Patch 26.3 Notes

Hello Mayhem enjoyers! We're excited to introduce a patch packed with new Augments, new Augment Sets, and a NEW progression track!

This patch adds 45 new Augments, with some unlockable through the progression track as you play. We've heard your feedback around augment diversity and underserved classes, so we focused on expanding options for them, including item upgrades, active summoner effects, and more Prismatic Augments!

But what about existing Augments? We're giving some underperforming Augments light tuning and refreshing the system overall with the introduction of Augment Sets.

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MAYHEM PROGRESSION TRACK

Season of Mayhem provides a new out of game experience for Mayhem enjoyers to give you something to progress and augment your future games! With this track we’re exploring rewarding Mayhem enjoyers and giving you all exciting goals to strive for within the mode. Our goals here are to make this easy to progress and we’ve made it pretty quick so you should never feel behind if you haven’t progressed it yet. You'll also find a couple of cosmetics like emotes and icons, as well as a new banner to show your devotion to the Poro King.

Check out all the rewards you can earn below:

• Level 1 - Red Envelope Augment - Pick up Red Envelopes around the map to increase your Gold and a random stat.
• Level 2 - Weighted Popoffs Augment - Strike enemies to "popoff" allowing your abilities to cooldown faster.
• Level 3 - "Poro Snack, Please" Emote
• Level 4 - +300 Starting Gold - Gain 300 more Gold at the start of each Mayhem game.
• Level 5 - Growth Spurt Augment - When cast, increase your size, health and Knockup nearby enemies.
• Level 6 - Poro Blast Icon
• Level 7 - Donation Augment - Gain a significant amount of Gold. No questions asked.
• Level 8 - Bounce of the Poro King Augment - Bounce on enemies crazy style as the Poro King to Knockback and deal damage.
• Level 9 - "So Bright!" Emote
• Level 10 - Speed Demon Augment - Damage an enemy to temporarily gain movement speed.
• Level 11 - Spirit Bloom Slumber Icon
• Level 12 - Shrink Engine Augment - Gain Ability Haste, Move Speed, and Shrink on every takedown.
• Level 13 - Gold Reroll - Chance to reroll an Augment into a higher tier Augment.
• Level 14 - Crack Open That Egg Augment - Your shields can now detonate, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
• Level 15 - "Avalanche!" Emote
• Level 16 - Void Immolation Augment - Convert Sunfire Aegis and Hollow Radiance into Void Immolation.
• Level 17 - Gift-Giving Poros Icon
• Level 18 - Anvil Voucher - You'll get an Anvil Voucher item at the start of each game that you can redeem to gain extra stats.
• Level 19 - Inferno Triggered Augment - Automatically cast Samira's R when you reach "S" in style.
• Level 20 - Champion Selfie Icon
• Level 21 - Thornmail Upgrade - Thornmail and Bramble Vest will reflect more damage from attacks.
• Level 22 - "Pls Send Help" Emote
• Level 23 - Elixirs- Gain free Elixir at levels 9/12/16.
• Level 24 – Dropkick Augment - Your attacks execute enemy champions, restoring health, and Knocking Back enemies.
• Level 25 - Sonata - Automatically alternate casting Sona's E and W.
• Level 26 - Poro King Banner
• Level 27 - Stuck in Here with Me Augment - Gain damage reduction and taunt enemies after casting your ultimate.
• Level 28 - Loving Family Emote
• Level 29 - Empowered By The Faith Augment - Heal and Shield allies to earn "Devotion" which will execute low-health enemies.
• Level 30 - "Blasting Off!" Icon
• Level 31 - Golden Reroll - Further increased chance to reroll into a higher tier augment
• Level 32 - ??? - Your Missing Pings now do something… no idea what though.

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AUGMENT SETS

We've seen tons of creative Augment combinations in Mayhem, and we want to make those moments even more rewarding and create new combinations with an exciting element that ties them together. Some augments sounded like they fit on paper, but that didn’t come across power wise… that's where Augment Sets come in.

Some Augments will now belong to a themed set. When you collect 2–4 Augments from the same set, you'll unlock a special bonus that enhances that combination even further. Love diving into chaos with Clown College and Dive Bomb? No problem! Completing that Augment Set will reduce your death timer by 40%, letting you get back into the action faster. BOOM.

There are 9 Augment Sets in total, and we can't wait to see the wild combinations you discover.

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Deathknell

Dive into death and use augments for true damage

• (2) Reduce death timer by 40%

Augments: Clown College, Train of the Dead, Self Destruct, Dive Bomber

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Firecracker

Missiles are cool, more missiles are cooler. Firecracker missiles will bounce extra times to nearby enemies and deal a portion of their original damage.

• (2) 2 bounces, dealing 40% of original damage.
• (4) 3 bounces, dealing 80% of original damage

Augments: Fan the Hammer, Magic Missile, Critical Missile, Light'em Up, Typhoon, Twin Fire

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High Roller

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Shaco - Twisted Fate (probably)

• (2) Minions have a chance to drop a Stat Anvil on death.
• (3) +50% chance for Gold or Prismatic Anvils.
• (4) +50% chance for Gold or Prismatic Anvils.

Augments: Transmute Chaos, Pandora's Box, Stats on Stats on Stats, Transmute Prismatic, Stats on Stats, Stats, Transmute Gold

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Stackasaurus Rex

Stacks Stacks Stacks Stacks Stacks

• (2) Gain 50% More.
• (3) Gain 100% More.
• (4) Gain 200% More.

Augments: Infinite Recursion, Master of Duality, Tap Dancer, Soul Eater, Quest: Steal your heart, Phenomenal Evil, Shrink Engine, Hubris, Slap Around

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Wee Woo Wee Woo

• (2) 40% Speed, 25% Heal and Shield Power.
• (3) 50% Speed, 35% Heal and Shield Power.
• (4) 60% Speed, 45% Heal and Shield Power.

Augments: Windspeaker's Blessing, I'm a Baby Kitty Where is Mama, Upgrade: Mikaels Blessing, All For You, Critical Healing, Sonata, First Aid Kit.

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Fully Automated

The first step to making a Mayhem factory truly grow.

• (2) Reduce Autocast cooldowns by 30%
• (3) Autocast cooldown scales with Ability Haste.

Augments: Prom Queen, Quantum Computing, Ok Boomerang, Sonata, Divine Intervention, Self Destruct, Frost Wraith, Firefox

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Archmage

A load bearing structure of any game.

• (2) Refund 40% of a random ability's cooldown when you cast a spell.

Augments: Overflow, Mind to Matter, Buff Buddy, Juiced, Ocean Soul

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Make it Rain

Gold rules everything around you.

• (2) 25% more gold from augments and kills.
• (3) 50% more gold from augments and kills.
• (4) 100% more gold from augments and kills.

Augments: Goldrend, Heads Up Cupcake!, Donation, Red Envelope, From Beginning to End, Upgrade Immolate, Upgrade Collector

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Snowday

Snowballs go brr

• (2) Gain 50 Ability Haste on Snowball and snowballs deal an extra 30% more damage.
• (3) Gain 100 Ability Haste on Snowball and snowballs deal an extra 50% more damage.
• (2) Gain 150 Ability Haste on Snowball and snowballs deal an extra 100% more damage.

Augments: Biggest Snowball, Golden Snowball, Snowball Upgrade, Pinball Snowball, Snowball Roulette

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AUGMENT BALANCE CHANGES

Empyrean Promise

• Delay Moving Time: 0.5 seconds ⇒ 0.25 seconds
• Move Speed: 3500 ⇒ 4000
• Cooldown: 30 ⇒ 20
• Augment user gets the shield immediately when traveling instead of landing.

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Lesser Heal

• Cooldown: 45 ⇒ 30
• Base Heal: 150-430 (based on level) ⇒ 200-550 (based on level)

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Cerberus

• Attack Speed Amp: 140% / 80% ⇒ 200% / 115%
• Bonus Damage: 120 - 360 ⇒ 120 - 360 ( 40% AD) (+30% AP)

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Goldrend

• Gold per proc: 15 Gold ⇒ 30 Gold

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From Beginning to End

• First Strike Gold proc base: 10 ⇒ 20
• Bonus True Damage: 7% ⇒ 10%
• Gold Conversion: 50% / 35% ⇒ 60% / 42%

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Lightning Strike

• Attack Speed Required: 3.5 ⇒ 1.75

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Mystic Punch

• On-hit ability cooldown reduction: 20% ⇒ 1.25 seconds

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QUALITY OF LIFE

• You can now take any summoner spells you want. For active Summoner Spell augments like Blade Waltz or Biggest Snowball you'll be able to select which slot to replace it.

We accelerated how quickly champion kill gold devalued in the new season since there were already guaranteed wins around getting role quest progress and denying it from your opponents. However, we swung the tuning a little too hard, which has created scenarios where champion kills feel valueless. So in this patch we're landing in between the 25.24 tuning and 26.1 to achieve our goals.

• Devalue rate on death: 1 per 2.5 gold given out ⇒ 1 per 3.5 gold given out
• Re-increment rate from farming: 1 per 5 gold earned ⇒ 1 per 7 gold earned

It's too hard for teams to convert a winning teamfight into meaningful progress into the enemy base but split-pushing razes towers a little too quickly. To solve both these issues we're re-architecting temporary turret resists to resist solo pushes a little better and blockade teams less well.

• Bulwark Temporary Resistances: 20-100 per plate based on nearby enemy champions ⇒ 30-50 per plate based on nearby enemy champions
• Reactive VFX when hit by champions are now smaller, especially if the turret was recently attacked.

The vision meta with faelights is still evolving in ways that mostly look healthy so far, but one concerning trend is the degree to which early game vision disrupts and zones junglers.

A major contributor to this is the shape of the bonus vision regions from the river pixel brush faelights. These provide large, reliable vision coverage early game, despite the ward locations already being valuable and high-traffic. It's not necessary for faelights' systemic goals that these particular faelight spots are so powerful, so this is a good candidate for nerfs.

The other major contributor is the season's yellow trinket buffs. We buffed yellow trinkets so players could make vision plays without their support, but this isn't as relevant in laning phase, so we've decided to pull back on the cooldown for early levels. We're still seeing high-level players regularly swap out yellow trinket later on, so we don't think the later-level cooldown buffs need to be reverted.

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Faelights at River Pixel Brush Locations

• Reveal region shape: expanded past scuttle pad and epic pit entrance ⇒ cuts off before scuttle pad and epic pit entrance

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Stealth Ward Trinket

• Cooldown: 170-90s (by level) ⇒ 210-90s (by level)

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Other Changes

• Scryer's Blooms: Removed the Scryer's Blooms just outside base gates (from Cloud/Chemtech rift)
• Fiddlesticks: While pretending to be an effigy on a faelight, Fiddlesticks will now display on-model visual effects as if a faelight-enhanced effigy (does not gain bonus vision or destroy existing wards)
• Neeko: While disguised as a ward on a faelight, Neeko will now display on-model visual effects as if a faelight-enhanced ward (does not gain bonus vision or destroy existing wards)

For support players on SR, control wards will now start in your role quest slot from the beginning of the match. Combined with the ability to double bind this hotkey, this should help smooth out the experience for supports.

We've seen a bit of frustration with Hellfire Hatchet so we decided to make some adjustments. Our goal is to meaningfully reduce the power you get from stacking Lethality, while keeping it valuable as a tool for assassins to fight tanks when they have no other options. We'll return to Arena's typical balance patch coming in 26.4.

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ITEMS

Hellfire Hatchet

• Char Damage: (5% – 10% (+ 0.2% – 0.4% per 1 Lethality) based on maximum health difference) of the targets current health ⇒ (15% – 37% (+ 0.05% – 0.125% per 1 Lethality) based on maximum health difference) of the targets current health.
• Maximum health difference still reached at 2500 HP.
• Cooldown: Now is applied per target rather than an internal cooldown
• Cooldown: 15 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds

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Arena Bugfixes

• Fixed Twin Masks. It now grants proper stats from your teammate. We've also identified and removed closed feedback loops that were causing this item to grant infinity stats when synergizing with stat conversions from augments, items, and characters (looking at you Ryze and Vladimir).
• Fixed a bug where Multitool was being duplicated
• Fixed a bug where AFKing during Planning Rounds were granting permanent items via Multitool
• Fixed a bug where Multitool was causing game crashes
• Fixed a bug where Rengar's basic abilities were not refreshed on takedowns with Executioner
• Fixed a bug where Actualizer would not synergize with the Overflow augment (they stack now!)
• Fixed a bug where Infernal Conduit cooldown reduction was a bit higher than intended when multiple enemies are affected
• Fixed a bug where Kinkou Jette weakpoints weren't always being proc'd
• Fixed a bug where players can issue a move command right before entering the Cannon from Cannon Fodder at the beginning of each Combat rounds

The WASD flash directions setting is coming to all WASD movement abilities!

As a reminder, this setting lets you choose between your cursor location, your movement direction, or your movement direction unless your cursor location is in your movement direction - in which case the cursor is prioritized.

• There is a known issue with Nidalee and this setting that will be fixed in a future patch.

Last patch we made a change to the Co-Op versus AI queue to use Swiftplay instead of normal Summoner’s Rift. This was a change we thought would make a better new player experience. This had an unintended side effect of drastically increasing queue times so we’re reverting this change back to what it was pre 26.2.

