League of Legends 25.16 Patch Notes

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Patch 25.16 is preparing for takeoff!

This patch’s live gameplay updates aim to shake up the metagame, injecting new junglers into the pool, bringing up the weakest mage supports, nerfing some of the top end, and enabling a few alternate builds. We’re following up on Rek’Sai’s and Illaoi’s recent changes and giving them the power they deserve. We’re also fixing long-standing bugs with Singed and Rumble that made them substantially weaker on red side.

This is the last patch of the Season 2 ranked split, so if you’re looking to get that Victorious Fiora make sure to hit your ranked goals this patch! In other news, we’ve got an ARAM Clash coming with this patch so get those 5 stacks ready. There are also two variety skins flying, or rolling, into the action this patch, so check out Brick Toy Corki and Bolwing League Lillia! See you on the Rift!

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Battle Pass Changes

 We have some changes incoming for the Battle Pass starting with Season 3. Alongside some visual updates, we’ve adjusted the total number of core milestones down from 50 to 48 which should make the pass slightly faster to complete. The total rewards on the pass and BXP required per milestone are unchanged, just more compressed together. We hope you look forward to the upgrades we’re shipping in the new season. 

SR Ranked Season 2 End

 The Summoner’s Rift Ranked Season 2 2025 will end on the last date of patch 25.16, specifically, August 26 midnight, 23:59:59 Local Server Time.

Season 3, 2025 will begin Aug 27 noon, 12:00:00 Local Server Time, which is the first day of patch 25.17, end of Season 2 Ranked rewards will be granted soon after Season 3 starts.

Similar to Season 2 season start, Season 3 2025 will not reset your rank LP or Tier progression, only the Ranked Reward Mission (15 ranked games won) will be reset. 

Champions

Brand

Passive damage to monsters increased. Q stun duration increased. R cooldown decreased.

 The last nerfs to Brand’s ultimate smothered his flames a bit too much, so we’re giving him a bit more firepower. Additionally, now that Brand has some room for additional power we’re adding a spicier elite-skewed buff to his Sear’s stun duration, and giving him some power in the jungle to bring him back to viability there. 

Passive – Blaze

• Per Tick Damage to Monsters: 240% ⇒ 260%

Q – Sear

• Ablaze Stun Duration: 1.5 ⇒ 1.75 seconds

R – Pyroclasm

• Cooldown: 110 / 100 / 90 ⇒ 100 / 90 / 80 seconds

Gnar

Q cooldown decreased.

 Gnar has been a sad little fluff ball in the top lane, and hasn’t even thrived in his natural, pro play habitat. To help our favorite prehistoric yordle we’re giving some love to his highest counterplay, highest satisfaction ability, to let him chuck wood and rocks for a better feeling early game. Additionally he really only has two spells when he’s a baby, so allowing him to use it more will make him smile, and who doesn’t love that smile. 

Q – Boomerang Throw / Boulder Toss

• Cooldown: 20 / 17.5 / 15 / 12.5 / 10 ⇒ 16 / 14.5 / 13 / 11.5 / 10 seconds

Illaoi

Passive damage increased, cooldown decreased.

 Last patch’s Illaoi changes landed weaker than we intended, so we’re here to rectify that and give her the buff she deserves. We’re enabling her to set up shop in new locations more quickly, which is a common pain point for Illaoi players, and generally increasing her damage further since she gets fewer slams overall after lat patch’s Vessel changes. 

Passive – Prophet of an Elder God

• Total AD Ratio: 105% ⇒ 110%
• Spawn Cooldown: 20 – 7.25 seconds (based on level) ⇒ 18 – 7 seconds (based on level)

Jarvan IV

Armor growth decreased.

 Jarvan IV has been overperforming thanks to the combination of his ability to engage well and his tankiness. We want to level the playing field in the jungle this patch, so we’re lowering his armor over game time to create clearer windows of vulnerability for his opponents to take advantage of. 

Base Stats

• Armor Growth: 5.2 ⇒ 4.6

Kalista

AD growth increased. E damage AP scaling increased.

 Kalista has finally fallen off of the pro play radar, which gives us room to buff her back up for everyone else. We’re steering clear of her first 3 levels, as her former extreme lane dominance is what caused her woes in the first place. Instead, we’re buffing her late laning phase, second item power spike, and beyond in hopes of giving her a fighting chance in solo queue while giving her opponents a fighting chance in lane. While AP may seem like an odd buff, it represents an additional 9-13.5 damage per Rend stack due to Rageblade’s 30 AP. Also, remember that the recent Blade of the Ruined King buff was meaningful for her as well, so if it’s been a while since you last played Kalista, give her a try! 

Base Stats

• Attack Damage Growth: 4 ⇒ 4.25

E – Rend

• Initial Damage AP Ratio: 20% ⇒ 65%
• Subsequent Damage AP Ratio: 20% ⇒ 50%

Lulu

E cooldown increased, damage and shield decreased.

 Lulu has proven to be extremely resilient to nerfs and is still a top support. We’re looking to open up more weaknesses in her early laning phase with these nerfs, giving aggressive players more room to take an early advantage before Lulu’s carry scales up. 

E – Help, Pix!

• Cooldown: 8 seconds ⇒ 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 seconds
• Base Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 ⇒ 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230
• Shield: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 55% AP) ⇒ 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+ 50% AP)

Master Yi

Q now stacks Kraken Slayer and Terminus

 When Kraken Slayer first came out, we excluded Alpha Strike from stacking it but as it’s no longer a mythic item, those burst damage concerns aren’t nearly as pressing, so we’re enabling the item synergy and making Terminus also stack on each of these pseudo-attacks. 

Q – Alpha Strike

• On-Hit Synergy: Alpha Strike now stacks Kraken Slayer and Terminus.

Mordekaiser

Q AD ratio added.

 To open up more build options on Mordekaiser, we’re giving him some bonus attack damage ratios aimed at his most melee damage output. This will be a direct buff to him every time he ults, but the main intent is to bring back some AD builds and splashes of options like Sterak’s Gage. In short, bonus attack damage will make his mace smashes deal more damage. 

Q – Obliterate

• Damage AD Ratio: 0% bonus AD ⇒ 120% bonus AD

Morgana

W damage adjusted.

 Morgana is in a pretty sad state right now and could use some power in all three of her roles. We’re looking to make her main damaging ability more reliable by letting her whittle down healthier targets. This is a riskier change that may not end up having the power impact that we want so if Morgana doesn’t end up stronger as a result of these changes, we’ll quickly follow up with reliable buffs. 

W – Tormented Shadow

• Minimum Damage: 60 / 115 / 170 / 225 / 280 (+ 85% AP) ⇒ 70 / 140 / 210 / 280 / 350 (+ 100% AP)
• Maximum Damage: 162 / 310.5 / 459 / 607.5 / 756 (+ 229.5% AP) ⇒ 140 / 280 / 420 / 560 / 700 (+ 200% AP)

Nautilus

E damage to monsters increased.

 We’re buffing Nautilus jungle with the hope of making him a viable tank jungler like he was in times of old. We’re changing his monster-specific damage to make him less reliant on optimizing Riptide’s multi-hits, which should also make him more approachable for those just trying him out and not requiring as much optimization, while still making it beneficial to maximize repeated hits for those that have practiced his clear. 

E – Riptide

• Monster Damage Modifier: 150% ⇒ The first hit of E will deal 125/165/205/245/285 (+ 50% AP) bonus damage to monsters

Nocturne

Armor growth decreased. Q bonus AD decreased.

 Nocturne’s currently one of the winningest junglers so we’re looking to nerf him in this patch. With Experimental Hexplate getting buffed, we’re accounting for that by swinging a bit harder than we normally would have, taking out a moderate mix of damage and durability. 

Base Stats

• Armor Growth: 4.7 ⇒ 4.2

Q – Duskbringer

• Bonus AD: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 ⇒ 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55

Qiyana

Q damage increased. W bonus attack speed increased.

 Qiyana is already decently strong in the right hands, but she’s quite unpopular and sports a low ban rate unfitting for a queen like her. To help her out, we’re buffing her early damage on her Q and making her early game jungle clear and auto weaving feel a bit cleaner by buffing her W attack speed. 

Q – Edge of Ixtal / Elemental Wrath

• Base Damage: 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 ⇒ 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190

W – Terrashape

• Bonus Attack Speed: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25% ⇒ 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%

Rek’Sai

Base AD increased. Bugfixes.

 Last patch’s Rek’Sai changes left her deeper underground than we wanted, so we’re here to deliver some buffs aimed at her early clear, which is not in the best state right now. We’re also fixing a long-standing tunnel bug that could leave her far from where she wanted to be and a more recently-introduced bug that allowed her to fail a Q-attack. 

Base Stats

• Base Attack Damage: 58 ⇒ 62

Bugfixes

• Q – Queen’s Wrath: No longer fails to deal damage if attacking at the tail-end of the buff.
• E – Tunnel: No longer travels to a different location from the tunnel exit

Rell

W shield decreased.

 Last patch’s nerfs didn’t phase Rell as much as we intended, so we’re taking another swing by lowering how long she can stay in fights. 

W – Ferromancy: Crash Down

• Shield: 20/40/60/80/100 (+ 13% Max Health) ⇒ 20/40/60/80/100 (+ 11% Max Health)

Rumble

Q damage decreased. Q and R QoL improvements, power impacting bugfixes.

 In this patch we’re fixing a long-standing set of issues with Rumble that caused him to deal less damage to champions when played on the red side. In addition, we’re refactoring his Flamespitter to work more like a true damage over time effect. Each hit will light his target on fire and they’ll take another two ticks of damage in all contexts, which is a buff to the tail end of the spell. We’re also retiming The Equalizer to keep each zone hot for exactly as long as the visuals persist on the map, which makes the beginning of his ult more responsive and makes the end remain dangerous for longer.

As these changes will result in substantial buffs in your average game, we’re delivering a preemptive nerf to Flamespitter’s damage, which should still leave him in a stronger position than before these changes and hopefully make the experience of playing him much more consistent. 

Q – Flamespitter

• Damage over 3 Seconds: 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 110% AP) (+ 6/6.8/7.6/8.4/9.2% target max HP) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 100% AP) (+ 6/6.5/7/7.5/8% target max HP)
• Maximum Burn Duration: 3 seconds ⇒ 3.5 seconds
• No longer occasionally fails to apply the full debuff duration
• Red team no longer deals delayed damage and/or less damage to champions
• Debuff no longer checks for targetability before dealing damage
• Debuff no longer checks for 700u proximity to Rumble before dealing damage

R – The Equalizer

• Tick Rate: 0.5 seconds ⇒ 0.25 seconds
• Now lasts the full duration across the entire damaging zone
• Now more rapidly deals damage when initially dropped.
• Red team no longer deals delayed damage and/or less damage to champions.

Shaco

Passive damage decreased. Q damage decreased, cooldown increased.

 Shaco’s ban rate has been creeping up, so we’re going to tap him down in a few areas that should hopefully reduce the frustration of playing against him, like his repeated invisibility on Q. Right now his AP build is better than the AD alternative, but AD is still his primary build, so we’re going to adjust both. 

Passive – Backstab

• Bonus AD Ratio: 30% ⇒ 25%

Q – Deceive

• Bonus AD Ratio: 65% ⇒ 60%
• Cooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10 seconds ⇒ 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11 seconds

Singed

Q refresh rate buffed. Power impacting bugfix.

 Similar to Rumble, we’ve fixed the bug that caused Singed to do delayed/less damage when on red side. While we were at it, we also increased the debuff refresh rate, making it deal more damage on average, as it’s more likely that Singed will refresh the poison duration on his opponents. 

Q – Poison Trail

• While on the Red side, Singed no longer deals delayed damage and/or less damage to champions.
• Poison Refresh Rate: 0.5 seconds ⇒ 0.25 seconds

Sion

Passive health loss decreased. E armor shred increased. R damage increased.

 AD Sion hasn’t been in a good spot as of late, so we’re here to help him out. We’re starting by reverting Sion’s passive tickrate back to what it was before we nerfed it, giving him more time to beat people to death with his fists, and allowing his damage to be more potent when he snipes someone with an E. Finally, we also want the train’s impact to be all the more explosive by increasing his bonus AD Ratio on his R. While we know these changes may be broadly power positive, we targeted areas that make AD Sion happier in particular. 

Passive – Glory in Death

• Health Lost per Tick: 2.3 – 24.4 (based on level) ⇒ 2 – 19 (based on level)

E – Roar of the Slayer

• Armor Reduction: 20% ⇒ 25%

R – Unstoppable Onslaught

• Bonus AD Ratio (Based on Travel Time): 40 – 80% ⇒ 60 – 120%

Sylas

Passive now does bonus damage to monsters.

 Sylas is a reasonably popular jungler, despite the fact that he isn’t really able to jungle effectively. To help the players that want to play him there we’re re-visiting his ability to clear the jungle by letting him whip his chains around and slay jungle camps. 

Passive – Petricite Burst

• Monster Damage Modifier: 100% ⇒ 150%

Trundle

W attack speed decreased late, cooldown increased.

 Trundle is pummeling all other junglers at all ranks in addition to being highly prevalent in pro play, so we need to take some power out of his direct combat potential. Frozen Domain is going up in cooldown to create clearer windows when you can and can’t fight him, alongside a tap down to his attack speed increase per rank. 

W – Frozen Domain

• Bonus Attack Speed: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110% ⇒ 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90%
• Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds ⇒ 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 seconds

Varus

Q damage decreased. W damage increased late. E damage decreased. Bugfix.

 We’re tweaking Varus this patch in order to make him stronger in the hands of the average player while making him weaker in pro play. To achieve this, we’re nerfing lethality Varus, as it’s his primary pro build, and buffing his on-hit builds as compensation. 

Q – Piercing Arrow

• Base Damage: 90 / 160 / 230 / 300 / 370 ⇒ 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360

W – Blighted Quiver

• Bonus Magic Damage On-Hit: 6 / 12 / 18 / 24 / 30 ⇒ 6 / 14 / 22 / 30 / 38

E – Hail of Arrows

• Damage: 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+ 100% bonus AD) ⇒ 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 90% bonus AD)

Bugfix

• Targets will once again take damage per blight stack on them when Varus R spreads to them from the primary target.

Viego

Attack Speed growth decreased. Q nerfed against monsters and buffed against non-monsters.

 Viego has crept back up to the top spot in the jungle due in part to the recent Kraken Slayer buffs. Instead of a straight forward nerf we’re going to be shifting some of his power from the jungle into solo lanes, somewhere many players used to play him back when he came out. We’re doing this by making his Q more useful against champions and minions while making it do a bit less to jungle monsters. 

Base Stats

• Attack Speed Growth: 2.5% ⇒ 2.25%

Q – Blade of the Ruined King

• Damage: 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 ⇒ 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85
• Critical Strike Multiplier: 100% ⇒ 75%
• Bonus Damage to Monsters: 15 ⇒ 0
• Mark Minion Healing: 50% ⇒ 100%
• Mark Monster Healing: 145% ⇒ 125%
• Mark Champion Healing: 135% ⇒ 150%

Warwick

Base AD increased. Passive damage decreased early.

 Warwick’s easy to pick up and play which is reflected in his moderately high win rate typical of an approachable jungler. However, in top lane, he’s too strong, which can lead to very frustrating experiences where he either can be killed by an all-in or simply sustains back up out of reach. We’re shifting some power from his early game passive into his base attack damage in order to weaken his early game resourceless healing, while leaving his damage and Q healing intact, or even buffed in some cases. We intend for these changes to be neutral for Warwick jungle but power negative for top lane. 

Base Stats

• Base Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 65

Passive – Eternal Hunger

• Bonus On-Hit Damage: 12 – 46 (based on level) ⇒ 6 – 46 (based on level)

Xin Zhao

Base health decreased. Q damage decreased.

 Xin Zhao is currently one of, if not, the best junglers in the game, so we’re taking away some of his damage against champions and monsters as well as some of his deceptively strong durability. 

Base Stats

• Base Health: 640 ⇒ 620

Q – Three Talon Strike

• Flat Bonus Damage per Hit: 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 ⇒ 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75

Yuumi

Q damage decreased. W heal and shield power and on-hit heal decreased.

 Yuumi has continued to be resilient to her recent nerfs, so we’re back to close the book on the cat. And by close the book, we really just mean nerf her to an appropriate power level by making her less of a late game eventuality. 

Q – Prowling Projectile

• Empowered Base Damage: 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 / 380 ⇒ 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 / 355

W – You and Me!

