Patch 25.23 Notes

You must've all been on Santa Braum's nice list this year because the Winter Rift is back! It's been a long time coming, but we're back on the Winter Rift for the holidays so get your hot chocolate ready and queue up. There's snow, there's festivity, we even put little hats and mitts on Baron.

To celebrate Winter coming back to the rift, ALL Winter legacy skins will be turned on and available for purchase when patch 25.23 goes live. Those legacy skins will remain available until the Winter Rift turns off early next year so pick them up while you can!

We'll also have some NEW winter themed skins coming in patch 25.24 as well so you'll be able to pick up both old and new favorites.

Few were offered the rites of ascension. Even fewer were truly worthy.

Zaahen, The Unsundered, is reborn on the rift November 19th.

• Zaahen Abilities Rundown here!
• Zaahen Champion Spotlight here!

Just a heads up that Zaahen's Eternals are delayed to patch 25.24.

When we make a champ's Eternals we normally use a champion's PBE time to see how you all play a champion—what are the key moments that feel great that you'd want to track. However, since Zaahen had a different cycle (so we could keep him a secret until his cinematic) we didn't get the normal time allowing this. So for the Zaahen Eternals, you have a chance to shape what his Eternals might be! So queue up, lock him in, and start swinging that glaive and maybe your match data will help us decide!

This November marks one year since Arcane's finale, and we're celebrating that anniversary online with all of you! The Arcane Team will be looking back at the series, sharing behind the scenes content, and bringing back some fan-favorite merch, so be sure to check it out!

On the League side of things, we're bringing back all of the Arcane skins from Season 1 and Season 2. This includes Arcane Fractured Jinx, who will be coming back to the Sanctum for the next two patches with some upgrades, including a new spawn-in animation when the game starts, some visual upgrades across all three of her forms, and new recalls and Chompers that better match Shimmer Jinx and Powder. If you already own the skin you'll get all of these upgrades for free. As a note, the border will not be returning.

We've also got a new mini rewards track coming with 8 Arcane-themed rewards. All you need to do is play 4 games during patch 25.23 to unlock each milestone, and if you play with a premade, it counts as 2 games! Just make sure you claim your rewards in the Activity Center. The rewards are as follows:

• Jinx Butterfly Icon
• Yelling Caitlyn / Vi Emote
• 500 Battle Pass XP
• Salad Cat Jinx Emote
• Robot Mask Icon
• 500 Battle Pass XP
• Guitar Heimerdinger Emote
• “Arcane Anomaly” Title

This will all only be active for patch 25.23 so make sure you login and complete the milestones for the rewards and claim any skins you've been waiting for in the shop. Arcane Fractured Jinx will remain in the Sanctum through patch 25.24.

With 25.23 we're going to begin linking certain penalties across accounts, starting with disruptive gameplay and inappropriate text. This means that when an account receives a penalty for either of those infractions, the same penalty will be applied to ALL accounts owned by that player. The penalty notification will indicate if the account receiving the penalty actually committed the offense, or was penalized through linking. As we gain confidence the system is working as expected, we'll expand the coverage to link additional penalty types across accounts.

Check out our Account Penalties & Enforcement FAQ for more information, and reach out to player support if you believe your accounts were associated in error.

Hello Mayhem enjoyers! We're excited to bring you a new round of updates to the Bridge. In this patch, we've focused on improving Augments that felt a bit tricky to use or lacked excitement. We've given them mechanical updates to make them more engaging and impactful.

On the systems side, we're making some changes to early game augments to remove the possibility of getting back to back silver augments in your first and second round of choices, and we're lowering the frequency of seeing silver augments as your first augment choice. We saw a ton of feedback on these points and we agreed, it's way more exciting to pull those powerful build influencing augments earlier in the game so you can decide how or what you want to start building around. We've also updated the Bloom Portal to a traditional Hexgate interaction. This change aims to give you more control when teleporting while still keeping in-combat plays possible.

For Mayhem's overall pacing, we're closely monitoring early-game excitement and late-game stalling. These adjustments are designed to give losing teams more comeback opportunities and keep matches feeling dynamic throughout.

We've also introduced a new item: the Stat Anvil. This item lets you spend extra gold in the late game to boost your stats. Stat Anvils become available at level 9, and currently, there's no Shard Holder that increases their effects.

Thank you for playing the Mayhem and see you on the bridges!

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Systems

• Silver Tier augments will now appear less frequently in the first round of augment choices.
• It's now no longer possible to get silver augments back to back for the first and second rounds.
• Koeshin's Crossing Portals have been changed from touch to teleport to traditional click to teleport with an instant cast time. This is for both ARAM and Mayhem.
• Stat Anvils have been added for 750 gold each, which can be purchased after level 9. Silver, Gold, and Prismatic Anvils are available, but the Shardholder Value Shard is not included. Also… each Anvil comes with a hat!
• Double Super minions have been removed to prevent some late-game stalling.
• Passive XP/Gold values have been modified to prevent games from ending a little too soon.

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Mayhem Augment Changes

Blunt Force

• AD: 15% ⇒ 20%

Gash

• Additionally gain 50% Attack Speed.
• For non-english languages there was a typo in this tooltip change that we couldn't quite fix in time for all languages but it will be corrected in a later build.

Lightning Strike

• Attack Speed Requirement for Bonus: 4 ⇒ 3.5

Protein Shake

• Base Heal and Shield Power: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Armor and Magic Resist Conversion Rate: 30% ⇒ 35%

Self Destruct

• NEW Every 25 seconds, attach a bomb to yourself that explodes dealing damage and knocking up enemies.

Snowball Roulette

• NEW Cast a random harmful Summoner Spell on your target when your snowball hits an enemy target. Cast a random beneficial Summoner Spell on yourself when you take your snowball dash.

Steel Your Heart

• Stack requirement: 350 ⇒ 300

Repulsor

• NEW When dropping below 35% health, knock back enemies and slow them for 90% for 1.5 seconds. (25 second cooldown or refresh on death)

Urf's Champion

• Takedowns required: 22 ⇒ 18

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Mayhem Champion Changes

Cho'Gath

• Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 95%

Maokai

• Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 100%
• Damage Dealt: 85% ⇒ 95%

Nasus

• Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 100%

Nautilus

• Damage Taken: 110% ⇒ 100%
• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%

Seraphine

• Ability Haste: -20 ⇒ 0

Skarner

• Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 95%
• Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 105%
• E Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 ⇒ 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14

Tahm Kench

• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%

Thresh

• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%

Volibear

• E Shield Amount: 11% Max Health ⇒ 14% Max Health

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Mayhem Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Get Excited can be triggered if your clone died.
• Fixed a bug where Neeko does not lose attack range when she disguises as melee champion and pick Draw Your Sword.
• Fixed a bug where champions in zombie status can get extra augment when they have Augment Cheating.
• Fixed a bug where Viego can sell items when possessing other champions when he has Augment Cheating.
• Fixed a bug where Augment Cheating is restoring resources other than mana and energy.
• Fixed a bug where Vampirism with Zilean R will cause champions to revive with 0 health and be non-attackable by enemies.
• Fixed a bug where Gangplank with Infernal Conduit can have 0 cooldown on his E spell.
• Fixed a bug where Zac can deal damage with Circle of Death when he transforms into his passive blobs.
• Fixed a bug where Upgrade Collector let Collector execute people under 15% health.

Arena typically patches on even-numbered patches; however, we wanted to participate in Zaahen's release along with some changes that we felt we could sneak in.

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Augments

Undying Guard

• Upon reviving with Cultivation of War, Zaahen deals damage to nearby enemies based on their current Health and knocks all targets back, becoming impervious to damage dealt by champions outside of the circle created and gains a brief burst of movement speed.

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Arena Bugfixes

• Queuing a tear item through an item anvil no longer grants that item if you have the evolved version of the item in your inventory.
• Orbital Laser VFX can no longer be hidden in terrain.
• You can no longer cut your channel short by using a Hexgate.
• Aurelion Sol's attack no longer breaks when using a Hexgate while he is in flight.
• Fixed a bug where Zeri was able to go above the attack speed cap with Slow and Steady.
• escAPADe finally converts bonus Ability Power from Riftmaker’s passive
• Fixed a bug where some champions with Infernal Conduit were getting 0 cooldowns on certain abilities

Essence Emporium returns once again! All of your favorites will be available to snap up with the Blue Essence you've saved up since last time. The Emporium will be active November 19, 2025 until January 7, 2026. This time around, we've added a new Title for our most dedicated players (aka the blue essence hoarders).

In this patch, we're introducing the ability to see champions' auto-attack ranges in Practice Tool. Toggling this on will place markers under each champion showing their auto-attack range. We hope this feature helps you master the art of kiting your enemies even faster – give it a try and let us know what you think!

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• Added “Toggle auto-attack range markers” function

In an effort to speed up the pre-game flow a little, we have slimmed down SR draft pick a bit in this patch. These changes are very minor, a few seconds here and there. As a result, champ select should feel the same, but snappier. Here are the details:

• Intro animation changed from 10s to 5s
• Hover pre-select changed from 15s to 7s
• Ban phase changed from 30s to 25s
• Total pick phase changed from 3m to 2.5m (each pick will be 25s as a result)
• No changes to AFK check or the loadout phase

These changes will be shipped to NA/OCE Summoner's Rift champ select queues as pilot launch with 25.23, more regions will be covered in 25.24. Queues that will have the changes are:

• Solo/Duo Ranked
• Flex Ranked
• Normal Draft

QoL Changes

• “Hide My Name” and “Hide My Identifying Info” Streamer Mode settings are now respected in other player's spectator streams. e.g. if Spectator1 spectates their friend, Player1, any players in Player1's lobby with Streamer Mode enabled will have their name and/or information hidden in the spectator stream.
• In order to better protect players from negative in-game experiences, we're continuing to enhance Streamer Mode and shift public spectator experiences towards replays. The ability to spectate live games directly from ranked leaderboards is being replaced with a shortcut to that player's match history and replays. Right-click player name on ranked leaderboard > Match History.
• Added capability to access replays directly through Riot API. More details available in Riot Developer Portal.
• Updated AFK detection to better account for situations where players are disconnecting throughout the game.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where casting Sion's Death Surge while his Passive is active would activate Experimental Hexplate.
• Fixed an issue where Skarner's Q would sometimes be on cooldown for longer than intended in the practice tool after restarting a game.
• Fixed an issue where Ambessa doesn't lose a passive charge if the target died mid auto attack.
• Fixed an issue where Garen could stack his W passive without learning his W.
• Fixed an issue in Swiftplay where Lethal Tempo rune would get automatically swapped to a champion's default in certain regions.
• Fixed an issue where if Mel reflected Vel'Koz's Q it would reset the cooldown of her Q.
• Fixed an issue where Mundo's E bonus damage would reach its maximum at 30% missing health.
• Fixed an issue where the amount of Cassiopeia's W damage ticks would be doubled if an enemy would walk into previously created clouds.
• Fixed an issue where Rengar would fail to stack Conquerer or Lethal Tempo when jumping from brush.
• Fixed an issue where Nocturne's R dash could fail to follow an enemy champion until the collision.
• Fixed an issue where Aurora's Spirits could be visible for other champions.

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Skins Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Star Guardian Senna's R VFX to be distorted.
• Fixed an issue that caused Shan Hai Scrolls Lillia's VFX to be mispositioned when using chromas.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch: