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
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26.7 Nerfs
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
Shyvana
Shyvana definitely initially landed a bit strong, and her hotfix put her in a decent spot after that. Shyvana 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
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