1/8/2021 Seraphine and Ornn Bugfixes

Ornn

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Seraphine

1/7/2021 Udyr Bugfix

Udyr

1/6/2021 Balance Changes and Bugfixes

Graves

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Ivern

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Malphite

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Sivir

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Sylas

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Taliyah

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Rell

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Varus

Marauder Kled, Marauder Kalista, Marauder Xin Zhao, Warden Quinn, and Warden Gragas will be available on January 7, 2021.

Fiddlesticks

W cooldown increased.

Fiddlesticks has been reaping too many rewards in the new jungle.

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W - Bountiful Harvest

Gnar

Mega Gnar Q base damage and slow increased. Mini Gnar E attack speed duration increased. Mega Gnar E range increased.

Giving Gnar more target access and sticking power in his Mega form so he can have more impact beyond just hopping in and casting his ultimate.

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Q - Boulder Toss

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E - Crunch

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E - Hop

Karma

E shield strength increased late.

Karma has been a little too weak since the preseason changes, so we're amping up her durability.

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E - Inspire

Master Yi

Q cooldown increased later.

Master Yi is too powerful in Average play, so we're bumping down the amount of time he's invulnerable in team fights.

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Q - Alpha Strike

Pantheon

Base health regen decreased. W empowered AD scaling decreased.

A simple adjustment as Pantheon's just a tad too strong across the board.

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Base Stats

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W - Shield Vault

Qiyana

Base health regen and attack damage increased.

Qiyana is weak for all but the most skilled players. We're giving her some general power for when she isn't able to capitalize on clutch roams.

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Base Stats

Ryze

Q cost now scales.

Ryze is struggling in all roles, so we're giving him back some mana.

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Q - Overload

Xayah

E cooldown and cost decreased.

Xayah is having a hard time right now. In addition, since Essence Reaver is now a less appealing first item for her next to Mythics, we're helping her access her key ability more often and earlier.

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E - Bladecaller

Yasuo

Base AD growth decreased. Passive bonus crit strike chance increased; excess crit strike to AD conversion decreased.

We're giving both brothers a stronger two-item power spike. This will give them the 100% crit strike chance that they used to enjoy pre-item rework. To balance the increase in early damage, we're decreasing their overall damage output. As a reminder, Guinsoo's Rageblade was changed in 10.25 to interact differently with Yasuo and Yone's Intent passives, which also impacts their general crit power strike. We're also clarifying the excess crit strike chance to bonus AD conversion tooltip for easier comprehension.

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Passive - Way of the Wanderer

Yone

Base AD growth decreased. Passive bonus crit strike chance increased; excess crit strike to AD conversion decreased.

Brothers stick together; see Yasuo.

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Passive - Way of the Hunter

Champion Base Stat Cleanup

We've cleaned up some champions' base stats over the years and are rounding out the remaining 99 champions.

Archangel's Staff

The buffs to Tear in patch 10.24 helped Tear-friendly champions across the board, but we're still looking to improve overall satisfaction for the item line.

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Lucidity has been weaker in preseason compared to other options. Looking to bump it up a bit.

Manamune

Manamune and Muramana have begun to heavily influence marksman item choices. Its value for its relative cost has made it almost always the best 2nd item choice, even rivaling Mythic items for the 1st purchase. We're adjusting Manamune's cost to open up decision-making for AD legendary items.

Muramana

Continuing from above! In 10.25, we limited Muramana's effect to only trigger on spells that deal physical damage to rein in its purchase on AP mages. This made champions like Ezreal and Corki sad. With other changes to Seraph's in 11.1, we believe we can lift the restriction and lower the power of the Shock passive, which is appealing to mages.

Runaan's Hurricane

We hoped that a bigger, more expensive Runaan's would appeal to more marksmen as a fourth or fifth item choice. This isn't panning out, and champs who want it as their second item are suffering from the high cost of their Mythic+Runaan's+IE core build. We're rebalancing Runaan's to feel better as a second purchase.

Shurelya's Battlesong

Shurelya's has been trending weaker than the other options in the Mythic category at the same price (Mandate, Locket, Moonstone). With the other Mythics in a better spot, we're looking to bump Shurelya's up to par.

Burst Items

We heard players' concerns that we added too much burst damage into the new items; Mythics in particular. So we're pulling back specifically on those since that's where a lot of the systemic damage was added. This is intended to keep the power level of the items neutral, trading more up-front burst for stats instead.

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Duskblade of Draktharr

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Prowler's Claw

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Hextech Rocketbelt

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Night Harvester

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Trinity Force

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Goredrinker

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Stridebreaker

We have noticed that system healing sources have seemed on the strong side. Pulling a systemic anti-healing lever.

In the 10.23 patch notes, we incorrectly indicated that lifesteal now works on physical damage on-hit effects. To correct the record: When it comes to added damage on attacks, lifesteal applies to all effects labelled as on-hit (as denoted with a yellow sword). Currently, this type of effect is only found on items, not champions.

We're continuing to iterate on the shop and chat. We can't stop. We won't stop.

• We've improved and standardized text editing across the shop and chat so things like CTRL+A to select all, cut, copy, and paste work as expected
• Text editing works with mouse clicks for cursor positioning and drag selection
• Items displayed in the shop build tree are now vertically centered
• When selling a stacked item like a potion or ward, the stack will remain selected and only a single instance of the item will be sold
• Pressing O and P at the same time no longer places the shop into an OP state where the scoreboard and shop overlap each other
• Many bug fixes and performance improvements

Ranked is back! Find the local time for your region below so you can hit the Rift running:

• OCE - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM AEDT
• JP - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM JST
• KR - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM KST
• RU - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM MSK
• TR - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM GMT+3
• EUNE - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM CET
• EUW - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM GMT
• BR - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM GMT-3
• LAN - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM CST
• LAS - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM GMT-3
• NA - January 8, 2021 at 4:00 AM PST
• PH - January 8, 2021 at 4:00 AM PST
• SG - January 8, 2021 at 4:00 AM GMT+8
• TW - January 8, 2021 at 4:00 AM GMT+8
• TH - January 8, 2021 at 4:00 AM GMT+7
• VN - January 8, 2021 at 4:00 AM GMT+7
• CN - January 8, 2021 at 04:00 AM GMT+8

To make the race to be the first Grandmaster or Challenger more exciting, we've changed the unlock process. Challenger and Grandmaster are still limited to the top couple hundred accounts on the server, but players must also have at least 200 LP in Master to reach Grandmaster, and at least 500 LP in Grandmaster to reach Challenger. Grandmaster and Challenger are no longer locked at the start of the season, so the race to be the first in your region starts on day one!

11.1 Buffs

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11.1 Nerfs

• LEAGUE CLIENT: Fixed ember timer leaks in Profiles and Login
• LEAGUE CLIENT: Improved reliability in Champ Select,end game screen, Honor, and Friends list
• LEAGUE CLIENT: Fixed emote panel memory leak
• LEAGUE CLIENT: Fixed visual bug with chroma purchases in Champ Select
• LEAGUE CLIENT: Fixed an issue that caused the rune page editor to lock up
• LEAGUE CLIENT: Fixed a memory leak for mission celebrations
• Aphelios no longer gains bonus mana when he swaps his weapons
• Kayle's E - Starfire Spellblade no longer triggers Mana Charge from Tear of the Goddess twice
• Passive cooldowns for Banshee's Veil, Eclipse, Luden's Tempest, and Edge of Night no longer ignore item haste granted from Ingenious Hunter
• Goredrinker's and Stridebreaker's passive's cooldowns no longer ignore ability haste
• Gnar's basic attacks properly apply W - Hyper stacks when his Rage bar is full
• Zoe's E - Sleepy Trouble Bubble now properly activates Imperial Mandate's Coordinated Fire
• Morgana's W - Tormented Shadow now properly deals additional damage to small jungle monsters
• Talon's Q - Noxian Diplomacy now properly grants a mana charge to Talon when he's equipped with Tear of the Goddess
• Shock damage from Ezreal's Muramana empowered Q - Mystic shot now properly only hits enemies once
• When Taric equips Moonstone Renewer, it now properly heals ally champions only once per attack or ability cast in combat
• Brand's E - Conflagration now properly cancels when the enemies dies while Brand is casting the ability onto them
• Ornn's R - Call of the Forge God no longer goes on full cooldown if Ornn dies before the elemental ram appears

The following skins will be released in this patch.

The following chromas will be released this patch:

12/15/2020 "10.25b" Balance Changes and Bugfixes

As promised, we're doing one last round of balance changes to ensure the game is in a good state before the winter break. Again, happy holidays and we'll see you back in January!