• Heal and Shield Power: 5 / 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 / 15% ⇒ 4 / 5 /6 / 7 / 8%
• Heal On-Hit: 3 / 5 / 7 / 9 / 11 (+ 4% AP) ⇒ 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 (+ 3% AP)

Zyra

E cooldown decreased. R damage increased.

 Zyra is wilting a bit at the moment, falling below her historically healthy power levels. To help her out we’re looking to water her with buffs that are geared around her high moment roots into Stranglethorns to ensure she still provides the teamfighting prowess she’s known for. The late game focused R buff is meant to be a small nudge toward Zyra mid but we know there’s more work to be done there before she feels like she can put down roots there. 

E – Grasping Roots

• Cooldown: 12 seconds ⇒ 11 seconds

R – Stranglethorns

• Base Damage: 180 / 265 / 350 ⇒ 200 / 300 / 400

Items

Experimental Hexplate

 Experimental Hexplate has been a very niche item hard-bound to specific champions (hello Nocturne). We’d like to open it up to more users, so we’re giving it some strong buffs to its empowered state. 

• Overdrive Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 50%
• Overdrive Movement Speed: 15% ⇒ 20%

Baron Nashor

 When we removed Baron’s health regen in the last patch, we overlooked the extra regen that got added to him for every minute of game time. We’ve found that sneaky stat allocation and squashed it, so now Baron really won’t regenerate more health mid-combat. As with last time, we’re compensating his health to make the average Baron fight take about the same amount of time. 

• Base Health: 11,500 ⇒ 11,800
• Health per Minute: 180 ⇒ 190
• Health Regeneration per second gained every Minute: 0.375 ⇒ 0

Arena

 Our focus for this patch is on giving fighters some much-needed love, primarily through their items, reducing excessive movement speed, as well as a rework on the infamous Mystic Punch. We’re also bringing some nice quality-of-life changes that players have been asking for. 

Shopping Phase

 We heard that many of you feel like you don’t have enough time to beat up our poor target dummy and we’re here to help. Starting this patch the target dummy will spawn shortly into the shopping phase, and damaging the dummy will no longer prevent you from undoing your item purchases. 

• Target dummies will now spawn 5 seconds into the shopping phase regardless of if the team has finished shopping.
• You can now undo your item purchase at any time during the shopping phase, but as soon as combat starts you’ll need to sell your items like normal if you want something else.
• Targeting other champions during the shopping phase will also update your tab scoreboard to scout their team. Scouting via the team panels on the right side will automatically target the first player in that team.

Early Exit

 Sometimes you lose, we’ve all been there (except me), and sometimes you want to quickly get to your next game without seeing how everyone else is doing. Now when your team is eliminated you’ll have the option to skip waiting for other combats to end, though you should know your post game stats might be inaccurate until combats end and you’ll have to wait for your Fame to come in. We’re also removing the Progression tab from your post game screen so you’ll land on the scoreboard immediately, to save you from one more click to jump right back into the queue. 

• When your combat ends and your team is eliminated, you can leave right away.

Champions (Arena)

Braum

 Braum’s looking a little weak, so we’re helping him hit a bit harder after his passive has stunned a target. 

• Passive damage increased: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Q Max HP ratio increased: 2.5% ⇒ 5%

Kled

 Kled has been a bit sad for a while, since Skaarl’s been a bit too afraid to rejoin the fight, so we’ve got some changes that’ll help out. 

• Now gains 15 Courage from Power Flowers.
• P Remount Cooldown reduced from 30s ⇒ 15s
• P Armor and MR bonus increased from 30% ⇒ 40% per nearby enemy champion
• R reaches max power after 3⇒ 1.5s

Ezreal

 Ezreal’s looking a little sad when compared to other ADCs, so we’re giving him some increased damage to help keep up. Meanwhile we’re also bringing down some of the most extreme ADC prismatics. 

• Q AD ratio increased from 140% ⇒ 150%
• Q AP ratio increased from 20% ⇒ 30%

Orianna

 We’re looking to revert some extra power that Orianna has in Arena, nothing major but it should reduce some hidden damage she has laying around. 

• P On-hit AP ratio reverted from 25% ⇒ 15%

Rakan

 Rakan relies a lot on his teammate and we want to make sure he isn’t letting them down. This should move him closer to an equal relationship with them (but not with Xayah). 

• P Shield basic attacks and ability hits CD refund 1 ⇒ 2s
• Q Damage AP ratio 70% ⇒ 80%
• Q Heal AP ratio 55% ⇒ 60%

Renata Glasc

 Renata can have some exciting builds with her passive, so we think it can at least match the rest of League of Legends. We know that this can get out of hand so we’ll be keeping an eye on it in case we need to follow up. 

• P AP ratio increased from 1% per 100 AP ⇒ 2% per 100 AP (matches SR)

Qiyana

 Qiyana requires a fair bit of skill, though she struggles a bit when she can’t burst down a target. We want to adjust some of her tools for extended fights, that should still let her take down a squishy target, while helping her hold her own against a more durable target. 

• W On-Hit AD ratio 20% bonus ⇒ 35% bonus
• R Base damage 100/200/300 ⇒ 150/300/450

Ziggs

 Ziggs can often feel a bit unassailable, so we want to bring down some of the frustration that he brings without taking him out of the picture completely. 

• Q CD increased from 4 ⇒ 6-4 (match SR)
• E duration reduced from 10s ⇒ 7s

Zilean

 Zilean started at the bottom, and now he’s here. When we reworked his passive for Arena, we didn’t expect it to transform him from one of the weakest champions to one of the strongest, but as anyone who has played with/against a decent Zilean player can attest, he makes for a strong ally. We want to walk back his passive just a tad and see where that puts him. 

• Passive grants 1 level every 2 ⇒ 3 rounds

Augments and Anvils

Mystic Punch

 Mystic Punch is a fan favorite and we like how it functions on most champions; however, when it becomes a “one card combo” and can single-handedly win several champions the game, we need to step in and make adjustments. This should still allow for fun On-Hit synergies, while bringing down the most abusive cases when used with a short cooldown CC. 

• Change from On-hit 1.25s CD refund on all abilities ⇒ On-hit 15% remaining CD on all abilities.

Blunt Force

 When we buffed EscAPADe we left Blunt Force out in the dust. We’re here to help keep it ahead. 

• AD amp : 15 ⇒ 20%

Quest: Three Sacred Treasures

 Yunara’s a BIT strong when she completes this quest. She should feel good about completing it but we might have gone a bit too far. We’re pulling back some power and making sure this isn’t offered in the later rounds. 

• AD ratio 100% ⇒ 75%
• AP ratio 75% ⇒ 60%
• Now only offered on rounds 1-5

Move Speed Prismatic Stat Shard

 We’re looking to pull out some of the extreme ends of movement speed that can over make Arena feel a bit too chaotic. Extreme speed should still be possible, but not be as common unless you have the right mix of augments. 

• Movement Speed: 22.5% ⇒ 18%
• Reduce size by 10%

Items

Pyromancer’s Cloak

 Fire Starter has held a bit too much of this of the item’s power when that should be a secondary effect. 

• Fire Starter Damage per level lowered from 200 – 450 ⇒ 100 – 350

Black Hole Gauntlet

 Black Hole Gauntlet feels like a bit of a high roll for tanks, and makes it so they get a bit too much free damage, while also being frustrating to play against. We want to bring down some tank damage and this feels like a reasonable place to start. 

• Slow reduced from 35% ⇒ 30%
• Damage per sec HP ratio reduced from 6.5% ⇒ 5%

Sunfire Cape

 Sunfire damage can also get a bit nutty at high health pools. We don’t want to remove tanks, and it should still be a go-to damage source; we just want to bring it a bit more in line. 

• AoE damage 4% total HP ⇒ 4% bonus HP

Hollow Radiance

 Bringing Hollow Radiance to the same level as Sunfire, the Armor / Magic Resist distinction matters a bit less and its on-kill trigger isn’t the most common thing to take advantage of, so we think these both should look a bit more similar. 

• 3% total HP ⇒ 4% bonus HP (matches sunfire)

Fighter Item buffs

 Arena has a number of multipliers, letting your damage or durability reach crazy highs. Fighters tend to struggle because they need a mix of things, so we feel like their items are a space where they can get a bit of everything they need. 

• Sterak’s Gage: Shield strength 60% ⇒ 70% bonus AD
• Overlord’s Bloodmail: bonus AD from missing HP 15% ⇒ 17.5%
• Eclipse: 6% max health physical damage ⇒ 8% max health physical damage
• Eclipse Shield: 40% AD for melees ⇒ 50% AD for melees
• Death’s Dance: Damage reduction: 30%/10% ⇒ 35%/10%
• Experimental Hexplate: Attack Speed: 20% ⇒ 30%
• Goredrinker: +10% Omnivamp

Reaper’s Toll

 Reaper’s is great for champions who want high attack speed, but we think it goes a bit over the line. By reducing its movement speed and attack speed multiplier we hope to bring it more in line with other prismatic items without robbing its identity. 

• Bonus Attackspeed reduced from 25% ⇒ 15%
• Movement Speed reduced: 10% ⇒ 5%

Move Speed reduction

 We said we were looking to tap down some unneeded Movement Speed in prismatic items. This is them: 

• Runecarver: Movement Speed reduced 8% ⇒ 4%
• Mirage Blade: Movement Speed reduced 12% ⇒ 6%
• Galeforce: Movement Speed reduced 12% ⇒ 6%
• Decapitator: Movement Speed reduced 12% ⇒ 6%
• Darksteel Talon: Movement Speed reduced 10% ⇒ 5%

Arena Bugfixes

• If you sell one of the items for Quest: Three Sacred Treasures you now lose your quest progress.
• Goredrinker, now correctly has a cast time.
• Knight’s Vow, no longer loses the link on some rounds.
• Mel’s interaction with her Rebuttal (W) and Erosion augment no longer reduces enemy resistances to 0

ARAM Clash

 The ARAM Cup will be happening this patch! Grab your 5 stacks and get ready to rumble!

• Registration Begins: August 11 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
• Tournament Dates: August 16 and 17 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)

If you have any questions or you’re just looking for the full 2025 Clash schedule, make sure to check out the Clash FAQ support page. 

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

QoL Changes

• Champ Select Improvement: Swapping will be disabled during the last 5 seconds of champ select (before game start). This is to avoid mis-clicks and unintended decisions made in a rush.
• Vladimir passive now also restores HP gained from his passive if he is in the fountain.
• Rumble’s Ability Icons now displays the generated heat in the UI when the setting “Show Spell Costs” is enabled.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Viego gets a popup notification every time he possesses a champion with a popup such as Kai’sa or Sentinel Graves.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sixth Sense to sometimes stop working if the player was dead while the rune came off of cooldown.
• Fixed a bug that caused Vladimir’s recall VFX to be audible regardless of the camera’s current position.
• Fixed a bug that caused Wukong’s E to sometimes cancel enemy in-progress attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused Yunara’s Q to apply Rylai’s to the main target.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel to gain the benefit of multiple buffs of one drake if she had killed one with a spell/ability reflected by her W.
• Fixed a bug that caused Fiora’s ultimate healing zone to not be created when damage from Sheen had slain an enemy.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viego to retain bonus Armor and MR from Kled’s dismounted form after Possession had ended.
• Fixed a bug that caused Seraphine’s W empowered shield to grant invincibility to Seraphine and her allies if the shield amount is two times higher than the receiving damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused Janna’s old Passive icon to show in the Death Recap screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused Yunara’s Q VFX to split when attacking certain units.
• Fixed a bug that caused Voidgrubs to not count toward Feats if the last Grub was stolen.
• Fixed a bug that caused Gwen to rubberband inside of Yorick’s W if she case her own W to deny the knockback.
• Fixed a bug that caused Voidgrub damage to turrets to prevent Viego from going invisible inside of his E.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sion’s R to be stoppable by Sett’s R.

Xin Zhao is finally getting his long-awaited champion visual update and Riot has just provided us with a first look into what we can expect. He is getting a complete update to his champion model, as well as some slick new animations and, of course, some new skins. Demacia fans rejoice! Check out the new Xin Zhao update trailer below.

New Xin Zhao Rework Captures

Click here to view the FULL 25.16 patch notes!

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From Riot Phroxzon via X (Source)

The upcoming changes included in Patch 25.16 are out, with numerous champion buffs and nerfs across many champions. Take a look at the current patch 25.15 notes here.

Balance Strategy

-As mentioned yesterday, heading into the back half of the year where things are pretty well balanced, we’re going to be spending a lot more time trying to find opportunistic alt builds, alternate roles and other things that feel like opportunities for players to express creativity.

-If you have any suggestions for builds or roles that could use a little bit of love, earflicks that can be fixed, we’d love to hear them.

-This also can include things where it might take a little more time to land a more involved gameplay change to them (like Rek’Sai’s returning of E damage, or improving clarity and counterplay of Illaoi’s E)

-There are a multitude of such changes in the patch, (better balance of WW JG vs Top, Lane Viego, AD Morde, Qiyana JG, AD Sion, JG Sylas, etc.) – In the meantime, our high level strategy is to be more nerf heavy on the jungle role, as we think the role is too strong overall and are avoiding net buffing it over time.

Sentiment on the game is too balanced

-Have heard a bunch of sentiment recently around the game being too balanced.

-Often, people feeling this way can feel like the game feels the same patch over patch, TFT can sometimes feel like this when the balance team is doing too good of a job!

-A great problem to have, but also a real indicator of some opportunities for us – When the game is in a pretty balanced state, we’re particularly interested in getting champions into multiple roles (in a way that doesn’t break the game) that can add a bit of freshness back.

-Things like Nautilus Jungle, AD Morde, Viego mid (a bit more speculative), Qiyana Jungle, Sylas jungle, AD Sion, etc.

-These opportunities are often hard to prioritize when we need to put balance fires out.

-At the same time, we need to be a bit careful of over-correcting; most of this sentiment is coming from people who play League for most of the day (streamers, high ELO players) and will be quite vocal.

-We need to be mindful of regular players too, who don’t play as often and have communicated to us that they are more sensitive to rate of change.

-To set some expectations though, outside of Season Starts, we don’t have plans to do large shakeups to the game, as players have expressed that rate of change being high in these periods is particularly damaging to new players, reviving players, etc.

Yunara

-Overall Yunara has landed in a really great spot, she’s seeing a little bit of Pro Play, while being amongst the most popular champs in role, without significant banrate. We’re really happy y’all are enjoying her so much!

-Her mastery growth after playing several games on her is pretty high, so just stick out that early learning curve.

-Over-time, her Kraken and BORK builds have started to edge out Yun-Tal, especially at higher skill levels.

-We’re not going to target changes to her for now, and want to observe a bit more to see how her build and skew plays out.

Shaco

-Shaco has had an extremely high banrate for a pretty extended period of time at this point

-We’re looking to bring down his frustration overall and he doesn’t need to be close to 50 to be a satisfying champion for his audience

Systems

-Hexplate has been a pretty unpopular item for a long while and mostly been tuned around Nocturne (with some fringe Olaf use too)

-We’re giving it a buff and a compensation nerf to an already strong Nocturne

-Baron’s HP regen is going away for real this time… missing your smites because of in-fight regen hopefully a thing of the past now?

Last Patch Follow-up

In an effort to improve Illaoi’s gameplay around the curse (low satisfaction for Illaoi, high frustration for opponents), the changes landed a little harder than intended, so walking it back a tiny bit. We’ve noted some of the complaints around E and repeated slams, but didn’t quite have time to address it this patch.

Rek’Sai also landed a little weaker than intended, though her E max first (which was historically quite good) is back to being pretty strong and we’re hoping her players enjoy the E true damage back.

Kalista has finally had her power level catch up to her Pro Presence. The main reason players would pick her is to dominate laning phase and so we want to add a bit more power into her later game to add a bit of regular play power without spiking her immediately back into Pro.

Finally, Yuumi is still at highs after her changes a few patches ago didn’t quite land as we’d like. We’re taking a bit more of a swing here as she is still very performant (more than performant enough to meet her goals for new players)

1. Brand
2. Gnar
3. Illaoi
4. (Game) Master Yi
5. Morgana
6. Nautilus (Jungle)
7. Qiyana (Jungle/Mid)
8. Rek’sai
9. Sion (AD)
10. Sylas (Jungle)
11. Zyra

1. Jarvan IV
2. Lulu
3. Nocturne
4. Rell (yes, Relly Relly)
5. Shaco
6. Trundle
7. Xin Zhao
8. Yuumi

1. Mordekaiser (AD)
2. Varus (Lethality vs On-hit)
3. Viego (Jungle vs. Mid)
4. Warwick (Top vs. Jungle)

1. Experimental ULTplate

1. My Itty Bitty Baby Baron Boi and his little grabby hands (Baron Nashor)

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Time to soak in some Hot Springs vibes and read through what all we got coming in 25.15! This patch we have our usual balance changes for both SR, ARAM, and a handful of bug fixes! We’ve also got something new that we’re calling “Champion Ability Previews” where you’re able to preview champion kits before and after you select for a refresher if it’s been a minute. Try it out and let us know what you think!

Our live balance changes contain small-scale patchwork for Illaoi to reduce the frustration of playing around the Vessel mechanic and for Rek’Sai to return the true damage to her E. Otherwise, we’re removing Baron Nashor’s in-combat HP regen to make Smites more consistent, nerfing the top 3 tank supports, and following up on the best-performing Kraken Slayer and Blade of the Ruined King users.

Looking for more information on all things League of Legends? Check out our community-run wiki here! TFT patch notes here!

Ability Previews

Ability previews are coming to champion select in all draft modes and ARAM starting this patch. The idea is to offer players a convenient method of refreshing their knowledge of League’s evolving champion roster without needing to leave the client. Whether it’s learning a new champion, brushing up on an unfamiliar kit, or studying the enemy team’s composition, hovering over the champion portrait for a couple seconds gives you an easy way to preview that champion’s play style.

Once you lock in, you can use the remaining time to review your champion abilities and prepare for the game to come. Experienced players who want fewer distractions on the champion select screen can elect to toggle the feature off in their Settings.

Battle of Koeshin / Koeshin’s Courtyard

You can now enter the Courtyard regardless of how much you’ve played of the Battle of Koeshin meta-game! The menu option should be available in the Battle of Koeshin meta-game.

We saw some of the feedback about preferring to experience the Courtyard without being locked behind completing all the levels of Battle of Koeshin so we’ve changed those requirements. Some of you are lovers and not fighters and we get that. 

Known Issues

• Character models can sometimes disappear. (We’ve fixed a few instances of this but it can still happen in specific circumstances)

Systems

Baron Nashor

Baron Nashor has passive health regen, which means his health can tick over your Smite, Consume, Feast, etc. and rob you of an otherwise well-timed kill. Let’s not have him do that. As compensation, he’s receiving 100 base HP, which should make baron takes play out in a similar amount of time. 

Base Stats

• Health Regen per 5: 75 ⇒ 0
• Base Health: 11400 ⇒ 11500
• Out of Combat Regen: unchanged

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Champions

Alistar

Base Armor reduced.

 Alistar has been one of the strongest support tanks for a while, whether you’re measuring pros or not. In order to create a more equitable support ecosystem, we’re delivering a nerf. While 7 armor may seem like a drastic change, recent armor nerfs to Braum and Leona both showed that these champions are very resilient to this type of change. We’ll of course be monitoring this change to ensure it hits our desired mark here. 

Base Stats

• Base Armor: 47 ⇒ 40

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Bel’Veth

Passive Attack Speed increased at levels 2-18. Q damage to champions decreased.

 Bel’Veth was a huge winner of last patch’s Kraken Slayer and Blade of the Ruined King changes. While she deserves some nerfs to her early PVP power, we’d also like to help her fulfill her late game scaling fantasy by increasing her passive’s stack value. 

Passive – Death In Lavender

• Attack Speed per stack: 0.28 – 1% (level 1-17) ⇒ 0.28 – 1.1% (level 1-18)

Q – Void Surge

• Damage to Champions: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+ 100% total AD) ⇒ 0 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 (+ 100% total AD)
• Total Damage to Monsters: 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 (+ 100% total AD) (Unchanged)

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Braum

Base Armor and Armor Growth decreased.

 Braum’s armor nerf last patch was significantly less impactful than we expected so he’s still pretty much the best solo queue tank. We’re going to give him one more adjustment with the goal of landing his power in a more appropriate place. 

Base Stats

• Base Armor: 42 ⇒ 35
• Armor Growth: 5.2 ⇒ 5

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Corki

Q damage formula adjusted. R damage increased.

 We’re delivering some adjustments to Corki with the intent of pushing him toward squishier high-AD builds and slightly toning down his extremely potent late-laning phase spike while still maintaining his presence as a strong laner. 

Q – Phosphorous Bomb

• Damage: 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270 (+ 120% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP) ⇒ 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 130% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP)

R – Missile Barrage

• Damage: 90 / 170 / 250 (+ 80% bonus AD) ⇒ 90 / 170 / 250 (+ 85% bonus AD)

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Illaoi

Passive damage increased. E adjusted.

We’re delivering some Illaoi adjustments with the goal of reducing her more frustrating outputs for her opponents. No longer will you have to dodge freshly-spawning tentacles for a full ten seconds. In its stead, we’re giving Illaoi some deserved extra power by making her E overall more responsive and generally increasing her damage. Most notably, she will now get two slams from Test of Spirit’s first phase before level 7. Our desire for this patch is a small net power increase and as always we’ll measure how this lands to ensure we’ve hit that goal. 

Passive – Prophet of an Elder God

• Damage: 9 – 162 (based on level) (+ 100% AD) (+ 40% AP) ⇒ 9 – 162 (based on level (+ 105% AD) (+ 40% AP)
• Tooltip’s damage will now update with ranks in Q.

Q – Tentacle Smash

• Tooltip now shows full ability damage that updates with ranks in Q.

E – Test of Spirit

• Tentacle Attack Timer: 5 / 4 / 3 seconds (level 1 / 7 / 13) ⇒ 4 / 3.5 / 3 seconds (level 1 / 7 / 13)
• Vessel Duration: 10 ⇒ 3
• Vessel-spawned tentacles now attack the vessel about 1 second sooner.

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Irelia

Health Regen decreased.

Unsurprisingly, Irelia’s power level has taken off between her recent direct buffs and last patch’s Blade of the Ruined King changes. We’re attacking her early health regen once again, as that stat is typically skewed toward mid lane, where she can stand to lose a little more power. 

Base Stats

• Health Regen: 6 ⇒ 3.5

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Kled

Passive dismounted resistances increased.

 Kled’s builds and overall shape landed extremely well after the .14 changes, but he’s looking a little on the weak side. We’re giving him a bit more dismounted durability, especially in the very early parts of the game and much later on in teamfights, to ensure that he can actually remount in an appropriate amount of time. 

Passive – Skaarl, the Cowardly Lizard

• Dismounted Resistances: 1 – 2% bonus HP (based on number of nearby enemy champions) ⇒ 4 (+ 1% bonus HP) – 10 (+ 2.5% bonus HP) (based on number of nearby enemy champions)

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Master Yi

Q damage reduced for low AD builds.

 As with Bel’Veth, Master Yi was a big winner from Blade of the Ruined King’s and Kraken Slayer’s buffs so we need to take him down a peg to remain balanced. We’re taking down some of his Alpha Strike burst in low-AD builds in order to put his higher AD crit builds closer to high AS on-hit builds. 

Q – Alpha Strike

• Damage: 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+ 50% total AD) ⇒ 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+ 70% total AD)
• Monster Damage: 95 / 150 / 205 / 260 / 315 (+ 50% total AD) ⇒ 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+ 70% total AD)

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Nilah

Base AD increased, Attack Speed Growth decreased.

 Nilah is the winningest bot laner in League of Legends, and while someone has to be on top, she’s ahead by a little more than we think is reasonable. We’re delivering what we expect to be a small overall nerf while increasing her early game agency. 

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Base Stats

• Base AD: 58 ⇒ 60
• Attack Speed Growth: 3% ⇒ 2.25%

Pantheon

Q monster damage decreased.

 Pantheon’s most optimal role has been Jungle for a few patches in a row now. We’re looking to reduce its viability slightly as it’s been dominant and has taken some of the shine from his Top lane. 

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Q – Comet Spear

• Monster Damage: 105% ⇒ 90%

Quinn

Q damage decreased.

 Quinn’s most effective builds (namely Statikk Shiv and Symbiotic Soles) have caught on and she’s ultimately a little too performant. We’re taking a stab at her strength in the later laning phase, weakening her wave clear by asking her to wait a little longer to access all that area of effect power while preserving her auto-attack damage. 

Q – Blinding Assault

• Damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+ 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120% total AD) ⇒ 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 (+ 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120% bonus AD)

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Rek’Sai

Base Armor and Armor Growth decreased. W knock up lockout decreased at higher ranks. E deals adjusted true damage. R adjusted.

 Rek’Sai’s been sad with her lack of true damage, so we’re adding it back so that Rek’Sai players can experience all three pretty text colors again. We’re trying to nudge her toward a more complete fighter pattern by making her ultimate not necessarily an execute, giving her more casts of Furious Bite, and giving her access to better late-game crowd control. We’re also delivering some quality of life that should make her ultimate’s usability better and soften Furious Bite’s failure cases. The nerfs you see in this patch are here to compensate for the new powers she’s getting but our overall goal is for Rek’Sai to be stronger than before. 

Base Stat

• Base Armor: 36 ⇒ 35
• Armor Growth: 4.95 ⇒ 4.5

W – Unburrow

• Knock-up lockout: 10 ⇒ 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6

E – Furious Bite

• Empowered Damage: 100% total AD (+ 8 / 9.5 / 11 / 12.5 / 14% target max HP) ⇒ 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 / 240 (+ 80% bonus AD)
• Unempowered Damage: 100% total AD ⇒ 80 / 108 / 136 / 164 / 192 (+ 64% bonus AD) (80% of Empowered Damage)
• Cooldown: 10 ⇒ 6

R – Void Rush

• Damage: 150 / 300 / 450 (+ 100% bonus AD) (+ 25 / 30 / 35% missing HP) ⇒ 150 / 250 / 350 (+100% bonus AD) (+ 15 / 20 / 25% target max HP)
• Cooldown: 100 / 90 / 80 ⇒ 120 / 100 / 80
• Cooldown on interrupted cast from target dying: 10 ⇒ 5
• Now resets W cooldown on cast.

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Rell

W shield decreased.

 Rell is right up there with Alistar and Braum as one of the best tank supports in the game, and just like those two, we’re delivering some nerfs to make room for other supports to shine. We’re looking to make her durability a little less guaranteed with this change. 

W – Crash Down

• Shield: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 (+ 13% max HP) ⇒ 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+ 13% max HP)

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Aram Balance Changes

Death Screen Effect

 We’ve seen a lot of feedback around the Death Screen in ARAM so this patch we’re making some changes to it. We’ve reduced the intensity of both the color and the distortion of the effect so it should no longer be as harsh of a visual shift when you’ve met your demise. 

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Systems

• Removed the Movement Speed boost near Spirit Blossom portals.
• Bilge Plants shield duration and potency increased by 50%.

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Champions

Akali

• Damage Dealt: -5% ⇒ 0%
• Damage Received: 10% ⇒ 5%
• Passive AP Ratio: 55% ⇒ 65%
• Q AP Ratio: 60% ⇒ 70%
• R1 AP Ratio: 30% ⇒ 40%
• R2 AP Ratio: 30% ⇒ 40%

Briar

• Bonus Healing: 5% ⇒ 15%
• E Damage Reduction: 35% ⇒ 55%

Caitlyn

• Q total AD Ratio: 125 / 145 / 165 / 185 / 205% ⇒ 125 / 140 / 155 / 170 / 185%

Hecarim

• E Cooldown: 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 ⇒ 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12

Kassadin

• E Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+ 65% AP) ⇒ 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+ 75% AP)

Nunu

• Q Monster Heal AP Ratio: 90% ⇒ 110%
• Q Champion Heal AP Ratio: 54% ⇒ 66%
• W AP Ratio: 30-150% ⇒ 67-200%

Quinn

• R now works correctly on the Spirit Blossom map.
• Will now start in R once you have it.

Senna

• Damage Dealt: -3% ⇒ -8%

Sett

• W Base Grit Conversion: 25% ⇒ 20%

Talon

• Q Bonus AD Ratio: 100% ⇒ 115%
• W Bonus AD Ratio: 40%/90% (initial/return) ⇒ 50%/100% (initial/return)
• E Terrain CD: 160 / 135 / 110 / 85 / 60 ⇒ 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6
• R Cooldown: 100 / 80 / 60 ⇒ 80 / 70 / 60

Teemo

• Ability Haste: -10 ⇒ -15
• R Duration: 5 minutes ⇒ 3 minutes

Ziggs

• AoE Damage to Minions: 100% ⇒ 80%

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Items

Spectral Cutlass

• Gold Cost: 3000 ⇒ 2800
• Can no longer be used to teleport enemies back to your start location.

ARURF

ARURF is back! It takes place on the Spirit Blossom map with all of its changes and has the new ARAM card system!

Champion balance has been adjusted from previous URF releases and we’ll be keeping a close eye on their impact on the game.

Katarina

• Damage Dealt:105% ⇒ 110%

Nidalee

• Damage Dealt:105% ⇒ 110%

Senna

• Damage Dealt:100% ⇒ 110%

Skarner

• Damage Dealt:100% ⇒ 110%
• Shielding:100% ⇒ 110%

Annie

• Damage Taken:105% ⇒ 110%
• Shielding:100% ⇒ 90%

Sanctum and Mythic Shop

New Mythic Variant in the Sanctum

The new Mythic Variant, After Hours Spirit Blossom Springs Ahri, is now available in the Sanctum for a period of time!

For more information about the Sanctum please check out our support article. 

New Prestige in the Mythic Shop

With 25.15 Prestige Spirit Blossom Springs Aphelios will be arriving into the Mythic Shop for 150 Mythic Essence! He’ll be in the shop until 25.17 so grab him while you can!

This also means that Prestige Battle Academia Qiyana will be leaving, so you have a few more hours to snag her if you haven’t yet!

For more information about the Mythic Shop and Mythic Essence check out our article on it.

Bug Fixes & QOL Changes

Quality of Life Changes

• Surrender and Remake vote timeouts have been reduced from 60 seconds to 25 seconds.
• We’ve updated the visuals of Role Swap to help differentiate it from Pick Swap to cut down on mistaking one for the other.

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General Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Heimerdinger’s grenade damage would not cause his turrets to change aggro at the very edge of turrets’ range.
• Fixed an issue where Axiom Arc was refunding double for Yunara’s R.
• Fixed an issue where using the Undo button could cause Kled to end up with the wrong spells while mounted.
• Fixed an issue where Ambessa could fail to gain a Conquerer stack from her R.
• Fixed an issue where some debug text could appear in Champion Select when you have a chat restriction.
• Fixed an issue where Yunara would fail to refresh her Hail of Blades stack when her Q or RE would cancel an auto attack.
• Fixed an issue where Shadowflame wouldn’t trigger Yunara’s Passive for critical damage.
• Fixed an issue where Guardian Angel’s VFX would persist after selling the item.
• Fixed an issue where if Vayne would Flash while casting E she would end facing the wrong direction.
• Fixed an issue where Legend: Haste on Fiddlesticks failed to reduce the duration before a target could be feared again.
• Fixed an issue where Zoe’s E could leave a permanent trap on the minimap.
• Fixed an issue where Smolder would have a delay on his auto attack after using Q.
• Fixed an issue where Yunara’s W had an incorrect numerical tooltip in her expanded tooltip in Chinese.
• Fixed an issue where hitting a jungle plant with an active spellblade effect would remove the VFX and the buff icon.
• Fixed multiple issues where multiple issues would occur when Mel used her W to reflect Urgot’s R and cast her R at the same time.
• Fixed an issue where if Taric survived Mordekaiser’s R while attached to any champion within range of W, that ally would be tethered even when out of range.
• Fixed an issue where Yone’s Q1 and Q2 would critically hit all targets if the first target hit was a critical. It should now be correctly calculated for each hit.
• Fixed an issue where Viktor’s R and Smolder’s E damage would not be blocked by spell shields but still consume them.
• Fixed an issue where Sion’s R could be stopped by Sett’s R without any collision.
• Fixed an issue where an Olaf in his R could not be knocked back by a blast cone that he attacked himself.
• Fixed an issue where Mel’s W would fail to reflect Zoe’s E after being hit by her auto attack or passive.
• Fixed an issue where Seraphine’s W heal per nearby ally would have diminishing returns.
• Fixed an issue where Azir’s soldier attacks on a target with Thornmail/Bramblevest would fail to apply either the reflect or the grievous wounds.

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Skin Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Lillia’s VFX would appear on top of walls.
• Fixed an issue where LeBlanc’s cape wouldn’t disappear on death for certain skins.
• Fixed an issue where Seraphine’s audio would play double for herself and couldn’t be heard by allies.
• Fixed an issue where DJ Sona’s music would be overridden by the Summoner’s Rift music.
• Fixed an issue where DJ Sona’s music was missing certain beats and layers.
• Fixed an issue where some of Debonair Zed’s faster run animations were not playing when having higher move speed of when in homeguard!

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

The following skins will be released this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Patch Highlights

Spirit Blossom Akali, Spirit Blossom Hwei, Spirit Blossom Karma, Spirit Blossom Kayle, Spirit Blossom Nidalee, Prestige Spirit Blossom Zed, and Spirit Blossom Morgana will be available June 25, 2025 at 18:00 UTC.

ARAM

Starting this patch we’re adding two new maps to the ARAM map pool to bring a bit more variety and excitement to each game! From now through 25.16, you’ll load into one of three maps, each with their own, unique look alongside slight gameplay and terrain differences to keep each game feeling fresh. The maps will be your classic Howling Abyss, the new Koeshin’s Crossing, and a returning favorite, Butcher’s Bridge!

Which map you play on will be decided at random, with everyone finding out as soon as you get to the loading screen. They won’t change based on the patch or anything else. Given the maps only have minor gameplay differences you won’t need to stress about having the right champion for each map as there isn’t really a “right” champion. Simply pick the champ you want to play and enjoy whichever map you land on.

We’re also updating rerolls by changing them into something we call Champion Cards. Champion Cards will help you (and your lobby) get more champions, more consistently. At the start of each lobby you’ll be presented with two options to choose from, and whoever you don’t pick will go directly to the bench. If you’re lucky you could even get a THIRD champion card to pick from.

Arena

Arena is back!… except it’s not just back, it’s back for 12 months! You heard that right, Arena is back for a whole year.

Arena’s latest run was well received, both while it was active, and after. When it went away, we saw players actively looking for it and telling us how much they enjoyed it as an alternate way to play League. We heard the conversations in the community across the globe, saw all the tags of our official accounts, and even one region flooded the PBE where Arena was still accessible for them.

So we’re staying true to our word that we’d keep Arena around for longer runs if it does well, and it has. For now we hope you enjoy Arena’s return and we’ll check back in for an update later this year on how it’s going. 

Upcoming Battle Pass Improvements

 We’ve been looking a lot at how all of you progress through the battle pass over the course of each Act, and we want to make sure it feels good and respects the time each of you invests in League. Whether you play 4 hours a day or 4 hours a week, we want to reward the time you dedicate to playing. In the spirit of this, we’ll be introducing some changes to improve how Battle Pass XP (BXP) can be acquired in Act 2 when patch 25.13 goes live. 

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Champion Mastery BXP

Starting with Champion Mastery, we’ll be moving Mastery Set BXP to a mission instead of tying it to Mastery set champions. Under this new system, you’ll be able to obtain the full 2,500 BXP with champions of your choice instead of the ones offered by Mastery Sets.

When we originally introduced Mastery sets our intention was for them to be a way for you to find a new main or two based on the personalized recommendations it provided, gaining some Battle Pass XP along the way. Now that they’ve been live for a while, we’ve looked at how players engaged with these missions. The completion rates we’re seeing aren’t quite hitting our expectations nor are they increasing different champions played, so we’re making the call to remove Mastery sets in Patch 25.13. That said, we’ll keep this learning in mind as we continue to improve the Mastery system in the future. 

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Catch Up Missions

We’re also introducing some changes to how the weekly missions will work so that Battle Passes feel better in terms of progression and how often you’re able to complete them. Starting in patch 25.13, instead of weekly missions lasting for 7 days, weekly missions will stick around for 21 days. This means that every week you’ll get a set of new weekly missions and you’ll have multiple weeks to complete them.

Currently, there’s no catchup method for BXP that exists for players jumping in partway through the Act, or for someone who just missed some weeklies because they were busy. With this update you’ll be able to accumulate missions for a while in case you aren’t able to play for a week or two, so you’ll still be able to make meaningful progress on your battle pass. You won’t need to log in or do anything special for this to work, they’ll be in your missions list when you log in. Here’s what this will look like in practice: 

• Week 1: You’ll get Week 1 missions.
• Week 2: You’ll get Week 2 missions, and still have any uncompleted Week 1 missions.
• Week 3: You’ll get Week 3 missions, and still have any uncompleted Week 1 and 2 missions.
• Week 4: You’ll get Week 4 missions, you’ll still have any uncompleted Week 2 and 3 missions, and any unfinished Week 1 missions will expire.
• Rinse and repeat.

 We’ll monitor how these changes go, your feedback to them, and continually look for opportunities to make the pass feel better for those of you that choose to get it. 

Windows Compatibility Mode

 With 25.13 we’ll be removing the ability for players to launch League of Legends or Teamfight Tactics in Compatibility Mode in Windows. After hitting the play button in the Riot Client while Compatibility Mode is enabled, a popup will appear offering to disable that setting automatically and launch the game as normal. If it’s declined, the client won’t launch, but if you accept it will disable and attempt to launch normally. This should have no impact to players and will just ensure that League is being launched in a supported configuration.

For more information about what the system requirements to run League are please check out the player support article: Minimum and Recommended System Requirements 

Reporting Updates

We’ve added a new “Rank Manipulation” report category. Previously when someone went to report someone for boosting or purposefully deranking, players would have to select a random category to report this behavior, so we’ve added a new report option as we continue our work towards better combating these behaviors. If you see accounts in your matches that are inappropriately placed, please report those with this new option. Boosting, deranking, etc. is not okay and you’re going to hear more from us on this soon.

The “Intentional Feeding” report category has also been renamed to “Disruptive Gameplay” to more accurately describe its intended use and make it a little more clear on what should be reported here.

Players will now no longer receive AFK penalties if they reconnect to the match-in-progress and win.

We’ve also adjusted the reporter feedback notification period after reporting a player from 14 days to 3 days to keep the notifications more relevant. 

Champions

Briar

W attacks can no longer be canceled. E cast time reduced.

 We’ve hunted down some awkward bugs on Briar that should improve how she feels to play. 

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W – Blood Frenzy

• NEW: Frenzied attacks can no longer be canceled. (This prevents her from sometimes canceling attacks when chasing fast moving enemies)

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E – Chilling Scream

• Cast Time After Channel: .25 (scaling down with Attack Speed) ⇒ .15

Fiddlesticks

W damage increased.

 Fiddlesticks is struggling a bit in the jungle so we’re giving it some gold scaling power that shouldn’t affect its Support efficacy much, which we think is in a decent spot. 

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W – Bountiful Harvest

• Damage per second: 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 40% AP) ⇒ 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 45% AP)

Gangplank

W mana cost decreased. R cooldown decreased.

 Experienced Gangplank players are opting for some mana solves (buying early mana crystal and selling it) in early game, and this is indicative of his play pattern not being supported in early game. We’re massaging some of his early game and giving him a small ult CD buff as he appears to be underperforming, even among skilled players.

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Q – Parrrley

• Mana Cost: 55 / 50 / 45 / 40 / 35 ⇒ 50 / 45 / 40 / 35 / 30

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R – Cannon Barrage

• Cooldown: 170 / 150 / 130 ⇒ 160 / 140 / 120

Irelia

Passive attack speed increased at lower levels.

 Irelia’s got some room to be a more powerful fighter and we’d specifically like to make her better at her skirmisher outputs of repeated damage without being as reliant on items to carry that power budget. So, we’re juicing up her early game passive power to make her able to scrap and trade autos early on against other melee champions. 

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Passive – Ionian Fervor

• Attack Speed per stack: 7.5% – 25% (based on level) ⇒ 10% – 25% (based on level)
• Max Attack Speed: 30% – 100% (based on level) ⇒ 40 – 100% (based on level)
• [Bug Fix] Attack Speed now dynamically updates if she levels up while buffed.

Kindred

R cooldown decreased at lower ranks.

 We think Kindred can be an exciting niche jungle pick at MSI this year and they currently have enough room to receive a buff without harming regular play, so we’re attempting to give them some more power specifically geared toward coordinated play by offering up more ult casts. 

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R – Lamb’s Respite

• Cooldown: 180 / 150 / 120 ⇒ 160 / 140 / 120

Nidalee

Q damage increase based on range increased.

 Nidalee’s buffs from last patch still left her a touch weaker than we’d like and we’re still looking to buff her jungle much more than top lane. We think her signature spell could stand to pose more of a threat so we’re taking a swing at bumping up the fantasy of landing those max range javelins. 

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Q – Javelin Toss

• Damage increase based on distance traveled: 0 – 200% ⇒ 0 – 225%
• Distance required for damage amp: 525 ⇒ unchanged

Rammus

Health Growth increased. W Armor/Magic Resist increased.

 Rammus’s update was successful in making him much more consistently useful but we shot a little low on his power level. We’d like to buff him back up and specifically re-enable the choices he used to have around what ability to max first. We’re giving him some generic durability and empowering Defensive Ball Curl’s rank-up as a way to ensure he can opt into being the tankiest armordillo he can be. 

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Base Stats

• Health Growth: 94 ⇒ 100

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W – Defensive Ball Curl

• Bonus Armor/Magic Resist: 27 ⇒ 27 / 32 / 37 / 42 / 47

Ryze

W damage increased, and mana cost adjusted.

 Ryze is currently stronger than he ought to be and risks taking over the mid lane pool at MSI this year, so we’re delivering a small nerf to his early laning phase where his opponents don’t have much room for counterplay. 

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W – Rune Prison

• Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+ 70% AP) (+ 4% Bonus Mana) ⇒ 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 70% AP) (+ 4% Bonus Mana)
• Mana: 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 ⇒ 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90

Twisted Fate

R cooldown increased.

 Twisted Fate’s buffs from last patch overshot our goals and now he’s arguably the strongest mid laner in the game. We’re happy that TF has his time back in the sun, but he’s currently too dominant, so we’re walking back about 1/3 of the power we gave him two weeks ago. 

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R – Destiny

• Cooldown: 160 / 130 / 100 ⇒ 170 / 140 / 110

Vi

Passive shield decreased.

 Last patch’s rank-up adjustments significantly increased her overall win rate due to aligning ability incentives with what the majority of her players were already doing. Now that that misalignment’s been solved, we’re back to nerf her out of the #1 jungle slot at MSI this year. Vi’s shield durability has historically been one of her most pro skewed levers, as the shield isn’t always chewed through in 1v1s that are more likely to happen, as opposed to the more teamfighty nature of pro. Our hope is that the combination of these last few patches leaves Vi at a similar place for regular players while having reduced pro presence. 

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Passive – Blast Shield

• Shield: 14% Max HP ⇒ 12% Max HP

Yorick

Base Armor decreased.

 Our Yorick changes last patch succeeded in re-introducing some more choice into his first slot but failed to strip out as much power as we wanted to. This patch we’re continuing to nerf his early strengths in order to give more champions room to fight back against him before completed items come online. 

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Base Stats

• Armor: 39 ⇒ 36

ARAM Balance Changes

 Hello ARAMers, This patch, we’re giving some help to AD Shaco and Rengar, encouraging their assassin builds with a few targeted buffs. We’re also removing old nerfs on a few champions to bring them closer to their intended power levels. On the nerf side, we’re addressing some frustrating outliers. For Mel, we’re keeping her damage but slowing down how often she can use it to allow more counterplay.

Let us know how it feels—and see you on the Bridge! 

Champions

Mel

• Ability Haste: 0 ⇒ -10

Rengar

• Q AD Ratio: 100% – 115% ⇒ 110% – 225%
• Empowered Q AD Ratio: 130% ⇒ 140%
• E Bonus AD: 80% ⇒ 100%

Shaco

• Passive Bonus AD: 30% ⇒ 40%
• Q Cooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10 ⇒ 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8
• Q Bonus AD: 65% ⇒ 85%
• E Bonus AD: 80% ⇒ 100%

Singed

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%

Udyr

• Healing: 90% ⇒ 100%
• Shielding: 90% ⇒ 100%

Vayne

• Damage Dealt: 105% ⇒ 100%

Volibear

• W Healing Missing Health Bonus: 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16% ⇒ 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20% (Same as Summoner’s Rift)

Yasuo

• W Cooldown: 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 ⇒ 27 / 25 / 23 / 21 / 19

Skin English VO Updates

 We’re currently recording and catching up on missing English VO from our recent skins that we had to release with their base champion VO. We’ll be working backwards starting with Spirit Blossom Morgana and Spirit Blossom Karma! So they’ll be arriving with their final English VO with Patch 25.13. Going forward we’re aiming to ship any new skins with their complete and final VO. 

Sanctum and Mythic Shop Updates

 Spirit Blossom Morgana will be arriving in the Sanctum in 25.13.

We’re also adding the following to the Mythic Shop:

• “In Bloom” Nexus Finisher – 250 ME
• “In the Palm of My Hand” Spirit Blossom Morgana animated emote – 25 ME

This means that Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser, his animated emote, and the “The Reckoner” Nexus Finisher will be leaving the Sanctum/Mythic Shop respectively. 

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Sanctum Mythic Essence

This patch, we’re buffing Mythic Essence in the Sanctum. The Sanctum will be distributing more Mythic Essence per Ancient Spark on average, and more Mythic Essence as overall. To accomplish this, we’ll be adding 2 Mythic Essence anytime you are awarded an icon or an emote, making the more common B-Tier results even better, and slightly reducing the drop rates of the highest Mythic Essence payouts.

We’ll also be increasing the S-Tier duplicate payout for Mythic Variants from 100 to 130 Mythic Essence. This will make duplicate pulls for Mythic Variants more equal in value to the rewards for the Exalted duplicates. This change is live in 25.13, and will be reflected in the next Mythic Variant.

All of these changes will be reflected in the drop table in the client in the Sanctum tab. 

• Random Icon ⇒ Random Icon + 2 Mythic Essence
• Random Emote ⇒ Random Emote + 2 Mythic Essence
• Mythic Variant S-Tier duplicate pull: 100 Mythic Essence ⇒ 130 Mythic Essence

Client Shop Skin Preview Test

Some of you might notice a new skin preview in the client that we’re currently testing when viewing new Spirit Blossom or Inkshadow skins. Not everyone will see this as we’re just testing this feature. This test will run for one or two patches and then we’ll be turning it off later.

We do these tests from time to time to evaluate improvements that we’re thinking about within the client. If it hits our goals (Do players like it and find it helpful?, Do players find it?, How often players use it?, etc.) It could be something that we decide to do in the future, if it doesn’t then we’ll go back to the drawing board for it. 

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

• Fixed an issue where Viego was unable to see the options to upgrade the support item.
• Fixed an issue where Renata W could prevent kill credit to the respective champion if last hit by pets.
• Fixed an issue where Feat of Warfare could not be incremented when pets kill a champion with Renata W on them.
• Fixed an issue where Viego was unable to move normally after possessing Jhin and using his E, or Caitlyn’s E if he previously possessed Pantheon and used his E. (Yes this bug is that specific, Viego things)
• Fixed an issue where Hwei’s P would trigger in an incorrect location under specific situations.
• Fixed an issue where Milio’s passive would trigger the Electrocute rune on an ally.
• Fixed an issue where Azir’s R wouldn’t move minions.
• Fixed an issue where Zac and Anivia’s passive would trigger through the fountain turret. This was an inconsistency that we’ve corrected and now mirrors Guardian Angel.
• Fixed an issue where if Neeko would disguise as Karma her disk wouldn’t spin.
• Fixed an issue where Karma’s disk wouldn’t spin after reconnecting.
• Fixed an issue where Akali’s Passive indicator would sometimes appear around an incorrect character.
• Fixed an issue where Senna’s Mist Wraiths would consume Senna’s On-hit bonus procs.
• Fixed an issue where Sylas could keep his stolen Ultimate if he jumped into the Rift Herald as he casted it.
• Fixed an issue where Sylas could cast a stolen Ultimate a second time if he casted Teleport at the end of the Ultimate cast.
• Fixed an issue where if a Twitch jumped into the Rift Herald while in his Q, the charge would appear incorrect to the enemy team.
• Fixed an issue where Mel could get the kill credit on a teammate from her Passive empowered attack when Renata applies her R to her.
• Fixed an issue where Sylas could keep a champion’s model if he casted a stolen Ultimate and then teleported.
• Fixed an issue where Zilean’s second Q on the same target would not play the countdown SFX.
• Fixed an issue where Ahri would not receive her passive heal while in stasis.
• Fixed an issue where Katarina’s R would cancel if you cast E on nothing outside of E’s range.
• Fixed an issue where Viego possessing an enemy who had Hullbreaker could continuously grant nearby minions armor and magic resistance.
• Fixed a Practice Tool bug where the Stack Items function could infinitely stack in certain instances.
• Fixed a Practice Tool bug where Rod of Ages could exceed 10 stacks.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

The following skins will be released in this patch: