The League of Legends Patch 26.23 Preview is here. Riot Phroxzon on X has the usual post in a week that only really sees champion changes coming to the game. We are a week into Mel’s rework, with buffs on the way.
Champions
– Yi and Syndra continue to be champions that rate highly on our frustration surveys.
– Yi for regular play and Syndra and Leblanc for the higher levels of play.
– Syndra got a nerf a few patches ago and it was not super heavy by intention, so as to not go further than we need to, but we think she could use another tap down this patch.
– So far, Mel has landed in a pretty stable spot, with a decently low banrate (touch wood).
– That said, at this power level, we aren’t really able to test our hypothesis of whether she is less frustrating when she’s at a power level, so we’re giving her some buffs to let her sit at a normal power level for a champion of her type of shape and mastery curve.
– She shows a bit of a bot skew, similar to many other mages that have been inhabiting bot lane recently.
– This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but just something to watch.