Akali

Akali was a big winner in preseason in that her win rate climbed considerably from awful to okay for most players. We've been hoping that we wouldn't need to nerf her until pro play started, but unfortunately, she's breaking ban rate limits in Elite play. Decreasing her prolonged combat damage as a result.

Anivia

Galio

Gangplank

Kayn

Malphite

Miss Fortune

Olaf

Rell

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The Collector

Ironspike Whip

Sunfire Aegis

While relatively balanced, Sunfire Aegis continues to dominate tank Mythic choices. We're giving the other items more of a chance to be explored.

12/11/2020 Nexus Blitz Balance Changes

10.25 Buffs

10.25 Nerfs

11/25/2020 Amumu Balance

Amumu's been the clear winner of preseason, with many item changes synergizing extremely well with his kit. 10.24's initial nerfs weren't enough to bring him back in line so we've got another round.

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E - Tantrum

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R - Curse of the Sad Mummy

11/24/2020 Bugfixes

Dr. Mundo

Elise

Gragas

Cosmic Flight Anivia, Cosmic Charger Hecarim, Cosmic Invoker Illaoi, Cosmic Destiny Nami, Cosmic Huntress Nidalee, Cosmic Sting Skarner, Cosmic Hunter Varus, Cosmic Devourer Vladimir, Dark Cosmic Lissandra, and Star Guardian Soraka Prestige Edition will be available on November 24th, 2020.

Amumu

W damage over time decreased.

The new items and systems have pushed Amumu from strong to overwhelming. We’re pulling back some of his damage over time, which has particularly benefited from the item update.

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Hecarim

Passive bonus movement speed to bonus damage conversion decreased. E bonus movement speed decreased later and bugfixed.

The new items give Hecarim a bit too much extra pep in his… gallop? So we’re pulling the reins on his Devastating Charge as well as the AD he gains from running fast.

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Passive - Warpath

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E - Devastating Charge

Kalista

Q Rend transfer bugfixed. E damage ratio bugfixed.

Reverting accidental nerfs to Kalista that was shipped in 10.23.

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Q - Pierce

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E - Rend

Kayle

Passive bonus attack speed reduced.

We’re partially walking back the change to Kayle’s passive from patch 10.23 to lower her whacking stacking.

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Passive - Divine Ascent

Samira

Passive melee blade bonus damage ratio decreased; dash range against immobilized enemies decreased.

With more items that grant both lifesteal and crit at her disposal, Samira poses a menacing threat in lane, even when being actively zoned out. We’re nerfing her all-in potential so that she has to think twice before charging in, gun (and blade) blazing.

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Passive - Daredevil Impulse

Tryndamere

Q bonus AD increased; bonus AD per 1% missing health increased.

Tryndamere is critting less often and for less damage, so we’re amping up his damage.

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Varus

Q Blight detonation cooldown reduction removed; damage from Blight effects detonated with Q are now increased by the amount of time Varus charges it for, up to 50%; Q now shows crit text when fully charged. W bonus damage reduced; detonating a Blight stack on enemy champions and Epic Monsters now reduces all basic cooldowns by 12% of the max cooldown per stack. R now snaps Varus to face the target direction on start of cast; missile speed reduced.

As a consistent high-priority pick in Pro play, Varus’ tuning has often left players feeling unsatisfied. To bring him back with vengeance, we’re shifting power away from elements that are typically strong in Pro play—such as reliable CC and lane bullying—and back into Varus’ unique playstyle of charged arrows and spellweaving.

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Q - Piercing Arrow

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W - Blighted Quiver

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R - Chain of Corruption

Yasuo

Passive crit doubling now takes place after Rageblade's on-hit calculations.

Yasuo's doubled crit chance was so powerful with Rageblade, the only correct choice was to build it first in every situation. This change addresses that excessive synergy. For full transparency: Given the interactions (like this one) we've run into so far, we're currently targeting next patch for a change that'll cause Rageblade to remove crit chance from users rather than just prevent crits. If you were wondering whether you'd have to learn the Rageblade playstyle to keep playing Yasuo in preseason, the answer is no.

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Yone

Passive crit doubling now takes place after Rageblade's on-hit calculations.

Same context applies here as Yasuo above!

Passive - Way of the Hunter

Blade of the Ruined King

Blade of the Ruined King is overperforming compared to the other Legendaries it competes with. Dropping its power to make it look more in line with the others.

Cosmic Drive

Bumping up Cosmic Drive’s power to secure its position as a viable second item choice.

Demonic Embrace

Demonic Embrace along with Nashor’s Tooth and Lich Bane are dominating the second item slot, so we’re taking it down a notch.

Eclipse

Emberknife

We’re opening jungle sustain back up for AoE casters who have been struggling with the recent changes. This comes with a small knock to the number overall, since most junglers are equipped with some form of AoE that will benefit.

The AoE allowance only applies specifically to Emberknife and Hailblade.

Hailblade

See: Emberknife.

Essence Reaver

Kraken Slayer

Liandry's Anguish

Liandry's is too strong, especially for mages that can consistently apply its damage over time effects. We’re reducing AP ratio scaling to pull back some late game power

Lich Bane

We’re toning down Lich Bane’s AP ratio, which has contributed to high-burst scenarios late game.

Luden's Tempest

Luden's Tempest is granting too much movement speed to champions whose mobility is meant to be a weakness. Reining in the fast and a bit of the furious by lowering its burst damage.

Moonstone Renewer

Nashor's Tooth

Nashor's gives a combination of damage and a bevy of stats, which has made the item a little too strong for users that can utilize both. We’re bringing its on-hit damage more in line.

Night Harvester

Night Harvester and Rocketbelt are contributing to some of the high burst scenarios that we’re looking to tone down.

Hextech Rocketbelt

See: Night Harvester.

Phantom Dancer

Phantom Dancer generally underperforms, especially early on. We’re putting it on discount and throwing in a utility boost to make it a more appealing early pick-up.

Prowler's Claw

Riftmaker

Bringing Riftmaker down to the power of other Mythics to maintain the Mythic choice structure.

Serpent's Fang

Although Fang is a strong item, it hasn’t seen much action, so we’re increasing its damage to solidify it as a powerful situational choice for assassins.

Tear of the Goddess Line

Tear users have taken a hit from both the new item system and the new Tear stacking. We’re increasing the rate Tear stacks to lessen its weakness. Items building from Tear have had their mana values adjusted as a result.

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Tear of the Goddess

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Archangel’s Staff

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Manamune

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Seraph’s Embrace

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Muramana

Midlaners hold a significant amount of power across all levels of play. We think pulling a small amount of power out of this lane during early and mid-game will keep things in check, while also nerfing heavy roamers. Of note, these changes went out in patch 10.23, but were missed in the documentation—so if you’ve been counting, you’re not crazy.

• Midlane Cannon Minions now give 10 less gold
• Midlane Cannon Minions now gain 30% increased attack speed against towers

As we wrap up the year, we've also wrapped up the Early Surrender and LP Consolation projects we mentioned in September, which are now ready for feedback! We've implemented the following:

• If there is an AFK player detected on your team after the 10-minute mark, a surrender vote can occur. For now, this change will only apply to Summoner's Rift and the vote must be unanimous. If the vote isn’t unanimous, at the 15-minute mark the team can vote again, now only needing a majority vote.
• If a player on your team leaves during a ranked match or is detected as AFK, your LP loss may be reduced. Premades with a disconnect/AFK, provisional players, and players in promotion series will not receive this loss reduction.

For more details, read this article!

We’re continuing to iterate on the Item Shop based on the feedback you’ve given us. As a part of that work, we're also updating over 60 icons to improve silhouette read, differentiate colors, reduce noise, and improve rendering quality. We hear and agree with the feedback that many of these icons are too difficult to identify quickly and are working towards cleaner, clearer icons. Thanks again for all your feedback!

• Updates to over 60 item icons
• Stomped a ton of bugs in the shop. Our shoes are now disgusting.
• The font size of the shop’s gold display has been embiggened
• Future’s Market now displays your debt limit in the shop.
• Recommended item card titles are now bolder
• Fixed a bug where the tags in recommended item cards had too much padding. We took them to the gym.
• When there is only one or two actual recommendations, no empty item cards will appear in the shop
• Fixed purchase button hover and clicked states
• Player chat will now display behind the item shop until you decide to open it
• Many many fixes to items appearing (or not appearing) in the correct tabs and filter groups
• Selected items in the shop will now have sweet looking magic surrounding them
• Darkened the borders of items you can’t afford to better differentiate them from the ones you can (more coming here soon)
• Made it easier to determine when a recommended item is not affordable
• While the shop is opened, you can now open the extended stats panel

We’ve got another VFX update for you in this patch! It’s time for everyone’s favourite Void bug to skitter into the spotlight: Kha’Zix! And continuing down our Void friends, we’ve got some ear candy (SFX changes) for the Void’s eye…

Once again, our goals for these sorts of smaller updates is to improve the overall gameplay clarity of VFX and SFX whilst bringing them up to modern League of Legends standards. This means that our efforts are primarily aimed at abilities which do not clearly communicate their hitbox.

Kha’Zix

Vel’Koz

10.24 Buffs

Misc.

• LEAGUE CLIENT: We have made improvements to the Champion Select grid, providing a smoother and more reliable experience. It'll take less time to ban and lock in champions, and animations will feel smoother.
• LEAGUE CLIENT: The Reconnect button should no longer display after a match has completed. Players should now experience the appropriate end-of-game process.
• LEAGUE CLIENT: When the minimum resolution for the client is selected, Summoner Spell descriptions should not longer be blocked
• LEAGUE CLIENT: Skin chromas no longer show the incorrect champion
• LEAGUE CLIENT: The “This skin is currently not available to purchase” tooltip should no longer appear when entering Champion Select
• The player chat has been updated to the new UI tech we’re using in the shop (and other places). It may look a little different, but it still has the same good heart
• If Lissandra uses R - Frozen Tomb after using the Hextech Rocketbelt, she no longer gains an increased amount of healing
• Moving around Stridebreaker to a new item box location no longer refreshes its cooldown
• Silvermere Dawn no longer increases movement speed and its tooltip now reflects as such
• Guinsoo's Rageblade no longer deals damage to turrets
• Presence of Mind's mana regen bonus no longer resets every time the champion attacks an enemy champion
• Resistance Yorick's R - Eulogy of the Isles's Maiden of the Mist will no longer automatically move above him when he recalls
• The champion using Shurelya's Battlesong to buff an ally that receives a kill now properly receives assist credit
• Yone can no longer critically strike with Guinsoo's Rageblade when he uses his third Q - Mortal Steel attack in melee range
• Divine Sunderer's passive damage no longer works against turrets
• Zoe's E2 - Sleepy Trouble Bubble and Vel'Koz's Q2 - Plasma Fission now properly proc Horizon Focus
• Activating Turbo Chemtank when moving towards a first-tier turret with plates and out-of-vision no longer gives bonus movement speed
• Players can no longer one-hit kill jungle creep (including the Drakes) through a series of steps involving Smite
• Projectiles from Hextech Rocketbelt's Supersonic no longer goes through champion-created terrain
• Fixed Hextech Rocketbelt's, Galeforce's, and Stridebreaker's tooltips to indicate that their dashes cannot pass through terrain
• Tear of the Goddess' mana charge no longer triggers off abilities used on Gangplank's barrels
• Fizz's W - Seastone Trident can no longer trigger Tear of the Goddess' mana charge twice
• Ornn no longer causes crashes when picked in Intro Co-Op vs. AI games
• Lucian's Passive - Lightslinger properly triggers Muramana's on-hit bonus damage
• Muramana's on-hit bonus damage now properly doubles every third attack when the user also has a Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Garen's E - Judgment's crit damage bonus is now properly 33%
• Tahm Kench's Q - Tongue Lash + W - Devour combo now properly breaks the Rift Scuttler's shield
• Ekko's R - Chronobreak no longer forces him to attack the closest target on arrival
• Miss Fortune's Serylda's Grudge or Everfrost-empowered E - Make It Rain no longer slows the enemy more than intended
• Katarina can no longer stack Grievous Wounds effects with R - Death Lotus
• Picking up a Summoner Spell shard as Zoe with W - Spell Thief while casting a Teleport shard will no longer duplicate the Teleport shard
• Revitalize now properly increases heals and shields you cast onto or receive from allies by the intended amount

The following skins will be released in this patch.

The following chromas will be released this patch:

11/18/2020 Teemo Bugfix

Teemo

11/17/2020 Doran's Blade Bugfix

Doran's Blade

11/16/2020 Tank Balance Changes, ARAM Balance Changes, and Bugfixes

First, some ARAM balance changes.

Cannon Minion Stealth Detection

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10.23 Buffs

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10.23 Nerfs

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Now bugfixes.

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And finally, Immolate balance changes to target tanks.

Bami Cinder

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Frostfire Gauntlet

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Turbo Chemtank

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Sunfire Aegis

11/12/2020 Balance & Bugfixes

Balance changes first! For mid-patch updates (especially so close to launch), we're focusing on clear outliers-not everything that got stronger or weaker. More changes will come in the weeks ahead as stable data becomes available!

Ashe

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Garen

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Kassadin

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Viktor

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Vladimir

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Eclipse

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Liandry's Anguish

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Moonstone Renewer

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Guinsoo's Rageblade

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Lich Bane

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Jungle Items

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We've also got a bunch of bugfixes.

Zoe

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Elder Dragon

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Galeforce

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Bramble Vest

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Corrupting Potion

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Doran's Shield & Doran's Ring

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Doran's Ring

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The Item Shop refresh was designed with a few different goals. We wanted to create a streamlined, data-based Recommended Items experience, Improve the usability of the All Items view, maintain the ability to use and import item sets, and update the visual look and feel to match League’s evolving aesthetic.

As always, we'll be keeping our ears to the ground and will continue working with you all to make the item shop the best it can be.

Recommended Items

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The Recommended Items page displays relevant items for your champion based on where you currently are in your build, who you're up against, and how the game is progressing. It's meant to provide a quick way for you to understand what comes next on your journey to go plus ultra.

All Items

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The All Items page is where you go if you want to see all the items. It contains everything you need to slice and dice the armory of League down to reasonable chunks.

Quickbuy Panels

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You may have noticed some tabs hanging out on the left side of the shop. Introducing the Quickbuy panels! They make commonly purchased items like potions, elixirs, wards, and boots easy to access and quick… to… buy.

Mythic items are the new, highest item tier that will become the cornerstone of your build, with big effects that define your playstyle in each game. You can only own one at a time, so selecting a Mythic item (and the effects it grants) depends on your opponents and the game state. Your Mythic also sets the tone for the rest of your build, both in terms of which other items you'll want to pick up as well as a Mythic Passive that adds extra stats to your other fully completed items (now known as Legendary items). Mythic items generally carry the most complex effects and strongly impact your playstyle.

Even with the addition of a new tier of items, our goal isn't to inflate the power level of items overall. Mythics make your first choice more powerful than in the past, but we're borrowing that strength from the other item tiers to keep build strength relatively similar on the whole.

Galeforce

Mobility

Galeforce gives marksman champions a way to dodge high-impact skillshots or aggressively finish off low-health targets.

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Kraken Slayer

Anti-tank

Kraken Slayer allows a free-firing marksman to cut even the beefiest enemies down to size.

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Immortal Shieldbow

Survive burst

Immortal Shieldbow helps marksman champions survive burst damage and fight their way back from the brink.

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BUILD PATH Noonquiver + Cloak of Agility + Vampiric Scepter + 600 gold

ATTACK DAMAGE 50

ATTACK SPEED 15%

CRITICAL STRIKE CHANCE 20%

LIFE STEAL 12%

LIFELINE When taking damage that would reduce you below 30% health, gain a 250-700 (levels ≤10-18) shield for 3 seconds. Additionally, gain 15% life steal for 8 seconds (90 second cooldown).

MYTHIC Grants all other Legendary items 5 attack damage and 50 health

Sunfire Aegis

Ramping damage

Sunfire Aegis turns tanks into dangerous threats for enemies who take extended fights.

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Frostfire Gauntlet

Slow enemies

Frostfire Gauntlet can turn any tank into an inescapable behemoth.

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Turbo Chemtank

Initiation

For the tanks who love starting fights, Turbo Chemtank allows them to lead the charge into battle.

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IMMOLATE Deal 20-40 (levels 1-18) (+1% bonus health) magic damage per second to nearby enemies (increased by 50% against minions and 200% against monsters).

SUPERCHARGED (ACTIVE) Grants 75% movement speed towards enemy champions or turrets for 4 seconds. Once near an enemy (or after 4 seconds) a shockwave is emitted that slows nearby champions by 40% for 2 seconds (90 second cooldown).

MYTHIC Grants all other Legendary items 5% tenacity and slow resist

Duskblade of Draktharr

Multikill

With Duskblade, assassins can keep their enemies guessing while wrecking invisible havoc in teamfights.

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Eclipse

Dueling

Eclipse helps assassins weave in and out of fights and take down tankier opponents in drawn-out encounters.

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Prowler's Claw

Assassination

Prowler's Claw lets assassins get up close and personal with their prey, amplifying their damage for one fatal combo.

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Liandry's Anguish

Anti-tank

Liandry's Anguish allows mages to burn through health and resistances and excel in longer fights.

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Luden's Tempest

Burst damage

Luden's Tempest offers mages upfront burst power and the speed to reposition for another round.

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Everfrost

Slow enemies

With Everfrost, mages can control the battlefield and lock down their opponents in ice. This is especially useful for disengaging.

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Hextech Rocketbelt

Mobility

Rocketbelt gives shorter-range mages a way to blast onto the scene to get in range to destroy enemy champions.

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Riftmaker

Omni Vamp

Mages and tankier magic damage dealers can dominate fights that go long with ramping damage and healing.

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Night Harvester

Multikill

Night Harvester is a great tool for magic-damage-dealing assassins and bruisers who want to work their way through the entire enemy team, rather than taking out one target and then bouncing out of the fight.

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Trinity Force

Dueling

Allows fighters to take over long fights with ramping attack damage and repeated bursts of Spellblade procs.

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Goredrinker

Survive burst

Fighters can come back from the brink of death with a well-timed Thirsting Slash heal and increased attack damage while injured.

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Stridebreaker

Engage

There's no escaping a fighter wielding Stridebreaker.

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Divine Sunderer

Anti-tank

Your health? My health! This item allows fighters to steal chunks of their opponents' health with Spellblade and chew through tankier targets.

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Shurelya's Battlesong

Team mobility

Shurelya's lets support players orchestrate flawless quintets by boosting allies' movement and damage at the start of fights.

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Locket of the Iron Solari

Survive burst

Help your team withstand the enemy offensive with teamwide protection.

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Moonstone Renewer

Healing over time

Dish out constant heals that ramp up over the fight.

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Imperial Mandate

Ally burst

Use your CC to call the shots as you mark enemies to be cut down by your team.

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Ability Haste

Why did the Mythic section above talk about "ability haste" rather than "cooldown reduction," and why didn't we explain ability haste first? Because Mythics are cooler, so we put them first for people with short attention spans.

Cooldown reduction was more valuable the more of it you got. Every percent reduced your cooldown by the same amount-say, one second off a 100-second cooldown. That one second didn't change even as the cooldown shrank. For that same 100-second cooldown, your 31st point of CDR took one second off the remaining 70-second cooldown, which is more than 1%. As such, CDR had to be capped at 40% to avoid going out of control, locking you out of a lot of items once you reached that cap.

Every point of ability haste lets you cast 1% faster. On paper, that makes it look like it gets less valuable the more you have because your cooldown shrinks by less and less each time. It's actually the same amount of power. 50 ability haste lets you cast an extra half a spell during the original cooldown. The next 50 gets you to a full extra cast (100% faster). If you get another 100 ability haste, you get another whole cast (200% faster). This linear scaling allows us to remove the cap, so you can buy as much as you want.

Vamp Effects

The big change here is that life steal now counts physical damage dealt by on-hit effects-since the idea is "heal from your attacks," it's more understandable if we include the whole attack. The other note is the addition of "physical vamp," (which currently exists just on Sanguine Blade) so its sustain can apply to assassins' abilities too. If you're curious whether that means we'll eventually bring back spell vamp, the answer is "maybe!"

Critical Strike

Reducing the value of each point of critical strike chance and offering less of it per item allows us to smooth out marksman's build scaling and put more interesting-and powerful-unique effects on their items. They'll be stronger early- and mid-game, and their late-game damage will be less unilaterally based on constant crits since the other parts of their items will be more influential. Also, by spreading crit across five items (read: every non-boots slot) in marksman builds, we can put crit chance on more items because marksmen no longer run the risk of overcapping and losing access to items they otherwise would've wanted.

"Legendary" is the category of item that used to be the most powerful tier. They're your completed non-boots items that don't build into anything else.

We assessed different item classes to see which niches were most needed to create more meaningful choices. We also ensured that tools that were taken out of the item pool had good replacements when it made sense. Since Liandry's is now a Mythic, for instance, Demonic Embrace fills the niche for tankier champs who can't pick Liandry's every game, but still need a burn effect to deal relevant damage in fights. Because Mercurial Scimitar is now geared more towards marksman champions, we created a new version for fighters and assassins. Grievous Wounds warrants a special callout: We want to give more people access to it in ways that feel appropriate for their playstyles.

The Collector

Burst damage

The Collector offers marksman champions a more aggressive option for when they find themselves facing squishy foes.

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Navori Quickblades

Reduce cooldowns

Navori Quickblades allows crit-heavy builds to scale their ability-casting as well.

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Force of Nature

Ramping magic resistance

Force of Nature helps turn tanks into swift behemoths in the face of ability-cast-heavy enemy teams.

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Serpent's Fang

Anti-shielding

Serpent's Fang helps assassins strike back against shield-heavy compositions that formerly rendered them weak.

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Horizon Focus

Damage amp

Gives long-range artillery and control mages another damage alternative that loops into their playstyle.

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Cosmic Drive

Ability haste

If you want to deal death by a thousand spells instead of one needlessly large burst (and move fast while doing it), this is for you.

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Demonic Embrace

Sustained damage

A new helm for those bruisers and battlemages that want to get into the thick of things, bulk up, and deal excellent damage over time.

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Serylda's Grudge

Anti-armor

Seryla's Grudge caps off assassin builds, slowing enemies into their graves. With the rest of their items providing lethality to deal with carries early and mid game, Grudge's percent penetration gives its users the means to threaten tanks in the late game as well.

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Silvermere Dawn

Remove crowd control

The CC-cleansing option for fighters, as an alternative for Mercurial which caters to crit users.

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Chempunk Chainsword

Anti-healing

Grievous Wounds option for fighters and assassins that will help you finish off pesky healer comps when they're at low health.

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Chemtech Putrifier

Anti-healing

A Grievous Wounds option for support champions which is amplified by immobilizing enemy champions.

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Staff of Flowing Water

Buff spellcasters

New item for enchanters that lets you support mage carries and zoom around alongside them.

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Stirring Wardstone

Hold Control Wards

Ever needed one more pocket? We're taking a swing at solving the age-old inventory crunch for support players by giving them access to a growing item that can hold Control Wards.

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Watchful Wardstone

Hold Control Wards

Keep your final slot for some combat power while establishing your dominance as the vision controller.

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Vigilant Wardstone

Hold Control Wards

Scale later into the game by turning your ward slot into a power slot. The six item fantasy is now a reality for supports.

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Just like with to our goals for new Legendaries, we wanted to ensure existing options all offer a clear, unique reason to buy them, and that the item shop as a whole gives champions the tools they need to bring their innate strengths to bear, play into their allies, and react to enemy threats. One trend you'll notice is that many active effects have been removed or changed into passives: We want Mythics to house the most exciting and complex item effects, which meant simplifying Legendaries to ensure builds overall weren't becoming more complicated.

Note: For each item below that has its own section, functionality has changed enough that the usual "before -> after" treatment felt like the wrong approach. We want to equip you with the ability to evaluate "When do I want to buy this item now?" and provide a clean, comprehensive rundown of what each item offers does that better. There's a bucket at the bottom for items that are only getting small tuning adjustments—those'll have the "before -> after" lists since they still work the same.

Mortal Reminder

No longer grants Armor Penetration. Now builds from Zeal. Now offers improved Grievous Wounds.

Previously, Mortal Reminder's percent penetration usually meant that completing it early was worse than buying more damage, since enemies needed to stack Armor before the penetration really mattered. Now, Mortal Reminder's more favorable build path and upgraded Grievous Wounds on completion offer additional incentive to complete it at all stages of the game.

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Guinsoo's Rageblade

Now grants on-hit damage based on critical strike chance, but you can't crit. No longer grants stacking attack speed. No longer grants attack damage, ability power, or penetration.

On-hit builds didn't have many build options since so much of the attack-focused portion of the shop is focused on the crit system. Rather than continue to have on-hit and crit continue fighting for item niches, Guinsoo's Rageblade now acts as a bridge between the crit and on-hit ecosystems, allowing Kog'Maws to access effects like Phantom Dancer or Runaan's Hurricane without wasting stats.

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Phantom Dancer

No longer has Lifeline. Grants Ghosting, movement speed, and bonus attack speed after consecutive attacks.

Phantom Dancer's defensive niche has been claimed by Immortal Shieldbow, so we're returning Phantom Dancer to its previous purpose as the highest attack and movement speed of the Zeal items. Its new passive emphasizes that Phantom Dancer is a top-tier choice when you can stand and fire in extended fights.

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Lord Dominik's Regards

Now has critical strike chance. Deals additional damage against high-health targets.

Lord Dominik's Regards (and OG Last Whisper from years ago) has always occupied an anti-tank niche but has also flip-flopped between marksmen and assassins, always stronger for one class than the other. Situational items like this should feel rewarding to purchase when the occasion arises, meaning their stats need to be appropriately powerful for the class they're meant for. So, Lord Dominik's Regards has acquired some crit and is balanced for marksmen alone, while assassins have the new Serylda's Grudge item above.

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Essence Reaver

Now builds out of Sheen and has a Spellblade passive.

The ability-weaving pattern of Sheen has always been fun and popular on some marksman champions, but Trinity Force frequently fell below the viability bar for those champions since it was balanced for fighters. Enter Essence Reaver, which has been revamped to double-down on the fantasy of a spell-slinging basic attacker.

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Infinity Edge

Increased critical strike damage now scales with critical strike chance.

Infinity Edge is an iconic and valuable part of the marksman ecosystem, but buying it first most every game left little room for anything else to compete. We've reenvisioned Infinity Edge in a Deathcap-esque form that increases in value as a crit build progresses, allowing it to remain a staple power-spike in crit builds without defining the marksman early game with its awkward build path and lack of utility.

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Manamune

Now provides ability haste. Spending mana without hitting a target no longer grants stacks. Mana per stack and transform threshold reduced.

Manamune should be a valuable purchase to AD spellcasters who enjoy mana as well as AD. Ability haste in addition to the Muramana changes should broaden the list of champions who can use this item.

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Muramana

Bonus damage now applies to abilities in addition to attacks. No longer consumes mana on proc.

Following the Manamune changes, allowing Muramana to proc on abilities further encourages AD casters to consider a new addition to their item builds. Removing the mana consumption increases clarity and lets users focus more on letting their spells fly.

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Archangel's Staff

AP per mana increased. No longer grants ability haste or mana refund on cast. Spending mana without hitting a target no longer grants stacks. Mana per stack and transform threshold reduced.

The previous version of Seraph's offered a power scaling option both offensively and defensively with its shield. We're shifting the Archangel's line to be the purely offensive, greedy option by focusing on its slacking mana and AP fantasy.

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Seraph's Embrace

AP per mana increased. Now also grants mana per AP. No longer grants ability haste or mana refund on cast. No longer grants a shield.

Seraph's now gives purely offensive stats as a scaling item for mages. Instead of an on-demand shield (which allowed Seraph's to provide both offensive and defensive options), Seraph's now gives more scaling AP and mana.

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Lich Bane

Spellblade damage and cooldown increased. No longer grants mana or ability haste.

Opening up Lich Bane to not just mana users by removing the mana from Sheen and also giving it higher upfront damage at the cost of a slightly increased cooldown.

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Blade of the Ruined King

Movement speed active is now a passive.

Wanted to retain this iconic and unique active effect, but needed to make some room for the actives and other more complex effects coming through from Mythic items.

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Black Cleaver

Now deals missing health damage against fully stacked targets. No longer grants movement speed on-hit.

Black Cleaver did many things decently well, but we want it to do fewer things better. Moved its movement-speed-granting effects to more movement based items and replaced with an execution effect on targets you've fully shredded.

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Ravenous Hydra

Cleave now also procs on abilities and ranged basic attacks. Now grants Omnivamp instead of life steal. No longer grants health regen. Active removed.

Active re-homed in “Goredrinker,” a fighter Mythic with room for an effect of this complexity and power. Ravenous Hydra simplified to be THE vamp item for physical damage casters or basic attackers.

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Titanic Hydra

Now grants AD based on health. Cleave now also procs on ranged basic attacks. No longer grants health regen. Active removed.

Shaping Titanic Hydra to be a bridge between heavy tank builds and fighter builds. Some power taken out of its on-hit and moved to raw AD to give it a home with champions who don't attack as often but still like AD.

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Wit's End

Now grants movement speed on-hit instead of healing.

With a few more healing options in the mythic space, we had to be judicious with other sources of healing. Replaced with movement speed to offer light fighters (Fiora, Yi, Ekko, etc) another powerful form of utility. Now with more AD to broaden appeal among fighters.

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Maw of Malmortius

Lifeline shield increased; bonus stats on proc removed.

With more specialized healing options elsewhere, we wanted Maw to stand out as THE anti-magic-burst item.

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Death's Dance

Omnivamp replaced with Bleed cleanse, movement speed, and heal on takedown. Magic damage no longer reduced and converted to Bleed.

Death's Dance was the 1-stop-shop for everything fighters needed. AoE healing, mitigation against all damage sources, bonus damage, cooldown, etc. We still offer all these effects in the item shop, but the combination requires piecing together a few more purchases. Death's Dance is sharpening its role into the anti-physical damage item.

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Sterak's Gage

Base Shield decreased but now scales with number of enemies in combat. Now grants healing based on enemies in combat. Tenacity removed. No longer melee only.

Sterak's is still your go-to optimal purchase for constant teamfighting. If you're dueling or in small skirmishes though, Death's Dance or Maw will outshine it against physical and magic damage, respectively.

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Randuin's Omen

Active now also reduces enemy AD and crit damage. Now passively reduces damage taken from any basic attack, not just crits. No longer reduces enemy attack speed when hit.

Retooling Randuin's to better identify its effectiveness as a powerful defensive tool against all physical damage and specifically crit-based attacks.

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Frozen Heart

Now passively reduces damage taken from basic attacks.

While Randuin's fills the anti-crit space, Frozen Heart takes the same core effect but retains its previous niche as an anti-attack speed item.

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Gargoyle Stoneplate

Active converted to a decaying shield. Passive grants resistances on taking damage.

Reinforcing Gargoyle Stoneplate as the ideal item for players who love to teamfight and tank entire teams.

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Abyssal Mask

Passive changed to increased damage on immobilized enemies.

Abyssal Mask now has a more streamlined use-case and has been broadened to increase all damage to the target, not just magic.

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Thornmail

Damage reduced and now applies improved Grievous Wounds upon immobilizing an enemy.

On top of applying Grievous Wounds when hit, Thornmail now gives tanks a way to proactively apply the effect without waiting for enemies to attack.

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Zeke's Convergence

Now grants bonus on-hit damage to your linked ally on targets you have immobilized.

Zeke's previous effect was extremely powerful, but limited to small windows and was hard to appreciate. Updated the effect to be more easily accessible for beefier supports who want to lock-down and protect their carries.

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Knight's Vow

Damage redirect increased. Now grants movement speed toward low-health Partners. No longer grants armor, passive movement speed towards Partner, or heals from Partner damage.

Moving Knight's Vow in the Warden niche by increasing the health and damage redirection on the item. A sharper movement speed effect should also help allies swoop in to save the day for their allies in peril.

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Morellonomicon

Now grants access to improved Grievous Wounds. No longer grants magic penetration.

Making Morello a pure anti-healing item rather than a mixed-purpose confusing item so that you won't have to use your advanced math degree to determine optimal damage.

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Sanguine Blade

Now provides physical vamp instead of life steal.

We're promoting Sanguine Blade's life steal into the new physical vamp stat so ability-heavy assassins can benefit from its sustain as well while they clear waves and champions.

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Some items are only being returned to fit into preseason-the biggest change you'll find in any of the sections below is the addition or removal of stat types, but not entire unique effects (with Mikael's' regen-granting Harmony passive as an exception). As with the other Legendaries, keep in mind that Mythic passives add additional stats that aren't listed here, so things that look like flat nerfs are at least in part adjusting for that extra power.

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Support Items

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Rapid Firecannon

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Stormrazor

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Mercurial Scimitar

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Runaan's Hurricane

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Rylai's Crystal Scepter

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Nashor's Tooth

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Bloodthirster

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Edge of Night

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Youmuu's Ghostblade

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Umbral Glaive

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Guardian Angel

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Warmog's Armor

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Spirit Visage

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Dead Man's Plate

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Ardent Censer

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Redemption

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Mikael's Blessing

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Mejai's Soulstealer

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Zhonya's Hourglass

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Banshee's Veil

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Rabadon's Deathcap

We want junglers to be able to engage with the item system instead of being forced to purchase the same dull item every game, especially with the Mythic item system making your first item so important. We're taking cues from last year's well-received update to support items and letting junglers progress toward their Smite without having to spend more money. That puts them on even footing with the other four positions in terms of being able to start on their Mythic right away.

Also, we snuck some jungle camp changes into this section so junglers can process everything specific to the role in one place. "You're welcome" or "we're sorry," depending on whether that helped or confused you personally.

Hailblade

The blue one.

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Chilling Smite

Emberknife

The red one. We're also cleaning up Challenging Smite to make it a bit more intuitive.

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Challenging Smite

Jungle Camp Adjustments

Overall, our aim is to slightly improve pathing diversity and make the camps feel distinct.

We're running a consistency pass to remove some arcane optimizations and rules that aren't apparent in game. Gromp and Scuttle in particular are getting changes to emphasize their unique identities. In Scuttle's case, she'll also be a little less costly to lose since you're not losing a chunk of sustain.

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Gromp

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Blue Sentinel

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Greater Murkwolf

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Murkwolf

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Crimson Raptor

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Lesser Raptor

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Red Brambleback

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Ancient Krug

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Krug

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Lesser Krug

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Rift Scuttler

Epic items are the tier below Legendary: They're the mid-tier components of Legendary and Mythic items that build out of basic items. We're ensuring they serve their role as valuable building blocks, offering incremental stats and effects that smooth your progression toward bigger purchases.

Like the Legendaries, we're providing blank-slate presentations of these Epics to give you a clean read on when you'll want to pick them up. New and updated have been mixed together since there aren't as many.

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Noonquiver

Marksman champions suffer from awkward early-game components that leave them missing either attack damage or attack speed, both of which are critical for them to feel powerful. So, we created Noonquiver-an Epic that specifically builds into marksman Mythics and features both stats. Noonquiver also amplifies marksman PvE capabilities to provide the early lane management marksman champions crave without sending their PvP power over the top. Lastly, by giving it a smooth build path of smaller parts, it avoids the lane snowballing issue B.F. Sword had if you were forced to back before saving up 1300 gold.

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Rageknife

Giving on-hit champs the flexibility to access Guinsoo's new crit-converting effect without completing Rageblade itself so they can spec into crit chance items first if the situation calls for it.

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Blighting Jewel

Percent armor penetration has Last Whisper as a component. Adding Blighting Jewel to establish build path parity for percent magic penetration.

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Leeching Leer

One of the new building-blocks of the system for mages who want to deal and heal.

Oblivion Orb

Giving mages earlier access to Grievous Wounds, like physical damage dealers get from Executioner's Calling. Orb is losing its flat penetration to get this effect.

Seeker's Armguard

Simplifying and making the item cheaper.

Hextech Alternator

Opening up the item to be less restrictive on who can take and use it—the damage proc now applies to abilities too.

Bami's Cinder

The centerpoint of tank Mythics now scales better early, though it loses its bursty immobilize proc in exchange.

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Winged Moonplate

We didn't have a movement speed + health component. Now we do.

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Verdant Barrier

Giving an MR equivalent to Seeker's Armguard so when you need to survive a difficult ability power lane you have options.

Warden's Mail

Changing the previous effect to something more selfish and noticeable by the owner.

Phage

Changing Phage into a Health-scaling Epic that helps fighters beef up in longer fights. Its old passive is moving to a new item. Look down a few lines.

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Hearthbound Axe

Home to Phage's old passive, our new, more agility-themed weapon offers movement speed on hit and builds into several items that do the same.

Tiamat

We're splitting up Tiamat's passive and active to let each take on more of a center-stage role as separate components. Tiamat is keeping the passive; the active is moving to a new item just below.

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Ironspike Whip

Tiamat's active and passives were split up to let each of them take a more center stage in their respective item. Ironspike Whip inherited Tiamat's Active.

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Bandleglass Mirror

Filling a hole in the system so that mana regen items with ability haste aren't 100% bound to heal and shield power.

Epic Item Balance Changes

Like Legendaries, some Epics are getting simple tuning passes, based on how we want you to build into the new and updated Legendary and Mythic items.

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Zeal

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Executioner's Calling

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Sheen

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Giant's Belt

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Negatron Cloak

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Spectre's Cowl

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Aegis of the Legion

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Quicksilver Sash

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Forbidden Idol

Finally, we've got our basic, starter, and support items. The ones that don't have any components of their own.

Tear of the Goddess

Moving Tear into the Starting Item space to serve as a greedy, scaling option for spellcasters. The stacking mechanic has been changed to discourage empty spell spamming and encourage opportunistic trading.

Dark Seal

Making Seal a better option for those who don't need mana, and unbinding its strength from potions.

Doran's Blade

Slightly broadening our starting item options so they're more favorable to those who use more spells and have mixed damage types.

Doran's Ring

Opening up Doran's ring to non-mana users and bringing back the old last-hitting skill test.

Basic & Starter Item Balance Changes

Cloak of Agility

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Faerie Charm

Support Item Balance Changes

To ensure support builds are influenced similarly by their Mythic passives as other roles, we're counting the fully upgraded forms as Legendaries but reducing their innate stats so they don't become more powerful in the process. We're also buffing Spoils of War and Tribute so supports can bring their Mythics online closer to everyone else.

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Pauldrons of Whiterock

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Bulwark of the Mountain

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Shard of True Ice

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Black Mist Scythe

Plated Steelcaps

A long, long time ago, Ninja Tabi granted dodge chance, allowing users to sometimes avoid basic attacks entirely. That stopped being the case in... *checks notes* 2012. We're finally catching up and re-theming these boots.

Last on the list for our items world tour is paying respects to the items leaving the shop.

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Hextech GLP-800

Now a Mythic item (Everfrost). This one's not as much a 1-to-1 Mythic-ification like the others since Everfrost's active is more defensive and less pick-oriented. If you're looking for a slow cone, though, you'll find a familiar toy here, with some extra use cases.

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Luden's Echo

Now a Mythic item (Luden's Tempest)

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Liandry's Torment

Now a Mythic item (Liandry's Anguish)

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Hextech Protobelt-01

Now a Mythic item (Hextech Rocketbelt)

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Sunfire Cape

Now a Mythic item (Sunfire Aegis)

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Righteous Glory

Now a Mythic item (Turbo Chemtank)

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Iceborn Gauntlet

Now a Mythic item (Frostfire Gauntlet)

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Duskblade of Draktharr

Now a Mythic item

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Trinity Force

Now a Mythic item

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Shurelya's Reverie

Now a Mythic item (Shurelya's Battlesong)

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Locket of the Iron Solari

Now a Mythic item

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Adaptive Helm

Helm was too niche, only countering a few champions but to a major degree. Also didn't feel powerful even when it was.

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Athene's Unholy Grail

Athene's was constantly a mandatory item for certain champions and gave much more power than we could support.

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Frozen Mallet

Mallet was either much too niche when balanced, or way too strong when purchased by more than one or two champs.

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Hextech Gunblade

Gunblade completely overwhelmed build options for a small pool of champions but saw very little use outside of that pool. It was also one of the more frustrating items in the shop.

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Spellbinder

Spellbinder was hard to use well and hard to know whether you used it well.

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Rod of Ages

RoA's time-scaling fantasy didn't feel impactful on a Mythic for a first purchase and didn't feel realistic as a later purchase. It also overlapped in fantasy with Archangel's, but was the less exciting of the two.

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Statikk Shiv

Shiv's chain lightning effect was either underwhelming when balanced or too strong when it felt good.

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Twin Shadows

Twin Shadows was too powerful and playstyle-warping when tuned to be purchasable.

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Jaurim's Fist

Unlike Seeker's Armguard, whose armor stacking mechanic gives physical damage dealers a window to fight mages in lane before full stacks, the health stacking mechanic on Jaurim's isn't doing anything valuable. It's been largely replaced with the new Phage as a health+AD component.

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Chalice of Harmony

Chalice was redundant with other mana Epics that were filling out the shop (especially with the removal of Athene's). The other options were more needed for recipes.

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Bilgewater Cutlass

Actives are high mindshare, so culling them in places they weren't doing exciting things seemed to work well. Blade of the Ruined King lost this active and Hextech Gunblade was removed, so Cutlass no longer had a reason to have an active, which was the main reason it existed to begin with.

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Catalyst of Aeons

Catalyst offered early access to the Eternity passive previously held by Rod of Ages and Abyssal Mask. With Rod's removal and Mask's update, the Eternity passive is gone and Catalyst no longer has a role to fill.

Conqueror

Streamlining Conqueror's role as a damage-oriented rune by shifting its power from sustain to Adaptive Force.

Legend: Bloodline

Toning back the overall sustain of Legend: Bloodline as its life steal was dominating the choice structure within the Precision tree and having a bigger impact on rune and item builds than a minor rune should, allowing champs to delay or altogether forego sustain purchases.

Ravenous Hunter

Similar to Bloodline and Conqueror, lowering the overall amount of free sustain within the rune system to open up more choices within the rune and item systems.

Presence of Mind

Presence of Mind's permanent stats were single-handedly solving resource issues. We're reworking the rune to be more in-line with other minor runes and tailored towards champions who prefer sustained combat.

Transcendence

Updating Transcendence to still provide for spell-happy casters and anyone else in need of a little boost while fitting into the new uncapped haste system.

Cosmic Insight

Similar to Transcendence, Cosmic Insight has been updated to function in the new haste system. The rune is now more streamlined to focus on item haste and summoner spell haste to reduce some of the low-cost haste in the rune system.

Ingenious Hunter

Updating Ingenious Hunter values to work with the haste system as well as broadening its use cases to all items with cooldowns so it should feel a little more usable than before.

Ability Haste Rune Stat

The CDR rune stat had to scale up over time to avoid letting champions reach the cap too quickly. Now that we're using ability haste, it gets to provide more immediate benefit.

Time Warp Tonic

Small clarity update to Time Warp Tonic as the cooldown on consumables was occasionally confusing to players for a minor rune.

Caitlyn

Headshot damage from crit chance decreased.

The math behind this is super gross, but the gist is that Headshot's bonus damage scales off Infinity Edge's crit damage in a way that completely ignored preseason's systemic crit damage reduction. We're baking that systemic change into Headshot's calculations, though Cait is still arguably buffed relative to other marksmen since new IE's greater maximum crit damage increase washes out most of this nerf at full build.

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Passive - Headshot

Jhin

Passive crit damage reduction and crit-to-AD conversion decreased

We still want Jhin's crits to feel noticeably different from his non-crits, so we're nerfing the AD he gets from crit chance instead of his crit damage.

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Passive - Whisper

Senna

Passive crit damage reduction and crit chance per 20 souls decreased. R now collects Mist Wraiths on cast.

Bringing Senna into the crit system by having her crits happen less, but hit even stronger than before.

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Passive - Absolution

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R - Dawning Shadow

Tryndamere

Passive crit chance flattened.

Making sure Tryndamere doesn't waste stats at max Fury with his crit build.

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Passive - Battle Fury

Yasuo

Passive now converts crit strike chance above 100% to bonus AD.

Now that the crit system offers more interesting options and comes in 20% increments, we wanted to make sure Yasuo wasn't wasting stats or getting locked out of exciting items because of his passive.

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Passive - Way of the Wanderer

Yone

Passive now converts crit strike chance above 100% to bonus AD.

Now that the crit system offers more interesting options and comes in 20% increments, we wanted to make sure Yone wasn't wasting stats or getting locked out of exciting items because of his passive.

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Passive - Way of the Hunter

Akali

Q cost decreased later.

Adjusting Akali for the loss of Hextech Gunblade and Presence of Mind's increased Energy pool.

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Q - Five-Point Strike

Katarina

Passive, E, and R now apply on-hit effects. R now deals hybrid damage and scales with attack speed.

With the loss of Gunblade and the lack of hybrid damage among Mythics, Katarina needed help to keep her identity as an assassin in the new item system. We're helping her adapt to the new shop by further differentiating AD and AP Katarina builds, adding new scaling hooks that let her access the on-hit system. The Katarina you know and love is still here, but without Gunblade dictating her build, her daggers might not look the same every time you see her.

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Passive - Voracity

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E - Shunpo

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R - Death Lotus

Reminder: Kat throws 15 daggers per ult.

Kayle

Passive bonus attack speed now scales with AP.

The landscape around Kayle is shifting dramatically and AP Kayle in particular may take a while to find replacements for previous favorites like Hextech Gunblade. We're lending AP builds some aid and ensuring that both forms of Kayle can hyperscale into late game.

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Passive - Divine Ascent

Ornn

Masterworks now upgrade Mythics. Ornn now gains increased bonus health in addition to armor and magic resist. Bonus defenses now increase per Masterwork he creates.

We're tying Ornn's Masterwork system into the Mythic system, opening up build diversity for both him and his allies by ensuring everyone can get an upgrade no matter their build. We're also giving Ornn some smithy power now that he only gets to upgrade one of his own items.

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Passive - Living Forge

Viktor

Hex Core removed; Viktor now upgrades his abilities by earning champion takedowns and last-hits. E damage increased. Mana growth increased.

Making Viktor embrace and engage with the new itemization system while also giving him a bit more oomph now that his Hex Core isn't there to amp him up.

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Base Stats

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Passive - Glorious Evolution

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E - Death Ray

Champion Mana Adjustments

Between mana changes to items like Tear, Sheen, Lich Bane, and the lack of mana on most Mythic items, we're giving the following champions a +20 increase to mana growth:

Amumu

Anivia

Camille

Cassiopeia

Cho'Gath

Corki

Darius

Ekko

Ezreal

Fiora

Fizz

Gangplank

Hecarim

Irelia

Jax

Kassadin

Malphite

Nasus

Ornn

Ryze

Skarner

Sylas

Twisted Fate

Udyr

Vi

Viktor

Volibear

Wukong

Xin Zhao

Yorick

Zilean

Brand

While our last changes helped bring Brand back into the midlane, he's a little too strong in Average play for both mid and support. Dampening down his early game damage to bring him back in line.

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Passive - Blaze

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E - Conflagration

Amumu

Similar to Brand, we're focusing on knocking down some of the mummy's power in Average play by pulling back on some of his durability.

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Base Stats

Elise

Opening up Elise's build diversity with the new system.

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Q - Venomous Bite

Seraphine

We're pushing the distinction between mid and support Seraphine. Mid Sera, who will be higher level throughout the game, will have better access to scaling damage via the Passive and Q changes and can now use E more comfortably for waveclear when needed. Support Sera won't be able to hit those same levels or damage numbers, but will still be able to lean on E-max to provide consistent CC for her team.

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Base stats

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Passive - Stage Presence

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Q - High Note

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E - Beat Drop

Twitch

Deadly Venom damage and W slow now scale with AP. Contaminate's AP scaling now deals magic damage.

Following up a prior buff that didn't actually put AP Twitch anywhere near the mark of playability. These changes are geared toward a playstyle of quickly stacking Deadly Venom and detonating it, then rat-tailing it out to reset. It'll scale worse than AD Twitch (who isn't sacrificing anything for these changes, by the way) and have less explosive openers with Spray and Pray than crit-based versions, but is hopefully an exciting alternative option for Twitch players.

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P - Deadly Venom

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W - Venom Cask

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E - Contaminate

Volibear

Passive now scales with AP. E deals more damage to minions late.

With AP fighter items coming into the game we're polishing this bear's AP playstyle to be a little more viable. His extended fights and farming should be bumped up enough with these changes for magebear to be a better opt-in option.

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Passive - The Relentless Storm

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E - Sky Splitter

Incoming Heal Indicator

We originally billed this as a quality of life change but have seen a bunch of questions, so let's talk about it now. For abilities and effects with delayed healing, it can be hard to know mid-fight how much health you (or your opponent) will get, leading to situations where you back out from a fight you could've won or stay in a fight you're about to lose. This change makes that decision clearer by indicating the amount of incoming heals on champion health bars. We're adjusting the visualization of this effect based on feedback so far (like toning down the brightness of the incoming health to make it easier to distinguish from current health); let us know if you think further changes are needed.

In 10.23, we added the indicator for Evelynn's Passive - Demon Shade, Karma's W - Renewal, and Soraka's Q - Starcall heal over time both on herself and when transferred to an ally via W - Astral Infusion. And as a recap, we added the following in 10.22: Seraphine's W - Surround Sound Vladimir's R - Hemoplague, Redemption, and ARAM health packs.

Some adjustments to ARAM to account for the wider item changes that are happening.

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Game Pacing and Gold Income

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Guardian Items

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Invisibility Detection

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10.23 Nerfs

And with that, we've reached the end of the 2020 season! We're listing out all the times for all regions below so everyone is crystal clear on when Ranked ends this year:

• OCE - November 9, 2020 at 11:59PM AEDT
• JP - November 9, 2020 at 11:59PM JST
• KR - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM KST
• RU - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM MSK
• TR - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT+3
• EUNE - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM CET
• EUW - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT
• BR - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT-3
• LAN - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM CST
• LAS - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT-3
• NA - November 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM PST
• PH - November 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM PST
• SG - November 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT+8
• TW - November 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT+8
• TH - November 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT+7
• VN - November 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT+7
• CN - November 11, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT+8

If you achieved Gold or higher in Summoner's Rift Ranked Solo/Duo, Flex, or both, you'll receive Victorious Lucian (as well as Lucian himself if you don't own him yet). New to 2020, you'll also receive a Victorious chroma for each rank you hit above Gold. As a cherry on top, everyone who finished Ranked placements will receive an Eternals Lucian Series 1 Permanent (also new this year!), a Ranked profile icon, and a Ranked profile banner trim.

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Based on your Honor level, you will also receive the following rewards:

• Honor 3 Capsule
• Random Ward Skin
• 3 Key Shards
• Honor 4 Capsule
• Random Ward Skin
• Random Emote Permanent
• 3 Key Shards
• Honor 5 Capsule
• Random Ward Skin
• Random Emote Permanent
• 6 Key Shards

As for Clash's End of Season (another first!), everyone who participated in any Clash tournament will receive a Clash Contender Icon. In addition, you will receive an icon, logo, and banner based on how many Victory Points you earned over the course of the season.

All ranked rewards will be distributed by December 10th in all regions except CN. CN will see their ranked rewards in patch 10.24!

This preseason, we're making a couple updates on the Summoner's Rift Ranked system to make sure the placement process and climb is as informed and intuitive as possible.

First, brand new accounts entering Ranked for the first time will now take into account additional variables to ensure a more accurate original placement.

Next, in order to smooth out progression speed bumps, we're removing promotion series for interdivision transitions. This means that going from division IV to division I for any given rank will be automatic when you reach 100 LP, and any additional LP rolls into the next division. Consequently, demotion protection between divisions will also be removed so that losing a game at 0 LP will result in moving down a division.

Last but not least, we're removing the ability to duo queue at ranks Master and above to highlight competitive prowess and improve matchmaking at the top of the ladder.

Another long list of League Client bugfixes and QoL changes this patch, so we're tucking them into its own section!

• Memory leaks should now be fixed in the following areas of the client, providing improved reliability:
• When a player views their profile, or other profiles
• When a player open the personalized offers tab
• When a player visits the TFT party lobby
• When a player visits match history
• When a player visits the clubs tab
• When a player views a hovercard
• When a player visits the TFT hub
• When a player navigates among main tabs
• When a player enters a chat room
• Opening a champion skin chroma
• Every time the social panel is shown (client start up, and after each game)
• When a player opens runes editor (in Champ Select + Collections)
• In Champ Select (fixing a chat service observer leak)
• In Champ Select (premade voice observer leak)

• The rune page should now load faster, along with overall rendering improvements
• End-of-game screen should no longer freeze when getting back into the client
• Summoner spell and ward skin selections have been reimplemented to reduce memory leaks. The associated animations in champ select have been removed as part of this work.

• Kled now properly counts Skaarl's health as bonus health
• Vladimir's R - Hemoplague incoming Health-gain indicator now properly appears even when non-champion targets are affected
• Annie's E - Molten Shield is no longer castable on allies outside of its intended range
• Sona's E - Song of Celerity's tooltip now properly states her allies will get 10% bonus move speed
• Casting Sion's E - Roar of the Slayer right before being hit by certain crowd control effects no longer allows the player to regain control over him for a split second
• Kindred's Passive - Mark of the Kindred's tooltip no longer shows zeroes in place of real values
• Fixed Lillias R - Lilting Lullaby's overhead indicator VFX on enemies
• Samira's Passive - Daredevil Impulse no longer knocks up spell-shielded or untargetable enemies

The following skins will be released in this patch.

The following chromas will be released this patch:

10/30/2020 Tahm Kench Bugfix

Tahm Kench

10/29/2020 Kindred and Yuumi Bugfix

Kindred

Yuumi

new

Seraphine

The Starry-Eyed Songstress

Runeterra's premier idol takes the stage in 10.22!

• Seraphine Abilities Rundown
• Seraphine Champion Insights
• Seraphine Champion Bio

High-res versions of Seraphine's splashes are available on League Displays!

Amumu

R now stuns enemies.

Improving clarity on Amumu’s ult, which should also lead to a minor bump up in his mojo.

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R - Curse of the Sad Mummy

Annie

E now provides a shield instead of damage reduction; shield can now be cast on target ally champions; shield animation updated; cost and range increased; shield always applies to Tibbers when he's summoned

We’re giving Annie more ways to use her shield while keeping it a simple and intuitive defense when Annie just wants to play on her own.

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E - Molten Shield

Ashe

W arrows now increase per rank-up.

Adding more satisfaction and experiential variety to her main skill to get more bang for your buck rank ups.

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W - Volley

Brand

Passive explosion damage decreased. E blaze spread now always spreads to nearby enemies; blaze spread radius increased; indicator now displays blaze spread radius. R fireball can now bounce back to Brand; bounce priority updated.

Once upon a time, Brand was a mid laner—but in recent history, he’s found a comfortable home as a support. To give him some steam, we’re firing up his offense to promote a more aggressive playstyle. In addition, we tapped down the percentage damage that support Brands typically rely on in order to even out his overall power. Altogether, this should help Brand feel equipped to blaze back into mid without overstepping his current strength as a support.

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Passive - Blaze

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E - Conflagration

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R - Pyroclasm

Galio

E now has a minimum dash distance.

A consistency change to ensure players don’t accidentally zero-cast their dash, while also giving Galio’s enemies more opportunities to dodge it.

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E - Justice Punch

Jinx

E now deals all damage upfront.

This clarity tweak on Jinx’s Chompers should provide more visible and appreciable damage.

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E - Flame Chompers!

Karthus

Q base damage reduced.

Karthus is too reliable of a jungle, mid, and bot pick because he can permashove waves and permaclear camps with little to no cost. We’re lowering his ability to deal sustained damage and gain massive leads so that his opponents have a chance to fight back.

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Q - Lay Waste

LeBlanc

E cost decreased; E base damage increased; E delayed damage increased.

Smoke and mirrors aside, LeBlanc has been in a weak spot across all levels of play. We’re giving her another trick up her sleeve by jazzing up one of her more underwhelming and underappreciated abilities. This should encourage players to rely more on her E, which is often left at rank one until late in the game.

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E - Ethereal Chains

Lulu

Q base damage decreased later.

Top Lulu has been doing too well in Skilled play, and all that glitters is not gold. We’re reducing her scaling damage to mitigate her ability to consistently harass opponents and waveclear.

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Q - Glitterlance

Nasus

R bonus resistances increased; bonus resistances per second removed.

One more clarity check, this time to make Nasus’ ultimate feel more intuitive. We also don’t think he’d be able to resist the overall buff.

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R - Fury of the Sands

Samira

Base attack damage and armor reduced.

Samira has quickly made her mark as a powerhouse ADC who can effortlessly slash, bash, and dash into a snowbally lead. We’re pulling out some of her early brawling power to reduce her reliability.

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Base Stats

Sejuani

R base and max damage increased.

The jungle meta has turned a cold shoulder to Sejuani. It's finally time to give our favorite boar some love and release Sejuani and Bristle from their cages glacial prison.

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R - Glacial Prison

Xayah

Base attack speed growth increased.

The current marksman ecosystem hasn’t been well-suited for this marksbird. We’re buffing up her ability to let her feathers fly.

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Base Stats

Zed

E base damage reduced later.

Bringing down some of Zed’s reliable damage so that he has to lean more on other parts of his kit to get ya.

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E - Shadow Slash

We’ve added range indicators for champion clones and pets that snap back when exceeding their range. The indicator is centered around the clone/pet and will only appear when the unit is within 500 range of the teleport leash.

Shaco

Annie

Clash teams can now have up to 20 invites out at a time. Once your team fills up, all open invites will be cancelled. In addition, the Shadow Isles Cup schedule is now live in the client! Note that it's taking place after the season ends next month, so the VP you earn won't count for End of Season 2020 Rewards. We'll let you know when tournament VP will begin counting for End of Season 2021 Rewards.