Patch 3.10.0 Notes

This is part bugfix, part gameplay clarity & functionality update - now Ashe should be somewhat less sad about being unable to level off of Formidable units.

We want to open up additional deckbuilding possibilities for Bard and address confusion around what counts for his level up quest.

We want the payoff for Ephemeral decks to be more consistent by guaranteeing Hecarim’s buff on leveling up, even if he dies in combat.

Over the course of several archetype nerfs, Irelia has become much less satisfying. We want to strike a cleaner balance between her power level and her gameplay satisfaction.

Swapping states here gives Kalista some more innate tankiness, and will increase her ability to engage in combat and level up.

Shen’s play rate is among the lowest in LoR - we want to give him a bit more immediate ability to attack or block to give him some more combat control, with added potentially to level him up and realize the Shen dream.

We'd love for more landmark removal to be more viable, and identified Aftershock as a card that could help provide more widespread interactive counterplay against landmarks.

Adding a bit of health to help make the mana engine a little more stable.

Returning Hearthguard to his former glory to give Freljord midgame units a boost.

A slight buff to a staple Freljord midrange unit to help enable the archetype more.

Reverting a previous nerf to give Slay / sacrifice archetypes a bit more power.

This change is meant to soften the strength of Demacia curving out with Brightsteel, and encouraging the utility of her Barrier.

We’re adding more on-curve health to make the Camavoran Dragon more cost-effective.

Transform-based Bandle City decks have historically not seen much play, so we're buffing Chief Nakotak as a core synergistic card for new deckbuilding possibilities.

Given its high ability to disrupt and potential access through Tellstones, we've identified Crumble as a card that could use a cost decrease to see a bit more play.

We want to add more healthy counterplay to Distentegrate, increase the clarity of its text and effect, and fix several buggy edge-cases (such as Disintegrate vs Barrier, Lifesteal, Tough, etc).

Ember Monk was too inefficient to function within its archetype, so we’re lowering its cost.

Ferros Financier was giving too much value with a decent statline for his versatility.

We’re increasing the ability to disrupt explosive Gleaming Lantern starts, but leaving the outright power the Lantern provides for Fae decks.

Hothead could use a bit of a stat adjustment to have a higher potential to make one or more attacks.

Marshal has had a hard time since its previous nerfs - we'll keep it as a top end for token decks, and increase the stats to make it a bit more viable in Shuriman token decks.

Flashbomb trap followers rarely show up in decks and haven’t been too effective, so we’re giving Justice Rider more durability to plant more bombs.

We’re reducing Khahiri’s cost to make him a more satisfying “build around me” card.

Providing Lady a bit more combat viability to give slower Noxus discard decks a bit of a better curve.

Lava Lizard deserves to spit a bit more fire.

We want to keep the gameplay dreams of scaling huge Legion Deserters, but swap out Overwhelm to Fearsome to reduce the ability to outright end your opponent’s career prematurely.

Freljord midrange units and transform should be a bit more viable to enable some of those strategies.

We're opting for a small nerf to Broadwing that will ease some of the early round tension of playing against it, while also giving more windows for potential counterplay.

We’re greatly slowing down the ability to double down on landmarks risk-free and introduce more obvious windows for counterplay.

We're happy with the increased interaction previous Quicksand changes has provided Shurima, but are pushing a small follow up to make it less of a combat blowout and reduce the overall safety it provides to more greedy decks.

This change should provide more on-curve power to Targon healing decks.

Bilgewater Control decks have slowly moved out of the metagame with time and nerfs to key cards. Returning Riptide Rex to his former glory should give some slower and midrange Bilgewater decks more viable top end cards.

Instant Century being a 0-cost card that can be held in hand for an ideal combo timing gives Thrall decks a bit too much agency over when to advance their landmarks. We think this adjustment aligns the functionality a bit closer to our design standards for cards that are created in hand.

We want to make Mecha-Yordle creation more cost-efficient.

Scout’s removal as a generatable keyword hurts this guy quite a bit, so we’re making him a bit beefier to retain his name as The Arsenal.

The Prefect is too undertuned to see play in dedicated Skill decks, so we’re boosting her overall strength.

Reputation-based Noxus decks could use a revert on the Assessor’s cost to improve viability.

What's a patch without a random Elite Buff? Firstblade curve out should be a bit more satisfying for Demacia decks.

With the release of Worldwalker, Ionia has been underrepresented overall - we’re providing Elusive decks some more power to finish out games.

This card hasn’t seen much play, so we’re improving the efficiency of this old contraption.

Zenith Blade should be a solid go-to repeatable buff for decks, but its power output should be a bit more narrow considering the low amount of card resources required to grant up to 3 units Overwhelm, especially given the additional synergies and stats repeated Zenith Blades provide.