The League of Legends Patch 26.12 Preview is here, and it’s a big one as the game prepares for Act 2 and MSI. 26.12 will see 15 changes to champions, which will be the near sole focus of the patch. Full details from Riot Phroxzon on X.
Champion
Last patch, we had a change to Moonstone that fixed it being doubly impacted by either Grievous Wounds or Heal and Shield Power
Yuumi is one of the few champions who has Heal Shield power baked into her kit and so she was disproportionately impacted
As a result, we’re compensation buffing her
On 26.10, we made some adjustments to Lee Sin that gave power back to some of the fun elements in his kit that lost a lot of power over the years (namely the amounts of dashes he has access to, etc.)
This made Lee Sin a pretty strong champion in higher levels of play again and in a way that we think is fantasy aligned for him
However, the magnitude is a bit too much, so we’re pulling it back slightly
We’re happy with the shape of the changes and how it’s affected his power curve though
System
Teleport
Especially in Pro play recently, we’ve been seeing some usages of Teleport at very short ranges to prepare quite large shields for tactical usages in combats (such as objective fights)
While this is a cool usage of the spell, it’s a pretty unintuitive behavior and we want to skew its usage to be better to use for its cross-map and “joining fights” capabilities
As a result, we’re reducing the duration of the shield and increasing the shield amount by a bit to compensate
Mid Meta
- For average play, AP Xin Zhao has been tearing up the rift with a lot of his power budget in healing, especially in the early lane, creating some pretty uninteractive lane states.
- We’re tapping this down, as well as some of the top-end healing in the later game.
- Otherwise, a few adjustments to the champions who have a bit of room in Solo Queue, like Hwei, Sylas, Syndra and nerfs to some of the top end, like Cassio (who really benefited from Deathfire Touch being added), Ryze and Ori, who have been strong for pretty much the whole season.