Patch 2025.S1.3 Notes

To maintain the stability and performance of our games, we sometimes need to deprecate support for older hardware or software that isn’t widely used by players anymore. These kinds of changes typically only impact a small number of players, but we wanted to give an ample heads up in case you’re impacted by these changes.

In a couple of patches, we will be upgrading macOS users from an OpenGL graphics technology to Metal graphics. This will roll out gradually with the ability to revert back to OpenGL for a period of time until OpenGL is removed. If you’re still using OpenGL, the client will automatically use Metal when we remove the support, so no action is required from you. However, if you were running OpenGL due to your hardware not being compatible with Metal graphics, you will need to upgrade your hardware so that you can continue playing after OpenGL support is removed.

We’re also going to be upgrading how we use DirectX 11 for Windows users. If your graphics card supports DirectX 11 feature level 11_0, your client will update automatically. However, if your graphics card only supports up to DirectX 11 feature level 10_0, you will need to update your hardware so that you can continue playing after this upgrade.

For Minimum and Recommended System Requirements we recommend checking the support article.

With this patch we’re introducing a Streamer Mode. This will replace account names with the champion name from the loading screen all the way through the end of the game from the view of the player that has this enabled. This addition is intended to help reduce incidents of things like Stream Sniping, or other forms of streamer harassment or disruption.

To enable Streamer Mode all you need to do is enable this setting in the Interface settings in the client. Just navigate to Settings -> Interface -> Health and Resource Bars.

This patch’s Swiftplay update has two core features. First, we’re promising a hard cap on how long each game can go. While 90% of games are over by 33:00 on the clock, we don’t want anyone to be stuck in game longer than 35 minutes, and even the average game time of 24:45 could stand to go down some. Second, we’ve heard the feedback that there’s simply too much to do at all points in time, and you’d rather be fighting each other than epic monsters.

On the game ending front, we’ve buffed minion scaling to more closely match how quickly champions earn gold and experience. This way their health pools should weather champion wave clear a bit better and their sharper blades should cut down structures a bit faster. We’ve also added a sudden death mechanic, similar to the one seen in Clash.

At 25 minutes, structures will begin to lose resistances, at 27 minutes, everyone will receive a 3-minute warning, and at 30 minutes, vulnerable structures will crumble to dust over the course of 1 minute. The expectation is that this mechanic won’t have to decide many games and will instead spur players to action so that they can claim victory.

For Epic monster pacing, we’ve moved dragons back to the normal 5:00 re-spawn timer and pushed Rift Herald back to the midpoint between Void Grubs and Baron Nashor in order to alleviate how many jungle monsters are fighting for your attention.

Minions

• Minion Scaling: Every 90 seconds ⇒ Every 60 seconds
• Melee Minion AD per upgrade: Reduced to match Classic
• Ranged Minion AD per upgrade: Reduced to match Classic

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Sudden Death

• Exists now.
• At 25:00 turrets begin to lose 35% of their current Armor/Magic Resist every minute. This stacks and applies to all turrets.
• At 27:00 the “3 minutes until Sudden Death!” announcement will happen.
• At 30:00 every targetable structure loses 3.3% of max HP every 2 seconds. The “Sudden Death has started!” announcement will happen.
• Without player interaction, at 36:00 the game will end via the Nexus burning down.

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Epic Monsters

• Dragon Respawn Timer: 4:30 ⇒ 5:00
• Rift Herald Spawn Time: 10:00 ⇒ 11:30
• Fixed an issue where Swiftplay’s damage increase for Rift Herald wasn’t applied if a champion went into it.
• Charge Initial Base Damage: 1875 ⇒ 2250

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Summoner Spells

Teleport

Upgrade Time: 10 minutes ⇒ 8 minutes

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Runes

Gathering Storm

Stat Update: 10 minutes ⇒ 7 minutes

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Items

Symbiotic Soles

Distance Required: 150,000 units ⇒ 120,000 units

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Tear of the Goddess

Mana per charge: 4.5 ⇒ 6.5

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Manamune

Mana per charge: 4.5 ⇒ 6.5

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Archangel’s Staff

Mana per charge: 4.5 ⇒ 6.5

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Winter’s Embrace

Mana per charge: 4.5 ⇒ 6.5

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Yun Tal Wildarrows

Crit per attack: .2% ⇒ .5%

Stacks Max: 125 ⇒ 50

Hello ARAMers, we know Sett has been strong in ARAM, so instead of waiting to adjust him in S1.3, we dropped a balance micropatch in S1.2. We'll continue to monitor his performance in Live.

