Dec 15, 2023

Updates will be live January 3rd by 11:00am PT.

Gameplay System Updates

Card Adjustments

STANDARD

Nerfs

Personalization

The following personalization items are available with this patch.

Guardians

Similar to our last Coven Board, we’re going to be releasing the last Guardian we’ve had in production. While we don’t have plans in the near future to release any more Guardians, we hope you can enjoy the upcoming Friendly Faeling and its variant– the Festive Faeling.

Friendly Faeling

This faeling is friend, not food.

Festive Faeling

Get festive with faeling and friends at the harvest festival!

Bundles

Faeling and Friends

This bundle contains:

Friendly Faeling

Festive Faeling

Lunar Beast

Infernal Gloomtooth

Von Yipp

Ruined Gentleman Basilisk

Worldbreaker Chip

Price is prorated for potential duplicates. We hope you enjoy this bundle of fan favorite Guardians offered at a 40% discount. The bundle will be available until the patch on March 27th, so snag it while it’s still available!

Competitive

Competitive in 2024

Legends of Runeterra Competitive will take a slightly different shape this year. We’re generally happy with what we’ve been able to do with a small team in 2023 but we want to refine the system to make it more sustainable for the team as well as entertaining for the players.

The first open is happening on January 13th 2023, but this is purely a for-fun tournament. We won’t be offering prizes beyond Trophies and the Top 16 Board/Player Titles. You can think of this similar to our Beta season last year– it will allow us to fine tune everything before rolling it out. We’re aiming to introduce the new system to you all before the next Open in February. Rather than delaying our first Open we wanted to have a more casual event on the Worlds patch.

Your ranked finish and prime glories will matter this season in the new system once it is fully rolled out and announced. So have some fun for now, but don’t rest on your laurels too long, or the competitive season will be moving on before you know it!

Mystery Event AKA “LoR Invitational”

For those who watched Worlds our executive producer provided a slight update on this, but we want to share it here as well!

We’ve mentioned experiments and this is one of them! We’ve sent out the invites to the event and it’s going to take place on the Riot Campus towards the end of January. We’ve decided to use this as a time to really sit down and have a dev-to-players talk in a more casual setting.

At the event we’ll share some ideas for the game and what we’re working on. We’ll have a casual tournament (to be played on an unreleased build) for the players we bring out that will include some cool prizes. With that said, we want to maintain hype around these cards and keep the reveals exciting so we won’t be streaming the event, but I’m sure some of the creators who attend will be putting out content around their trip!

Before you ask if we’re going to do this again– we want to see how this one works out first!

Miscellaneous

File Size Increase

Over the next 3 patches there will be roughly ~450MB extra data included in the LoR client each patch. We’re updating some software on the back-end and wanted to give players the heads up that the file size will increase a little. After patch 5.2 the transition will be completed and the file size will return to normal.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Heisho, Shell of the World's ability would still reduce card cost after being removed.
• Fixed an issue where Mihira, Aspect Ascendant could soft lock the game with Sigil of the Storm and Sinner's Vise.
• Fixed an issue where Enraged Firespitter's skill would not trigger if no enemy units are in play.