The 26.5 patch preview for League of Legends is out, with another handful of champion buffs and nerfs. From @RiotPhroxon on X Source
Ranked EUW Test
- We ended up getting delayed and the new plan is to deploy around 6pm PST tomorrow (roughly 2-3AM EUW)
- There will be about 5-10m of Ranked downtime, so we’re doing this in off peak and monitoring that things are working correctly
First Stand on 26.5
- We made a significant number of changes on 26.4 and so 26.5 is a more conservative set of changes to ensure a good Pro meta for First Stand
- Ori, Azir, Neeko, Lethality Varus are some of the strongest outliers in Pro Play currently, and so we’re tapping them down
Items
- Hubris is looking just generally underpowered
- It doesn’t really have an audience and also doesn’t exhibit the same properties that other snowball items like Mejais have (higher winrates because being purchased when snowballing)
- Bandlepipes is looking pretty strong, especially on second item. Locket is one of its primary competitors so we’re giving it a buff on second item by flatting some of the shield value
Patch Followups
- Lillia is looking a bit worse for wear after her buffs in a previous patch were over magnitude, so we’re giving her a bump back up (it may end up getting delayed to a future patch if we need more time to land on a higher quality changelist, but haven’t decided)
- We’re looking to see what Mel looks like at a higher power level after making some of the frustration lowering changes in 26.3