Patch 26.1 Notes

This year, we're introducing a major new concept to Summoner's Rift: Role Quests. Building off the item-based quests that junglers and support players have had for years, we're adding new lane-phase defining quests for the other three positions and updating the existing quests for support and jungle.

You'll be automatically assigned the position quest corresponding to the role you've queued up as—if you want to trade positions, you'll need to do that during champion select. And the game will now reward playing out your lane matchup, at least for the first few minutes every game. This change will also help us better balance and tackle the pro play meta around lane swaps going forward, so no more LANE SWAP DETECTED pop ups.

Every position will receive quest rewards for successfully completing their role quest. For top, mid, and bot lane players, these will be entirely new advantages. For support and jungle players, your existing rewards will be updated, and you'll be receiving some new rewards as well.

With the new season, we're waving goodbye to Atakhan, Blood Roses, and Feats of Strength. These three features combined to make Summoner's Rift in 2025 unique, but Atakhan's story has come to an end, and ultimately these features weren't having a positive enough effect on the game for us to be confident to keep them in the game long term. Not to mention many of you letting us know that these weren't features you all were fans of. Atakhan in particular contributed to an extremely objective-focused game that tended to narrow the possibilities of what a game of Summoner's Rift can be.

Ultimately, these three features were increasing the complexity of Summoner's Rift without providing enough value, so they've been removed to make room for new features.

Since we've removed Feats of Strength, First Blood and the first turret destroyed once again grant increased gold.

We are also reducing the value of frequently-killed champions but letting them re-earn their way back to full value faster. We are happy with the current level of snowballing in the game and since many of the new mechanics have a strong chance of increasing snowballing, we want to combat that increase. We’d also be happy with teams changing their ganking strategy: Right now, it’s optimal to continue picking on the same lane over and over again as the risk of doing so plummets the farther ahead one side gets. By reducing the value of repeated kills, players are nudged toward ganking other lanes to extract the most gold from the play.

• Feats of Strength have been removed from the game.
• First Blood once again grants +100g to the killer.
• The first Turret destroyed once again grants +300g.
• Atakhan has been removed from the game and will no longer spawn.
• Blood Roses have been removed from the game and will no longer spawn.
• Base kill gold devaluation per 1 gold given on death: 0.2 ⇒ 0.4. For example, dying and giving away 300g will reduce your base kill gold by 75g.
• Base kill gold revaluation per 1 gold earned: 0.1 ⇒ 0.2. This change does not affect the accrual of positive bounties.

Our pass on epic monsters for this season is intended to make them more contestable, empowering junglers to better solo objectives, make them more sustainable and tunable, and ultimately more consistent to interact with.

We want to increase the risk incurred when taking epic monsters, bringing it closer to the danger level of pushing for turrets. To do this, we're making these epic monsters more resistant to physical and magic damage, which means a team will take anywhere from 10-30% longer to kill them. In the case of late-game elemental drakes, they are being slowed even further. Claiming Dragon Soul is just as impactful as taking Baron Nashor, so we want the time commitment for doing so to be comparable. Because true damage sources—such as the jungle pet and Smite—are unaffected, junglers who solo these objectives won't be nearly as penalized, which means playing for lane priority in order to give your jungler cover is comparatively more powerful. Most Epic Monsters also no longer reward simply being around when it dies, meaning laners can continue to focus on lane control.

This increase in resistances and a small buff to Smite also protect junglers from some non-jungler objective steals. Junglers are already under a lot of pressure to perform around these objectives and that level of stress can burn a lot of players out, so we're making this specific portion of jungle gameplay more forgiving.

We've also done a pass on epic monster rewards, aiming to make most of them give roughly as much gold and twice as much experience as a typical jungle camp, which we think is a fair reward for camps that mostly just cost time. For the game-ending objectives, namely Elder Dragon and Baron Nashor, we're substantially curtailing their gold rewards, choosing instead to retain their emphasis on buff power and experience. The experience value of these epic monsters is remaining high and we're refactoring their comeback experience mechanics in order to make them strong turning points for mounting a comeback for the losing team. The buff power is remaining because they should be strong, time-limited moments that meaningfully change how each game plays out.

In the past, epic monsters had inconsistent scaling with some caring about game time, some caring about level, and some having a mix of factors. We've rebuilt all epic monster scaling to have base stats and level ups similar to how champions do. Each epic monster has a minimum level that's aligned with the typical game but ensures outliers aren't too squishy. They've all been given the same underlying armor and magic resist growth, which roughly mirrors what champion-vs-champion combat feels like and should scale appropriately for champions of any damage type. These changes have the added benefit of making experiences like Multiplayer Practice Tool more productive, as a level 15 Baron teamfight will always behave like a level 15 Baron teamfight, regardless of how many minutes into the game you are.

Elemental Drakes

Elemental Drakes will have up to 35% more effective HP, increased further for teams who approach Dragon Soul, as the Dragon Vengeance mechanic that gives them damage reduction has been buffed, causing super late game soul takes to last about twice as long. We're picking Dragon Vengeance for the primary buff here because we want losing teams to have a fair shot at taking a low-value Elemental Drake, but we want Dragon Soul to be strongly contestable. Drakes still don't deal very much damage, which is an intended part of their combat.

Their local rewards are actually going up this season, unlike most other epic monsters. We want to make sure that junglers feel appropriately rewarded for skipping out on a camp or two to take a team-wide objective, so we're ensuring they're properly compensated in gold and experience for taking risks on behalf of their teams.

We've also simplified and buffed all dragons' comeback experience mechanic, which rewards under-leveled champions on the losing team.

• Minimum level: 6 (unchanged)
• Health: 5,730-13,790 ⇒ 3,625 + 375 growth (5,106-10,000)
• Armor: 21 ⇒ 34 + 8 Growth (66-170)
• Magic Resistance: 30 ⇒ 32 + 4 Growth (48-100)
• Mountain drakes have +15% HP (4,200 + 430 growth) instead of +20 armor and magic resist
• Dragon Vengeance damage reduction: 7/14/21% ⇒ 15/30/45%
• Dragon Vengeance no longer increases damage to champions by 20/40/60%
• Dragon Vengeance tooltip now shows its numbers more accurately
• Kill gold: 25 ⇒ 75
• Local XP: 150-330 (6-15) ⇒ 160-400 (6-18)
• Comeback XP is now linear instead of quadratic but still scales up to 2x at a 4 level deficit.

Elder Dragon

Elder Dragon already scaled its durability with level but we're cleaning up the functionality of it. Like with Baron later on, its overall gold value is going down, while the experience value is being placed entirely into team-wide global XP and ensuring it's amplified by the monster's comeback experience for weaker players on the losing team. Ultimately, Elder Dragon will have around 20% more effective HP but should otherwise feel similar. The minimum level change shouldn't mean much, except for anyone who likes looking at the official League wiki, as now the minimum values more closely match what players will actually encounter in their games.

• Minimum level: 10 ⇒ 13
• Armor: 120-189 ⇒ 34 + 8 Growth (122-170)
• Magic resist: 70-113 ⇒ 32 + 4 Growth (76-100)
• Health: 13,650-17,130 ⇒ 11,500 + 575 Growth (17,796-21,275)
• Gold: 100 Kill + 250 Global ⇒ 100 Kill + 150 Global
• Total gold: 1350 ⇒ 850
• Experience: 830 Local + 500 Global ⇒ 0 Local + 650 Global
• Total experience: 3,330 ⇒ 3,250
• Comeback XP is now linear instead of quadratic but still scales up to 2x at a 4 level deficit.

Void Grubs

Void Grubs have generally been an epic monster camp that's more about getting yourself ahead and rewarding the whole team for running over to assist in the takedown. With this season's increased focus on pushing turrets, we think the buff already rewards that playstyle strongly, but we want to reduce the pressure on having whole teams roam up for Grubs. We also want to make it easier for laners to run over to take a single Void Grub and then leave back to their lane. To accomplish these goals, we're concentrating the gold reward purely on the killer of each monster and re-tuning the rewards to be more in line with our goals for camps like these. We're also reducing the camp's damage in order to make them less scary for non-junglers to engage with. As with most other epic monsters, their durability is increasing as well.

As a point of clarification, the changes to Voidmites only affect the monster camp version and have no impact on the reward mites summoned from taking down the camp.

