The PBE has dropped a new round of early sustain tweaks targeting the classic starter trio: Doran’s Blade, Doran’s Ring, and Doran’s Shield. Second Wind also sees a small adjustment.
Doran’s item changes
Doran’s Blade – lifesteal out, new “Life Draining” passive in
Old: 3% lifesteal
New: Life Draining – Restore 2.5% of damage dealt as health, reduced to 0.333x effectiveness for AoE and pet damage
This is essentially a return to the pre-14.1 omnivamp model, just under a new name. Instead of lifesteal (which only applied to auto attacks), Life Draining heals from all damage sources but with reduced efficiency for AoE or pet effects.
Doran’s Ring – old mana drain returns
Old passive: Restore 1.25 mana per second (or 0.55 health if you’re manaless)
New passive: Drain – Restore 1 mana per second, increased to 2 mana per second for 5 seconds after damaging an enemy champion (restore 0.45x as health if manaless)
This one is a partial revert to the pre-14.1 version. The numbers are slightly lower, but the design is the same: poke an enemy, get a short burst of mana regen. The shorter five-second window makes it easier to maintain consistent returns in lane without needing perfect spell spacing.
Doran’s Shield – small nerf to sustain
Max heal over 8s: 45 → 40
The heal scaling still kicks in at 75% missing health, and the reduced healing modifier for ranged champions or AoE/dot damage (0.66x) remains. This means melee bruisers will probably not notice the change, while ranged champions relying on passive poke sustain lose a bit of safety in early trades.
Second Wind – flat regen removed
Regen over 10s:
Flat: 3 → removed
Missing health scaling: 4% (unchanged)
This makes Second Wind more dependent on missing health and less of a blanket sustain rune for passive laning. It’s a small tweak, but it reinforces Riot’s intent to make early sustain more conditional rather than always-on. Hopefully no more unkillable Akali with Doran’s Shield and Second Wind in the midlane.
Miscellaneous changes
Kayn (ARAM)
- Passive tooltips now reflect ARAM-specific timings: second form lockout 2:00 instead of 4:00 on Summoner’s Rift, and blue passive cooldown 4 seconds instead of 8 seconds on SR.
These tooltip updates also appear in ARAM Mayhem.
ARAM Mayhem
Sneakerhead: quest threshold to reduce attack damage with Plated Steelcaps changes from 400 to 250. There is data hinting at separate melee vs ranged values, with ranged still at 400.
Vampirism now disabled.
Wooglet’s Witchcap: you can no longer purchase a second Rabadon’s after completing the quest. This mirrors Arena behavior. Arena uses a different Rabadon’s item, which is why the exclusion did not previously carry over.
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