Legends of Runeterra

Patch 4.9 Notes

Sep 6, 2023

New Expansion: Fate’s Voyage: Onward

“It is thrilling to face the beasts of old!”

The winds of fate rustle the Tidedancer’s sails, but not all tidings bode well. In addition to Volibear, Nilah and Janna being released, we are bringing the brand new Eclipse Knights cosmetic line. Follow the Knight’s hunt of the elusive Coven. Log in to play Fate’s Voyage: Onward, playable on September 13 at approximately 11:00AM PT.

New Cards

Check out the newest cards at one of our community partner galleries!

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New Mechanics

Elemental

Many spells and play effects will receive the “Elemental” type, increasing interactivity with cards being added in the Fate’s Voyage Expansion!

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Elemental explainer
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Old spells and skills receiving the Elemental type

Updraft

Shuffle a card into your deck and reduce its cost by 1.

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Titanic

Units with 8+ Attack or Health

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Editor’s Note: If a unit is buffed up to 8 or more Attack or Health it will then be considered Titanic.

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Path of Champions

New Champions

Nilah

  • Star Power 1: The first Fleeting card you play each round is copied.
  • Star Power 2: +1 Starting Mana. Create a copy of the first 2 cards you discard each round in your deck, then draw 1 Fleeting at Next Round Start for each.
  • Star Power 3: Each round, copy the first 2 Fleeting units or spells you play.

Janna

  • Star Power 1: When you play a cost reduced card, reduce the cost of the top card of your deck by 1.
  • Star Power 2: When you play a cost reduced card, grant the weakest ally +1|+1.
  • Star Power 3: When you play a cost reduced card, reduce the cost of the top card of your deck by 2.

Volibear

  • Star Power 1: When you slay a unit, summon a Sigil of the Storm.
  • Star Power 2: +1 Starting Mana. When you summon a titanic unit, it strikes the weakest enemy.
  • Star Power 3: When you slay a unit, summon 2 Sigils of the Storm.

    New Powers

    Elemental Winds: Spells and Skills Deal 2 more damage. (Rare)

    Mystic Meditation: Round Start: Grant Spells in hand -1 cost. (Epic)

    Titanic Wake: When you summon a unit with 8 attack, health, or cost, grant it +8|+8. (Rare)

    Urumi Shield: When you play a spell, heal 1. If it's elemental, heal 2. (Rare)

    New items

    Spell Items

    Stormcalling: Manifest a Titanic unit and create an Offering. (Rare)

    Power Riff: Cost 1 less for each card you've drawn this round. (Rare)

    Heroes Call: Draw a unit. (Common)

    Pyromantic Wake: Deal 3 to the enemy Nexus (Common)

    Urumi: Create a Slipstream in hand. (Common)

    Unit Items

    Excavator Charge: When you play a card, give me +1|+1 this round. (Rare)

    Titanify: Grow my stats to 8|8. (Rare)

    Ante Up: -2 Cost and Fleeting. (Common)

    Coralcrush Gauntlets: Brash and +1|+0. (Common)

    Tech Evolution: Augment and Tech. (Common)

    Arcane Knowledge: Draw a spell. (Common)

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    Eclipse Knights Event

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    The Old Gods are stirring once more. The fate of the world lies on a battlefield between witches and knights.

    Purchase before September 27th to get an exclusive quest that awards 20 Eclipse Sigils and a Rare Prismatic Chest. The event pass grants access to an upgraded event path with premium rewards and immediately unlocks Eclipse Knight Leona. All unlockable rewards can be viewed on the Event rewards road.

    Play games to earn Eclipse Sigils and unlock more rewards!

    Event ends and pass expires <October 25, 2023, 10:00 AM PT>

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    Personalization

    The following personalization items are available with this patch.

    Champion Skins

    Coven Janna

    Alternate Art, Unique Level-Up Animation

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    Thousand Pierced Volibear

    Alternate Art, Unique Level-Up Animation

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    Lunar Eclipse Nilah

    Alternate Art, Unique Level-Up Animation


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    Lunar Eclipse Aatrox

    Alternate Art

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    Solar Eclipse Sejuani

    Alternate Art

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    Sun Eater Kayle

    Alternate Art

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    Solar Eclipse Leona

    Alternate Art

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    Eclipse Knight Diana

    Alternate Art

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    Lunar Eclipse Senna

    Alternate Art

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    Card Backs

    Diana Eclipse Knight 

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    Eclipse Knight

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    Solar Eclipse

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    Janna

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    Nilah

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    Volibear

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    Emotes

    Closer Look

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    Did I see what I think I just saw?

    Overwhelming Joy

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    Just when Nilah thought she couldn't feel any happier...

    Voli Smash

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    Voli gets what he wants—or else.

    Icons

    Player Icons

    New Icons now available.

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    Editor’s Note: You’ll see a certain celestial dragon has snuck his smug mug into these icons. His skin matching the icon will be coming out in a later patch! 

    PVP Icons

    The following icons will be rewarded for the Heart of the Huntress Expansion:

    Standard

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    Eternal

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    Sneak peak at the icons available at the end of the Fate’s Voyage: Onward PVP Season:

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    Editor’s Note: Standard is the top row, Eternal the bottom row

    Gauntlet Pins

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    Bundles

    Battle For The Gods Bundle

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    The Old Gods are stirring once more. The fate of the world lies on a battlefield between witches and knights.

    This bundle contains:

    Coven Janna

    Thousand Pierced Volibear

    Lunar Eclipse Nilah

    Lunar Eclipse Aatrox

    Sun-Eater Kayle

    Solar Eclipse Sejuani

    Champion cards for all of the above champions

    *Price is prorated for potential duplicates.

    Deck Bundles

    Trial of the Tempest Deck

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    Champions: Janna and Nilah

    Theme: Speed through your deck, buffeting your opponents with endless units

    Playstyle: Card Draw

    The power of the storm knows no bounds. Overwhelm your enemies in an unceasing onslaught of cards.

    * Price is prorated for potential duplicates.

    Battle of the Behemoths Deck

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    Champions: Volibear and Aurelion Sol

    Theme: Build up a huge stack of offerings to bring out your Titanic Monsters

    Playstyle: Ramp into Giant units

    Devotion pays off. When offerings are made, these titans will answer.

    * Price is prorated for potential duplicates.

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    Gameplay System Updates

    Competitive

    If you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out the August 2023 Competitive Update, it will have detailed information about all things Competitive!

    Runeterra Opens

    Once again we will have three Runeterra Opens, but this season we have the special Last Chance Qualifier! It’ll run like a normal Open but won’t feature any cash prizes. However, a spot in Worlds is up for grabs!

    September 30 - October 1: Standard Runeterra Open

    October 28 - October 29: Standard World Qualifier

    November 11 - November 18: Eternal Runeterra Open

    November 25 - November 26: Standard Last Chance Qualifier

    Gauntlets

    Gauntlets have been adjusted so that runs with zero wins will no longer reward any Trophies. Along with this adjustment, players will be able to enter into a gauntlet an unlimited number of times.

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    Miscellaneous

    Emporium

    • Further tuning on individualized offers in the Emporium
    • August 29th Hotfix Notes:
      • Green shard offers are taking a short hiatus from the Emporium’s offerings while we investigate.
      • A new Stardust offer was added so players always have access to purchasing the item needed to upgrade a Champions relic slot to Epic!
      • This relic has been renamed from ‘Epic Quest (Consumable)’ to ‘Spirit Forge (Consumable)’.
      • We’ve sped up the refresh rate on the Coin Offers in the Emporium. There should be a new offer Daily, and another slot which resets every other day.
      • We’ve granted all players 500 Stardust! Make sure to tell your friends to log in before November 8th to receive your Stardust.

    Emote Panel Expansion

    • The true end-game has arrived. We’ve expanded the Emote Panel so you have UNLIMITED POWER. Equip as many Emotes as you’d like so you’re ready for all situations.

    End of Game Skip Button

    Blink and you’ll miss it!

    • In the lower right corner after finishing a match, you can now click the “Skip” button to fast forward through all of the exp gains and quest completions to get right back into the fray.

    Stardust

    • As mentioned in our Emporium Live Stream, we’re planning to implement an additional Stardust reward for beating Aurelion Sol. All players who’ve already bested Aurelion Sol already will receive this reward. It’s still in the works and won’t make it for this patch, but it will be released in an upcoming patch. Keep your eyes on the patch notes to find out when!

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    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with the Elf Tristana champ skin in the Emporium where the purchase of the skin only showed a generic champion card asset and a gray box.
    • Fixed a number of issues in the Emporium to ensure refunds work as expected.
    • Fixed an issue where offers in the Emporium could not be purchased twice on the same slot.
    • Several text descriptions of game mechanics have been adjusted to improve clarity.
    • Fixed several issues to reduce unexpected errors and improve game stability.
    • Fixed several issues that prevented Skins from being applied when a Champion is copied.
    • Fixed several issues revolving around Valley of Imitation’s mechanics.
    • Fixed an issue causing Eclipse Dragon’s cost reduction to be displayed incorrectly on Celestial units during Aurelion Sol’s Invoke.
    • Rhasa the Sunderer’s Night Harvest will no longer go through SpellShields to kill units.
    • Fixed an issue allowing Swindle to manifest Death from Below.
    • Fixed an issue preventing Crimson Banquet Hall from properly damaging units.
    • Fixed an issue with Ambush units having their Ambush spell obliterated when played onto a full board with Husks.
    • Conservator’s Judgement can no longer target or kill enemy Champions.
    • Boomship will no longer add stacks to the opponent’s Powder Keg.
    • Fixed several issues causing Ambush effects to inadvertently trigger.
    • Fixed an issue where the cost reduction for Samira’s Collect Your Bounty does not last to the next round in The Path of Champions.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Evelynn’s Star Power, Peak of Ecstasy, to apply more buffs than intended in The Path of Champions.
    • Obliterated cards will no longer remain on screen when overdrawing with Entrancing Lure and Tempest Blade on Yasuo in The Path of Champions.

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