• Minimum level: 4 ⇒ 7
• Armor: 0 ⇒ 34 + 8 Growth (73+)
• Magic Resistance: 0 ⇒ 32 + 4 Growth (51+)
• Health: 2,250-3,750 ⇒ 1300 + 200 Growth (2,269+)
• AD: 30-45 by game time ⇒ 12 + 2 Growth (22+)
• Grubs now deal 50% more damage to non-champions, matching Dragon and Baron
• Mite AD: 4.2-6.6 by game time ⇒ 1.8 + 0.3 Growth (3+)
• Mite HP: 470-710 by game time ⇒ 180 + 30 Growth (325+)
• Gold: 20 local + 50 global (210g) ⇒ 30 local (90g)
• Experience: 75 + 2% per level / 4 (79.5-84) ⇒ 65 (195 for 3)
• XP radius: 0 ⇒ 2000
• No longer heals its killer for 60 HP

Rift Herald

Rift Herald is a valuable objective due to its ability to knock down turrets, so we're actually increasing its unique reward a small amount while removing an odd optimization around delaying its summon in order to squeak out a level up and thus get more damage from the Rift Herald Mercenary's charges. We're making the "Eye" mechanic more solo-able by moving it to a simple cooldown that junglers can more easily claim by themselves. We're also changing its rewards to match our goals, especially by reducing the amount of local gold it gives nearby champions and instead rewarding the killer an appropriate amount. As with other epic monsters, its effective health has also increased.

• Minimum level: 6 ⇒ 9
• Armor: 60 ⇒ 34 + 8 Growth (88+)
• Magic Resistance: 50 ⇒ 32 + 4 Growth (59+)
• Health: 10,688-14,250 ⇒ 7,000 + 700 Growth (11,718+)
• Rift Herald eye cooldown: 8 ⇒ 6
• Eye cooldown is no longer reduced on-hit
• Rift Herald now deals 50% more damage to non-champions, matching Dragon and Baron.
• Experience value: 309-330 ⇒ 240
• XP radius: 600 ⇒ 2000
• Gold: 200-600 based on nearby champions: 100g to killer
• Mercenary charge damage: 2500-3000 ⇒ 3000
• Mercenary health: 4,770-6,360 ⇒ 2,500 + 270 Growth (4,059+)
• Mercenary armor: 60 ⇒ 34 + 8 Growth (88+)
• Mercenary Magic Resistance: 50 ⇒ 32 + 4 Growth (59+)

Atakhan

Atakhan has been removed from the game.

• Spawns ⇒ No longer spawns

Baron Nashor

Baron Nashor is receiving a similar treatment to Elder Dragon, reducing its overall gold reward and ensuring the experience reward is impactful to drive those exciting moments where clutch objective steals lead into a teamfight comeback. We're preserving its buff power as a meaningful game-ender, though. We've also done a tuning pass on Baron's various abilities to ensure they're not weaker than his regular attacks so he lives up to his raid boss aura. His shred is also being empowered to consistently weaken all enemies around him, making the fight more lethal than before when an enemy team comes to contest. You thought pro teams were done throwing the game at 20 minute objective fights? Think again!

Ultimately, Baron will be more durable than before and slightly more threatening, as his abilities will more accurately scale across game time and the increased shred will make the attacking team more prone to being more vulnerable to contests.

• Spawn timer: 25m ⇒ 20m
• Minimum level: 11
• Health: 15,600-19,020 by time ⇒ 16,300 + 170 Growth (17,792-19,190)
• Armor: 120 ⇒ 34 + 8 Growth (104-170)
• Magic Resistance: 70 ⇒ 32 + 4 Growth (67-100)
• Attack damage: 350-520 from 20-57 minutes ⇒ 175 + 20 Growth (351-515)
• Corrosion secondary attack damage: 70 + 20% total AD ⇒ 35% total AD
• Acid Pool damage: 200 + 10% total AD ⇒ 100% total AD
• Territorial Baron pull damage: 300 ⇒ 100% total AD
• All-Seeing Baron rift total damage: 1000 ⇒ 140% total AD
• Acid Shot damage: 200 + 50% total AD ⇒ 100% total AD
• Tentacle Knockup damage: 200 + 25% total AD ⇒ 100% total AD
• Re-added: Shreds 0.5 armor/MR per second to all nearby enemies
• Experience: 800 local + 600 global ⇒ 650 global
• Total experience: 3800 ⇒ 3250
• Gold: 25 kill + 300 global ⇒ 100 kill + 150 global
• Total gold: 1525 ⇒ 850
• Baron Nashor is now subject to comeback experience like with dragons. Players on the losing team gain 25% increased experience per level behind they are, capped at 2x.
• Fixed a broken icon in death recap from one of Baron's abilities

Buff Camps

We're removing the global red and blue buffs that were available after 25 minutes for a few reasons.

First, we think these buffs should be meaningful, and giving them out globally makes them less special when you do get one, since these buffs aren't very impactful if they're given out to five champions at a time. It also made it harder to appreciate the reward, since it could often show up without any effort from you . We prefer the version where someone intentionally walks over to pick up the buff their jungler left for them.

Second, we think the overall power level of these camps got too high with so many buffs given out, and considering this season's emphasis on pushing for the enemy base over taking jungle monsters, reducing the power of team buffs was a straightforward decision. This also means, as a jungler, you're less likely to face off against an enemy who's wearing matching buffs, giving junglers a little more late-game combat agency in their average fight.

• Baron's spawn no longer corrupts Red and Blue buff, which made their buffs global and gave the monsters 30% more HP. A second version of the buff still drops after the Elemental Terrain transition.
• Red buff regen: 0.5/1/3% at level 1/4/6 ⇒ 0.5/1/1.5/3% at 1/4/6/11
• Red melee slow: 5/10/15/20% ⇒ 10/15/20%
• Red ranged slow: 5/7.5/10% (unchanged)
• Red buff burn: 10-75 ⇒ 15-54
• Burn now displays its cumulative damage on its target
• Red/Blue buff tooltips now show exactly how much power they provide.
• Bugfix: Red/blue buff no longer last 30 seconds longer if a jungler kills a champion for it

Jungle Rules

Our jungle changes this season are aimed at slowing down their early clears in order to give more room for lanes to play out their early games without as much intervention. We're also reshaping the feel of early clears by giving junglers substantial damage reduction to help novice players have a more comfortable time when clearing their jungle and compensating the amount of health they get back to achieve fairly similar health for experienced players who kite camps well.

Junglers will also be a little better at killing epic monsters, as their pets will contribute more DPS regardless of class and build, and their Smite will be more powerful compared to spells like Lux's and Jinx's ultimates. Additionally, the overall mid-late jungle gold and experience income is going up a little through a combination of a more valuable Rift Scuttler and increased gold and experience from their more quickly completed jungle quest.

• Monster damage amp: 25% ⇒ 10%
• Smite damage: 600/900/1200 ⇒ 600/1000/1400
• NEW: Junglers take 50% damage from non-epic monsters
• Maximum heal on kill: 81 + 13.5/lvl (1-10), max of 202.5 ⇒ 90+20/lvl (1-9), max of 250
• Minimum heal on kill: 36+6 (44% of max), max of 90 ⇒ 0 (0% of max)
• NEW: Now restores 15 energy on large monster kill
• Pet heal per second: 14-37 (1-10) ⇒ 6-36 (1-18)
• Pet base DPS: 20-90 ⇒ 20-150
• Base pet DPS against epic monsters 15.5 ⇒ 20-150
• Scuttle Crab no longer spawns at -1 level, thus increasing its gold/XP value
• Kills required for first evolution: 20 ⇒ 15
• Jungle role quest completion: 40 stacks ⇒ 35 stacks

Faelights

Faelights are a new map feature we're introducing to improve the vision system. They appear as rings of glowing mushrooms on the ground—some present at game-start, and some upon the Elemental Rift transformation. When you place a ward on the ring, it will temporarily reveal a nearby area of the map, which is not revealed to enemies unless they use a detector effect or ping the ward directly.

These were designed with a few goals in mind:

First, we want wards to be more usable for enabling plays (like a split-push), even if the support isn't nearby to provide multiple wards (especially when coupled with the Scryer's Bloom changes; see below). This is a major motivator for the powerful faelight spots that spawn near side lanes after elemental rift transformation. It's also why the bonus vision regions are long enough to make a play, but not long enough to dominate vision.

