PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
CHAMPIONS
CAITLYN
Base damage growth and attack speed growth increased.
Caitlyn loves a good chase, but she’s too far behind to be a reasonable counter to shorter-range marksman champions like Kai’Sa and Samira, who are currently running the meta. Reverting some previous nerfs (patch 11.2 and 10.19) to set her back on the trail.BASE STATS
DAMAGE GROWTH 3.3 ⇒ 3.8
ATTACK SPEED GROWTH 3.5% ⇒ 4%
KAI'SA
Q base damage per missile, maximum single-target damage, and maximum evolved single-target damage decreased.
No one adapts to new items like Kai'Sa, and this season proved no exception. We’re reducing some of her damage to lower burstiness and make her less daunting in quick trades early on.Q - ICATHIAN RAIN
BASE DAMAGE PER MISSILE 45/61.25/77.5/93.75/110 ⇒ 40/55/70/85/100
MAX SINGLE-TARGET BASE DAMAGE 101.25/137.8125/174.375/210.9375/247.5 ⇒ 90/123.75/157.5/191.25/225
MAX EVOLVED SINGLE-TARGET BASE DAMAGE 168.75/229.6875/290.625/351.5625/412.5 ⇒ 150/206.25/262.5/318.75/375
KATARINA
R on-hit damage ratio now scales; damage per knife increased.
After our 11.2 adjustments to make Kraken Slayer work with on-hit damage modifiers, champs like Katarina and Urgot are in need of some tuning. We’ve noticed that players really enjoy playing on-hit builds with these champions, and even if they’re not on-meta, we believe they should be viable. Prior to the Kraken changes, a significant number of Katarina’s and Urgot’s builds were on-hit, but they also had significantly lower win rates in comparison to their traditional build. These changes should bring those builds up to roughly where they were before.R - DEATH LOTUS
ON-HIT DAMAGE RATIO 25% ⇒ 25/30/35%
DAMAGE PER KNIFE 15% bonus AD (+9.9% per 100% total AS) ⇒ 16% bonus AD (+12.8% per 100% total AS)
NEWTOOLTIP CLARIFICATION Death Lotus’ tooltip now specifies it applies on-attack effects, in addition to on-hit effects.
RENEKTON
Q non-champion base healing decreased later; enhanced non-champion base healing decreased later.
Renekton is a strong croc who can propel through lanes with high sustain, so we're paring some of that down.Q - CULL THE MEEK
NON-CHAMPION BASE HEALING 3/4.5/6/7.5/9 ⇒ 3/4/5/6/7
ENHANCED NON-CHAMPION BASE HEALING 9/13.5/18/22.5/27 ⇒ 9/12/15/18/21
SAMIRA
Passive bonus damage ratio decreased early and now scales. Q damage ratio decreased early and now scales. W duration decreased. E targeting adjusted; dash speed decreased.
As it stands, our desert rose has consistently been warming the ban bench. Even when technically close to balanced, we believe she has several frustrating attributes that contribute to her high ban rate. We’re tackling this problem by giving her some balance tweaks so that both Samira players and her opponents feel more comfortable having her back in the ring. To do this, we’re reducing the power of her defensive tools and giving opponents more opportunities to play against her in lane. We’re also reducing her all-in potential early game. In exchange, we’re improving her kill potential mid to late game, so that when she does go in, she slays.PASSIVE - DAREDEVIL IMPULSE
BONUS DAMAGE RATIO 7.5% AD ⇒ 3.5%-10.5% AD (levels 1-18)
Q - FLAIR
DAMAGE RATIO 100% AD ⇒ 80/87.5/95/102.5/110% AD
W - BLADE WHIRL
DURATION 1 second ⇒ 0.75 seconds
E - WILD RUSH
REMOVEDALLY TARGETING Samira no longer dashes through allies
NEWEYE ON THE TOWER Samira can now dash through enemy towers, but will target champions over towers
DASH SPEED 2050 ⇒ 1600
R - INFERNO TRIGGER
COOLDOWN 3 seconds ⇒ 8 seconds
SORAKA
Q movement speed increased. W base heal increased.
Another sight for sore eyes, even with our last set of buffs in 11.2. We lend our aid to Soraka.Q - STARCALL
MOVEMENT SPEED BONUS 15/17.5/20/22.5/25% ⇒ 20/22.5/25/27.5/30%
W - ASTRAL INFUSION
BASE HEAL 90/125/160/195/230 ⇒ 100/135/170/205/240
VARUS
W empowered bonus damage based on Q channel time increased.
We’re giving more incentive for Varus to fully charge his Q in combat. Extra juicy for lethality and crit builds.W - BLIGHTED QUIVER
EMPOWERED Q BONUS DAMAGE Increased by 0-50% (based on channel time) ⇒ Increased by 0-80% (based on channel time)
MAX MISSING HEALTH DAMAGE 9/12/15/18/21% (levels 1/4/7/10/13) ⇒ 10.8/14.4/18/21.6/25.2% (levels 1/4/7/10/13)
VEIGAR
Q cost decreased. R cooldown decreased later.
Veigar has fallen a little short of other mid laners in 2021. Giving him a boost so he can stand face-to-face with the competition.Q - BALEFUL STRIKE
COST 40/45/50/55/60 ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50
R - PRIMORDIAL BURST
COOLDOWN 120/100/80 seconds ⇒ 120/90/60 seconds
ITEMS
Grievous Wounds Items
While Grievous Wounds are meant to be a reactive purchase, they are performing below expectations. Buffing their stats a bit so that the tradeoff between other Legendary items is less sharp.Morellonomicon
ABILITY POWER 70 ⇒ 80
Mortal Reminder
ATTACK DAMAGE 20 ⇒ 25
Chempunk Chainsword
HEALTH 150 ⇒ 250
Mage Items
We’re changing a couple of the under-purchased mage items so they have more opportunities to shine. Cosmic Drive's passive is now more accessible, while Everfrost now has a new build path and a few small buffs.Cosmic Drive
REMOVEDSPELLDANCE MOVEMENT SPEED Cosmic Drive no longer grants bonus movement speed when dealing ability damage
NEWPUT IT IN COSMIC DRIVE If you have at least 160 ability power, gain 20 ability haste and 10-30 movement speed (based on level)
ABILITY HASTE 30 ⇒ 20
Everfrost
BUILD PATH Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + 1250 gold ⇒ Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + Kindlegem + 450 gold
HEALTH 200 ⇒ 250
GLACIATE DAMAGE 100 (+30% AP) ⇒ 125 (+25% AP)
GLACIATE CAST TIME 0.25 seconds ⇒ 0.15 seconds
Eternal Winter (Ornn Upgrade)
HEALTH 300 ⇒ 350
GLACIATE DAMAGE 100 (+30% AP) ⇒ 125 (+35% AP)
JUNGLE CAMP CHANGES
We've seen junglers have a bit more control over games, in large part due to their increased purchasing power early game turning into combat stats, which then accelerates their experience and gold growth. We’re pulling back on their experience and income a bit to compensate. As a result of these changes, we’re holding off on nerfing some borderline OP jungle champions until we see how these changes shake out.
Gromp
EXPERIENCE 135/138.375/145.125/155.25/168.75/182.25 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9) ⇒ 125/128.125/134.375/143.75/156.25/168.75 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9)
GOLD 105 ⇒ 85
Large Krug
EXPERIENCE 37/37.925/39.775/42.55/46.25/49.95 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9) ⇒ 27/27.675/29.025/31.05/33.75/36.45 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9)
GOLD 42 ⇒ 32
Small Krug
EXPERIENCE 18/18.45/19.35/20.7/22.5/24.3 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9) ⇒ 16/16.4/17.2/18.4/20/21.6 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9)
Crimson Raptor
EXPERIENCE 45/46.125/48.375/51.75/56.25/60.75 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9) ⇒ 35/35.875/37.625/40.25/43.75/47.25 (levels 1/3/4/5/7/9)
GOLD 45 ⇒ 35
INCOMING HEALING UPDATE
After seeing the incoming healing tech live for some time, we’ve come to a few conclusions: Incoming healing is very satisfying for the player using it and their allies, but it can hurt clarity around how much health enemies have in tense combat situations. We also found that when combined with shields and grey health, the stacked bars could be a bit confusing. We’re making a few changes this patch to address this, and we’re planning to roll out the tech to more systems in the future (i.e. health potions and Mundo’s ultimate).
- Incoming healing only displays for that player and their allies
- Incoming healing now has a special bar treatment to differentiate it from other health bar effects
IN-GAME SHOP UPDATES
More updates so you can wipe out the store and the competition.
- You can now drag the corner of the shop to scale the size up and down. Be careful, it's ticklish!
- The Quickbuy Panel has gained some additional smarts around trinkets. It will now automatically swap the order of the trinkets depending on the one you have equipped to save you a bit of time.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
CLASH BUILD-A-TEAM
Alongside the Clash 2021 Season VP track starting in 11.4, you will see the second iteration of our Build-a-Team feature in Clash. This version will allow players to find and request to join teams that are looking for more players to fill out their roster. This should help turn your roster of 3 or 4 players into a 5 person meme dream team to crush the Clash tournament with.
BUGFIXES/QOL CHANGES
- LEAGUE CLIENT: The loyalty badge is no longer missing from Collections
- LEAGUE CLIENT: Fixed a memory leak that would happen with every mission’s celebration in the post-game, providing improved reliability
- Rell's Passive - Break the Mold's armor shred VFX have been adjusted when affecting minions or small monsters
- Fixed a bug where Jinx's Q - Switcheroo's rocket AS penalty was also affecting her base AS, not just her bonus AS
- Adjusted Sterak's Gage's AD to the appropriate amount
- Fixed a bug where Control Wards would be unavailable to purchase when a slot in the player's inventory became empty after using consumables outside the Fountain
- Fixed a bug where Talon's R - Shadow Assault would become visible to enemies when he kills any enemy with it while holding Duskblade of Draktharr
- Fixed a bug where Duskblade of Draktharr's invisibility would be cancelled if the champion holding it earned a takedown while invisible
- Fixed a bug where a rooted or grounded champion would still be able to use Stridebreaker
- Fixed a bug where Galeforce's Cloudburst would launch less projectiles than intended when the champion is teleported to Mordekaiser's R - Realm of Death while channeling it
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