Patch 26.13 Notes

Guilt's a sickness, and I've got the cure.

Locke, the Ashen Exorcist, is slayin' demons and disappointing his mother June 24th.

Passive - Silver Stake

• Locke's attacks deal additional magic damage On-Hit, increased based on enemy missing Health.

Q - Ritual Nails

• Locke readies a set of Soul Nails to throw, dealing damage to and marking enemies hit. Locke can consume the marks to deal bonus damage with his attacks.

W - Soul Ignition

• Locke ignites his soul, gaining Attack Speed and Move Speed, and dealing damage to himself. At the end of the duration, Locke will heal back a portion of the damage he takes during the effect.

E - Ashen Pursuit

• Locke teleports to a location before dashing to attack his next target, dealing damage to enemies passed through.

R - Purgatory

• Locke throws a binding artifact that deals damage and potentially executes enemies hit. Locke gains additional power for sealing away enemy champions.
• Locke Champion Spotlight here!

We're going to be enabling Last Hit Indicators for Normal Draft games. This feature has been live in Swiftplay & Co-op vs. AI for a while, and we've seen it result in new players being more successful at last-hitting than before. These players are now graduating into Normals and are interested in continuing to use them.

We think it's better to focus on skill expression in other parts of the game—rather than understanding exactly when you can last-hit a minion—and are also pretty confident that these don't degrade skill expression in lane. You still need to be mindful of positioning, harassing your opponent, considering where both junglers are, understanding power spikes, and more.

We've seen that experienced players are disabling it, as they find it more distracting than helpful, but we believe it should be available for those who want it. Let us know what you think!

We've seen a lot of conversation around Last Hit Indicators coming to Ranked, and we've decided to enable them in non-Ranked SR queues only for continued testing. We want to get more data and feedback to decide if we should make them an option for Ranked before making that call. So we'll keep them enabled, but off by default, for Swiftplay, Co-op vs AI, and Normal Draft, to collect data and iterate. We'll keep you updated about performance and progress in Dev Updates before making any future calls.

Hello ARAMers!

In this patch, along with several recent hotfixes, we're continuing our work to create a healthier balance between new and existing Augments.

In our recent hotfixes, we have meaningfully improved how Ability Augments are offered to champions. These augments are now offered on spells that champions benefit from. We also fixed issues where certain spells could incorrectly receive augments that didn't work on them.

We also fixed an issue that prevented several critical strike-related Augments, such as Jeweled Gauntlet and It's Critical, from appearing as often as intended. Additionally, we resolved a bug that significantly reduced the chance of Ability Augments appearing in the third and fourth Augment slots.

Over the past week, we've continued tuning our new Augments. Some overperforming options, such as Tooth Fairy and Archmage, have received adjustments to bring them more in line with other choices. Meanwhile, weaker Augments like Glass Cannon and Pin Cushion have received buffs and usability improvements to help them better deliver on their intended fantasies.

We'll continue monitoring Augment performance and player sentiment as we work to keep Mayhem feeling fresh, balanced, and exciting.

See you on the Bridge!

Augments

Archmage

• Tier: Gold ⇒ Prismatic

Combusting Interest

• Percent Gold from Damage: 1% ⇒ 0.75%

From Down Town

• Added restrictions to the largest Area of Effect size.

Glass Cannon

• True Damage Percent: 15% ⇒ 25% / 15% melee / ranged

Pin Cushion

• Damage per Nail: 20 - 30 ⇒ 20 - 60

Pressure Cooker

• Total Burn Damage: 2% max Health ⇒ 1.5% max Health

Quickstep

• Tier: Prismatic ⇒ Gold

Spirit Bomb

• Shield Duration: 4s ⇒ 2s

Tooth Fairy

• Burst Threshold: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Lethality and Magic Penetration: 5 ⇒ 4

Twinfire

• Critical Chance: 15% ⇒ 25%

Void Immolation

• Added Passive Desolate: Killing an enemy deals magic damage around them.