Second, we want the vision game to be more approachable while still rewarding good decision-making and strategic skill (particularly as the game moves past lane phase). This is why the island brush locations near side lanes are simple feels-good spots to ward during lane phase, while the areas towards the center of the map are sparser and less powerful. It's also why the system still forces you to make strategic decisions about when and how to use limited ward/trinket resources (rather than resembling a plant or hexgate, for example), including for playing-against (as asymmetric information is critical to depth of strategy).

Third, we want to ensure the vision system has interesting mechanics to promote healthy new vision dynamics (e.g. enable split-pushes without turbo-charging jungle invades). This is why each location has its own tuning levers, like location, elemental rift delay, bonus vision shape/size, and the location/frequency of nearby Scryer's Blooms. These enable faelights like those at base gates, which can be useful for offensive plays, but are designed to be easier than average for a losing team to retake and use to recover after being pushed in.

Finally, the vision system has historically been hard to understand and low-satisfaction, so we're keen on vision mechanics that feel visceral, alive, and aesthetically pleasing on the map, rather than being a subcomponent of an item or UI component. This informed the natural-magic visual motifs and punchy particle effects that hopefully make it a fun and inviting feature to interact with.

We'll be keeping an eye on how faelights impact the vision game, adjusting rules and individual locations as necessary to keep them fair.

Faelight: Placing a ward (of any type) on a faelight makes the ward a faelight superward, applying the following effects:

• Grants +25% vision radius to the ward
• Reveals a bonus vision region for 45 seconds
• The bonus vision region shape is specific to that faelight location
• The bonus region particles are only visible to your team
• The bonus vision region is not affected by the type of ward being used (e.g. Control Wards don't enhance it.)
• This duration is represented by a countdown circle visual on the ward
• The bonus vision region can see into brush if the brush is in the region shape
• Enemies will know they're in the bonus region while their team has a detector/sweeper effect within the region
• Enemies will know they're in the bonus region if their team has ping-tracked the ward directly (including via Sixth Sense)
• All faelight superward buffs are suppressed while the ward has nearsight, and removed when the ward dies
• If your team already has a ward on the faelight, that ward will be destroyed to make room for the new superward
• For the sake of Vision Score, the ward has a +25% score mod
• For the sake of Vision Score, the bonus vision region is treated as an extra ward obeying the Position modifier rule, but no other modifier rules (e.g. staleness)

Faelight Locations

• One near each base gate (4 total), providing vision into the nearby jungle
• One in each island brush near top and bot (2 total), providing vision into river
• One in each river wall brush near mid AKA banana brush (2 total), providing vision of nearby river (hugging the mid lane brush but not overlapping it)
• [After Elemental Rift Transformation] One near side lanes in each quadrant (4 total), providing vision in the jungle path along the lane

Other Vision Changes

Faelight's goals are meant to be delivered by a mix of Faelights themselves and other vision changes working in tandem.

First, we're buffing the cooldown of yellow trinket so non-supports are more readily able to access vision (with or without faelights) to make plays. Likewise, we're also buffing the duration of red trinket so those trying to bypass/clear enemy vision are more able to do so (and to make them better for clearing detected Faelight superwards).

Additionally, we're adding more Scryer's Bloom locations and speeding up their respawn times. This is meant to enable the "I have the vision tools to make plays" goal of Faelights, as well as increase access to ward-clearing (to offset the increased systemic vision from faelights).

• Stealth Ward Trinket Cooldown: 210-120s (by level) ⇒ 170-90s (by level)
• Oracle Lens Trinket Duration: 6s ⇒ 8s
• Scryer's Bloom Default Respawn Time: 260-350s (random) ⇒ 200-260s (random)

At 15:00 (or elemental rift transformation), new Scryer's Bloom locations become available

• One at each river coast near side lanes (2 total)
• One behind each side lane inner turret (4 total)
• One near the rocks in base where Hexgates spawn (4 total)
• Elemental rift Scryer's Bloom locations near these points have been deprecated, and any other plants too close by have been repositioned
• These new Scryer's Bloom locations have much shorter default respawn times: 90-120s (random)

We're retuning Homeguard to be generally faster, reducing dead time in the game flow and enabling proactive plays more often, especially later in the game. You'll now be able to keep your Homeguard until you reach the action – your outermost turret in your lane, or the minion wave.

• Homeguard no longer has a duration.
• Homeguard is now removed after reaching the endpoint, entering combat, or entering the jungle.
• Homeguard will always take you at least to just before your outermost living turret in a lane.
• Homeguard will always take you at least to your Inhibitor in your base.
• After 14:00 or after at least one turret on either team has been destroyed in a given lane, Homeguard will track the furthest minion in the lane, ending approximately 2000 units before reaching the minion wave.
• Before 14:00, Homeguard grants 80% movement speed ramping down to 40% over 4 seconds.
• After 14:00, Homeguard grants 150% movement speed ramping down to 65% over 4 seconds.
• In Swiftplay, Homeguard always grants 200% movement speed, ramping down to 100% over 4 seconds.

In this season, we want to encourage a wider variety of strategic play. In particular, we're interested in making lane pushes better in situations outside Baron buff. Part of this is addressing the reward incentives (see below), but another part is addressing the actual ability to make damage progress on turrets. Even if turrets are worth more, there are many situations where you just don't have the time or DPS needed to make meaningful turret progress.

Crystalline Overgrowth is a new mechanic on lane turrets to enable that damage progress, essentially saying, "What if every champ had an accessible Demolish-like tool to enable small pushes?"

Over the course of several minutes, crystals will begin automatically building up on turrets. When a champ hits that turret, the overgrowth will burst, dealing bonus true damage based on how much overgrowth has accumulated. It's not based on the attacker's stats (nor do they need to stay near the turret for long).

The tuning here is meant to be useful whether you're pushing fairly frequently or only hit turrets a couple times per game. We want this to be a mechanic that most champs feel empowered to use in most games, not something that's only useful for perma-pushers or only useful for comebacks.

• Targetable lane turrets are now subject to Crystalline Overgrowth.
• Crystalline overgrowth will appear after a 90s startup/cooldown (30s in Swiftplay); at that point, the turret will take true damage the next time an enemy champion attacks it.
• The overgrowth will stay at its minimum damage state for 60s (30s in Swiftplay), then scale the damage up linearly for 240s (180s in Swiftplay), then hold at max damage indefinitely.
• The damage calculation is based on the average level of the attacking team:
• At level 1, the damage range is 2% - 3.3% of the turret's max Health (2.15% - 3.76% in Swiftplay).
• At level 18, the damage range is 8.8% - 18.9% of the turret's max Health (13.2% - 39.6% in Swiftplay).
• The attack hitbox of the turret is increased for melee champions based on the size of the overgrowth.
• Crystalline overgrowth will not proc from attacks while the turret has backdoor protection.
• If an enemy unit is near the turret at that 90 second mark when it would become active, Crystalline Overgrowth will be suppressed and not appear. Once enemies are gone, the Overgrowth will then be applied and it will "fast forward" its state to make up for where it should be. This is to avoid sudden mid-push activations.

Demolish

Given that Overgrowth occupies a lot of the same space as Demolish (in visuals, complexity, and gameplay), we felt Demolish needed to be simplified. We still want Demolish to be a satisfying and useful rune to users that already like it, and we'll be keeping an eye on how this feels with the Overgrowth mechanic and make any changes as needed.

• Demolish trigger: Charge up a powerful attack against a tower while near it. ⇒ Your third attack against towers deals bonus physical damage.
• Cooldown: 45s ⇒ 30s
• Melee Damage: 100 + [35% of maximum health] ⇒ 85 + [28% of maximum health]
• Ranged Damage: 100 + [35% of maximum health] ⇒ 50 + [20% of maximum health]

We're trimming some, mostly wasted, time at the start of every game and getting you into the action faster instead of just waiting around for your minions to get to work. If you're a fan of invades don't worry, with the Homeguard changes pushing everyone out faster it's still possible to invade even with this faster earlier start time.

• Minion spawn time: 1:05 ⇒ 30 seconds
• Murk Wolf, Blue Sentinel, Red Brambleback, Raptor Camps: Spawn at 55 seconds
• Krug, Gromp Camps: Spawn at 1:07
• River Scuttler Camps: Spawn at 2:55
• Baron Nashor: 25:00 ⇒ 20:00
• Epic Monster spawn times are unchanged unless noted above.
• Ambient Gold Start Time: 65 seconds
• Most miscellaneous start of game systems (for example, World Atlas's first charge) start 35 seconds faster.
• Remake Eligibility: 1:30 through 3:00 ⇒ 0:55 through 2:25
• Early Surrender (with AFK) eligibility: 3:30 ⇒ 2:55

We have lots of changes to turrets coming in this patch beyond the new Crystalline Overgrowth mechanic. The headlining feature is that all turrets (except Nexus turrets) now have turret plates, rewarding champions for partial success when sieging the enemy base and incentivizing smaller incremental pushes over taking a whole turret down in one fell swoop. The total gold from these turrets isn't changing much as the total local gold has mostly been shifted into the individual turret plates themselves.

As these mechanics are pervasive and live on the turret forever, we've simplified several rules and removed the 3D visualization of turret plates themselves. Instead, the segmented health bar will show how far you are from the next gold payout. We've also made various turret plate rules more apparent, improving the VFX of the short-duration "Bulwark" resists that turrets got when a plate was claimed.

We're doing a tuning pass on overall durability and damage, keeping outer turrets from scaling quite so far into the game, making mid-game turret takes a little less risky while still allowing them to provide solid safety early on. Turret health is overall increasing a little to make room for the new Crystalline Overgrowth mechanic.

We still like several of the mechanics that turret plates afforded, namely that outer turrets start very durable but become squishier after the laning phase winds down, and that melee champions were rewarded for incurring extra risk when attacking turrets, so those mechanics have been preserved in this new world.

• Bulwark resist duration: 20s, refreshing on each plate takedown: 20s, overlapping durations
• Bulwark resist visualization updated and new effects have been added. VFX no longer disappear when champions walk out of range.
• Turret plates take 17% less damage from minions and ranged champions ⇒ Turrets take 20% more damage from melee champions
• Updated all turret item tooltips to more clearly explain turret mechanics.
• Turret true sight range: 1095 ⇒ 1100. Tooltip updated to reflect the accurate range.

Outer Turrets

The primary change for outer turrets is that the health bar has been changed to make it easier to understand how durable a turret really is. Instead of gaining permanent resists each time a turret plate dropped, the health bar segments are simply different sizes, which is mathematically almost identical but makes it easier to understand a turret's true durability at a glance.

Though turret plates are now permanent, we like that outer turret durability changes over game time, becoming frailer as the game progresses. So its resistances and value drop in the mid game, rewarding players who can press their lead early on but still leaving a moderate amount of gold for those who never had early pressure.

• Nearby players are now rewarded a share of 300g for destroying the first turret of the game.
• Plates are now permanent instead of falling off at 14 minutes.
• Resistances: Set armor/MR to 40 at 14 minutes ⇒ Lose 15 armor/mr per minute starting at minute 11, capped at -60
• Plate gold: Turret plates drop at 14 minutes, awarding no further gold ⇒ Plate value reduces by 10g per minute at minute 11, capped at -40
• Plate thresholds: 20/40/60/80/100% ⇒ 10/25/45/70/100% missing HP
• No longer gains 50 permanent resists per dead plate.
• In-world turret plate models have been removed. They now only show as health bar segments.
• Base resists: 15 ⇒ 60
• Base HP: 5,000 ⇒ 9,000
• Maximum bonus AD: 192 at 16 minutes ⇒ 168 at 14 minutes
• Local gold: 250 ⇒ 0
• Turret plate gold: 125 ⇒ 120
• Maximum local gold: 875 ⇒ 600
• Minimum local gold: 250 ⇒ 400

Inner and Inhibitor Turrets

As mentioned above, T2 and T3 turrets are receiving turret plates in order to reward partial progress. Now crashing a minion wave and dealing a couple thousand damage will pay you for pushing up and incurring that risk. Combined with more durable epic monsters, this should meaningfully push champions to care much more about pushing up and progressing toward destroying the enemy base. The rest of the math here is simply a consistency pass that sets all turrets to 60 armor and MR in order to make it easier to read each health bar. We're also removing some of their late-game stat scaling to make sure pushing them remains a strong option.

• NEW: Turret Plates claimed at 10/25/45/70/100% missing HP
• Inner turret local gold: 425/675 ⇒ 600 spread across 5 plates
• Inner turret health: 4000 ⇒ 5000
• Inner turret resistances: 55 ⇒ 60
• Inner turrets no longer gain up to 15 armor/MR at minutes 16-30
• Inhibitor turret local gold: 375 ⇒ 600 spread across 5 plates
• Inhibitor turret regen thresholds: 33/66% HP ⇒ 30/75% HP
• Inhibitor turret health: 3500 ⇒ 4750
• Inhibitor turret resistances: 70 ⇒ 60

Nexus Turrets

Nexus Turrets are a special case due to their unique location far inside the base. As they already have partial-kill rewards due to their health regeneration mechanics, we're not doing much on the durability front. However, we are leaving them weaker on respawn so that it's never an optimization to leave the turret at low health instead of actually destroying it. The respawning turrets are valuable in order to let a defending team eventually leave their base, but it shouldn't ever be wrong to kill them.

• NEW: Turret Plates claimed at 10/25/45/70/100% missing HP
• Nexus turret health: 3000 ⇒ 3500
• Nexus turret resists: 70 ⇒ 60
• Nexus turret HP on respawn: 100% ⇒ 40%
• 6 HP/sec Nexus turret regen: 33/66% ⇒ 40/70% HP
• Added a separate tower item for Nexus Turrets to show that they respawn.

In order to create more windows for successful pushing, we're increasing the rate of minion wave spawns in the mid and late game. In order to not balloon the amount of gold and experience given by these more frequent waves, we're pruning the occasional melee minion out of the mid game and overall reducing the value of super minions and cannon minions. We've also made cannons slightly stronger by increasing their attack damage over game time and clarifying that there are some special rules for them in particular.

We've also cleaned up some experience calculations under the hood to make it easier to see how much value you're getting out of each minion. Early game breakpoints haven't changed here, but overall experience income is slightly higher and gold income is slightly lower than last season.

• At 14 minutes, minion waves now spawn every 25 seconds. When a cannon minion spawns on these waves, one fewer melee minion spawns.
• At 30 minutes, minion waves now spawn every 20 seconds. One fewer caster minion spawns on these waves.
• Minion to turret damage: 55% ⇒ 60%
• Base Movement Speed: 325 ⇒ 350
• First cannon minion wave: wave 4 ⇒ wave 3
• Cannon AD: 39, +1.5 every 90 seconds ⇒ 39, +1.5 every 90 seconds, then +4 every 90 seconds at wave 15
• Super minion base AD: 210 ⇒ 180
• Experience share: 95/62/41.3/31/24.8/20.7% ⇒ 100/65/43.3/32.5/26/21.7%
• Melee minion XP: 65 (61.75 / 40.3) ⇒ 62 (62 / 40.3)
• Melee minion gold: 21 ⇒ 20
• Ranged minion XP: 32 (30.4 / 19.84) ⇒ 31 (31 / 20.15)
• Cannon/Super minion XP: 100 (95 / 62) ⇒ 75 (75 / 48.75
• Cannon/Super minion gold: 60 + 3 every 90 seconds⇒ 50 + 1 every 90 seconds
• Cannon minion damage to turrets: 82.5% ⇒ 84%
• Cannon minion item updated to show its special rules for attacking turrets.

As we add Omnivamp items back into the game, we've discovered a few ways in which the previously reworked (24.1) Omnivamp stat isn't doing its job well enough. We're updating it here to function fully as life steal, and for it to serve its purpose correctly when used against Minions.

• Omnivamp: Now applies at 100% value, reduced to 33% value from pets, damage over time damage, and area effect spells against Minions.

For this Season Start, we took a look at itemization across all of League's classes and subclasses and made at least one item for each class, focusing on subclasses that have less existing itemization support to make sure that every subclass has a healthy number of satisfying items for champions to buy. There's also a few returning items from the past and a number of changes to existing items to refresh and improve the item system as a whole.

Dusk and Dawn

Most AP fighters have incentives in their kit to autoattack, but they have very little access to items that actually support that pattern since Lich Bane and Nashor's Tooth don't offer the defensive stats that this subclass often needs. Dusk and Dawn offers a Sheen pattern that doubles on-hits to help champions in this space live their dreams of sustained combat with lots of additional on-hits to enhance whatever their kit is already doing.

• Build Path: Sheen + Blasting Wand + Kindlegem + Dagger + 300g
• Total Gold Cost: 3100g
• Ability Power: 70
• Health: 300
• Ability Haste: 20
• Attack Speed: 25%
• Spellblade (1.5s cooldown): After using an Ability, your next Attack deals 100% base AD + 10% AP bonus magic damage on-hit and applies on-hit effects an additional time.

Fiendhunter Bolts

When marksmen look at Zeal items, we want them to have different options to choose from that are good in different situations or good for particular champions. Fiendhunter bolts allows for a concentrated moment of power after casting an ultimate, which is particularly exciting for the marksman that already have that pattern like Twitch, Zeri, or Yunara. Some others might like the ultimate haste this item offers, or just want to be able to get immediate combat value after ulting.

• Build Path: Zeal + Scout's Slingshot + 850g
• Total Gold Cost: 2650g
• Attack Speed: 40%
• Critical Strike Chance: 25%
• Movement Speed: 4%
• Night Vigil: Gain 30 Ultimate Haste.
• Opening Barrage (45s cooldown): After casting your Ultimate, your next 3 basic attacks within 8s gain 50% attack speed and critically strike for 75% of your normal critical strike damage. If an attack would already critically strike, it deals normal critical strike damage and also deals 10% bonus true damage.

Endless Hunger

Since the removal of Goredrinker and the removal of omnivamp on Eclipse, AD caster fighters have had little to no access to sustain via the item system. Endless Hunger is a heavy AD-scaling item that rewards building high amounts of AD and can lead to some awesome popoffs in teamfights if you can get a takedown and keep casting through the enemy team.

• Build Path: Caulfield's Warhammer + Pickaxe + 1075g
• Total Gold Cost: 3000g
• Attack Damage: 60
• Tenacity: 20%
• Omnivamp: 5%
• Famine: Gain (5 + 10% bonus AD) Ability Haste
• Feast: When a champion that you damaged within 3 seconds dies, gain 15% omnivamp for 8 seconds.

Bastionbreaker

Most AD assassins aren't particularly good at ending games, even when they are capable of getting lots of kills. This can lead to pretty frustrating situations where the assassin player feels like they don't have the tools they need to complete the game, and the players on the receiving end get continuously killed and stay trapped in a game where they can't survive. Bastionbreaker gives AD assassins a new luxury item that can help them close out games by giving them large amounts of damage to epic monsters and turrets as long as they're building lots of lethality and can kill some takedowns.

• Build Path: Brutalizer + Serrated Dirk + 863g
• Total Gold Cost: 3200g
• Attack Damage: 55
• Lethality: 22
• Ability Haste: 15
• Shaped Charge: Dealing Ability damage to a champion or epic monster deals an additional (30 + 150% lethality) true damage.
• Sabotage: Taking down a champion within 3 seconds of damaging them grants Sabotage for 90 seconds. While you have Sabotage, your next attack against an epic monster or turret deals an additional (300 + 2500% lethality) true damage over 3 seconds.

Actualizer

It's been a while, but we've got a new active item. This one is made to support mana-stacking builds, to create more builds where mana isn't just a limitation but instead make it so that it can be an advantage to have large amounts of mana available to you. Activating Actualizer significantly increases your manacosts in exchange for lower cooldowns and more ability damage, healing, and shielding for a short duration, so get your mana items ready for a very powerful popoff moment.

• Build Path: Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + 1050g
• Total Gold Cost: 3100g
• Ability Power: 90
• Mana: 300
• Ability Haste: 10
• [ACTIVE] Mana Made Real (60s cooldown): For 8 seconds, your mana is Empowered. While Empowered, your spells cost 100% more mana, you gain (15 + .005% bonus mana)% increased ability damage, healing, and shielding, and your basic ability cooldowns progress 30% faster.

Hexoptics C44

We've always wanted to support more diversity in crit marksman builds after the first item, so Hexoptics C44 is here to add an additional option for those looking to opt into big teamfight outputs. If you can get one takedown, you can get some extra range to help you secure more kills, and on top of that you also get some bonus damage scaling based on how well you can space your opponents.

• Build Path: Pickaxe + Noonquiver + Long Sword + 275g
• Total Gold Cost: 2800g
• Attack Damage: 50
• Critical Strike Chance: 25%
• Magnification: Deal up to 10% increased damage with attacks, based on how far away the enemy is (max damage at 750 range).
• Arcane Aim: When a champion that you damaged within 3 seconds dies, gain 100 additional attack range for 6 seconds.

Bandlepipes

Tank supports don't have very many items, and the ones they do have generally focus on helping them roam or protect their allies. We wanted to go a different direction this time, instead giving them a team-wide attack speed aura you can keep up in fights as long as you're able to frequently apply crowd control to your enemies.

• Build Path: Kindlegem + Cloth Armor + Null-Magic Mantle + 500g
• Total Gold Cost: 2000g
• Health: 200
• Armor: 20
• Magic Resistance: 20
• Ability Haste: 15
• Fanfare: Slowing or Immobilizing an enemy champion grants Fanfare for 8 (melee) / 4 (ranged) seconds. Fanfare grants 20 Movement Speed. While you have Fanfare, nearby allies, including yourself, gain 30% (melee) / 20% (ranged) attack speed.

Protoplasm Harness

Tanks have lots of tools to make them more durable in different ways, but Protoplasm Harness offers them a Lifeline item that has some movespeed and tenacity to enable a choice: do you want to keep going forward, or do you want to try to leave the fight? If you're tanky enough to survive, you can even get the full benefits from the healing over time this item grants, which scales with your armor and magic resistance to make sure it slots well into resistance-building tank builds.

• Build Path: Kindlegem + Giant's Belt + 800g
• Total Gold Cost: 2500g
• Health: 600
• Ability Haste: 15
• Lifeline: Taking damage that would reduce your health below 30% causes you to gain 200 maximum health for 5 seconds, then heal (200-400 [level scaling] + 250% armor + 250% magic resistance) health over the duration. While regenerating health, you gain 15% increased size, 10% Movement Speed, and 25% tenacity.

Whispering Circlet / Diadem of Songs

This is a two-item pair for enchanters: a new evolving Tear item. Some enchanters really like mana and some even step into the mage system to get it, so we're going to offer a new item that allows them to get flat mana from the enchanter system but also scales well with additional mana purchases if anyone does want to get into a heal-based mana-stacking build.

Whispering Circlet

• Build Path: Forbidden Idol + Ruby Crystal + Tear of the Goddess + 850g
• Total Gold Cost: 2250g
• Health: 200
• Mana: 300
• Base Mana Regeneration: 75%
• Heal and Shield Power: 8%
• Harmony: Gain (.005% bonus mana)% Heal and Shield Power.
• Manaflow: Landing Abilities grants 4 max mana (doubled vs champions). Transforms into Diadem of Songs at 360 max mana.

Diadem of Songs

• Health: 200
• Mana: 1000
• Base Mana Regeneration: 100%
• Heal and Shield Power: 8%
• Harmony: Gain (.005% bonus mana)% Heal and Shield Power.
• Consonance: While you or any ally you've healed or shielded in the last 3 seconds is in combat with champions, each second, heal the lowest health nearby ally champion for (.008% bonus mana).

Hextech Gunblade

Gunblade is one of the most requested removed items, as well as a popular item in alternate game modes despite a relatively limited champion user pool. We think that we can control some of the negative gameplay of this item with tuning, especially on the amount of Omnivamp granted and on the frequency with which users can apply the powerful active effect, so we think this is safe to add back in.

• Build path: Vampiric Scepter + Hextech Alternator + Amplifying Tome + 600g
• Total Gold Cost: 3000g
• Ability Power: 80
• Attack Damage: 40
• Omnivamp: 10%
• [ACTIVE] Lightning Bolt (60s cooldown): Shock the target enemy champion, dealing (175-253 [level scaling] + 30% Ability Power) magic damage and slowing them by 25% for 1.5 seconds.

Stormrazor

Stormrazor complements our efforts at increasing the variety of items available to critical strike-using champions, providing another Energized effect in that system. Stormrazor will be our second Attack Damage + Attack Speed + Critical Strike option in the ecosystem, lowering the degree to which critical strike build paths funnel through Yun Tal Wildarrows.

• Build Path: B. F. Sword + Cloak of Agility + Scout's Slingshot + 700g
• Total Gold Cost: 3200g
• Attack Damage: 50
• Attack Speed: 20%
• Critical Strike Chance: 25%
• Energized: Moving and Attacking generates an Energized Attack.
• Bolt: Your Energized Attack applies 100 bonus magic damage and grants 45% Movement Speed for 1.5s.

Unending Despair

The dual resistance version of Unending Despair was intended to slot well into health-stacking builds in the second or third slot, but it ended up being so generically useful that it overrode the choice structure in top and jungle tank builds regardless of what their first item was. We're returning it to armor-only, but this version has a bit more ability haste in order to differentiate it from the other armor plus health items in the tank system.

• Build path: Aegis of the Legion + Giant's Belt + 800g ⇒ Chain Vest + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal + 800g
• Total Gold Cost: 2800g (unchanged)
• Armor: Increased from 25 ⇒ 50
• Magic Resistance: 25 ⇒ 0 (REMOVED)
• Ability Haste: Increased from 10 ⇒ 15

Aegis of the Legion

Without Unending Despair, Aegis as an epic item doesn't build into anything and doesn't have any items that it makes sense to build into. As such, it's being removed.

• Removed from the game

Horizon Focus

Horizon Focus has bounced around between an artillery mage item, a crowd control synergy item, and a control mage item over the past few years. We're going back to the artillery mage version since that was high-fantasy and exciting for that subclass, whereas the other versions have been mostly functional but not particularly interesting for the other subclasses this item has supported.

• Build Path: Fiendish Codex + Fiendish Codex + Blasting Wand + 200g ⇒ Fiendish Codex + Fiendish Codex + Amplifying Tome + 600g
• Total Gold Cost: 2750g ⇒ 2700g
• Ability Power: 125 ⇒ 75
• Ability Haste: 25 (unchanged)
• Hypershot: Dealing ability damage to champions at 600 range or more units away from the cast position reveals them for 6 seconds ⇒ Dealing ability damage to champions at 600 range or greater reveals them for 6 seconds. Deal 10% increased damage to enemies revealed by Hypershot.
• Focus (30s cooldown): When Hypershot is triggered, reveal all other enemy champions with 1400 range of them for 3 seconds.

Sundered Sky

With base critical strike damage going up, Sundered Sky needed to be retuned, and we also believe it's a bit too generically powerful as it is now, so we're doing some adjustments that should be overall slightly power down and make the item a little bit less generically appealing to help let other fighter items shine in the system.

• Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 45
• Lightshield Strike: Critical strike damage decreased from 100% ⇒ 80%
• Lightshield Strike Cooldown: 8s ⇒ 10s

Luden's Companion

Guns are cool, but so are staves. We're bringing this back to the old name.

• Name: Luden's Companion ⇒ Luden's Echo
• Icon: Reverted to the staff

Echoes of Helia

Echoes of Helia was intended to help fill in the space between the enchanter and mage system, but it ended up being a bit too far towards the enchanter space and didn't quite fill that space. We're making it more synergistic with mage items and more accessible by making it less necessary to be spamming both heals/shields and damage effects which made it unnecessarily narrow.

• Kindlegem + Bandleglass Mirror + 500g (2200g)
• 35 Ability Power
• 200 Health
• 125% Base Mana Regen
• 20 Ability Haste
• Soul Siphon: Gain 35% of pre-mitigation damage dealt to champions as Soul Charges, up to (80-250 [based on level]) charges. Healing or shielding an ally consumes all Soul Charges to restore 100% of that value as health.

Essence Reaver

Sheen Essence Reaver is back! Previously it was removed in favor of a statstick Reaver that was intended to be more broadly appealing, but as it turned out while it did serve some additional champions it ended up just being a fairly flat and unexciting item, so we're bringing back the Sheen with some tweaks to make this version of Sheen Essence Reaver more balanceable.

• Build Path: Pickaxe + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 375g ⇒ Sheen + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 350g
• Total Gold Cost: 2900g (unchanged)
• Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 55
• 25% Crit Chance
• Ability Haste: 15 ⇒ 20
• Spellblade (1.5s cooldown): After using an ability, your next attack deals (125% base AD + [50 * crit chance]) bonus physical damage and grants 50% of the damage value as mana on-hit.
• Essence Drain passive is removed.

Umbral Glaive

In its current form, Umbral Glaive is tailored to fit supports and is not structured to be powerful for anyone that has a real income. This has led to it being a fairly unpopular and mostly unsatisfying item, and it's not fulfilling its purpose as a way for AD assassins to have an advantage in interacting with the vision system. We're giving it an update to make it more functional for jungle and midlane assassins while still looking to retain some of the aspects that make it very exciting to buy as a support for the Pyke players out there.

• Build Path: Serrated Dirk + Caulfield's Warhammer + 450g ⇒ Serrated Dirk + Caulfield's Warhammer + 750g
• Total Gold Cost: 2500g ⇒ 2800g
• Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 60
• Ability Haste: 10 ⇒ 15
• Lethality: 15 ⇒ 18
• Nightstalker: After being unseen by enemies for 1 second, your next attack against a champion deals an additional (50 + 150% lethality) true damage.
• Blackout (90s cooldown): When you are near enemy Stealth Wards and traps, reveal them for 8 seconds. While revealing wards, your attacks deal 3 (melee) / 2 (ranged) damage to them.
• Extinguish is removed. (It's rolled into the above Blackout)

Redemption

Redemption has been an extremely broadly appealing item for supports recently, especially in pro play. When it was first made we had many fewer tank support items and it was intended to be purchasable for both enchanters and tank supports. In the current day, we don't need Redemption to be as broadly appealing so we're pushing it more towards the enchanter space to make sure it works very well for them and making it a higher opportunity cost for tank supports to pick up so that it's not first slot for almost every support every game.

• Build path: Kindlegem + Forbidden Idol + 900g ⇒ Fiendish Codex + Forbidden Idol + 850g
• Total Gold Cost: 2300g ⇒ 2250g
• Health: 200 ⇒ 0
• NEW 30 Ability Power

Zeke's Convergence

All our other ultimate trigger items give ultimate haste, and Zeke's has room for a bit more power and could be a bit more unique in the tank support item space, so we're giving it a bit of ultimate haste to spice it up.

• NEW : Cryocombustion: Gain 15 Ultimate Ability Haste.

Tear Items (Muramana, Fimbulwinter)

We're bringing back the ability to stack multiple Tear items for those games that are really going long and you want to get max value out of every item slot. Also, we've been happy with the effects of increasing the flat mana on Seraph's Embrace a bit, so we're extending that to Muramana and Fimbulwinter.

Tear (Manaflow items)

• Unique ⇒ Semi-unique
• You can now have one stacking Tear item in your inventory at any given time. Once your Tear item transforms, you can get a new Tear and stack all over again!

Muramana

• Mana: 860 ⇒ 1000

Fimbulwinter

• Mana: 860 ⇒ 1000

Mortal Reminder

We're doing a pass on crit Last Whisper items here to help make marksman crit damage a little lower against squishy targets and a bit better against tankier targets.

• Build Path: Executioner's Calling + Last Whisper + Cloak of Agility + 450g ⇒ Executioner's Calling + Last Whisper + Cloak of Agility + 150g
• Cost: 3300g ⇒ 3000g
• Armor penetration: 35% ⇒ 30%

Lord Dominik's Regards

We're doing a pass on crit Last Whisper items here to help make marksman crit damage a little lower against squishy targets and a bit better against tankier targets.

• Build Path: Last Whisper + Noonquiver + 350g ⇒ Last Whisper + Noonquiver + 550g
• Cost: 3100g ⇒ 3300g
• Armor penetration: 40% ⇒ 35%
• NEW: Giant Slayer: Deal up to 15% bonus damage against champions based on their bonus health. Maximum damage bonus reached at 1500 bonus health.

Yun Tal Wildarrows

Yun Tal was intended to be a powerful scaling first item with some tradeoffs in terms of its immediate power, but it's so generically powerful that it's crowding out the first item space for crit marksmen. This is a little bit of a power shift to make its unique first item aspect (attack speed) stand out, but also a little bit of power down to make it more comparable to other first items in terms of power.

• Build Path: B. F. Sword + Scout's Slingshot + Long Sword + 750g ⇒ B.F. Sword + Scout's Slingshot + Long Sword + 850g
• Cost: 3000g ⇒ 3100g
• Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 50
• Attack Speed: 35% ⇒ 40%

Infinity Edge

With baseline crit damage changes, of course Infinity Edge needs a bit of retuning. We want it to remain a powerful capstone item, but with baseline crit being higher it can't give quite as much critical strike damage.

• Build Path: B.F. Sword + Pickaxe + Cloak of Agility + 675g ⇒ B. F. Sword + Pickaxe + Cloak of Agility + 725g
• Cost: 3450g ⇒ 3500g
• Attack Damage: 65 ⇒ 75
• Critical Strike Damage: 40% ⇒ 30%

Symbiotic Soles

The functionality of Symbiotic Soles was incorporated into the mid lane lane role quest so we chose to remove the item now that it’s a reward for the mid-lane role. While this change does take a boots option away for other roles we want the power associated with this item to reside with the mid lane.

• Removed.

Vigilant Wardstone

The functionality of Wardstone was rolled into the support role quest so there’s no longer a need for it to be an item.

• Removed.

2025 Season 3 End and 2026 Season 1 Start

The S3 Ranked 2025 season will end on local server time 2026-01-07 at 23:59:59. Ranked Queues (Solo/Duo and Flex) will be disabled briefly as the season ends. S3 2025 Ranked Reward Mission will end at around the same time.

• Shard Transfers will be disabled 2026-01-07 at 00:00 PST globally while we prepare to grant ranked rewards.
• Ranked Season 1, 2026 will start on local server time 2026-01-08 at 12:00:00. Ranked Queues (Solo/Duo and Flex) will be re-enabled on season start. Season 1 2026 Ranked Reward Missions will start at the same time.
• When the new season starts in 2026, player ranks will reset, and after playing 5 provisional games, players will be assigned a starting rank of the season to climb with.

Swiftplay has found a regular audience, and it's become clearer who this queue is for and what their needs are in detail. This season we're taking a major swing at moving Swiftplay closer to its long-term goal of providing a shorter, faster-paced, but still authentic Summoner's Rift experience. In this update, you can expect to see a more significant divergence from the base rules in order to give an accelerated game start, a generally shorter and more action-packed game loop, and a more forgiving experience for off-meta picks, especially in the Jungle.

Swiftplay is inheriting most of the changes to Summoner's Rift in this patch, with the notable exception of Role Quests. Lane phase is a much shorter experience in Swiftplay, and we wanted to avoid creating another situation where there is simply too much to do during this part of the game and not enough time to do it.

Start of Game Flow

Swiftplay will be inheriting the accelerated start-of-game flow from regular Summoner's Rift. In addition, champions will start at level 3 with 1400 gold, moving much more quickly into the action.

In order to facilitate this, we've swapped out the Doran's items for the Guardian's starting items. These have exactly the same stats and effects in Swiftplay that they have in ARAM.

Off-meta junglers in particular should benefit from this flow, as a large number of off-meta junglers are filtered out by their relatively poor (or almost impossible, in some cases!) first clears.

• Starting Level: 1 ⇒ 3
• Starting Gold: 500g ⇒ 1400g
• Doran's Blade, Doran's Shield, and Doran's Ring have been removed from the item shop.
• Guardian's Horn, Guardian's Orb, Guardian's Blade, and Guardian's Hammer have been added to the Swiftplay item shop.

Objectives

Swiftplay has all the same objectives as regular SR, condensed into a much shorter time period. This results in a too-dense strategy game that forces players to constantly be in the right place at the right time, without creating enough space to actually push down turrets and bring the game closer to its end.

This has a particularly unwelcome effect on the jungler, who ends up playing an even-higher-pressure version of the role, despite Swiftplay's promise of lower stakes.

Game-ending power is generally more accessible than before, with some updated Dragon Soul and Elder Dragon spawn rules and a more potent Hand of Baron buff.

• Void Grubs have been removed.
• Rift Herald has been removed.
• Baron Nashor now spawns at 12:00
• The Hand of Baron buff now persists through death.
• Atakhan has been removed, just as in other SR queues.
• Elemental Drakes now spawn a maximum of twice.
• Dragon Soul is now awarded if a team manages to kill both Elemental Drakes.
• The Elemental Rift transformation now occurs after the first Elemental Drake is killed, and matches the element of the second Elemental Drake.
• Elder Dragon now spawns at 15:00. If there is an Elemental Drake in the pit when Elder Dragon is spawning, it despawns.
• If no Elemental Drakes are killed, the Elemental Rift transformation does not occur.

Pacing Changes

We've made a large number of under-the-hood changes to accelerate the game, aiming at a much higher action, shorter game loop than before.

Notably, gold and experience should scale up faster than before, while death timers are significantly shorter through most of the game. As noted above, new Homeguard rules are present in Swiftplay, and significantly faster than on regular SR. Minions scale up even faster, with a Cannon Minion in every wave, and Sudden Death comes online 5 minutes sooner.

• Rubberbanding start time: 4:00 ⇒ 0:30
• Gold and experience accelerate faster over game time
• Rubberbanding slightly decreased per instance of gold or experience earned
• Rubberbanding can no longer add more than 100% to the value of a single source of gold or experience.
• Bugfix for gold acceleration from game time and rubberbanding double counting for some gold sources.
• Turrets begin to lose resists: 25:00 ⇒ 20:00
• Turrets begin to burn down from Sudden Death: 30:00 ⇒ 25:00
• Death timers by level: 10s - 52.5s ⇒ 10s - 40s
• Death timers no longer scale up with game time until 25:00, scaling up to a maximum of +50% by 27:30.
• Minions scale up 50% faster
• Cannon Minion health scaling: 85 ⇒ 100
• Start of minion waves spawning every 25 seconds
• There is now a Cannon Minion in every Minion Wave from the third wave on.
• Turrets deal reduced damage to Cannon Minions
• Minion damage to turrets multiplier: 50% ⇒ 60%

Minion Frenzy

The combination of shorter death timers and faster movement out onto the battlefield significantly increases the amount of PvP action you can expect to experience in Swiftplay, but it also has the potential of grinding the game to a halt, as you simply can't make enough progress at destroying the enemy team's base before they respawn and get back into the action.

To address this, we're adding a new feature to Swiftplay only: Minion Frenzy. When you kill an enemy champion, your nearby allied minions will frenzy, gaining a large amount of movement speed, attack speed, and damage to minions and turrets. They'll push towards the enemy's base, translating champion kills more directly to turret damage.

If you kill a champion with no minions around, you'll receive a marker buff that you can bring over to a minion wave – the next time you go near an allied minion, you'll cause them to frenzy.

• Minion movement speed: +125
• Minion attack speed: +100%
• Minion damage to enemy minions and turrets: 150% – 250% by game time (scaling linearly from 1:00 to 20:00)
• Minions spread Frenzy to other nearby allied minions in the same lane
• Champion marker buff duration: 90s or until death
• Frenzy duration: 10s – 30s by game time

Jungle Changes

We have a small number of changes intended to make the Jungle a more comfortable position in Swiftplay.

• Stacks required to complete Jungle Quest: 30 ⇒ 25
• Red Brambleback and Blue Sentinel respawn times: 300s %rArr; 270s
• Murk Wolves, Raptors, Gromp, and Krugs camp respawn times: 135s %rArr; 120s
• Nearby allies now receive 30% of the gold value for non-epic jungle monsters killed. The killer still receives 100% value.

With the start of a new season of League of Legends we didn't want to leave Arena out of all the fun and are introducing many of the brand new items into Arena, a new Fame track, New Augments, and some light balance changes. We've promised you all a larger Arena update later this year and we're still hoping to deliver that, but we felt like we could sneak in some new toys to celebrate the start of a new season.

General

• Critical Strike Damage increased from 190% > 200%

Fame Track

With a new Fame Track comes new augments to augment your builds, you'll unlock these as you gain fame from playing the mode.

• Hybrid - 100 Fame
• Righteous Fury - 1,600 Fame
• Combat Intro Card - 3,600 Fame
• Panic Room - 6,100 Fame
• Bonus Reroll - 9,100 Fame
• Multitool - 12,600 Fame
• Energetic - 16,600 Fame
• Combat Intro Card - 21,600 Fame
• Hive Mind - 26,600 Fame
• Aim for the Head - 31,600 Fame
• Quest: Rite of the Forge God - 37,600 Fame
• Combat Intro Card - 47,600 Fame

Augments

We're introducing 9 new augments to the mode.

• Hitting an Ability boosts your next Attack. Hitting an Attack boosts your next Ability.

• Healing/Shielding increases your Ability damage for the round.

• The first time you would die, instead be safely whisked far away.

• Gain a special item that becomes a new item of your choice each round.

• Become Energized much faster. Triggering Energize shoots magic missiles.

• Attacking plants harvest Bees! Damaging enemies launches the Bees at them.

• Your Crit Chance is capped lower. Gain a ton of Crit Damage.

• After buying some Item Anvils, all your Items become Masterwork.

• You can now cast your ultimate on allied champions. Gain 50 Ultimate Haste.

Champions

Zaahen has been a dominant champion in Arena since his release, so we feel like we should step in and make some adjustments here..

• Passive AD ratio: 1.5-2.8 ⇒ 1-2
• Passive Heal Amount: 30%-75% ⇒ 30%-45%
• Q AD ratio: 20-60% ⇒ 10-50%
• Q Champ Healing: 5%-9% ⇒ 3%-7%
• R Damage: 250/400/550 200% bonus AD ⇒ 200/350/500 150% bonus AD

Items

We're bringing over all the new items from Summoner's Rift into Arena, with the exception of Bastionbreaker, as its focus on objectives doesn't make a lot of sense in Arena.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Die Another day wouldn't cast if you were untargetable when you pressed it.

Champions

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Shielding Done: 80% ⇒ 100%

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%
• Healing: 90% ⇒ 100%
• Shielding: 95% ⇒ 100%

• RQ Bonus Damage: 40 / 90 / 140 / 190 ⇒ 40 / 100 / 160 / 220

• Healing: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Shielding: 90% ⇒ 100%
• Ability Haste: -10 ⇒ 0

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Shielding: 80% ⇒ 100%

• W Heal Ratio: 20% ⇒ 30%
• W Shield Ratio: 20% ⇒ 25%
• Q Cooldown: 10s ⇒ 8s

Augments

• Augment Tier: Prismatic ⇒ Gold

• Instead of storing damage from all sources, now only store from the augment owner.

• Instead of refreshing 1 charge every 180s, will now refresh all 3 charges every 120 seconds.

• We've updated the functionality of the reward to now multiply future stacks by 3 and not just the stacks at the time of completion.
• The tooltip implied this but it didn't actually work this way, so we're just making it do that to match the expectation and so Heartsteel can go brr.

• Golden Spatula Stats:
• Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 90
• Ability Power: 80 ⇒ 110
• Movement Speed: 5% ⇒ 10%
• Immolate Range: 300 ⇒ 400

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Ultimate's Awakening's buff bar is displaying incorrect Ability Haste.
• Add a cooldown tracker for Ultimate Awakening.
• Fixed a bug where Executioner is not working with Renger's basic abilities.
• Fixed a bug where Orbital Laser's Ground damage is doing incorrect damage to minions.
• Fixed a bug where Orbital Laser is tracking damage dealt to minions.
• Fixed a bug where Gold Rend fails to function if your ally also takes it.

Demacia Rising is a new metagame that will be playable for the entirety of Season 1.

You play as Lux, who is being mentored by her aunt Tianna in the ways of military strategy. This begins with a history lesson — the founding of Zeffira, Demacia's first settlement, in the great petricite forests of old.

In Demacia Rising, you will expand the kingdom, produce resources, train an army, research powerful upgrades to your army and towns, and defend the burgeoning nation from threats alongside several of League's champions.

The game will be updated several times during Season 1, and new upgrade tiers, research items, story, units, champions, threats, and events will become available.

In order to build your kingdom, you will need Silver Shields, a resource earned primarily by playing games of League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics.

• Daily and weekly missions will be available to provide large amounts of Silver Shields. Playing LoL or TFT and completing missions will earn enough Silver Shields to finish the entire game.
• Purchasing the Battle Pass will instantly reward Silver Shields, and also increase the amount you earn from the recurring mission.
• Playing a game with a skin released during Season 1 will reward a one-time bonus of Silver Shields.

If you want to learn more then check out our support article for Demacia Rising!

Trying to manipulate other players to do what you want, pushing a dodge penalty onto someone else, or playing out a game with something like disco Nunu just isn't something we want in League. Starting with this patch we've added the capability to terminate lobbies during champion select with detection systems that will evaluate players for hostaging when they're reported in champion select. We don't expect it to be perfect or catch every case on release, and will continue to build upon these detections throughout the year, so please send those reports in to help us evolve our systems. As a reminder, trying something off-meta or having strategic disagreements with your team do not automatically qualify as hostage taking.

• Champion selects will be terminated when a player in champion select is reported and determined to be holding the lobby hostage to force a dodge or for any other reason. This will never trigger without a report in champion select, so be to sure to report players you believe are hostaging.
• When a champion select is terminated by hostaging detection, the offender will receive a penalty that will not allow them to immediately queue again, and all other players will re-enter matchmaking similar to if a player dodges today.
• Penalties for repeated disruptive gameplay have been increased.
• Improved detections for intentional non-participation in-game.
• If you receive an Account Ban for having an inappropriate Riot ID, you'll be unable to change your Riot ID until the ban is over.

In our last dev update we mentioned we were working on some changes to make games where there were autofilled players more fair by matching them by role. This means if your team had an autofilled jungler the enemy jungler would also be autofilled as well to help keep games competitive.

We wanted to let you know we're still working on these changes, but we don't expect to have them ready in January like we originally planned. We want to make sure we get this right, so we've delayed these changes to February. We appreciate your patience while we take the time to make this system as accurate as it can be.

With the first patch of 2026, when you launch League for the first time in the new season you'll see our new Community Pact that we've adopted across all of our games. It's pretty straightforward and it has four simple asks from every player:

Play to Win. Play Fair. Play with Respect. Or play something else.

The Community Pact is an evolution of the Code of Conduct and covers what our expectations are for everyone that plays our games, and unlike past Codes of Conduct each year we will ask players to recommit to it.

To also better reflect these expectations in game, we've updated the reporting categories and descriptions on the Report Player windows to align with these core player principles.

The Demacia Cup will be happening on Summoner's Rift this patch! Grab your 5 stacks and get ready to rumble!

• Registration Begins: January 12 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
• Tournament Dates: January 17 and 18 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)

If you have any questions or you're just looking for the full 2026 Clash schedule, make sure to check out our Clash FAQ support page.

• Fixed an issue that caused Fizz's W basic attacks to be heard from Fog of War.
• Fixed an issue where the Guardian items in ARAM were missing their unique tooltip tags.
• Fixed an issue where Ivern's E failed to break Banshee's Spellshield.
• Fixed an issue where Skarner's Q auto's failed to stack Spear of Shojin (shoutout to the Skarner mains who tweeted this to us)
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to right click through rule quest selection UI resulting in unwanted move commands.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to obtain excessive gold from rubberbanding after a large amount of time in the match.
• Fixed an issue that caused the "Enable Streamer Mode" option to be missing in the Interface settings.
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to lose targeting on champions that go invisible during his R
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to be able to leap after a melee auto attack during R
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to inconsistently gain stacks of conqueror/other effects
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar leap to not trigger some attack effects (i.e. Navori, Lethal Tempo)
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar R damage to not be increased by Ultimate Damage amp (i.e. Axiom Arcanist)
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to gain grey health before levelling W
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to apply R shred/damage to monsters in melee range
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar E to not root Dr. Mundo
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to sometimes not gain ferocity from a melee bush/R attack
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar's empowered state to override certain cooldown reduction effects (i.e. Navori, Trancendence)
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to be unable to leap for a short period of time when flashing during R
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to deal more damage to towers with Q if cast during leap
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar Q to not go on cooldown if held with 4 ferocity
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to not see camouflage indicators during R
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar's basic abilities to not refresh from practice tool cheats
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to sometimes do no damage to nexus when leaping
• Fixed an issue that caused Rengar to sometimes not leap over a wall when his target is close to the edge
• Fixed a bug where Slayer Kayn's R would fail to heal him if his target died at specific times during the ability.
• Fixed an bug that caused Zeri to be able to cast Q during ally bard R and Kalista R
• Added Slayer Kayn's R's base damage to the level-up tooltip.
• Fixed a bug where the ranked end of season memorial modal shows the wrong season year
• Fixed a bug where the ranked end of season memorial modal shows the wrong reward eligibility due to honor level database discrepancy.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

Prestige Veiled Lady Morgana

Petricite Cho'Gath

Petricite Nautilus

Durand's Legacy Taliyah

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Prestige Veiled Lady Morgana

Petricite Nautilus