The team at Riot is delivering important systemic changes to early lane aggression, with nerfs to Doran’s Shield and Second Wind, plus better incentives for aggressive play through Doran’s Ring. Gwen is being reverted to her pre-update state from earlier this year, Graves is regaining magic resist through Grit stacks, Dr. Mundo’s late-game burst is being nerfed, and the biggest balance outliers for regular at-home play are being addressed.
An update to the Practice Tool will allow players to try out champions before buying them. There are additional updates to the minimum spec changes made earlier this year, and of course, new goodies are available in the Sanctum and the Mythic Shop.
Champions
Bard
“We’re pretty happy with Bard’s current balance state but would like to open up some more options for him, namely in building AP items like Shurelya’s, making him better at supporting his team when playing AP-heavy.”
W – Caretaker’s Shrine
- Minimum Heal: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 (+ 30% AP) ⇒ 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125(+ 40% AP)
- Maximum Heal: 50 / 87.5 / 125 / 162.5 / 200 (+ 60% AP) ⇒ 50 / 87.5 / 125 / 162.5 / 200(+ 70% AP)
- Movement Speed: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30 (+ 5% per 100 AP) ⇒ 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30(+ 6% per 100 AP)
Diana
“Diana’s last buff to her jungle clears overshot a bit, so we’re walking it back slightly to keep her in line.”
W – Arise!
- Monster Damage: 300% ⇒ 280%
Dr. Mundo
“Dr. Mundo is a scaling juggernaut who has to wade through a fairly weak early game in order to scale into the ability to go wherever he pleases. And we’re happy he’s able to go where he pleases, but he’s bursting whomever he pleases a bit too easily. We’re looking for some power neutral adjustments that take away some late-game burst and give back late-game durability in its stead.”
Base Stats
- Armor Growth: 3.7 ⇒ 4.5
E – Blunt Force Trauma
- Minimum Active Damage: 5 / 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 (+ 7% Bonus HP) ⇒ 5 / 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 (+ 5% Bonus HP)
Ezreal
“Ezreal has been a low performer lately especially at lower ranks. We’re looking to add a little bit of general power to help him keep up as games go late.”
Base Stats
- Attack Damage Growth: 2.75 ⇒ 3.25
Graves
“We’d like to nudge Graves back toward having a strong sustained fight pattern and that means letting him rely on Grit and playing to stack it up. As he’s getting this MR from Quickdraw, he can once again have the base magic resistance of a ranged champion. So, if you can catch Graves before he’s able to stack up, he’s more burstable than before, but if he’s able to play the fight out the way he wants, he’ll grow to be the sustained monster we all know and hate love.”
Base Stats
- Magic Resistance: 32 ⇒ 30
- Magic Resistance Growth: 2.05 ⇒ 1.3
E – Quickdraw
- Now grants 50% of armor as bonus Magic Resistance.
- Magic Resistance per stack: 2 / 3.5 / 5 / 6.5 / 8
- Max Magic Resistance: 16 / 28 / 40 / 52 / 64
Gwen
“Back in 25.06 we sought to give Gwen more power over her laning phase while still being that scaling AP skirmisher. However, those changes have left her in a less popular state that has alienated Gwen players from the version of her that they enjoyed. So we’re going back to almost the exact same champion from 25.05, with two differences: Her armor growth is a little lower, and her jungle levers are weaker. These two changes weren’t reverted because she was a little too strong in top and significantly too strong in the jungle back before the changes. Enjoy your Gwensday tomorrow!”
Base Stats
- Health: 600 ⇒ 625
- Health Growth: 100 ⇒ 125
- Attack Speed Growth: 2.5% ⇒ 2.25%
Passive – A Thousand Cuts
- AP Ratio: 0.55% per 100 AP ⇒ 0.6% per 100 AP
Q – Snip Snip!
- Small Snip Damage: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+2% AP) ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+5% AP)
W – Hallowed Mist
- Armor and Magic Resistance: 22 (+ 7% AP) ⇒ 22 / 24 / 26 / 28 / 30 (+7% AP)
- Cooldown: 24 / 22.5 / 21 / 19.5 / 18 ⇒ 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18
E – Skip ‘n Slash
- Damage: 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20 (+ 25% AP) ⇒ 15 (+ 20% AP)
- Cooldown: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 ⇒ 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11
- Cooldown Refund: 50% ⇒ 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65%
R – Needlework
- Damage: 30 / 60 / 90 (+ 8% AP) ⇒ 35 / 65 / 95 (+ 10% AP)
- Slow: 30 / 45 / 60% ⇒ 40 / 50 / 60%
Kalista
“Kalista has been underperforming for quite a while now and we’d like to carve out some mid-game strength for her. We’re hoping to achieve that by increasing her attack damage growth, which directly feeds into her attacks as well as her Q and E damage.”
Base Stats
- Attack Damage Growth: 4.25 ⇒ 4.75
Kog’Maw
“Kog’Maw is one of the winningest bot laners in the game and has also lost his old identity as a scaler. We’re delivering a targeted nerf toward his early trading in order to re-balance him and retain some of that scaling potential.”
Q – Caustic Spittle
- Passive Attack Speed: 10 / 15 / 20 /25 / 30% ⇒ 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25%
Morgana
“Morgana has taken off as a highly powerful mid laner across all ranks of play. We’re super happy that she’s found a new audience here but she’s also meaningfully overpowered. In order to open up some more weaknesses, we’re looking to bring down her guaranteed durability, making her rely more on Black Shield and Soul Siphon.”
Base Stats
- Armor Growth: 5 ⇒ 4.2
Qiyana
“Qiyana has been one of the clear winners from the recent changes to Profane Hydra and Axiom Arc. She’s been taking over in both mid lane and jungle especially in elite play. We’re hitting her with some nerfs that’ll take her down a notch in both roles.”
Base Stats
- Health Growth: 124 ⇒ 121
Q – Elemental Wrath / Edge of Ixtal
- Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+ 90% Bonus AD) ⇒ 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+ 85% Bonus AD)
Quinn
“Quinn has been one of the winningest top laners for a while now and with us nerfing both Doran’s Shield and Second Wind this patch, we’re confident that Quinn is due for some nerfs of her own lest she completely overtake top lane. We hope that these nerfs will open up her build options away from simply high AD lethality burst, allowing her the space to play out a more sustained auto-attacking pattern.”
Q – Blinding Assault
- Damage: 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 (+ 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120% Bonus AD) ⇒ 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 (+ 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100% Bonus AD)
R – Skystrike
- Damage: 70% Total AD ⇒ 60 / 90 / 120(+ 35% Bonus AD)
Yone
“Yone’s been a low performer for quite a while now, and the upcoming changes to Doran’s Shield and Second Wind will likely leave him in a pretty sad state. We’d like to pre-emptively give him some early game power to make up for it.”
Base Stats
- Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 62
Yunara
“We’re here to buff Yunara today. As she’s still relatively new, over two thirds of her games are played by inexperienced players, substantially dragging down her win rate. But even after accounting for that fact, she’s still weaker than the average bot laner. We want to achieve two goals here: First, we want to improve the value of ability ranks in W so that players who invest in spell damage are rewarded for their skill points. Second, we want to make her more consistently mobile, bringing up Kanmei’s Steps average movement speed so that players don’t have to hold it just to juke a key skillshot and instead can take more proactive and aggressive fights.”
“The change here to her ultimate is a very slight nerf that aligns both W abilities to use bonus attack damage while keeping her total appetite for Long Swords about the same.”
W – Arc of Judgment
- Initial Damage: 5 / 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 (+ 85% Total AD) ⇒ 55 / 95 / 135 / 175 / 215 (+ 85% Bonus AD)
- Damage per second: 5 / 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 (+ 40% Total AD) ⇒ 33 / 57 / 81 / 105 / 129 (+ 51% Bonus AD)
W – Arc of Ruin (Transcendent State)
- Damage: 50 / 200 / 350 (+ 175% Total AD) ⇒ 175 / 350 / 525 (+ 150% Bonus AD)
E – Kanmei’s Steps
- Movement Speed: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% decaying over 1.5 seconds ⇒ 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% decaying after 1.5 seconds
- Movement Speed toward Enemies: 45 / 52.5 / 60 / 67.5 / 75% decaying over 1.5 seconds ⇒ 45 / 52.5 / 60 / 67.5 / 75% decaying after 1.5 seconds
- Cooldown: 7.5 ⇒ 9
- Step Right: Fixed a bug where Yunara could retain the enhanced movement speed without facing any enemy champions
Items
Catalyst of Aeons
“Catalyst needs to be competitive with Lost Chapter in giving tankier AP champions enough mana to play out their laning phases. It does not, however, need to invalidate burst damage so strongly. So we’re delivering a small health nerf until it’s turned into Rod of Ages.”
- Health: 350 ⇒ 300
Doran’s Blade
“We’re moving Doran’s Blade back to its 14.1 version with omnivamp because the item is meant to serve more than just attackers, but instead a wide range of AD champions, such as those who rely on abilities do deal their damage.”
- 3% Lifesteal removed.
- newHeal for 2.5% of damage dealt (reduced to 33% of this value for area of effect spells and pet spells)
Doran’s Ring
“The current tuning of some starter items and Second Wind can make it feel pointless to attempt to harass during lane phase, resulting in stale gameplay especially in mid lane where players don’t play for kills often enough. With these changes, we’re attempting to nudge back towards poke being more valuable in the lane phase.”
- Mana Regeneration: 1.25 per second ⇒ 1 per second, increased to 2 per second for 5 seconds after damaging an enemy champion
- Health Regeneration: 0.55 per second ⇒ 45% of mana regenerated value
Doran’s Shield
“See Doran’s Ring.”
- Max Healing after taking damage: 45 (melee) / 30 (ranged) ⇒ 40 (melee) / 30 (ranged)
Runes
Second Wind
“See Doran’s Ring.”
- Healing after taking damage: 3 + 4% of missing health ⇒ 4% of missing health
Skins & Chromas
Returning Sanctum Items
“With this patch Genesis Nightbringer Yasuo will be entering the Sanctum for the first time! We’ll be aligning this skin with the current Mythic Variant Sanctum format (max 40 pulls), with the Mythic Variant Emote as an A-Tier drop.
The Mythic Variant Icon will be added to the Featured Section of the Mythic Shop for 5 Mythic Essence for the duration of the banner and enter the pool for daily rotations. However, similar to Prestige skins that come back to the Mythic Shop, the Border & Border Icon will not be returning at this time as we want to ensure that the players who acquire them in their initial run have something special that sets it apart.
Genesis Nightbringer Yasuo will be available in the Sanctum until patch 25.23 goes live.”
New Nexus Finisher
“We also have the new Nexus Finisher “Twilight Surge” that will be coming with this patch that will be added into the Mythic Shop for 250 Mythic Essence.
Twilight Surge will be available until patch 26.01 goes live!”
Skins
Source: Riot Games
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