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Patch 26.20 Notes – League of Legends

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Patch 26.20 notes for League of Legends are here. (Source)

Private Replays

“Starting with this patch, you will only be able to access replays from matches you played in. Other players will no longer be able to download your replays, and third-party apps & sites will lose access to replay downloads entirely.

We are making this change, alongside some restrictions on third party access to game memory, to close some security vulnerabilities that have recently been exploited by cheat developers and other bad actors to build unauthorized tools around League game data. You can read more about the full context in our Game Memory Removed for Third Party Apps Player Support article.

Rest assured that this change will not impact your ability to VOD review your own matches by downloading and watching your replays directly in the League client!”

Champions

Ambessa has been too reliable in her late game output for players with high mastery in all brackets, but especially pro-play.

Passive – Drakehound’s Step

Damage: 5 – 30 (+25% bonus AD) ⇒ 5 – 25 (+20% bonus AD)
Ashe is one of the premier marksmen in pro play at the moment, and we’re seeing her output too much raw damage given her position as the highest utility marksman in the game.
Base Stats
Attack Damage per Level: 3.5 ⇒ 3
Our changes two patches ago to Cassiopeia have been pretty good directionally, with most players being proportionally less impacted from those adjustments than pros. We’re taking another swing at her early resources because of how dominant she still is in early laning, making her work a little harder to create an advantage.
Base Stats
Base Health: 630 ⇒ 610
Base Mana: 480 ⇒ 450
While Diana’s assassin build shines, her bruiser builds tend to be lagging a good bit behind. We want to inject a bit more power into that playstyle.

W – Pale Cascade

Shield Bonus Health Ratio: 11% ⇒ 14%
Stacking the odds a bit more in his favor with his signature spell (in Riftbound) and offsetting Rocketbelt changes that he’ll be a bit less excited about.

E – Lightning Rush

Bonus Attack Speed: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80% ⇒ 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90%
Kindred is currently a bit weak, so we’re giving them buffs in areas that won’t make them much more overwhelming in early invades. Optimistically, they’d also make a pretty unique addition to the meta.

W – Wolf’s Frenzy

Monster Mod: 150% ⇒ 165%

E – Mounting Dread

Slow Duration: 1s ⇒ 1.5s
Small Monster Targeting: Enabled ⇒ Removed
Warding off this warden from being as reliable as a blind pick in coordinated play – hurting early mana and consistent W damage reduction, which should be skewed for elite audiences.

W – Path Maker

Mana Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 ⇒ 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65
W Base/All-Out Damage Reduction: 30 / 75% ⇒ 25 / 70%
Last patch we looked to inject a bit more power into the deer, but didn’t quite see the movement we were looking for. We believe there is a bit more room for her to really prance around various levels of play so we are following up with another buff that’ll really help her shine.

R – Lilting Lullaby

Duration: 2.5s ⇒ 2.5 / 2.75 / 3s
Last patch’s adjustment to help normalize mid and bot performance ended up landing as a nerf for bot lane, so we’re following up with a buff to make up for the lost power.
Base Stats
Attack Damage: 60 + 2.5/Level ⇒ 60 + 2.9/Level
Windows between Mordekaiser’s ultimates make it hard to keep up with the pace of much of his opposition. His bread and butter (Q) can also feel less impactful as the pace of the game increases, so we think it can do more damage later on.

Q – Obliterate

Scaling Level 10-20: (+5/lvl) ⇒ (+7/lvl)

R – Realm of Death

Cooldown: 140 / 120 / 100s ⇒ 120 / 110 / 100s
Rocketbelt’s adjustment this patch will probably land as a small nerf for Neeko, so we’re giving her some minor compensation

E – Tangle-Barbs

Base Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+65% AP) ⇒ 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+65% AP)
Empowered Root Duration: 1.8 / 2.1 / 2.4 / 2.7 / 3s ⇒ 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3s
Smolder has lost quite a bit of power over the last few patches, with the Cleaver ranged nerf and bot lane meta changes disfavoring him significantly. We’re further encouraging crit builds to bring his bruiser and full crit builds closer in power.

Passive – Dragon Practice

Super Scorcher Bonus Magic Damage: 25 – 55% (+0-9% with IE) of Dragon Practice Stacks, scaling with Crit Chance ⇒ 25 – 60% (+0-10.5% with IE) of Dragon Practice Stacks, scaling with Crit Chance
Flap Flap Flap Bonus Magic Damage: 8 – 12.8% (+0-1.44% with IE) of Dragon Practice Stacks, scaling with Crit Chance ⇒ 8 – 14% (+0-1.8% with IE) of Dragon Practice Stacks, scaling with Crit Chance

R – Mmooommmm!

Self Heal: 100 / 135 / 170 (+50% bonus AD) (+75% AP) ⇒ 100 / 175 / 250 (+75% bonus AD) (+75% AP)
We’re giving Swain mid a moderate buff this patch while also making an adjustment that should help normalize his mid and bot lane performance.
Base Stats
Base Magic Resistance: 31 ⇒ 34
Base Armor: 25 ⇒ 23

W – Vision of Empire

Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+60%) ⇒ 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+60%)
Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18s ⇒ 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16s
As one of the tank supports with the lowest health regen, and many health scaling values on his abilities, Tahm Kench lost out on the recent adjustments to the support item. We’re giving him compensation for that.

Q – Tongue Lash

Base Healing: 10 / 13.75 / 17.5 / 21.25 / 25 ⇒ 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50
Vayne has settled into a fairly weak spot, and while we still aren’t totally happy with her top vs bot skew, we’re getting closer. We’re adjusting her base stats to help in bot where she needs to weather harass, and reverting a mana cost to her Q that simply felt way too bad.
Base Stats
Health per 5: 4 + .5/Level ⇒ 5.5 +.4/Level

Q – Tumble

Mana Cost: 46 / 42 / 38 / 34 / 30 ⇒ 30
Yunara is the leading candidate for “handshake hyperscaler do nothing” and we want to avoid that becoming the dominant meta, especially heading into worlds.

Q – Cultivation of Spirit

Passive On Hit Damage: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+20% AP) ⇒ 3 / 8 / 13 / 18 / 23 (+20% AP)
Active On Hit Damage: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+20% AP) ⇒ 3 / 8 / 13 / 18 / 23 (+20% AP)

W – Arc of Judgement

Slow Stacking: Stacks with other slows ⇒ No longer stacks with other slows

Items

Items

Experimental Hexplate

We’ve been fairly unhappy with how this item has played out for ranged users, especially as a first rush in top lane where it makes them too resilient to burst and too lethal during all ins.

Ranged Mod: 70% of Value (35% Attack Speed, 14% Move Speed) ⇒ 50% of Value (25% Attack Speed, 10% Move Speed)

Hextech Rocketbelt

Rocketbelt continues to be used a bit too much as an escape compared to a risky engage tool, so we are pulling back on its generic value in favor of emphasizing aggressive action with it, especially for AP Bruisers who rely on it for all ins.

Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 10
Active Damage: 100 (+10% AP) ⇒ 135 (+15% AP)

Runaan’s Hurricane

This item was slightly overbuffed, so pulling back on that a bit.

Attack Damage per Bolt: 65% ⇒ 60%

Scoreboard Cleanup

Our recent systemic buff-bar clarity work moved a lot of numbers from buffs onto items. These numbers began terrorizing your scoreboards (thanks, Death’s Dance). The scoreboard should show strategically relevant information, not noisy in-the-moment combat state, and we’re hiding most item numbers on the scoreboard to reflect this principle. Strategically relevant item numbers, like Tear of the Goddess items and Mejai’s Soulstealer, remain on the scoreboard icons.

The following items’ icon counters are now hidden on the scoreboard:

  • Death’s Dance
  • Haunting Guise
  • Liandry’s Torment
  • Riftmaker
  • Kraken Slayer
  • Terminus
  • Guinsoo’s Rageblade
  • Fiendhunter Bolts
  • Echoes of Helia
  • Dead Man’s Plate
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Overlord’s Bloodmail
  • Hullbreaker
  • Jak’sho the Protean
  • Force of Nature

Classic Patch Notes

NEW Aatrox

Aatrox was just a baby, 3 patches old, when we chose to snapshot him for League Classic. He only ever had four balance changes before his rework in 2017 and subsequent rework in 2018, and we’re excited to see how he’ll perform again. He’s an attack-focused fighter, damaging himself to gain attack speed and revive when he would be killed
Passive – Blood Well: Aatrox’s basic abilities damage himself to fill his Blood Well, which gives him bonus attack speed. If he’s killed, he empties his Blood Well to revive on the spot.
Q – Dark Flight: Aatrox flies up and crashes down, damaging and knocking up enemies in the area.
W – Blood Thirst / Blood Price: Toggle between Blood Thirst and Blood Price, each of which have bonus effects every three attacks. Blood Thirst heals Aatrox, increased when he’s low on health. Blood Price deals bonus damage and self-damages.
E – Blades of Torment: Aatrox fires out two projectiles that damage and slow all enemies they touch.
R – Massacre: Aatrox damages all nearby enemy champions and gains bonus attack speed and attack range for several seconds.

NEW Caitlyn

Classic’s version of Caitlyn was live from 2011-2015. Did you know when she first came out, some players were upset that she was too similar to Miss Fortune?
Passive – Headshot: Every few attacks, Caitlyn fires a headshot, dealing bonus damage. Headshot charges up faster while attacking from brush.
Q – Piltover Peacemaker: Catilyn fires a piercing shot that deals less damage to each subsequent target.
W – Yordle Snap Trap: Caitlyn puts a trap on the ground that roots and damages the first enemy champion to walk over it. She can have up to 2 traps down at a time.
E – 90 Caliber Net: Caitlyn fires out a massive net, knocking herself back in the process. The net damages and slows the first enemy it hits.
R – Ace in the Hole: Caitlyn channels then fires a single bullet at an enemy champion, which deals tons of damage, but can be intercepted by other enemy champions.

NEW Irelia

Welcome back the 2010-2018 version of Irelia! The original Trinity Force poster child is here to even the odds no matter how bad they look. She’s been Q-max, W-max, and E-max at various points in time, so see what build order works for you! She’s a fast but deceptively durable fighter who loves to be the underdog.
Passive – Ionian Fervor: Irelia gains bonus Tenacity based on how many visible enemy champions are nearby.
Q – Bladesurge: Irelia dashes to an enemy, dealing damage and applying on-hit effects. If it kills the target, Bladesurge’s full cooldown and some of its mana cost are refunded.
W – Hiten Style: Passively, Irelia restores some health with every attack. While active, her attacks deal bonus true damage and restore even more health.
E – Equilibrium Strike: Irelia damages and slows a nearby enemy. If they have higher %HP than her, she stuns them instead..
R – Transcendent Blades: Irelia sequentially fires out four blades in a line, each damaging all enemies they hit and restoring some health to Irelia. This is definitely not just a wave clear tool.

NEW Karma

Karma came out just two patches after Caitlyn and was only live for just over two years before being reworked in early 2013. Karma is arguably League’s first battlemage, rewarding her for getting in the thick of it and making her stronger the more health she’s missing.
Passive – Inner Flame: Karma gains bonus AP based on her missing health.
Q – Heavenly Wave: Karma fires out blades in a fan, err, cone in front of her, damaging all enemies it hits. If empowered with Mantra, it also heals all allies (herself included), scaling with their missing health.
W – Spirit Bond: Karma bonds with another target, giving allies (herself included) move speed, slowing enemies, and creating a tether between the two. Any champion caught in the clothesline is hasted or slowed as if they were the initial target. Enemies who get caught in the clothesline are damaged. If empowered with Mantra, all move speed effects are doubled.
E – Soul Shield: Karma shields a target. If empowered with Mantra, it also damages all enemies around her target.
R – Mantra: Mantra is available at level 1 and can hold up to two charges. She can cast it to empower her next basic ability.
Quinn and Valor
Quinn and Valor have returned, having only existed in this form for just over two years, from 2013-2015. Quinn is a ranged and evasive auto-attacker, while her ultimate calls in Valor to fight as a blistering-fast melee skirmisher instead.
Passive – Harrier: Valor periodically marks nearby enemies, whom Quinn can attack to deal bonus damage.
Q – Blinding Assault: Valor flies out to damage and blind enemies in an area.
W – Heightened Senses: Passively gives Quinn bonus attack and move speed whenever she triggers Harrier. Activate to briefly reveal a large area around her.
E – Vault: Quinn dashes to and then vaults off an enemy, damaging, knocking back, and slowing them. Valor then marks the target with Harrier.
R – Tag Team: Quinn retreats from the battlefield, sending Valor in her place. Valor has substantial bonus move speed, permanently has an empowered version of Heightened Senses’ attack speed buff, and casts modified versions of Blinding Assault and Vault. Re-casting (R) casts Skystrike, damaging all nearby enemies and returning Quinn to the battlefield.

NEW Quinn and Valor

Quinn and Valor have returned, having only existed in this form for just over two years, from 2013-2015. Quinn is a ranged and evasive auto-attacker, while her ultimate calls in Valor to fight as a blistering-fast melee skirmisher instead.
Passive – Harrier: Valor periodically marks nearby enemies, whom Quinn can attack to deal bonus damage.
Q – Blinding Assault: Valor flies out to damage and blind enemies in an area.
W – Heightened Senses: Passively gives Quinn bonus attack and move speed whenever she triggers Harrier. Activate to briefly reveal a large area around her.
E – Vault: Quinn dashes to and then vaults off an enemy, damaging, knocking back, and slowing them. Valor then marks the target with Harrier.
R – Tag Team: Quinn retreats from the battlefield, sending Valor in her place. Valor has substantial bonus move speed, permanently has an empowered version of Heightened Senses’ attack speed buff, and casts modified versions of Blinding Assault and Vault. Re-casting (R) casts Skystrike, damaging all nearby enemies and returning Quinn to the battlefield.

Fiora

Fiora is still the game’s most dominant top laner even after her last set of nerfs, so we’re back for one more round. We don’t want to take down her explosive ultimate any further, so we’re just going for a generic damage nerf.
W – Riposte
Bonus Attack Damage: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30

Graves

Graves came out swinging, being both wildly popular and arguably the game’s strongest champion. We’ve got some feel-good changes to his animations, especially his critical strike one, and some less-feel-good nerfs as he desperately needs them. We’re looking to preserve his bursty shotgunning and unique aspects as a tanky ADC, so that means we simply have to reduce his sustained damage.
Base Stats
Basic Attack and Critical Attack Animations: Sped up
Base Attack Damage: 54.1 ⇒ 50
Attack Damage per Level: 3.1 ⇒ 2.5
Attack Speed per Level: 2.9% ⇒ 2.5%
R – Collateral Damage
Cone Damage: 140 / 250 / 360 + 120% bonus AD ⇒ 140 / 230 / 320 + 100% bonus AD
Projectile Damage: Unchanged

Fizz

Fizz came out right behind Graves as a super strong performer, but mostly as an AP assassin in mid lane. We want to preserve both his assassin and fighter playstyles, so we’re skewing our nerfs toward his higher-AP builds. We’re pulling in lighter versions of a couple of nerfs from 2013 and 2015, aimed at bringing his guaranteed burst down to size, since he has so much reliable damage already with Deathfire Grasp and 75% AP ratio Lich Bane.
Q – Urchin Strike
Ability Power Ratio: 60% ⇒ 40%
W – Seastone Trident
Active Ability Power Ratio: 35% ⇒ 20%

Kennen

Kennen hasn’t quite reached the same heights as his other ninja compatriots and we’re confident he isn’t performing as well as he should. AD Kennen needs substantially more help than his other builds, so we’re skewing his buffs in ways to help those players out most of all
W – Electrical Surge
Passive Damage: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80% total AD ⇒ 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 + 100% bonus AD

Nautilus

Unlike his other water-themed friends, Nautilus didn’t come out swinging. Sometimes that anchor just weighs him down… Ultimately, he’s weak in all three of his main roles (Support, Jungle, Top) and we’d like to help those latter two most of all. So we’re fixing one major bug while pulling in buffs and reverting nerfs from early in his lifetime, giving him more reason to soak up experience and wade into the thick of the fight.
Passive – Staggering Blow
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the empowered attack was critting for too much damage.
W – Titan’s Wrath
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the shield wasn’t factoring in armor or magic resistance.
Damage over Time: 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 + 40% AP ⇒ 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 + 40% AP
Shield Bonus Health Ratio: 10% ⇒ 15%
Shield Duration: 9.75 ⇒ 10

Classic Items

Several of our tank items are underperforming. It turns out, they’ve got too little health regen, so they’re being increased. And we have a shop display bugfix for Banshee’s Veil so you can find it when searching for health items.

Spirit Visage

  • Health per 5: 4 ⇒ 20

Force of Nature

  • Health per 5: 20 ⇒ 40

Warmog’s Armor

  • Health per 5: 10 ⇒ 30

Banshee’s Veil

  • Stat Filter Filters: Ability Power ⇒ Health

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Patch 26.19 Notes – League of Legends

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Patch 26.19 notes for League of Legends are here. (Source)

Champions

We think The Darkin Blade has lost a fair bit of power with Sundered Sky nerfs that were aimed more at opening up the jungle meta, so we are giving him a bump so he remains a world-ending threat.

W – Infernal Chains

Cooldown: 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 seconds ⇒ 18 / 16.5 / 15 / 13.5 / 12 seconds

E – Umbral Dash

Health Heal Ratio: 1.1% per 100 bonus health ⇒ 1.3% per 100 bonus health
Aphelios has been kiting the spotlight for a while now, even though he’s a hypercarry in an enchanter meta that should favor him, so we’re looking to give him a little boost to encourage him to get out of his comfort zone.

Q – Weapon Abilites

Calibrum

Moonshot Damage: 70 – 160 (+42 – 60% bonus AD) (+100% AP) ⇒ 80 – 170 (+42 – 60% bonus AD) (+100% AP)

Severum

Healing: 2 – 7.1%, increased to 5 – 17.75% ⇒ 2 – 8%, increased to 5 – 20%

Gravitum

Slow: 30% for 2.5 seconds, decaying to 10% after 0.7 seconds ⇒ 30% for 2.5 seconds, decaying to 15% after 0.7 seconds

Infernum

Duskwave Cooldown: 9 / 8.25 / 7.5 / 6.75 / 6 seconds ⇒ 8 / 7.25 / 6.5 / 5.75 / 5 seconds

Crescendum

Mini-Crescendum Damage: 15% AD, decreasing by 1.5% AD to a minimum of 5% AD for the 8th+ chakram ⇒ 16% AD, decreasing by 1.5% AD to a minimum of 5% AD for the 9th+ chakram
Despite not receiving any changes since last year, Aurora has fallen off as we’ve had to nerf Rocketbelt into a fairer state. We’re giving our favorite Bryni a bit more power in her waveclear and outplay potential with her ultimate.

E – The Weirding

Base Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 ⇒ 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240

R – Between Worlds

Rift Duration: 1.75 / 2.5 / 3.25 seconds ⇒ 2.25 / 2.75 / 3.25 seconds
Since all bot laners received significantly increased gold income thanks to role quests, Draven’s potential to gain a gold advantage through his Adoration stacks has lost some of its impact. We’re giving him a helping hand (axe?) by tapping up his early game damage.
Base Stats
Attack Damage: 62 ⇒ 64
This year started strong for AP junglers that could use Dusk and Dawn, but others like Elise have been in a weak spot for a while, so we are helping out our friendly neighborhood spider with clear speed and damage.

Passive – Spider Queen

Passive Magic Damage On-Hit: 12 / 22 / 32 / 42 ⇒ 14 / 24 / 34 / 44

W – Skittering Frenzy

Bonus Attack Speed: 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120% ⇒ 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130%
Our Grand Duelist has room to shine a bit more when she succeeds after finding her opening, without giving her sharper 1v1 tools.
Base Stats
Health Growth: 99 ⇒ 105

R – Grand Challenge

Heal Range: 550 ⇒ 600
Heal Per Tick: 18.75 / 25 / 31.25 (+15% bonus AD) ⇒ 20 / 26.25 / 32.5 (+17.5% bonus AD)
Maximum Heal: 375 / 500 / 625 (+300% bonus AD) ⇒ 400 / 525 / 650 (+350% bonus AD)
Kha’Zix has been on the fringe of the meta now that the jungle is no longer dominated by Sundered Sky users. We are taking this opportunity to buff some of his weaker evolves to give him the flexibility to adapt and overcome.

Passive – Unseen Threat

Damage: 17 – 136 (+50% bonus AD) ⇒ 22 – 141 (+50% bonus AD)

W – Void Spike

Evolved Slow Duration: 2 seconds ⇒ 2.25 seconds

E – Leap

Evolved Range Bonus: +200 ⇒ +300
Lillia is on the edge of being viable at higher levels of play and we believe her current pattern requires her to get in danger’s way, so we’re helping her durability. We also want to give Lillia opportunities to really be a playmaker so we’re making the enemies she lullabies a little extra sleepy.
Base Stats
Armor: 22 ⇒ 24

R – Lilting Lullaby

Sleep Duration: 2 seconds ⇒ 2.5 seconds
Years ago, we added the Vigilance Passive so Lucian bot players didn’t feel like their champ was being nerfed because of mid laners, which ended up being super effective. We think now is a good opportunity to adjust the tuning of the passive and strike a balance between both roles.

Passive – Vigilance

Empowered On-Hit Damage: 15 (+20% AD) ⇒ 5 (+15% AD)

Q – Piercing Light

Base Damage: 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+100% bonus AD) ⇒ 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 (+100% bonus AD)
Somewhat overdue, but because Duskblade was removed a while ago, we’re removing the Ability Haste penalty we had to apply to his Q CDR mechanic. This should have minimal impact on Summoner’s Rift, but we see you Mayhem and Arena!

Q – Alpha Strike

Cooldown Refund on Hit: -1 second, scaling down with Ability Haste ⇒ 1 second
Nasus is difficult to keep down these days, and part of that is how quickly getting his early stacks leads to more reliable stacking. These higher highs will be compensated with some lower lows through some more vulnerability early on with lower damage and lifesteal lane sustain values off of that, and a bit longer before he really comes online.

Q – Siphoning Strike

Bonus Damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 ⇒ 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110
Nocturne has been a popular and powerful jungler in both pro and solo-queue for a while, so we’re hitting the map presence and dueling power he benefits from through his ultimate.

R – Paranoia

Cooldown: 140 / 115 / 90 seconds ⇒ 160 / 130 / 100 seconds
Poppy’s flex potential and jungle presence has been a bit problematic, suppressing many champions across the board as a strong counterpick. For this change, we’re targeting her flexibility by reverting a previous buff to jungle clear.

Q – Hammer Shock

Minion/Monster Maximum Health Cap: 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 / 225 ⇒ 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210
At higher levels of play, we’ve seen Rumble continue to take over games, even after our changes earlier this year designed to hit his power in lane. Here, we’re making some modifications to his passive that’s much more elite-skewed, while giving Rumble in the Jungle some compensation.

Passive – Junkyard Titan

Overheat Attack Speed: 50 – 130% ⇒ 30 – 100%
Monster Cap: 65 – 150 ⇒ 90 – 175
Between strong itemization options and best-in-class skirmish and roam potential demonstrated by his most skilled players, it’s high time we put some restraints on the archmage, while giving him some help with bad solo queue matchups.
Base Stats
Armor Growth: 4.2 ⇒ 4.7

Q – Overload

Flux Bonus Damage: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% increased damage ⇒ 15 / 40 / 65 / 90% increased damage

E – Spell Flux

Mana Cost: 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 ⇒ 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80
Vi has been a meta staple for the entire year, and now that Sundered Sky is in a better spot, we’re going after her durability and early clear speed to make her a riskier pick who can still bring the pain if you are willing to build for it.
Base Stats
Attack Damage: 63 + 3.5/Level ⇒ 61 + 3.9/Level

Passive – Blast Shield

Shield: 12% Maximum Health ⇒ 10% Maximum Health
This year we’ve been carefully buffing up AD Volibear, but he remains on the weak side even with his very unique AP build. We’re tuning him up to help him out across both the fringe AD build and his core AP build.

Passive – The Relentless Storm

Attack Speed per Stack: 5% (+3% per 100 AP) ⇒ 5% (+4% per 100 AP)
Lightning On-Hit Damage: 11 – 60 (Levels 1-18) (+45% AP) ⇒ 11 – 60 (Levels 1-18) (+45% AP) (+20% bonus AD)

World Atlas

We think melee supports have too much of their power in roaming and all-ins and are too weak in sustained laning. In response, we’re shifting the flat health to health regen on World Atlas and Runic Compass, which will benefit them more due to their higher base health regen values.
Health: 30 / 100 / 200 ⇒ 0 / 60 / 200
Health Regeneration: 25% / 50% / 75% ⇒ 50% / 75% / 75%

Teleport

As the meta has continued to adjust to role quests, it’s become clear that top lane is slightly weak, especially for split pushing. We’re in turn buffing the cooldown of both the free role quest Teleport and upgraded Unleashed Teleport to promote those alternative strategies.
Top Role Quest’s Free Teleport Cooldown: 420 seconds ⇒ 390 seconds
Top Role Quest’s Upgraded Unleashed Teleport Cooldown: 330 – 240 seconds ⇒ 300 – 210 seconds
Non-Top Unleashed Teleport Cooldown: 330 – 240 seconds ⇒ Unchanged

Classic Patch Notes

We’ve got our third big champion “drop” this patch (get it? They’re water-themed) with four fresh faces and the highlight is a long-lost favorite, Graves! We’ve also got our first set of actions from the previous Council poll. Welcome back, Cloak and Dagger, Moonflair Spellblade, and Zz’Rot Portal. 

Our fourth patch for Classic also contains more bugfixing, balance changes, and client quality. Check out those sweet new rune effects when you socket them in!

Champions

NEWFizz

Fizz came out back in 2011 and was finally reworked in late 2016. Though many of you remember all his buttons being in the same place, he’s got a missing HP bleed on his W passive, so maybe build a Sunfire Cape or two?
Passive – Nimble Fighter
Fizz can move through units and takes reduced damage from basic attacks.
Q – Urchin Strike
Fizz dashes a fixed distance through an enemy, damaging them and applying on-hit effects.
W – Seastone Trident
Passive: Fizz’s basic attacks deal additional damage over time, scaling with his target’s missing health.
Active: For the next few seconds, Fizz’s basic attacks deal bonus damage on-hit and apply Grievous Wounds for a few seconds, reducing healing by 50%.
E – Playful/Trickster
First cast: Fizz hops up on his trident, becoming untargetable. After a short delay, he will crash down, damaging and slowing enemies around him.
Second cast: Fizz can hop off the trident early to dash farther but deal damage in a smaller area and doesn’t slow.
R – Chum the Waters
Fizz throws out bait that clings onto the first enemy champion it hits. After a short delay, a mighty shark stalks its prey, dealing tons of damage, knocking up, and slowing enemies in the area.

NEWGraves

Welcome back, pre-rework Graves! This version from 2011-2015 is a true-to-live bot lane ADC, rewarded for long duration fights and deadly burst damage against short-range enemies. Careful though, his bonus resists take time to stack up, so assassins can still jump you in the jungle.
Passive – True Grit
While in combat, Graves gains stacking Armor and Magic Resist every second, up to a cap.
Q – Buckshot
Graves fires out three bullets that damage all enemies in a line. Multiple hits on the same target deal reduced damage.
W – Smokescreen
Graves launches a smoke grenade that damages, slows, and nearsights enemies in an area.
E – Quickdraw
Graves dashes a short distance and gains bonus attack speed for several seconds. Basic attacks reduce Quickdraw’s cooldown.
R – Collateral Damage
Graves fires an explosive shell that damages enemies in a line. It explodes on the first enemy champion hit, dealing reduced damage in a cone behind them.

NEWNami

Nami is back in action and not much has changed since her release in 2013. For those of you coming right from the modern game, her E buff is attack-only, so the modern Nami-Karthus synergy is gone.
Passive – Surging Tides
Allies struck by Nami’s abilities briefly gain bonus move speed.
Q – Aqua Prison
Nami lobs a bubble that damages and stuns enemies where it lands.
W – Ebb and Flow
Nami unleashes a stream of water that bounces, alternating between enemies and allies. Enemies take damage while allies are healed. Each bounce is less effective than the hit before it.
E – Tidecaller’s Blessing
Nami empowers an ally, causing their next three attacks to deal bonus damage and slow their target.
R – Tidal Wave
Nami unleashes a massive tidal wave that damages, knocks up, and slows all enemies it crashes into.
NEW Nautilus
Nautilus came out back in 2012 and as with Nami, his kit has stood the test of time. Remember that you can buy multiple Doran’s Rings if you want your laning phase to work out, and he used to be quite the jungler back in the day. The biggest difference you’ll find is that his ultimate is much less disruptive to targets hit by the traveling portion.
Passive – Staggering Blow
Nautilus’s basic attacks deal bonus damage and root their enemies. Each enemy can only be Staggered once every few seconds.
Q – Dredge Line
Nautilus throws out his anchor, colliding with the first enemy or piece of terrain it hits. Enemies are damaged and pulled in, while Nautilus pulls himself to his target. Hitting terrain refunds part of Dredge Line’s cooldown.
W – Titan’s Wrath
Nautilus gains a shield. While it holds, his attacks deal damage over time to enemies in the area.
E – Riptide
Nautilus slams the ground, sending out cascading shockwaves that damage and slow enemies. Enemies may be hit by multiple shockwaves, taking reduced damage for subsequent hits.
R – Depth Charge
Nautilus fires a shockwave into the earth that damages and knocks up enemies in its path. When it reaches his target, it damages, knocks up, and stuns all enemies in the immediate area.

NEWNautilus

Nautilus came out back in 2012 and as with Nami, his kit has stood the test of time. Remember that you can buy multiple Doran’s Rings if you want your laning phase to work out, and he used to be quite the jungler back in the day. The biggest difference you’ll find is that his ultimate is much less disruptive to targets hit by the traveling portion.
Passive – Staggering Blow
Nautilus’s basic attacks deal bonus damage and root their enemies. Each enemy can only be Staggered once every few seconds.
Q – Dredge Line
Nautilus throws out his anchor, colliding with the first enemy or piece of terrain it hits. Enemies are damaged and pulled in, while Nautilus pulls himself to his target. Hitting terrain refunds part of Dredge Line’s cooldown.
W – Titan’s Wrath
Nautilus gains a shield. While it holds, his attacks deal damage over time to enemies in the area.
E – Riptide
Nautilus slams the ground, sending out cascading shockwaves that damage and slow enemies. Enemies may be hit by multiple shockwaves, taking reduced damage for subsequent hits.
R – Depth Charge
Nautilus fires a shockwave into the earth that damages and knocks up enemies in its path. When it reaches his target, it damages, knocks up, and stuns all enemies in the immediate area.

Akali

As the dust has settled, Akali appears weak, so we’re swinging by for some buffs. Crescent Slash can feel like it’s a waste of energy, so we’re both improving its late-game energy efficiency and its overall DPS, which are buffs from 2012 and 2015, respectively.
E – Crescent Slash
Energy Cost: 60 / 60 / 60 / 60 / 60 ⇒ 60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40
Cooldown: 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3s ⇒ 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1s
Ability Power Ratio: 30% ⇒ 40%

Fiora

Fiora is doing far too well, so it’s nerf time. First up, we’re fixing several bugs and implementation mismatches compared to her 3.11 version, which is why you’re seeing some low-impact changes here. For her balance, we’re pulling in an adjustment from 2014 and reverting a buff from 2012. The change to her ultimate will deal similar damage to a single isolated target but weaken her AoE teamfighting.
W – Riposte
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where the reflected damage could be blocked by enemies in the way.
R – Blade Waltz
Damage: 160 / 330 / 500 (+115% bonus AD) ⇒ 125 / 255 / 385 (+85% bonus AD)
Maximum Single Target Damage: 320 / 660 / 1000 (+230% bonus AD) ⇒ 325 / 663 / 1001 (+221% bonus AD)
Cooldown: 130 / 120 / 110s ⇒ 150 / 130 / 110s
Damage Timing: Starts dealing damage 0.25s later into the animation.
Target Prioritization: Now always tries to prioritize unstruck enemies if possible.
Maximum Return Range: 1500 ⇒ 2500
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where Fiora could be locked out of attacking or moving for 2 seconds if her target immediately became untargetable.

Galio

While Fiora landed as pretty much the strongest champion in the game, Galio is arguably the weakest. We’re delivering a huge swath of buffs and some bugfixes for his initial state.
W – Bulwark
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where the first heal was receiving the -20% heal reduction.
E – Righteous Gust
Cast Time: 0.4s ⇒ 0.25s
Missile Speed: 1200 ⇒ 1300
Missile Width: 60 ⇒ 160
Missile Range: 1100 ⇒ 1175
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where it was dealing 15 more damage than it should have.
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where it was applying the wrong VFX on its target.

Kassadin

As we’ve buffed up the bottom end of the mid lane pool, Kassadin has wound up as the actual worst-performing mid laner. Our primary buff is increasing his Riftwalk range. Instead of using his formerly Dominion-only 600 max range, he’s regaining his full Summoner’s Rift 700 range Riftwalk. We’re also shipping adjustments that adhere more closely to his tuning during Worlds 2013.
Q – Null Sphere
Ability Power Ratio: 60% ⇒ 70%
E – Force Pulse
Damage: 60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300 (+80% AP) ⇒ 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+70% AP)
Slow: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60% ⇒ 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%
R – Riftwalk
Range: 600 ⇒ 700

Malphite

We’ve got a few historical-accuracy changes and bugfixes for Malphite this patch. Crit AD Malphite now has sweet AoE damage and he no longer halves Dragon’s attack speed. Infinity Edge is calling to you.
W – Brutal Strikes
Splash Damage: Now crits if the main attack does.
Activation: No longer interrupts Malphite’s attack mid-swing.
E – Ground Slam
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where it could slow Epic Monster attack speed.
R – Unstoppable Force
Bugfix: Fixed a bug where Malphite could get locked out of casting Flash for too long.

Morgana

Morgana is one of the strongest mid laners in the game and is a little too good in support as well, so we’re pushing in some mid-skewed nerfs by reverting some of her 2010-2012 era buffs and adjustments.
W – Tormented Soil
Mana Cost: 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 ⇒ 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160
Cooldown: 10s ⇒ 12s
E – Black Shield
Shield: 95 / 160 / 225 / 290 / 355 ⇒ 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300
R – Soul Shackles
Cooldown: 120 / 110 / 100s ⇒ 120 / 120 / 120s

Nidalee

We’re putting in a few more historical-accuracy changes for Nidalee this patch. There won’t be a huge power gain here, but it will allow oldschool expert Nidalee players to activate their old combos.
W – Bushwhack
Vision: Now gives 250u of vision for 0.5s when cast.
Damage Duration: 4s ⇒ 2.5s. Total damage unchanged.
R – Aspect of the Cougar
Attack Timer: Now resets Nidalee’s basic attack timer.

Poppy

Poppy re-released fairly balanced but had a few bugs and oversights in her scripts. Both of these changes represent period-accurate power to Season Three and constitute small buffs.
Q – Devastating Blow
Critical Strike: Now crits her total AD ratio if she crits.
Spellblade Damage: Now converts all Spellblade damage to magic.
Tooltip: Updated to clarify crit damage, damage cap, and the Spellblade interaction.

Shyvana

Shyvana isn’t doing too hot, so it’s time for buffs. We’re leading with a revert of some nerfs from 2012, which should help her stay in step with her opponents.
W – Burnout
Maximum Duration Extension: 4 ⇒ 6
R – Dragon’s Descent
Bonus Resistances: 10 / 15 / 20 ⇒ 15 / 20 / 25, still doubled during dragon form.

Twisted Fate

Twisted Fate is too good in both mid and support, so it’s nerf time. As support is the better-performing role, we’re lowering his map-wide omnipresence and frontloading the nerfs. These nerfs come in the form of patch 3.7’s Destiny cooldown and 1.0.0.75’s Gate cooldown, the last time it was ever its own spell. We’re also matching his passive’s behavior with other global passives: It’s disabled while he’s dead.
Passive – Loaded Dice
Bonus Gold While Dead: Allies no longer gain bonus gold while Twisted Fate is dead.
E – Gate
Cooldown: 120 / 105 / 90 / 75 / 60s ⇒ 135 / 120 / 105 / 90 / 75s
R – Destiny
Cooldown: 130 / 110 / 90s ⇒ 180 / 150 / 120s
Mana Cost: 150 ⇒ 150 / 125 / 100

Zilean

Zilean has some small anachronisms in his cast paradigms and ability functionality, which we’re fixing this patch.
Passive – Heightened Learning
Bonus Experience While Dead: No longer grants bonus XP while Zilean is dead.
Q – Time Bomb
Cast Visibility: Casting the spell now reveals Zilean if cast from fog of war.
E – Time Warp
Cast Range: 550 edge to edge (around 650 in practical use) ⇒ 700 center to center

Items

Cloak and Dagger

  • Recipe: Cloak of Agility + Dagger. 1130 total cost.
  • Attack Speed: 20%
  • Critical Strike Chance: 20%
  • Unique Passive: 35% Tenacity, shared with Mercury’s Treads, Zephyr, and Moonflair Spellblade.


  NEW   Moonflair Spellblade

  • Recipe: Seeker’s Armguard + Negatron Cloak. 2300 total cost.
  • Ability Power: 50
  • Armor: 50
  • Magic Resistance: 50
  • Unique Passive: 35% Tenacity, shared with Mercury’s Treads, Zephyr, and Cloak and Dagger.


  NEW   Zz’Rot Portal

  • Recipe: Chain Vest + Negatron Cloak + Rejuvenation Bead. 2700 total cost.
  • Armor: 50
  • Magic Resistance: 50
  • Health Regeneration: 5 per 5 seconds
  • Active: Place down a void gate for 150 seconds. Voidlings with decaying health periodically spawn and march down the nearest lane, damaging enemies in their path. 150-second cooldown.

Systems

Council Vote

Welcome to our second League Classic community poll! This time around, we want your feedback on six specific areas, including which champion’s kit we prioritize restoring next. Head over to “The Council” tab in the League client to cast your votes! Voting will be open for seven days and you’re free to update your answers while the poll is active. And keep an eye out, as poll results will be published in the next Patch Notes. 

In case you missed it, we previously posted the results of our inaugural Council vote in the Patch 26.18 Notes, and some of those results are starting to go to live, including the three items you voted to revive in this patch!

Miscellaneous

  • Added more in-game negative behavior detections.
  • Updated in-game pings to use oldschool art.
  • Updated start-of-champion select visuals to make team and position more apparent.
  • Updated the loading screen to look more classic.
  • Improved visual clarity in The Council voting.
  • Added a new “Recommended” sort in the Runes store, making it easier for new players to identify good early-account runes.

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Patch 26.18 Notes – League of Legends

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Patch 26.18 notes for League of Legends are here. (Source)

Champions

Bard has been a meta staple for much of the year. Earlier we toned his damage down to what we think are reasonable levels, so this time we are going to target his durability which has also stood out as high given his mobility and long range ultimate utility.
Base Stats
Armor: 34 + 5/Level ⇒ 32 + 4.7/Level
Cassio has always scaled with skill, but this year has propelled her to new heights of pro play dominance despite being weaker for average players. These adjustments should tap down her laning power, especially in pro where defensive purchases are valued more than raw AP, while giving her back some scaling power. It will still be critical to use empowered E’s, but raising her floor lets us be a bit more flexible with tuning.

Passive – Serpentine Grace

Move Speed Bonus: 6% – 40% (based on level) ⇒ 5% – 36% (based on level)

Q – Noxious Blast

Damage: 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 / 215 ⇒ 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205
Ability Power Ratio: 65% ⇒ 75%

E – Twin Fang

Mana Cost: 40 ⇒ 45
Base Ability Power Ratio: 10% ⇒ 20%
Enhanced Ability Power Ratio: 55% ⇒ 45%
Total Ability Power Ratio: 65% ⇒ 65%
Damage: 52 – 120 ⇒ 50 – 120

R – Petrifying Gaze

Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 ⇒ 125 / 225 / 325
Ability Power Ratio: 50% ⇒ 75%
As one of our assassins that offer opponents a wider mix of gameplay options, Ekko has found a slightly weak steady state since Dusk & Dawn’s update mid year. We believe he has some room for power, especially in mid where he scales slightly worse, without buffing his Hail of Blades pattern.

Q – Timewinder

Mana Cost: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 ⇒ 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80
Return Damage Ability Power Ratio: 60% ⇒ 70%
Kassadin had a strong start to 2026 but hasn’t regained his…footing…since our earlier nerfs. His Q should feel more punchy with his scaling, and we’re aiming to provide more early agency through good Riftwalk usage without touching his late game fantasy.

Q – Null Sphere

Ability Power Ratio: 70% AP ⇒ 80% AP

R – Riftwalk

Base Damage: 70 / 90 / 110 ⇒ 80 / 95 / 110
Yi drew the short end of the stick on the Rageblade bugfix from earlier this year due to his double strike interactions. While the actual impact for most Rageblade users was minor (and we are compensating Rageblade as well for that this patch), he was impacted harder than the other users. He’s also just been unable to scale as well as a melee carry compared to his normal power level, so we are also giving him a buff up.
Base Stats
Armor Growth: 33 + 4.5/Level ⇒ 33 + 5/Level

R – Highlander

Move Speed: 35 / 45 / 55% ⇒ 40 / 50 / 60%
Nautilus has been sitting near the top of the meta for the entire year, even before our work to bring other tank supports up in power, and we feel nerfing him will open up room for a more variety. That said, we know a lot of his value is in being able to lock down champions effectively, and that’ll remain a core strength.
Base Stats
Attack Damage: 61 + 3.3/Level ⇒ 58 + 3.3/Level

Q – Dredge Line

Damage: 85 / 130 / 175 / 220 / 265 (+90% AP) ⇒ 85 / 125 / 165 / 205 / 245 (+90% AP)
Seraphine bot has been a source of frustration for opponents for some time, despite a minor nerf a few patches ago. We are nerfing her E’s rank up to target this head on, as support Seraphine usually maxes it last (which basically means she never has it maxed as a support.)

E – Beat Drop

Cooldown: 11 / 10.5 / 10 / 9.5 / 9s ⇒ 11s
Our MSI changes were effective at pulling her to the forefront of pro play for the first time in years, but unfortunately she’s too performant in specific solo queue settings. Our data shows that W damage is a meaningfully larger share of damage in the tiers where she’s stronger than desired, so this should help tap her down while still preserving her core fantasies. Her passive is also now better breakpointed to increase reliance on Lost Chapter in early-mid levels, nerfing her higher winrate builds that make do with less mana investment.

Passive – Transcendent

Splinter Mana: 20 – 255 ⇒ 20 – 199

W – Force of Will

Cooldown: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8s ⇒ 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9s
Viego’s winrate has been on a downward trend recently, and his players have noticed and begun dropping him. He has a fair bit of room to bring up, both just generally and for the viability of his more bruisery alt build.
Base Stats
Attack Damage Growth: 3.5 ⇒ 4

Passive – Sovereign’s Domination

Heal: 2% (+…. ) ⇒ 2% (+ 2.5% per 100 bonus AD) (+ 2% per 100 AP) (+ 5% per 100% bonus attack speed) (+ 2% per 500 bonus HP) of the target’s maximum health
We’re using a QoL change here as an opportunity to give Zaahen some love! This might read as a nerf, but Zaahen’s Q lined up with his passive in such a way that it meant he always left his resurrection (and GA, Zilean R) with Q on CD, so now he’s always happier. His Q2 is also a clean double of his Q1 base damage now.

Q – The Darkin Glaive

NEW Cooldown Behavior: If Q is active, it is now placed on Cooldown immediately upon being put in Resurrection
Q2 Damage: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 (+20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% bonus AD) ⇒ 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% bonus AD)
Zeri has been slowly climbing in winrate with the recent Runaan’s Hurricane and Yun Tal Wildarrows buffs. She now sits very high in winrate compared to her historical resting, which is worrying for a champ that is so skill intensive. As she has also begun showing up in pro, we expect she has a high chance of becoming meta dominant, so we are pulling some power out of her burst and waveclear.

W – Ultrashock Laser

Damage: 30 / 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 (+120% tAD) ⇒ 30 / 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 (+100% tAD)
Wall Damage: 45 / 105 / 165 / 225 / 285 (+180% tAD) ⇒ 45 / 105 / 165 / 225 / 285 (+150% tAD)
Critical Strike: 150% (+15% IE)

Items

Guinsoo’s Rageblade

In light of the bugfix nerfing rageblade by a minor amount by pushing back when the first double hit triggers, we are compensating with a similarly minor QoL buff to help players get it stacked up and keep it stacked.
Seething Strike Stack Duration: 3s ⇒ 4s

Classic Patch Notes

Our third League Classic patch has our biggest content drop to date: Five brand new old champions! Do you want to remove as much gameplay as possible with Poppy’s Diplomatic Immunity? Untargetably Blade Waltz the entire enemy team as Fiora? Deliver taunt explosions as Galio? Experience the fabled early Xin Zhao kit (he’s been nerfed, don’t worry)? Shyvana’s also here.

We’ve got a smaller balance patch than before, as we’re in a much better state balance-wise. Some of our bugfixes had substantial winrate impact, so we’re returning some power we took away in a few cases. Otherwise, we’re just addressing the game’s biggest outliers.

Champions

NEWFiora

Welcome back Classic Fiora, who existed from 2012-2015. Fiora is a deadly duelist, poised to deal tons of damage to isolated targets while also excelling in short trades by Riposting their strikes back at them. You’ll probably want a Ravenous Hydra to have access to wave clear. Some things never change.
Passive – Duelist
Fiora regenerates health whenever she damages enemies. This regeneration can stack when hitting champions.
Q – Lunge
Fiora dashes to strike a nearby enemy. Lunge can be cast a second time at no additional cost..
W – Riposte
Passive: Fiora gain bonus Attack Damage
Active: Fiora parries the next attack within a short time, dealing damage back to her attacker.
E – Burst of Speed
Fiora gains Attack Speed for a few seconds. Attacks and Lunges during this time grant her a stacking Move Speed bonus.
R – Blade Waltz
This is why you’re really here. Fiora becomes untargetable and dashes around the battlefield, striking nearby enemies for (say it with me) tons of damage. All strikes apply on-hit effects and repeated hits on the same target deal reduced damage.

NEWGalio

Classic Galio existed from 2010-2017 and was one part mage, one part AP bruiser, one part tank, one part support. He still wants to build Magic Resist to scale his offense, but almost everything about him is different from the modern-day champion.
Passive – Runic Skin
Galio gains a portion of his Magic Resist as Ability Power. Hooray for one-sentence passives!
Q – Resolute Smite
Galio fires a concussive blast from his eyes that damages and slows enemies where it lands.
W – Bulwark
Galio gives a nearby allied champion bonus Armor and Magic Resist. While buffed, whenever they take damage, Galio is healed.
E – Righteous Gust
Galio unleashes a gust of wind that damages enemies in a line and leaves behind a directional draft, which gives all allies movement speed as long as they’re moving with the current.
Hwei stole this ability. What a jerk.
R – Idol of Durand
Galio channels to taunt all nearby enemies, taking reduced damage in the process. After channeling, Galio damages all enemies caught in the area, increasing based on how many times he was hit while channeling.

NEWPoppy

Do you think League of Legends has too much gameplay? Do you want your opponents to literally have no counterplay to you? No damage, no CC, nothing? We have the Demacian for you. Initially available from 2010-2015, Classic Poppy is a single-target terror with the option to become completely immune to all enemies but one.
Passive – Valiant Fighter
All damage to Poppy beyond 10% of her current health is reduced by 50%
Just in case you thought she was too easy to kill already
Q – Devastating Blow
Poppy’s next attack deals bonus damage based on her target’s max HP
W – Paragon of Demacia
Passive: Poppy gains Armor and Attack Damage (up to a cap) whenever she deals or takes Attacks herself.
Active: Immediately gain max stacks of Paragon of Demacia and gain increased Move Speed for several seconds
E – Heroic Charge
Poppy charges at an enemy, damaging and knocking this back. If they collide with a wall, they take more damage and are stunned.
R – Diplomatic Immunity
Poppy picks an enemy. For the next few seconds no one else can do anything to her and she deals bonus damage to them.
Don’t be fooled by the bonus damage. Ult Soraka and then kill the enemy ADC. There’s no counter-play.
I can’t believe they got rid of this spell during her rework.

NEWShyvana

We chose 2011-2013 for Classic Shyvana, so this is a true blast from the past. Our biggest pro tip for you is Frozen Mallet. If they’re slowed, they can’t run away.
Passive – Fury of the Dragonborn
Shyvana’s basic attacks enhance each of her basic abilities. They reduce Q’s cooldown, increase W’s duration, deal a fraction of E’s initial damage, and generate Fury for her ultimate.
Q – Twin Bite
Shyvana’s next attack strikes her target twice, dealing bonus damage.
In dragon form, Twin Bite deals damage in a cone in front of her.
W – Burnout
Shyvana gains Move Speed and continually damages enemies around her.
In dragon form, Burnout leaves a trail of fire that damages enemies who stand on it.
E – Flame Breath
Shyvana unleashes a fireball that damages the first enemy hit and reduces their armor
In dragon form, she unleashes a cone of fireballs, hitting more enemies.
R – Dragon’s Descent
Passive: Shyvana gains bonus Armor and Magic Resist. This bonus is doubled while in dragon form.
Shyvana transforms into a dragon, flying forward to damage and knock back all enemies encountered during her flight.

NEWXin Zhao

Classic Xin Zhao takes on his kit from 2012-2017. If you’re looking for some straightforward right click until they’re dead gameplay, look no further!
Passive – Challenge
Xin Zhao Challenges his most recent attack target, reducing their Armor.
Q – Three Talon Strike
Xin Zhao’s next three basic attacks deal bonus damage and reduce his other cooldowns by 1 second. The third attack knocks up his target.
W – Battle Cry
Passive: Every third basic attack heals Xin Zhao.
Active: Xin Zhao gains bonus Attack Speed for several seconds.
E – Audacious Charge
Xin Zhao dashes an enemy, Challenging them. Nearby enemies, including the target, take damage and are slowed.
R – Crescent Sweep
Xin Zhao sweeps all enemies around him, dealing damage and gaining Armor and Magic Resist for each enemy struck. Every enemy except his Challenge target are knocked back.

Anivia

Anivia is our single top performer in mid lane, so she’s been slated for nerfs. We’ve got several changes this patch, all of which are re-tuning her numbers back to 2013 accuracy.
Q – Flash Frost
Missile Speed: 950 ⇒ 850
Manual Detonation Stun Duration: 1s ⇒ 0.75s
Manual Detonation Radius: 230 ⇒ 210
Minimum Delay for Recast: 0 ⇒ 0.25s

Gangplank

Gangplank is performing worst of all conventional top laners and is deserving of a large buff. As with many of our changes on Classic, we’re reverting old nerfs from 2011 and 2012. We’re playing up his dreams of being a banker and sharing the wealth when it’s time to go all in.
Q – Parrrley
Bonus Gold on Kill: 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 ⇒ 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 12
E – Raise Morale
Active Attack Damage: 12 / 19 / 26 / 33 / 40 ⇒ 14 / 22 / 30 / 38 / 46
Active Move Speed: 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20% ⇒ 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26%
Ally Bonus: Allies still gain 50% of Gangplank’s bonuses

Heimerdinger

Heimerdinger’s bugfix last patch ended up being a massive hit to his power, well above what we expected. So we’re buffing him back up, partially reverting some of our previous nerfs. Because the double damage turret bugfix was significantly top lane skewed, we’re looking to buff his performance in top lane most of all and fix a couple of minor mismatches that escaped his release.
Base Stats
Base Health Regeneration: 4.5 ⇒ 5.05
Q – H-28G Evolution Turret
Base Damage: 28 / 36 / 44 / 52 / 60 ⇒ 30 / 38 / 46 / 54 / 62
W – Hextech Micro-Rockets
Mana Cost: 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145 ⇒ 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120
E – CH-1 Concussion Grenade
Cooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10s ⇒ 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9s
Cast Range: 920 ⇒ 925

Kayle

Kayle isn’t performing too well in her most popular role of top lane, so we’re here to lend her a wing. We’ve got a large change to her passive, which is a boost of functionally 17-32 ability power. All in all, this should result in a Kayle with more damage, more healing, more everything.
Passive – Holy Fervor
Ability Power Gained: 30% bonus AD ⇒ 30% total AD

Malzahar

Malzahar is one of our best-performing mid laners, primarily as an AP threat, and is due for a small nerf. We completed a pass of minor differences from his 2013 form and have some changes to Voidlings as a result, which should skew toward making AD Malzahar better without affecting AP Malzahar much. Continuing on the trend of AD Malzahar, we’re raising his overall attack speed, so that he can use those potential AD items better. Meanwhile, on the AP nerf front, we have a meaningful bugfix to R, which will reduce its damage in several circumstances, plus an AP ratio nerf to bring him in line.
Base Stats
Attack Speed Growth: 1.36% ⇒ 3%
Attack Speed Ratio: 0.625 ⇒ 0.658
Passive – Summon Voidling
Movement Speed: 400 ⇒ 460
Attack Cast Frame: 12 ⇒ 9
Gold on Kill: 2 ⇒ 12
Q – Call of the Void
Ability Power Ratio: 80% ⇒ 70%
R – Nether Grasp
Bugfix: R no longer continues to deal damage if the channel stops.

Nasus

Nasus is the top dog of top lane and it’s by a lot. Thankfully, we’ve got some substantial bugfixes that should put his bark and his bite on more equal footing. First, we’re fixing a bug where his Q stacks could crit, which means for all you Trinity Force enjoyers, that’s a big hit to Q damage about 10% of the time. For Wither, there are two bugs worth noting and a single change for period-accuracy. The slow now updates every 1 second (affected by tenacity) instead of every 0.5 seconds, unaffected. So now Tenacity won’t cut off the top-end of his slow. However, it was also bugged to use the per-second update every 0.5 seconds, meaning the maximum slow was much higher than it should have been. Fixing both bugs should net out to an appropriate nerf for the ability.
Q – Siphoning Strike
Bonus Damage from stacks can no longer critically strike
W – Wither
Slow ramps every: 0.5s ⇒ 1.0s, affected by Tenacity
Bugfix: The slow no longer ramps up twice as hard as it should

Warwick

Warwick is the top dog of the jungle and it’s by a lot. With Feral Flare’s build path turning back into attack speed, Warwick’s doing even better than he ever has. Accordingly, we’re pulling back even further on how much auto-attack power he gets, mostly from historic changes in his past. We’re also pulling in part of a nerf from 4.21. He was a real terror back in the patch before then…
Base Stats
Attack Speed: 0.644 ⇒ 0.625
Passive – Eternal Thirst
Base Damage: 3 – 16, linear scaling ⇒ 3 + 0.5 per level until level 9, then +1 per level
W – Hunter’s Call
Cooldown: 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 / 16s ⇒ 30 / 27 / 24 / 21 / 18s
R – Infinite Duress
Damage: 250 / 335 / 420 + 200% bonus AD ⇒ 180 / 300 / 420 + 200% bonus AD
Cast Indicator: Updated the cast indicator to better reflect its cast range

Classic Systems

We’ve made some changes around Classic Skin Chromas and their distribution. Instead of directly selling Classic Skin Chromas, we’re unifying this product with their associated Base Skin. We’re hoping this simplifies things and removes some edge cases (where players could effectively pay double if they purchased the Classic Chroma and then the Base Skin).

For those players who have only purchased the Classic Chroma, we’ll be granting the associated Base Skin for free!

Baron Rammus will be going into the vault in 26.20. You can acquire him at a discounted price until then!”

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League Classic – Patch 26.17 Notes

Posted on by U.GG

Patch 26.17 notes for Classic League of Legends are here. (Source)

To see Patch 26.17 notes for modern League, see Patch 26.17 Notes – League of Legends.

“Our second patch for League Classic contains tons of good stuff! We’re giving everyone two additional Rune Pages, increasing Influence Points and Classic XP gains across the board, and reducing the cost of about one third of the runes. We’re updating Summoner’s Rift’s lighting, textures, and decals to bring our visual fidelity closer to the Rift of old. We’ve also got our first Council vote, so be sure to log in and make your voice heard. Remember that the more Classic you play, the more voting power you can earn! 

We’ve also got about 20 balance changes, several dozen bugfixes, and have added Champion and Role swapping to Champion Select to improve your day-to-day Classic experience.”

Champions

Ahri

Ahri is extremely safe, has good sustain, good wave clear, and the ability to all-in her opponents at a moment’s notice. She’s also overpowered. We want to trim some of her extraneous early safety and reduce how frequently she can pressure her opposition.

Base Stats

  • Base Health Regeneration: 6.1 ⇒ 4.5
  • Health Regeneration Growth: 0.6 ⇒ 0.45
  • Health: 460 ⇒ 440

R – Spirit Rush

  • Cooldown: 110 / 95 / 80 ⇒ 120 / 100 / 80

Annie

Annie is our second weakest mid laner behind Lux, so we’re driving on some buffs. We’re first reverting some damage nerfs from July 2011 and otherwise ensuring her offensive threat is up to snuff.

Passive – Pyromania

  • Stun Duration: 1.5s ⇒ 1.75s

Q – Disintegrate

  • Damage: 85 / 125 / 165 / 205 / 245 + 70% AP ⇒ 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 + 75% AP

W – Incinerate

  • Damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 + 75% AP ⇒ 85 / 135 / 185 / 235 / 285 + 80% AP

E – Molten Shield

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Molten Shield dealt too little damage
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Molten Shield could damage enemies for non-Attacks R – Summon: Tibbers!
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where AP was not applying to Tibbers’s burn damage.

Ashe

As a supportive ADC, Ashe is performing below average. She’s not massively underpowered, but weak enough to deserve a buff. To do that, we’re reverting a 2010 Volley nerf, letting her succeed more while playing at long ranges, poking and suppressing her opponents from afar.

W – Volley

  • Damage: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 + 100% total AD ⇒ 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 + 100% total AD
  • Range: 1200 ⇒ 1300

Blitzcrank

Blitzcrank is due for much larger nerfs than they got last patch, so we’re back to bring the highest agency support in the game down to size. We’re continuing to revisit old patches to return older, weaker tuning. We’re also fixing a few bugs and oversights to bring their power down further. Our one unique contribution is a rank 1 and 2 nerf to Static Field’s active. Combined with the cooldown nerf, we hope that Blitzcrank players will occasionally choose to keep the R in its passive form, playing for a more sustained damage threat.

Passive – Mana Barrier

  • Tooltip: Clarifies that Mana Barrier only pops if Blitzcrank is below 20% Health when taking damage.
  • Shield: 50% maximum mana ⇒ 50% current mana

Q – Rocket Grab

  • Range: 1080 ⇒ 1050
  • Mana Cost: 120 ⇒ 140

E – Power Fist

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the cooldown was always 5 seconds, regardless of rank or Cooldown Reduction.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the target was stunned for approximately 0.3 seconds longer than intended.

R – Static Field

  • Active Damage: 200 / 300 / 400 ⇒ 150 / 275 / 400
  • Cooldown: 30s ⇒ 40s

Dr. Mundo

Dr. Mundo’s still in need of some extra healthcare even after last patch’s buffs as one of the worst top laners and junglers in the game. We’re back with further increases to his durability, in hopes of making him the biggest meat wall you’ve ever seen. His health buffs come from reverts to nerfs in April of 2011. We’re also handing him some extra early game attack speed, which is meant to disproportionately buff his jungling, where he currently performs worse than in top lane.

Base Stats

  • Health: 522 ⇒ 560
  • Health Growth: 89 ⇒ 90
  • Level 1 Attack Speed: 0.625 ⇒ 0.658

Evelynn

Evelynn is one of the best-performing junglers in Classic and is gaining more win rate over time as players learn how to optimize her. As such, she’s due for a nerf. We’re pulling a mix of reverted buffs from her initial release and nerfs from 2013’s future. We’re making Dark Frenzy worse when just spammed to get across the map, reducing her mid-late jungle clear speed, and making her consider her mana costs more, just like other AP junglers.

Passive – Shadow Walk

  • Maximum Mana Regeneration While Camouflaged: 1% ⇒ 0.8%

Q – Hate Spike

  • Base Damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 ⇒ 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100
  • Missile Speed: 3000 – 800, decaying ⇒ 2000 – 800, decaying

W – Dark Frenzy

  • Mana Cost: 0 ⇒ 40
  • Cooldown: 15s ⇒ 20s

Ezreal

As players have sanded off the rust, Ezreal has moved to the top of the pile as the most picked bot laner by far and too strong a performer considering his high degree of safety. As this dominance is driven by AD Ezreal, we’re delivering some compensation changes to keep AP Ezreal afloat as well. Our nerfs are a tour of changes from back in June of 2010, picking up two Q nerfs and reverting an R nerf from 16 years ago.

Q – Mystic Shot

  • Total Attack Damage Ratio: 120% ⇒ 110%
  • Cast Range: 1200 ⇒ 1100

R – Trueshot Barrage

  • Ability Power Ratio: 70% ⇒ 100%

Garen

We were conservative with many of our changes last patch, which has left Garen still in a very weak position. We’re back to deliver much stronger buffs with the goal of bringing him up to speed. We have two primary goals with our buffs. The first is to ensure that spin-to-win always feels rewarding, especially early game. The other is to ensure that he feels good about all his item purchases, whether scaling his damage or durability.

Base Stats

  • Attack Damage: 55.5 ⇒ 60
  • Armor Growth: 2.7 ⇒ 3

W – Courage

  • Bonus Armor and Magic Resistance Increase: 20% ⇒ 30%

E – Judgment

  • Damage Per Second: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 + 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110% total AD ⇒ 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 + 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120% total AD

Gragas

Gragas is extremely safe, very bursty, and overall just overperforms in mid lane. Our nerfs are aimed at making him less safe as a laner and make him consider his openings more carefully without reducing his burst damage by much.

Q – Barrel Roll

  • Cooldown: 11.5 / 10.5 / 9.5 / 8.5 / 7.5s ⇒ 12.5 / 11.5 / 10.5 / 9.5 / 8.5s
  • Damage: 85 / 135 / 185 / 235 / 285 + 90% AP ⇒ 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 + 90% AP

W – Drunken Rage

  • Cooldown: 25s ⇒ 30s

R – Explosive Cask

  • Cooldown: 100 / 90 / 80s ⇒ 130 / 115 / 100s

Heimerdinger

Heimerdinger is on the strong side, even after last patch’s nerfs. He’s got a meaningful bugfix this patch, so we wanted to call it out directly.

W – Hextech Micro-Rockets

  • Range Display: Now accurately displays the actual missile range.

R – UPGRADE!!!

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where R-empowered turrets dealt double damage.

Jax

Jax is receiving a few bug fixes this patch, and while he’s pretty balanced, they’re important enough changes to warrant being called out on their own.

Q – Leap Strike

  • Damage Type: Physical ⇒ Magic

R – Relentless Assault

  • Ability Name: Grandmaster’s Might ⇒ Relentless Assault
  • Spell Effects: Now applies spell effects as a single-target spell.

Kayle

When we launched Kayle in League Classic, we chose one of her earliest kits, which included gaining bonus AD from AP and vice versa. This version of the kit never allowed her to remain permanently ranged with enough CDR, as that buff only came in with her next rework. Ultimately, we like this version of the kit but think she should be able to be permanently ranged if she builds for it, so we’re buffing E’s cooldown. You’ll need at least 38% CDR at rank 5 to hit that breakpoint, so enjoy your build goals!

E – Righteous Fury

  • Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18s ⇒ 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16s

Lux

Lux is still performing worse than she ought to so we’re back with some more buffs. We’re increasing Lucent Singularity’s radius to its old wide self as another callback to the past. We’re also bringing in some modern touches (or, farther back in the past depending on how you look at it), including some bug fixes. We’re letting her use summoner spells and detonate her E during her R cast. Flashing will not change the hit location, but you can dodge an Ashe arrow if you need to. 

We’re also giving her better defensive immediacy. It’s important that League is responsive to your inputs, and “Shield me!” is about as immediate a need as it gets. This is one modernization that we think is very important to give Lux even in this older version of the game. 

We’re also starting our adventure into new territory here. One of Classic’s biggest strengths is the wide-open space for build experimentation. We’d like if Lux could be part of that space. For anyone playing a more conventional AP Lux playstyle, this attack speed should still help her to last hit minions or pop Illumination stacks between spells more quickly. Or… You could be adventurous and try AD Lux, or maybe AP on-hit Lux with a Malady and a Nashor’s Tooth. You know you want to.

Base Stats

  • Attack Speed Growth: 1.36% ⇒ 3%
  • Attack Speed Ratio: 0.625 ⇒ 0.658 (Level 1 Attack Speed unchanged)

W – Prismatic Barrier

  • Shield Timing: The shield now comes out at the start of the cast, instead of at the end. Total cast time unchanged.

E – Lucent Singularity

  • Radius: 310 ⇒ 350
  • Cast Interaction: E may now be detonated while casting R.

R – Final Spark

  • Cast Interaction: Lux may now use summoner spells and items while casting R. Flash will not change the location of the beam.
  • Cooldown: No longer goes on cooldown if Lux dies while casting it.

Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune’s buffs last patch didn’t go nearly far enough, so we’re back for more. Once again we’re digging up changes of old, undoing almost every nerf she received since her launch and fixing several bugs that could cause her ultimate to not deliver on expectations. We’re also delivering one novel change to make E’s mana cost respect its rank, so it’ll be cheaper at low investment and more expensive (and more powerful) when maxed.

Base Stats

  • Move Speed: 325 ⇒ 335

Q – Double Up

  • Damage: 25 / 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 + 75% total AD ⇒ 35 / 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 + 75% total AD. Secondary target still takes 120% of the damage.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Double Up could fail to bounce.

E – Make It Rain

  • Total Damage: 90 / 145 / 200 / 255 / 310 ⇒ 95 / 155 / 215 / 275 / 335
  • Slow Duration: 0.25s ⇒ 1s. Refresh rate unchanged.
  • Mana Cost: 80 ⇒ 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90

R – Bullet Time

  • Damage Per Wave: 65 / 95 / 125 + 40% bonus AD + 20% AP ⇒ 65 / 95 / 125 + 45% bonus AD + 30% AP
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Miss Fortune could fail to shoot all 8 waves.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Bullet Time could fail to damage an enemy all 8 times.

Sivir

Sivir currently lacks a strong strategic niche or high point to her experience. Toggled Ricochet is meant to be an extremely potent output that Sivir players should feel great about, so we’re reverting some nerfs to it from back in January 2011.

Passive – Fleet of Foot

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the movement speed could be gained by attacking minions.

W – Ricochet

  • Bounce Radius: 450 ⇒ 500
  • Damage Falloff: 25% ⇒ 22%

Tristana

Tristana is clearly a peak performer in bot lane while mid lane AP Tristana in mid is doing just fine, so we’re taking aim at AD-specific Tristana nerfs to her attack speed. Her mana growth compensation is meant to mostly compensate mid Tristana for the small amount of collateral damage she’s receiving.

Base Stats

  • Attack Speed Growth: 4% ⇒ 3%
  • Mana Growth: 32 ⇒ 40

Q – Rapid Fire

  • Mana Cost: 50 ⇒ 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90

Tryndamere

Tryndamere is still doing exceptionally well. After calibrating how impactful our changes would be in the first patch, we’re back to put him where he belongs. Somehow, he has even more buffs from back in 2010 that we can revert, so we’re back to make things tougher on him. We’re also doing some unique changes, namely reducing his early resilience to losing lane. The primary nerf, however, is in reducing his top-end crit chance. For those with at least 3 crit items, Tryndamere will still be able to reach 100% crit chance at low health, but in the early and mid game, he won’t crit as often.

Base Stats

  • Base Health Regeneration: 10 ⇒ 7.5
  • Health Regeneration Growth: 0.9 ⇒ 0.75

Passive – Battle Fury

  • Maximum Critical Strike Chance: 50% ⇒ 30%
  • Maximum Critical Strike Chance Reached At: 0% Health ⇒ 5% Health

R – Undying Rage

  • Cooldown: 110 / 100 / 90s ⇒ 130 / 115 / 100s

Twitch

Twitch’s nerfs from last patch didn’t do enough to dethrone him from the top spot. We’re taking out a mix of damage and durability, ultimately trying to make sure that his damage output is readable when exiting out of stealth.

Base Stats

  • Base Attack Speed: 0.679 ⇒ 0.658
  • Level 1 Attack Speed: 0.679 ⇒ 0.658
  • Health: 470 ⇒ 455

Items

Innervating Locket

When we remade Innervating Locket in Classic, we preemptively nerfed it, as it had been removed from the game for being unbalanceable. Well, it turns out, it’s possible to make it too weak to be used. So we’re here for some meaningful buffs aimed at making it shine for those who want it. We want to make sure it’s an appealing support option, restoring many of the stats it used to have and buffing its unique effect. Innervating Lockets do stack across multiple players, by the way, so if all five of you buy one, you can put a lot of healing onto your most injured teammate.

  • Combine Cost: 750g (2650g total cost) ⇒ 350g (2250g total cost)
  • Health: 430 ⇒ 500
  • Cooldown Reduction: 0% ⇒ 10%
  • Innervation Health and Mana Restored: 50 / 20 ⇒ 60 / 25

Wriggle’s Lantern and Feral Flare

When we built out the items in League Classic, we knew there’d be some conflicts. We had items coexisting who never coexisted before, or were placed into a game that didn’t quite fit. One of these conflicts was with jungle items: We have monster tuning from 2013 (plus the Wight), but have the 2014 item Feral Flare. When we launched, we simply took the 2013 version of Madred’s Razors and Wriggle’s Lantern, and simply updated Feral Flare to fit the same stat profile. 

We’re changing that now. We’re reshaping Wriggle’s Lantern and Feral Flare to be Attack Speed items instead of Attack Damage ones but keeping all the other stats the same. This change helps them stand out against Spirit of the Elder Lizard, and preserves Hunter’s Machete and Madred’s Razors as they were. These new items do overlap with Madred’s Bloodrazor a bit, but you’re still welcome to buy them both.

  • Build Path: Madred’s Razors + Vampiric Scepter ⇒ Madred’s Razors + Recurve Bow. Total cost (2000g) unchanged.
  • Attack Damage: 25 ⇒ 0
  • Attack Speed: 0% ⇒ 30%

Runes & Progression

We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear about how slow it feels to gain access to runes, games with stakes, and more. So in this patch we have large sweeping buffs to several systems that should have you building out extra rune pages and gaining SP in no time!

  • Rune Pages: Everyone has been given 2 additional Rune Pages for free
  • Influence Points: IP gained per game has more than doubled
  • Classic XP: Classic XP gained per game has doubled
  • Bug Fix: Players no longer gain party XP/IP bonuses when solo queued
  • Quintessence IP Cost: 1250 ⇒ 1000
  • Minor Rune IP Cost: 650 ⇒ 500

Quintessence of Health Regeneration

  • Health Regeneration per 5 seconds: +1.5 ⇒ +3.0

Systems

Champion Swapping

You can now swap champions and roles during Champion Select! So now your first pick mid laner can grab Blitzcrank for you, you can grab AP Shaco for your bot laner, and you can successfully make your opponents rage quit instead of having to dodge..

  •   NEW   Champion Swap: Enabled during the Loadout phase.
  •   NEW   Swap Request: Players can request to swap champions, and players can accept swap requests. Lanes stay the same.
  •   NEW   Champion Pick Order Swapping: Players can swap champion pick order.

The Inaugural Council Vote

The Council goes live with this patch! Vote on the game’s future inside the game client. You will be able to vote on multiple topics during the active voting period and we’ll be back to share the results once voting closes.

  •   NEW   Voting Topics: Players can see and vote on multiple topics during active voting.
  •   NEW   Voting Results: Players can see the results for the topics that were voted on.

Ranked Loading Screen Borders

  •   REMOVED   Modern Ranked Borders: Removed from the Classic loading screen.

Art

A few of our artists got together and updated several aspects of Summoner’s Rift to make it look more like the original.

  • Art Updates: Added missing foliage and decals, removed an unintended prop, updated decals and map details, and corrected affected walls, ground, and mesh normals.
  • Lighting Updates: Updated lighting at both spawn locations and on the purple diamond torches to look closer to the original.
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Patch 26.17 Notes – League of Legends

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Patch 26.17 notes for League of Legends are here. (Source)

Read the Classic Patch Notes here.

Systems

Champions

Aurelion Sol has come out the loser of last patch’s mage adjustments, so we are giving him a buff to help him out. In particular, we are buffing his W cooldown so he can use it a bit more freely rather than only when a reset is likely. This should also make it a bit more clear to players that W is typically the stronger second skill to max, rather than E.

Q – Breath of Light

Mana Cost Per Second: 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 ⇒ 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50

W – Astral Flight

Cooldown: 22 / 20.5 / 19 / 17.5 / 16s ⇒ 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14s
Cho’s early game has lost pizzazz with Hail of Blades and Hextech Rocketbelt nerfs, so we are making it up with a bit of early damage when he does get those autos off.

E – Vorpal Spikes

Base Damage (x3 attacks): 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+30% AP) (+2.5% – 3.9% (+.5% Per Feast) Target Max HP) ⇒ 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+30% AP) (+2.5% – 3.9% (+.5% Per Feast) Target Max HP)
Graves has had a number of indirect buffs over the last few patches and this has put him in a pretty strong spot. We are looking to soften a bit of his ability to snowball the game with high AD builds.

Q – End of the Line

Initial Damage: 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+65% bonus AD) ⇒ 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+55% bonus AD)
Return Damage: 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+55 / 70 / 85 / 100 / 115% bonus AD) ⇒ 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+45 / 60 / 75 / 90 / 105% bonus AD)
Irelia is one of League’s highest stakes snowballing dependant skirmishers, but we feel like even when ahead she is failing to scale into a real carry threat

Q – Bladesurge

Damage: 5 / 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 (+70% AD) ⇒ 5 / 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 (+80% AD)
Additionally, we are buffing some of her AP ratios to support wacky ARAM/Arena builds. We don’t expect this to make AP Irelia suddenly good for SR.

W – Defiant Dance

Damage Reduction Ability Power Ratio: 7% per 100 AP (Halved for Magic Damage) (reduced to 75% value for Magic Damage in Arena) ⇒ 8% per 100 AP (Halved for Magic Damage) (reduced to 75% value for Magic Damage in Arena)

R – Vanguard’s Edge

Ability Power Ratio: 70% ⇒ 100% (It is already 100% in Arena, so this is standardizing the value)
With the previous version of Statikk Shiv that drove nerfing her AS ratios no longer in the game, we’re bringing these closer to a typical champion’s baseline. Simultaneously, having some room for power, we are giving her some AP ratio buffs to make sure she’s still interested primarily in AP assassination builds.
Base Stats
Attack Speed Ratio: 0.4 ⇒ 0.625
Attack Speed Growth: 2.35% ⇒ 1.5%

W – Distortion

Damage: 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+80% AP) ⇒ 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+90% AP)
RW – Mimic: Distortion
Damage: 150 / 315 / 480 (+80% AP) ⇒ 150 / 315 / 480 (+90% AP)
Nasus top has been able to benefit from the shift in his stacking paradigm. We are happy to see our favorite dog get his fill of treats, but want to make sure that we keep his power within reasonable bounds, therefore we are going to be tapping down some of Nasus’ top specific strengths, like persistently lifestealing off of minions.

Passive – Soul Eater

Life Steal: 12 / 18 / 24% ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20%
Nocturne has been sitting in a pretty strong state across skill levels for a while. We are excited about the opportunities that open up when Nocturne unlocks his ult, but want to add a bit more personal risk to him accessing that high moment.
Base Stats
Armor: 38 ⇒ 36
Health: 655 ⇒ 640
Qiyana’s play has moved out of primarily mid to jungle. While we are happy to support her as a jungler, mid is where she’s been underwhelming recently .

Q – Elemental Wrath

Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+85% bonus AD) ⇒ 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 (+90% bonus AD)
Monster Damage Modifier: 175% against Monsters ⇒ 160% against Monsters
Thresh has been quietly sitting at a high winrate and picking up playrate over the year.

E – Flay

Active Damage: 75 / 120 / 165 / 210 / 255 (+70% AP) ⇒ 65 / 110 / 155 / 200 / 245 (+60% AP)
Sometimes you just wanna club your opponents to death, and while Trundle has been a resilient utility pick for his pillar and ult, we feel his personal clubbing power has actually been a bit limp.

W – Frozen Domain

Attack Speed: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90% ⇒ 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110%
We believe Vayne may need larger scope work in the future to help out her bot lane, but for now are prioritizing constraining her top lane power. These changes should impact her up there more than in bot lane.
Base Stats
Health: 550 + 103/Level ⇒ 580 + 98/Level
Health Regeneration: 3.5 + .55/Level ⇒ 4 + .5/Level
Attack Speed Ratio: .658 + 3.3%/Level ⇒ .67 + 2.8%/Level

Q – Tumble

Mana Cost: 30 ⇒ 46 / 42 / 38 / 34 / 30

W – Silver Bolts

True Damage: 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10% Target Max HP ⇒ 4 / 5.5 / 7 / 8.5 / 10% Target Max HP
Minimum Damage: 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 / 110 ⇒ 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100
Xerath has rested slightly high in power both mid and bot, and after last patch’s adjustments to mages has come out on top in mid lane compared to others. Given his extremely high ban rate in certain regions, he’s due a light nerf.
Base Stats
Health: 596 ⇒ 575

Q – Arcanopulse

Damage: 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+90% AP) ⇒ 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+90% AP)
While Yasuo has definitely been able to snowball and carry games, we believe that similar to Irelia, he is too reliant on snowballing rather than just being a proper scaling carry. We also want to encourage him to prioritize early crit strike builds over Blade of the Ruined King, so we are reducing his crit damage penalty which will simultaneously encourage this as well help him scale without significantly impacting his early game snowball.

Passive – Way of the Wanderer

Critical Strike Damage Reduction: -10% ⇒ -5%
Similar to Yasuo, Yone has also been an excessively snowball reliant carry, though less so. Bros stay together.

Passive – Way of the Hunter

Critical Strike Damage Reduction: -10% ⇒ -5%

Items

Items

Stormrazor

Stormrazor almost had its time in the sun earlier this year, but has ended up remaining second fiddle.

Attack Speed: 20% ⇒ 25%

Sundered Sky

Last patch’s Sundered Sky nerf was a step in the right direction, but landed a bit under-target given all of the other moving pieces of that patch.

Health: 450 ⇒ 400
Attack Damage: 45 ⇒ 40

League Classic – Patch 26.16 Notes

Posted on by U.GG

“Welcome to our first patch update for League Classic! We’re delivering brand new old champions, brand new old runes, and a suite of balance changes aimed at the game’s biggest outliers. Are you excited to be a flippin’ Ninja?”

New (Returning) Champions

Akali

Akali is flying in with invisibility, targeted dashes, invisibility, and tons of damage. Better buy a Pink Ward!

Passive – Twin Disciplines

  • After gaining 20 Ability Power, gain a percent of your total Attack Damage as bonus damage on-hit.
  • After gaining 10 bonus Attack Damage, gain Spell Vamp.

Q – Mark of the Assassin

  • Throw a kama, damaging and marking your target. Attack the marked target to deal more damage and refund some energy.

W – Twilight Shroud

  • Throw down a smoke bomb, which gives Akali Invisibility and bonus resists while in the area. Enemies in the area are slowed.

E – Crescent Slash

  • Slice all nearby enemies, dealing damage.
  • Be careful, this can empty your energy reserves quickly.

R – Shadow Dance

  • Dash at an enemy, dealing damage upon arrival. This ability can hold a maximum of 3 dashes at a time, like ammo.
Kennen

Kennen makes his return in a somewhat familiar form, ready to dive-bomb into enemy teams with Slicing Maelstrom or play it cool as an AD auto-attacker.

Passive – Mark of the Storm

  • Kennen’s abilities add stacking marks to their targets. Upon reaching 3 stacks, they’re stunned and Kennen refunds some energy.

Q – Thundering Shuriken

  • Throw a shuriken in a straight line, damaging and marking the first enemy hit.

W – Electrical Surge

  • Passive: Every few attacks, Kennen’s attack deals bonus damage and marks his target.
  • Active: Kennen damages and applies an additional mark to all nearby marked enemies.

E – Lightning Rush

  • Kennen becomes a ball of lightning, gaining bonus movement speed and resistances. Enemies he collides with while a ball of lightning are damaged and marked.

R – Slicing Maelstrom

  • A maelstrom follows Kennen for a few seconds, damaging and marking a random enemy champion several times per second.
Shen

Shen subscribes to the philosophy that one can hide in plain sight. He’s still the same dashing, taunting ninja he’s always been, but has the added benefit of providing healing for himself and his allies.

Passive – Ki Strike

  • Every few seconds, Shen’s next attack deals bonus damage and restores some energy.
  • Further basic attacks ready his next empowered attack sooner.

Q – Vorpal Blade

  • Throw a blade, damaging and marking the targeted enemy. Any time Shen or his allies attack the marked enemy, they restore some health over time.
  • If the blade kills the target outright, Shen gets a partial heal.

W – Feint

  • Gain a shield. While it persists, attacks refresh Ki Strike faster.

E – Shadow Dash

  • Dash in a straight line, taunting and damaging all champions Shen collides with and restoring energy for each one.

R – Stand United

  • Target an allied champion anywhere on the map to grant them a shield. After a few seconds, if they’re still alive, teleport to that ally.

Champion Changes

Alistar

Alistar’s pretty decent in both solo lanes, whether played as AP burst or as a Headbutt-autoattacker. However, he’s quite weak at support, so we’re looking for some support-skewed buffs.

E – Triumphant Roar

  • Allied Heal Effectiveness: 50% ⇒ 75%
Amumu

Amumu is performing worse than he ought to, so we’re looking to return him back to normalcy. We’re reverting some nerfs from 2012-2013, ensuring he has a strong strategic niche of helping AP teams destroy squishy targets

Passive – Cursed Touch

  • Magic Resistance Shred: 15 / 20 / 25 ⇒ 15 / 25 / 35 (levels 1 / 7 / 13)
  • Shred Duration: 3s ⇒ 4s

Q – Bandage Toss

  • Base Damage: 80 / 130 / 280 / 230 / 280 ⇒ 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320
Blitzcrank

Blitzcrank is the #1 support in the game right now, topping all three of win rate, pick rate, and ban rate. So yeah, it’s time for some nerfs to pull him down. We’re digging up the history books and reverting some of their “recent” buffs from 2011-2012. We’re targeting early pressure and overall cooldowns, due to how impactful their abilities can be. If a hook attempt misses, their opponents should have plenty of time to punish.

Q – Rocket Grab

  • Base Damage: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 ⇒ 60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300
  • Cooldown: 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 ⇒ 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18

W – Overdrive

  • Cooldown: 15 ⇒ 20

R – Static Field

  • Active Damage: 250 / 375 / 500 ⇒ 200 / 300 / 400
Dr. Mundo

Dr. Mundo’s faring even worse than his patients, and that’s saying something! He’s receiving a suite of buffs to both damage and durability to allow him to soak up as much punishment as possible while still dishing out the pain. These buffs manifest as reverts to nerfs from early 2012.

W – Burning Agony

  • Damage Per Second: 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 ⇒ 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100
  • Tenacity: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% ⇒ 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%

R – Sadism

  • Health Regained: 40 / 50 / 60% ⇒ 40 / 55 / 70%
Garen

Garen’s doing quite poorly at the moment, so we’re here to buff him up to snuff. We want him to feel advantaged in early laning, so we’re buffing his early regeneration to enable more aggressive trading and allowing him more frequent access to his rank 1 ultimate to let him convert those fights into kills.

Base Stats

  • Base Health Regeneration: 8.2 ⇒ 9.0

Passive – Perseverance

  • Maximum Health Per Second Regeneration: 0.4% ⇒ 0.5%

R – Demacian Justice

  • Cooldown: 160 / 120 / 80 ⇒ 140 / 110 / 80
Heimerdinger

Heimerdinger is the single best-performing mid laner, and he’s way up there in top lane, too. We expect him to do well for now, considering how rusty the average player is, and how strong his turrets are, but he’s still outperforming our expectations. We want to make him more vulnerable early in his turret fortress and create a larger window without his pocket crowd control. For the rockets, they simply lack the early game counter-play required for a base damage this high.

Q – H-28G Evolution Turret

  • Base Attack Damage: 30 / 38 / 46 / 54 / 62 ⇒ 28 / 36 / 44 / 52 / 60

W – Hextech Micro-Rockets

  • Base Damage: 85 / 135 / 185 / 235 / 285 ⇒ 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270

E – CH-1 Concussion Grenade

  • Cooldown: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 ⇒ 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10
Janna

Janna is the second of our support nerfs this patch as she’s performing a little better than she ought to, so we’re dropping some small nerfs. We want her high impact ultimate to have high a impact mana cost and want to make sure that she isn’t just using her strong safety tools to bully her enemies out of the lane.

Base Stats

  • Attack Damage: 51.95 + 2.95 ⇒ 49 + 3

R – Monsoon

  • Mana Cost: 100 / 150 / 200 ⇒ 200 / 275 / 350
Jarvan IV

Jarvan is one of the game’s strongest junglers and deserving of a nerf. Considering how good the reliably Flag and Drag combo is, we’re leaving that intact. Instead, we’re swinging for his late game to ensure he isn’t the best at all points in time.

Base Stats

  • Armor Per Level: 3.6 ⇒ 3

W – Golden Aegis

  • Bonus Shield Per Nearby Champion: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 ⇒ 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40

E – Demacian Standard

  • Mana Cost: 55 ⇒ 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Katarina

Katarina is performing much better than she ought to, especially for a difficult champion whom no one has played for approximately a decade. We always want high-mastery champions to be worth mastering, but if rookies are winning this much without practice, something’s wrong. Ultimately we’re fixing our own bug here: She’s supposed to be throwing 10 daggers over 2.5 seconds, not 12, so both the DPS and maximum damage of her ultimate is being reduced.

R – Death Lotus

  • Maximum Damage: 480 / 690 / 900 + 450% bonus Attack Damage + 300% Ability Power ⇒ 400 / 575 / 750 + 375% bonus Attack Damage + 250% Ability Power
  • Damage Per Dagger: Unchanged
Lux

Lux is our single worst mid laner AND support right now, so she’s due for some very real buffs. We’re going back on a move speed and ult CD nerf from early in 2013, as well as an AP ratio nerf from 2011, with the hopes that Lux can keep up with all the mobility these “modern” (released after 2010) champions have.

Base Stats

  • Move Speed: 330 ⇒ 340

R – Final Spark

  • Cooldown: 80 / 65 / 50 ⇒ 80 / 60 / 40
  • Damage: 300 / 400 / 500 + 75% Ability Power ⇒ 300 / 400 / 500 + 85% Ability Power
Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune is performing the worst of all conventional bot laners, so we’re delivering some buffs. To start, we’re improving both her sustained auto-attack damage and her spell casting ult playstyle, partially or fully reverting changes from patches 3.1 and 3.7.

W – Impure Shots

  • Bonus Damage Per Stack: 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 ⇒ 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14
  • Maximum Stacks: 5 ⇒ 4
  • Maximum Bonus Damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 ⇒ 24 / 32 / 40 / 48 / 56

R – Bullet Time

  • Damage Per Wave: 65 / 95 / 125 + 35% bonus Attack Damage ⇒ 65 / 95 / 125 + 40% bonus Attack Damage
Nasus

Nasus is performing better than he ought to, even for a champion with a shallow learning curve and a playstyle that hasn’t changed much over the years. We still want his infinitely-stacking late game bonking to be his biggest strength, which means pulling out power elsewhere. We’re reverting a few buffs from the Skarner launch patch in 2011, making his early game weaker and making him think more carefully about using Wither.

Passive – Soul Eater

  • Life Steal: 14 / 17 / 20% ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20%

W – Wither

  • Mana Cost: 80 ⇒ 100
Skarner

Skarner has been one of the weakest junglers so we’re here to buff him back up. We’ve got a small bugfix to his E’s missile radius, which made it harder to hit than it should have been. Otherwise, we’re reverting a few nerfs that Skarner received early in his release.

Passive – Energize

  •   NEW   Structure Interaction: Once again works on structures

Q – Crystal Slash

  • Slow: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% ⇒ 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45%

W – Crystalline Exoskeleton

  • Cooldown: 18 ⇒ 14

E – Fracture

  • Missile Width: 70 ⇒ 120
Soraka

Soraka is one of our weakest supports at the moment, and while she performs better in solo lanes, she’s not strong there either. As a result we’re looking for some meaningful support-skewed buffs and it’s fine if she gets a little stronger in top lane or mid lane. As support Soraka maxes her W first while solo lane Soraka does not, this should be a meaningful buff for where she’s played most.

W – Astral Blessing

  • Armor Buff: 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 / 105 ⇒ 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125
  • Armor Buff Duration: 3 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds
Tryndamere

Tryndamere has wound up as the single most performant champion in the game, both in top lane and jungle, which means he’s up for some substantial nerfs. We want to retain his late game big crit fantasy but he should take longer to get there and be more peelable when he does. As with many of our nerfs, these are reverts of buffs from back when Lux launched in 2010.

Q – Bloodlust

  • Cooldown: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 ⇒ 14 / 12.5 / 11 / 9.5 / 8
  • Bonus Attack Damage Per Fury: 5 ⇒ 3
  • Maximum Bonus Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 24

E – Spinning Slash

  • Cooldown: 8 ⇒ 9
Twitch

Twitch is the strongest bot laner in the game right now. To start, our nerfs are going to be reverting his buffs from 1.0.0.144 and 1.0.0.146, both from 2012. Because his late game can be so potent, we’re doubling down on his scaling archetype and making his laning phase even more difficult.

Base Stats

  • Attack Damage: 52 ⇒ 50

W – Venom Cask

  • Projectile Speed: 1400 ⇒ 1300

E – Expunge

  • Mana Cost: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 ⇒ 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90

R – Spray And Pray

  • Missile Speed: 5000 ⇒ 4000
Veigar

Veigar is one of the very worst mid laners in the game, so it’s time for some buffs. Due to how core Q-spamming on every minion is to his playstyle, we want to make sure it feels supported, while still requiring him to buy some mana items to keep up.

Q – Baleful Strike

  • Mana Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 ⇒ 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
  • Damage: 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 + 60% Ability Power ⇒ 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 + 65% Ability Power
Warwick

Warwick is the best-performing jungler in the game right now, and while his resilience in the face of a dangerous jungle is likely a contributor, he’s performing above our expectations for such a straightforward jungler. We’re reverting an attack speed buff from early 2012, as he has access to much better on-hit itemization than he used to.

Base Stats

  • Attack Speed: .679 ⇒ .644
Runes

Rune Balance

We’re increasing the default stat value of the placeholder rune slots in Classic to be 80% of the equivalent rune rather than 66%.

  • Default Placeholder Rune Power: 66% ⇒ 80%
  • Scaling Armor Seals: Increased to 0.17 armor per level from 0.15 Armor per level.

New Runes

We’ve added the following runes to the Classic Store:

Marks

  • Minor Mark of Ability Power: 0.7 AP

Seals

  • Seal of Energy Regeneration: 0.7 Energy per 5s

Glyphs

  • Glyph of Energy: 2.3 Max Energy
  • Minor Glyph of Mana Regeneration: 0.33 Mana per 5s

Quintessences

  • Quintessence of Energy: 6 Max Energy
  • Quintessence of Energy Regeneration: 1.8 Energy per 5s
  • Quintessence of Health Regeneration: 1.3 Health per 5s
  • Quintessence of Mana: 38 Maximum Health
Systems

Classic Gold Generation

League Classic has higher stakes and is generally more snowbally than Season 2026 and that’s intentional. We also want players to have a fighting chance at comebacks without adding systems like Objective Bounties that players have to identify and play around. We also don’t want to inflate total gold in the game too heavily.

So we’re raising the floor on passive gold income and reducing the income of those who farm the best. As a whole, these changes will result in all champions having about 215 more gold passively, with the average laner roughly treading water.

  • Start of Ambient Gold Generation: 65 seconds ⇒ 90 seconds
  • Passive Gold Per 5 Seconds: 8 / 10.5 / 11.5 / 13 at 1 / 10 / 15 / 25 minutes ⇒ 10.5 / 11.5 / 13 at 1 / 15 / 25 minutes
  • Melee Minion Base Gold Value: 20 ⇒ 19
  • Ranged Minion Base Gold Value: 15 ⇒ 14

Classic Homeguards

We want the early game to have high stakes but that doesn’t mean a single kill should spell doom for the next 30 minutes straight. As a result, there’s a careful balance to strike between properly rewarding the victor for an early kill and helping losing players have something to look forward to. One of our attempts to strike that balance was early game Homeguards, which shipped with Classic last patch. This moderate 10% move speed buff should only shave a second or two off of someone’s walk back to lane but your feedback that it feels too modern has been heard. We’re keeping the mid-game version of Homeguard, which exists to help winning teams cross the map and continue sieging, but the early game one is being removed. In its place, we’re reducing early game death timers by a couple seconds. No new mechanics to learn and winners still get ahead, but losers can get back in there and earn XP and gold to look for their comeback.

  • Homeguard Activation: 0 minutes ⇒ 15 minutes
  • Death Timers: 12 / 14 / 16 / 19 / 22 / 25 / 28 / 30 ⇒ 10 / 12 / 14 / 17 / 20 / 23 / 26 / 29 (levels 1-8)
  • Death Timers At Levels 9+: Unchanged ⇒ Unchanged

Classic Jungle Tuning

When porting over jungle monsters to modern systems, we miscalculated how durable regular jungle monsters would become in the mid and late game. This global health scaling buff will make camps more closely match their histories. Your first clear won’t be affected at all, and non-epic monsters will scale up to 5-25% more health than they had before.

  • Maximum Health Scaling: 250% ⇒ 315%

Classic Turrets

Despite having the same effective HP they had in 2013, player feedback has been overwhelming that turrets feel too squishy. And they’re certainly much frailer than 2026’s norms. As we want turrets to matter and feel important, we agree that they could stand to hold up better, so we’re buffing their health by around 15% across the board and nerfing the AP ratio to on-hit damage conversion against towers.

  • Outer Turret Health: 3000 ⇒ 3500
  • Inner Turret Health: 3250 ⇒ 3750
  • Inhibitor Turret Health: 3500 ⇒ 4000
  • Nexus Turret Health: 2600 ⇒ 2750
  • Champion Damage To Turrets: 100% total Attack Damage + 40% Ability Power ⇒ 100% total Attack Damage + 20% Ability Power

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Patch 26.16 Notes – League of Legends

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Patch 26.16 notes for League of Legends are here. (Source)

Read the Classic Patch Notes here.

ADC MAGIC RESISTANCE

Finally, next to the changes to boot rewards in midlane, we are also adjusting MR for all ADC champions to help them out against mages early game. We also hope this will help a few of them in mid lane, where we believe a healthier pool of AD champions (including potentially Akshan and Tristana) will also help create a more diverse jungle meta beyond AD fighters.

  • Affected Champions: Akshan, Aphelios, Ashe, Caitlyn, Corki, Draven, Ezreal, Graves, Jhin, Jinx, Kai’Sa, Kalista, Kindred, Kog’Maw, Lucian, Miss Fortune, Quinn, Samira, Senna, Sivir, Smolder, Twitch, Varus, Vayne, Xayah, Yunara, Zeri
  • Magic Resistance: 30 + 1.3/level ⇒ 33 + 1.1/level
  • Tristana Magic Resistance: 28 + 1.3/level ⇒ 33 + 1.1/level

JUNGLE PETS

Speaking of a more diverse jungle Meta, we are adjusting the way jungle pets scales to help mage and tank junglers against the current AD fighter meta.

  • Damage Per Attack: 20 – 150 (based on level) (+10% bonus Attack Damage) (+12% Ability Power) (+20% bonus Armor) (+20% bonus Magic Resistance) (+3% bonus Health) ⇒ 20 – 150 (based on level) (+10% bonus Attack Damage) (+16% Ability Power) (+25% bonus Armor) (+25% bonus Magic Resistance) (+4% bonus Health)

SUPPORT ROLE QUEST

Finally, we are adjusting Support Role Quest progress to penalize heavy early game roaming by increasing the penalty while outside of bot lane, and removing the bonus progress gained from champion combat over minion last hitting.

  • Stack Consumption On Champion / Turret Damage: 22 Melee || 20 Ranged and 24 Melee || 22 Ranged ⇒ 18 and 21
  • Stack Consumption On Creep Score: 15 and 20 ⇒ 18 and 21
  • Minion Creep Score Experience / Gold Penalty: -25% outside of bot lane until level 3 ⇒ -33% outside of bot lane until level 5

 

We are continuing to monitor Azir, especially as players continue to pick up Press The Attack as his optimal keystone. For now however, we are going to give him a moderate buff to his laning to help him out.

Q – Conquering Sands

Damage: 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 (+35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% AP) ⇒ 75 / 95 / 115 / 135 / 155 (+35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% AP)
Bel’Veth has come out with the scaling curve of Kayle and Aurelion Sol. Her power is rapidly growing across all skill brackets and given her early game is already quite weak, we’ve opted to make her late game a bit less sharp.
Base Stats
Health Growth: 110 ⇒ 105

R – Endless Banquet

True Form Total Attack Speed: 5 / 15 / 25% ⇒ 6 / 13 / 20%
NEW True Form Remora Indicator: Resource bar now turns purple when True Form can spawn Remora
With roaming supports all the rage, Camille has been queen. We are simultaneously looking to nerf her support roaming power while keeping or (hopefully) actually buffing her top lane. This means trading the raw all in power behind her passive shield early game in favor of significantly lowered cooldowns for better repeatable trading.
Base Stats
Mana: 339 ⇒ 375

Passive – Adaptive Defenses

Shield: 20% Maximum Health ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20 / 25% Maximum Health (levels 1 / 7 / 13 / 19)
Cooldown: 18 / 14 / 10 / 6s (levels 1 / 7 / 13 / 19) ⇒ 14 / 11 / 8s (levels 1 / 7 / 13)

W – Tactical Sweep

Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s ⇒ 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s
Outer Cone Bonus Damage: 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5 / 8% (+2.5% per 100 bonus Attack Damage) Target Maximum Health ⇒ 7 / 7.5 / 8 / 8.5 / 9% (+2.5% per 100 bonus Attack Damage) Target Maximum Health
Gwen has remained slightly weak since her nerfs earlier this year. We are buffing her passive sustain back up towards where it has previously been, which should help her be a powerful threat in some of her stronger matchups without making her feel uncounterable.

Passive – A Thousand Cuts

Healing On Champions: 50% post-mitigation, capped to 10-25 (based on level) (+6.5% AP) ⇒ 67% post-mitigation, capped to 12-40 (based on level) (+7% AP)
With the reshape to Hextech Rocketbelt to prevent it from becoming the ubiquitous mage legendary, Kennen came out behind the pack. We are buffing him to compensate, making sure he is rewarded well when he does find the right flanks for those huge team-deleting ults.

R – Slicing Maelstrom

Bonus Resistances: 20 / 40 / 60 ⇒ 25 / 50 / 75
Damage: 40 / 75 / 110 (+22.5% AP) ⇒ 40 / 80 / 120 (+25% AP)
Maximum Damage: 300 / 562.5 / 825 (+168.75% AP) ⇒ 300 / 600 / 900 (+187.5% AP)
Nasus has been a distinct jungle pick that we think is pretty exciting to see; however his top lane has lagged very far behind. We are adjusting his Q stack generation to bring these two roles closer to each other in raw power.

Q – Siphoning Strike

Stacks: 3, increased to 12 on champions / large minions / monsters ⇒ 4, increased to 10 on champions / large minions / monsters
Poppy is meant to be a tank whose gameplay has leaned too far into early game snowball fighter, to the point she’s choosing Hail of Blades and Sundered Sky over more tank runes and items. We’re looking to shift power out of her early game AD fighter pattern and enable her tank pattern by significantly increasing her scaling with durability and giving her enough mana growth that sustained combat doesn’t immediately run her out of resources.
Base Stats
Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 56
Health Regeneration: 8 ⇒ 9
Mana: 280 + 40/level ⇒ 300 + 45/level

Q – Hammer Shock

Damage: 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+100% bonus Attack Damage) (+9% Target Maximum Health), twice ⇒ 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+75% bonus Attack Damage) (+7 / 7.5 / 8 / 8.5 / 9% Target Maximum Health), twice
Target Maximum Health Monster Cap: 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 / 195 ⇒ 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 / 225
Slow Amount: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% ⇒ 20 / 23 / 26 / 29 / 32% (+8% per 1000 bonus Health)

W – Steadfast Presence

Total Armor and Magic Resistance: 12%, doubled below 40% Maximum Health ⇒ 16%, doubled below 40% Maximum Health

Items

Berserker’s Greaves

Berserker’s Greaves have been sitting at a particularly low state of power for a while now, and with the state of AD champions in both bot and mid, we feel this is the right time to buff them.

Attack Speed: 25% ⇒ 30%
T3 Attack Speed: 40% ⇒ 45%

Black Cleaver

Black Cleaver has become a Smolder / Senna item more than a core AD fighter item. We are re-adding the Melee / Ranged split on the move speed effect to buy space to buff it for AD fighters without pushing it over the top for its ranged user base.

Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 45
Fervor Move Speed: 20 for 2s ⇒ [20 Melee || 10 Ranged] for 2s

Eclipse

Eclipse has similarly fallen behind as an option for AD champions as a high ticket early AD item that isn’t in the Lethality space. We feel it has clear space for a buff.

Damage: [6% Melee || 4% Ranged] Target Maximum Health ⇒ [8% Melee || 5% Ranged] Target Maximum Health
Shield: [160 + 40% bonus Attack Damage Melee || 80 + 20% bonus Attack Damage Ranged] ⇒ [150 + 40% bonus Attack Damage Melee || 75 + 20% bonus Attack Damage Ranged]

Runaan’s Hurricane

Runaan’s Hurricane has lost all of its core users over the course of the year as ADCs have moved to a wider variety of AS Crit itemization. We are buffing its unique effect and movespeed to help players capitalize on the positioning requirements of that unique effect.

Move Speed: 4% ⇒ 5%
Wind’s Fury Bolt Damage: 55% Attack Damage ⇒ 65% Attack Damage

Sterak’s Gage

Sterak’s Gage has also lost its position as the premium juggernaut / diver teamfight item, with Guardian Angel taking its place. We think Sterak’s is a much healthier fit for these champions to take.

Bonus Attack Damage: 45% of Base Attack Damage ⇒ 50% of Base Attack Damage

Sundered Sky

Sundered Sky, on the other hand, has been the meta dominant AD fighter item for the last year. While we do find it exciting to see when players manage to chain its triggers through a teamfight and barely survive risky engages, we think it’s a bit too performant when optimized to the point where it’s healing for more than even lifesteal based items.

Recipe: Tunneler (1150g) + Caulfield’s (1050g) + Ruby Crystal (400g) + 500g ⇒ Tunneler (1150g) + Caulfield’s (1050g) + 900g
Healing: [100% Melee || 50% Ranged] Base Attack Damage + 6% Missing Health ⇒ [90% Melee || 45% Ranged] Base Attack Damage + 4% Missing Health Health: 400 ⇒ 450
Sunfire Cape
Sunfire Cape has remained a powerful item in League, both in purchase and winrate, but players have repeatedly called out dissatisfaction with the item because of how directly it’s compared against Hollow Radiance. We are upping its cost to match Hollow Radiance and shifting its power towards PvP damage to give the item more comparable advantages.
Damage: 20 (+1% bonus Health) ⇒ 20 (+1.5% bonus Health)
Minion / Monster Modifier: 160% Minion, 200% Monster ⇒ 150% Minion, 180% Monster
Recipe: 600g ⇒ 700g

Chainlaced Crushers

We continue to feel that defensive boot optimizations in mid lane stifle action. Since we are looking to shift mage power back from bot lane to mid lane this patch, we are also taking the time to nerf down mid lane counter itemization against mages.

Magic Resistance: 30 ⇒ 25

Spellslinger’s Shoes

Along with Chainlaced Crushers’ change, we are buffing Spellslinger’s Shoes to further affect mid vs bot mage balance.

Magic Penetration: 18 + 8% ⇒ 20 + 8%

Tiamat

Tiamat has ended up in a state where even if you are buying a Hydra item, it’s optimal NOT to purchase it until you have all the other components. That’s pretty lame, yo.

Attack Damage: 20 ⇒ 25
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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

U.GG LoL Tier List – Best Champions for All Roles in League of Legends Classic

Posted on by U.GG
Important Information

TIER LIST BASED ON PBE DATA: Stay tuned for ranking changes, as Riot may tweak a few champions before release.

Upcoming: Champion Builds, as well as Mastery and Rune setups to provide you with the best LoL Classic experience.

If you have any feedback, feel free to join our Discord.

Role
Champion
Tier▼
Jungle
FiddlesticksFiddlesticks
S+
Jungle
Jarvan IVJarvan IV
S+
Jungle
Master YiMaster Yi
S+
Mid
KassadinKassadin
S+
Bottom
CorkiCorki
S+
Bottom
EzrealEzreal
S+
Support
LeonaLeona
S+
Top
Cho'GathCho’Gath
S
Top
JaxJax
S
Top
NasusNasus
S
Jungle
AmumuAmumu
S
Jungle
EvelynnEvelynn
S
Mid
AnnieAnnie
S
Mid
KatarinaKatarina
S
Top
NidaleeNidalee
S
Mid
RyzeRyze
S
Mid
Twisted FateTwisted Fate
S
Mid
VeigarVeigar
S
Bottom
VayneVayne
S
Support
BlitzcrankBlitzcrank
S
Support
SonaSona
S
Top
GangplankGangplank
A
Top
GarenGaren
A
Top
PantheonPantheon
A
Top
TryndamereTryndamere
A
Jungle
WukongWukong
A
Mid
AhriAhri
A
Mid
GragasGragas
A
Mid
MalzaharMalzahar
A
Bottom
AsheAshe
A
Bottom
SivirSivir
A
Support
JannaJanna
A
Support
LuluLulu
A
Support
MorganaMorgana
A
Top
Dr. MundoDr. Mundo
B
Top
MalphiteMalphite
B
Top
OlafOlaf
B
Top
SingedSinged
B
Top
TeemoTeemo
B
Jungle
Lee SinLee Sin
B
Jungle
Nunu & WillumpNunu & Willump
B
Jungle
ShacoShaco
B
Jungle
SkarnerSkarner
B
Jungle
WarwickWarwick
B
Bottom
Kog'MawKog’Maw
B
Bottom
Miss FortuneMiss Fortune
B
Bottom
TristanaTristana
B
Bottom
TwitchTwitch
B
Support
AlistarAlistar
B
Support
TaricTaric
B
Support
ZileanZilean
B
Top
KayleKayle
C
Top
SionSion
C
Jungle
RammusRammus
C
Mid
AniviaAnivia
C
Mid
BrandBrand
C
Mid
KarthusKarthus
C
Support
SorakaSoraka
C
Mid
HeimerdingerHeimerdinger
D
Mid
LuxLux
D
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League Classic Returns With Old Runes, 60 Champions, and No Yasuo

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League of Legends has gone through a lot of iteration over the past 17 years, and now in 2026 we’re getting League of Legends Classic, which aims to bring back the experience of “Old League of Legends.” Runes purchased with IP, the classic look and feel of Season 3 League of Legends, and a return to the old, pre-2015 Summoner’s Rift that still had Wraiths.

So what’s confirmed in LoL Classic? A new dev blog just posted, giving us insight into what to expect from Classic.

League of Legends Classic will launch on July 29th alongside patch 26.15.

Key Details

  • Season 3 is all about celebrating League’s past and present.
  • League Classic launches next patch and is Riot’s take on creating a “greatest hits” feel from across League’s early years.
  • Classic will feature the original Summoner’s Rift, a starting roster of 60 champions, old-school items, runes, masteries, and mechanics.
  • Additional champions over time, but Classic won’t include every champion released up to the present day.
  • You’ll unlock Runes and Masteries by playing Classic, though progression will be much faster than it was in the past and everyone will have access to default pages from the start.
  • Classic will also include modern improvements like matchmaking updates, server infrastructure, performance improvements, modern pings, spell buffering, and optional WASD controls.
  • Regular balance updates, but Classic will have its own balance philosophy focused on preserving what makes it unique.
  • Riot is also introducing The Council, a community voting system that will help guide the future of Classic.

Classic strives to bring back the old feeling of League of Legends: the combat pacing that changed so dramatically when champions like Lucian and Yasuo were introduced to the game, and that eventually spiraled into more movement-based and mechanics-based champions. There won’t be Kayn, Rek’Sai, Taliyah, Zeri, or any of the new, insanely fast, high-octane champions we have in modern League of Legends. This brings back many of the point-and-click abilities, where champions had longer cast times and higher mana costs, and where casting a spell really meant committing to a fight.

It also brings back runes and rune pages, all the old items, and the retro look and feel of old League of Legends, but with some improvements to lighting and shadows.

Official Blog Post

Since 2009, we’ve continuously done one thing: evolve the game. New and reworked champions, items, runes, modes, you name it. We’re always looking for ways to keep League fun and fresh.

But every now and then, when we talk about where we’re going, we hear many of you talk about where we’ve been.

“Remember experimenting with old Runes and Masteries to play things like Bankplank? Or terrorizing opponents with AP Master Yi or Sion mid? What about AD Alistar? Remember 95% ban rate Kassadin?“

A lot of you miss those days. And we do, too.

And that’s where League Classic comes in.

What, and when, is League Classic?

League Classic is a new gameplay experience that aims to recreate moments like those, and to create totally new ones that were never possible before.

The term Classic can mean a lot of different things to different people—even for us at Riot. For some folks the “Classic era” of League is beta, or Season 1, or Season 3, or even a particular patch (Devourer / Challenging Smite Warwick, anyone?). So when we were thinking about League Classic, we had to ask ourselves the important question: “When is League Classic?”

And, since we mentioned, we all have different perspectives on when, the answer to when was naturally, “Yes.”

We started with Season 3 as our anchor, but League Classic is more of a collection of greatest hits, rather than a singular moment in time. That means it’s got things from a variety of seasons, like every single Summoner (yes, even Fortify), almost every single item from the first few years of League, including Atma’s Impaler and Frozen Mallet, and a lotta pre-rework champ kits. But, there’s one core truth: No Yasuos allowed.

League is amazing—who doesn’t love skipping around as a shy little deer, lulling your enemies to sleep, and then boopin’ and boppin’ them in the head for half their health? Or growing into a super big scary dragon and Elder executing your enemies as they slowly burn to your magnificent power? All right, some of us.

That’s just not what we think is right for League Classic.

League has evolved into a substantially more complex game with tons of spaces for skill expression, diverse champion fantasies, aaand quite a bit of mobility. But one of the things you all mention when you talk about OG League, is how much you miss the combat pacing.

In Classic, champions have sharper strengths and weaknesses, missiles and dashes are slower, and there are more stuns (yippee). But that doesn’t mean the stakes are any lower. Each one of your spells costs more to cast and do substantially more damage than modern League. That means you need to be more strategic about when and how you engage with your opponents.

The Classic Map is built to recreate the early Summoner’s Rift map—it’s got wraiths, buffs have friends again, and they do a bit more damage than they do these days (buy some Health Potions unless you’re Warwick). They also respawn much, much faster.

That said, we made some targeted improvements to readability. Things like lighting, shadows,  and textures have been improved to help gameplay clarity when you’re in the middle of a high octane fight.

Champions, Runes, Masteries, and More!

To start, we’re launching Classic with 60 champions: the OG 40 plus another 20 hand-selected champions released from 2009-2013.

Before you ask, “Where’s my main?” Don’t worry! We know 60 champions can’t represent the full breadth of early League, so more champions are coming, but will all pull from this time period.

We wanted Classic to have a more focused roster to make jumping back in a smoother experience. That means if you’ve been away for a bit, you don’t have to go and read 100+ champions’ abilities to get back up to speed.

If you already own a champion, you’ll have access to them in Classic right away. If not, you’ll be able to unlock Classic champions through your Classic Level, or by grabbing them from the Shop. And, as always, there’s the free champion rotation.

And of course, familiar favorite item builds are back too. Atmogs? You betcha. The full Metagolem setup? No doubt. Filling half your inventory with Gold per 10 items? We wouldn’t have it any other way. They’re a huge part of what defined the era. In fact, we’re including almost every item that existed across the first few years of League… And Zz’Rot Portal.

If your favorite item does return, please use it responsibly.

Or don’t. We’ll find out together.

And, finally, let’s touch on Runes and Masteries.

Before you load into a game of Classic, you’ll need to pre-select Runes and Masteries based on who you want to play. These can drastically change the way you play your champion—from the items you build, to the damage you do.

But, we’ve made Runes and Masteries a lot simpler and faster to unlock.

In Classic you’ll unlock both of these just by playing, and there’s no need to upgrade them, they’re all the old Tier 3 as a baseline. And you can put them in Rune Pages. You’ll get three to start, an additional two from Classic Levels, and you can buy more for IP (those are back for Classic) which you get just by playing.

Nearly every single Rune you actually used is coming back, and the under-picked ones have been given a little love to be more attractive options as well. So if you want to play full Crit Gangplank, go crazy!?

As for Masteries, again, you won’t have to grind long to unlock those. You’ll have all Mastery pages and points fully unlocked after hitting Classic Level 4.

And if you forget to set your Runes and Masteries before a game, don’t worry. Everyone gets a default page, so you won’t be substantially less powerful than anyone, just a little sub-optimal.

Summoner’s Journey

At launch, League Classic will have a single PvP draft queue, Co-op vs AI, and customs for all the very important scientific work that starts with “wait, let me try something.”

Our main goal is for Classic to be a place for you to have fun with your friends, rather than a sweaty Ranked grindfest. But, we also know that having something to achieve adds a bit of fun. So, we’re adding a new progression system called Summoner’s Journey.

Once you hit level Classic Level 10, you’ll start your Summoner Journey at Salt, then progress to Wood, and so on, all the way up to Legend (since it’s the League of Legends… get it?). It’s a way for you to flex on your friends, achieve goals, but still have fun with anyone, regardless of how long it’s been since they last stole your penta.

For those who do want to go all-in on the journey, you can climb all the way to Legend if you’re skilled and dedicated enough. Only a single-digit percentage of players will make it into this exclusive club, so climbing that high won’t be for the faint of heart.

Related, we also want to touch on Champ Select. In the old days you had to have 300 wpm to call out which role you wanted. And sometimes someone would hit you with “mid or feed” no matter what, which is a pretty unenjoyable experience. So, we decided to implement a positional preference system that lets you choose the roles you want in order of preference.

We’ll try to give you your first choice, and avoid your last pick, but you may sometimes get your second or third preference in order to keep queue times healthy.

Passes, Skins, and Portraits

We’ve mentioned Classic Levels a few times now. In short, it’s a free progression track that everyone has access to. You gain levels just by simply playing games of Classic. On it you’ll unlock things like Masteries, Runes, the Summoner’s Journey, IP, BE, as well as a variety of cosmetics, including the Rustier Blitzcrank skin.

Classic Levels are a one-time progression system, much like account levels. Outside of them, we’ll have Seasonal Classic Passes, similar to Battle Passes. They’ll have a free and paid track that also grant IP, BE, Rune Pages, emotes, titles, and Classic Skins and Portraits.

Classic Skins are essentially skins that make Classic champs look the way they did in 2009-2013. So if you miss pre-rework Evelynn’s visuals, no worries, Classic Skins bring those back.

Classic Skins are unlockable through Classic Skin Tokens, which you get through the Seasonal Pass (on both the paid and free tracks) or in the Shop. You can use these to unlock any Classic skin, and if your main doesn’t have one yet, you can wait to unlock it at a later date.

As for other skins you’ve accumulated, many will be available to use in Classic at launch. We’ve tried to have as many skins ready for launch as possible, but for those that aren’t ready, we’ll be expanding this list over time. But you’ll be able to use every base model champ, which have also all received the old-school inking outlines. Some champions have also gotten VFX, animation, and sound updates to match their Classic kits, if they’ve received VGUs since this time period, like Sion, for example.

We’re also adding Classic Chromas which are chromas for Classic Skins, and inject even more 2009 flair. Do you remember the original Tundra Warwick? You’re about to.

And, finally, let’s talk Portraits. Portraits are alternate-styled loading screen splash, ranging from playful doodles made by one of our resident designers, to pretty reinterpretations of champions. Portraits will rotate in the loading screen, so you can collect them to show off your favorites as you wait for your team to load in on a potato.

Portraits, Classic Skins, and Classic Chromas are only usable in League Classic, but don’t worry, we’ve still got some Classic era-inspired skins for you to use anywhere in League.

The Council: Classic’s Future in Your Hands

We’re launching Classic with our interpretation of what made early League so special. But, as we all know, the real thing that made early League amazing was your feedback. So, we wanted to create a system that gives you all power in the direction Classic goes.

The Council is our version of community voting, which will help guide future choices like which champions are added next, what skins we make for Classic, and even gameplay changes.

You’ll unlock access to The Council through Classic Level, and you’ll get more voting power by playing the game more. That means if you spend more time in Classic, you’ll get more of a voice in The Council. We’ll still handle things like game health and balance, but we want to work with all of you to decide where Classic goes next.

Thank You

League Classic exists because many of you have talked for years about how amazing it would be to re-live the early days of League.

You kept the memories alive: the clips, the discussions, the “back in my day” posts, and the friend group stories.

So it’s time to call the squad, equip that 1% crit Rune, and lock in your main.

We’ll see you on the Classic Rift.

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