Youch My Coins

• Coin Drops: 16 ⇒ 9

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where The Biggest Snowball Ever was dealing double damage to the target.
• Fixed a bug where missing Health damage was calculated incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug where two players having Pat on the back can result in infinite shields

This patch brings our newest Guest of Honor, Locke, and new toys for Stat anvils, along with a new augment. We are buffing a wide set of underperforming augments, adding the burn tag to some augments the community helped us catch, and are tuning several champion outliers.

We're also adding Locke as a new Guest of Honor and turning Round 15 into an augment round.

Augments

Buff Buddies

• Now counts as a burn source when gaining Red Buff from an ally leveling this augment.

Calculated Risk

• Disabled.

Chain Lightning

• Disabled.

Chroma Flux

• Autocast Cooldown: 15s ⇒ 10s

Despoil

• Curse Move Speed Ratio: 10% ⇒ 20%

Dust To Diamonds (Silver)

•   NEW   When removed, gain 2 Prismatic Stat Anvils.

Final Form

• Max Health Shield: 30% / 45% ⇒ 30% / 60%
• Omnivamp: 15% / 20% ⇒ 15% / 25%
• Buff Duration: 5s ⇒ 7.5s

Hivemind

• Base Damage: 40 - 100 ⇒ 60 - 120

Hone Shardblade (Gold)

• Can now only appear if you have Shardblade.
• Instantly grants a Stat Anvil and now grants another Stat Anvil every round.

Juiced

• Max Level Mana Threshold: 400 ⇒ 300

Nesting Doll

• Tier: Gold ⇒ Prismatic

Overflow

• Max Level Mana Threshold: 400 ⇒ 300

Quest: Rite Of The Forge God

• Stat Amp: 35% ⇒ 40%

Quest: Void Immolation

• Area of Effect Damage: True damage ⇒ Magic damage
• Health Scaling: 1.5% total Health ⇒ 3.5% bonus Health
• Added Hollow Radiance-style on-kill burst.

Spellcraft

• Base Damage: 50 ⇒ 100
• Slow per Blue Sticker: 40% ⇒ 45%

Upgrade Collector

• Level 2 Gold Gained: 500 ⇒ 300
• Level 2 Execution Threshold per stack: 1.5% ⇒ 1.25%
• Max Execute: 27.5% ⇒ 23.75%

Champions

Elise

• Passive Damage: 12 - 42 ⇒ 15 - 45
• Passive Health on Hit: 6 - 12 ⇒ 10 - 25
• Human E Stun Duration: 1.6 - 2.4 ⇒ 1.9 - 2.5
• Spider E Damage and Healing Amp: 40% - 100% ⇒ 60% - 120%

Gnar

• W Base Damage: 0 - 40 ⇒ 20 - 60
• E Cooldown: 18 - 8 ⇒ 12 - 8

Kayn (Shadow Assassin)

• Combat Empowered Duration: 3s ⇒ 4s
• Bonus Magic Damage: 20 - 40% ⇒ 35 - 55%
• Out of Combat Requirement: 8s ⇒ 4s

Renata Glasc

• W Cooldown: 22 - 18 ⇒ 28 - 24

Samira

• R Base Damage: 5 / 10 / 15 ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20

Swain

• R Healing: 15 / 30 / 45 ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20

Zeri

• Q Attack Speed to Attack Damage over cap: 60% ⇒ 80%
• W Ability Power Ratio: 50% ⇒ 100%
• E Cooldown Reduction on Passive or Q hit: 0.5 ⇒ 0.75
• E Ability Power Ratio: 20% ⇒ 30%
• R Base Bonus Move Speed: 15% ⇒ 20%
• R Move Speed per stack: 1.5% ⇒ 2%

Zilean

• Removed Arena-specific Q overrides.
• Q Base Damage: 100 - 360 ⇒ 75 - 300
• Q Ability Power Ratio: 100% ⇒ 90%

Items

2 Random Stat Shards (Gold)

• Grants 2 random Gold Stat Shards.
• Only offered to those dedicated to their craft.

2 Random Stat Shards (Silver)

• Grants 2 random Silver Stat Shards.
• Only offered to those dedicated to their craft.

Eclipse

• Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 60
• Ability Haste: 10 ⇒ 15
• Max Health Damage: 8% / 5.3% ⇒ 10% / 6.6%

Hellfire Hatchet

• Attack Damage: 35 ⇒ 40
• Per Target Cooldown: 10s ⇒ 8s

Opportunity

• Lethality while out of combat: 15 ⇒ 20

Perplexity

• Maximum Damage Amp Threshold: 2500 ⇒ 3000

Wordless Promise

• Now counts as a burn for pyromancer's cloak and burn augments
• Cooldown: 60s ⇒ 15s

Dragon Heart

• Shared Ability Power and Ability Haste: 15% ⇒ 10%
• Cooldown: 60s ⇒ 15s

Guests of Honor

Kindred

• Lamb Revives: 2 ⇒ 1

Locke

• New Guest of Honor.
• During each Augment offering, one Augment is offered at a higher tier but is Fractured.
• Fractured augments break into a Stat Anvil after 2 losses.
• Winning 3 rounds with a Fractured augment removes the Fractured keyword.

Lux

• Out of Combat Timer: 5 ⇒ 3
• Shield per level value: 20 ⇒ 25
• Shield per round loss: 75 ⇒ 100

Nocturne

• Now grants wall walking while inside the darkness zones.
• Number of zones: 1 - 3 ⇒ 3

Systems

Round 15

• Round Type: Gold round ⇒ Augment round

Player DMs have long been a gap in our reporting coverage, which has allowed bad actors to use direct messages as a place for chat toxicity with impunity. We are closing that loophole in this patch by adding a report menu directly into your chat interface. You can report and/or block a player at the same time by selecting the report button on the chat header, right-clicking the chat dialogue to summon the context menu, or from the block menu. Blocking a player means that DMs can no longer be exchanged. However, message history will persist during the same session after blocking or being blocked, so that players can no longer abuse the block function as a way to avoid being reported.

Once reported, we'll be able to view both sides of the conversation and take action where appropriate. All reported direct message data is handled securely and used strictly for moderation purposes. While we hope you don't have to use this feature often, this tool ensures accountability extends to all player communications in League.

Ranked 5s are back! Time to call the squad (or find some friends if you're like us.) On June 26, Ranked 5s will be live at 8 pm! Tournament Draft, double the stakes, no restrictions on who can play with each other, and unique rewards.

To learn more about Ranked 5s, check out the dev blog.

As a reminder, in Discord supported regions, you can now connect your Riot and Discord accounts to jump into game with your Discord friends faster. Linking your accounts lets you invite Discord friends straight into your party, copy a lobby link to share with your server, or see which of your friends are playing so you can get into a lobby with them.

You can connect your Riot and Discord accounts in the League client, through Discord, from your account page, or you can check out this link to do it and learn more about it.

• Fixed a bug where Baron Nashor's max stacks of Void Corruption was higher than intended.
• Fixed a bug where Serpent's Fang's Shield Reaver damage applied Omnivamp.
• Fixed a bug where Diana's R VFX may not play properly around different areas of the map.

This patch we have a few special skins coming out, returning, and bundles we want to highlight ahead of time. First off, Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser is returning to The Sanctum until Patch 26.17.

Additionally, Broken Covenant Jhin is our MSI revenue share skin. A share of the proceeds from this skin and the bundle will go towards esports teams.

Finally, keep an eye out for the skins used at MSI Finals! We'll be running a 33% off discount on all direct purchase skins used by the winner of MSI Finals for one week after the series is over. Prestige and other Mythic Shop skins will appear in the Featured section.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

Broken Covenant Jhin, Broken Covenant Aurora, & Broken Covenant Shen

The following chromas will be released this patch: