Patch 26.11 Preview – League of Legends

Posted on by Geekmandem
Patch 26.11 Preview

The 26.11 patch preview for League of Legends is out. As Season 2 has now been with us for a few weeks. Just six champion changes in Patch 26.11, with Keystones the main priority. From @RiotPhroxon on X Source

Champion Changes

AP Xin Zhao has popped out as one of the most striking and fun champs, but his healing is a bit on the high side, especially when he’s outhealing some of the champs designed around healing.
That said, we still think healing a bunch is exciting and worth supporting, just not at this magnitude.

System Changes

  • With the role quests in Season Start, ranged supports have risen to the top of the pecking order.
  • They’re both the best at multiplying ADCs who are strong currently, as well as benefiting the most from being in lane for role quests.
  • Roaming also pays a higher systemic cost as it puts both you behind on quest progress and makes it so your ally ADC can’t stack their quest.
  • Overall, this has been desirable, as we think in 2025, roaming was too high for the most part and especially undercut the satisfaction of players in bot lane wanting to a play a “real laning phase.”
  • At the same time, though, we do want to open up a bit of roaming power on the grub timing after the early lane is done, and so we’re buffing up the reward of grubs just slightly.
  • We’re making a broad set of changes to both improve the desirability of some underpurchased items, as well as more finely tune the purpose of various items in the ecosystem.
  • Other systems adjustments in this patch are changes to Experimental Hexplate that aim to make it shine on both melee and ranged users.
  • Currently, the best users are champs like Nocturne, Olaf, Vayne, Varus, and we think we can strike a better balance on more champions while also making the item trade-offs more apparent for durability vs damage on Vayne and Varus (mostly manifesting in Top).
  • The other systems impacting changes are some adjustments to Diana and Ekko jungle, who have been slightly worse for wear there (though Mid is mostly fine).