Patch 26.8 notes for League of Legends are here. (Source)

Patch Highlights

Systems

Ranked Season 1 End

The Summoner’s Rift Ranked Season 1 will end on the last day of patch 26.08 cycle, so if you’ve got ranked goals for this season make sure you hit them this patch! Good luck!

Date and Time: Regional local server time midnight (23:59:59) on April 28.

Summoner’s Rift Ranked Season 2 will start on the first day of patch 26.09 cycle.

Date and Time: Regional local server time noon (12:00:00) on April 29.

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A few additional things to keep in mind as we wrap up this season:

For all regions, Ranked mission (win 15 ranked games) will be reset with the Season 2 start.

End of S1 ranked reward will be granted on 26.09.

Shard transfer services will be temporarily disabled during season transition until the reward grant is completed.

Champions

Dr. Mundo

See Highest Win Rate Dr. Mundo Builds

Dr. Mundo has been able to more consistently reach his high points in the jungle where he is less concerned about his slow early game. We are looking to curb some of his clear speed to make sure he can’t go where he pleases too quickly and requires some more time to scale up.

Q – Infected Bonesaw

Monster Damage Cap: 300 / 375 / 450 / 525 / 600 ⇒ 250 / 325 / 400 / 475 / 550

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E – Blunt Force Trauma

Monster Damage Cap:: 200%⇒ 140%

Hwei

See Highest Win Rate Hwei Builds

Hwei has remained on the weaker side since the nerfs to his waveclear last year, and we are fixing a bug that we expect to be a further minor nerf. We still believe those waveclear nerfs to be correct as we want Hwei League’s coolest combo mage, not just a walking waveclear machine. Therefore, we’re buffing his combo casting output up through his passive.

Passive – Signature of the Visionary

Base Damage: 35 – 230 (Levels 1 – 18) ⇒ 40 – 285 (Levels 1 – 18)

Comboing Slows: Slows from Hwei’s abilities now stack with diminishing values.

Bugfix: Slows from Hwei’s QE and R abilities no longer stack with slows from other champions / items.

Karma

See Highest Win Rate Karma Builds

Last patch we made some changes to Karma to reduce how generically powerful she was by reducing her midgame shield strength. Unfortunately those weren’t as effective as we had intended so we’re taking another swing at Karma by directly targeting her E power and reducing her base stats a tad so she is more reliant on skillful and intentional ability usage.

Base Stats

Base AD: 51 ⇒ 49

AD Growth: 3.3 ⇒ 3.0

E – Inspire

Mana Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 ⇒ 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

Lillia

See Highest Win Rate Lillia Builds

Our favorite bouncing deer has been a bit less than enthusiastic to prance from camp to camp as of late, it’s a scary jungle out there. We’re hoping to give Lillia players some more courage to bring her into the jungle by increasing her ability to have her high move speed translate into a faster clear.

Passive – Dream-Laden Bough

Monster Damage Cap: 65 ⇒ 70-180 (based on level)

Lucian

See Highest Win Rate Lucian Builds

Lucian has a unique role as an AD Carry that dashes in, out of, and around fights which is why many of his players enjoy him. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been doing that as effectively recently so we’re looking to remedy that. To get there, we’re lowering both the cooldown and mana cost of his dashes.

E – Relentless Pursuit

Cooldown: 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 ⇒ 16 / 15.5 / 15 / 14.5 / 14

Mana Cost: 40 / 30 / 20 / 10 / 0 ⇒ 32 / 24 / 16 / 8 / 0

Mel

See Highest Win Rate Mel Builds

Since our recent adjustments to Mel, she’s been hitting too hard with her initial Q missile whether ahead or behind, even as opponents dodge the rest of the spell, so we’re looking to take her damage down a notch. We’re also aiming to reduce how frustrating her W can be by lowering the bonus mobility she gets and the spell’s uptime, with the movespeed now matching her shield and reflect duration.

Q – Radiant Volley

Initial Explosion Damage: 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 60% AP) ⇒ 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+ 55% AP)

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W – Rebuttal

Cooldown: 35 / 32 / 29 / 26 / 23 ⇒ 38 / 35 / 32 / 29 / 26 seconds

Bonus Movement Speed Duration: 1.5 ⇒ 0.75 seconds

Tahm Kench

See Highest Win Rate Tahm Kench Builds

As a champ in both Top and Support, Tahm Kench requires periodic maintenance as the meta shifts to ensure both roles of his roles are equally supported. In this case, Dusk and Dawn’s addition to the game this season has shifted this balance in favor of top lane, so we’re adjusting how his passive scales to help balance him out.

Passive – An Acquired Taste

Damage: 6 – 48 (Levels 1 – 11) (+1.5% AP per 100 Bonus HP) (+4.5% Bonus HP) ⇒ 5 – 60 (Levels 1 – 12) (+1.25% AP per 100 Bonus HP) (+4% Bonus HP)

Yuumi

See Highest Win Rate Yuumi Builds

We’re implementing a couple bugfixes to Yuumi’s ultimate, one of which will sometimes result in the magical cat outputting significantly more healing than she may have grown used to. As such, we’re throwing her a FISH by increasing her base healing and best friend healing to provide a stronger baseline effect.

R – Final Chapter

Heal Per Wave: 30 / 40 / 50 (+10% AP) ⇒ 30 / 50 / 70 (+12% AP)

Best Friend Enhanced Heal: 30% More Healing ⇒ 30 – 60% More Healing (Levels 6 – 12)

Bugfix: The attached ally is no longer healed an additional time whenever Final Chapter heals another ally

Bugfix: Final Chapter’s overhealing shield now takes into account Heal/Shield power as well as Grievous Wounds

Zilean

See Highest Win Rate Zilean Builds

As a quality of life change we’re looking to make sure Zilean can only put points into abilities he can fully utilize level 1.

W – Rewind

W Level Up: No longer can level W at level 1.

Zyra

See Highest Win Rate Zyra Builds

Since the dawn of time Zyra’s have been accidentally putting a point into W and effectively doing nothing level 1. Well no more! We’re adding a small QoL change so Zyra can no longer put her first skill point into W to prevent this type of situation from being a thorn in your side and mental blooming.

W – Rampant Growth

W Level Up: No longer can level W level

Patch 26.7 notes for League of Legends are here, including nerfs to Nami and Graves, as well as buffs to Kalista and adjustments to Shyvana. (Source) There are also a number of ARAM-specific changes for 26.7, including lots of April Fool’s fun.

Patch Highlights

Champion Buffs

Cassiopeia

See Highest Win Rate Cassiopeia Builds

We’re looking to give some mid-favored love to Cass, who hasn’t found her… uh… footing in the new season. By bumping up her base mana and empowered E scaling, she should feel a bit more freedom to angle for trades as well as be more rewarded when she finds them.

Base Stats

Base Mana: 450 ⇒ 480

E – Twin Fang

Bonus Magic Damage: 20 / 43 / 66 / 89 / 112 ⇒ 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120

Kalista

See Highest Win Rate Kalista Builds

Kalista and her players have been patiently awaiting buffs, and we’re also ready to see her unleash her wrath once again. This change is aimed at making her hit harder when she finds an opening to stack up her spears.

E – Rend

Total AD scaling on bonus damage per additional stack: (+ 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% AD) ⇒ (+ 20 / 27.5 / 35 / 42.5 / 50% AD)

Rell

See Highest Win Rate Rell Builds

In addition to our nerfs to Karma and Nami,, we’re buffing one of our tank supports. Our hope here is to provide our favorite iron steed rider with a buff that drives excitement during her high points, so we’re making the horse go fast and further rewarding her clutch engages.

E – Full Tilt

Move Speed: 3s of 10%, increased to 25% when facing the empowered ally or a visible enemy champion ⇒ 15%, increased to 30%

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R – Magnet Storm

Damage: 120 / 200 / 280 (+110% AP) ⇒ 150 / 200 / 350 (+110% AP)

Champion Nerfs

Graves

See Highest Win Rate Graves Builds

Graves has seen a ton of play since his True Grit buffs, and even though he’s found pretty solid success with more durable builds, players are understandably still chasing those high roll crits to great results. Rather than rolling back his E buffs or pushing him further towards one build, we figured the best thing we can do is make his early clear and skirmishing a bit less consistent by dusting off an old wrench we haven’t used in half a decade, though we are keeping an eye on his 4-digit autos! 

Base Stats

Base attack damage: 68⇒ 66

Karma

See Highest Win Rate Karma Builds

Karma has been a force to be reckoned with in high-skill support play for some time now. We think Karma’s strong early game is healthy, but we’re tuning down her midgame shields to be less inspiring, as it’s the only ability actually worth empowering and her enchanter builds far outperform her mage ones. This change should bring her Mantra options closer to equilibrium! 

R – Mantra

Empowered E – Defiance Bonus Primary / Secondary Target Shield : 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 (+45% AP) ⇒ 45 / 85 / 125 / 165 (+45% AP)

Nami

See Highest Win Rate Nami Builds

We’re nerfing another one of the most powerful supports to bring her in line with other options. Nami often excels in extremely aggressive early lanes, utilizing W self cast to bounce damage to enemies and getting high value out of both effects in a single cast. Now she will need to be more intentional about whether she wants the heal or the damage more.

W – Ebb and Flow

Bounce Modifier: -10% (+10% per 100 AP) effect per bounce ⇒ -20% (+15% per 100 AP) effect per bounce

Ornn

See Highest Win Rate Ornn Builds

Ornn has been a standout among top lane tanks across all player skill levels, helped by the new top lane role quest accelerating his access to Masterworks. We believe he has an appropriate amount of CC and durability, but we’re lowering his personal damage threat, especially against other high health champions.

W – Bellows Breath

Brittle Proc Damage: 10-18% (Levels 1-18) ⇒ 9-17% (Levels 1-18)

Singed

See Highest Win Rate Singed Builds

Singed has been a big winner this season with free teleport, experience, Protoplasm, homeguards, weaker grubs…the list is almost as long as the number of ingredients in his Insanity Potion! Instead of making his early game even more vulnerable, we want to make Singed a bit more reliant on his own accumulated gold rather than his experience and free stats, especially now that he’s also doing a better job tanking damage.

R – Insanity Potion

Bonus Stats: 25 / 60 / 95 ⇒ 25 / 55/ 85

Veigar

See Highest Win Rate Veigar Builds

Veigar has often been at the threshold of being considered overpowered in bot lane, and he’s been maintaining enough of a play rate there that it’s time to step in. One thing different between bot Veigar and mid Veigar is his scaling nature. In bot, he’s actually even more of a snowball champion than in mid where his win rate steadily climbs over game time. So we’re blunting that early-mid spike with a cooldown nerf that his mid players aren’t as reliant upon and can more easily outscale.

R – Primordial Burst

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

Shyvana

See Highest Win Rate Shyvana Builds

Ultimate haste no longer provides passive 0.015 passive fury generation per second but instead amplifies all fury generation by 1% per 1 ultimate haste. This should make ultimate haste function for Shyvana more similarly to how ability haste does for normal abilities.

We also micropatched some Sylas interactions last week. He was dealing too much damage when stealing Shyvana’s Q by applying her on-hit damage twice and essentially double-dipping on his total attack damage vs. his primary target.

Systems

Farming as Supports

After last patch where we weakened this mechanic, we’re now completely disabling the reduction in gold that used to kick in when support players killed too many minions in quick succession. This was added back when it was optimal to run two or more support items in the game, but now that it’s impossible to do so in competitive environments, we feel this extra restriction is unwarranted. We’ll be keeping an eye on support and bot laner dynamics around who farms the waves after this lands. We don’t expect much will change but supports who have to catch some farm here and there shouldn’t feel bad about it now. 

Ranked

“When disruptive behavior like AFKing or trolling is detected in a match, full LP refunds will be given to negatively impacted players instead of partial refunds.”

Patch 26.7 Skins

Lots of new skins are coming for April Fools’ Day.

The 26.7 patch preview for League of Legends is out, with another handful of champion buffs and nerfs. From @RiotPhroxon on X Source

26.7 Buffs

Cassiopeia

See Highest Win Rate Cassiopeia Builds

– Buffs to 2 areas that Cassiopeia thrives in; her initial mana pool for early all-ins when she tags with Q

– Her maxed E, to reinforce her sustained DPS identity

Kalista

See Highest Win Rate Kalista Builds

Kalista has fallen off significantly in priority in Pro Play, which means we can buff her for regular play!

– We’re focusing the power in the core area where people play her; her E damage

Rell

See Highest Win Rate Rell Builds

-Similarly, Rell has fallen off pretty significantly as well

– Her initial Ult damage will increase her threat in early all-ins, while her E will allow her to fulfil more of her mobile horse identity

26.7 Nerfs

Graves

See Highest Win Rate Graves Builds

Karma

See Highest Win Rate Karma Builds

Nami

See Highest Win Rate Nami Builds

Ornn

See Highest Win Rate Ornn Builds

– Ornn is just a little bit strong, especially given that he has a relatively steep mastery curve

Singed

See Highest Win Rate Singed Builds

– Singed is looking a bit too strong in especially normal play

– While this nerf looks like a bit of a meme, we expect it matters more than expected on paper just due to the number of stats impacted when ult is active

Veigar

See Highest Win Rate Veigar Builds

– Veigar is in a slightly strong spot for regular play midlane, but is really rocking the bot lane a bit too hard, especially in regular play

– The nerfs are targeted at R which sits at Rank 1 in bot lane for quite a lot longer than in solo lanes

Shyvana

Shyvana

See Highest Win Rate Shyvana Builds

We’re still working on a larger set of changes for Shyvana, but they haven’t been finalized yet (I mentioned the direction of

some of the changes yesterday)

For this patch, just a change to make Ultimate Haste interactions and also the Sylas interaction nerf from previously

Shyvana definitely initially landed a bit strong, and her hotfix put her in a decent spot after that. She has a bit of an unintended interaction with Sylas that we will be micropatching out tomorrow; essentially, he benefits double from her auto attacks’ passive (with Sylas’s passive) that makes his attacks do pretty eye-popping values.

We’re still taking our time to evaluate role viability for Top Shyvana and whether it’s reasonably supportable without destroying Jungle role satisfaction. We’ve also been working on some changes to increase the satisfaction of Passive, reduce MMR skew, increase counterplay and satisfaction of E

First Stand

The First Stand meta ended up being quite good; there was significant diversity in every role between classes. One notable gap was AP junglers and AD mids (related), and so we’ll see what we can do to enable some more of those picks heading into the Season. Was especially happy with the Bot meta; Lethality Varus had a 14% winrate, and there was a good mix of Casters, Hypercarries and Utility as well as many fringe picks like Zeri, Kog, etc.

Ranged Supports are really starting to get away from the rest of the pack now, with laning being a much larger focus due to role quests. Not necessarily a bad thing, though, given that we’ve been in Melee supp meta for many years. Game pacing overall felt good (or at least I thought so), and the lack of lane swaps really allowed each role to shine, with GigaBin showcasing the power of an unleashed Top lane role. It really did seem like every lane could carry and balance of objectives vs splitting felt pretty appropriate

Support Quest

A few patches ago, we talked about reducing the negative impact of the support quest to reduce complexity – We’re going to pull this all the way this patch. This may result in some farming support shenanigans, but then you’re also denying your bot carry their quest progression; we’re giving it a go to see if anything breaks

The latest League of Legends patch 26.6 has been live for a while now and we’ve gathered enough data to see how the meta evolved compared to 26.5.

Disclaimer

We’re updating this tier list daily, check back often for updates.

Biggest Movers

Here are the biggest movers in patch 26.5 so far.

Top Risers		Role	Rank	Change	Win Rate
Gwen		Jungle	#245 ▲ #49	+196	+4.11%
Sylas		Jungle	#192 ▲ #17	+175	+3.09%
Tryndamere		Top	#218 ▲ #65	+153	+2.49%
Nidalee		Jungle	#149 ▲ #15	+134	+2.48%
Renata Glasc		Support	#202 ▲ #69	+133	+2.09%

Top Fallers		Role	Rank	Change	Win Rate
Cassiopeia		Top	#14 ▼ #208	-194	-3.28%
Seraphine		ADC	#11 ▼ #185	-174	-2.9%
Zaahen		Jungle	#58 ▼ #203	-145	-1.88%
Quinn		Top	#32 ▼ #168	-136	-1.69%
Pantheon		Mid	#57 ▼ #175	-118	-1.37%

League of Legends Patch 26.6 Tier List

Here’s a tier list with the top 50 champions in the 26.6 ranked league right now. You can use the filters to sort by role.

All Roles Top Jungle Mid ADC Support

Rank	Champion	Role	Tier	Win Rate	Pick Rate	Ban Rate	Matches
▲ 1 (was 4)	Brand	ADC	S (A→S)	55.15% (+1.9%)	1%	2%	1,924
▲ 2 (was 24)	Nilah	ADC	S+ (S→S+)	53.96% (+2.17%)	1.5%	3.4%	2,802
▲ 3 (was 19)	Vel'Koz	ADC	A	53.86% (+1.94%)	0.8%	1.5%	1,465
4 NEWNot in ADC tier list in patch 16.5	Karthus	ADC	A	53.2%	0.6%	1.6%	1,188
▲ 5 (was 12)	Sion	Mid	A	52.9% (+0.46%)	1%	1.1%	1,917
▲ 6 (was 20)	Aurelion Sol	ADC	A	52.86% (+0.94%)	0.8%	1.3%	1,468
▲ 7 (was 76)	Olaf	Top	S (A→S)	52.77% (+1.89%)	2.7%	2.4%	5,073
▼ 8 (was 6)	Rek'Sai	Jungle	A (S→A)	52.7% (-0.22%)	2.3%	2.3%	4,300
▲ 9 (was 13)	Singed	Top	S	52.61% (+0.23%)	2.8%	1.3%	5,282
▼ 10 (was 2)	Hwei	ADC	A	52.61% (-0.94%)	0.5%	1.4%	1,017
▲ 11 (was 114)	Swain	Mid	A	52.6% (+2.14%)	1.1%	2.7%	2,137
▲ 12 (was 53)	Udyr	Jungle	A	52.56% (+1.47%)	1.7%	1.1%	3,164
▼ 13 (was 9)	Kayle	Top	S+	52.54% (-0.1%)	3.3%	6.9%	6,163
▲ 14 (was 38)	Bel'Veth	Jungle	S	52.5% (+1.14%)	1.7%	4.3%	3,221
▲ 15 (was 149)	Nidalee	Jungle	A (B→A)	52.45% (+2.48%)	1.9%	1.3%	3,470
▲ 16 (was 41)	Ashe	ADC	S+	52.45% (+1.16%)	9.5%	2.1%	17,850
▲ 17 (was 192)	Sylas	Jungle	S (C→S)	52.39% (+3.09%)	4.6%	10%	8,648
▼ 18 (was 8)	Nasus	Jungle	A (S→A)	52.39% (-0.32%)	0.9%	4.9%	1,756
▲ 19 (was 145)	Jayce	Mid	A (B→A)	52.34% (+2.35%)	0.7%	4.3%	1,366
▲ 20 (was 55)	Annie	Mid	S (A→S)	52.32% (+1.24%)	2.2%	0.5%	4,161
▲ 21 (was 23)	Nunu & Willump	Jungle	A (S→A)	52.3% (+0.44%)	2.5%	1.1%	4,658
▲ 22 (was 35)	Rammus	Jungle	A (S→A)	52.29% (+0.9%)	1.3%	2.3%	2,467
▲ 23 (was 49)	Kled	Top	S (A→S)	52.27% (+1.08%)	1.8%	0.9%	3,342
▲ 24 (was 25)	Zyra	Jungle	A	52.22% (+0.5%)	1.2%	3.3%	2,229
▼ 25 (was 5)	Yasuo	ADC	S	52.19% (-0.85%)	1.4%	17.7%	2,585
▲ 26 (was 28)	Ornn	Top	S+	52.18% (+0.48%)	5.5%	1.1%	10,309
▲ 27 (was 48)	Anivia	Mid	S+ (S→S+)	52.18% (+0.99%)	3.6%	3.6%	6,641
▼ 28 (was 3)	Veigar	ADC	A (S→A)	52% (-1.38%)	1.9%	1.7%	3,469
▲ 29 (was 82)	Evelynn	Jungle	A (S→A)	51.86% (+1.06%)	2.2%	2.9%	4,198
▲ 30 (was 39)	Sona	Support	S	51.85% (+0.51%)	5.1%	0.9%	9,600
▲ 31 (was 164)	Lissandra	Mid	S (B→S)	51.82% (+2.03%)	4.3%	1.8%	8,039
▲ 32 (was 47)	Aurelion Sol	Mid	S (A→S)	51.82% (+0.62%)	2.7%	1.3%	5,095
▲ 33 (was 34)	Ivern	Jungle	A	51.81% (+0.31%)	1.3%	0.6%	2,403
▲ 34 (was 45)	Fiddlesticks	Jungle	A (S→A)	51.81% (+0.59%)	2.4%	2.3%	4,507
▼ 35 (was 31)	Vex	Mid	S	51.81% (+0.25%)	2.6%	3.3%	4,870
▲ 36 (was 106)	Swain	Top	A	51.77% (+1.24%)	0.5%	2.7%	1,016
▲ 37 (was 67)	Darius	Jungle	A	51.77% (+0.77%)	0.7%	12.8%	1,244
▼ 38 (was 36)	Briar	Jungle	S (S+→S)	51.74% (+0.36%)	4.7%	9.7%	8,734
▼ 39 (was 1)	Anivia	Top	A	51.73% (-2.27%)	0.8%	3.6%	1,417
▲ 40 (was 56)	Zilean	Support	S (A→S)	51.71% (+0.64%)	3.1%	1.8%	5,709
▲ 41 (was 121)	Vayne	Top	S	51.67% (+1.32%)	3.1%	10.4%	5,870
▼ 42 (was 15)	Shen	Top	S (S+→S)	51.63% (-0.46%)	4.5%	4%	8,334
▲ 43 (was 143)	Elise	Support	A (B→A)	51.62% (+1.57%)	1.5%	2.6%	2,871
▲ 44 (was 54)	Senna	ADC	A	51.61% (+0.52%)	3%	1%	5,551
▲ 45 (was 62)	Aatrox	Jungle	A	51.6% (+0.59%)	1.1%	6.6%	2,027
▼ 46 (was 33)	Xayah	ADC	S	51.54% (+0.04%)	5.6%	1%	10,395
▼ 47 (was 7)	Kog'Maw	ADC	A (S→A)	51.54% (-1.25%)	1.9%	0.8%	3,539
48 NEWNot in Jungle tier list in patch 16.5	Olaf	Jungle	A	51.47%	0.6%	2.4%	1,158
▲ 49 (was 245)	Gwen	Jungle	A (D→A)	51.46% (+4.11%)	1%	6.1%	1,889
▲ 50 (was 101)	Dr. Mundo	Jungle	S	51.4% (+0.8%)	3.9%	10.7%	7,266

To see the full rankings of champions in the latest update, check out our full Tier List!