We heard your feedback about players who use Streamer Mode to troll their teammates from the safety of anonymity. Starting in 26.3, we are making the privacy settings on Streamer Mode symmetrical: all information that you hide from the lobby and game will also be hidden from you.

• When you have "Hide My Identifying Info" enabled, your identifying info is hidden for other players. Additionally, you will no longer be able to see the identifying info of other players in your game.

For players in EU, APAC, and OC we’re going to be running a makeup Summoner’s Rift Clash since we unfortunately had to cancel the 26.2 patch Clash.

This makeup Clash will take place on February 7th and will be free to enter, with a premium ticket option. Rewards will be the same as the previous scheduled one.

• Registration is live now.
• Tournament Dates: February 7 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)

The first Your Shop of the year will be landing at the end of this patch so keep an eye out for that in the client!

Your Shop will be active from February 10th to March 10th.

Demacia Rising's first content update brings 2 chapters of objectives and concludes Act 1's story. Demacia Rising will update again in Act 2 with patch 26.5, with more rewards, story, new settlements, champions, enemies – and more.

• Level 3 Settlements and Research are now available. Upgrade Zeffira to level 3 to unlock them.
• Two new champions, Galio and Kayle, are available for research and training.
• Galio is a tanky front-line champion who uses Shield of Durand to resist incoming damage.
• Kayle is a high damage, medium-range champion who gains splash damage and attack speed on her attacks.
• Complete Chapter 3 to earn an Icon, and Chapter 4 to earn an Orb and an Emote.

• Fixed an issue where the friends list was sorted incorrectly, sometimes placing friends into the wrong groups.
• Fixed Rengar's R applying shred before the bonus damage was applied
• Fixed Rengar's Q, Empowered Q and R damage not being reduced by Plated Steelcaps
• Plants / Wards are now considered combat for the sake of Rengar's ferocity
• Fixed an issue where Rengar sometimes wouldn't heal when W was cast after an empowered ability
• Fixed an issue where flashing during leap would remove Rengar's passive stacks
• Fixed an issue where Rengar's Q was being consumed by on-hit augments without granting ferocity
• Fixed an issue where ferocity stacks would fall off if E landed as combat timer was running out
• Target's going invulnerable during leap no longer drop combat for Rengar
• Fixed an issue where Damage over time effects extended Rengar's ferocity timer
• Fixed an issue where Rengar's leap would be delayed by up to 0.325s when casting R
• Fixed an issue where Rengar's leap could be delayed by up to 0.325s when flashing during R
• Fixed an issue where Rengar's Q attack speed buff lasted for 3 auto attacks instead of 2
• Fixed Rengar Q / Empowered Q timing out mid leap sometimes
• Fixed an issue where Sylas stealing Rengar ult would lose all mana on leap
• Fixed an issue where Rengar would sometimes drop vision when attacking from melee in a bush
• Fixed an issue where melee during Rengar's R would sometimes not grant a ferocity stack
• Fixed an issue where Bel'Veth's passive would prevent the support item from properly executing minions.
• Fixed an issue where Azir's W autos would only grant 1 Conqueror stack.
• Fixed an issue where Zigg's VO wouldn't trigger during his Run animation.
• Fixed an issue where Senna's passive wouldn't convert excess crit chance from Yuntal into lifesteal.
• Fixed an issue where Seraphine's Recall when interrupted by animation pause effects she would return to idle pose.
• Fixed an issue where Mel could destroy Yorick's W with a single basic attack.
• Fixed an issue where Annie's passive VFX is missing when her Passive is ready.
• Fixed an issue where Ashe's base skin VO in Spanish was at a low volume.
• Fixed an issue where Karthus's first encounter with Varus VO would fail to play.
• Fixed an issue where multiple Project Katarina VO lines would fail to play during her R channel.
• Fixed an issue where Nidalee's killing Milio VO was not audible.
• Fixed an issue where Nidalee's first encounter VO for Milio was not audible.
• Fixed an issue where Yorick's joke VO couldn't be triggered.

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ARAM MAYHEM BUGFIXES

Fixed a bug where Infernal Conduit cooldown reduction was a lot higher than intended when multiple enemies are affected.

• Fixed a bug where Marksmage had a lower then intended ratio.
• Fixed a bug where Ultimate Revolution did not refresh itself after the cooldown ends.
• Fixed a bug where power flower did not heal players on Butcher’s Bridge.
• Fixed a bug where removing Slow and Steady did not clear the Attack Speed Override.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch: