malignance: Fixed a bug that caused the 14.3 changes to the item to not take effect. It should now correctly deal 40 (+2.8% AP) damage.
• Ornn Items: Fixed a bug that caused the Ornn items Enmity of the Masses, Ataraxis, and Heavensfall to deal damage based on their Summoner's Rift values and not the adjusted ARAM values.

The changes that gave players below Emerald +/- 28 LP per win/loss have resulted in promotions and demotions being too streaky, resulting in an increased frequency of players losing more LP than they gain. With patch 14.4, we'll be reverting back to +/-25 LP per win/loss to make climbing a bit more consistent and reduce instances of players getting into negative LP states.

• Quickplay Loadout Swap Slots Functionality: One button press now completely swaps all settings between the two slots, which should help reduce the number of steps it takes to swap your primary and secondary settings.
• Quickplay Priority Roles and Position Selector UI: We made some visual improvements to reduce confusion when interacting with the role selections UI. The improved visual clarity for Priority Roles has also been applied to other Summoner's Rift queues that use pre-game role selection.
• Quickplay Error Messaging: The notification for invalid champion selection has been improved with detailed requirements as to what is causing the error.

Our next Clash tournament, the Shurima Cup, kicks off this weekend!

• Registration Begins: February 19 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
• Tournament Dates: February 24 and 25 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)

NOW AVAILABLE

Prestige Porcelain Kindred is here! We're trying something new with Lunar Revel 2024 in that the second Prestige skin will be available for 125 Mythic Essence instead of event tokens. If you're looking to pick up this skin, make sure to do so before Wolf & Lamb depart in patch 14.6.

• Prestige Mythmaker Sivir
• Prestige K/DA Ahri
• Prestige Battle Academia Leona
• Prestige Star Guardian Neeko
• Prestige Porcelain Kindred

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LEAVING THE MYTHIC SHOP

• Prestige Empyrean K'Sante
• Prestige PROJECT Zed
• Prestige Pulsefire Thresh
• Prestige Conqueror Jax

• Fixed a bug that caused slain Voidgrubs to update the opposing team's scoreboard despite not having vision of the objective being taken.
• Fixed a bug that caused World Atlas' passive to be triggered but not consume quest stacks or share gold if the allied champion was at the edge of the item's passive range.
• Fistbumps now include system messages for both the initiator and team members to provide greater visibility into fistbump actions and how to respond.
• Golden Ratio Quest: Hwei's R now has a 3 second forgiveness window for him to kill Jhin for quest completion when damaging Jhin with Spiraling Despair.
• Fixed a bug that caused Aatrox's passive proc to reduce its own cooldown. Aatrox's passive cooldown has been adjusted to make this bugfix power neutral.
• Fixed a bug that caused champions to be able to purchase Hydra items when they had the Ornn upgrade, Dreamshatter, equipped.
• Fixed a bug that caused Spear of Shojin's Ranged and Melee modifiers in the item's description to reflect differences, despite the two intended to be the same.
• Fixed a bug that caused Smolder's ultimate SFX to play louder than intended in spectator mode.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sett's Q damage cap against monsters to be applied to the total damage and not just the bonus damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused Neeko's W clone to not initially move and teleport instantly when you changed its direction.
• Fixed a bug that caused champions to play their voice lines directed at Void champions when interacting with Smolder.
• Fixed a bug that caused linger VFX to follow Quinn while in her ultimate form.
• Fixed a bug that caused Smolder to be unable to fly over Yorick's W wall with his E.
• Fixed a bug that caused the scoreboard to not properly display the dragon soul icon and effect text in game.
• Fixed a bug that caused Illaoi's passive tentacles and E tentacles to use different sizes.
• Fixed a rare bug that rarely let Viego be able to possess two champions at once.
• Fixed a bug that caused Smolder's R to sometimes crash the game under specific circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused Serpent's Fang to not immediately reduce shields if the attack had an on-hit effect.
• Fixed a bug that caused Nami E and Annie E, when cast on Annie right before Tibbers despawned, resulting in damage being reflected back to the allied Nami.
• Fixed a bug that caused Brand's W border ring VFX to not display on lower graphic settings when using specific skins.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sheen to not display in the Ability Haste section of the item shop.
• Fixed a bug that caused Malignance's Hatefog passive, when activated by a damage over time ultimate, to cause a blank debuff to appear on the target.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kaenic Rookern's health bar visuals to not appear for form swapping champions.
• Fixed a bug that caused Hollow Radiance's damage tracker to not specify which damage it was tracking and only track burn damage and not on-kill burst damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused scoreboard tooltips to not update when pressing shift to show extended tooltips.
• Fixed a bug that caused Briar's tooltip to only mention reducing Armor Reduction despite also lowering Magic Resistance.
• Fixed a bug that caused allied champion icons to be flipped if the minimap was placed on the left side of the screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused Smolder to become stuck within impassable terrain when hit by Rift Herald's charge.
• Fixed a bug that caused Stridebreaker to display in the Ability Haste section of the item shop.
• Fixed a bug that caused Heavenscale Smolder's respawn VFX timing and SFX to be used during his recall animation.
• Fixed a bug that caused all Hydra items' range indicators to not match the in-game area of effect.
• Fixed a bug that caused Voidmites to spawn when very far away from a structure.
• Fixed a bug that caused various clipping animations with Smolder.
• Fixed a bug where Winterblessed Diana's large area VFX over Summoner's Rift when getting a Pentakill on river terrain does not fully render.
• Fixed a bug where Winterblessed Diana's large area VFX over Summoner's Rift when getting a Pentakill renders slightly higher than intended on normal elevated terrain.
• Fixed a bug where Dunkmaster Darius' first encounter VO was not playing as intended for Amumu, Maokai, and Sona.
• Fixed a bug where Spirit Blossom Darius' Crippling Strike (W) VFX was rendering over impassable terrain.
• Fixed a bug where PROJECT: Mordekaiser and Divine Sword Irelia's Homeguard run VFX was appearing more intense than intended.
• Fixed a bug where Dawnbringer Morgana's Black Shield (E) VFX was not disappearing smoothly when destroyed.
• Fixed a bug where Infiltrator Irelia's Ionian Fervor (P) VFX was not shifting color at max stacks.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

While you'll be seeing previous years' Porcelain skin chromas and icons come back this patch, we unfortunately ran into some small issues affecting the newest batch (Porcelain Aurelion Sol, Darius, Graves, Morgana, Miss Fortune, and Irelia). The new chromas will still be available in the store for RP purchase in 14.4, but the new chromas within the event shop will not appear until patch 14.5. We appreciate your patience as we work to get these chromas to you!

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Heavenscale Lee Sin, Divine Heavenscale Lee Sin, Heavenscale Master Yi, Heavenscale Janna, Heavenscale Ezreal, Heavenscale Kai'Sa, Heavenscale Diana, and Prestige Heavenscale Ezreal will be available February 7, 2024 at 20:00 UTC.

The Ultra Rapid Fire (more commonly known as U.R.F.) game mode will be making a return on patch 14.3! U.R.F. will go live on February 7, 2024 at 17:00 UTC for EUW, EUN, RU, and TR and 20:00 UTC for all other Riot regions.

It was previously communicated in the 14.2 notes that we will be introducing Vanguard, Riot’s proprietary anti-cheat software that will be required for all League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics games. However, this change has been rescheduled due to some critical bugs with the client pop up we planned to have in 14.2 which caused us to delay one patch cycle. So starting in patch 14.3, we will run a diagnostics check to see if your computer is ready for this update. If not, please review our troubleshooting guide or reach out to Player Support. This change also means that we are pushing back Vanguard’s launch from 14.4 to 14.5 to still give players plenty of time to get ready for this change by installing Vanguard.

If you originally failed the check, it will re-run at a later point or you can manually re-run it by clicking on the settings icon on the top right and “Check for Compatibility” under General > Vanguard System Check.

This will not mean that Vanguard is active or being used for League yet, this is just to give players ample heads up and opportunity to be ready before it’s a requirement. For more information please check out our support article on Vanguard.

Beginning Wednesday February 21st (patch 14.4), we are updating our minimum system requirements and will no longer be supporting Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 for all League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics games. To maintain the stability and performance of our games, we sometimes need to deprecate support for legacy Operating Systems that aren’t widely used by our players. If you’re still playing on these versions of Windows, please consider updating to continue playing. Please see our min spec support page for more details.

Aurelion Sol

Q mana cost decreased, Stardust stacks per champion burst increased. W mana cost decreased, cooldown decreased, bonus damage during Q increased. E Stardust stack generation decreased. Recommended skill order adjusted from QEW to QWE.

Aurelion Sol's itemization is less than stellar now that Liandry's no longer provides him with mana alongside the removal of Crown of the Shattered Queen. On top of his high mana costs, Aurelion Sol has largely been opting for passive and reactive playstyles rather than proactive ones. We believe that a world where the majority of his stacks are coming from proactive player combat and trading instead of stalling and passive farming is both more fun for Aurelion Sol and healthier for the game as a whole, because he has to take risks to scale. So we are adjusting his mana costs to allow him to be more proactive in lane and going forward will balance him around his more Q+W-driven stacking gameplay.

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Q - Breath of Light

• Mana Cost per Second: 45/50/55/60/65 ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50
• Stardust Stacks per Champion Burst : 1 ⇒ 3

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W - Astral Flight

• Mana Cost: 80/85/90/95/100 ⇒ 50/55/60/65/70
• Cooldown: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 seconds ⇒ 15/14/13/12/11 seconds
• Q - Breath of Light Bonus Damage: 14/15.5/17/18.5/20% ⇒ 18/20/22/24/26%

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E - Singularity

• Stardust Stacks per Champion Takedown: 5 ⇒ 2
• Stardust Stacks per Epic Monster Takedown: 5 ⇒ 2
• Stardust Stacks per Cannon Minion Takedown: 3 ⇒ 2
• Stardust Stacks per Large Monster Takedown: 3 ⇒ 2

Azir

Base health regeneration decreased.

Now that Azir’s soldiers apply on-hit effects, he has fully moved over to Fleet Footwork as his main rune of choice. Now, thanks to his newfound sustain, he’s become nearly impossible to push out of lane. As a result, we’re taking a crack at his overall durability, particularly his early health regeneration which is currently too high thanks to Fleet.

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Base Stats

• Base Health Regeneration: 7 ⇒ 5

Brand

Passive damage to monsters decreased, bugfix to passive. Q damage decreased.

Brand is currently quite strong thanks to a combination of three things: his overly quick jungle clear speed, his natural synergies with Liandry’s, and champions having more health. This patch brings his passive damage in line with where we’d like it to be thanks to a bugfix, but he still needs more power taken out, so we’re nerfing his jungle clear and some early base damage.

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Passive - Blaze

• Damage to Monsters Modifier: 220% ⇒ 200%
• Bugfix: Blaze no longer deals more than 2% maximum health damage over a single application.

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Q - Sear

• Damage: 80/110/140/170/200 (+65% AP) ⇒ 70/100/130/160/190 (+65% AP)

Corki

Package duration decreased. W cooldown decreased, mana cost decreased, damage increased. Malignance no longer counts towards Eclipse’s passive.

Corki is getting a meaningful nerf this patch, with his core item interaction of Eclipse and Malignance being bugfixed. That said, we're happy that players have found an interesting build that utilizes all of Corki's odd item scaling. Instead of returning to AP Corki as a scaling, low-interaction poke champion, we'd like if those AP purchases asked him to play more aggressively and risk the occasional aggressive Valkyrie cast. Emphasis on occasional.

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Passive - Special Delivery

• Package Duration: 60 seconds ⇒ 45 seconds

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W - Valkyrie

• Cooldown: 20/19/18/17/16 seconds ⇒ 20/18/16/14/12 seconds
• Mana Cost: 100 ⇒ 80
• Damage per Second: 60/90/120/150/180 (+40% AP) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+60% AP)

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R - Missile Barrage

• removedItem Interaction Adjustment: Malignance will no longer count toward Eclipse’s passive.

Ezreal

Q damage decreased. R damage decreased.

In 14.2 we overshot on the buffs to Ezreal, however in this patch we’re buffing quite a few of his core items meaning we need to walk back some of the power he just got. Overall, these changes paired with the item buffs should still be a net buff compared to his power level in 14.1.

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Q - Mystic Shot

• Damage: 20/45/70/95/120 (+135% AD) (+15% AP) ⇒ 20/45/70/95/120 (+130% AD) (+15% AP)

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R - Trueshot Barrage

• Damage: 350/525/700 (+120% bonus AD) (+90% AP) ⇒ 325/500/675 (+100% bonus AD) (+90% AP)

Illaoi

Passive tentacle range increased, damage decreased.

The map changes introduced in 14.1 resulted in a drop in power for Illaoi, mainly due to her tentacles being designed around the old terrain spacing. In this patch, we’re looking to make her tentacles more reliable on the new Rift. However, that reliability means more overall damage, hence the tentacle damage reduction. Overall, the two changes should be roughly neutral but feel far better for the Kraken Priestess.

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Passive - Prophet of the Elder God

• Tentacle Range: 800 ⇒ 925
• Tentacle Damage: 10-180 (based on level) (+120% AD) (+40% AP) ⇒ 9-162 (based on level) (+115% AD) (+40% AP)

Karma

R+Q Soulflare damage decreased.

Karma’s currently a bit too good as a triple flex option, with the ability to succeed in top, mid, and support. With her newfound power from Malignance, her ultimate is now on too short of a cooldown for the damage it provides, so we’ll be taking her R+Q explosion damage down a notch.

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R - Mantra

• Soulflare Damage: 35/140/245/350 (+70% AP) ⇒ 40/130/220/310 (+50% AP)

Lillia

Passive damage decreased. Q damage decreased.

Lillia’s preferred items became much nicer in the seasonal update, allowing her access to health on every slot and strong omnivamp that works well with her kit. We like that Lillia is generally tankier than before as it helps her stand out from other AP users, so we’ll be reducing her inevitable late-game damage while leaving her durability intact.

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Passive - Dream-Laden Bough

• Maximum Health Damage: 5% (+1.5% AP) ⇒ 5% (+1.25% AP)

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Q - Blooming Blows

• Damage: 70/90/110/130/150 (+90% AP) ⇒ 70/90/110/130/150 (+70% AP)

Maokai

Base mana regeneration decreased. Passive heal decreased. Q cooldown decreased, mana cost decreased. E mana cost decreased, cooldown adjusted. R cooldown increased.

Maokai Support finally has the freedom to rush movement speed tank items without facing off against other champions' mythics. He is extremely happy about this fact. So happy in fact that he’s the strongest-performing support in the game. We’d like to rein in his support power level while still retaining his ability to perform well in top and jungle. In order to do this, we’ll be lessening his affinity to the support item (which grants percent mana regeneration), lowering his access to early saplings, raising his reliance on gold, and giving him the ability to repeatedly press Q more freely, which is more important to his top lane and jungle gameplay.

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Base Stats

• Base Mana Regeneration: 7.2 ⇒ 6

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Passive - Sap Magic

• Maximum Health Heal: 4-34 (based on level) (+4%-12% (based on level) ⇒ 4-12.8% (based on level)

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Q - Bramble Smash

• Cooldown: 8/7.25/6.5/5.75/5 ⇒ 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds
• Mana Cost: 60 ⇒ 40

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E - Sapling Toss

• Cooldown: 14 ⇒ 16/15/14/13/12 seconds
• Mana Cost: 45/55/65/75/85 ⇒ 60/65/70/75/80

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R - Nature’s Grasp

• Cooldown: 120/110/100 ⇒ 130/110/90 seconds

Nidalee

Magic resistance growth increased. E heal increased, bonus attack speed increased.

Nidalee lost some power with the new season, so we’re here to help! Her damage is currently high, but she’s lacking in durability as she used to gain health from both of her first two items whereas she now gains none. In this patch we’re looking to increase her E heal since it has the room to be more powerful, and her E attack speed to help her clear. These changes are also intended to buff her supportive outputs to give her more options later in the game when she begins to fall off. We’re also including an MR growth buff to bring Nidalee more in line with similar AP characters who go into melee range such as Lillia or Rumble since this stat is quite important for them, especially in teamfights.

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Base Stats

• Magic Resistance Growth: 1.3 ⇒ 1.45

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E - Primal Surge

• Minimum Heal: 35/50/65/80/95 (+27.5% AP) ⇒ 50/75/100/125/150 (+35% AP) (Note: maximum heal is still double the minimum)
• Bonus Attack Speed: 20/30/40/50/60% ⇒ 30/40/50/60/70%

Pyke

Base armor increased. Q damage increased, mana cost decreased. E bonus movement speed increased. E damage decreased.

Pyke was struggling to stay above water in 14.1, but the 14.2 rune changes further impacted him to the point that he needs a lifeline.. In this patch we’ll be giving him a little early durability and some buffs to the abilities that let Pyke players do what they want to do most: kill people and go fast.

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Base Stats

• Base Armor: 45 ⇒ 47

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Q - Bone Skewer

• Damage: 100/150/200/250/300 (+60% bonus AD) ⇒ 100/150/200/250/300 (+75% bonus AD)/
• Mana Cost: 74/78/82/86/90 ⇒ 70/75/80/85/90

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W - Ghostwater Dive

• Bonus Movement Speed: 40% (+1.5% per 1 Lethality) ⇒ 45% (+2% per 1 Lethality)

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E - Phantom Undertow

• Damage: 105/145/185/225/265 (+100% bonus AD) ⇒ 100/150/200/250/300 (+100% bonus AD)

Rengar

Base health decreased. Q bonus damage decreased.

Rengar’s damage is too high when snowballing, so he’s been happier than a kitten in a store full of catnip. Except in this situation the kitten is Rengar and the catnip is some of the new lethality items. Having found synergies with items like Hubris, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity that help Rengar’s damage scale well, he finds himself needing less power in his base kit. We also have a base health nerf which should help address his power in the top lane.

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 620 ⇒ 590

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Q - Savagery

• Bonus Damage: 30/60/90/120/150 (+0/5/10/15/20% AD) ⇒ 30/60/90/120/150 (+0/3.75/7.5/11.25/15% AD)
• Empowered Bonus Damage: 30-235 (based on level) (+40% AD) ⇒ 30-235 (based on level) (+30% AD)

Shaco

Mana regeneration growth decreased. W mana cost decreased, bonus damage to monsters increased, no longer one-shot by Grubs. E mana cost increased. R QoL changes.

Shaco’s striking fear into the hearts of bot laners everywhere, but, for better or worse, we think that everyone on the map should be equally terrified, so we’re making some adjustments to reduce his support power while helping his jungle power. The Jack in the Box buffs should help him clear the jungle faster and healthier, especially for AP builds which are struggling more, while the mana nerfs should specifically bring down his ability to poke enemies down in lane quite so much while also allowing jungle Shaco to forgo mana items entirely.

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Base Stats

• Mana Regeneration Growth: 0.45 ⇒ 0.35

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W - Jack In The Box

• Mana Cost: 70 at all ranks ⇒ 70/65/60/55/50
• Bonus Damage to Monsters: 10/20/30/40/50 ⇒ 20/35/50/65/80
• Grub Proof: Shaco’s Jack in the Boxes are no longer one-shot by Grubs.

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E - Two-Shiv Poison

• Mana Cost: 65 ⇒ 75

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R - Hallucinate

• POOF: Shaco’s clone now creates an orange poof when it snaps back to Shaco or teleports for any reason.
• Clone Clock: Shaco’s clone duration is now displayed on the HUD.
• Bugfix: Shaco’s clone no longer loses its auto attack target when casting spells.

Shyvana

Q empowered attack damage increased, bonus attack speed increased. W bonus movement speed increased.

We removed Night Harvester from the game, but AP Shyvana was here before that, and she’ll be here long after thanks to her dedicated player base. Since her AP build is something we know players enjoy, we want to make sure it remains viable.

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Q - Twin Bite

• Empowered Attack Bonus Damage: 100% AD (+35% AP) ⇒ 100% AD (+50% AP)
• Bonus Attack Speed: 40/45/50/55/60% ⇒ 50/55/60/65/70%

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W - Burnout

• Bonus Movement Speed: 30/35/40/45/50% (+0.08% AP) ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50% (+0.12% AP)

Taliyah

Q damage increased. E cooldown decreased.

With the loss of access to Ability Haste across the board, Taliyah hasn’t been able to get stable footing in the new season. While we’re addressing the Haste issue with a cooldown reduction to her E, we also want to make her a bit more relevant in the early game, both as a mid laner and jungler, so we’ll be giving her Q some more power which is generally always nice for her to have.

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Q - Threaded Volley

• Damage: 50/70/90/110/130 (+50% AP) ⇒ 60/78/96/114/132 (+50% AP)

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E - Unraveled Earth

• Cooldown: 16/15.5/15/14.5/14 seconds ⇒ 14 seconds at all ranks

Teemo

Q QoL change.

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Q - Blinding Dart

• QoL Adjustment: Teemo Q blind should now immediately apply to targets hit by the Q, preventing Teemo from taking damage from an auto attack after the blind has been applied. Blind duration should now also be consistent with the debuff duration above the target’s health bar.

Trundle

Base health decreased. Q damage decreased.

Trundle’s been doing quite well since the buffs he got back in 13.23. We think that the mid-game power spike and enhanced synergies with Trinity Force that came with this buff are beneficial for him to keep, so instead we’ll be reducing his early game power by dropping his base health and flat damage from his Q.

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Base Stats

• Base Health: 686 ⇒ 650

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Q - Chomp

• Bonus Attack Damage: 20/40/60/80/100 (+15/25/35/45/55% AD) ⇒ 10/30/50/70/90 (+15/25/35/45/55% AD)

Twitch

E QoL change.

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E - Contaminate

• QoL Adjustment: If Twitch uses his E at the same time his poison expires on an enemy, they will now take damage based on the number of stacks they had when the poison expired. This should result in the E cast being just slightly more forgiving.

Wukong

Q bonus range increased. E cooldown decreased.

Wukong is in a weak spot at the moment, especially in the top lane, so we’re here to put a bit more pep in his step. To give him more space to play with, we’ll be increasing his early Q bonus range so that he can better trade with his opponents. We’re also including a buff to its bonus AD ratio because the armor shred Q gave lost value with the armor shard being removed last patch. Finally, we’re decreasing his E cooldown, as he’s very reliant on this spell and his build lost access to Ability Haste with the new item system.

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Q - Crushing Blow

• Bonus Range: 75/100/125/150/175 ⇒ 135/145/155/165/175
• Bonus Physical Damage: 20/45/70/95/120 (+45% bonus AD) ⇒ 20/45/70/95/120 (+55% bonus AD)

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E - Nimbus Strike

• Cooldown: 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds ⇒ 10/9.25/8.5/7.75/7 seconds

Yorick

Passive summon leash range decreased, summons now gain bonus movement speed when returning to Yorick. Q heal adjusted, mana cost decreased. E cast time decreased. R bonus damage when attacking Maiden’s target adjusted.

With a bunch of new items to play with we thought that now would be a good time to revitalize Yorick’s classic bruiser builds which should ultimately give him more durability to act as a front liner for his team. While we were at it, we also wanted to take the opportunity to smooth out his playing experience with minor adjustments to his summons.

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Passive - Shepherd of Souls

• Summon Leash Range: 2000 ⇒ 1600
• newReturn Speed: Yorick’s summons now gain bonus movement speed when returning to Yorick. This movement speed bonus is based on the distance between Yorick and the summon.

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Q - Last Rites

• Heal: 10-68 (based on level), doubled when below 50% health ⇒ 10-68 (based on level) (+4/5/6/7/8% missing health), halved vs non-champions
• Mana Cost: 25 ⇒ 20

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E - Mourning Mist

• Cast Time: 0.33 ⇒ 0.25 seconds

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R - Eulogy of the Isles

• Bonus Damage when Attacking Maiden’s Target: 3/6/9% maximum health (capped at 100/200/300 vs monsters), 2 second cooldown ⇒ 2/2.5/3% maximum health (capped at 100 vs monsters), no cooldown