League of Legends

4/18/2022 Rek'Sai Fix

Rek'Sai

4/14/2022 Zeri Adjustments

Zeri

Base Stats

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Q - Burst Fire

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W - Ultrashock Laser

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E - Spark Surge

Arcana Ahri, Arcana Hecarim, Arcana Ryze, Arcana Xayah, and Arcana Rakan will be available April 14, 2022.

Gangplank

Passive burn base damage increased late. W mana cost decreased.

Gangplank is arrrguably struggling at all levels of play. He's already got enough gunpowder in his Q and barrels, so we're putting some power into less explosive and more… orange… parts of his kit.

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Passive - Trial by Fire

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W - Remove Scurvy

Gwen

E cooldown refund increased. R cooldown decreased early.

Gwen's been hanging by a thread after her most recent nerfs, so we're stitching her up with some cooldown buffs that should help her across all skill levels. Needle-ss to say, we don't think these changes will fully address her issues, but we're being extra careful considering her pattern of dominating Pro.

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E - Skip ‘n Slash

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R - Needlework

Jayce

Base health decreased, health growth increased, and armor adjusted.

Jayce has also been a popular pick in Pro. We're lowering his laning power by making him squishier early on, but increasing his growth to make sure he still scales to late game.

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Kalista

Base mana, move speed, and attack speed growth increased.

Kalista hasn’t been seen often in Pro this season, and is generally weak in all levels of play. We're buffing some of her baseline stats which should especially help her out in Average play. Super speedy spooky spears incoming.

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Karthus

Q damage against monsters increased.

While the Deathsinger remains powerful in bot lane, his voice has been faltering in the jungle. We're amping up his clear strength to bring jungle Karthus back from the dead.

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Q - Lay Waste

Lee Sin

Base AD decreased. Q base damage decreased.

We're looking (no pun intended) to bring down Lee Sin's jungle clear speed and early game threat in order to reduce his impact on Pro play. We're targeting his base damage instead of his cooldowns to ensure his passive's rhythm remains the same.

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Q - Sonic Wave / Resonating Strike

Lillia

Passive healing against champions increased. W base damage increased.

We're giving Lillia some more scaling sustain with her AP builds while also boosting her early jungle clear. These buffs should give her W damage a bit more oomph—or rather, eep!

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Passive - Dream-Laden Bough

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W - Watch Out! Eep!

Neeko

W passive base damage and move speed increased.

Neeko's been hidden from Pro play despite being a strong tomato in solo queue. Her on-hit build was quite popular in past metas, so we're bringing it back to lure the Curious Chameleon out of hiding!

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W - Shapesplitter

Pantheon

Base health regen decreased. Tap Q range increased and width decreased. E self-slow no longer applies when moving backwards. R crash now lands faster.

Pantheon hasn't been living up to his Spartan spirit, so we're sharpening his spear to make him feel more like the paragon of Rakkor warriors. Skilled Pantheon players should now be able to showcase their strength with more timely ults, more maneuverable shields, and better trading tools.

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Q - Comet Spear

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E - Aegis Assault

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R - Grand Starfall

Rengar

Q bonus damage against structures reduced. W bonus damage against monsters increased.

Rengar's become a serious destroyer of furniture structures after his most recent changes. This is a new and flexible strength in his kit that we want to preserve, but he's taking down those (scratching) towers a bit too fast, so we're tapping down the damage on that part of his Q. We're also bumping up his damage against monsters to compensate for some of the clear speed he lost because of the changes to Q against plants last patch.

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Q - Savagery

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W - Battle Roar

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Gromp did not grant Rengar a stack of Ferocity

Ryze

Q damage AP ratio increased; bonus mana ratio decreased.

Ryze's tank builds make him a safe yet potent split pusher by allowing him to stack health while dealing carry levels of damage, making him particularly lethal in Pro play. The mid-patch 12.5 nerfs didn't quite do the job at refining his hypercarry identity, so we're shifting his mana scaling to incentivize him to build a few more AP items before stacking health items like Winter’s Approach (which will also be receiving nerfs this patch) .

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Q - Overload

Wukong

Q cooldown decreased. W cooldown decreased late; dash can now go through terrain. E AP ratio and damage against monsters increased.

Wukong hasn't been seen in Pro much despite having a theoretically good matchup into meta staples like Jayce and Graves. We're helping him claim his place in top lane while also reinvigorating jungle Wu so he can be a viable counter or flex pick.

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Q - Crushing Blow

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W - Warrior Trickster

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E - Nimbus Strike

Yasuo

Base health increased. R cooldown decreased early.

Despite my match history, Yasuo and Yone have been relatively weak (and the sustain nerfs in 12.6 didn’t do them any favors either). Rather than increasing their damage, we're giving the wind brothers more opportunity to flex their skills. For Yasuo, we're increasing his early combat durability and ability to synergize with teammates during laning phase.

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R - Last Breath

Yone

R cooldown decreased late.

Yone is also getting more access to his ult, but with a focus on late game which is when it's usually harder for him to close gaps (unless he's already extremely far ahead).

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R - Fate Sealed

Zeri

Base AD, AD growth, and armor decreased; health growth increased. Q base damage decreased, AD ratio increased; now applies on-hit effects only once per cast; now grants at most one R stack and E cooldown reduction once per cast, but crits can grant one more of each. W base damage decreased, AD and AP ratio increased. E cooldown increased early and decreases with rank again. R cooldown increased early and decreased late.

Zeri, Zeri, you’ve been a little too unfair-y. Despite the nerfs in previous patches, Zeri has been shockingly resilient and continues to dominate Pro play. With this round of nerfs, we’re aiming to bring her bruiser build more in line with her crit build, as well as make her stacks and on-hits more predictable. This should give enemies more time to catch Zeri before she starts zipping circles around them.

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Q - Burst Fire

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W - Ultrashock Laser

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E - Spark Surge

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R - Lightning Crash

Abyssal Mask

Abyssal Mask has taken a back seat to Force of Nature in terms of magic resist options this season. We’re buffing Abyssal Mask’s passive, Unmake, to help it stand out as an aggressive tank option which will help unmake your enemies’ MR.

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Galeforce

Galeforce has been the go-to marksman mythic for a while now and has made hypercarries like Jinx and Aphelios a bit too safe in Pro play. We’re increasing Galeforce’s active cooldown to give opponents larger windows to punish scaling marksmen before they reach their endgame.

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Moonstone Renewer

Moonstone has been eclipsing the other enchanter support options. It offers a little too much sustain with relatively little risk, so we’re tuning down the bonus shields and heals to bring it in line with other enchanter mythic items.

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Umbral Glaive

Umbral Glaive hasn’t been living up to its fantasy of blacking out opponents’ maps. We’re implementing some buffs to make it a better option for supports building lethality and roaming assassins looking to be a tad sneakier.

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Winter's Approach

Winter may be over for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, but Winter’s Approach is still the premier choice for mana tanks and a few mages, despite being a scaling item. We’re increasing its cost to make it less appealing as a first purchase.

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Time Warp Tonic

Time Warp Tonic provides its users too much safety versus divers. Combined with the generic sustain power of Corrupting Potion, this often means ranged champions that want to play safe… always stay safe. We’re diluting the tonic a bit by taking out some of its special safety syrup, making it easier to punish.

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Leona

We have some smaller VFX updates for Leona’s base and older skins to help modernize the Radiant Dawn.

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Orianna

We also have a complete VFX overhaul to improve Orianna's gameplay clarity and modernize her base and older skins.

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Shaco

Lastly, we've also got a complete VFX overhaul of Shaco! (Does this count as Shaco lore?)

Champion Buffs

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Champion Nerfs

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Champion Adjustments

Masterwork Milestones

Hot on the heels of last patch's Phase 1 launch, we're heading into Phase 2 of the Mythic Content Overhaul! This patch, we're introducing an infinitely repeatable rewards track for Masterwork Chests. Any Masterwork Chest you open grants progress on the rewards track, regardless of whether you bought it, earned it as a reward, or received it as a gift. In addition, since we've adjusted random Mythic Essence drops from Masterwork chests from 10 ME to 5 ME, we won't revert last patch’s buff to ME—it'll remain at a 4.2% drop rate.

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We're also introducing two adjustments to the Masterwork system relative to our original plan. Our original model would've led to Masterwork Chests granting more Mythic Essence than the new system has been tuned to support, and we felt it'd be better to do these changes now rather than later.

We'll be following up soon with the other half of Phase 2, our first Showcase Milestone release!

Get ready, because the second Split of Ranked begins on Friday, April 22 at 11:59 p.m. local time for your region! The exclusive rewards for Split 2 are a Renata Glasc summoner icon, Renata Glasc emotes, 1 Renata Glasc Champion permanent, and a Series 1 Eternals Capsule.

Team formation for the Clash Piltover Cup begins on April 11, and the tournament begins on April 16 and 17! Team formation for week 2 of the cup will start on April 25 with the tournament days being April 30 and May 1.

• Fixed a bug where Orianna’s R - Shockwave would sometimes originate from Orianna despite just having moved her ball to an ally with E - Command: Protect
• Fixed a bug where Kled could use Hextech Flashtraption to change directions during his R - Chaaaaaaaaaarge!!!
• Fixed a bug where Sylas’ ultimate would not revert back to R - Hijack if he died with Vex’s ultimate, R-Shadows Surge, on its kill reset cooldown
• Fixed a bug that caused Tibbers and Daisy to walk away when hit by abilities and effects that reduced armor or magic resist
• Fixed a bug where Warwick’s Q - Jaws of the Beast would sometimes have no cooldown if it killed a target
• Fixed a bug where sound effects were playing from the Fog of War despite not having visibility of the item effect/champion ability that triggered the sound effect
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Aatrox’s voice lines to not play (there goes the silence of annihilation)
• Fixed a bug where Akshan’s second attack would gain 2 stacks of Lethal Tempo
• Fixed a bug where Tahm Kench could R - Devour an ally champion from a bush and, upon being spat out, the champion would be invisible to enemy players
• Fixed a bug where the cooldown indicators on certain items (Redemption, Youmuu’s Ghostblade, and Knight’s Vow) would not accurately reflect the item’s actual cooldown timer
• Fixed a bug in Treasure Hunter’s tooltip that would show 170 gold bounty available despite having already claimed the bounty on all enemy champions
• Fixed a bug that caused Locket of the Iron Solari’s tooltip to display an incorrect shield amount
• Fixed a bug that was not allowing players to purchase suggested starter item bundles by left-clicking on the bundle icon twice
• Fixed a bug that caused champions to become stuck inside Mordekaiser’s R - Realm of Death if it was cast on Tahm Kench as he was spitting out an ally he previously used R-Devour on
• Fixed a bug that caused the tooltip for Lee Sin’s Q - Sonic Strike to display incorrect damage values

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

4/4/2022 One For All Balances

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One For All Champion Buffs

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One For All Champion Nerfs

4/1/2022 Mid-Patch Update

We’re currently working on resolving a large number of bugs that were shipped in patch 12.6 and exclusively affect Summoner’s Rift normal draft and blind pick game modes. (Ranked queues are unaffected.) To assist our investigation, please take screenshots or short recordings of any bugs found and tag us on Twitter @LeagueOfLegends so we can address the root cause.

We're aiming to ship a batch of fixes on April 2 at 10:00pm PST for all issues we identify. We've included a preliminary list below, though we believe there are more still to be found. Thanks for your patience.

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Known Issues

• Identified a bug where champion emotes (/taunt, /joke, /dance) are creating odd visual effects
• Identified a bug where the Honeyfruit jungle plant is not working as intended
• Identified a bug where champion kills are incorrectly granting 𐇥i𐇥𐇥𐇥𐇥if𐇥c𐇥𐇥𐇥o𐇥
• Identified a bug where gia𐇥t 𐇥u𐇥𐇥𐇥 are 𐇥𐇥𐇥w𐇥i𐇥𐇥 𐇥𐇥 𐇥he riv𐇥r
• Iden𐇥ified a b𐇥g wh𐇥re scu𐇥tle sometimes 𐇥𐇥c𐇥𐇥e𐇥 g𐇥𐇥𐇥𐇥
• I𐇥𐇥nti𐇥𐇥ed a b𐇥𐇥 wh𐇥𐇥e th𐇥𐇥𐇥 is 𐇥 𐇥𐇥𐇥eb𐇥𐇥𐇥𐇥o𐇥 wh𐇥n t𐇥𐇥𐇥e 𐇥s a pe𐇥𐇥a𐇥𐇥ll

3/31/2022 Mid-Patch Update

Nexus and Inhibitors

3/30/2022 Mid-Patch Update

Illaoi

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Treasure Hunter

Battle Bunny Prime Riven, Battle Bunny Miss Fortune, Battle Bat Vayne, Battle Wolf Sylas, Battle Cat Jinx, and Prestige Battle Cat Jinx will be available March 31, 2022.

Azir

Health growth increased.

A little birdy told us that Azir's been weak, and the numbers told us the birdy was right. His lack of Pro presence in a scaling meta that should favor him was the final confirmation, so we're giving him some base stat power that should help the Emperor of Shurima in all skill brackets.

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Darius

R base damage increased.

Darius has been lagging behind other juggernauts after the fighter item changes, so we're giving him a beefy damage boost. (As a reminder, his ult's total damage can increase by up to 100% based on his passive stacks.)

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R - Noxian Guillotine

Hecarim

Q and E base damage decreased late.

Tankarim is taking over Pro again, so we're nerfing the base damage on some of his abilities to ensure fairer horseplay.

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Q - Rampage

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E - Devastating Charge

Illaoi

QoL change on R and several bugfixes.

No balance changes here; instead, we fixed lots of bugs and updated Illaoi's ult to give her some more control over her tentacles.

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R - Leap of Faith

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Bugfixes

• When Illaoi attacks a Vessel while empowered by W - Harsh Lesson, nearby inactive Tentacles will now slam her target as soon as they become active (short delay removed)
• Spell queueing has been added to W - Harsh Lesson and R - Leap of Faith, so you can now buffer other spells while casting them
• W - Harsh Lesson's visual indicators have been fixed and will show the correct range of her empowered basic attacks
• Tentacles can no longer spawn on either team's base gates on Summoner's Rift
• Vessels no longer contribute to Illaoi's creep score when they expire or are destroyed
• Q - Tentacle Smash and E - Test of Spirit will now be visible to nearby enemy champions when cast from Fog of War

Jax

Base health increased. W base damage increased.

Jax has been mediocre for a while, so we're giving him some early game power to help him get to his item power spikes. He may not have a real weapon at first, but now he can buy one a little sooner. :^)

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W - Empower

Nidalee

Human W cost decreased; E mana cost decreased late and cast range increased. Cougar W damage radius increased.

Human-form Nidalee is a mana-hungry huntress, but her overall kit is much more compatible with the non-mana mage Mythics. We're giving her more access to her utility spells as well as making her AoE range bigger so she can claw enemies and jungle camps more effectively. Lastly, her heal cast range was pretty restrictive (especially for a character with so many other positioning constraints), so we're increasing it to match that of her Bushwhack trap placement. All in all, this should make her more accessible and stronger across all skill brackets.

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Human Form

W - Bushwhack

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E - Primal Surge

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Cougar Form

W - Pounce

Rengar

Passive adjustments to Ferocity, leaps, and Bonetooth Necklace; new Ferocity resource bar added. Q basic attacks now always crit; damage now scales with crit chance; now applies against towers; no longer applies against plants. E cast time during leap removed; now grants true sight and some vision around target. R now also grants some vision around target.

Our big kitty finally has some big changes coming to his kit! Our goals were to smooth out Rengar's gameplay, keep his current playstyle, and clarify his builds. We're going to keep a close eye on the Q crit damage ratio so he doesn't get too out of line. We also know that Q no longer applying on plants can be painful for seasoned players who used this mechanic to optimize Ferocity stacks, but we strongly believe it wasn't healthy to support long term and have instead moved that power to more accessible parts of his kit.

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Passive - Unseen Predator

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Q - Savagery

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E - Bola Strike

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R - Thrill of the Hunt

Tryndamere

E cooldown reduction per crit decreased. R cooldown increased.

Tryndamere is too strong at the highest levels of play. His kit scales too well with Ability Haste, so we're readjusting his cooldowns to account for the higher amounts of Ability Haste available to him through items.

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E - Spinning Slash

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R - Undying Rage

Many sustain options were added with the introduction of Mythics last year, especially for early game itemization. We believe sustain is still a compelling choice for Mythic slots, but these options just give a bit too much bang for your buck as they are today.

To make the tradeoffs between sustain and power more significant, we're adjusting some life steal choices in a way that better reflects their cost and value. Hopefully you'll see less of those draintanking plays that can happen when these items are stacked, as well as fewer lanes where sustain washes out trades too quickly. Lastly, we've left the fighter system items out of this list since they were recently adjusted and have landed in a pretty good spot in terms of balancing sustain and power.

Immortal Shieldbow

Blade of the Ruined King

Vampiric Scepter

We have a few changes to runes related to the sustain item changes above. Most notably, we're replacing Ravenous Hunter with a new, shiny, and not-sustain-related rune: Treasure Hunter. Ravenous Hunter was too prevalent in the sustain system as it was too easy to access and stack with other runes, items, and abilities. This meant we’ve had to tune down the rune to a pretty sad state to mitigate its potential sustain power.

Sustain also felt a bit out of place in Domination, a rune tree that's supposed to be all about aggression. This replacement will give us more room to let sustain shine in the limited places where it still exists, and also reward those aggressive champions that are really looking to ca$$$h in.

removedRavenous Hunter

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Fleet Footwork

Legend: Bloodline

Phase 1 of the Mythic Content Overhaul has arrived! Here are all the details, as well as a couple of changes since our original announcement.

Mythic Essence

Gemstones and Prestige Points are combining into a single new currency that never expires: Mythic Essence! Mythic Essence—ME for short—can be obtained everywhere Gemstones or Prestige Points were previously earned. You can spend Mythic Essence in the Mythic Shop for special skins, accessories, and more.

Mythic Shop

The new Mythic Shop features content that rotates on a regular basis, including the return of past Prestige skins!

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Mythic Skins & Accessories

Mythic skins and accessories in the Mythic Shop will rotate every three months (every 6 patches). New Mythic skins debut at 100 ME and will cost 125 ME in future unvaults. Legacy Mythic skins that were once purchasable via Gemstones (such as Hextech Annie, Soulstealer Vayne, etc.) will also be available in the shop and cost 100 ME on first unvault, and 125 ME on future ones. Here's what's on offer for this patch rotation, as well as other options that will be available year-round.

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Mythic Skins & Accessories (Patch 12.6-12.12 Rotation)

• Ashen Knight Pyke (100 ME)
• Ashen Knight Pyke Emberwoken Chroma + Ashen Knight Pyke Summoner Icon (40 ME)
• "I'm Comin' For Ya" Emote (25 ME)
• Hextech Annie (100 ME)
• Hextech Amumu (100 ME)

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Mythic Accessories & Other Options (Available Year-Round)

• Ashen Ward (50 ME)
• Random Skin Shard (10 ME)
• 50 Orange Essence (1 ME)
• 150 Blue Essence (1 ME)

*Note: We've added the Random Skin Shard option and removed the Hextech Chest and Hextech Key options since our original announcement.

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Unvaulted Prestige Skins

Prestige skins can only appear in the Mythic Shop at least one year after their original release. They'll cost 125 ME the first time they're offered in the Mythic Shop, 150 ME on the second, and 200 ME if they've been unvaulted three or more times.*

Usually two Prestige skins will be unvaulted at a time and will be available in the Mythic Shop for one month (2 patches). However, to celebrate the new shop's launch, we're unvaulting six Prestige skins that will be available for three months (6 patches)!

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Unvaulted Prestige Skins (Patch 12.6-12.12 Rotation)

• Prestige Arcanist Zoe (125 ME)
• Prestige Spirit Blossom Teemo (125 ME)
• Prestige Battle Queen Diana (125 ME)
• Prestige PROJECT: Irelia (150 ME)
• Prestige Pulsefire Thresh (150 ME)
• Prestige K/DA Kai'Sa (200 ME)

*Note: Prestige skins from 2018 and 2019 start at higher tiers to respect original owners who obtained them when they were more exclusive before the overhaul.

Commemorative Prestige Skins

To recognize the higher investment required to obtain Prestige skins in 2018 and 2019, players who owned these skins before patch 12.5 will receive additional, exclusive 2022 editions of these skins. Commemorative Prestige skins will never be available via shops, loot, or rerolls. The following skins will be gradually distributed to original owners over the next month:

• Prestige Blood Moon Aatrox (2022)
• Prestige K/DA Ahri (2022)
• Prestige K/DA Akali (2022)
• Prestige Arcade Caitlyn (2022)
• Prestige K/DA Evelynn (2022)
• Prestige Fuzz Fizz (2022)
• Prestige K/DA Kai'Sa (2022)
• Prestige Nightbringer Lee Sin (2022)
• Prestige Battle Academia Lux (2022)
• Prestige Bewitching Miss Fortune (2022)
• Prestige Star Guardian Neeko (2022)
• Prestige Firecracker Vayne (2022)
• Prestige PROJECT: Irelia (2022)
• Prestige Valiant Sword Riven (2022)
• Prestige Pulsefire Thresh (2022)
• Prestige True Damage Qiyana (2022)

Exclusive Mythic and Prestige Skin Debuts

To highlight the release of new Mythic and Prestige skins, limited edition loading screen borders and summoner icons can now only be obtained by purchasing the skin in the Mythic Shop or event Token Shop during the skin's initial debut period. Once a Mythic or Prestige skin is no longer available in these shops, it will be added to the regular loot drop and skin shard reroll pools without the limited edition loading screen border and summoner icon. This means that Mythic and Prestige skins can still be obtained via loot drops or skin rerolls but only AFTER their debut period ends, and WITHOUT their matching borders and icons.

*Note: This is another change from our original plan of removing Mythic and Prestige skins from loot drops and rerolls permanently, based on player feedback. This option grants players exclusive content for unlocking skins during debut periods and also allows collectors to obtain these skins via loot and rerolls without needing to wait for them to unvault.

Phase 2 Update

All of the above announcements are just Phase 1 of the Mythic Content Overhaul! While we're not launching Phase 2 just yet, we do have one big update to share regarding Showcase and Masterwork Milestones, which are reward tracks that will replace much of what was offered through Prestige Points in the past.

We've adjusted our plans for Showcase Milestones, and Prestige skins that debut during Showcases will be available for purchase in the Mythic Shop for 125 ME rather than as the final reward of a Showcase Milestone track! Once the Showcase ends, the Prestige skin will immediately retire from the Mythic Shop and become available via loot drops and rerolls without its border and icon, just like other vaulted Prestige skins. We'll be adjusting the Showcase milestone rewards track to accommodate this update.

And last but not least, don't forget—there's also a Phase 3 of the Mythic Content Overhaul! Stay tuned for more details later this year.

Hextech Rentals

Unrelated to the above, we're removing the ability to activate loot shards to rent champions, skins, and ward skins for 7 days. Virtually no one used the rental system; many players didn't even know it existed (heh). Any rentals that are currently active will still stay active for their remaining duration.

The ability to upgrade shards into permanents, reroll them into permanents, or disenchant them into essence is not affected by any of these changes.

Team formation for the second weekend of the Freljord Cup starts on March 28, and the tournaments will be on April 2 and 3.

• updatedJanna W Bugfix/"Nerf": Fixed a bug where Janna's W - Zephyr range had incorrectly reverted to edge-to-edge. It has been restored and now casts from center-to-center, and its range indicator has also been fixed (Note: This issue had considerable impact on Janna's 12.5 winrates, so we expect this to be somewhat of a nerf)
• Fixed a bug where, if Tahm Kench R - Devoured an allied Senna while she was inside her E - Curse of the Black Mist, both champions would disappear from enemies' view
• Fixed a bug where Lux's E - Lucent Singularity projectile would proc spell shields on all enemies it passes through, even though the projectile itself doesn't deal damage or cc
• Fixed a bug where, if a ward was placed on top of an existing ward, the new one would start dancing moving randomly around the older one~

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

3/10/2022 Elise & Vex Bugfixes

Elise

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Vex

3/9/2022 Mid-Patch Balances

We're taking care of some urgent mid-patch balances before we go AFK for a week.

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Champions

Aphelios

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Ashe

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Draven

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Jinx

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Lucian

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Master Yi

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Ryze

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Varus

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Zeri

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Items

Locket of the Iron Solari

3/4/2022 Master Yi Nerfs

Master Yi

While the changes in 12.5 succeeded in making Yi’s on-hit builds more optimal than his lethality builds, they actually resulted in a large buff to on-hit with roughly no change to lethality-overpowering Yi as a result. We’re tuning Yi down with some stronger nerfs this time, but ensuring that we’re pulling power from across his kit so as to not dramatically impact his gameplay.

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Q - Alpha Strike

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E - Wuju Style

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R - Highlander

BZZZiggs, Heimerstinger, Nunu & Beelump, and Orbeeanna will bee available March 3, 2022.

Ahri

W base damage decreased; mana cost increased. E mana cost increased.

While we’re happy that players are charmed by Ahri’s refresh in 12.3, she’s been a little too strong since. We’re pulling some power out of her early game to reduce her overall strength.

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W - Fox-Fire

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E - Charm

Gwen

Passive damage against monsters decreased. E bonus attack range decreased.

Gwen has been shredding up top and jungle in Pro play for some time now. So we’re snipping off some of her power so her weaknesses are more apparent and her strength as a flex pick is reduced.

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Passive - Thousand Cuts

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E - Skip ‘n Slash

Kennen

W full stack bonus damage on basic attacks increased.

Kennen hasn’t had much presence in top lane, so we’re giving him some small buffs to shock the current meta.

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W - Electrical Surge

Master Yi

Q damage and bonus crit damage decreased; each mark now applies on-hit effects; on-hit cooldown reduction now scales with Ability Haste. E and R now pause during his Q and both can now be activated during Q. E base damage decreased late.

Master Yi’s Duskblade builds have been a bit strong recently, but more importantly are both frustrating to play against and unhealthy for gameplay. We’re decreasing his Q's synergy with lethality and Ability Haste and instead adding on-hit scaling so the Wuju Bladesman is forced to show himself while fighting.

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Q - Alpha Strike

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E - Wuju Style

Miss Fortune

W passive movespeed on respawn increased.

We're giving Miss Fortune a quality of life update for struttier spawns.

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W - Strut

Samira

Health growth and armor growth increased. R cooldown decreased.

For a thrillseeker, the Desert Rose hasn’t been very daring recently. We’re ramping up her durability over time so she can more comfortably stack her Style in big late-game teamfights before getting focused down.

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R - Inferno Trigger

Seraphine

W mana cost decreased late; cooldown increased early and decreased late; shield decreased and now scales with rank; ally shields now equal Seraphine's; heal scaling adjusted. E cooldown decreased early.

Seraphine's been enjoying the mid lane limelight, but it's clear that players want to share her stage in bot lane, too. We're introducing some buffs to her support kit without turning the volume up too high on her solo performances in mid.

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W - Surround Sound

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E - Beat Drop

Xin Zhao

E cooldown increased. R invulnerability duration decreased.

Xin’s a staple in Pro play right now, in part due to the consistent and reliable engage of his E combined with the safety of his R. We're targeting some of that engage power while also ensuring his ultimate doesn’t provide him with too much of a safety net.

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E - Audacious Charge

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R - Crescent Guard

Hullbreaker

Ranged Hullbreaker users have been taking over top lane, so we’re decreasing its benefits for them. Hullbreaker should still feel like an option for ranged champs, but without overshadowing melee users.

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Passive - Boarding Party

Elise

The Mythic Content Overhaul begins next patch! 12.5 is your last chance to spend your 2020 Prestige Points! Unlike Gemstones, Prestige Points won't convert to Mythic Essence. USE 'EM NOW IF YOU'VE GOT 'EM!

Also, as mentioned last patch, once patch 12.5 releases, you'll no longer be able to claim OG ownership of 2018 and 2019 Prestige skins by obtaining them from loot drops or rerolls. The skins will still appear in drops and rerolls during 12.5, but only those who earned them pre-12.5 will receive a special version of these skins. Prestige and Gemstone skins will be removed from loot drops and rerolls when the Mythic Content Overhaul begins.

Team formation for the first weekend of the Freljord Cup starts on March 14, and the tournaments are on March 19 and 20! Team formation for the second weekend starts on March 28, and the tournaments will be on April 2 and 3 during patch 12.6.

Ranked Borders and Divisions

Based on your feedback, an updated look for ranked borders will be hitting the loading screen in patch 12.5. In addition, Ranked divisions will be visible in game lobbies, hovercards, loading screens, and profiles.

• Fixed a bug where the Magical Footwear rune would grant Viego duplicate Slightly Magical Boots
• Fixed a bug where Viego would permanently gain move speed from Taliyah’s Passive - Rock Surfing after possessing her
• Fixed a bug where Caitlyn’s Q - Piltover Peacemaker would not deal damage if she had a spell shield created by Edge of Night or Banshee’s Veil
• Fixed a bug where Predator and Commencing Stopwatch’s cooldowns were not showing correctly in the scoreboard
• Fixed a bug where Yorick’s Maiden of the Mist would not display an icon on the minimap
• Fixed a bug where Sona’s Passive - Power Chord empowered basic attacks were not being consumed or applied when attacking allies while Berserk
• Fixed a bug where Rumble’s Overheated state would visually disappear faster than it should if triggered by his E - Electro Harpoon
• Fixed a bug where the Maiden of the Mist and Ghouls summoned by Yorick's R - Eulogy of the Isles would not disappear when he died
• Fixed a bug where Ornn could not use Passive - Living Forge to upgrade items for an allied Viego that had possessed an enemy champion earlier that game
• Fixed a bug where Karthus could leave spawn before the barrier dropped at 15 seconds
• Fixed a bug where casting Vel’Koz’s R - Lifeform Disintegration Ray would cause game replays to crash
• Fixed a bug where champions who go Berserk from Renata’s R - Hostile Takeover would not deal bonus true damage with their Cheap Shot rune
• Fixed a bug where Sett was unable to cast basic abilities if Renata died during his R - Showstopper while he was Berserk
• Fixed several bugs where champions with certain items and runes would incorrectly receive kill credit and gold for killing their allies while Berserk
• Fixed a bug where active item cooldown timers were not correctly displaying for teammates
• Fixed a bug where Rek’Sai’s Q - Queen’s Wrath cast bar did not appear correctly
• Fixed a bug where the "Thanks for Playing in the Cup!" notification did not appear in the last completed match of Clash tournaments
• Fixed a bug where Clash leaders could not see the tier and lanes on requests from free agents
• Fixed a bug where players would not see the honors they received in the post-game lobby while they were still being processed
• Fixed a bug where accounts above level 500 were defaulting to the Level 1 border. They can now be customized by selecting any prestige border instead.

The following skins will be released this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

2/22/2022 Renata Adjustments

Renata

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Passive - Leverage

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W - Bailout

2/17/2022 Draven & Rek'Sai Bugfixes

Draven

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Rek'Sai

Admiral Glasc, Shockblade Qiyana, Shockblade Shen, Shockblade Kassadin, Firelight Ekko, and Brave Phoenix Xayah Prestige Edition will be available February 17, 2022.

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Renata Glasc

The Chem-Baroness

Rise to the top with Renata Glasc on February 17!

• Renata Glasc Abilities Rundown
• Renata Glasc Champion Bio
• Renata Glasc Champion Trailer

Aatrox

Q Sweetspot bonus damage increased.

We’re still keeping an eye on the changes to the fighter item system, but it’s clear that Aatrox drew the short sword. This buff should hit the sweet spot.

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Q - The Darkin Blade

Amumu

E base damage reduction increased.

Last patch's nerfs made our mummy a little too sad. His E passive's damage reduction is now capped, so we can return some power to the ability by making the baseline stronger.

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E - Tantrum

Ashe

R arrow speed increased.

Ashe has been fairly out of the meta for a while now, so we’re taking the opportunity to give the Frost Archer some more reliable utility with those magical, cross-map ults.

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R - Enchanted Crystal Arrow

Blitzcrank

Base health regen reduced.

We're lowering the robot's innate sustain so that he has to be a little more cautious in lane.

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Dr. Mundo

AD growth decreased. R cooldown no longer decreases with rank.

Dr. Mundo's been tearing up top lane. We're pulling some of his baseline offensive power so he has to make better use of his medical kit to successfully sedate his patients.

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R - Maximum Dosage

Illaoi

Base attack speed increased. W damage ratio increased.

Illaoi hasn't found her footing yet this season, and the fighter item changes haven't done the priestess any favors either. She can already hit some wildly high highs, so we're bolstering her baselines to help her release the kraken.

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W - Harsh Lesson

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where, if Illaoi died right after pulling an enemy's Spirit with E - Test of Spirit, nearby Tentacles would not attack the Spirit

Kalista

Base armor increased.

The Spear of Vengeance hasn’t been very scary recently. We’re buffing her so she can play more aggressively early and survive lane more reliably.

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Lucian

Q mana cost decreased.

The Sentinel of Light hasn't actually seen much light this season, so we're letting him use his shining spells more aggressively before he gets Essence Reaver.

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Q - Piercing Light

Nami

E on-hit base damage reverted.

Last patch, we tide a small nerf to Nami's E when we adjusted her passive so that her power would remain at sea level. It turns out she actually sank a bit as a result, so we're reeling that part of the change back in.

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E - Tidecaller's Blessing

Neeko

Hitbox is now smaller. Q additional bloom base damage increased. W cooldown decreased.

Our curious chameleon has been sitting at a low winrate for quite some time and could use a little love. We're trimming down her THICC hitbox to match those of similar characters and giving her more access to her tricks. An extra boost to her blossoms should help her waveclear so she can roam to other lanes more using her camouflage, as well as make her combos really pop-blossom off.

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Q - Blooming Burst

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W - Shapesplitter

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QoL Changes

Nunu & Willump

Health growth decreased. Q base damage and healing from champions decreased.

Nunu has been playfully toeing the line into OP territory across all brackets for a while now, but this last patch finally broke the ice. We're bringing him and William Willump back into a more reasonable state by tapping down on their general tankiness rather than detracting from their jungle clear and signature snowy skills.

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Q - Consume

Qiyana

Passive AD scaling decreased.

The empress continues to be a little too oppressive in higher levels of play, so we’re reducing the AD scaling on her passive to curb her waveclear and snowball potential.

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Rumble

Base armor increased.

Rumble is weak, especially in the top lane. We're fortifying him to be more in line with other melee laners so he can get scrappier with his enemies.

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Sett

Health growth increased.

The Rift’s #2 mama’s boy (just behind the new patch notes author) has dropped in effectiveness and winrate a bit more than other fighters last patch, so we’re giving him a small buff.

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Veigar

Base armor decreased; armor growth increased. E cooldown increased early.

Veigar is standing head-and-shoulders above the competition. His shadow is especially tall in bot lane, so we’re adjusting his scaling in a way that’ll impact him more in bot lane than in mid.

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E - Event Horizon

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Bugfixes

• Fixed Q - Baleful Strike's tooltip to correctly state that last hitting enemy champions grants 1 stack of Phenomenal Evil, not 3

Xayah

E damage amp based on crit chance increased.

While we're happy that Xayah has lethality options, they've been overshadowing her crit builds. The Rebel's gameplay is healthier and better suited to her identity when she builds at least some attack speed, so we’re increasing the crit scaling on E - Bladecaller to bring back her fast and furious feathers.

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Zeri

Uncharged basic attack base damage and AP ratio decreased; damage amp against low-health enemies increased. Charged basic attack slow percentage decreased early and increased late; duration decreased. Q base damage decreased but now also multiplied in crits; excess AS to AD ratio increased. W slow decreased early; cooldown increased early but now decreases with rank. E cooldown decreased. R bonus attack speed no longer increases with rank.

Zeri's spark still has a bit more shock than she needs, so we're nerfing her overall power in a way that should hit her bruiser builds harder than her crit builds.

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W - Ultrashock Laser

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E - Spark Surge

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R - Lightning Crash

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Bugfixes

• Q - Burst Fire crits will no longer trigger Navori Quickblades' passive to reduce the cooldown of Q - Burst Fire
• Tear of the Goddess now correctly treats Q - Burst Fire as a basic attack and will no longer grant stacks when it is cast; Zeri's right-click basic attack will continue to be treated as a spell and trigger Tear stacks

newAlly Item Pings Now Available!

You can now display your allies' item cooldowns and charges in-game by pinging an item's icon in the "Tab" scoreboard! Item icons in the scoreboard will also have timer VFX to visually indicate their status, similar to those on Summoner Spells.

Rejuvenation Bead

Buying three Rejuvenation Beads has recently cropped up as a powerful item start strategy. However, it offers weak early game champions a bit too much sustain without asking for enough tradeoffs mid-game. We're adjusting it to require some more commitment and will look at changing Doran's items if players struggle to survive, especially in tough solo lanes.

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Crystalline Bracer

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Knight's Vow

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Warmog's Armor

Support Gold Income Items

Spellthief's Edge, Relic Shield, Steel Shoulderguards, & Spectral Sickle

Recently, there's been an increase of enchanter support champions in solo lanes who use support gold income items to gain money passively while roaming the map rather than playing in their lane. While we do value creativity in League of Legends, we believe this specific strategy goes over the line for what a healthy amount of early game roaming looks like. It also denies their lane opponents the opportunity to use early-game strengths to build leads during lane phase, which is a core part of each game.

These issues definitely call for a more robust solution and we're in the process of developing one. In the meantime, we're adjusting a few systems to minimize the effects on other parts of the game. In particular, both objective and CS bounties don't yet account for unconventional income strategies, which can waterfall into unhealthy game states. We're also increasing the minion farming penalty on these support gold income items during the first 5 minutes of the game so that laners can't just farm as usual, then grab-and-go once the timers kick in.

Objective Bounties

Unrelated to the gold income items above, we're also shortening the deactivation timers for Objective Bounties to address some extreme swing cases. When an Objective Bounty period ends, the losing team should still be behind, but the lingering duration allowed some cases where a losing team could catapult ahead after claiming multiple bounties in a row.

Champion Buffs

Champion Nerfs

The 2022 Clash Season begins! Team formation for the first weekend of Ionia Cup starts on February 14, and the tournaments take place on February 19 and 20. Team formation for the second weekend starts during patch 12.5 on March 1, and the tournaments take place on March 5 and 6.

The Mythic Content Overhaul starts in a few patches! 12.4 is the last patch where you can claim OG ownership of 2018+19 Prestiges by obtaining one from loot drops or rerolls. (OG owners of these Prestiges will get a special version of the skin for free during the Mythic Content Overhaul!)

• updatedIntentional Feeding Detection: A new system for detecting intentional feeding was successfully launched last month! Further enhancements have been made to the detection model's accuracy to improve the player experience.

• updatedSummoner Icons: You can now sort and search your summoner icons when selecting one to display! Summoner icons now display informational tooltips when you hover over them.
• updatedSummoner Level Icon Borders: You can now select any of the summoner level icon borders you've earned so far, rather than just your highest level one. (Your selection will not appear in game loading screens just yet.)

• Fixed a bug where champions would be able to cast some Summoner Spells while traveling through Hextech Gates (including Smite)
• Fixed a bug where Ahri's Passive - Essence Theft could obtain essence from champion clones
• Fixed a bug where Janna would incorrectly gain E - Eye of the Storm's passive heal and shield power boost upon slowing or knocking up enemy champions, even when she hadn't learned the skill yet
• Fixed a bug where Senna’s R - Dawning Shadow would change direction if you casted it while your cursor was hovering over Senna’s champion icon in your central HUD
• Fixed a bug where you would sometimes still receive some of Death's Dance's Ignore Pain's stored damage, even after triggering Defy with a champion takedown
• Fixed a bug where Yorick’s Maiden of the Mist would get stuck inside structures when walking near them. The Maiden will now be Ghosted and move through structures and units in true ghost-like fashion
• Kai'Sa’s ability tooltips and evolution trackers for her Passive - Second Skin's Living Weapon have been fixed and will correctly account for her bonus attack damage and attack speed
• Fixed a bug where, if Zed casted his W - Living Shadow and recasted it while his Q - Razor Shuriken was in flight, both shurikens would launch from Zed’s new position (as opposed to 1 shuriken from each location)
• Fixed a bug where Gangplank would receive a Tear of the Goddess stack upon casting E - Powder Keg
• Fixed a bug where, if Tahm Kench applied three Passive - An Acquired Taste stacks on an enemy champion, he would sometimes still be able to R - Devour them after his stacks expired if he used certain item actives
• Zoe's W - Spell Thief ability icon will now display the correct damage value for stolen Smites
• Fixed a visual bug where Aphelios’ casting bar would not animate properly when upon activating W - Phase
• Fixed a bug where players would receive an incorrect notification if they tried to change lobbies while in queue
• The SFX that plays when creating a game lobby has been restored
• PsyOps Pyke's W - Ghostwater Dive SFX that plays for enemies with low health (below his ultimate's execute threshold) has been adjusted for gameplay clarity
• PROJECT: Jinx's critical strike hit SFX have been restored
• The debuff VFX on enemies hit by Ahri's E - Charm have been fully restored
• Teleport and Unleashed Teleport's tooltips have been fixed and will display accurate cooldown timers
• The information displayed in the Dragon Soul buff's scoreboard tooltip has been corrected
• Watchful and Vigilant Wardstones' tooltips have been fixed to display the correct number of wards currently placed
• Smite’s tooltips in Champ Select and Collections have been restored

The following skins will be released this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

2/11/2022 - Ahri Bugfix

Ahri

2/4/2022 - Janna Nerfs

Janna

Janna's 12.2 changes swept Summoner's Rift by storm, making her one of the strongest and most popular supports. However, it wasn't clear just how strong of a nerf she needed last patch due to a Glacial Augment bug that interacted with her Q and R a little too well. Even after the hotfix, Janna remains very strong with Glacial and other runes, so we're lowering her early roaming power and her enhanced heal and shield window.

These changes are not intended to address her (and other enchanters') recent top lane strategy. We're working on a separate solution for that and will update as soon as we have an accurate forecast.

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2/3/2022 - ARURF and Seraphine & Twisted Fate Bugfixes

ARURF Balance Changes

Champion Buffs

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Seraphine

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Twisted Fate

2/2/2022 - Ahri Bugfix

Ahri

Crystal Rose Akshan, Crystal Rose Janna, and Withered Rose Elise will be available February 10, 2022.

Ahri

Champion refreshed. Base stats and all skills updated.

Ahri's unique identity as a highly-mobile mage assassin has eroded over the years. Instead of a being flighty terror dashing across a teamfight, she's limited to a single attempt at an exciting play with her R, then fishing with her E from safety for the rest of the fight. To address this, we're refreshing her passive to offer a partial ultimate reset upon takedowns so a well-played Ahri can capitalize on favorable situations to hunt down the entire enemy team. We've also redistributed her abilities’ mana costs and early damage so each spell feels rewarding. To balance things out, we're slightly nerfing her burst damage and defensive stats. (As an aside, these changes are unrelated to Ahri’s upcoming ASU.)

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Passive - Essence Theft

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Q - Orb of Deception

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W - Fox-Fire

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E - Charm

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R - Spirit Rush

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VFX & SFX Updates

Akshan

Passive damage decreased.

Akshan's been quite strong everywhere (especially in top lane), so we're hitting his early passive power to make his harass on melee enemies a bit less dirty.

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Passive - Dirty Fighting

Amumu

Base armor decreased. E passive's damage reduction now capped per instance.

Amumu has been too strong in Average play ever since he got a ton of new items this season. And although flat damage reduction is supposed to shine against champions like Zeri, completely negating certain attacks or abilities is a bit much—especially for an always-on passive—so we're adjusting his E to match similar abilities.

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Brand

QoL changes on passive and R.

We're firing up a couple of quality of life changes to make Brand's passive a little more intuitive, while also optimizing the bounces on his ult.

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Passive - Blaze

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R - Pyroclasm

Caitlyn

AD growth decreased. Q damage reduced.

Caitlyn is getting banned really often in Pro play lately, likely because of her ability to shut down many popular late-scaling marksmen. Instead of curtailing her early lane bullying strengths, we're getting on the case by nerfing her wave control and scaling instead.

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Q - Piltover Peacemaker

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Caitlyn's ult would incorrectly get a cooldown refund if she was feared during its cast

Corki

First package delayed and restock cooldown increased.

Corki's been taking over Pro play. We're making his lane a bit less safe and lowering his impact on the first dragon and Rift Herald fights by delaying his first package, which used to let him secure a return to combat at the speed of heat. They'll also get restocked at a slower rate so that he can't make special deliveries to every dragon spawn.

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Passive - Hextech Munitions

LeBlanc

W damage decreased late.

LeBlanc has been too stranc for too lanc, especially in Pro where she's been popular for a while now. We're tapping down her first-maxed skill to curb her early burst and waveclear.

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Lillia

R sleep duration increased early.

We're making Lillia’s lullaby last a little longer so she can follow up with her spells and help her teammates more consistently at early levels. Sweet dreams~ ♪

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R - Lilting Lullaby

Nami

Passive initial bonus move speed increased and now decays over duration. E on-hit base damage reduced.

It's high tide for a Nami adjustment! This should make the move speed boost on her passive much more noticeable, so you can stop taking your enchanter supports for granted. (Just kidding. Maybe.) She's already pretty strong, so we're balancing out this slight buff with a small nerf to her E.

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Passive - Surging Tides

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Quinn

W passive attack speed bonus increased early. R damage ratio increased.

Although Quinn is technically flying fine, her impact has descended a bit across all skill brackets due to various system changes recently. Since she's ended up with some headroom, we're taking this opportunity to improve her gameplay satisfaction.

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W - Heightened Senses

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R - Skystrike

Senna

Passive soul drop rate for Senna's farm reduced.

The buff to Senna's Q last patch did make her support stronger as intended, but it also overwhelmingly increased her ADC winrate. Our goal isn't to make ADC Senna weak, but instead to bring her two roles closer together in strength. (Before you grab a calculator, this rounds out to approximately one soul for every six minion waves.)

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Twisted Fate

Q damage ratio increased; base damage decreased late. E bonus attack speed decreased early.

Twisted Fate seems to always have the right cards in Pro play with his global power and consistent CC. We're cutting into his abilities' base stats so he has to buy more AP to dish out big damage instead of opting for his usual utility builds.

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Zeri

Base move speed reduced. Fully charged basic attack damage decreased. R chain lightning damage decreased and can now critically strike.

Zeri's Trinity Force build has ended up being much stronger than expected, skyrocketing her winrate once players swapped over from crit. We're targeting these nerfs to ideally hit her Tri Force build more than her crit ones, but because there's some overlap, we're compensating the latter with a bit more zap on her ult.

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Bugfixes

• Zeri's E - Spark Surge will correctly vault over Trundle's E - Pillar of Ice and glide over Anivia's W - Crystallize wall instead of dashing through them
• Fixed a bug where several of Zeri's VFX would not display correctly upon reconnecting to the game

We're making changes to the fighter system to re-establish the differences between nimbler, more fragile fighters like Fiora and less agile but beefier picks like Darius. Previously, most items were accessible to most fighters thanks to the built-in health. While this made big health-stackers happy, when lighter fighters used these generic items, it would wash out their weaknesses, making them durable yet still high-damage and high-mobility (contrary to their subclass characteristics).

Ideally with these changes, each subclass will feel like they have items tailored just for them. For more context, check out our Quick Gameplay Thoughts article about it here. Lastly, we're aware this is a pretty big shift and will be keeping a very close eye on things and almost certainly following up.

Mythic Fighter Items

For fighter Mythics, we're shifting a couple of items from high health, all-in-one purchases into more unique and offensive options. Not all fighters should be tanky and durable, and those who should—like juggernauts—can lean on specific Legendaries for that.

Trinity Force is the exception here. We're bumping up its health to make it match the other options in exchange for a small reduction in stacking AD. This way, the amount of health you get won't be the main reason why you choose (or don't choose) a certain Mythic; rather, each Mythic should have its own unique benefits to make that decision clearer and fairer.

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Divine Sunderer

Deicide (Ornn Masterwork Item)

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Goredrinker

Ceaseless Hunger (Ornn Masterwork Item)

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Trinity Force

Infinity Force (Ornn Masterwork Item)

Legendary Fighter Items & Components

Our approach to fighter Legendaries is similar: Shift health into AD across select items. Another top priority is to move Sterak's Gage out of being a go-to default option for all fighters. Lighter fighters should now be more intrigued by this reworked Death's Dance, which will scale with your other AD purchases and sustain tools. It also requires fighters to be constantly active in a fight to be effective, which is something we believe is important for systemic lighter fighter survivability.

We're also adjusting a few somewhat underpowered Legendaries that should support lighter fighters (like Maw and Ravenous Hydra). These items need to be powerful enough for lighter fighters to consider purchasing them over other options. And finally, a few component items have also been updated to round everything out.

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Maw of Malmortius

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Blade of the Ruined King

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Black Cleaver

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Ravenous Hydra

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Hearthbound Axe

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Hexdrinker

Turbo Chemtank

Our changes to Turbo Chemtank in patch 12.2 were a bandaid to bring the item back in line on dash-y champs (like Akali and Irelia) while we looked for better solutions. We're further adjusting its stacking mechanics to make Turbo Chemtank better suited for "tanking" rather than for "turbo charging" at enemies. Emphasis on the tank, not the turbo. (These changes also apply to its Ornn Masterwork item, Turbocharged Hexperiment.)

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• updatedHextech Gates: Champions will now both visually and mechanically move along the Hextech Gates’ travel paths rather than immediately teleporting to their destination gate. This also means that active champion effects (such as Kennen’s R - Slicing Maelstrom) will travel along with and apply their effects around the champion’s traveling indicator.
• Fixed a bug where Kled's W - Violent Tendencies' fourth attack would not deal its bonus damage if the ability was learned during a basic attack
• Fixed a bug where Runaan's Hurricane would not proc correctly with Ezreal's Q - Mystic Shot after a certain range
• Fixed a bug where killing an enemy champion with The Collector would grant Samira an extra Style stack
• Fixed a bug where the Charm icon would not appear in champion buff/debuff bars
• Fixed a bug where Kled's Courage bar would display incorrect values upon losing Skaarl
• Fixed a bug where resource bars (like Energy or Rage bars) would sometimes get visually stuck when changing window display modes
• Varus's Q - Piercing Arrow cancellation VFX has been restored on all skins
• Fixed a bug where Talon's blades would briefly disappear for a frame during his R - Shadow Assault's VFX
• Base Darius and Base Amumu's voiceovers have been remastered for clarity
• Fixed Battlecast Skarner's sound effects to play correctly when he marks a minion with Crystal Venom using his E - Fracture and when he gains Crystal Charge upon triggering Crystal Venom
• The in-game FPS indicator's update rate has been reverted for smoother reporting
• Fixed a bug where players would be able to select multiple roles in Summoner's Rift lobbies with 5 players
• Fixed a bug where pressing the ESC key would not close the role selector in game lobbies

Vel'Koz

This update should make Vel'Koz's VFX more Void-y and his hitbox indicators more accurate.

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The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

1/28/2022

ARURF Balances

Champion Buffs

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Champion Nerfs

1/26/2022

Zeri

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Janna

1/24/2022

Chemtech Drake

1/21/2022

Glacial Augment

Withered Rose Zeri will be available January 20, 2022. Porcelain Protector Ezreal, Porcelain Lissandra, Porcelain Amumu, Porcelain Lux, Porcelain Lux Prestige Edition, Porcelain Kindred, Firecracker Sett, Firecracker Diana, Firecracker Teemo, Firecracker Tristana, Firecracker Xin Zhao will be available January 26, 2022.

newZeri

The Spark of Zaun

Zip, zap, and zoom across Summoner's Rift with Zeri on January 20!

• Zeri Abilities Rundown
• Zeri Champion Bio
• Zeri Champion Insights
• Zeri Champion Trailer

updatedJanna

Base stats and all abilities adjusted.

Janna just hasn't felt very rewarding to play over the past few seasons, especially when compared to other enchanter options in bot lane. We wanted to approach this mid-scope update to her while staying true to her classic playstyle and identity. In particular, we believe Janna's ally shielding and peel are what makes her appealing to most enchanter players, so we've shifted some power from her W and poke damage into her Es and Qs. We also made a few nice little QoL changes here and there in hopes of blowing you away~

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Passive - Tailwind

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Q - Howling Gale

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W - Zephyr

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E - Eye Of The Storm

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R - Monsoon

Lulu

W cooldown increased.

Lulu's been queen of the bot lane for quite some time now—especially at the highest levels of play—so we're reducing access to her most versatile spell just a pinch!

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W - Whimsy

Nocturne

Health growth increased. Q damage ratio increased.

Nocturne has been a nightmare to play as in all skill brackets, regardless of his builds or runes. We're buffing him with some scaling power, so he can become more useful as the game progresses, rather than just relying on his ultimate as his only way to say lights out.

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Q - Duskbringer

Qiyana

Base health regen decreased. Brush Q zone duration decreased.

Qiyana is dominating Elite play quite a bit right now. We're reducing how much time she gets to spend being invisible in a fight, which should help lower some frustration when playing against the Empress of the Elements.

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Q - Edge of Ixtal

Rengar

R passive now enables leaping from camouflage.

As a primary jungler, this battle kitty has been suffering a lot on the Chemtech Rift. While he's not the only champion affected, Rengar has certainly gotten the worst of it as so much of his power budget is dedicated to his passive's interaction with brush. Removing 12 spots of it is incredibly disruptive—not just to his core farming pattern, but his entire gameplay, really—so we're giving him a new way to pounce and prowl. No catnip needed. (Note that this passive is on his R and only takes effect once he ranks up his ultimate.)

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R - Thrill of the Hunt

Samira

R base damage increased.

Now that her mid-game transition is less reliable with the Shieldbow nerfs, we're giving Samira a bit more baseline potential in her R so she can snowball in style.

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R - Inferno Trigger

Senna

Q now slows enemies.

Senna is quite weak this season, especially when she builds for DPS. The old Glacial Augment was a crucial part of that playstyle and since it no longer procs off Senna’s basic attacks, we’re adding some utility back into her kit.

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Q - Piercing Darkness

Shen

Q damage decreased.

With the changes to Teleport in 12.1, Shen has once again become king when it comes to map influence from top lane. To bring things back to equilibrium, we're lowering his damage as a duelist instead of bringing down his cross-map power so that his unique, global presence remains his most powerful tool.

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Q - Twilight Assault

Tahm Kench

Q slow increased. E adjusted; damage stored as grey health decreased (unless near multiple enemies). R ally shield increased; now grants move speed upon devouring ally.

We did a mini-rework of Tahm Kench back in 11.13 because his old kit held huge advantages in highly coordinated team play. Our goal back then was to lower his priority in Pro pick/ban while putting him in a place where he could have a fun playstyle, as well as reasonable winrates in both of his roles. (Historically, his top lane winrate has been higher than that of his support.)

The rework is looking pretty good so far in terms of Pro play as he doesn't have nearly as much priority there as he used to. When it comes to his winrates, the rework didn't dramatically affect the difference between his support versus top capabilities, but it did highlight the gap. This left support Tahm Kench players feeling like the catfish was no longer viable in their role. Now that we've had some time to observe all of these effects together, we're willing to take a riskier swing to buff support Kench while nerfing his top lane capabilities to keep him in check up there.

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Q - Tongue Lash

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E - Thick Skin

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R - Devour

Talon

W monster damage ratio decreased.

We introduced Talon jungle in 11.18 in hopes of bringing new players and playstyles into the jungle. He ended up becoming one of the stronger jungle assassins, especially in Elite play where his mobility, damage, and clear speed are almost unmatched. He's still extremely fun as a flex pick, but we also understand that his current state has very few weaknesses, which can be frustrating to play against. In turn, we're heavily nerfing his clear speed to tune him down. He'll still be viable there and will keep his high-mobility edge, but you might need to think a little longer before jumping into the jungle with him.

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W - Rake

Tristana

Base health and health regen increased.

Our rocket girl isn't doing so hot lately. Her abilities already hit super hard, but they're pretty risky and can take a while to stack up. We're bumping up her early durability to give Tristana the time she needs to finish her combos and survive those explosive plays.

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Veigar

Q cooldown decreased; stacks from large monsters and minions increased.

The tiny master of evil has been less threatening than usual as of late. We're upping the rate on his Phenomenal Evil stacks so that he can stand above his competitors in the mid lane. (Figuratively speaking, at least.)

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Q - Baleful Strike

Volibear

Base AD growth increased. E cooldown decreased.

The once-fearsome Volibear is bad for everyone, everywhere. We're giving him a reliable baseline stat buff and more access to his signature stormy skill.

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Base Stats

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E - Sky Splitter

Yasuo

Q damage ratio increased.

Like Samira, the wind brothers were hit hard by the Immortal Shieldbow nerfs. We're compensating for this by returning some of that power into their more skill-dependent abilities.

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Q - Steel Tempest

Yone

Q damage ratio increased.

Of course, we have to do the same for Yone to make sure he doesn't fall behind in the sibling rivalry.

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Q - Mortal Steel

Zed

R base damage ratio decreased.

Zed has been creeping up from the shadows in terms of both power and ban rate. We're tapping him back down in a way that will require him to make better use of his base kit to secure kills.

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R - Death Mark

Lich Bane

At the start of Season 2021, we revamped Lich Bane to broaden its user base by removing its ability haste and increasing Spellblade's damage and cooldown. These changes made it very powerful as a burst tool, but that burst also got a few nerfs throughout the year. As a result, Lich Bane was left feeling pretty underwhelming for its core users, so we're partially restoring it to a healthier state.

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Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Rylai's has been struggling to find its place in the last couple of seasons because it's been trying to serve tanky battlemages, burn mages, and AP supports alike all at once. We're focusing on its purpose as a utility item by lowering its cost and increasing its health to make it more accessible to tankier midrange mages and supports.

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Turbo Chemtank

Turbo Chemtank's update during Preseason 2022 was designed to let tanky gankers and initiators store movement into one big turbo blast for those moments when they gotta go fast. However, Refuel was stacking too well with dashes, which meant it was being used as a DPS source for non-tanks. While we admire the creativity here, Turbo Chemtank is supposed to be for, well, tanks, so we're adding some limits to the way its passive stacks. Ultimately, these adjustments shouldn't affect its intended use cases very much. (These changes also apply to its Ornn Masterwork item, Turbocharged Hexperiment.)

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Chemtech Drake

The Chemtech Dragon Soul is still significantly overperforming compared to other dragon soul buffs. We're nerfing the undeads' health and, uh, longevity. Expected lifetime? Active duration? ... You get what we mean.

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Chemtech Dragon Soul

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Chemtech Rift

We're making a few changes to make the ahead team slightly less advantaged when fighting in the Chemtech rift.

(Now's a good time to mention we stealth-nerfed (heh) the Chemtech Rift last patch. At launch, champions instantly entered camouflage when they entered the fog. In 11.24, we made the camouflage timer check if you've made any offensive moves in the last 1.5 seconds upon entering the fog as well. The only change to the camouflage mechanics this patch is an increase to that timer.)

Hextech Drake

Hextech Dragon Soul is also overperforming compared to other soul effects, though not to the same degree as Chemtech.

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Hextech Dragon Soul

Lethal Tempo

Lethal Tempo's power is skewed a little too much toward early game right now, making it especially cheese for melee champions. We're adjusting it to be weaker early on and letting it scale instead.

Ring in the Lunar New Year with ARURF starting on January 26! (That's the All Random Ultra Rapid Fire game mode if you're new around these parts.) Beyond the normal ARURF that you know and love, we added a flipper full of changes to a couple of runes and a few surprises to the Awesome Buff of Awesomely Awesome Buffing's tooltip.

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Sona

Vayne

• ARAM: Champion damage dealt to minions has been restored to 100%. (This was reduced to 75% in a previously undocumented change in patch 11.24.)
• Fixed a bug where Teleport could sometimes still target certain units other than towers before 14 minutes
• Fixed a bug where Unleashed Teleport would permanently replace one of your Summoner Spells if acquired and used via the Unsealed Spellbook rune
• Champions will now correctly drop Unleashed Teleport spell shards if used after 14 minutes into a game with Zoe
• Fixed a bug where Yone could sometimes cast Unleashed Teleport while his E - Soul Unbound was active
• The exclamation point stealth indicator has been fixed and will correctly reappear above your champion if you are visible to an enemy inside the Chemtech Fog after completing certain stealthing abilities (such as Akali's W - Twilight Shroud)
• Fixed a bug where towers would incorrectly target enemy champions who took damage from Kog'Maw's Passive - Icathian Surprise or Karthus's Passive - Death Defied
• Rengar's Passive - Unseen Predator leap basic attacks will correctly trigger Navori Quickblades' Deft Strikes effect
• Fixed a bug where taking damage from certain jungle monsters would sometimes incorrectly grant stacks toward Force of Nature's Absorb passive
• Fixed a bug where triggering Glacial Augment's passive would incorrectly count toward triggering Eclipse's Ever Rising Moon passive
• Fixed a bug where Mythic or active item icon borders would sometimes appear in incorrect locations. (Yes, the mysterious orange squares...)
• Enemy player chat and emote mute toggle buttons have been fixed and will no longer overlap with other icons in the scoreboard
• DJ Sona and K/DA Seraphine's in-game music mute toggle buttons have been fixed and will display correctly next to their champion icon in the scoreboard every game
• Chat restriction notifications have been fixed and will once again inform players how many messages they have left in their limit

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Elderwood Gnar and Elderwood Rek'Sai will be available January 6, 2022.

Diana

Passive AP ratio and monster damage ratio increased.

Many have come to enjoy Diana jungle since our changes earlier this year, even while she's been distinctly underpowered. We're putting some power back into that role while giving her a bit of a buff that she can also use in mid.

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Passive - Moonsilver Blade

Gangplank

Q mana cost and cooldown reduced.

Gangplank's Parrrley is not as powerrrful in lane after Grasp was nerfed on him, so we're letting him use it morrre often.

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Q - Parrrley

Rek'Sai

Unburrowed E base damage adjusted. Burrowed E cooldown increased late.

Rek'Sai is a bit too strong in skilled play, especially when she maxes E first. We're targeting exactly that while leaving her normal Q max builds relatively unchanged. (As a reminder, E - Furious Bite's damage gets doubled and converted to true damage at maximum Fury stacks.)

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E - Furious Bite

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E - Tunnel

Sona

Armor growth reduced. E cooldown increased.

Sona's been overperforming in skilled play and pushing the limit in other brackets ever since Archangel's Staff was changed in preseason. We're tapping down on her power by slightly reducing her durability and ability cast frequency.

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E - Song of Celerity

Eclipse

Despite being weak overall, Eclipse was the strongest lethality Mythic before preseason. We overdid its buffs a bit in 11.23, so we're partially reverting those. (This change also applies to its Ornn Masterwork item, Syzygy.)

Force of Nature

Force of Nature's payout was a bit too hard to reach due to the stack duration. It's also been a bit weaker than its counterpart, Spirit Visage, so, naturally, we’re adding more force to make it the heavy magic resist item.

Immortal Shieldbow

Immortal Shieldbow has made some marksmen and fighters a bit too, um, immortal. We're bringing it down a bit so that there are larger tradeoffs to consider when comparing it to other marksman Mythics. (Its Ornn Masterwork Item, Bloodward, will now have 65 AD and the same changes to Lifeline.)

Wit's End

Wit's End has been powerful as an early defensive and offensive option for attack speed champions. However, considering its threat as a DPS item, its build path and stats counter magic damage a bit too much, too early.

Teleport

While League of Legends is indeed a team game, it generally evolves in phases—as the game progresses, you interact with your team more. Lane phase lets you flex your individual skills, but it also needs some outside influence to keep things from getting too predictable. However, right now, there’s too much disruption happening too early and too often. This is especially the case with frequent Teleport fights in bot lane. And this isn't bad for bot laners only; top and mid players also lose out on the ability to express their laning skills in the same way. Currently, it often feels like bot lane gets decided by outside influence, and mid and top get decided by the influence they have on bot lane (rather than on how well they play their own lane).

Teleport also tends to crowd out other summoner spells because, when wielded properly, it flexibly offers both safety and a high level of game influence. Today, you can use it to quickly get back to your own lane and farm, but you can also use it to intervene in other lanes. In an effort to bring back some balance, we're reshaping the spell by tempering its offensive capabilities early, and then upgrading it later on to retain its exciting mid-to-late game impact.

Chemtech Drake

The Chemtech Drake terrain is meant to enable both teams to make aggressive and risky plays. We're adding a few Scryer’s Blooms in defensive locations around the terrain, which should especially help losing teams better contest and set up fights in their own jungle.

Ranked Season Start & Split 1

The Summoner's Rift Ranked Season 2022 begins on Friday, January 7, 2022! Check the table below to see what time it starts in your region. There will be a soft reset of 5 divisions for initial seeding. (For example, Gold I will become Silver II.) Honor has also been reset for the season.

Region & Local Major City	Local Time	PST Time
OC1 (Australia/Sydney)	January 7, 04:00:01 AEDT	January 6, 09:00:01 PST
JP1 (Asia/Tokyo)	January 7, 04:00:01 JST	January 6, 11:00:01 PST
KR (Asia/Seoul)	January 7, 04:00:01 KST	January 6, 11:00:01 PST
CN (Asia/Shanghai)	January 7, 09:00:01 CST	January 6, 17:00:01 PST
PH (Asia/Manila)	January 7, 04:00:01 PST	January 6, 12:00:01 PST
SG (Asia/Singapore)	January 7, 04:00:01 +08	January 6, 12:00:01 PST
TW (Asia/Taipei)	January 7, 04:00:01 CST	January 6, 12:00:01 PST
TH (Asia/Bangkok)	January 7, 04:00:01 +07	January 6, 13:00:01 PST
VN (Asia/Ho Chi Minh City)	January 7, 04:00:01 +07	January 6, 13:00:01 PST
RU (Europe/Moscow)	January 7, 04:00:01 MSK	January 6, 17:00:01 PST
TR1 (Europe/Istanbul)	January 7, 04:00:01 +03	January 6, 17:00:01 PST
EUN1 (Europe/Warsaw)	January 7, 04:00:01 CET	January 6, 19:00:01 PST
EUW1 (Europe/London)	January 7, 04:00:01 GMT	January 6, 20:00:01 PST
BR1 (America/São Paulo)	January 7, 04:00:01 -03	January 6, 23:00:01 PST
LA2 (America/Buenos Aires)	January 7, 04:00:01 -03	January 6, 23:00:01 PST
LA1 (America/Mexico City)	January 7, 04:00:01 CST	January 7, 02:00:01 PST
NA1 (America/Los Angeles)	January 7, 04:00:01 PST	January 7, 04:00:01 PST

This also marks the beginning of the Summoner's Rift Ranked Split 1. The exclusive rewards for Split 1 are as follows.

• Vex Summoner Icon
• Vex Emotes
• Vex Champion Permanent
• Series 1 Eternals Capsule

For more information about Ranked Seasons and Splits, check out the Player Support page here.

Changes to Apex Tier Decay

Decay rules for the Apex tiers (a.k.a. Master, Grandmaster, and Challenger) are changing in Season 2022. These changes are intended to correct misplacements and improve the matchmaking experience. (Note that these only apply to Apex tiers. Diamond decay rules are not changing this season.)

For more information about placements and decay, check out the Player Support page here.

Visual Updates

We're laying the groundwork for the new Challenges feature, which will arrive later this year. You'll see some visual updates to your ranked identity and game lobbies starting this patch.

• newRanked Armor has transformed into Ranked Crests! Check out your rank's fresh new look in your profile, ranked page, game lobby, and friends list.
• newRanked Crests also have ~*ambient magic*~! Yay!
• updatedLoading screen borders have been updated to match the new Ranked Crests.
• updatedSeveral parts of the game lobby UI have been rearranged for clarity.

In celebration of Ranked Season 2022 Start, there will be a special Forge God Clash tournament with the following special Forge God-themed rewards.

• 3 Trophies
• 3 Banners
• 5 Team Logos

Forge God clash will only take place on one weekend. Team formation opens on January 10, with matches taking place on January 15 and 16. Forge God Clash is not part of the regular Clash season. You’ll still be able to earn Forge God-themed rewards, but your Clash VP track won’t be affected.

The first Clash tournament of Season 2022, which will count towards the VP track, will be in patch 12.4!

• updatedChampion Select: Pick order in champion select is now randomized for each match in all draft pick queues!
• updatedBehavioral Systems: Intentional Feeding Detection has been improved to evaluate more variables and will go live to all regions this patch.
• newObjective Bounties: Targets with active Objective Bounties now have different health bars to indicate their bounty status
• Akshan's W - Going Rogue camouflage now lasts indefinitely when he is inside Chemtech Fog (in addition to near terrain and inside brush)
• Fixed a bug where Kled would sometimes respawn with an incorrect amount of health
• Fixed a bug where Kled could sometimes get hit by missiles immediately before or while dismounting, even though he should be untargetable in those moments
• Attacking an enemy marked by her W - Yordle Snap Trap or E - 90 Caliber Net will no longer incorrectly grant stacks toward Caitlyn's Passive - Headshot
• Fixed a bug where Caitlyn would sometimes be able to change her Headshot target while casting E - 90 Caliber Net
• Fixed a bug where, if a champion got caught in Caitlyn's W - Yordle Snap Trap at the same time as her E - 90 Caliber Net, Caitlyn's extended Headshot range would get canceled
• Axiom Arc's ultimate cooldown reduction passive will now scale correctly with the Ultimate Hunter rune
• Fixed a bug where, at maximum stacks, Lethal Tempo's bonus attack speed would sometimes persist against non-champion targets
• Fixed a bug where Bard's Meeps would become targetable after he traveled through Hexgates
• Fixed a bug where Bard's R - Tempered Fate did not interact with Glacial Augment correctly
• Watchful Wardstone and Vigilant Wardstone's tooltips will now include the number of wards they currently have placed
• Vi's Passive - Blast Shield will now activate properly on all structures
• Fixed a bug where Kindred's R - Lamb's Respite would heal champions more than it was supposed to
• Fixed a bug where, if Lucian was silenced, his basic attacks would not have Passive - Lightslinger effects
• Fixed a bug where Pantheon's Q - Comet Spear would incorrectly go on full cooldown if interrupted within its tap-cast time
• Pantheon's Q - Comet Spear range indicator has been fixed and will change between its tap-cast and hold-cast versions accurately
• Fixed Sylas' interactions with Lux's stolen R - Final Spark and Miss Fortune's stolen R - Bullet Time
• Fixed a bug where, if Vex died while casting a consecutive R - Shadow Surge, its cooldown would not reset
• Fixed a bug where Talon's Q - Noxian Diplomacy could sometimes hit untargetable enemy champions
• Consuming Skarner's Crystal Venom mark from his E - Fracture will correctly deal bonus damage
• Heimerdinger's Q - H-28G Evolution Turret's deactivation sound effects have been restored for several of his skins
• Heimerdinger's E - CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade's explosion sound effects will no longer play multiple times upon hitting an enemy

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

12/15/2021 Mid-Patch Balances

We're taking care of a few urgent mid-patch balances before we put things on pause for the holidays.

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Dr. Mundo

Dr. Mundo is wreaking too much medical havoc in top lane.

Base Stats

Q - Infected Cleaver

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Gwen

Gwen is weak, especially with Lethal Tempo. (Hint: Pick Conqueror instead!) We're helping her reach her late game damage by buffing her early durability.

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Kai'Sa

Kai'Sa is normally kept on the weaker side for most players due to Pro priority, but has recently fallen even further due to shifting meta and pre-season.

Passive - Second Skin

Q - Icathian Rain

W - Void Seeker

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Kassadin

Kassadin is too strong in lane, especially against melee champions.

Passive - Void Stone

W - Nether Blade

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Lux

Lux is a little too strong in mid lane and continues to be popular as a support, so we're reducing her CC’s uptime and burst combo just a bit.

Q - Light Binding

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Olaf

We're reverting a previous Olaf nerf so that he feels empowered to fight it out at low health.

Passive - Berserker Rage

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Pyke

Pyke is a bit weak right now, so we're buffing up his lane versatility through his regen and hooks.

Passive - Gift of the Drowned Ones

Q - Bone Skewer

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Talon

Talon jungle has been a nightmare in high elo, so we're pulling back on his power there.

W - Rake

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Varus

We're buffing Varus with a focus on his non-lethality builds and also taking the opportunity to bump his AP off-build.

Passive - Living Vengeance

W - Blighted Quiver

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Vayne

Vayne is too strong, even if we consider her items being overtuned right now.

R - Final Hour

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Glacial Augment

The last buff to Glacial wasn't as big as we hoped for enchanters.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where killing a target with Talon's ranged Q - Noxian Diplomacy would not grant its cooldown refund
• Fixed a bug where repeatedly casting Talon's melee Q - Noxian Diplomacy would sometimes cancel his next auto-attack
• Fixed a bug where, if Skarner immediately attacked a champion marked by his E - Fracture, it would not consume its Crystal Venom mark

12/10/2021 Ultimate Spellbook & ARAM Balances

Ult-ernate Summoner Spell Changes

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Ultimate Spellbook Champion Buffs

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Ultimate Spellbook Champion Nerfs

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ARAM Balances

Debonair Master Yi, Debonair LeBlanc, Debonair Malzahar, Debonair Brand, Debonair Brand Prestige Edition, Debonair Draven, Debonair Zed, and Debonair Leona will be available December 9, 2021.

Caitlyn

Headshot resets partially restored.

Several attack "resets" on Caitlyn's Headshots were removed during her ASU. These resets were notoriously difficult to maneuver and were not part of Caitlyn's original design. (Technically, her Headshots executed as abilities rather than empowered basic attacks, which is what allowed the bugged reset functionality.) It wasn't sustainable—or healthy, even—to keep her passive as-is, so we're instead refactoring her Headshot resets in a way that looks smoother and is easier to pull off.

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Passive - Headshot

Camille

W damage decreased. E cooldown increased late.

Camille is a bit too mobile for the damage she dishes out, so we're limiting access to her ODM gear dashes. We're also nerfing her trading tool so that she doesn't get such a free advantage in lane.

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W - Tactical Sweep

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E - Hookshot

Ivern

Krug experience and gold rewards increased.

Ivern loves all of his forest friends equally, but when push comes to shove, freeing the Krugs isn't really worth the effort. Krugs give significantly less gold and experience than the other small jungle camps, even though it takes Ivern the same amount of time, mana, and health to free them. (This oughta teach 'em how to say thanks!)

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Passive - Friend of the Forest

Kayle

Passive wave distance now scales with bonus attack range.

After reaching level 11, if Kayle has enough stacks, her basic attacks launch waves of fire that travel an extra distance and damage enemies they pass through. The distance these waves travel used to be a flat number. Now, it will scale with her bonus attack range, which can be extended by other effects such as her passive at level 16 or Lethal Tempo.

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Passive - Divine Ascent

Kled

Kled & Skaarl's health calculations changed. E cooldown reduced; AD ratio increased.

Tank Kled has been optimal for a while because of the massive bonus HP he gets from Skaarl. We're adjusting how his health is calculated to make his playstyle healthier and more interesting. However, this will nerf some of his bruiser builds, so we're buffing his damage and cooldowns to compensate. We'll keep an eye on the cantankerous duo after this change to monitor AD Kled's viability.

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Base Stats

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Passive - Skaarl, the Cowardly Lizard

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E - Jousting

Twitch

R bolt distance now scales with bonus attack range.

When Twitch uses his ult, his basic attacks become bolts that travel slightly farther than his attack range and deal damage to enemies in a straight path (similar to Kayle's passive). This distance also used to be a flat number and will now scale with his bonus attack range.

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R - Spray and Pray

Samira

R no longer costs mana.

Few things feel worse than running out of mana for Samira's ult after getting all her passive stacks ready. This mana cost was originally designed to control her early waveclear, but since that hasn't really been a problem, it became the perfect opportunity to bring her back—in style.

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R - Inferno Trigger

Urgot

Passive and W attacks now scale with bonus attack range.

Just in case you wanted to run Lethal Tempo on Urgot. It's probably still not a good idea, but... whatever floats your boat spidery-leg-cyborg... vehicle... thingy.

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Passive - Echoing Flames

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W - Purge

Archangel's Staff

Archangel's Staff isn't performing all that well, so we're lowering its cost to help.

Axiom Arc

Axiom Arc is supposed to provide ability-based assassins an exciting teamfight output. However, it's been doing that a little too consistently.

Cosmic Drive

Cosmic Drive is significantly overperforming on most champions.

Crown of the Shattered Queen

Crown of the Shattered Queen is another new mage item that has been doing too well on most champions, especially considering it's supposed to be a more defensive Mythic option.

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Caesura (Ornn Item)

Evenshroud

Evenshroud has all but eclipsed its sunnier counterpart (a.k.a. Locket), so we're bringing it in line with the other support Mythics. (These changes also apply to its Ornn Masterwork item, Equinox.)

Frostfire Gauntlet

Frostfire Gauntlet is a punch above the other tank Mythics, offering a little bit of everything at a relatively low cost. We're bringing down its damage, which was a bit too high compared to Sunfire, including the health scaling. (These changes also apply to its Ornn Masterwork item, Rimeforged Grasp.)

Conqueror

The nerf to Conqueror's duration in 11.21 was a little too restrictive. We're partially reverting the nerf and boosting its damage to make it comparable to other keystones like Grasp of the Undying, Fleet Footwork, and Lethal Tempo.

Glacial Augment

Glacial Augment is the best keystone for many tanks by a large margin right now. We're nerfing it in a way that shouldn't affect its other users.

Lethal Tempo

Lethal Tempo is a little too strong for some melee champions. It's also failing to fulfill its attack speed fantasy for ranged users, so we're shifting some of the power from its bonus attack range for them.

Predator

Now that the dust from its 11.18 buff has settled, it's become clear that this powerful version of Predator is undercutting counterplay. We're reverting that change to address this, especially since Ingenious Hunter's 11.21 buffs helped Predator's viability considerably.

The temporarily doubled selection rates of Chemtech Rift and Hextech Rift terrains during patch 11.23 have been removed. All dragon terrains have returned to their normal selection rates.

Chemtech Drake

The standard Chemtech Drake Buff is notably weak while, conversely, the Chemtech Dragon Soul is too strong. We're also adding a visual helper so you can identify chemtech zombies better.

Hextech Drake

On the contrary, while Hextech Dragon Soul seems to be in a reasonable place, the standard Hextech Drake Buff could use a boost.

New Ult-ernate Summoner Spells

Cassiopeia

Diana

Ekko

Fizz

Nasus

Poppy

Ryze

Singed

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Removed Ult-ernate Summoner Spells

Janna

Rell

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System Changes

Melee & Assassin Buffs

Melee champions—especially assassins—have been struggling in ARAM for a while now. We're adding two buffs independent of the champion-specific adjustments to balance accordingly. The first should allow melee champions to push waves more easily.

Assassins are a bit harder to balance as fiddling with their numbers in this mode risks diminishing counterplay. Increasing their damage dealt would let them delete enemies before any chance to react, whereas decreasing their damage taken removes opportunities for counter-burst. So instead, we're trying something a little different: AP assassins will now do bonus damage to structures from the start, much sooner than other champions. This later gets replaced by ARAM's a generic time-based buff which, after 18 minutes, grants all champions 0-25% (based on minutes) bonus damage to structures.

Champions are adaptively determined as "AP-scaling" if they have more bonus AP than bonus AD throughout the game. The breakeven point at which the generic ARAM buff's bonus damage to structures exceeds 20% is approximately 27:36.

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Champion Buffs

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Champion Nerfs

• newHealth Bar VFX: New VFX have been added to player health bars to indicate when shields, Guardian Angel, and other health-related effects activate.
• newHappy Ahri-versary! Dynasty Ahri's splash art has a new look to celebrate her 10th Ahri-versary! Special Ahri-versary chromas have also been added for each of her skins.
• updatedVarus VFX Update: Each of Varus's skins have received visual effect updates to varying degrees
• updatedSFX Updates: Base Caitlyn, Base Orianna, Gatekeeper Galio, and several Kled skins have received audio updates to play their voice lines and interactions more consistently and accurately
• Fixed a bug where Kindred could not mark the Chemtech or Hextech Drakes with Passive - Mark of the Kindred
• Fixed a bug where champions would briefly flicker at their destination Hexgate before they arrive
• Yorick's Mist Walkers, Elise's Spiderlings, and Bard's Meeps will now arrive at destination Hexgates with their champions, not before them
• Fiddlesticks' Effigies from all over the map will, sadly, no longer warp through Hexgates with him :(
• Death recaps have been fixed to correctly report damage dealt by Dragon Soul buffs
• Fixed a bug where the detection radius indicator around your stealthed champion would sometimes disappear
• Fixed a bug where wards placed over terrain near towers could sometimes reveal stealthed champions
• Fixed a bug where control wards would sometimes reveal stealthed champions inside chemtech zones
• Stealthed champions will shimmer properly upon taking damage inside chemtech zones
• Fixed a bug where champions would not get Sudden Impact's bonus magic penetration and lethality upon exiting camouflage
• Control wards will no longer erroneously play "reveal" VFX around invisible enemy champions and, conversely, invisible champions will no longer erroneously play "revealed" VFX around enemy control wards
• Qiyana's green Q - Elemental Wrath and LeBlanc's Passive - Mirror Image invisibility effects in chemtech zones have been restored
• Abilities that grant True Sight of enemies, such as Nidalee's Passive - Prowl or Lee Sin's Q - Sonic Wave, will properly reveal invisible units again
• Fixed a bug where, if Talon uses R - Shadow Assault and targets an enemy with his ranged Q - Noxian Diplomacy while he is rooted, his ultimate's blades would incorrectly converge on his target rather than his current location
• Fixed a visual bug where Talon's abilities would falsely appear to apply Passive - Blade's End stacks on targets with active spell shields
• Talon's melee Q - Noxian Diplomacy cooldown will no longer fully restart if his target becomes invalid during its cast (now matches Kha'Zix's Q - Void Spike behavior)
• Talon's ranged Q - Noxian Diplomacy cooldown has been fixed to restart upon initiating its dash, not upon completing it
• Talon's E - Assassin's Path will no longer get interrupted by hard CC when he has an active spell shield
• Fixed a bug where Sheen's Spellblade passive would interfere with Skarner's E - Fracture cooldown reduction
• Fixed a bug where Taliyah would not be able to use her Passive - Rock Surfing for the rest of the game if someone broke her Banshee's Veil spell shield while she was Rock Surfing
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused issues when you cast an ability at the same location as your champion and cursor
• Fixed a bug where, if Mordekaiser used his R - Realm of Death while Vi was pursuing him with her R - Cease and Desist, she would be stuck in her ultimate's pursuit state until he returned from his Death Realm
• Fixed several bugs with Malzahar's Passive - Void Shift shield that would sometimes consume or refresh it incorrectly
• Fixed a bug where Aphelios would sometimes get stuck in an A-pose if slain shortly after initiating a basic attack
• Fixed a bug where owning a Frozen Heart would incorrectly count as being in-combat, nullifying effects such as Boots of Mobility's passive
• Fixed a bug where Akshan sometimes could not recast W - Going Rogue if he was low on mana, even though the second cast has no mana cost
• Fixed a bug where Rengar could sometimes cast W - Battle Roar during Zhonya's Hourglass' Stasis
• Fixed several bugs that could occur while possessing Ivern or Akshan with Viego's Passive - Sovereign's Domination

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

11/23/2021 Objective Bounties

The Objective Bounties system currently overvalues Dragons and Dragon Souls when determining leads, so we're adjusting their values accordingly. Additionally, damaging an objective with an active Objective Bounty will no longer reset the 15 second deactivation timer.

11/19/2021 Ultimate Spellbook & Evelynn Bugfix

Ult-ernate Summoner Spells

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Ultimate Spellbook Champion Buffs

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Ultimate Spellbook Champion Nerfs

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Evelynn

11/18/2021 Objective Bounties & Bugfixes

Caitlyn

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Objective Bounties

We’re making it harder for Objective Bounties to come online. Losing teams will have to be even further behind for Objective Bounties to activate. Objective Bounties will also fall off faster once the losing team starts to catch up.

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Hextech Drake

11/17/2021 Lulu & Caitlyn Bugfixes

Caitlyn

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Lulu

Cafe Cuties Gwen, Cafe Cuties Soraka, Cafe Cuties Annie, Cafe Cuties Bard, Cafe Cuties Sivir, and Cafe Cuties Vladimir will be available December 2, 2021. Players will be able to earn Arcane Caitlyn starting November 22, 2021 and Arcane Jinx starting November 24, 2021 for a limited time.

Every legend has a beginning, and we hope you're enjoying Arcane's. But there's even more to the lore than just the show! Check out all the Arcane-inspired League of Legends content below and in Into the Arcane.

• The Council Archives: Can't get enough of Arcane? Well, don't worry, because there's more! Dig into Jayce and Vi's backstories by checking around the Council Archives in the League client to learn more about the characters.
• Ultimate Spellbook: IT'S BACK! The return of this summer's popular rotating game mode is back with brand new Ult-ernate spells galore, many of which belong to the characters of Arcane. Check out the Ultimate Spellbook section for more details.
• League of Legends Avatar Creator: So maybe it's not enough to know Arcane—maybe you want to be Arcane. You're in luck: The League of Legends Avatar Creator is now up and running! Head over to the client or on the web to create your avatar to customize, save, and share.
• Summoner's Rift Accents: Arcane has taken over Summoner's Rift and Howling Abyss! Minions and turrets alike have gotten a makeover for RiotX Arcane. Maybe you’ve also noticed new Arcane-themed loading screens, quotes, and in-game music. These accents will last until December 9, 2021.
• Caitlyn ASU: Caitlyn's also getting a major visual update this patch along with small upgrades for Jayce and Jinx, too. Talk about progress, huh? More details on that way, way below.

Objective Bounties are another way for losing teams to get back into the game, in addition to Champion Bounties. They grant extra gold rewards for taking objectives when a team is far behind, and are designed to be hard to claim—but not impossible! We still want the winning team's leads to matter, so losing teams will have to capture multiple objectives in order to cash out, because a single bounty won't pay out very much. We hope that Objective Bounties will allow you to execute big brain strats to equalize the game, rather than having to wait around to capitalize on your opponent's mistakes.

Objective Bounties activate only when a team is sufficiently behind and objectives that'll pay out bounties are highlighted on the minimap for both teams. If the losing team takes an objective with an active bounty, each of its members will receive Objective Bounty gold.

Objective Bounties are calculated in the background based on four factors: XP lead, Gold lead, Dragon lead, and Turret lead. When they activate, each objective available to the team that's behind gains a bounty. Bounties start at the following, split evenly amongst all five team members.

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As the losing team falls farther behind, these base amounts can increase up to an additional 60%. The exact bounty for each reward will be visible under the losing team's objective icons in the tab-menu.

Objective Bounties activate 15 seconds after a team falls below the threshold and deactivate 15 seconds after they rise above it. This deactivation timer extends if the losing team remains in combat with an objective that has an active bounty.

We're introducing two new dragons to Summoner's Rift, complete with new buffs, souls, and terrain effects. The selection rate of Chemtech Rift and Hextech Rift terrains will be temporarily doubled during patch 11.23 only so you can try out the new map changes and dragon souls more frequently during preseason.

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Chemtech Drake

Chemtech Drake is all about playing on the edge, taking calculated risks, and fighting for every scrap. The Chemtech Dragon Soul encourages you to go big or go home, and trade your life for high value plays.

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Hextech Drake

Hextech Drake is all about controlling the map, flanking your foes, and trapping the enemy team for a wombo combo. The Hextech Dragon Soul grants a unique lightning that slows down enemies, allowing you to control teamfights and chase down stragglers.

Cloud Drake

The Cloud Drake buff wasn’t getting much love this year, despite being very powerful. It was hard to tune because it needed to give a lot of ultimate Ability Haste to be a powerful reward, but not so powerful that it’d completely warp the game. So we're making some adjustments. Run like the wind! (Cloud Dragon Soul and Cloud Rift are unchanged.)

Rift Scuttler

The first Rift Scuttler spawn has been too impactful in deciding the outcome of the early game, so we're reducing its importance with lessened XP. Now that it's squishier (and tinier), you can defeat it more easily and scuttle back to safety sooner.

We’re adding some new items for mages, tanks, bruisers, and assassins, who have all been lacking meaningful options since the item system update last preseason.

Crown of the Shattered Queen

Mages have often felt at the mercy of their bursty foes with little else to do but hide on the far side of teamfights or hope their Stopwatch is enough to survive. This new Mythic lets them sacrifice some early damage for the chance to live longer—especially in the early game, when a completed Zhonya’s may not be a good option.

Evenshroud

Tanky supports felt pigeonholed into one Mythic (Locket of the Iron Solari) which was a purely defensive tool. We're adding another Mythic for those who want to focus more on engaging offensively instead of relying on Locket's anti-burst.