Patch 25.19 Notes

This patch we’re going to be testing Brawl as a tool in helping new players learn League. We think Brawl helps get players quickly into teamfights, which show off some of League’s highest highs without needing to learn the complex mechanics of Summoner’s Rift. So we’re making it part of the New Player Journey to see if it makes learning League a bit more fun.

This means that for the next two patches, Brawl will be available to play for anyone that’s missed it!

In case you missed the news, the first three patches in Doom Bots' run will all activate a different Trial of Doom. In the last patch, all three Trials will be reactivated so you have one last chance to get those wins. If you can defeat all of Veigar's Trials, you'll earn the title "Definitely Not a Bot," which we really want, so we'll see you there! The first trial was Veigar's Evil where every bot got Veigar's Phenomenal Evil passive. The second trial was a race to Level 30. Our third and final trial is…

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Trials of Doom - Veigar's Doom!

In Veigar’s Doom, Bots start with less Armor and Magic Resist and receive less of both per level, so they’ll be easier to kill! Which is good, because you’re going to need to kill a lot of them. The timer in Veigar’s Doom is set to 5 minutes. Every Bot you kill adds 15 seconds. If the timer reaches 0 before 15 minutes of game time has elapsed… It's game over!

To help you out, we’ve added Gambler’s Blade as a new Prismatic item. Takedowns you get while carrying the Blade earn your team an extra 10 seconds. Takedowns also earn stacks that grant 10 bonus gold on kill, but increase your damage taken by 5% per stack. If you die, your death will cost the team 10 seconds, but the stacks will reset to 0.

Finally, we’ve given Veigar even more power. Now he’s got the Morellonomicon, Rylai’s Crystal Scepter, and Void Staff.

It’s time to get aggressive! Who’s your choice to find all those extra kills before time runs out?

Hello ARAMers! In Patch 25.19 we're shipping some item adjustments and a handful of champion updates. First up, Briar. We’ve noticed she’s become a bit frustrating to play against, especially with the combination of champion buffs and item synergies. In this patch, we’re dialing back some of that extra help to bring her more in line with other picks.

On the buff side, our goal continues to be about enhancing each champion’s key spells to make them easier to execute and better support their intended play patterns. As for item changes, we’re continuing our evaluation of cooldowns to help make certain items feel more worth picking up—especially given ARAM’s faster game pacing. We are looking into improving item satisfaction and viability across different roles and playstyles. Thanks for tuning in, and as always—see you on the bridge.

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Champions

Akali

• R Cooldown: 120 / 90 / 60 ⇒ 90 / 75 / 60

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Briar

• Damage Taken: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Healing Done: 115% ⇒ 110%

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Gwen

• R Cooldown: 120 / 100 / 80 ⇒ 110 / 90 / 70
• Q Final Snip AP Ratio: 35% ⇒ 40%

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Mordekaiser

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Damage Taken: 102% ⇒ 100%

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Sion

• W Health per greater unit/champion kill: 5 ⇒ 8
• W Health per unit: 2 ⇒ 3
• W Health Ratio: 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14% ⇒ 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10%

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Yunara

• R Cooldown: 100 / 90 / 80 ⇒ 80 / 70 / 60
• E Movespeed: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% ⇒ 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60%

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Ziggs

• Damage Dealt: 87% ⇒ 92%

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Items

Sterak’s Gage

• Lifeline CD: 90 ⇒ 75

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Maw of Malmortius

• Lifeline CD: 90 ⇒ 75

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Immortal Shieldbow

• Lifeline CD: 90 ⇒ 75

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Hexdrinker

• Lifeline CD: 90 ⇒ 75

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Seraph’s Embrace

• Lifeline CD: 90 ⇒ 75

AFK Detection

When we introduced AFK detection in Arena, we missed the mark. We introduced it to combat the real AFK problem, but in doing so we catered to a more hardcore audience and ended up punishing the natural casualness of Arena instead. Turns out, alt-tabbing after an early round death or grabbing a snack in between fights shouldn’t earn you an AFK penalty. And before you ask… No, we are not designing Arena around the ultra-tryhard players who expect everyone to be glued to their desk during the entire duration of an Arena game (not that there’s anything wrong with being a try-hard! :D)

To fix this, we’ve loosened our detection window and made minor adjustments to our AFK detection so you won’t get slapped with an AFK flag for playing Arena like… Arena:

• AFK warning timer increased from 70 ⇒ 100 seconds
• If you issue any input during a combat round, you are safe for that round. The AFK detection timer won’t start until the combat round is done for everyone.

• We acknowledge that this isn’t perfect - players who are determined to avoid detection can still find ways to ruin the game. AFK detection is a tough problem to solve, but we are hoping these changes should at least punish players who are truly AFK while reducing false positives.
  
  The goal here is the same as before: protect players from being stuck in endless 1v2s while doing our best to make sure actual AFKers still get flagged. But this time, you’ll be free to grab that drink, stretch, or alt-tab to another window (just don’t spend too long hehe).

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Arena Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Naafari getting too many hats can lag the game. We’ve also changed the max hats that can display to 50 (you can still get more, they just won’t display). For the Quest: Mad Hatter, they now no longer will show on the dogs.
• Fixed an issue where Mordekaiser’s Guest of Honor would conflict with revives or persist when a champion died.
• Tank Engine now correctly says bonus health in its augment card.
• Calculated Risk no longer adds the “Calculated” prefix multiple times.
• Fixed an issue where Lightning Rod was granting Attack Speed unintentionally.
• Fixed an issue where Flesheater was not correctly listing Ability Haste.
• Fixed an issue where during the Ambessa Guest of Honor event hovering “Sacrifice for Gold” or “Sacrifice for Prismatic” at the end of the shopping phase you would gain the augment, but not lose HP for the 1st round you had it.

Machine Herald Thicccctor

We've pulled Machine Herald Viktor from PBE in order to “beef” him up a little bit. We saw some feedback about him not being as wide as many of you were expecting, so we’re taking some time to give him a little bit more work. He'll still be released this year (and with the same mastery and date requirements we shared previously) and we’ll update y'all when we’re ready to confirm what patch.

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Returning Sanctum Items

With this patch Breakout True Damage 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.

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MVP Worlds Winners Prestige Skins

Last patch we shared that we’d be bringing new thematic borders going forward with Mythic Shop Prestige Skins, starting with Prestige T1 Sylas. These skins specifically don't have player signatures on them, but the rest in the set do. We saw a ton of player feedback around wanting to see Faker’s Signature on that skin since it’s his MVP skin. We looked at it and thought about it and we agree it’s a good suggestion, so we’re making it happen!

With 25.19 we’re adding Faker’s signature to Sylas, and in a later patch we’re going back to update Prestige DRX Aatrox and Prestige T1 Jayce as well so every MVP skin will have the player’s mark that piloted them to glory at Worlds.

Quality of Life Changes

• Players can now select which ward skin to use in the Swiftplay champ select modal.
• La Illusion chromas have been added to the Mythic Shop Weekly rotational pool.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that caused Ignite to do more damage than intended. (This was fixed in 25.18, but mistakenly left out of the patch notes.)
• Fixed a bug that caused Pick Order Swapping to not be cancelled when there is less than 5 seconds for picking.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused players to not be able to lock in when swapping roles to jungle and the mandatory smite pop up appears.
• Fixed an issue where Blitzcrank’s R passive wouldn’t trigger certain item effects.
• Fixed an issue where one of Aurora’s joke VO lines would cut off at the end.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes jungle camps wouldn’t despawn if the parent mob was killed too far away from them, leaving an orphaned camp for eternity. Honestly we’re just disappointed that someone caused this.
• Fixed an issue where if Sion dies and uses an ability during his passive, he wouldn’t be able to trigger Experimental Hexplate.
• Fixed an issue where in spectator mode health bars for respawned nexus turrets wouldn’t appear.
• Fixed an issue where if Sylas stole Yunara’s R, his Q ability icon would disappear after he used Yunara’s R.
• Fixed an issue where the Dragon icons on the minimap would appear duplicated.
• Fixed an issue where a green circle would appear under Rakan’s W target.
• Fixed an issue where Soraka’s Passive could cause some ability VFX to flicker.
• Fixed an issue where after completing a 10+ minute game of Doom Bots using a low-priority account, the account would still remain in low-priority status.
• Fixed an issue where Leblanc’s afterimage would sometimes appear bigger than her.
• Fixed an issue that caused Zoe’s yoyo SFX to not play in animations.
• Fixed an issue where the Death Recap pings could be missing or display different spell names.
• Fixed an issue where Jax could fail to play certain VO lines when W is cast.
• Fixed an issue where Yorick’s Mist Walkers that were spawned as Mordekaiser’s R expired would stay alive in the Death Realm.
• Fixed an issue where Kai’Sa’s Shadow would linger after death until reviving.
• Fixed an issue where Blitzcrank’s R damage is not dealt around his new position after Flashing during the cast time.
• Fixed an issue where certain large pets wouldn’t follow the owning champion when coming in or out of Morderkaiser’s R.
• Fixed an issue where Ambessa’s passive could cause Ambessa’s buff bar to display some debug text.
• Fixed an issue that causes Nasus’s R to render above impassable terrain.
• Fixed an issue where Nilah’s Q and E VFX could render over structures and units.
• Fixed an issue where Xin Zhao’s feet could jitter during his Recall animation.
• Fixed an issue where Summoner Teleport and other dashes could fail to cross a wall if the destination was too close to it.

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Custom Games

• Fixed a bug that prevented adding bots to Custom Games on “Play Again.”
• Added a hover that shows full Riot ID in Custom Games’ lobby roster.
• Cleaned up some error messages to be more specific when there is an issue joining a player’s Custom Game.
• Fixed a bug that was incorrectly showing the option to spectate a friend’s game when the player was in a non-spectateable Custom Game.
• Fixed a bug that was showing empty frames for the enemy team when playing a Custom Game with no opponents.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing No Delay Spectating in Custom Games from behaving correctly for players with older accounts.
• Fixed a bug that prevented in-lobby spectators from being able to queue for a new match before the spectator delay for the previous Custom Game was completed.
• Added a tooltip to clarify that League Voice only works for Custom Games that have spectating disabled.
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly labeled Tournament Draft lobbies as Draft mode lobbies.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch: