Patch 13.20 Notes

Patch Highlights

Worlds 2023 Renekton, Coven Nami, Coven Nilah, Coven Akali, Coven Elise, Old God Mordekaiser, and Prestige Coven Akali will be available October 11, 2023 at 18:00 UTC. Coven Syndra has been delayed to next patch.

Redeemed Star Guardian Xayah and Rakan will be made available for purchase this patch for 1820 RP each. If you own the original Star Guardian skin, you can get the Redeemed version of the same champion for 45% off (1001 RP). If you get the Redeemed version first, you can get the original for 45% off as well. They will be available for purchase until December 31, 2023 at which point they will be removed from the shop.

Jax Visual Update

In this patch we have Jax's Visual Update coming to servers everywhere! He still doesn't have a real weapon, but he does have a reel weapon. Make sure to give him a try and be sure to drop by your nearest river on the Rift to enjoy some fishing when you roam.

Champions

Akshan

Q bonus movement speed decreased. E base damage decreased.

Akshan has been doing a bit too well in skilled and Elite brackets of solo queue and could use some toning down. In this patch we're targeting his early game as it tends to be more Elite skewed. He's currently too dominant in lane, and since we just buffed his late game functionality in 13.17, we'll be reducing his early Q movement speed and E base damage which are most utilized by high skill Akshan players. These nerfs are intended to make it more possible for opponents to trade with him while still retaining his passive and early game strength.

Q - Avengerang

Bonus Movement Speed: 40% ⇒ 20/25/30/35/40%

E - Heroic Swing

Damage per Shot: 30/45/60/75/90 (+17.5% bonus AD) (1 + 0.3 per 100% bonus attack speed) ⇒ 25/40/55/70/85 (+17.5% bonus AD) (1 + 0.3 per 100% bonus attack speed)

Bel'Veth

Passive bonus attack speed after spell cast decreased. E can now critically strike, damage reduction decreased, minimum damage adjusted, on hit damage increased. R Remora health adjusted.

Our Void queen has been dominating the early game jungle in higher skill brackets of play, which doesn't seem quite right given that she's supposed to be a late game scaling champion. Our goal with this change list is to shift power away from her early game and bruiser builds and into her builds that prioritize late game scaling and critical strikes.

Passive - Death In Lavender

Bonus Attack Speed After Spell Cast: 25-50% (scales linearly based on level) ⇒ 20-40% (scales using stat progression multiplier)

E - Royal Maelstrom

newCritical Stabby Stabs: Damage from Bel'Veth's E can now critically strike.
Damage Reduction: 70% ⇒ 42/49/56/63/70%
Minimum Physical Damage: 8/10/12/14/16 (+6% AD) ⇒ 6/7/8/9/10 (+8% AD)
Minimum On Hit Damage: 6% ⇒ 8%

R - Endless Banquet

Remora Health: 40/50/60% of minion's maximum health ⇒ 20/45/70% of minion's maximum health
True Form Out-of-Combat Movement Speed: 25/50/75 ⇒ 10/45/80

Galio

W cooldown decreased, shield restoration time decreased.

Our Galio buff from last patch wasn't as impactful as we had hoped for, and as we're looking to give him more power back, we wanted to take the changes a little bit further this time. He could use some help after the laning phase, so we're targeting his later game durability. Both the passive and active on his W retain high cooldowns throughout the game, so we decided to increase their uptime. With these changes we intend to make his unique anti-mage outputs stand out more and give him the much needed survivability a melee champion who has to get into close range in teamfights needs.

W - Shield of Durand

Cooldown: 18/17.5/17/16.5/16 seconds ⇒ 18/17/16/15/14 seconds
Shield Out-of-Combat Timer: 12 seconds ⇒ 12/11/8 seconds (levels 1/6/11)

Jinx

Health growth increased. Passive bonus total attack speed now stacks. R cooldown decreased, base damage increased, AD scaling increased.

Jinx had a blast at MSI this year, but after the nerfs post-MSI and ADC itemization changes that came afterwards, she's been having a tough time. This set of changes is aimed at increasing her power in average skill brackets without putting her over the line in Pro play come the beginning of next year. Get excited, because we have a Get Excited! Buff that players should really appreciate alongside a little extra explosive power in her Super Mega Death Rocket.

Base Stats

Health Growth: 100 ⇒ 105

Passive - Get Excited!

newStacks on Stacks: The 25% bonus total attack speed gained from Get Excited! on takedowns now stacks.

R - Super Mega Death Rocket!

Cooldown: 75/65/55 seconds ⇒ 70/60/50 seconds
Minimum Damage: 30/45/60 (+15% bonus AD) (+25/30/35% of target's missing health) ⇒ 32.5/47.5/62.5 (+16.5% bonus AD) (+25/30/35% of target's missing health)
Maximum Damage: 300/450/600 (+150% bonus AD) (+25/30/35% of target's missing health) ⇒ 325/475/625 (+165% bonus AD) (+25/30/35% of target's missing health)

K'Sante

All abilities adjusted.

K'Sante has been suffering in average play due to needing to balance him around Pro since his launch. Once mastered, he leaves little room for reaction and his opponents will often find themselves dead while being stunned the whole time. After all, it doesn't matter how good Showmaker is if K'Sante can hit-confirm his whole combo via an instant cast spell. Meanwhile, most players won't even know what that means.

The changes here broadly serve two goals: the first is to slow down the beginning of K'Sante's combos: Path Maker now has a minimum channel time and he cannot Flash during Q3. Both of these changes will allow skilled players to outplay his incoming combos which was difficult to do before. However, if these more difficult skill shots land, K'Sante can combo his abilities together just as before.

The second set of goals aims to give K'Sante stronger overall abilities now that his counterplay has been improved. This means much stronger stuns and damage from W plus more reliable upsides from All Out.

Base Stats

Base Health: 610 ⇒ 570
Health Growth: 108 ⇒ 115
Armor Growth: 4.7 ⇒ 5.2

Passive - Dauntless Instinct

All Out Bonus Damage: 35% (+20% per 100 bonus armor) (+20% per 100 bonus magic resistance) ⇒ 35%

Q - Ntofo Strikes

newNot so Flash: Recasting K'Sante's third Q will now disable Flash during its windup
newStat Check: Shift-Tooltip now shows your progress on the Armor/MR and HP for cooldown and cast time
Physical Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+40% AD) (+30% bonus armor) (+30% bonus magic resistance) ⇒ 30/60/90/120/150 (+40% AD) (+30% bonus armor) (+30% bonus magic resistance)

W - Path Maker

Mana Cost: 75/80/85/90/95 ⇒ 60/65/70/75/80
newMinimum Channel Time: 0.65 seconds (Note: Maximum channel time is unchanged at 1 second)
newMaximum Damage: Path Maker's damage, crowd control, dash distance, and all other outputs will no longer be tied to the ability's charge time
Damage Reduction: 25% (+10% per 100 bonus armor) (+10% per 100 bonus magic resistance) (+1% per 100 bonus health) ⇒ 40-65% (based on champion level)
Stun Duration:0.3/0.35/0.4/0.45/0.5 - 0.85/0.95/1.05/1.15/1.25 seconds ⇒ 1.25 seconds
Damage: 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3 - 7/7.25/7.5/7.75/8% of target's maximum health ⇒ 20/40/60/80/100 (+50% total AD) (+30% bonus armor) (+30% bonus magic resistance) (+6/7/8/9/10% of target's maximum health)

W - Path Maker (All Out Version)

newMinimum Channel Time: 0.5 seconds (Note: Maximum channel time is unchanged at 1 second)
newMaximum Damage: Path Maker's damage, crowd control, dash distance, and all other outputs will now always deal the maximum corresponding values and will no longer be tied to the ability's charge time
Damage Reduction: 30% (+12% per 100 bonus armor) (+12% per 100 bonus magic resistance) (+1.2% per 100 bonus health) ⇒ 50-75% (based on champion level)
removedAll Out of Extra Damage: While All Out, Path Maker will no longer deal extra damage (aside from the bonus AD provided upon entering All Out)
Cooldown: 24/22/20/18/16 seconds ⇒ 18/16.5/15/13.5/12 seconds

R - All Out

Maximum Health Threshold: 55% ⇒ 65%
Knockback Distance: 350 ⇒ 300
Damage on Initial Cast: 35/70/105 (+ 20% AD) physical damage ⇒ 70/110/150 (+65% AP) magic damage
Damage on Successful Wall Slam: 150/250/350 physical damage ⇒ 70/110/150 (+65% AP) magic damage
Attack Resets: Attack reset timing has been slowed down to match K'Sante's base form
newAll Out (of stacks): Casting All Out will now reset Q - Ntofo Strikes' current stacks
Bonus Attack Damage Gained: 5 (+32.5% bonus armor) (+32.5% bonus magic resistance) ⇒ 15/30/45 (+25% bonus armor) (+25% bonus magic resistance)
Healing: 10% (+0.75% per 100 bonus health) omnivamp ⇒ 10/15/20% healing on all damage versus champions
newWeights are Off: K'Sante now gains 25/35/45% bonus attack speed when All Out

Kai'Sa

Base armor decreased.

Kai'Sa is an extremely common marksman in high skill brackets. The fact that she's so frequently blind pickable in high-skilled play has led us to believe she doesn't have enough weaknesses. As a very mobile and strong scaler with incredible build variety (totally reasonable strengths!) she needs to have weaknesses that skilled players can punish. Thus, we're targeting her early laning phase without trying to take away too much of her overall power.

Base Stats

Armor: 28 ⇒ 25

Milio

Burn damage dealt by allies now procs Milio's items. E cooldown decreased, base shield strength increased. R healing AP ratio increased.

Milio's been feeling pretty down after his heavy passive and protection nerfs due to his extremely strong showing in Pro earlier this year. With these changes we're looking to bring back some power that was taken away and add exciting systemic interactions with a meaningful change to his passive.

Passive - Fired Up!

On Fire: Burn damage now counts as Milio's damage even when applied through allies, allowing it to interact with a select number of items like Chemtech Putrifier. Burn damage will still grant the ally who applied the debuff the kill, preventing Milio from accidentally ~~kill stealing~~ confirming kills.

E - Warm Hugs

Cooldown: 18/17/16/15/14 seconds ⇒ 17/16/15/14/13 seconds
Shield Strength: 60/85/110/135/160 (+30% AP) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+30% AP)

R - Breath Of Life

Healing: 150/250/350 (+30% AP) ⇒ 150/250/350 (+50% AP)

Morgana

W AP ratio increased, damage to monsters increased. E cooldown increased early. R movement speed increased, stun duration increased, magic damage increased.

Morgana has felt weak for a while, but it's been difficult to buff her due to her high ban rate. This patch, we're buffing her ult to ensure it continues to be worth casting as the game progresses, but slightly increasing the E cooldown to give CC supports more windows to interact with her. We're also helping out her midlane and jungle with buffs to W scaling.

W - Tormented Shadow

Magic Damage per Second: 12/22/32/42/52 (+14% AP) ⇒ 12/22/32/42/52 (+17% AP)
Monster Damage Modifier: 155% ⇒ 165%

E - Black Shield

Cooldown: 24/22/20/18/16 seconds ⇒ 26/23.5/21/18.5/16 seconds

R - Soul Shackles

Bonus Movement Speed: 5/30/55% while facing towards tethered enemies ⇒ 10/35/60% in all directions
Stun Duration: 1.5 seconds at all ranks ⇒ 1.5/1.75/2 seconds
Magic Damage: 150/225/300 (+70% AP) ⇒ 175/250/325 (+80% AP) (Note: this will still hit twice, once upon initial cast and a second time when the tether stuns)

Quinn

Base health decreased, base movement speed decreased, attack damage growth increased.

We made changes to Quinn in 13.17 after we identified she was getting incredibly squishy due to build changes after the midseason item update. While we tried to compensate for some increased midgame durability buffs with some base damage nerfs, she ended up stronger overall, which wasn't our goal. This patch, we're taking a more holistic look at the champion with two goals: nerfing her on average and granting her better gameplay for her and her opponents.

Why base health? This places her much closer to other ranged top laners with strong anti-melee tools like Mini Gnar and Teemo. We still believe in the goals and results of increasing her health scaling, but she doesn't really need strong durability in the laning phase. The move speed nerf is part of a long-term effort to rein in the overall movement speed in the game. In Quinn's case, she already has substantial movement speed buffs through W and R, so she isn't really going to be missing it too much.

Base Stats

Base Health: 603 ⇒ 565
Movement Speed: 335 ⇒ 330
Attack Damage Growth: 2.4 ⇒ 2.7

Zed

W cooldown increased.

While the vast majority of Zed players max Q first and E second, W max second is currently better and is growing in popularity among high-skill brackets of play. This is giving Zed expectation-breaking ability uptime, as he's also acquiring plenty of haste through his item builds. Since we're addressing the items with the 2024 gameplay changes, we're looking to nerf his incentive for maxing W directly. This is mostly intended to nerf the W max second optimization while not affecting the majority of Zed players, as they put their second point in W at level 14 when they already have a lot of haste.

W - Living Shadow

Cooldown: 20/18.5/17/15.5/14 seconds ⇒ 20/19.25/18.5/17.75/17 seconds

Ziggs

Q hitbox increased.

Ziggs hasn't been his bubbly booming self recently, so we're giving him a buff that we hope his mains will appreciate. His Q, while intended to be a bit unreliable, could miss in situations where players expect it to land, so we're looking to revert the nerf all the way back from 4.11 (that's right, Riot Games remembers). We believe in his current state there's room for us to increase the radius of his Q while still retaining its unreliable theme.

Q - Bouncing Bomb

Explosion Hitbox: 150 ⇒ 180

Items

Blighting Jewel

Blighting Jewel was nerfed in the durability update of 12.10 when all champions gained extra Magic Resist and as a result is an underpowered epic item. We don't think it needs to be weak, but still shouldn't be an item players are comfortable sitting on without upgrading all the way to Void Staff as we'd like to reserve important power spikes for full item completions.

Total Price: 1250 gold ⇒ 1100 gold

Duskblade of Draktharr

Duskblade has proven resilient to recent nerfs and is still too powerful, getting poached by other classes more than we're comfortable with. We made some fighter adjustments a few patches ago that helped those champions find support with new builds, but now we're turning our attention to Duskblade itself. Assassins fear not: we're also buffing Youmuu's this patch so that your favorite champion should have appropriately strong lethality options in case Duskblade isn't pulling its weight any more.

Ability haste and generic damage amplification are our targets now because these are the most class-agnostic stats on the item. Low health champions frequently die to assassins already and their burst combos rarely care about ability haste against an individual target. Duskblade will still have the most haste late game due to its Mythic Passive, but this will slightly reduce cases of champions poaching the item.

Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 15
Damage Amplification: 0-18% (at 0-70% missing health) ⇒ 0-16% (at 0-70% missing health)

Lord Dominik's Regards

The current damage amplification from LDR's passive, Giant Slayer, was calculated as pre-application, meaning it triggered after things like shields and lifesteal. In this patch, we'll be moving it to pre-mitigation, which should be more intuitive to how players think about and use the item. Since this will result in a power increase for the item, we're proactively giving it a small nerf to avoid overpowering it.

Giant Slayer Passive: 0-25% increased Physical and Magic damage against targets with more maximum health than the user (maximum at 2500 more) ⇒ 0-22% increased Physical and Magic damage against targets with more maximum health than the user (maximum at 2500 more)
newUpdated Math: Passive - Giant Slayer now applies before Shields and Lifesteal are calculated

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Youmuu's Ghostblade isn't pulling its weight for assassins who want to get into fights and burst their primary target quickly. Instead, it's got a few decent marksman users. Youmuu's has a strong mechanic for start-of-fight lethality, so a buff to Haunt should disproportionately buff assassins without giving as much power to marksmen.

Spectral Shard Lethality: 3-12 (level 7-18) ⇒ 7-18 (level 7-18)

Jungle Adjustments

Smite

We're updating Smite to make it more user-friendly. If your cursor is on top of a Large or Epic monster, minion, or champion, it will Smite that target, just as it always has. However, if your cursor isn't hovering over an allowed target, it will automatically target the closest Epic monster within a small radius. This means junglers can still Smite Dragons or Baron even with a massive Cho'Gath in the way simply by moving their cursor off to the side. We still think it's valuable for timing to matter, but requiring precise aiming for Smite is not something we want to subject junglers to. Otherwise, we're lowering Smite's overall damage output when aimed at enemy champions and pets. It's now primarily meant to be a slow with some minor damage attached, as opposed to an actual true damage nuke.

Damage to Champions/Pets: 20-160 (levels 1-18) ⇒ 40 at all levels
Close Only Counts in Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Epic Smites: Smite now has 350 units of targeting forgiveness against Epic Monsters. This means if your cursor is near their model but not on top of another valid target it will act as though you are targeting them.
Damage Type: Spell ⇒ Proc (Note: this means that Smite will no longer trigger on-spell effects like Demonic Embrace, similar to Ignite)
Primal Smite AoE Damage when Smiting Monsters: 50% of Smite's damage ⇒ 100% of Smite's damage

JUNGLE COMPANION UPGRADES

Our goals with these changes are to trim some hard-to-appreciate or simply overpowered aspects of the avatar upgrades. For example, most players haven't noticed the epic monster damage reduction. Mosstomper's tenacity made it too hard to disengage from enemy junglers, and Gustwalker's move speed made it too easy for junglers to cross the map quickly. We'll keep an eye out for jungle item balance after this patch to ensure that each of the pets still has a viable place on the roster.

removedAll Primal Smites: Junglers with Primal Smite no longer take 20% less damage from epic monsters when two or more allies are nearby
Gustwalker Movement Speed: While in a brush, gain 45% bonus movement speed, decaying over 2 seconds after leaving the brush. Killing a large monster increases this effect to 60% for 2 seconds ⇒ While in a brush, gain 30% bonus movement speed, decaying over 2 seconds after leaving the brush. Killing a large monster increases this effect to 45% for 2 seconds
Mosstomper Shield: 60-281 (levels 1-18) ⇒ 180-300 (levels 10-18)
removedMosstomper Tenacity and Slow Resist: Mosstomper will no longer grant the user tenacity or slow resistance
Scorchclaw Damage Type Requirement: Any damage ⇒ Attacks and Spells (Note: this means that Smite will no longer trigger Scorchclaw's slow and burn)

NORMAL CAMP HEALTH

With these changes we're looking to slightly slow down clears after the first clear, with level 1 and 2 being identical to how they are today. The biggest addition here is that health now scales past level 11 as champions continue to gain damage, since all other respawning sources of gold, like minions, Epic monsters, and champions all do. Blue and Red buff scale harder late game than regular monsters, since they provide twice the number of buffs that they used to. The raptors change will slightly close the gap between AoE and single-target junglers, who typically wait for their pet to clean up small raptors anyway.

MONSTER HEALTH VALUES

Blue Sentinel Health: 2300-4600 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 2300-6210 (levels 1-18)
Red Brambleback Health: 2300-4600 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 2300-6210 (levels 1-18)
Sir Gromp Health: 2050-4100 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 2050-4817.5 (levels 1-18)
Crimson Raptor Health: 1100-2585 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 1200-2820 (levels 1-18)
Raptors Health: 500-1000 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 500-1175 (levels 1-18)
Greater Murk Wolf Health: 1600-3200 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 1600-3760 (levels 1-18)
Murk Wolves Health: 630-1260 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 630-1480.5 (levels 1-18)
Ancient Krug Health: 1350-2700 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 1350-3172.5 (levels 1-18)
Krug Health: 650-1300 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 650-1527.5 (levels 1-18)
Mini Krugs Health: 60-105 (levels 1-11) ⇒ 60-141 (levels 1-18)

MONSTER HEALTH SCALING FORMULAS

For those of you looking to put all these numbers into a spreadsheet, this one's for you.

Health Scaling - Crimson Raptor: 100/135/160/185/210/235% of base health (levels 1/3/5/7/9/11) ⇒ 100/100/120/130/140/150/160/170/180/190/200% of base health (levels 1-11), +5% per level up to 235% at level 18
Health Scaling - Krugs & Mini Krugs: 100/112.5/125/140/150/160/175% of base health (levels 1/3/5/7/8/9/11) ⇒ 100/100/120/130/140/150/160/170/180/190/200% of base health (levels 1-11), +5% per level up to 235% at level 18
Health Scaling - Red Brambleback & Blue Sentinel: 100/120/140/160/180/200% of base health (levels 1/3/5/7/9/11) ⇒ 100/100/120% of base health (levels 1/2/3), +10% per level up to 270% at level 18
Health Scaling - All Other Jungle Monsters (excluding Scuttle): 100/120/140/160/180/200% of base health (levels 1/3/5/7/9/11) ⇒ 100/100/120/130/140/150/160/170/180/190/200% of base health (levels 1-11), +5% per level up to 235% at level 18

RIFT SCUTTLER

Rift Scuttler is an important objective, which means it needs to have an appropriate amount of health for its value. Its rewards also need to align better with other jungle camps. Since other camps only scale in experience while Scuttler increases in both gold and XP, we've adjusted Scuttler's rewards to now scale more slowly.

