Patch 25.08 Notes

SR Ranked Season 1 will end April 29 midnight, regional local time, which is the last day of patch 25.08.

Ranked progression will not reset with the start of season 2 (which is patch 25.09), but the Ranked Reward Mission will be refreshed.

Don't forget to complete the Victorious Twisted Fate mission by winning 15 ranked games (solo/duo or Flex) before the season ends! Ranked rewards will be granted sometime during patch 25.9.

Hello ARAMers, For this patch, we're reassessing some poke champions who were previously over-nerfed and have since lost their core gameplay fantasy on the ARAM map. We're aiming to bring back some of their identity while keeping them balanced. For other champions, we're focusing on specific spell buffs to improve their engagement tools and overall durability in teamfights.

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Buffs

Bel'Veth

• R Void Coral Duration: 15 seconds ⇒ 40 seconds

Pyke

• Damage Taken: 95% ⇒ 90%

Rengar

• R Cooldown: 110 / 100 / 90 ⇒ 90 / 80 / 70

Sivir

• Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 93%

Varus

• Damage Dealt: 98% ⇒ 100%

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Adjustments

Lux

• R Cooldown: 60 / 50 / 40 ⇒ 80 / 70 / 60
• Damage Dealt: 85% ⇒ 90%

Champions

Evelynn

• E (unempowered) Max HP% Base Damage: 5% ⇒ 4%
• E (Empowered) Max HP% Base Damage: 7% ⇒ 6%

Garen

• Q Silence Duration: 1 second ⇒ 1.5 seconds
• W Damage Reduction: 20% ⇒ 30%

Kassadin

• Health Growth: 128 ⇒ 119.5
• E AP Ratio: 80% ⇒ 65%
• R Bonus Damage Per Stack: 45 / 55 / 65 ⇒ 35 / 45 / 55

Naafiri

• W Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 ⇒ 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14
• R Cooldown: 110 / 95 / 80 ⇒ 70 / 60 / 50

Ryze

• Passive Mana Ratio: 7.5% ⇒ 6.5%
• R Overload Amp Damage: 40 / 70 / 100% ⇒ 40 / 60 / 80%

Tryndamere

• Base AD Growth: 4 ⇒ 3
• W AD Reduction: 30 / 52.5 / 75 / 97.5 / 120 ⇒ 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90

Vex

• Health Growth: 138 ⇒ 114
• Q AP Ratio: 80% ⇒ 70%

Urgot

• Health Growth: 92 ⇒ 102
• Armor Growth: 4.4 ⇒ 5
• AD Growth: 3 ⇒ 4

Ziggs

• Health Growth: 133 ⇒ 123
• Q Damage: 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 / 325 (+ 80% AP) ⇒ 105 / 155 / 205 / 255 / 305 (+ 70% AP)

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Augments

And my Axe!

• Cooldown: 8 seconds ⇒ 12 seconds
• Damage: 60 - 225 (+ 100% AD) (+ 60% AP) ⇒ 60 - 200 (+ 80% AD) (+ 45% AP)

Castle

• NEW Now grants 80 - 250 (+ 5% max HP) shield for the caster and ally for 4 seconds on use.
• Now grants its Movement Speed boost to your ally as well.

Deathtouch

• On hit Ratio: 40% ⇒ 30%

Don't Chase

• Damage: 15 - 150 (+20% Bonus AD) (+ 10% AP) ⇒ 15 / 125 (+ 20% Bonus AD) (+10& AP)

Dual Wield

• Damage: 50% ⇒ 40%
• On-hit damage: 50% of effectiveness ⇒ 40% of effectiveness

Hold Very Still

• NEW Now deals damage on your first hit out of stealth.
• Damage: 60 - 200 (+ 40% AP) (+ 60% Bonus AD) magic damage on first hit.
• NEW You gain 100% decaying movement speed for a short duration upon revealing.
• Buff is now active at the round start (You will not see where they spawn).

Phenomenal Evil

• AP per spell hit: 2 ⇒ 1

Quest: Urf's Champion

• Takedowns required: 10 ⇒ 8

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Items

• Reality Fracture: The Void Grub's HP bar is hidden and their opacity will now match their lifetime.
• Staff of Flowing Water AP: 55 ⇒ 45-85 (based on level)
• Black Hole Gauntlet damage: 30-100 (+ 70% Armor) (+70% Magic Resistance) ⇒ 30-100 (+6.5% Max HP)
• NEW Warmog's Armor: Now heals .8% of your max health per second.
• Turbo Chemtank Stats: 600 Health, 15% Movement Speed ⇒ 600 Health, 80 Adaptive Force
• Removing the repeat cast penalty from Locket and Redemption.

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Guest of Honor

• Vote Phase time reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
• Swain Guest of Honor: Raven's granted while on a Bye increased from 6 to 8.

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Bugfixes & QoL Changes

• Fiddlestick's healthbar no longer vanishes after entering combat.
• Fortune Shard no longer grants you gold after you are eliminated.
• Rite of Ruin: Tracker properly tracks Damage Blocked.
• Nesting Doll no longer knocks back on enemy first down
• TapDancer and Marksmage now show the stats they give you in their tooltip.
• Courage of the Colossus no longer defaults to showing you all of its scaling on the augment card. (You can still see it if you look at the augment tooltip)
• Updated a bunch of tooltips to use format coloring.
• Hexbolt Companion range indicator corrected
• Jeweled Gauntlet + Vulnerability, Crit Damage no longer has a chance to stack. If the damage can crit with both, it will use the higher crit damage mod. Abilities that can crit with Vuln but not JG will no longer stop critting if you have both.
• Updated the Sahn Uzal bark and vote event icon to match the new skin.

• Grand Reckoning Sion: We've made some adjustments to his model and rig to make his armor look, move, and feel more like armor.
• Grand Reckoning Sion: We've also made some adjustments to his fire and VFX elements throughout his kit.
• Grand Reckoning Talon: We've made some adjustments to his fire and VFX elements throughout his kit.

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Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser

Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser will be arriving in the Sanctum in 25.08, but there are a few bits of polish still on their way that you should see by 25.09.

• Cleaning up some unintended VFX when Viego is possessing Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser.
• Ensuring each form's VO filter to trigger properly on activation.
• Ensuring SFX now behaves correctly when emerging from Fog of War.
• Making sure the proper Homeguard VFX appears in each form.
• Ensuring no unintended VFXs far visible when two Mordekaisers stack their ults.

• Atakhan's full VO script is now enabled with all the interactions with certain champions. Head to the rift and see if you can experience them all!
• Fixed a Practice Tool bug where minion waves are not reset after using the Reset Game function.
• Fixed an issue that caused Unleashed Teleport to grant move speed even when cancelling the teleport.
• Fixed an issue that caused Abyssal Mask and World Atlas to be displayed in the shop under the wrong category.
• Fixed an issue that caused Unsealed Spellbook to be temporarily disabled when attacking ward-type units.
• Fixed an issue where the range indicator didn't match the actual range of Oracle Lens.
• Fixed an issue where Sivir's E would fail to block Rengar's E.
• Fixed an issue where Garen's Q on a target with a Spell Shield and a method to review would cause the target to live with 0 hp.
• Fixed an issue where Bloodsong would amplify the bleed damage from Death's Dance.
• Fixed an issue where LeBlanc's Ability Video's didn't reflect her new update. She now looks fabulous there too.
• Fixed an issue where Akali's W smoke VFX would flicker on elevated terrain.
• Fixed an issue where Twitch could go inside Herald with Q active and cause the Herald Charge animation to not correctly appear.
• Fixed an issue where tapping Pyke's Q could refund the incorrect amount of mana.
• Fixed an issue where Ivern's W could conceal Atakhan and Voidgrubs models.
• Fixed an issue that caused Viktor's Evolutions to be greyed out.
• Fixed an issue where Zed's E could reduce his W cooldown by 2 seconds instead of 3.
• Fixed an issue where Jax's E would sometimes not work on towers.
• Fixed an issue where Yorick's Mist Walkers are unable to jump over the terrain after casting Mourning Mist on an enemy on the other side of terrain.
• Fixed an issue with Announce VO not playing

The Blue Essence Emporium will be active through 25.08 and will be turning off when 25.09 goes live! Be sure to check out the catalog and spend your Blue Essence before the Emporium goes away until later this year!

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch: