-There was a bit of confusion yesterday with the listed Diana, Brand changes
-These are mostly focused on Jungle, since their primary roles are still a bit stronger; this is in an effort to open up the meta a little more
-For Lee Sin, we’re looking at a power neutral change to increase a bit of his early skirmishing power at the cost of his mid-late game armor
Bot Lane Champs
-This patch we’re trying to do a bit of a bit of a meta shift away from Yunara and Sivir (they’ll still be viable), but some of the more spellcaster oriented ADC’s are going to rise up as a result
-There are also a few champs like Draven and Jinx that have been a bit weaker than their typical resting winrates and mastery curves would indicate
-They’re not super far off, so they’re just getting a bit of a pro focused nudge in places; Draven in his early fighting potential and Jinx in her ability to play in matchups at level 1 or combo off ally CC
Mid Lane Champs
-Some of the burst champs have become a bit weaker
-While this is a more Pro focused movement for now, we’re aware that there are some non-pro champs that need a similar treatment
-There are a lot of them and will require more of a concerted effort
-Our strategy for this in the short term is to create a more clear segmentation between champs who take more durable builds (eg. ROA builds) and champs who are a little more squishy and burst like in nature
-This will mean over time that some of the more durable champs will pay some tradeoffs in damage and the champs that are more burst oriented will become a bit more squishy in order to be allowed to have that level of burst
Systems
–We’re looking at a nerf to Redemption to reduce its priority amongst Tank Supports (because it gives them no strategic tradeoffs); it’s OK if they opt into it at some cost, but that’s not the case right now
-Secondly, we’re lowering the strength of Support in Pro a bit heading into worlds with putting Unsealed halfway back to where it was before. This should better strike the balance between it being untakeable and being a must take
Meta Strategy
-Our overall strategy this patch is to add a few more strategic options
-This includes AP junglers like Brand, Diana, Lillia (while nerfing some of the top champs to give them more space)
-And also shaking up the Midlane meta with some buffs to champions who have fallen a bit behind (these are typically burst champions like Ahri, Syndra, LeBlanc) and also Mel who’s had a bit of time to settle and drop some of her banrate and frustration
-We know Mel is always going to be a bit frustrating because of her W, but that feels like an acceptable cost to pay, given how it makes each game feel a bit different
-We’re mostly OK with where the midlane meta is otherwise, with many different archetypes being viable and these burst oriented champions need a bit more help
-Burst champions otherwise feel mostly OK though, especially with the buffs to AD Assassin items in recent patches
-Finally we’re doing a long awaited buff to Seraphine. I mentioned it in a post last week, but given her shallow mastery curve, we feel it’s appropriate to give her a buff, because for the winrates she’s posting, she’s a bit underpowered
Time to celebrate patch 25.18 and our 2024 World’s Winners, T1!
This patch’s live balance updates don’t have any new champion-role injections, simply a bunch of follow up and fine-tuning. Notable highlights include a Bami’s Cinder buff for junglers, some Illaoi QoL, our first big nerf patch for Yunara, Qiyana, and jungle Sylas.
In other news, we’ve also got some updates to ARAM, Doom Bots, and Arena in this patch, so if you’re a modes enjoyer this is your time! We’ve also got our 2024 World’s Winners skins (go T1!), the return of Your Shop, updates to the game tracking information changes we introduced last patch, a clash on SR, and last, but certainly not least, we’re going to start rolling out bans and punishments for botted and purchased accounts as well and players engaging in boosting.
As always thanks for reading and we’ll see you on the Rift!
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Patch Highlights
T1 Gnar, T1 Vi, T1 Yone, T1 Varus, T1 Pyke, and Prestige T1 Sylas will be available September 10th, 2025 at 19:00 UTC.
T1 World’s Winners Celebration
In this patch we’re celebrating T1’s 2024 World Championship run with their World’s Winners skins! Created in partnership with our champions, we’ve created five skins to honor Zeus, Oner, Faker, Gumayusi, and Keria’s incredible performances last year. Keep an eye out for custom recalls including easter eggs inspired by these players like Zeus’ trophy mishap and Gumayusi’s good croissant!
These skins will be available throughout patch 25.18 and 25.19, either by themselves or in our Signature and Mega bundles.
Signature Editions: Includes champion skin, player’s signature border and icon, elite chroma, T1 ward, and the champion (if not already owned).
Mega Bundle: Includes all champion skins, all player’s signature borders and icons, all elite chromas, T1 Ward, golden T1 World Champions icon, and all champions (if not already owned).
Note: The T1 Ward and champions are 50% off if acquired through the bundles.
Also coming this patch is our 2024 World Championship Sylas Prestige skin celebrating Faker’s MVP performance! Prestige T1 Sylas, alongside the matching border and icon, will be in the featured section of the Mythic Shop for 150 ME for two patches (25.18 & 25.19). After this run Sylas will exit the shop and enter the biweekly rotation, but without the icon and border included.
In recent years, we’ve updated borders on higher-rarity skins to better match their themes, with Mythic Shop Prestige skins being an exception. Going forward, we’re exploring bringing thematic borders to Mythic Shop Prestige skins as well, starting with Sylas.
Bots, Boosters, And Bans
League is a game that’s at its best and highest quality when both teams have a fair shot at winning, and we want to make that a reality when you load into each game. But that doesn’t happen when there are people out there who purposefully make games they’re in worse by griefing, inting, smurfing, or verbally abusing others—just to name a few.
As Riot mentioned back in August, this sort of behavior is not, and has never been, welcome in League and Riot will be cracking down on it.
A few days ago Riot started rolling out bans for purchased and botted accounts and starting in this patch they’ll also be rolling out bans and other punishments for accounts that Riot’s systems flag as having been used for boosting and hitchhiking, common forms of smurfing. It won’t be all at once though, Riot will roll out these penalties over time so that they can ensure that their Player Support organization can address any appeals in a timely manner.
While Riot is very confident in the accuracy of their detection systems, if you believe you were wrongfully banned please reach out to Riot’s player support team here!
Game Info Tracking Improvements
We kept an eye on your feedback about the jungle timers and updated death recap we introduced last patch and now we’re back to make some adjustments. Thank you for all the feedback and please keep it coming so we can keep making League the best it can be!
Death recap has received visual polish.
Death recap can now be moved anywhere on the screen or redocked to the corner.
Re-added the damage type pie chart that shows the proportion of physical, magical, and true damage that you took. Hover for a full damage type breakdown.
Shortly after 25.17 launched, we hotfixed jungle timers providing full information about a camp’s respawn time immediately on gaining vision of it. Now, you gain timer information 10 seconds before respawn for basic camps or 60 seconds for buff camps which is consistent with how it worked before
Your Shop
Your Shop is coming back this patch, but with a special surprise! In this appearance of your shop you’ll have the chance of a Legendary skin to appear in your discounted offerings so make sure you check it out!
It’ll be here until October 7th so make sure you stop by before then.
Amumu has been very sad in support for a while now and we’d like to give him some power back to add a bit of pep to his step. We think he’d be tickled pink if he could start maxing Q first, so we’re leaning in that direction by giving it a lower cooldown per rank while also lowering the mana cast so he’ll be able to cast two charges relatively cheaply.
Annie’s been on fire in pro play for quite some time as is also OP for regular play with the right skill order. Her W-first-max tech is quite powerful compared to her Q max, despite it being very uncommon outside of Pro, so we’re going to reduce the power of this under-the-radar tech.
Ashe is once again finding herself near the bottom of the ADC list. We’re pretty happy with her current shape with crit and some on-hit items being solid options for her, so all we’re really doing here is looking to nudge her success rate up just a bit.
In a similar boat as a few other mages in this patch, Aurora has been outcompeting and dominating the mid meta in Pro. We’re looking to take some power out of her pro specific advantage of baseline target agnosticism without buying into high AP, as well as worsen her lane phase slightly so she is less capable of supporting her team in early skirmishes.
Passive – Spirit Abjuration
Base Percent Max Health Damage: 2.5% ⇒ 1%
Percent Max Health Damage AP Ratio: 2% per 100 AP ⇒ 2.7% per 100 AP
Attack Speed growth decreased. W damage decreased.
Azir has been at the top of his rule, especially in pro play. He’s reliably able to get to a high point of power, so we’d like to reduce how effective he is when that happens by bringing down his Attack Speed growth and late-game W damage.
Base Stats
Attack Speed Growth: 5.5% ⇒ 5.0%
W – Arise!
AP Ratio: + 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65% AP ⇒ + 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% AP
Q damage decreased, now deals physical damage. W bugfix. R alert sound now plays after a delay, range increased, damage decreased.
Briar’s ultimate is a little too hard to hit, especially against aware players. While it’s intended that the spell has high counterplay, we wanted to ensure smart Briar players are able to find situations where it is much more in their favor to land. To do this, we’re delaying the global warning sound until after the 1 second cast time, which should make R much easier to hit when cast at nearby enemies from out of vision. To compensate, we’re nerfing her damage a bit as she’s quite strong right now and doesn’t have room for a straight buff.
We also took this chance to move Q back to physical damage for all you lethality enjoyers out there.
Mana increased. E damage vs poisoned targets increased.
Cassiopeia has been stagnating in the grass for a while ever since the early few patches of Noxus earlier this year. To help her out we’re adding a small buff to her offensive power and early laning by giving her (twin) fangs a bit more bite.
Galio is currently one of the most dominant mid picks and has been for a few patches now. His mid-game is by far his strongest point, which has meaningfully contributed to him out competing other picks, so we’re looking to bring it down to a more reasonable spot. With these changes we’re looking to target both tank and full damage builds to keep his itemization between the two healthy.
Garen is hitting a historical low breadth (the amount of unique players), and we’d like our signature accessible top lane fighter to be more enticing for more players. We’re going to buff him up by showing some love to his E AD Ratio, which should further incentivize more fighter-y runes and items.
E – Judgment
AD Ratio per Spin: 36 / 39 / 42 / 45 / 48% AD ⇒ 38 / 41 / 44 / 47 / 50% AD
Passive and E abilities’ damage increased. WQ movement speed increased.
Hwei has been producing fine art, but we’ve seen some player feedback saying that he struggles to find footing, partially due to his strength waning over gametime, which we agree with. To fix this we’re buffing his AP ratios to give his art more impact as he gets gold, and giving him some higher-mastery skewed buffs that will help his WQ feel smoother to use.
Piltover’s poster boy Jayce hasn’t been defending tomorrow very well lately, and has seen little presence in pro play despite the top lane meta being one he should thrive in. To help him out a bit we’re going to give him a high skill skewed buff to make his shock blasts all the more… shocking.
Passive QoL change. W damage decreased. E vessel duration decreased.
When we nerfed Illaoi’s vessel duration, she was left in a state where she could sometimes fail to get any follow-up tentacle attacks on a newly-minted vessel in the early game. We’re extending the debuff duration slightly to make it more likely that she can get her well-deserved follow-up slap, but as this has a meaningful power impact, we’re also giving her a small compensation nerf. We’re also delivering a nice QoL buff requested by Illaoi players: no longer will she waste her passive cooldown while channeling or travelling with Summoner Teleport.
Passive – Prophet of an Elder God
QoL Change: No longer spawns tentacles during Summoner Teleport. Her passive now waits until she’s done teleporting.
W – Harsh Lesson
Target Max Health Damage: 4% per 100 total AD ⇒ 3.5% per 100 total AD
Base AD and Armor Growth decreased. Passive damage decreased.
Qiyana’s recent buffs were quite potent, bringing her into the spotlight as arguably the strongest champion in the game and driving her ban rate up significantly. This queen has been shining too brightly, in both mid and jungle, so to take the attention off of her (and so that her players can play her) we’re bringing her power down across the board.
As players have gotten better at him, Sylas jungle has continued to rise up the ranks and now is more performant than we’re comfortable with. Since we’re happy with his power level in mid lane, we’re simply walking back a portion of his prior jungle buffs.
Q and Q2 mana cost decreased, damage decreased. E mana cost decreased, damage decreased.
Taliyah has been no stranger to higher level play and we think the culprit is a combination of reliability and durability in her most common builds. We’d like her to be weighed down less by her high mana costs in order to make her less reliant on Tear of the Goddess. Additionally, we would also see her build more aggressively so we are lowering her base damage in order to make AP a larger portion of her power budget. We’re improving her jungle modifiers as a way to offset these adjustments to mid lane.
Volibear has clawed his way to the top of the ranks of junglers as the rest of them were brutally wounded by nerfs in the last hunt. While it’s acceptable for this thunder god to be potent, his current strength is just a bit too thunderous. As such we’re tapping down his AP Ratio on his passive, which should make his first item power spike less electrifying.
Passive – The Relentless Storm
Attack Speed AP Ratio: 4% (up to 20%) per 100 AP ⇒ 3 (up to 17.5%) per 100 AP
Base Health and AD decreased. E bonus movement speed and duration decreased.
Yunara has quickly risen to be the strongest marksman in the game accounting for mastery while also seeing high pick/ban priority in professional play (especially in China and Korea). In this patch we’re looking to nerf her across the board, ideally lowering her priority in professional play, which should also lower her ban rate in higher levels of play as well.
Zac can rarely get stuck on units in his ultimate. The original Zac ultimate allowed him to pass through units to prevent this, so we’re bringing that functionality back!
R – Let’s Bounce!
Going Ghost: Now grants Ghosting during ultimate.
Items
Bami’s Cinder
We’ve revisiting Bami’s this patch to help keep it in line with Fated Ashes, which has seen a clear dominance between the two options. We’d like the difference to be less decided between the two components for jungle clear power, so these buffs should help do just that.
Percent Amp on Monsters: 50% ⇒ 100%
Sunfire Cape
Sunfire Cape has been the clearly worse option for tank junglers when compared to Liandry’s, and while a meaningful amount of that difference is generated from the early clear impacts of Bami’s vs. Fated Ashes, there is still a degree of power and excitement missing from Sunfire once completed that we want to bring to the item.
Percent Amp on Minions and Monsters: 50% ⇒ 60%
Mercurial Scimitar
When you find yourself forced to rush a QSS to survive an enemy Malzahar, Warwick, or just a team with heavy CC, it’s still usually in your best interest to complete this item last. Even then, you still may feel like you’re giving up more power than you can afford due to the meager stats that the item gives on completion. We’re looking to make sure the item still feels appropriately tuned while keeping a focus on the active as its main strength.
Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 50
Magic Resistance: 40 ⇒ 35
Active Movespeed Duration: 1.5 ⇒ 2 seconds
ARAM
Map Rotations
Due to popular request, we’re going to be keeping the ARAM rotations from the Season 2 ARAM updates. This means that for the foreseeable future Butcher’s Bridge and the Koeshin’s Crossing are here to stay! Each map will now have an equal chance of appearing each time you go into an ARAM game.
Free-to-Play Pool
We’re updating the free to play list in ARAM to contain the last 5 rotations (previous 4 added with the current week) of the Summoner’s Rift rotation.
The ARAM free to play list is no longer a static list of 65, it will instead be the combined last 5 weeks of Summoner’s Rift free-to-play champion rotations. This means you’ll typically have over 95 champions made available per game from now on.
NOTE: The chances of obtaining a third card in champion select is unchanged, it will continue to only count champions that you own.
In case you missed the news, the first three patches in Doom Bots’ run will all activate a different Trial of Doom. In the last patch, all three Trials will be reactivated so you have one last chance to get those wins. If you can defeat all of Veigar’s Trials, you’ll earn the title “Definitely Not a Bot”, which we really want, so we’ll see you there! The first trial was Veigar’s Evil where every bot got Veigar’s Phenomenal Evil passive. The second trial is… drumroll please…
Trials of Doom – Veigar’s Curse!
In Veigar’s Curse, Bots are buffed to just below the level of the Hard queue, and the level cap for players and Doom Bots is raised to 30. The Bots will gain 100% bonus experience from all sources. Players can do the same… if they buy Veigar’s Talisman of Ascension! This item offers 100% increased experience, but no stats. If you make it to level 30, Veigar’s Talisman will transform into something much more powerful!
In addition, more minions will also spawn in all lanes from partway through the game. Finally, Veigar’s attacks might burn a little more in this Trial, as we’ve given him Liandry’s Torment.
So, figure out your strategy, and pick your Champion. How are you getting to level 30? Can you survive, one item down?
Veigar’s Curse will be live on September 10th at 8:00 AM PT (or September 10th at 15:00 UTC).
Balance Changes
–King of the Hill Mission: Reduced number of Doom Bots ordered to defend the area
–King of the Hill Mission: Disabled Teleport on Doom Bots during the event.
–King of the Hill Mission: Increase value of points scored by players.
–King of the Hill Mission: Reduced maximum penalty for losing the mission.
–Defeat Karthus Mission: Assigned a Doom Bot to defend Karthus and his Crystal.
–Veigar: Reduced his damage reduction cap, but also lowered the threshold at which he will start to individually target high-damage-dealing players.
–Aurelion Sol: Removed the Cooldown increase on E – Singularity.
Bugfixes
-Fixed an issue where players could get triple rewards if they killed all the Super Evil Pumpkins simultaneously in the Doom Bot Power Up Mission.
-Fixed issues where players or Veigar could become untargetable / invulnerable during the final boss fight.
-Corrected the maximum damage calculations for On-Hit Items to update throughout the game.
-Fixed an issue where Doom Bot Malzahar’s Voidlings could kill the Nexus from Moredekaiser’s Death Realm, or during cutscenes.
-Fixed a bug where Smolder’s burn damage was not being applied to Veigar ( the execute will continue to not apply).
-Fixed a bug where Charm spells would permanently break Mini-Singed and Mega-Ziggs pathfinding in their missions.
-Fixed a bug where the Target Dummy in Target Dummy Duel could be killed by certain Curses.
Doom Bots Bot Adjustments
Doom Bot Lee Sin
Okay we all saw this adjustment coming, but we love that Lee Sin has become the #1 villain of the mode. We’re gonna bring him a little more in line with where we’d like, so he feels slightly less “LPL Lee Sin”.
Arena comes with a set of challenges due to its unique ruleset, so we’ve customized a few rules to better fit this game mode. Players who AFK in Arena should now be flagged and punished appropriately, and their teammate who is stuck with 1v2’ing every fight will be able to exit the game sooner.
That said, we are not introducing “early forfeit” to Arena like you find in Summoner’s Rift or ARAM, because we cannot simply remake the game as it would be unfair to the other 7 teams still playing. Our goal here is to make it so you aren’t trapped for as long as you would have been previously, and that players who AFK often are getting appropriately punished so AFK’s will occur less. As always, we’ll be monitoring feedback here so please give us your thoughts.
AFK Detection Rules
-AFK Warning will pop up after 70 seconds of no activity
-Moving, attacking, casting spells, shopping, choosing an augment or anvil, and clicking to spectate an ongoing match all count as activity
-Taking damage, being teleported into combat and dying do not count as activity
-After 180s of no activity, your vote is no longer counted towards forfeiting
-After 300s of no activity, your client is disconnected
-Detection is disabled for players who are on a bye round or are eliminated
Surrender Rules
-Minimum time to FF remains unchanged at 6 minutes
-NEW Minimum game time played (for eligible game modes) to count toward remedial games: 10 minutes
General (Arena)
Early on in Arena, ranged champions needed a lot of extra support to feel viable. With the addition of Hexgates and additional augments/items this hasn’t been the case for a while, so we’re looking to pull back some of the extra power that they no longer need.
-Arena stat package : Ranged champions no longer gain +20 MS.
Going forward we’re including the current week of free to play champions in other game modes on top of the static list of 31 champions in Arena!
-Champions that are free to play in Summoner’s Rift for the current week are also available in Arena now.
Katarina struggles in a gamemode with only 2 opponents, so we’re adjusting her passive to fully reset her ultimate while giving her some more force behind her basic abilities.
Passive Refund: 30s ⇒ 75s
Q Damage: 80-220(+40%AP) ⇒ 80-300(+65%AP)
E Damage: 20-60(+0.25AP%AP)(+.40TAD) ⇒ 40-120(+0.40%AP)(+.40TAD)
AP Kog’Maw has always been an off build, but is a little less viable than we think makes sense for Arena’s build philosophies.
R AP ratio increased: 55% ⇒ 55%/60%/65%
Guest of Honor (Arena)
Guest of Honor (Arena)
The existing Guests of Honor were built for the idea that they would be enabled for a few months, with Arena’s extended run, we wanted to take a swing at spicing up some that have lost some of their luster.
Kled
Landing time reduced from 2s ⇒ 1.5s
Elise
Now grants 1 additional revive in addition to its previous effects.
Cocoon size increased.
Mordekaiser
Duration increased from 10 ⇒ 28s (just before the Ring of Fire spawns.)
Sion
The Ring of Fire moves slightly faster over a greater distance.
Samira
Trigger condition changed from the 1st hit ⇒ 1st time you drop an opponent to below 50% HP.
Trundle
Grants +1 Reroll every 3 rounds in addition to its previous effects.
Items (Arena)
Hullbreaker
Isolation Range: 1000 ⇒ 1500
Kraken Slayer
Attack Damage: 30 ⇒ 40
Third Hit Increase based on missing Health: 50% ⇒ 75%
Max shield reduced from 200-500 ⇒ 100-400 per level
Stat Anvils (Arena)
Prismatic Omnivamp Anvil
Now has a Melee / Ranged split
Melee: 25% Omnivamp
Ranged: 12.5% Omnivamp
Magic Pen Shards
Silver Magic Pen: 10 ⇒ 8
Gold Magic Pen: 22 ⇒ 18
Arena Bugfixes
-Fixed an issue where the Madhatter hat (the kind you’d expect from a long-winded owner of a certain domed establishment) was missing when a player reconnects.
-Fixed an issue where the Madhatter hat was reduced more than expected after each round loss.
-Put in a minimum champion size as a failsafe in case a player gets too many size reduction effects.
-Fixed an issue where Darius was not healing/granting gold on team eliminations.
Clash – Summoner’s Rift Cup
The Summoner’s Rift Cup will be happening this patch! Grab your 5 stacks and get ready to rumble!
Registration Begins: September 9 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
Tournament Dates: September 13 and 14 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)
If you have any questions or you’re just looking for the full 2025 Clash schedule, make sure to check our Riot’s Clash FAQ support page.
Bugfixes & QOL Changes
Custom Game Bugfixes and Improvements
-Fixed an issue that had Custom Games showing up as public games.
-Removed the five-second countdown warning when leaving a Custom Game or Practice Tool.
-Fixed an issue that allowed Custom Games to give mission credit.
-Fixed an issue in Custom Game lobbies’ player-ordering that prevented players from being able to re-order themselves by swapping teams.
-Fixed an issue that prevented Nexus Finishers from working in Practice Tool.
-Fixed an issue that prevented some players from creating Practice Tool games.
-Fixed an issue that allowed players to attempt to ban a bot’s champion in Custom Games.
Bugfixes
-Fixed a bug that caused Briar to stop moving when her frenzy state had ended.
-Fixed a bug that caused the death recap detailed view button to have to be pressed twice if it was left expanded in the previous death recap.
-Fixed a bug that caused Gangplank’s E to be able to reset his and his enemy’s in-progress attacks. We thought we fixed this last patch but Gangplank just E’d our fix. We got it this time though.
-Fixed a bug that caused Xin Zhao’s W to be able to sometimes deal additional damage with the first part of the ability if it was used immediately after Flash.
-Fixed a bug that caused Lunar Emperor Thresh’s hook projectile SFX to remain at Thresh’s location instead of the hook’s location.
-Fixed a bug that caused Thresh’s passive soul spawning SFX to be missing from ally’s and enemy’s point of view.
-Fixed a bug that caused some of Thresh’s skins to be missing the soul absorb SFX at the end of his taunt emote.
-Fixed a bug that caused Kathus’ W wall VFX to be cut off in areas with elevation changes.
-Fixed a bug that caused Milio’s passive empowered attacks to stop Zac’s blobs from reviving via his passive.
-Fixed a bug that caused Xin Zhao’s ultimate VFX to not be visible when moving in or out of Morderkaiser’s Realm of Death.
-Fixed a bug that caused Xin Zhao’s Q+E VFX to linger after being cc’d towards another champion via one of their abilities.
-Fixed a bug that caused the minimap and scoreboard timers for Red and Blue buff to be inconsistent with one another.
-Fixed a bug that caused Font of Life to sometimes be placed on cooldown if triggered while nearby allies were at full health.
-Fixed a bug that caused Aurora’s R buff duration to last longer than her rift’s duration.
-Fixed a bug that caused multiple issues to occur when Yunara used a Tiamat based item.
-Fixed a bug that caused some of LeBlanc’s recall props to appear during her W and RW.
-Fixed a bug that caused Teemo’s R on-hit VFX to not appear if the trap was placed in the Fog of War and then triggered.
-Fixed a bug that caused Diana’s R VFX to occur in a smaller area than that actual area of the ability’s damage.
-Fixed a bug that caused Nilah’s W VFX to render over nearby impassable terrain, structures, and units.
-Fixed a bug that caused Syndra’s orb VFX to disappear after 20 seconds.
-Fixed a bug that caused structures like Nexus Turrets to be untargetable to allies after their inhibitor respawned.
-Fixed a bug that caused Graves’ R cone smoke VFX to spawn slightly before the projectile hits an enemy
-Fixed a bug that caused Red and Blue Jungle Camps to sometimes not play their attack SFX.
Upcoming Skins & Chromas
The following skins will be released in this patch:
Prestige T1 Sylas
T1 Vi, T1 Gnar, T1 Yone, T1 Varus, & T1 Pyke
The following chromas will be released this patch:
When Deadlock blew up in August 2024, it immediately caught our attention. As passionate fans of League and MOBAs, we scrambled to secure beta invites and jumped right in. The fast-paced gameplay and 1920’s New York, cult-inspired aesthetics hooked us instantly. We quickly started work on a prototype builds tool to help make sense of the early alpha in-game store.
Earlier this year, we connected with Will Seagar to learn more about his project, Tracklock. What started as two competing products quickly grew into a partnership, and ultimately, an acquisition. Since then, Will and the Tracklock team have been working alongside us on U.GG, bringing their passion and expertise to our community.
With Deadlock’s player base continuing to grow and Valve rolling out regular updates, now feels like the perfect time to give Tracklock some love. In the coming weeks, you’ll see fresh visual updates and seamless U.GG build integrations that make the app even more valuable for Deadlock players.
We’re thrilled about the future of Deadlock and can’t wait to keep building tools and experiences that support its growing community.
Doom Bots Tier List (Patch 25.18) for all 3 difficulties (Doom Bots = Normal, Doom Bots Hard, Veigar’s Curse = Extreme). Click on any Champion view their build. Check out more info on Doom Bots in our Patch 25.18 notes article here.
Doom Bots is a PVE rotating game mode that is finally getting it’s re-release after many years, although this time the team at Riot has made several new additions. You and your teammates will have 15 minutes to survive against a team of aggressive and powerful bots.
Throughout the game, you’ll need to avoid curses through the completion of mini challenges, giving you a huge boost of gold upon completion. If you’re lucky enough to survive all 15 minutes, you will be teleported back down to your nexus for a final boss fight against the Doom Boss, Veigar. Survive all 3 waves of Veigar’s AOE attacks and curses, and you’ll secure the victory!
When does Doom Bots release?
Doom bots will release on Wednesday, August 27th alongside Season 3 and Patch 25.18.
Mini Challenges
Throughout the game, you’ll encounter mini challenges that players must complete within a 2 minute timeframe. If you successfully complete a challenge, you get rewarded with a sizable amount of gold. However, if you don’t complete the challenge by the time the 2 minute timer runs out, the bots will become much stronger and more difficult to deal with for the remainder of the game.
Find Fiddlesticks Find the real Fiddlesticks before time runs out
Defeat Karthus Destroy Karthus’ Life Crystal and Defeat Karthus (2 crystals, each located at Baron and Dragon)
Super Evil Portal Assault Destroy Veigar’s three Super Evil Portals before they spawn powerful enemies (located in random spots throughout jungle)
King of the Hill Hold the arena in the center of the map (mid-lane) for longer than the Doom Bots.
Tower Charge Down Protect the Shield on the Tower in the Middle Lane from the Doom Bots.
Target Dummy Duel Deal more damage to your Target Dummy than the Doom Bots do to theirs (located in jungle rivers)
The Ghouls Arise Destroy the Gravesites before the Ghouls wreck your base.
Doom Bot Power-Up Destroy the pumpkins before Veigar finishes powering up the doom bot.
Final Boss Encounter – Doom Boss Veigar
Once you survive all 15 minutes, you will be teleported back with your team to your nexus, thus beginning the final boss fight against Veigar. Veigar has 3 different waves you’ll need to get through before claiming victory. Each wave includes mini-challenges that you must complete in order to continue to damage down Veigar’s health.
The general strategy is to dodge as much of Veigar’s AOE attacks as possible, while sustaining consistent damage against him. If you die, you will have to wait to respawn before jumping back into the fight. Be careful though, if no one on the team is around to attack Veigar, he will start attacking your nexus and potentially lead your team to a loss.
Welcome to Season 3! This patch we’ve got a lot of updates across the game such as the return to the regular Summoner’s Rift map for season 3, Doom Bots comes out of retirement, Xin Zhao gets a major glow up, a new battle pass, improvements to game info tracking like jungle timers, and a handful of quality of life and bugfixes. We’ve also got balance changes for ARAM, and a Fame reset for Arena!
This is our second patch in a row aimed at adding new tools to play with and master. We’re introducing Vayne and Sett in the jungle, AP Irelia, Lane Kayn, and buffing some weak items to make you rethink your AD assassin and AP haste builds. We’ve also got some small-scale balance updates, largely following up on other recent changes.
Looking for more information on all things League of Legends? Check out our community-run wiki here!
Visions of the Fallen Garen, Visions of the Fallen Tryndamere, Arcana Jhin, Arcana Lulu, Elderwood Alistar, and Prestive Visions of the Fallen Jarven IV will be available August 27th, 2025.
Season 3 Is Here!
Alongside this update we have a brand new Seasonal Battle Pass! Check it out for look like Arcana Lulu, Arcana Jhin, Prestige Visions of the Fallen Jarvan IV, emotes, icons, and more! This will also be the first pass to reflect that change from 50 to 48 levels. The XP required per level is unchanged so it should feel faster to complete compared to before.
Here’s the full list for all the details:
Level 1: 3 Darkin Orbs
Level 2: Imperfect Beauty Icon
Level 3: 3000 Blue Essence
Level 4: Ancient Spark
Level 5: Mystery Icon
Level 6: Lulu Champion Permament
Level 7: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 8: Arcana Lulu
Level 9: Arcana Lulu Border + Icon
Level 10: Mystery Icon
Level 11: Champion Capsule
Level 12: Where’s My Assistant? Emote
Level 13: Crowned in Ruin Icon
Level 14: 3000 Blue Essence
Level 15: Spin to Get Dizzy Emote
Level 16: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 17: Darkin Orb
Level 18: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 19: Gilded Ninja Emote
Level 20: Mystery Icon
Level 21: 3000 Blue Essence
Level 22: Jhin Champion Permanent
Level 23: Darkin Orb
Level 24: Arcana Jhin
Level 25: Arcana Jhin Border + Icon
Level 26: Mystery Icon
Level 27: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 28: Mystery Emote
Level 29: Darkin Death Stare Emote
Level 30: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 31: Champion Capsule
Level 32: 25 Mythic Essence
Level 33: The Black Rose Remembers Icon
Level 34: Darkin Orb
Level 35: Champion Capsule
Level 36: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 37: 500 Orange Essence
Level 38: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 39: Glorious Champion Capsule
Level 40: “Discipline of Twilight” Title
Level 41: Seneschal Seal Icon
Level 42: Mystery Emote
Level 43: Hextech Chest + Key
Level 44: Trials of Twilight Banner
Level 45: 500 Orange Essence
Level 46: Jarvan IV Champion Permanent
Level 47: Darkin Orb
Level 48: Prestige Visions of the Fallen Jarvan IV
Repeating Missions
Level 49: 750 Blue Essence
Level 50: 750 Blue Essence
Level 51: 750 Blue Essence
Level 52: 25 Orange Essence
Level 53: 750 Blue Essence
Level 54: 750 Blue Essence
Level 55: 750 Blue Essence
Level 56: 25 Orange Essence
Season 3 Ranked Begins
Season 3 Ranked Start Time will be 12:00 noon local server time, August 27. Similar to Season 1 to Season 2 transition, players’ ranked LP progression won’t be reset, but the Victorious Mission to get Victorious skin will be reset (15 ranked games won).
Ranked queue will be disabled during the ranked season down time, which will be approximately 12 hours. End of ranked season 2 rewards will be distributed several days after season start.
Shard Transfer Service will be temporarily disabled before season end, and will be re-enabled after reward distribution is complete.
Atakhan (is now armed)
You’ll notice with this patch Atakhan now has a weapon, a totally normal weapon. Mechanically we’re not making any changes and it’s just a visual change… we see you lore fans reading here for clues on what this means. Maybe he just felt like it okay.
Xin Zhao Visual Update
The Xin Zhao Visual Update is here with updated models, animations, ability icons, VO, VFX, SFX, Splashes, and Skins!
Similar to what we’ve done with some past Visual Updates for Champions, Xin Zhao’s Commando and Imperial skins are getting a price increase from 520 RP to 750 RP to reflect the higher quality bar. If you don’t own these skins you’ll be able to purchase them at a cheaper price before the Visual Update goes live tomorrow so grab them while you can!
Additionally, we’ve unvaulted his skins for through 25.18 so if you’re missing any you’ll be able to grab them during these next two patches.
Keep an eye out as well for Xin Zhao’s new Champion Theme! That will be released on Friday, August 29th! Learn more about the new champion theme and visual update in our Xin Zhao Champion Rework article.
Xin Zhao’s Update, and Champion Pages on Universe
With Xin Zhao’s update in 25.17 we’re going to be updating how his lore is presented on his Universe page to best represent where things currently stand and exist for him in our seasonal stories at the time of its release. This will cover the year so far and his experiences through the seasons and their various motion comics, and the Season 2 meta-game.
For those of you who want clarity about the timeline: The three seasons of 2025 follow the events of Arcane directly, shortly after Swain’s coup within Noxus, but before some more “recent” events, such as Sylas’ rebellion in Demacia.
As we move forward with seasons, we’re looking at ways to curate and reflect champions’ updated lore within their Universe pages, whether they’re told in meta-games, motion comics, cinematics, or anywhere else.
Doom Bots
View our U.GG Tier List and Builds for the new Doom Bots game mode here!
With patch 25.17 our newest, well not really new but kind of new, game mode will now be available! Doom Bots is returning with a fresh coat of paint and some major updates under the hood!
Doom Bots is a PvE gamemode pitting you and four other teammates against Veigar and his army of overpowered, busted-as-heck bots. Your goal is to survive against the bots for 15 minutes, then take on Veigar while protecting your Nexus!
If you haven’t played since the last time it came around it’s got a new boss, new bots, new curses, and a new difficulty mode! If you’d like to learn more we have a dev blog that goes into detail what to expect with this mode!
Trials of Doom
New to this run of Doom Bots are Trials of Doom! Trials of Doom are versions of Doom Bots where we add or change core components of the game to create specific challenges you have to overcome in order to defeat Veigar.
The first 3 patches in Doom Bots’ run will all activate a different Trial of Doom. In the last patch, all 3 Trials will be reactivated so you have one last chance to get those wins. If you can defeat all of Veigar’s Trials, you’ll earn the title “Definitely Not a Bot”, which we really want, so we’ll see you there!
Veigar’s Evil
The first Trial of Doom is “Veigar’s Evil”. In this Trial, every Doom Bot recives Veigar’s passive, Phenomenal Evil. This means that every time they hit you with a spell, they’ll gain Adaptive Force.
Additionally, Curses, spells cast by Veigar that normally turn on and off during the game, will never turn off. Instead, by 15 minutes, you’ll have 10 different curses active! Get those dancing shoes on!
It’s not all unfair, though. To give you a chance, we’ve given you a whole heap of Item Ability Haste, and we added an extra Prismatic Item to the shop: Demon King’s Crown.
Put together your best team, pick your strats, and try to overcome Veigar’s Evil!
Game Info Tracking Improvements
League’s been around for a while now, and with that has come a thriving app ecosystem. These provide a lot of value to folks who download them by helping players find builds & runes, showing them performance information, scouting your team or opponents, or in-game features like jungle timers, summoner spell tracking, and more.
Over time, we’ve seen your feedback around how some of these features don’t feel fair when only some players have access to them, and we agree. The competitive integrity of League is critically important to us and we want to preserve it, and we’ve heard how useful some of these features have been to many of you. In order to get the best of both worlds we’re going to be updating our Third Party App Policy and restricting certain features from being allowed while also building other features into the game so that all players have fair access to them.
Minimap Jungle Timers
Back in the day, League didn’t have any objective timers or global announcements. The only way you’d know someone took Dragon is if you saw it happen or stumbled on an empty pit. Along the way we added timers on the TAB screen to encourage coordination and fights around these objectives which has led to some of League’s most exciting moments.
Fast forward to today. Minimap timers are one of the most commonly used 3rd party features, so we decided to take a hard look at providing that info. In order to keep the default minimap clean and readable for all players, we’ve got some options for you…well two: Basic and Advanced.
The basic view provides full timers for epic camps, but uses the current hourglass icons for other camps – displayed at 30 and 10 seconds before respawn. However, while pressing TAB you will see timers for all camps, giving the best of both worlds to those that want a minimal default state, but more info with a button press.
The advanced view simply displays timers for all camps. You can find this option in the interface section of the settings menu.
To ensure the minimap stays readable and the most actionable camps stand out, timers get visually louder the closer the objective is to spawning.
It’s our hope that with this change you’ll spend more headspace checking lanes, pathing with intent, and planning ahead for the next major objective instead of tracking camp respawns. It should level the playing field and create more coordination around objectives while also making the jungle role less daunting.
Added jungle timers to the minimap.
Basic view displays epic camps timers. All other camps visible while pressing TAB.
Advanced view displays all camp timers at all times. Available in the interface section of settings.
Death Recap and Summoner Spell Tracking
Earlier this year, we worked with third party app developers to remove information about enemy ultimate cooldowns because we believe that there’s a lot of skill in tracking key abilities. It can be the difference between knowing your gank will 100% succeed vs. your opponent making a sick, unexpected 1v2 flash outplay, and that uncertainty keeps the game interesting. We’re going to take a similar approach here and restrict cooldown-tracking tools from being provided.
With that in mind, we’re going to make some improvements to communicating ults and spells that were recently used to aid in team coordination and planning.
When Diana pops everything to kill you, you’ll see those spells displayed in death recap and you can ping them right there without opening the scoreboard. Even non-damaging spells like Flash and Teleport, which we’ve never done before, will now be displayed. In chat your ping will show a definitive “Diana used Flash,” and if you ping it 3 times while looking in the mirror, maybe your jungler will pay her a visit before she backs.
Even better, if you’re playing Yorick top and you pan your camera down to watch some cinema bot lane, you can ping a spell from the scoreboard within 15 seconds of it being used and get the same result “Jinx used Flash.”
Additionally, while working on this we moved Death Recap out of the way and also added your contribution to the fight including damage dealt, crowd control applied, and how much gold you earned.
Moved death recap to the side of the screen and added show/hide functionality.
All summoner and ultimate spells used against you will now be displayed in the death recap, even non-damaging spells like Flash.
Pinging a spell from death recap will now display descriptive text in chat.
If a friendly unit sees a spell used and you ping it from the scoreboard within 15s, the same descriptive text will display.
Added info about your fight contribution (damage dealt, gold earned) to death recap.
Base Armor decreased, and Attack Speed Growth increased. R slow decreased at lower ranks.
Gwen is still very powerful in the hands of experts, especially pros, after her reshape in 15.6. While Gwen players have enjoyed her newfound agency in lane, we want to ensure she has some weak matchups and can’t simply flip the script at level 6 with a guaranteed chasedown. We’re delivering some compensation so as not to pull too much power out of her kit.
W AP Ratio increased. E cooldown decreased at higher ranks and AP damage ratio increased.
AP Irelia is currently not viable or picked at all so we are letting this blade dancer bring some magic to the rift by upping her burst ability when building ability power. We’re focusing on her high counterplay skillshots in order to give her a distinct playstyle difference compared to AD builds.
Kassadin has been a bit stagnant and below where we’d like him to be for resting win-rate, and his pick-rate is similarly declining. We’re looking to enhance some of his late game damage output to encourage the high risk/high reward scaling playstyle that his players enjoy.
There are a decent number of lane Kayn (Layn) players out there and we’d like to give them a fair shot at winning their games. To do that without buffing Jayn (jungle Kayn), we’re buffing mana costs to give him better access to wave clear and scrapping with his lane opponent.
Q damage increased. W damage increased. R damage increased at higher ranks.
Seasons ago, The Mouth of the Abyss was once a viable and common mid lane poke champion who had a late-game powerhouse identity. He’s not too far off from it these days, so we’re looking to give Kog’Maw a bit of power to enable it again and get people to try it out without making bot lane shift to AP for trivial wave clear.
Our fixes for Master Yi Q applying Kraken and Terminus were understandably buffs to Yi. We’re looking to reduce his built in on-hit build potency now that the system works in his favor and make his early game more exploitable in order to bring him down to size.
If only there was a word to describe Miss Fortune’s current state. Hmm, yeah.. can’t really think of one. Anyway, we’re buffing her this patch to bring her up to pace with the rest of the pack.
W mana cost decreased at higher ranks. W damage increased at lower ranks.
Last patch gave us a clean read on how much power each role got from making Morgana’s W damage more consistent. With that dust settled, we’re here to revisit her with some directly power-positive buffs, giving her better early fighting and making late-laning wave clear less punishing.
Nilah will not become a viable jungler with this change but the current restriction around how little splash damage she deals to jungle monsters just isn’t needed. We’re removing this unneeded mod for now and eventually we may dive into what it would take for Nilah to be functional here.
Q – Formless Blade
Secondary damage to monsters: 10% total AD ⇒ 100% total AD
Passive damage decreased. Q damage decreased at higher ranks.
Rumble has climbed greatly in win rate since the consistency changes we made last patch, so we’re moving some power out of Flamespitter and Junkyard Titan’s damage output.
Passive – Junkyard Titan
Overheated Damage: 5-40 (+ 25% AP) + 5% target max HP ⇒ 5-40 (+ 25% AP)(+ 4% target max HP)
Senna is currently underperforming as a bot laner and even more so as a support. We’re giving back some of the attack speed growth she’s had previously to improve the feel of her attacking builds, and she’s getting a small bump in her Q’s base healing.
Singed underwent several changes last patch that made red side Singed deal his first tick of damage instantly instead of 0.25s late and made blue side Singed refresh his poison much more reliably. The net result of these changes is that in almost all cases, Singed players are dealing substantially more damage in almost all contexts. We’re making some under the hood changes to poison duration in order to make the average Poison Trail closer to before, but without the substantial red-blue differences.
Mushrooms (and eggs and other objects) are now more visible.
We’re making a small visual change to make Teemo’s traps easier to pick out in the world. They still turn invisible and work mechanically identically before, but now they’re just more opaque so you can tell what it is right before it blows up in your face.
Vayne jungle is a lot closer to viable than people realize but many players completely miss the mark on ability orders. If you want to play Vayne jungle, start with Silver Bolts and then max Tumble. Have fun!
Q – Silver Bolts
Monster Damage: 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10% max HP, capped at 200 ⇒ 140 / 155 / 170 / 185 / 200 damage regardless of health
Fixed several bugs that could cause Yunara to deal more or less damage with on-hit effects.
As players have gotten better at her, Yunara has risen to be one of the most potent ADCs in the game. We’ve got several bug fixes in this patch that we expect will nerf her popular Kraken Slayer + Hurricane build. We’ll continue to keep an eye on her performance metrics to see how she lands after these changes.
Q – Cultivation of Spirit
Fixed a bug where sometimes the bounce could trigger multiple stacks per bounce for some items. It’s intended for Yunara to build 1 stack per bounce.
Fixed an issue where sometimes items would fail to do damage on Q bounces in situations where a significant number of bounces were taking place. (The poros on the calculators behind the scenes are ready now)
Fixed an issue where items like Runnan’s Hurricane were dealing full on-hit damage when bouncing from the secondary target to the primary target, triggering the full-on hit value multiple times in a single auto.
Fixed an issue where Runnan’s Hurricane bolts were having their on-hit damage reduced incorrectly and will now apply the full on-hit damage correctly.
Items
Axiom Arc
Axiom Arc is both very weak and very unpopular as an AD assassin legendary. We’d like to shine it up and make it a viable part of the assassin ecosystem by letting assassins spike sooner with its purchase.
Total Gold Cost: 3000 ⇒ 2750
Horizon Focus
Horizon Focus continues to be unpopular as an aggressive AP-Haste stat stick, especially because it’s rather weak. We’re here to push it up into viability by making it easier to sneak into a build and ensure the damage throughput is worthwhile.
Profane Hydra is a weak assassin item right now and it fails to fit the typical AD assassin power curve of attempting to spike early in the game. So to buff this item without ballooning late-game burst to the moon, we’re making it a more competitive early option by giving it a significant price cut.
Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 55
Total Gold Cost: 3200 ⇒ 2850
Recipe: Tiamat + The Brutalizer + 663 Gold ⇒ Tiamat + The Brutalizer + 313 Gold
Arena Season 3 Update
For Season 3 we’re updating Arena’s reward track! You’ll unlock the augments that were previously on the reward track automatically, and work towards new rewards! There’s a total of 12 levels of new augments:
New Fame Track
Bodyguard
Augmented Power
Matchup Intro
Bravest of the Brave
Bonus Reroll
Cerberus
Spirit Infusion
Matchup Intro
Quest: Mad Hatter
Calculated Risk
Pandora’s Box
Matchup Intro
Champ Select
The ban phase has been merged with the picking phase. Champion select will have both players ban and pick together for a shorter lobby experience. You’ll be able to see opponent picks after both selects are finished. The total time for each phase has been changed from 35 seconds to 40 seconds.
Augments
Tank Engine
We like the shape of this Augment but it’s felt warping and out of place as a Silver. Rather than nerf the pattern we moved it up to gold so its power was more appropriate relative to other offerings.
Rarity Changed from Silver to Gold.
Overflow
Same as Tank Engine.
Rarity Changed from Silver to Gold.
Bravery
We’re really happy about Bravery’s play pattern but it’s currently still feeling a little weak to us so we’re adding a bit more power into the option.
Bonus Stat Anvil: Unchanged
Bonus Starting Rerolls: 2 ⇒ 1
NEW: 2 Bonus rerolls on stat anvil rounds.
NEW: 100 Bonus Gold on legendary item rounds.
Arena QoL Changes and Bugfixes
Quality of Life
Hats are no longer gained when you eliminate a team, and are no longer lost on death. We’ve added more augments that interact with hats now so we’re updating this ahead of those new interactions coming in this patch.
Transmute and Mutation augments now display their transformed augment as the shown description.
Early exit while eliminated but combat is still ongoing has been re-enabled this patch.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused morphing champions such as Viego and Nidalee to not receive Fame Progression in Arena.
Fixed a bug that gave allies Kled’s Q.
ARAM Balance Changes
Hello ARAM Gods, Goddesses and Deities! In this patch we are trying to buff up the fighter class by giving some love to their commonly purchased items, and throwing a few bones at some of the lower pickrate assassin items. We expect most of the movement of this patch to be done there, but we do have a few targeted changes at some outliers like Ziggs, who rose to power after his recent changes on Summoner’s Rift, and Maokai, who has been a bit too wise in his item purchases. We hope you are enjoying the rotating maps and the new card system. Good luck, may your rolls always give you your main, and see you on ARAM!
Systems
Bilgewater Map
Bilgewater Cannon Knock Up Radius: 275 ⇒ 325
Bilgewater Cannon Flying Speed: 2300 ⇒ 2800
Bridge of Koeshin
We’ve decreased the trigger radius of the portal to cut down on accidentally going through them.
We’ve touched up the grid around each Nexus and the portals to TKTK
We’ve fixed the early ending function that enabled some champions to teleport enemies back to the start location.
Steraks Gage
Bonus AD from base AD: 45% ⇒ 50%
Bonus HP Shield Ratio: 60% ⇒ 70%
Stridebreaker
Active AD Ratio: 80% ⇒ 100%
Move Speed per champion hit: 35% ⇒ 45%
Youmuu’s Ghostblade
Out of Combat Move Speed: 20/10 ⇒ 30/15
Active Move Speed: 20/15% ⇒ 40/35%
ARAM Map Rotation
Map Rotation Odds
Now that the Spirit Blossom season has completed, we’ll be returning the weights of each map in the randomized map rotation to be equal for all ARAM map skins.
Map Selection Odds 50/25/25 in favor of Koeshin’s Crossing ⇒ Equal chance for each map to be selected (33.333333%) (you get the idea).
Returning Sanctum Items
We’re exploring bringing back past Mythic Variants, starting with Admiral Battle Bunny Miss Fortune and aligning them with the current MV Sanctum format (max 40 pulls), with the Mythic Variant Emote as an A-Tier drop.
The Mythic Variant Icon will be added to the Featured Section of the Mythic Shop for 5 Mythic Essence for the duration of the banner and enter the pool for daily rotations. However, similar to Prestige Skins that come back to the Mythic Shop, the Border & Border Icon will not be returning at this time as we want to ensure that the players who acquire them in their initial run have something special that sets it apart.
Doom Bots Unvaulted Skins
Since we announced Doom Bots would be returning we’ve seen some players of you examined the footage really closely and noticed some are sporting some vaulted skins. We’ve seen the asks for these skins so we’re going to unvault them to celebrate Doom Bots returning! The vaulted skins will be available for direct purchase starting in 25.17 and will be available until Doom Bots leaves at the end of 25.20.
Zombie Slayer Jinx – 1350 RP
Underworld Wukong – 1350 RP
Reaper Soraka – 1350 RP
Zombie Brand – 1820 RP
Little Demon Tristana – 1350 RP
We’re also working on adding some of the special Doom Bots chromas since what you see on the bots currently isn’t available. Those will be special event chromas in the featured section of the Mythic Shop for 35 ME. Expect those at a later patch (likely 25.18). They’ll also be added into the weekly rotating pool after Doom Bots goes away.
The following skins will get those:
Zombie Slayer Jinx
Underworld Wukong
Reaper Soraka
Zombie Brand
Bugfixes & QOL Changes
Quality of Life Changes
Custom Games
Custom Games are getting some updates! We’ve done a big re-work of the backend powering Custom Games and, with that, have slipped in some quality of life updates at the same time.
The ‘Play Again’ button finally works again!
League Voice will now work in Customs while spectators are disabled.
You can now change game modes without remaking the lobby, including transitioning to a matchmade game out of Customs.
You can now hide your lobby from the public Custom Games list.
Champ select works like other matchmade game modes, including proper ARAM for the Howling Abyss map.*
*Note: Random map rotation is not yet working for ARAM Customs, so the map will still be the Howling Abyss map for now.
Custom Games now have the option to remove the spectator delay for in-lobby spectators.*
*Note: Enabling this setting will disable the ability for friends to spectate your game from your friends list.
New Pick Order/Role Swap SFX
In 25.15 we started addressing some feedback about role/pick swap causing some confusion which led to some players accidentally agreeing to swaps that they didn’t want to. We already updated the visuals but now we’re also updating the SFX. So now they should visually look and sound distinct from each other.
VFX Updates
Since we’re going back to the base Summoner’s Rift Map we went back and updated the base turret animations so they’re at the quality.
Honor Progression
We’ve made some changes under the hood to honor progression so it should feel a little easier to achieve higher levels if you primarily play with friends or in non-SR modes.
Bugfixes
Fixed an issue where someone could cause a client to crash by sending messages with certain special characters.
Fixed an issue that would cause Briar to not immediately aggro on to the correct target after casting W.
Fixed an issue where Gangplank’s E could reset his and other enemies’ in-progress attacks.
Fixed an issue where when spectating or watching a replay the initial camp timers don’t show on the mini map regardless of settings.
Fixed an issue where the Death Recap was displaying Aatrox’s Passive as Physical damage instead of Magic.
Fixed an issue where Arcane Inventor Jayce’s Empowered R was missing SFX
Fixed an issue where certain runes would consider Kayle a ranged champion before learning her Ultimate.
Fixed an issue where Sett’s Q wouldn’t trigger Spear of Shojin.
Fixed an issue where Bel’veth’s E would only visually reduce the cooldown of her Q when using Navori Quickblades.
Fixed an issue where Aurora’s R tooltip was displaying the incorrect duration at higher ranks.
Fixed an issue where other players could sometimes see a debug icon on anyone playing Jayce.
Fixed an issue where Xin Zhao’s E could fail to cast when used on a target outside max range during R’s cast time.
Fixed an issue where if Veigo possessed a champion he could be dealt 2 critical strikes from a Sundered Sky.
Fixed an issue where it was possible to buy a Shattered Armguard directly from the shop.
Upcoming Skins & Chromas
The following skins will be released in this patch:
The following chromas will be released this patch:
This patch’s live gameplay updates aim to shake up the metagame, injecting new junglers into the pool, bringing up the weakest mage supports, nerfing some of the top end, and enabling a few alternate builds. We’re following up on Rek’Sai’s and Illaoi’s recent changes and giving them the power they deserve. We’re also fixing long-standing bugs with Singed and Rumble that made them substantially weaker on red side.
This is the last patch of the Season 2 ranked split, so if you’re looking to get that Victorious Fiora make sure to hit your ranked goals this patch! In other news, we’ve got an ARAM Clash coming with this patch so get those 5 stacks ready. There are also two variety skins flying, or rolling, into the action this patch, so check out Brick Toy Corki and Bolwing League Lillia! See you on the Rift!
Looking for more information on all things League of Legends? Check out our community-run wiki here!
Came to the wrong patch notes? You can find the TFT patch notes here!
Battle Pass Changes
We have some changes incoming for the Battle Pass starting with Season 3. Alongside some visual updates, we’ve adjusted the total number of core milestones down from 50 to 48 which should make the pass slightly faster to complete. The total rewards on the pass and BXP required per milestone are unchanged, just more compressed together. We hope you look forward to the upgrades we’re shipping in the new season.
SR Ranked Season 2 End
The Summoner’s Rift Ranked Season 2 2025 will end on the last date of patch 25.16, specifically, August 26 midnight, 23:59:59 Local Server Time.
Season 3, 2025 will begin Aug 27 noon, 12:00:00 Local Server Time, which is the first day of patch 25.17, end of Season 2 Ranked rewards will be granted soon after Season 3 starts.
Similar to Season 2 season start, Season 3 2025 will not reset your rank LP or Tier progression, only the Ranked Reward Mission (15 ranked games won) will be reset.
Passive damage to monsters increased. Q stun duration increased. R cooldown decreased.
The last nerfs to Brand’s ultimate smothered his flames a bit too much, so we’re giving him a bit more firepower. Additionally, now that Brand has some room for additional power we’re adding a spicier elite-skewed buff to his Sear’s stun duration, and giving him some power in the jungle to bring him back to viability there.
Gnar has been a sad little fluff ball in the top lane, and hasn’t even thrived in his natural, pro play habitat. To help our favorite prehistoric yordle we’re giving some love to his highest counterplay, highest satisfaction ability, to let him chuck wood and rocks for a better feeling early game. Additionally he really only has two spells when he’s a baby, so allowing him to use it more will make him smile, and who doesn’t love that smile.
Last patch’s Illaoi changes landed weaker than we intended, so we’re here to rectify that and give her the buff she deserves. We’re enabling her to set up shop in new locations more quickly, which is a common pain point for Illaoi players, and generally increasing her damage further since she gets fewer slams overall after lat patch’s Vessel changes.
Passive – Prophet of an Elder God
Total AD Ratio: 105% ⇒ 110%
Spawn Cooldown: 20 – 7.25 seconds (based on level) ⇒ 18 – 7 seconds (based on level)
Jarvan IV has been overperforming thanks to the combination of his ability to engage well and his tankiness. We want to level the playing field in the jungle this patch, so we’re lowering his armor over game time to create clearer windows of vulnerability for his opponents to take advantage of.
AD growth increased. E damage AP scaling increased.
Kalista has finally fallen off of the pro play radar, which gives us room to buff her back up for everyone else. We’re steering clear of her first 3 levels, as her former extreme lane dominance is what caused her woes in the first place. Instead, we’re buffing her late laning phase, second item power spike, and beyond in hopes of giving her a fighting chance in solo queue while giving her opponents a fighting chance in lane. While AP may seem like an odd buff, it represents an additional 9-13.5 damage per Rend stack due to Rageblade’s 30 AP. Also, remember that the recent Blade of the Ruined King buff was meaningful for her as well, so if it’s been a while since you last played Kalista, give her a try!
E cooldown increased, damage and shield decreased.
Lulu has proven to be extremely resilient to nerfs and is still a top support. We’re looking to open up more weaknesses in her early laning phase with these nerfs, giving aggressive players more room to take an early advantage before Lulu’s carry scales up.
When Kraken Slayer first came out, we excluded Alpha Strike from stacking it but as it’s no longer a mythic item, those burst damage concerns aren’t nearly as pressing, so we’re enabling the item synergy and making Terminus also stack on each of these pseudo-attacks.
Q – Alpha Strike
On-Hit Synergy: Alpha Strike now stacks Kraken Slayer and Terminus.
To open up more build options on Mordekaiser, we’re giving him some bonus attack damage ratios aimed at his most melee damage output. This will be a direct buff to him every time he ults, but the main intent is to bring back some AD builds and splashes of options like Sterak’s Gage. In short, bonus attack damage will make his mace smashes deal more damage.
Morgana is in a pretty sad state right now and could use some power in all three of her roles. We’re looking to make her main damaging ability more reliable by letting her whittle down healthier targets. This is a riskier change that may not end up having the power impact that we want so if Morgana doesn’t end up stronger as a result of these changes, we’ll quickly follow up with reliable buffs.
We’re buffing Nautilus jungle with the hope of making him a viable tank jungler like he was in times of old. We’re changing his monster-specific damage to make him less reliant on optimizing Riptide’s multi-hits, which should also make him more approachable for those just trying him out and not requiring as much optimization, while still making it beneficial to maximize repeated hits for those that have practiced his clear.
E – Riptide
Monster Damage Modifier: 150% ⇒ The first hit of E will deal 125/165/205/245/285 (+ 50% AP) bonus damage to monsters
Nocturne’s currently one of the winningest junglers so we’re looking to nerf him in this patch. With Experimental Hexplate getting buffed, we’re accounting for that by swinging a bit harder than we normally would have, taking out a moderate mix of damage and durability.
Q damage increased. W bonus attack speed increased.
Qiyana is already decently strong in the right hands, but she’s quite unpopular and sports a low ban rate unfitting for a queen like her. To help her out, we’re buffing her early damage on her Q and making her early game jungle clear and auto weaving feel a bit cleaner by buffing her W attack speed.
Last patch’s Rek’Sai changes left her deeper underground than we wanted, so we’re here to deliver some buffs aimed at her early clear, which is not in the best state right now. We’re also fixing a long-standing tunnel bug that could leave her far from where she wanted to be and a more recently-introduced bug that allowed her to fail a Q-attack.
Base Stats
Base Attack Damage: 58 ⇒ 62
Bugfixes
Q – Queen’s Wrath: No longer fails to deal damage if attacking at the tail-end of the buff.
E – Tunnel: No longer travels to a different location from the tunnel exit
Q damage decreased. Q and R QoL improvements, power impacting bugfixes.
In this patch we’re fixing a long-standing set of issues with Rumble that caused him to deal less damage to champions when played on the red side. In addition, we’re refactoring his Flamespitter to work more like a true damage over time effect. Each hit will light his target on fire and they’ll take another two ticks of damage in all contexts, which is a buff to the tail end of the spell. We’re also retiming The Equalizer to keep each zone hot for exactly as long as the visuals persist on the map, which makes the beginning of his ult more responsive and makes the end remain dangerous for longer.
As these changes will result in substantial buffs in your average game, we’re delivering a preemptive nerf to Flamespitter’s damage, which should still leave him in a stronger position than before these changes and hopefully make the experience of playing him much more consistent.
Q – Flamespitter
Damage over 3 Seconds: 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 110% AP) (+ 6/6.8/7.6/8.4/9.2% target max HP) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 100% AP) (+ 6/6.5/7/7.5/8% target max HP)
Maximum Burn Duration: 3 seconds ⇒ 3.5 seconds
No longer occasionally fails to apply the full debuff duration
Red team no longer deals delayed damage and/or less damage to champions
Debuff no longer checks for targetability before dealing damage
Debuff no longer checks for 700u proximity to Rumble before dealing damage
R – The Equalizer
Tick Rate: 0.5 seconds ⇒ 0.25 seconds
Now lasts the full duration across the entire damaging zone
Now more rapidly deals damage when initially dropped.
Red team no longer deals delayed damage and/or less damage to champions.
Shaco’s ban rate has been creeping up, so we’re going to tap him down in a few areas that should hopefully reduce the frustration of playing against him, like his repeated invisibility on Q. Right now his AP build is better than the AD alternative, but AD is still his primary build, so we’re going to adjust both.
Similar to Rumble, we’ve fixed the bug that caused Singed to do delayed/less damage when on red side. While we were at it, we also increased the debuff refresh rate, making it deal more damage on average, as it’s more likely that Singed will refresh the poison duration on his opponents.
Q – Poison Trail
While on the Red side, Singed no longer deals delayed damage and/or less damage to champions.
Passive health loss decreased. E armor shred increased. R damage increased.
AD Sion hasn’t been in a good spot as of late, so we’re here to help him out. We’re starting by reverting Sion’s passive tickrate back to what it was before we nerfed it, giving him more time to beat people to death with his fists, and allowing his damage to be more potent when he snipes someone with an E. Finally, we also want the train’s impact to be all the more explosive by increasing his bonus AD Ratio on his R. While we know these changes may be broadly power positive, we targeted areas that make AD Sion happier in particular.
Passive – Glory in Death
Health Lost per Tick: 2.3 – 24.4 (based on level) ⇒ 2 – 19 (based on level)
E – Roar of the Slayer
Armor Reduction: 20% ⇒ 25%
R – Unstoppable Onslaught
Bonus AD Ratio (Based on Travel Time): 40 – 80% ⇒ 60 – 120%
Sylas is a reasonably popular jungler, despite the fact that he isn’t really able to jungle effectively. To help the players that want to play him there we’re re-visiting his ability to clear the jungle by letting him whip his chains around and slay jungle camps.
W attack speed decreased late, cooldown increased.
Trundle is pummeling all other junglers at all ranks in addition to being highly prevalent in pro play, so we need to take some power out of his direct combat potential. Frozen Domain is going up in cooldown to create clearer windows when you can and can’t fight him, alongside a tap down to his attack speed increase per rank.
Q damage decreased. W damage increased late. E damage decreased. Bugfix.
We’re tweaking Varus this patch in order to make him stronger in the hands of the average player while making him weaker in pro play. To achieve this, we’re nerfing lethality Varus, as it’s his primary pro build, and buffing his on-hit builds as compensation.
Attack Speed growth decreased. Q nerfed against monsters and buffed against non-monsters.
Viego has crept back up to the top spot in the jungle due in part to the recent Kraken Slayer buffs. Instead of a straight forward nerf we’re going to be shifting some of his power from the jungle into solo lanes, somewhere many players used to play him back when he came out. We’re doing this by making his Q more useful against champions and minions while making it do a bit less to jungle monsters.
Base AD increased. Passive damage decreased early.
Warwick’s easy to pick up and play which is reflected in his moderately high win rate typical of an approachable jungler. However, in top lane, he’s too strong, which can lead to very frustrating experiences where he either can be killed by an all-in or simply sustains back up out of reach. We’re shifting some power from his early game passive into his base attack damage in order to weaken his early game resourceless healing, while leaving his damage and Q healing intact, or even buffed in some cases. We intend for these changes to be neutral for Warwick jungle but power negative for top lane.
Base Stats
Base Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 65
Passive – Eternal Hunger
Bonus On-Hit Damage: 12 – 46 (based on level) ⇒ 6 – 46 (based on level)
Xin Zhao is currently one of, if not, the best junglers in the game, so we’re taking away some of his damage against champions and monsters as well as some of his deceptively strong durability.
Q damage decreased. W heal and shield power and on-hit heal decreased.
Yuumi has continued to be resilient to her recent nerfs, so we’re back to close the book on the cat. And by close the book, we really just mean nerf her to an appropriate power level by making her less of a late game eventuality.
Zyra is wilting a bit at the moment, falling below her historically healthy power levels. To help her out we’re looking to water her with buffs that are geared around her high moment roots into Stranglethorns to ensure she still provides the teamfighting prowess she’s known for. The late game focused R buff is meant to be a small nudge toward Zyra mid but we know there’s more work to be done there before she feels like she can put down roots there.
E – Grasping Roots
Cooldown: 12 seconds ⇒ 11 seconds
R – Stranglethorns
Base Damage: 180 / 265 / 350 ⇒ 200 / 300 / 400
Items
Experimental Hexplate
Experimental Hexplate has been a very niche item hard-bound to specific champions (hello Nocturne). We’d like to open it up to more users, so we’re giving it some strong buffs to its empowered state.
Overdrive Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 50%
Overdrive Movement Speed: 15% ⇒ 20%
Baron Nashor
When we removed Baron’s health regen in the last patch, we overlooked the extra regen that got added to him for every minute of game time. We’ve found that sneaky stat allocation and squashed it, so now Baron really won’t regenerate more health mid-combat. As with last time, we’re compensating his health to make the average Baron fight take about the same amount of time.
Base Health: 11,500 ⇒ 11,800
Health per Minute: 180 ⇒ 190
Health Regeneration per second gained every Minute: 0.375 ⇒ 0
Arena
Our focus for this patch is on giving fighters some much-needed love, primarily through their items, reducing excessive movement speed, as well as a rework on the infamous Mystic Punch. We’re also bringing some nice quality-of-life changes that players have been asking for.
Shopping Phase
We heard that many of you feel like you don’t have enough time to beat up our poor target dummy and we’re here to help. Starting this patch the target dummy will spawn shortly into the shopping phase, and damaging the dummy will no longer prevent you from undoing your item purchases.
Target dummies will now spawn 5 seconds into the shopping phase regardless of if the team has finished shopping.
You can now undo your item purchase at any time during the shopping phase, but as soon as combat starts you’ll need to sell your items like normal if you want something else.
Targeting other champions during the shopping phase will also update your tab scoreboard to scout their team. Scouting via the team panels on the right side will automatically target the first player in that team.
Early Exit
Sometimes you lose, we’ve all been there (except me), and sometimes you want to quickly get to your next game without seeing how everyone else is doing. Now when your team is eliminated you’ll have the option to skip waiting for other combats to end, though you should know your post game stats might be inaccurate until combats end and you’ll have to wait for your Fame to come in. We’re also removing the Progression tab from your post game screen so you’ll land on the scoreboard immediately, to save you from one more click to jump right back into the queue.
When your combat ends and your team is eliminated, you can leave right away.
Ezreal’s looking a little sad when compared to other ADCs, so we’re giving him some increased damage to help keep up. Meanwhile we’re also bringing down some of the most extreme ADC prismatics.
Rakan relies a lot on his teammate and we want to make sure he isn’t letting them down. This should move him closer to an equal relationship with them (but not with Xayah).
P Shield basic attacks and ability hits CD refund 1 ⇒ 2s
Renata can have some exciting builds with her passive, so we think it can at least match the rest of League of Legends. We know that this can get out of hand so we’ll be keeping an eye on it in case we need to follow up.
P AP ratio increased from 1% per 100 AP ⇒ 2% per 100 AP (matches SR)
Qiyana requires a fair bit of skill, though she struggles a bit when she can’t burst down a target. We want to adjust some of her tools for extended fights, that should still let her take down a squishy target, while helping her hold her own against a more durable target.
Ziggs can often feel a bit unassailable, so we want to bring down some of the frustration that he brings without taking him out of the picture completely.
Zilean started at the bottom, and now he’s here. When we reworked his passive for Arena, we didn’t expect it to transform him from one of the weakest champions to one of the strongest, but as anyone who has played with/against a decent Zilean player can attest, he makes for a strong ally. We want to walk back his passive just a tad and see where that puts him.
Passive grants 1 level every 2 ⇒ 3 rounds
Augments and Anvils
Mystic Punch
Mystic Punch is a fan favorite and we like how it functions on most champions; however, when it becomes a “one card combo” and can single-handedly win several champions the game, we need to step in and make adjustments. This should still allow for fun On-Hit synergies, while bringing down the most abusive cases when used with a short cooldown CC.
Change from On-hit 1.25s CD refund on all abilities ⇒ On-hit 15% remaining CD on all abilities.
Blunt Force
When we buffed EscAPADe we left Blunt Force out in the dust. We’re here to help keep it ahead.
AD amp : 15 ⇒ 20%
Quest: Three Sacred Treasures
Yunara’s a BIT strong when she completes this quest. She should feel good about completing it but we might have gone a bit too far. We’re pulling back some power and making sure this isn’t offered in the later rounds.
AD ratio 100% ⇒ 75%
AP ratio 75% ⇒ 60%
Now only offered on rounds 1-5
Move Speed Prismatic Stat Shard
We’re looking to pull out some of the extreme ends of movement speed that can over make Arena feel a bit too chaotic. Extreme speed should still be possible, but not be as common unless you have the right mix of augments.
Movement Speed: 22.5% ⇒ 18%
Reduce size by 10%
Items
Pyromancer’s Cloak
Fire Starter has held a bit too much of this of the item’s power when that should be a secondary effect.
Fire Starter Damage per level lowered from 200 – 450 ⇒ 100 – 350
Black Hole Gauntlet
Black Hole Gauntlet feels like a bit of a high roll for tanks, and makes it so they get a bit too much free damage, while also being frustrating to play against. We want to bring down some tank damage and this feels like a reasonable place to start.
Slow reduced from 35% ⇒ 30%
Damage per sec HP ratio reduced from 6.5% ⇒ 5%
Sunfire Cape
Sunfire damage can also get a bit nutty at high health pools. We don’t want to remove tanks, and it should still be a go-to damage source; we just want to bring it a bit more in line.
AoE damage 4% total HP ⇒ 4% bonus HP
Hollow Radiance
Bringing Hollow Radiance to the same level as Sunfire, the Armor / Magic Resist distinction matters a bit less and its on-kill trigger isn’t the most common thing to take advantage of, so we think these both should look a bit more similar.
3% total HP ⇒ 4% bonus HP (matches sunfire)
Fighter Item buffs
Arena has a number of multipliers, letting your damage or durability reach crazy highs. Fighters tend to struggle because they need a mix of things, so we feel like their items are a space where they can get a bit of everything they need.
Sterak’s Gage: Shield strength 60% ⇒ 70% bonus AD
Overlord’s Bloodmail: bonus AD from missing HP 15% ⇒ 17.5%
Eclipse: 6% max health physical damage ⇒ 8% max health physical damage
Eclipse Shield: 40% AD for melees ⇒ 50% AD for melees
Reaper’s is great for champions who want high attack speed, but we think it goes a bit over the line. By reducing its movement speed and attack speed multiplier we hope to bring it more in line with other prismatic items without robbing its identity.
Bonus Attackspeed reduced from 25% ⇒ 15%
Movement Speed reduced: 10% ⇒ 5%
Move Speed reduction
We said we were looking to tap down some unneeded Movement Speed in prismatic items. This is them:
Runecarver: Movement Speed reduced 8% ⇒ 4%
Mirage Blade: Movement Speed reduced 12% ⇒ 6%
Galeforce: Movement Speed reduced 12% ⇒ 6%
Decapitator: Movement Speed reduced 12% ⇒ 6%
Darksteel Talon: Movement Speed reduced 10% ⇒ 5%
Arena Bugfixes
If you sell one of the items for Quest: Three Sacred Treasures you now lose your quest progress.
Goredrinker, now correctly has a cast time.
Knight’s Vow, no longer loses the link on some rounds.
Mel’s interaction with her Rebuttal (W) and Erosion augment no longer reduces enemy resistances to 0
ARAM Clash
The ARAM Cup will be happening this patch! Grab your 5 stacks and get ready to rumble!
Registration Begins: August 11 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
Tournament Dates: August 16 and 17 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)
If you have any questions or you’re just looking for the full 2025 Clash schedule, make sure to check out the Clash FAQ support page.
Bugfixes & QoL Changes
QoL Changes
Champ Select Improvement: Swapping will be disabled during the last 5 seconds of champ select (before game start). This is to avoid mis-clicks and unintended decisions made in a rush.
Vladimir passive now also restores HP gained from his passive if he is in the fountain.
Rumble’s Ability Icons now displays the generated heat in the UI when the setting “Show Spell Costs” is enabled.
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug where Viego gets a popup notification every time he possesses a champion with a popup such as Kai’sa or Sentinel Graves.
Fixed a bug that caused Sixth Sense to sometimes stop working if the player was dead while the rune came off of cooldown.
Fixed a bug that caused Vladimir’s recall VFX to be audible regardless of the camera’s current position.
Fixed a bug that caused Wukong’s E to sometimes cancel enemy in-progress attacks.
Fixed a bug that caused Yunara’s Q to apply Rylai’s to the main target.
Fixed a bug that caused Mel to gain the benefit of multiple buffs of one drake if she had killed one with a spell/ability reflected by her W.
Fixed a bug that caused Fiora’s ultimate healing zone to not be created when damage from Sheen had slain an enemy.
Fixed a bug that caused Viego to retain bonus Armor and MR from Kled’s dismounted form after Possession had ended.
Fixed a bug that caused Seraphine’s W empowered shield to grant invincibility to Seraphine and her allies if the shield amount is two times higher than the receiving damage.
Fixed a bug that caused Janna’s old Passive icon to show in the Death Recap screen.
Fixed a bug that caused Yunara’s Q VFX to split when attacking certain units.
Fixed a bug that caused Voidgrubs to not count toward Feats if the last Grub was stolen.
Fixed a bug that caused Gwen to rubberband inside of Yorick’s W if she case her own W to deny the knockback.
Fixed a bug that caused Voidgrub damage to turrets to prevent Viego from going invisible inside of his E.
Fixed a bug that caused Sion’s R to be stoppable by Sett’s R.
Xin Zhao is finally getting his long-awaited champion visual update and Riot has just provided us with a first look into what we can expect. He is getting a complete update to his champion model, as well as some slick new animations and, of course, some new skins. Demacia fans rejoice! Check out the new Xin Zhao update trailer below.
We now have official gameplay footage of Borderlands 4 newest playable character, Amon! A brawler Forgenight with double wielding axes who is full of hack-and-slash fun. Check out the gameplay overview video and get prepared to slaughter the Borderlands 4 world with his robotic and mele-powered abilities.
If you love running headfirst into battle, soaking up damage and dishing it out in equal measure, you’d do well to check out Amon the Forgeknight, one of the four all-new Vault Hunters wreaking havoc on Kairos in Borderlands 4! In addition to being a resilient frontliner, Amon has a mechanically complex set of Action Skills with primary and secondary functions that’ll tickle the cortexes of even the most experienced players.
Watch the Amon Gameplay Overview video above to watch Amon tear his enemies asunder with an arsenal of Forgeweapons, which take form via the Forgedrones stored within Amon’s cybernetic-enhanced beefcake body. Amon can attack or defend as needed, ready to pulverize enemies with a Forgehammer, slice them in twain with Forgeaxes, soak up damage with a Forgeshield, and much, much more.
Check out the full rundown of his abilities and three skill trees on the Amon Vault Hunter page nested within the Game Info page. Here’s a high-level overview of the core Action Skills that Amon can unleash:
Crucible: Wield the elemental might of fire and ice with Amon’s twin Forgeaxes, which deal Incendiary or Cryo damage by default, have multiple charges, and can be picked up to reduce their cooldown. The Forgeaxes make any damaged target Primed, causing them to explode in a damaging, bloody mess when killed.
Scourge: Charge headlong into the fray as Amon summons his Forgeshield, which will soak up incoming damage and fill up a Vengeance Meter. Once you’ve absorbed the brunt of the incoming hurt, you can return the favor by firing back a Forgewave that consumes Vengeance to deal freezing Cryo damage.
Onslaughter: Wallop your foes in the face with Amon’s Forgefist, which dashes to your target to unleash an explosive Rocket Punch. The force of this Incendiary Melee Damage impact will Stagger most enemies, leaving them dazed so you can finish them off with a flurry of bullets.
Amon’s Trait Forgeskill is where things really heat up, as it grants a secondary Action Skill depending on his equipped core Action Skill. Forgeskills have their own cooldown separate from their respective Action Skill, adding an extra layer of complexity to Amon’s damage output as you master his cooldown rotations during battle. Here are Amon’s Forgeskills, all of which can be transformed by the Capstone abilities at the end of his skill trees:
Double-Edge (Crucible Action Skill equipped): Throw a twinned Forgeaxe, dealing Cryo Damage to enemies it passes through and returning to Amon, dealing Incendiary Melee Damage on the way back.
Firewall (Scourge Action Skill equipped): Deploy a Firewall that absorbs enemy projectiles, and grants friendly projectiles that pass through it increased damage and velocity. Absorbed damage is converted into Vengeance if Scourge is active, and enemies near Firewall get burned with Incendiary damage over time.
Molten Slam (Onslaughter Action Skill equipped): Slam a Molten Forgehammer into the ground, dealing Incendiary damage to enemies in a large area.
If you haven’t seen them already, make sure to peruse the Vex Vault Hunter and Rafa Vault Hunter pages with all of their Action Skill and skill tree information, then keep your eyes peeled for the Harlowe Vault Hunter pages in the coming weeks.
Borderlands 4 is now available for pre-purchase! We’re so excited that you’ll all be crash-landing on Kairos soon; stay tuned for more reveals ahead of launch!
The upcoming changes included in Patch 25.16 are out, with numerous champion buffs and nerfs across many champions. Take a look at the current patch 25.15 notes here.
Balance Strategy
-As mentioned yesterday, heading into the back half of the year where things are pretty well balanced, we’re going to be spending a lot more time trying to find opportunistic alt builds, alternate roles and other things that feel like opportunities for players to express creativity.
-If you have any suggestions for builds or roles that could use a little bit of love, earflicks that can be fixed, we’d love to hear them.
-This also can include things where it might take a little more time to land a more involved gameplay change to them (like Rek’Sai’s returning of E damage, or improving clarity and counterplay of Illaoi’s E)
-There are a multitude of such changes in the patch, (better balance of WW JG vs Top, Lane Viego, AD Morde, Qiyana JG, AD Sion, JG Sylas, etc.) – In the meantime, our high level strategy is to be more nerf heavy on the jungle role, as we think the role is too strong overall and are avoiding net buffing it over time.
Sentiment on the game is too balanced
-Have heard a bunch of sentiment recently around the game being too balanced.
-Often, people feeling this way can feel like the game feels the same patch over patch, TFT can sometimes feel like this when the balance team is doing too good of a job!
-A great problem to have, but also a real indicator of some opportunities for us – When the game is in a pretty balanced state, we’re particularly interested in getting champions into multiple roles (in a way that doesn’t break the game) that can add a bit of freshness back.
-Things like Nautilus Jungle, AD Morde, Viego mid (a bit more speculative), Qiyana Jungle, Sylas jungle, AD Sion, etc.
-These opportunities are often hard to prioritize when we need to put balance fires out.
-At the same time, we need to be a bit careful of over-correcting; most of this sentiment is coming from people who play League for most of the day (streamers, high ELO players) and will be quite vocal.
-We need to be mindful of regular players too, who don’t play as often and have communicated to us that they are more sensitive to rate of change.
-To set some expectations though, outside of Season Starts, we don’t have plans to do large shakeups to the game, as players have expressed that rate of change being high in these periods is particularly damaging to new players, reviving players, etc.
Yunara
-Overall Yunara has landed in a really great spot, she’s seeing a little bit of Pro Play, while being amongst the most popular champs in role, without significant banrate. We’re really happy y’all are enjoying her so much!
-Her mastery growth after playing several games on her is pretty high, so just stick out that early learning curve.
-Over-time, her Kraken and BORK builds have started to edge out Yun-Tal, especially at higher skill levels.
-We’re not going to target changes to her for now, and want to observe a bit more to see how her build and skew plays out.
Shaco
-Shaco has had an extremely high banrate for a pretty extended period of time at this point
-We’re looking to bring down his frustration overall and he doesn’t need to be close to 50 to be a satisfying champion for his audience
Systems
-Hexplate has been a pretty unpopular item for a long while and mostly been tuned around Nocturne (with some fringe Olaf use too)
-We’re giving it a buff and a compensation nerf to an already strong Nocturne
-Baron’s HP regen is going away for real this time… missing your smites because of in-fight regen hopefully a thing of the past now?
Last Patch Follow-up
In an effort to improve Illaoi’s gameplay around the curse (low satisfaction for Illaoi, high frustration for opponents), the changes landed a little harder than intended, so walking it back a tiny bit. We’ve noted some of the complaints around E and repeated slams, but didn’t quite have time to address it this patch.
Rek’Sai also landed a little weaker than intended, though her E max first (which was historically quite good) is back to being pretty strong and we’re hoping her players enjoy the E true damage back.
Kalista has finally had her power level catch up to her Pro Presence. The main reason players would pick her is to dominate laning phase and so we want to add a bit more power into her later game to add a bit of regular play power without spiking her immediately back into Pro.
Finally, Yuumi is still at highs after her changes a few patches ago didn’t quite land as we’d like. We’re taking a bit more of a swing here as she is still very performant (more than performant enough to meet her goals for new players)
Champion Buffs
Brand
Gnar
Illaoi
(Game) Master Yi
Morgana
Nautilus (Jungle)
Qiyana (Jungle/Mid)
Rek’sai
Sion (AD)
Sylas (Jungle)
Zyra
Champion Nerfs
Jarvan IV
Lulu
Nocturne
Rell (yes, Relly Relly)
Shaco
Trundle
Xin Zhao
Yuumi
Champion Adjustments
Mordekaiser (AD)
Varus (Lethality vs On-hit)
Viego (Jungle vs. Mid)
Warwick (Top vs. Jungle)
System Buffs
Experimental ULTplate
System Adjustments
My Itty Bitty Baby Baron Boi and his little grabby hands (Baron Nashor)
Time to soak in some Hot Springs vibes and read through what all we got coming in 25.15! This patch we have our usual balance changes for both SR, ARAM, and a handful of bug fixes! We’ve also got something new that we’re calling “Champion Ability Previews” where you’re able to preview champion kits before and after you select for a refresher if it’s been a minute. Try it out and let us know what you think!
Our live balance changes contain small-scale patchwork for Illaoi to reduce the frustration of playing around the Vessel mechanic and for Rek’Sai to return the true damage to her E. Otherwise, we’re removing Baron Nashor’s in-combat HP regen to make Smites more consistent, nerfing the top 3 tank supports, and following up on the best-performing Kraken Slayer and Blade of the Ruined King users.
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Ability Previews
Ability previews are coming to champion select in all draft modes and ARAM starting this patch. The idea is to offer players a convenient method of refreshing their knowledge of League’s evolving champion roster without needing to leave the client. Whether it’s learning a new champion, brushing up on an unfamiliar kit, or studying the enemy team’s composition, hovering over the champion portrait for a couple seconds gives you an easy way to preview that champion’s play style.
Once you lock in, you can use the remaining time to review your champion abilities and prepare for the game to come. Experienced players who want fewer distractions on the champion select screen can elect to toggle the feature off in their Settings.
Battle of Koeshin / Koeshin’s Courtyard
You can now enter the Courtyard regardless of how much you’ve played of the Battle of Koeshin meta-game! The menu option should be available in the Battle of Koeshin meta-game.
We saw some of the feedback about preferring to experience the Courtyard without being locked behind completing all the levels of Battle of Koeshin so we’ve changed those requirements. Some of you are lovers and not fighters and we get that.
Known Issues
Character models can sometimes disappear. (We’ve fixed a few instances of this but it can still happen in specific circumstances)
Systems
Baron Nashor
Baron Nashor has passive health regen, which means his health can tick over your Smite, Consume, Feast, etc. and rob you of an otherwise well-timed kill. Let’s not have him do that. As compensation, he’s receiving 100 base HP, which should make baron takes play out in a similar amount of time.
Base Stats
Health Regen per 5: 75 ⇒ 0
Base Health: 11400 ⇒ 11500
Out of Combat Regen: unchanged
Champions
Alistar
Base Armor reduced.
Alistar has been one of the strongest support tanks for a while, whether you’re measuring pros or not. In order to create a more equitable support ecosystem, we’re delivering a nerf. While 7 armor may seem like a drastic change, recent armor nerfs to Braum and Leona both showed that these champions are very resilient to this type of change. We’ll of course be monitoring this change to ensure it hits our desired mark here.
Base Stats
Base Armor: 47 ⇒ 40
Bel’Veth
Passive Attack Speed increased at levels 2-18. Q damage to champions decreased.
Bel’Veth was a huge winner of last patch’s Kraken Slayer and Blade of the Ruined King changes. While she deserves some nerfs to her early PVP power, we’d also like to help her fulfill her late game scaling fantasy by increasing her passive’s stack value.
Damage to Champions: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+ 100% total AD) ⇒ 0 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 (+ 100% total AD)
Total Damage to Monsters: 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 (+ 100% total AD) (Unchanged)
Braum
Base Armor and Armor Growth decreased.
Braum’s armor nerf last patch was significantly less impactful than we expected so he’s still pretty much the best solo queue tank. We’re going to give him one more adjustment with the goal of landing his power in a more appropriate place.
Base Stats
Base Armor: 42 ⇒ 35
Armor Growth: 5.2 ⇒ 5
Corki
Q damage formula adjusted. R damage increased.
We’re delivering some adjustments to Corki with the intent of pushing him toward squishier high-AD builds and slightly toning down his extremely potent late-laning phase spike while still maintaining his presence as a strong laner.
We’re delivering some Illaoi adjustments with the goal of reducing her more frustrating outputs for her opponents. No longer will you have to dodge freshly-spawning tentacles for a full ten seconds. In its stead, we’re giving Illaoi some deserved extra power by making her E overall more responsive and generally increasing her damage. Most notably, she will now get two slams from Test of Spirit’s first phase before level 7. Our desire for this patch is a small net power increase and as always we’ll measure how this lands to ensure we’ve hit that goal.
Vessel-spawned tentacles now attack the vessel about 1 second sooner.
Irelia
Health Regen decreased.
Unsurprisingly, Irelia’s power level has taken off between her recent direct buffs and last patch’s Blade of the Ruined King changes. We’re attacking her early health regen once again, as that stat is typically skewed toward mid lane, where she can stand to lose a little more power.
Base Stats
Health Regen: 6 ⇒ 3.5
Kled
Passive dismounted resistances increased.
Kled’s builds and overall shape landed extremely well after the .14 changes, but he’s looking a little on the weak side. We’re giving him a bit more dismounted durability, especially in the very early parts of the game and much later on in teamfights, to ensure that he can actually remount in an appropriate amount of time.
Passive – Skaarl, the Cowardly Lizard
Dismounted Resistances: 1 – 2% bonus HP (based on number of nearby enemy champions) ⇒ 4 (+ 1% bonus HP) – 10 (+ 2.5% bonus HP) (based on number of nearby enemy champions)
Master Yi
Q damage reduced for low AD builds.
As with Bel’Veth, Master Yi was a big winner from Blade of the Ruined King’s and Kraken Slayer’s buffs so we need to take him down a peg to remain balanced. We’re taking down some of his Alpha Strike burst in low-AD builds in order to put his higher AD crit builds closer to high AS on-hit builds.
Nilah is the winningest bot laner in League of Legends, and while someone has to be on top, she’s ahead by a little more than we think is reasonable. We’re delivering what we expect to be a small overall nerf while increasing her early game agency.
Base Stats
Base AD: 58 ⇒ 60
Attack Speed Growth: 3% ⇒ 2.25%
Pantheon
Q monster damage decreased.
Pantheon’s most optimal role has been Jungle for a few patches in a row now. We’re looking to reduce its viability slightly as it’s been dominant and has taken some of the shine from his Top lane.
Q – Comet Spear
Monster Damage: 105% ⇒ 90%
Quinn
Q damage decreased.
Quinn’s most effective builds (namely Statikk Shiv and Symbiotic Soles) have caught on and she’s ultimately a little too performant. We’re taking a stab at her strength in the later laning phase, weakening her wave clear by asking her to wait a little longer to access all that area of effect power while preserving her auto-attack damage.
Base Armor and Armor Growth decreased. W knock up lockout decreased at higher ranks. E deals adjusted true damage. R adjusted.
Rek’Sai’s been sad with her lack of true damage, so we’re adding it back so that Rek’Sai players can experience all three pretty text colors again. We’re trying to nudge her toward a more complete fighter pattern by making her ultimate not necessarily an execute, giving her more casts of Furious Bite, and giving her access to better late-game crowd control. We’re also delivering some quality of life that should make her ultimate’s usability better and soften Furious Bite’s failure cases. The nerfs you see in this patch are here to compensate for the new powers she’s getting but our overall goal is for Rek’Sai to be stronger than before.
Cooldown on interrupted cast from target dying: 10 ⇒ 5
Now resets W cooldown on cast.
Rell
W shield decreased.
Rell is right up there with Alistar and Braum as one of the best tank supports in the game, and just like those two, we’re delivering some nerfs to make room for other supports to shine. We’re looking to make her durability a little less guaranteed with this change.
We’ve seen a lot of feedback around the Death Screen in ARAM so this patch we’re making some changes to it. We’ve reduced the intensity of both the color and the distortion of the effect so it should no longer be as harsh of a visual shift when you’ve met your demise.
Systems
Removed the Movement Speed boost near Spirit Blossom portals.
Bilge Plants shield duration and potency increased by 50%.
Can no longer be used to teleport enemies back to your start location.
ARURF
ARURF is back! It takes place on the Spirit Blossom map with all of its changes and has the new ARAM card system!
Champion balance has been adjusted from previous URF releases and we’ll be keeping a close eye on their impact on the game.
Katarina
Damage Dealt:105% ⇒ 110%
Nidalee
Damage Dealt:105% ⇒ 110%
Senna
Damage Dealt:100% ⇒ 110%
Skarner
Damage Dealt:100% ⇒ 110%
Shielding:100% ⇒ 110%
Annie
Damage Taken:105% ⇒ 110%
Shielding:100% ⇒ 90%
Sanctum and Mythic Shop
New Mythic Variant in the Sanctum
The new Mythic Variant, After Hours Spirit Blossom Springs Ahri, is now available in the Sanctum for a period of time!
For more information about the Sanctum please check out our support article.
New Prestige in the Mythic Shop
With 25.15 Prestige Spirit Blossom Springs Aphelios will be arriving into the Mythic Shop for 150 Mythic Essence! He’ll be in the shop until 25.17 so grab him while you can!
This also means that Prestige Battle Academia Qiyana will be leaving, so you have a few more hours to snag her if you haven’t yet!
Surrender and Remake vote timeouts have been reduced from 60 seconds to 25 seconds.
We’ve updated the visuals of Role Swap to help differentiate it from Pick Swap to cut down on mistaking one for the other.
General Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where Heimerdinger’s grenade damage would not cause his turrets to change aggro at the very edge of turrets’ range.
Fixed an issue where Axiom Arc was refunding double for Yunara’s R.
Fixed an issue where using the Undo button could cause Kled to end up with the wrong spells while mounted.
Fixed an issue where Ambessa could fail to gain a Conquerer stack from her R.
Fixed an issue where some debug text could appear in Champion Select when you have a chat restriction.
Fixed an issue where Yunara would fail to refresh her Hail of Blades stack when her Q or RE would cancel an auto attack.
Fixed an issue where Shadowflame wouldn’t trigger Yunara’s Passive for critical damage.
Fixed an issue where Guardian Angel’s VFX would persist after selling the item.
Fixed an issue where if Vayne would Flash while casting E she would end facing the wrong direction.
Fixed an issue where Legend: Haste on Fiddlesticks failed to reduce the duration before a target could be feared again.
Fixed an issue where Zoe’s E could leave a permanent trap on the minimap.
Fixed an issue where Smolder would have a delay on his auto attack after using Q.
Fixed an issue where Yunara’s W had an incorrect numerical tooltip in her expanded tooltip in Chinese.
Fixed an issue where hitting a jungle plant with an active spellblade effect would remove the VFX and the buff icon.
Fixed multiple issues where multiple issues would occur when Mel used her W to reflect Urgot’s R and cast her R at the same time.
Fixed an issue where if Taric survived Mordekaiser’s R while attached to any champion within range of W, that ally would be tethered even when out of range.
Fixed an issue where Yone’s Q1 and Q2 would critically hit all targets if the first target hit was a critical. It should now be correctly calculated for each hit.
Fixed an issue where Viktor’s R and Smolder’s E damage would not be blocked by spell shields but still consume them.
Fixed an issue where Sion’s R could be stopped by Sett’s R without any collision.
Fixed an issue where an Olaf in his R could not be knocked back by a blast cone that he attacked himself.
Fixed an issue where Mel’s W would fail to reflect Zoe’s E after being hit by her auto attack or passive.
Fixed an issue where Seraphine’s W heal per nearby ally would have diminishing returns.
Fixed an issue where Azir’s soldier attacks on a target with Thornmail/Bramblevest would fail to apply either the reflect or the grievous wounds.
Skin Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where Lillia’s VFX would appear on top of walls.
Fixed an issue where LeBlanc’s cape wouldn’t disappear on death for certain skins.
Fixed an issue where Seraphine’s audio would play double for herself and couldn’t be heard by allies.
Fixed an issue where DJ Sona’s music would be overridden by the Summoner’s Rift music.
Fixed an issue where DJ Sona’s music was missing certain beats and layers.
Fixed an issue where some of Debonair Zed’s faster run animations were not playing when having higher move speed of when in homeguard!
Upcoming Skins & Chromas
The following skins will be released this patch:
The following chromas will be released this patch:
Q – Bandage Toss
W – Incinerate
R – Summon Tibbers
Passive – Spirit Abjuration
W – Arise!
Q – Head Rush
W – Blood Frenzy
R – Certain Death
E – Twin Fang
Passive – Colossal Smash
Q – Winds of War
E – Judgment
Passive – Signature of the Visionary
WQ – Serenity: Fleeting Current
E – Subject: Torment
Passive – Prophet of an Elder God
W – Harsh Lesson
E – Test of Spirit
Passive – Royal Privilege
Passive – Petricite Burst
Q – Threaded Volley
E – Unraveled Earth
E – Tectonic Disruption
R – Life Form Disintegration Ray
Passive – The Relentless Storm
E – Kanmei’s Steps
R – Let’s Bounce!
R – Needlework
W – Defiant Dance
E – Flawless Duet
Q – Null Sphere
E – Force Pulse
Q – Reaping Slash
W – Blade’s Reach
Q – Caustic Spittle
W – Bio-Arcane Barrage
R – Living Artillery
Q – Alpha Strike
W – Tormented Shadow
Q – Formless Blade
Passive – Junkyard Titan
Q – Flamespitter
Q – Piercing Darkness
E – Haymaker
Q – Poison Trail
R – Noxious Trap
Q – Silver Bolts
Q – Cultivation of Spirit
Axiom Arc
Horizon Focus
Profane Hydra
Passive – Blaze
Q – Sear
R – Pyroclasm
Q – Boomerang Throw / Boulder Toss
Passive – Prophet of an Elder God
E – Rend
E – Help, Pix!
Q – Alpha Strike
Q – Obliterate
W – Tormented Shadow
E – Riptide
Q – Duskbringer
Q – Edge of Ixtal / Elemental Wrath
W – Terrashape
W – Ferromancy: Crash Down
Q – Flamespitter
R – The Equalizer
Passive – Backstab
Q – Deceive
Q – Poison Trail
Passive – Glory in Death
E – Roar of the Slayer
R – Unstoppable Onslaught
Passive – Petricite Burst
W – Frozen Domain
Q – Piercing Arrow
W – Blighted Quiver
E – Hail of Arrows
Q – Blade of the Ruined King
Passive – Eternal Hunger
Q – Three Talon Strike
Q – Prowling Projectile
W – You and Me!
E – Grasping Roots
R – Stranglethorns
Experimental Hexplate
Q – Void Surge
Q – Phosphorous Bomb
R – Missile Barrage
W – Unburrow
E – Furious Bite
R – Void Rush