Health:1550-3202.5 (levels 1-18, linear scaling) ⇒ 1550-5580 (levels 1-18, non-linear scaling)
Gold Given: 55-99 (levels 1-9, linear scaling) ⇒ 55-126.5 (levels 1-18, non-linear scaling)
Experience Given: 20-180 (levels 1-9, linear scaling) ⇒ 20-230 (levels 1-18, non-linear scaling)

Krug Experience Adjustments

Mini Krug Experience: 16-21.6 (levels 1-9) ⇒ 16-23.2 (levels 1-9)
Krug Experience: 10-13.5 (levels 1-9) ⇒ 10-14.5 (levels 1-9)

MONSTER ATTACK DAMAGE AND CHAMPION CLEAR HEALTH

With this list of changes we're taking a small swing at the shape of jungle clears. We have a few goals here: first, we're trying to limit the degree that junglers can fully heal from a short trip to their jungle. Capping the pet heal per second and converting the monster kill heal into percent missing health should keep junglers from easily healing back up to full. Because healing is lower on average, we're slightly reducing monster attack damage in the early game and otherwise just smoothing out AD progression in the late game. It's worth remembering that large monsters also deal some percent current health damage, so these changes are actually pretty small in practice.

Finally, we're updating the jungle pet scaling rules. As they are today, buying resistances is substantially worse than buying bonus health, which unfairly hurts tanks depending on their builds. These changes will mean companions will scale equally as well regardless of whether their owner itemizes health, armor, or magic resist. Meanwhile, we're lowering the conversion of offensive stats (AD and AP) into pet damage, since they already increase clear speed on their own. Due to the substantial increase in pet damage through armor/MR scaling, we're implementing a generous cap onto pet healing, which mostly just exists for edge cases like Rammus, who creates a huge amount of bonus armor.

MONSTER ATTACK DAMAGE FORMULA

Monster Attack Damage Formula: 100/100/120/120/130/130/140/150/180/180/200/220/230/250/260/280/300/300% of base AD ⇒ 100/100/110/115/120/125/135/145/155/165/180/195/210/225/240/260/280/300% of base AD

SUSTAIN IN THE JUNGLE

Health Restored on Large Monster Kill: 30-166 (up to 2.25x based on missing health) ⇒ 12% missing health
Mana Restored on Large Monster Kill: 19-87 (up to 2.25x based on missing mana) ⇒ 20% missing mana

JUNGLE COMPANION SCALING

Jungle Companion Damage: 16 (+10% bonus AD) (+12% AP) (+10% bonus armor) (+10% bonus magic resistance) (+3% bonus health) true damage ⇒ 16 ~~(+10% bonus AD)~~ (+10% AP) (+20% bonus armor) (+20% bonus magic resistance) (+3% bonus health) (Note: the armor and magic resistance changes mean that bonus armor/MR will provide similar damage per gold to bonus health)
Companion Damage Radius: 900 ⇒ 650 (Note: this makes it less likely that your companion will damage Epic monsters while fighting Rift Scuttler)
Companion Heal per Second: 70% of damage dealt (note: this is unchanged)
newCompanion Heal per Second Cap: Companion's heal per second is now capped at 12-45 (levels 1-12)

ANTI-POACHING ADJUSTMENTS

Junglers should not feel the following changes, but they should be something laners will feel. Mathematically, camps now have 20% more health for non-junglers while junglers themselves won't notice a thing (unless of course they don't buy a jungle item). This means that laners will have to rely on lane minions a bit more than they currently do and junglers will find their camps poached less often than they currently do today.

Jungle Item Bonus Damage to non-Epic Monsters: 20% ⇒ 42%
Large Monster Armor & Magic Resistance: 20 ⇒ 42
Small Monster Armor & Magic Resistance: 0 ⇒ 20

LANE MINION EXPERIENCE ADJUSTMENTS FOR JUNGLERS

Because we're enacting some protection for junglers to have their own camps available, we'll also be implementing some changes to disincentivize junglers from poaching lane minions. We're updating the "catch-up experience" rules from the minion penalty to match the monster penalty change from a few patches ago. We're also marking the 20-minute Baron spawn as the more obvious change in game state that alleviates the jungle minion experience rules as opposed to the less obvious 14 minute mark. While we're here, we've also fixed a bug that locked junglers into their current experience penalty whenever they finished their jungle item. Overall, these changes amount to roughly 8% less minion experience than they give today for the early and mid game.

Minion Experience Penalty Disable: 1.1 levels behind the game average ⇒ 1.5 levels behind the game average
Minion Experience Received: 40-75% at minutes 0-14, then 100% ⇒ 30-100% at minutes 0-20
Bugfix: Minion Experience penalty is no longer locked in whenever jungle item is finished

STARTER ITEM BUFFS

At the moment, we don't intend to make the jungle itself any scarier, but we'd like to lower the power of early ganks a tad. Because we can't really change the strength of low-level monster caps, we instead have to approach it from the angle of increasing the power of laners themselves. We're buffing up non-jungle starting items to give these laners a tiny bit more power for whenever they do have to interact with junglers.

One at a Time: All champions may now only buy one Doran's item

Doran's Blade

Attack Damage: 8 ⇒ 10
Health: 80 ⇒ 100

Doran's Ring

Ability Power: 15 ⇒ 18
Health:70 ⇒ 90

Doran's Shield

Health: 80 ⇒ 110
Regeneration when Damage: 0-40 health over 8 seconds ⇒ 0-45 over 8 seconds (Note: maximum is unchanged at 25% remaining health)

Dark Seal

Stack Friendly: Dark Seal is not unique with other Doran's items, so feel free to pick both up
Health: 40 ⇒ 50

Relic Shield

Ability Power: 5 ⇒ 7
Health: 30 ⇒ 50

Steel Shoulderguards

Attack Damage: 3 ⇒ 4
Health: 30 ⇒ 50

Spectral Sickle

Attack Damage: 5 ⇒ 6
Health: 10 ⇒ 25

Spellthief's Edge

Ability Power: 8 ⇒ 10
Health: 10 ⇒ 25

Waterwalking

Waterwalking is providing a bit too much movement speed relative to its other effects. Long duration in-combat move speed is a less noticeable yet very powerful skill for champions to have, so we're lowering the amount of movement speed (and ultimately roaming and catchup speed) that this rune provides. As compensation, we're significantly increasing the amount of Adaptive Force the rune provides. Though the level 18 value is unchanged, most games don't end that late, so this rune should still consistently provide a meaningful leg up in any river fight.

Adaptive Force: 5-30 (based on level) ⇒ 13-30 (based on level)
Movement Speed: 25 ⇒ 10

Snowballing Adjustments

Snowballing in League currently happens very quickly which leads to a large amount of games feeling like they're being decided 15 minutes in. This doesn't allow players to experience a lot of the other fun aspects of League outside of the laning phase, like late game teamfighting, objective contesting and planning, satisfying item breakpoints, and macro play. This problem is more prevalent in high levels of play, but it still happens more than we're comfortable with in all skill brackets. To address this, we're making adjustments to many of the systems in League that contribute to the issue of how quickly games are decided. Whether it's through gold not affecting rune outputs quite so much, shorter death timers allowing behind players to get back to lane sooner, or dragons not offering as many stats for the winning team, these are all intended to create more time to play before a game feels decided.

Our primary goal is to decelerate how quickly teams can snowball early leads so that everyone can access other fun parts of the mid to late game which we believe should have a bigger role in deciding games. These changes will reduce the amount of games that are/feel doomed at 15 minutes, and ultimately increase the quality of solo queue games as a result.

DRAGON SLAYER

Drakes currently offer a sizable amount of stats that the winning team generally gets access to. While contesting drakes is valuable to the game in both solo queue and Pro play, we believe there's room to reduce the amount of stats that the Dragon Slayer stacks give, and to buff the souls to incentivize still taking them. We're not including Chemtech among these changes since the power level of the Dragon Slayer stack and the soul is already in a reasonable state.

Cloud Drake: 7% slow resistance and out-of-combat movement speed ⇒ 5% slow resistance and out-of-combat movement speed
Hextech Drake: 7.5 ability haste and 7.5% bonus attack speed ⇒ 5 ability haste and 5% bonus attack speed
Infernal Drake: 5% attack damage and ability power ⇒ 3% attack damage and ability power
Mountain Drake: 8% bonus armor and magic resistance ⇒ 5% bonus armor and magic resistance
Ocean Drake: restore 2.5% missing health every 5 seconds ⇒ restore 2% missing health every 5 seconds

DRAGON SOUL

Cloud Drake: 15% bonus movement speed ⇒ 20% bonus movement speed
Hextech Drake: 40% base slow (30% for ranged champions) ⇒ 45% base slow (35% for ranged champions)
Infernal Drake: 80 base adaptive damage for explosion ⇒ 100 base adaptive damage for explosion
Mountain Drake: 180 base shield after not taking damage for 5 seconds ⇒ 220 base shield after not taking damage for 5 seconds
Ocean Drake: 130 base heal, 80 base mana regeneration ⇒ 150 base heal, 100 base mana regeneration

RIFT HERALD

Rift Herald contributes plenty to snowballed game states due to the large amount of gold on kill, the empowered recall, and the Herald itself solidifying leads (not to mention the tower plate gold it can potentially secure). We believe there's room to reduce the amount of reward that it gives, and we're targeting the local gold amount to limit the amount of gold the jungler receives both when soloing it and when taking it with a teammate.

Local Gold Given: 200 ⇒ 100

BARON NASHOR

Baron is currently too reliable to take safely and too fast to burst down due to the increased damage and durability in the game. This gives the winning team access to a very decisive objective post-20 minutes, and increasing its health will prevent Baron from being bursted down quickly, making the objective more contestable for the other team.

Base Health: 12600 ⇒ 15000 (Note: health scaling of +180 health per minute is unchanged)

DEATH TIMER ADJUSTMENTS

As part of reducing overall snowballing, we'll be reducing early death timers, as dying once in lane can be quite punishing today. Aside from the gold/experience reward on kill, one's opponent can often get a minion advantage, turret plates, get closer to securing the first turret gold bonus, and then recall to get an item lead. Reducing the death timers is intended to reduce access to those post-kill rewards since players will be getting back to lane sooner.

Level 1 Death Timer: 6 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds (unchanged)
Level 2 Death Timer: 8 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds
Level 3 Death Timer: 10 seconds ⇒ 8 seconds
Level 4 Death Timer: 12 seconds ⇒ 8 seconds
Level 5 Death Timer: 14 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds
Level 6 Death Timer: 16 seconds ⇒ 12 seconds
Level 7 Death Timer: 21 seconds ⇒ 16 seconds
Level 8 Death Timer: 27.5 seconds ⇒ 21 seconds
Level 9 Death Timer: 30 seconds ⇒ 26 seconds

TURRET PLATING

Similar to the reasoning for the death timer adjustments, we're also reducing turret plate gold as a way to reduce the amount of rewards ahead players can get access to. This amount of gold should still be satisfying and rewarding in the event a player can get a turret plate, but won't be as detrimental to the opposing laner.

Gold per Plate: 175 ⇒ 125

Rune Adjustments

While most of the changes we've talked about thus far target gold access, these adjustments target how effective gold is in the rune system. The goal is to reduce snowballing by decreasing gold scaling through the rune system, as players already get plenty of power from item and experience leads, not to mention the ratios on these runes are more of a hidden power. Even though our main intention is to reduce snowballing, a secondary goal of these adjustments is to reduce the amount of damage in League. Our approach to these changes was to increase the base values of these Runes so that they are still reasonably impactful early game, but have them start to fall off once more items and other means of damage are purchased.

Conqeror

Attack Damage per Stack: 1.2-2.7 (based on level) bonus AD ⇒ 1.08-2.4 (based on level) bonus AD
Ability Power per Stack: 2-4.5 (based on level) AP ⇒ 1.8-2.4 (based on level) AP
Attack Damage at Maximum Stacks: 14.4-32.4 (based on level) bonus AD ⇒ 12.96-28.8 (based on level) bonus AD
Ability Power at Maximum Stacks: 24-54 (based on level) bonus AP ⇒ 21.6-48 (based on level) bonus AP

Lethal Tempo

Attack Speed per Stack (Melee): 10-15% ⇒ 9-13.5%
Attack Speed per Stack (Ranged): 4-9% ⇒ 3.6-8%

Electrocute

Damage: 30-180 (based on level) (+40% bonus AD) (+25% AP) ⇒ 30-220 (based on level) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP)

Dark Harvest

Adaptive Damage: 20-60 (based on level) (+ 5 per Soul) (+25% bonus AD) (+15% AP) ⇒ 20-80 (based on level) (+ 5 per Soul) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP)

Arcane Comet

Adaptive Damage: 30-100 (based on level) (+35% bonus AD) (+20% AP) ⇒ 30-130 (based on level) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP)

Summon Aery

Adaptive Damage: 10-40 (based on level) (+15% bonus AD) (+10% AP) ⇒ 10-50 (based on level) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP)
Shield: 30-75 (based on level) (+35% bonus AD) (+22.5% AP) ⇒ 30-100 (based on level) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP)

Fleet Footwork

Heal: 10-100 (based on level) (+30% bonus AD) (+20% AP) ⇒ 10-130 (based on level) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP)

First Strike

Bonus True Damage: 9% ⇒ 8%

Taste of Blood

Healing: 16-30 (based on level) (+15% bonus AD) (+8% AP) ⇒ 16-40 (based on level) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP)

Press the Attack

Exposed Damage: 8-12% ⇒ 8%

ARAM Adjustments

BUFFS

Rek'Sai: 100% Damage Dealt ⇒ 105% Damage Dealt

NERFS

Jhin: 100% Damage Taken ⇒ 105% Damage Taken
Lissandra: 95% Damage Dealt ⇒ 90% Damage Dealt
Malzahar: 75% Minion AoE Damage ⇒ 60% Minion AoE Damage

Behavioral Systems

Following up on the ranked restrictions we introduced last patch, we're going to remove the ability for ARAM and Rotating/Event Game Mode games to count towards reducing the ranked restriction penalty based on player feedback.

ARAM and Rotating/Event Game Modes will no longer count toward the 5 game ranked restriction penalty

Ping Adjustments

In this patch we're continuing to fine tune the ping adjustments introduced in the last patch, making sure we're considering player feedback as we make them. We want to continue to empower players to communicate, but in ways that aren't frequently misused to harass other players. Tools like objective planning and the addition of new ping types last year were a big step in creating more ways for players to communicate, but they weren't perfect. And as we've been looking at how players have used these tools, it's become clear how they have been misused as well.

Our goal is to continue to provide access to these tools, while limiting their ability to be used in abusive ways. Due to their low usage rates, we've opted to replace the “bait” and “hold” pings with the more frequently used “enemy vision” and “need vision” pings on the main ping wheel, eliminating the complications of having a secondary vision ping wheel in the process. We will continue to monitor usage and read player feedback about these changes going forward.

Allied scoreboard pings are now sent to your premade party instead of being self only.
For 10 seconds after getting a champion takedown, all allied scoreboard pings directed at your champion are visible to the team.
The bait ping has been replaced with the enemy vision ping, and the hold ping has been replaced with the need vision ping.
The vision cleared ping and the vision ping wheel have been removed.

Worlds Clash

Worlds is here! Team formation for the first weekend of Worlds Clash will be open starting on October 9th and the tournaments will be on October 14th and 15th. The second weekend of Worlds Clash will run in Patch 13.21.

In addition to the Trophy, Banner, and Logo rewards of other Clash tournaments, Worlds Clash has an additional Loot Capsule as a reward. The Capsule contains the following:

For Worlds Clash participants with Premium tickets who finish between 1st - 7th place: (1) Championship Skin Permanent
For all Worlds Clash participants (Premium and Basic tickets) who finish 1st place: (1) World's Event Capsule
For Worlds Clash participants with Premium tickets who finish between 8th - 15th place: (1) Championship Skin Shard

Since Worlds Clash is 16-team bracket instead of the usual 8-team bracket, there will be an additional level of rewards based on number of wins/losses in the orbs and capsules:

Basic Ticket: 0W, 3L: 3 Win XP Boost, 1 Mystery Icon, 1 Clash Logo
Basic Ticket: 1W, 3L: 1 Mystery Emote, 640 Ward Skin, 1 Clash Logo
Basic Ticket: 2W, 2L: 640 Ward Skin, 975 Skin Shard,1 Mystery Icon, 1 Mystery Emote, 1 Clash Logo, 1 Basic Ticket
Basic Ticket: 3W, 1L: 640 Ward Skin, 975 Skin Shard, 1350 Skin Shard, 1 Mystery Icon, 1 Mystery Emote, 1 Chibi Icon, 1 Clash Logo, 1 Basic Ticket
Basic Ticket: [World's Clash ONLY] 4W: 640 Ward Skin, 975 Skin Shard, 1350 Skin Shard, 1 Mystery Icon, 1 Mystery Emote, 1 Chibi Icon, 1 Clash Logo, 1 Basic Ticket, Worlds Orb/Capsule
Premium Ticket: 0W, 3L: 1 Basic Ticket, 500 OE, 750 Skin Shard, 1 Logo
Premium Ticket: 1W, 3L: 1 Basic Ticket, 500 OE, 750 Skin Shard, 975 Skin Shard, 1350 Skin Shard, 1 Logo
Premium Ticket: 2W, 2L: 1 Basic Ticket, 750 OE, 750 Skin Shard, 975 Skin Shard, 1350 Skin Shard, 1820 Skin Shard, 1 Logo
Premium Ticket: 3W, 1L: 1 Basic Ticket, 750 OE, 750 Skin Shard, 975 Skin Shard, 1350 Skin Shard, 1820 Skin Shard,1 Chibi Icon, 10 Mythic Essence, 1350 Skin, 1 Logo
Premium Ticket: [World's Clash ONLY] 4W: 1 Basic Ticket, 750 OE, 750 Skin Shard, 975 Skin Shard, 1350 Skin Shard, 1820 Skin Shard,1 Chibi Icon, 10 Mythic Essence, 1350 Skin, 1 Logo, Worlds Orb/Capsule

Mythic Shop Rotation

In this patch we'll be introducing a new version of PAX Jax alongside his visual update; this skin is aptly named “Neo PAX Jax.” For original PAX Jax owners, you'll be receiving this skin for free within the next few patches, no action required. If you didn't own the original PAX Jax, fear not, you can drop by the Mythic Shop and pick Neo PAX Jax up for 200 Mythic Essence.

(Note: if you are an original PAX Jax owner and do not receive Neo PAX Jax by patch 13.24 (December 6, 2023), or you accidentally buy him for Mythic Essence despite him being eligible to receive it for free, please reach out to Player Support for assistance. In addition, to preserve the rarity of PAX Jax for players that have it, the original will not be made available for purchase. )

NOW AVAILABLE

Prestige Star Guardian Syndra
Prestige Ocean Song Seraphine
Prestige Dark Star Malphite
Prestige Porcelain Lux
Neo PAX Jax

LEAVING THE MYTHIC SHOP

Prestige Star Guardian Ekko
Prestige Pulsefire Lucian
Prestige Spirit Blossom Teemo
Prestige Battle Queen Diana
Mythic Chroma Star Guardian Jinx

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

Fixed a bug that caused Kraken Slayer and Stormrazor to ignore Shen's W - Spirit Refuge.
Fixed a bug that caused Aatrox's movement speed buff VFX from his R - World Ender to disappear prematurely when it should have been extended from a takedown.
Fixed a bug that caused the scoreboard to desync if a takedown occurred while blinded.
Fixed a bug with the shop that would cause visual issues with the UI when searching for certain items.
Fixed a bug that caused the Elemental Drakes and Elder Dragons' leash ranges to be inconsistent.
Fixed a bug that caused Vayne's Passive - Night Hunter buff to not display the movement speed speed buff in the buff bar when activated.
Fixed a bug that caused Illaoi's E - Test of Spirit to not work on Briar unless she was frenzied.
Fixed a bug that caused Mecha Kingdom Jax's E - Counter Strike VFX ring to remain after counterattacking multiple hits in a single cast.
Fixed a bug where Invictus Gaming Rakan would snap back to his idle position when Zhonya's Hourglass was activated during his Recall (B).
Fixed a bug where Star Guardian Rakan's Homeguard animation would not play as intended if activated prior to the 14 minute mark.
Fixed a bug where some of the on-ground VFX were not following the moving target during Bewitching Elise's Rappel (E).