Below are more adjustments for this patch cycle:

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Champion Adjustments

Briar

Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 95%

Healing Done: 120% ⇒ 105%

Zilean

Passive Cooldown: 120s ⇒ 90s

W Cooldown: 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 ⇒ 13/11/10/7/5

E Cooldown: 15 ⇒ 13

R Heal Ratio: 200% ⇒ 250%

Ability Haste: 10 ⇒ 0

Ashe

W Cooldown: 18 / 17.5 / 17 / 16.5 / 16 ⇒ 18/17/16/15/14

Attack Speed: 3% ⇒ 0%

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Item Buffs

Statik Shiv : Electrospark Damage Dealt against champions: 60 ⇒ 70

The big change this patch is to raise the Attack Speed cap from 2.5 attacks/ second up to 10 attacks/ second. To account for this we’ve made some balance changes on Champions we expect to benefit from this change, and continue to monitor over and underperforming Champions in live.

• All sources of damage amplification now increase all true damage, except Smite and jungle pet damage.
• Pets no longer draw minion aggro to their owner.
• Elise spiderlings no longer grant stacks of Spear of Shojin.
• Varus QW and Aatrox Sweetspot Q now use the cosmetic crit icon.
• Neeko now takes current health damage from minions based on the health of the minion she is disguised as instead of her own current hp.
• Rengar properly gets stacks of Conqueror for his abilities under all circumstances.
• Axiom Arcanist no longer increases damage of Shaco W and Heimerdinger QWE under certain circumstances.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to obtain two flashes while using Unsealed Spellbook.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Urgot to reset Atakhan improperly with his W.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Rift Herald from gaining additional charge damage when occupied by a player in Swiftplay.
• Fixed an issue where if Mel’s W reflecting Qiyana’s Q would cause Mel to have Qiyana’s passive for the rest of the game.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Twitch’s passive from triggering Runaan’s Hurricane.
• Fixed an issue that caused Voracious Atakhan’s False Life buff to not grant gold if a non-champion last hit the enemy.
• Fixed an issue that caused Blade of the Ruined King’s debuff to display an outdated icon.
• Fixed an issue that caused champions to be recommended duplicate feat boots. Feet boots?
• Fixed an issue that caused Aurora’s passive to persist on Viego after possession.
• Fixed an issue that caused Atakhan’s icon in spectator mode to display the wrong icon.
• Fixed an issue that caused Rod of Ages / Catalyst of Aeons floating text to not display the correct amount.
• Fixed an issue that caused all damage from Heimerdinger to be boosted if R was toggled while using Axiom Arc.
• Fixed an issue that caused spell crits to not display the spell crit icon.
• Fixed an issue that caused Voidgrubs objective bounty to be granted multiple times.
• Fixed an issue that caused Wukong’s Q empowered attack to reveal him when attacking a ward/plant.
• Fixed an issue that caused Draven’s animations to freeze after using Teleport.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Skarner to take everyone back to the fountain if he died with Atakhan’s revival.
• Fixed an issue that caused Champions in Mordekaiser’s R to not receive feats rewards/completion while inside.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Warfare Feat to not display after the second kill for the same team.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mel’s W reflect of Ashe’s E to grant AoE vision for Ashe after reflection.
• Fixed an issue that caused a display text error where KDA and bounty would sometimes be overlaid.
• Fixed an issue that caused Ambessa’s encounter and kill for Mel VO to not have an echo.
• Fixed an issue that caused some of the Mel/Ambessa VOs to not cycle to the next line.
• Fixed an issue that caused some of Ambessa’s lines against Mel to not play.
• Fixed an issue that caused Udyr’s passive cooldown to not be reduced by Axiom Arcanist.
• Fixed an issue that caused Katarina’s QR and ER combo to fail to trigger the Axiom Arcanist effect.
• Fixed an issue that caused other items to be disabled indefinitely if purchasing Titanic Hydra, activating it, then selling it for another active item.
• Fixed an issue that caused wards placed in front of the enemies base to not trigger Deep Ward.
• Fixed an issue that caused Lillia’s R to fail to sleep targets under certain conditions.
• Fixed an issue where Void Grubs name would sometimes be spelled inconsistently in the spawn announcement. We practiced spelling it as a group to get it right.
• Fixed an issue that caused Turrets to visually respawn with 0 health in Fog of War.
• Fixed an issue that caused Shaco when using his W ability could trigger the Axiom Arcanist damage amplification.
• Fixed an issue that caused Stridebreaker’s slow to stack with Randuin’s Omen’s slow.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mel’s W reflect of Jhin’s E to not trigger the correct SFX while using the Dark Cosmic Jhin skin.
• Fixed an issue that caused Kindred’s mark to not display on Atakhan’s buff/debuff bar.
• Fixed an issue that when possessing Lillia as Viego would cause Lillia’s ER combo to not disappear when hitting a wall.
• Fixed an issue where Ambessa could ignore Dodge/Blind with her Passive.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

The following chromas will be released this patch: