Patch 26.15 Notes – League of Legends

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Patch 26.15 notes for League of Legends are here. (Source)

League of Legends Classic

Our newest (oldest) game mode is coming to a server near you! Relive the glory days with League Classic. Marvel at what passed for modern graphical fidelity in the 2010s, outplay your opponents with point and click stuns and using old new items like Heart of Gold…! Classic features 60 champions using classic versions of their gameplay across League’s early history and is an experience that emphasizes strategy over mechanics and stronger consequences, both positive and negative, for your actions. If you want to learn more about League Classic, check out our dev blog here. We’ll see you on the Rift, but be careful, the monsters fight back (use your health potions please)!

Ranked Season 3 Start

Ranked Season 3 will start at 12pm on July 29 local server time. Victorious Ranked Mission (15 Ranked Games won) will be refreshed with season start, and end of S2 rewards will be distributed shortly after S3 start. Shard transfer service will be temporarily off until S2 rewards are granted.

Aegis of Valor

Aegis of Valor has helped make autofill games feel worth playing out, but its loss protection and Mastery requirement created a secondary objective: play for the grade, not necessarily for the win. That’s the opposite of what a Ranked incentive should ask of you. We want every Ranked teammate to share the same goal, which is trying their very best to win the game.

  • We’re refocusing Aegis entirely around victory: it will no longer reduce LP losses in the case of defeat, and wins will award double LP without requiring a minimum mastery score.
Apex Duo Restrictions

When we brought duo queue back to Apex, our goal was to let more high-ranked players play together without compromising the quality of the ladder. The results were mixed. In Master, duos were generally manageable, but we still saw enough impact on match quality to warrant tighter limits. In GM and Challenger, smaller player pools and extremes of skill give duos an outsized impact on game outcomes, one we can’t consistently offset without creating excessive skill gaps or less competitive lobbies. As our matchmaking systems improve, we’ll keep looking for ways to bring duo queue back to GM and Challenger, but only once we can do so without compromising the fairness and competitive integrity they’re meant to represent.

  • Master players will now be able to duo, but only with players close to them in rank.
  • GM, Challenger, and players with GM or Challenger MMR will not be allowed to duo.
  • For more details on the exact restrictions, see here.

Champions

Ever since the loss of Mobility Boots / Symbiotic Soles, Alistar has felt constrained in his gameplay, to the point he’s failing to compete in the current meta even though it favors roaming supports – a space we expect him to excel in.
Base Stats
Move Speed: 330 ⇒ 335
This patch, we’re launching a set of Bel’Veth changes that are aimed at making her gameplay pattern a bit less focused around her early game, in order to allow her to fulfill her fantasy as a late game scaling champion. The major changes here are making her Q at early levels function more like a regular dueling ability in order to reduce just how heavily she can put certain champions behind with early invades. Historically, this Q tuning has caused us to repeatedly balance around her very early strength at a loss to many of her other more core functions. While we acknowledge that there’s a subset of Bel’Veth players who love this capability, broadly, we think it’s paying too many tradeoffs for the rest of her audience. We are looking to move some of her early game power to her mid and late game by leaning more on her evolution fantasy and her stacking mechanic. We believe that high moments like having form until death when you have gotten enough stacks feels like a transformative yet exciting moment that lines up a bit more with her kit expectations.
Base Stats
Attack Speed: 0.85 ⇒ 0.67
Attack Speed Ratio: 0.85 ⇒ 0.67
Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 55
Basic Attack Damage Modifier: 75% ⇒ 100%
Attack Cast Time: 0.25 ⇒ 0.22
Total Attack Animation: Adjusted to feel better at lower Attack Speeds
Armor: 32 ⇒ 28
Armor Growth: 4.7 ⇒ 5
Health: 610 ⇒ 580
Health Growth: 105 ⇒ 110
Model Size: 100% ⇒ 95%

Passive – Death In Lavender

Attack Speed After Spell Cast: 20% minimum / 40% maximum for 2 attacks ⇒ 20% for 3 seconds
Attack Speed per Stack: 0.28% minimum / 1.1% maximum ⇒ 0.1% minimum / 2% maximum

Q – Void Surge

Speed: 800 / 850 / 900 / 950 / 1000 ⇒ 850
Time Between Casts: 1 ⇒ 4 / 3.25 / 2.5 / 1.75 / 1
Monster Damage Modifier: 55 / 65 / 75 / 85 / 95 ⇒ 70
Minion Damage Modifier: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100% ⇒ Removed
Damage: 0 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 (+100% Attack Damage) ⇒ 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 / 20 (+105% Attack Damage)
Attack Speed to Ability Haste Conversion: 0.25 ⇒ 0.2

W – Above And Below

Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+100% Bonus Attack Damage) (+125% Ability Power) ⇒ 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 (+150% Ability Power)
Slow Duration: 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 seconds at 50% slow ⇒ 2 seconds at 30% slow
Knockup Duration: 0.75 seconds ⇒ 0.6 / 0.7 / 0.8 / 0.9 / 1 second

E – Royal Maelstrom

Damage per Strike: 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 (+8% Attack Damage) (+8% On-Hit effects), increased up to 300% based on missing Health ⇒ 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 (+12% Attack Damage) (+12% On-Hit effects), increased up to 100% based on missing Health
Number of Strikes: 6 + 1 per 33% bonus Attack Speed ⇒ 6 + 1 per 40% bonus Attack Speed
Damage Reduction: 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% ⇒ 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60%
Lifesteal: 20% ⇒ 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%
Lifesteal Scaling: 100% ⇒ Removed
Cooldown: 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 ⇒ 24 / 21 / 18 / 15 / 12
Monster Damage Modifier: 150% ⇒ 200%

R – Endless Banquet

Passive On-Hit Application: Every other attack ⇒ Every attack
Passive True Damage: 6 / 10 / 14 (+12% Bonus Attack Damage) ⇒ 2 / 4 / 6 (+3% Bonus Attack Damage)
Target Swapping: Passive removed when swapping targets ⇒ Passive no longer removed when swapping targets
Maximum Epic Monster Stacks: 10 ⇒ 8
Passive Application Requirement: E and Q required Bel’Veth to have attacked the target first ⇒ E and Q no longer require Bel’Veth to have attacked the target first
Explosion Damage: 150 / 200 / 250 (+100% Ability Power) (+25% missing Health) ⇒ 150 / 200 / 250 (+150% Ability Power) (+20% missing Health)
Heal per Bonus Health: 100 / 150 / 200 (+120% Bonus Attack Damage) (+90% Ability Power) ⇒ 100 / 250 / 400 (+150% Bonus Attack Damage) (+150% Ability Power)
Basic Attack Range Bonus: 75 ⇒ 25 / 75 / 125
Total Attack Speed: 10 / 15 / 20% ⇒ 5 / 15 / 25%
Size: 10% ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20%
Unempowered Buff Duration: 60 ⇒ 45 / 90 / infinite at 0 / 40 / 80 stacks
Empowered Buff Duration: 180 ⇒ 45 / 90 / infinite at 0 / 40 / 80 stacks
Post-Cast Lockout: 0.5 seconds ⇒ 0.25 seconds
Despite the recent buff, Kai’sa remains weaker than expected, especially late game for a marksman who is supposed to hyperscale to make up for her short range. We’re tapping up her scaling to help her output as she nears her final form.

Passive – Second Skin

Caustic Wounds: 4 – 24 (Champion Level) (+12% Ability Power), +1 – 6 (Champion Level) (+3% Ability Power) per prior stack ⇒ 4 – 30 (Champion Level) (+12% Ability Power), +1 – 8 (Champion Level) (+3% Ability Power) per prior stack

Locke

Locke continues to climb the mastery curve, so we’re continuing nerfs to keep him in line. Particularly, we observe his early game to be clearly over, even for a snowball reliant assassin, and we also want to avoid W 2nd max as optimal as it gives him too much safety for the risks he should need to take.
Base Stats
Health: 655 ⇒ 620

Q – Ritual Nails

Base Damage – Nail: 50 / 58 / 66 / 74 / 82 (+20% Ability Power) ⇒ 40 / 48 / 56 / 64 / 72 (+20% Ability Power)
Three Nails Damage: 150 / 174 / 198 / 222 / 246 (+60% Ability Power) ⇒ 120 / 144 / 168 / 192 / 216 (+60% Ability Power)

W – Soul Ignition

Move Speed: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% (+2% per 100 Ability Power) ⇒ 40% (+2% per 100 Ability Power)
Grey Health Base Value: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+120% Ability Power) ⇒ 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+100% Ability Power)
Maokai has gradually faded out of both top and jungle play since our last major work on him. We think that ultimately his top laning experience is not the greatest for all parties involved, so for now we are mainly focused on buffing his jungle back up, where we think he has a fairly unique output as a zone controlling tank.

Q – Bramble Smash

Monster Damage Modifier: 140 / 150 / 160 / 170 / 180 ⇒ 150 / 160 / 170 / 180 / 190
Ability Power Ratio: 40% ⇒ 50%
We overshot last patch with the R buffs, and after re-assessing what he looks like with a meaningfully stronger ult, decided to instead revert the R buff entirely in favor of improving his ability to catch and keep opponents in his range. Accounting for the bugfix for his R, we believe these two adjustments to his E will be a net positive from 26.13 and will keep an eye on his performance.

E – Death’s Grasp

Cooldown: 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 ⇒ 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8

R – Realm of Death

Stolen Stats: 13% ⇒ 10%
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where ulting a target with health above their post-reduction max HP would lead to increased damage (up to double).
Naafiri remains a hot topic in the meta, both for solo queue and pro play. While we are quite happy with how many people have taken her up since her rework, she’s still on the strong end, especially when she really gets the ball rolling with back-to-back-to-back ultimates.

R – The Call of the Pack

Damage: 150 / 225 / 300 (+120% Attack Damage) ⇒ 125 / 200 / 275 (+100% Bonus Attack Damage)
Damage per Packmate: 15 / 22.5 / 30 (+12% Attack Damage) ⇒ 12.5 / 20 / 27.5 (+10% Bonus Attack Damage)
Endless Hunger’s addition to the game has given Riven an extremely potent new tool that fits her play pattern almost perfectly. While we feel we’ve gotten it into a fairly good spot among most users, Riven is notably overperforming. Targeting her R’s AD scaling (heavy synergy with Endless Hunger haste, mid quest scaling) will impact all her spells and how unstoppable her snowballing can feel, while still leaving a lot of room for her high moments.

R – Blade of the Exile

Bonus Attack Damage Ratio: 25% ⇒ 20%

R – Wind Slash

Bonus Attack Damage Ratio: 60% minimum / 180% maximum ⇒ 55% minimum / 165% maximum
After his buff in 26.12, it was clear that we moderately overshot our target. We’re pulling back the chains a tad to prevent him from bullying too hard.

Q – Chain Lash

First Lash Damage: 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+45% Ability Power) ⇒ 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+40% Ability Power)
Since our direct and systemic adjustments, the bear has been hibernating from dusk till dawn for a couple patches… we’re giving him more chances to gap close, especially for laners, without raising his already thrilling ceiling of spell chaining.

Q – Thundering Smash

Cooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 ⇒ 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10
We believe that Zac brings unique gameplay and class diversity to the jungle. That said, his presence in the jungle has fallen quite a bit over the more recent patches. We believe giving him a bit more opportunity to execute on his distinct gank angles as well as a bit of durability in a team fight can help lift up our favorite secret weapon.
Base Stats
Armor Growth: 4.7 ⇒ 5.2

E – Elastic Slingshot

Cooldown: 22 / 19 / 16 / 13 / 10 ⇒ 21 / 18 / 15 / 12 / 9

Items

Items

Bastionbreaker

The item has been near bottom pickrate since release, and the distance between it and the next least popular Lethality item is quite far. We’re making it both more accessible and slightly stronger on its less noticeable effect, because we find that lethality users putting more of their gold into utility and progressing the team game is healthy in the long term.

Cost: 3200g ⇒ 3000g
Shaped Charge Damage: (30 + 150% lethality) true damage ⇒ (50 + 150% lethality) true damage

Terminus

Terminus is meant to be one of the premium capstone items for scaling On-Hit builds, but has been more of a mid game spike item than a true late game scaling option, leaving the on-hit space a bit sparse for options later on.

Unique – Shadow: 30 Magic Damage On-Hit ⇒ 30 (+10% bonus Attack Damage) (+10% Ability Power)

Yun Tal Wildarrows

Yun Tal Wildarrows has fallen significantly over this year from its spot as the go-to scaling crit item. We believe the game continues to benefit from its function as a scaling option, so we are buffing it up to compete with the broader array of early crit items currently on offer.

Cost: 850g ⇒ 750g
Attack Speed: 40% ⇒ 45%

Runes

Jack Of All Trades

Different statlines are much more accessible with items like Endless Hunger/Gluttonous Greaves/DHelm, and even though we love players shooting for creative builds to utilize JOAT, it definitely has room to be weaker both early and late while still giving a ton of bang for your buck.
Adaptive Force at 5 / 10 stat breakpoints: 10 / 25 ⇒ 8 / 20