Wild Rift Patch Notes 3.3

NEW

ARAM PROGRESSION TRACK

You’ll now be able to show off your snowballing skills to all your friends with the ARAM Progression track! Up your snowball score by playing ARAM’s throughout the season and earn new and exclusive seasonal titles once a season concludes, based on your performance throughout. ARAM seasons will follow the same schedule as Ranked Seasons.

ARAM season and Progression Track will begin July 16 at 00:01 UTC

CONTROLS

This patch we are adding in a new setting so that you can have anything that isn’t aimed or targeted as “On Button Down.” This means that with this setting, abilities that aren’t aimed or targeted will activate a few frames quicker! This is something we implemented a while back for Summoner Spells and Active Items, but are now adding it as a setting for some abilities, let us know how it feels!

ELEMENTAL RIFT

Thank you all for sharing your feedback while we iterated through tweaks, changes, and burned through iterations of Elemental Rift. After a mountain of testing we are ready for it to flood your ranked games. Elemental Rift will bring some massive changes to each game you play, literally reshaping the map after you slay the first dragon.

Infernal: Burns away brush and collapses walls.
Mountain: Causes walls and terrain to rise out of the earth.
Ocean: Brush and Honeyfruit grow as the river floods.

Along with the map changes, we are also introducing an updated dragon slayer system. Slaying a single Elemental Dragon won’t give you much power on its own, but with each additional Dragon your power grows. Increasing its potency, while you collect the additional effects granted by each dragon your team slays. If you choose to invest in slaying all 3 Elemental Dragons you’ll be a formidable opponent before the other team has a chance to make a last ditch effort for the Elder Dragon.

The Elder Dragon is also flying in with this update and is a late game objective, guaranteed to spawn at 20 minutes replacing the remaining Elemental Dragon if it is still on the map. Slaying this behemoth grants your team the ability to burn their targets to a crisp, attacks apply a burn, and champion damage that reduces your opponents to critical levels will execute them immediately.

DRAGON BUFFS

Elemental Dragons

Dragon Slayer: The power of your elemental dragon buff increases as you slay more elemental dragons!
Infernal Dragon: 4/8/12% Attack Damage and Ability Power
Mountain Dragon: 6+3%/12+6%/18+9% Armor & Magic Resist
Ocean Dragon: 3/6/9% missing Health Regeneration

Elder Dragon

Damaging an enemy causes them to burn for 60 true damage per second for 3 seconds.
Dealing damage with champion abilities, basic attacks, or Elder Dragon’s burn to an enemy below 15% health, instantly execute them.
- This execute ignores shields, but will not affect targets who are invulnerable or immune to death.

When Elder Dragon is slain it grants its buff to all living members of your team, lasting for 2 minutes or until champion death.

DRAGON SPAWNING

Elemental Dragons

First dragon spawn: 5 minutes
Spawning non-repeating random Elemental Dragons
Dragon respawns every 5 minutes
First dragon’s death changes the terrain to the corresponding dragon’s element

Elder Dragon

The Elder Dragon spawns at 20 minutes
- Elemental Dragons despawn at 19 minutes
- If an Elemental Dragon would respawn after 19 minutes, it will not spawn, and is instead replaced with Elder Dragon’s spawn at 20 minutes
- If the Elemental Dragon is in combat it won't despawn until 19:30
- If no Elemental Dragon was slain then the terrain changes when the elemental dragon despawns
- Elder Dragon Respawns after 4 minutes

For a more in-depth look on Elemental Rift and how we landed on this version (and some fun facts about these Dragons), check our Elemental Rift Overview!

Elemental Rift will be live in Ranked and Normal PvP game modes July 14 at 00:01 UTC

RANKED UPDATES

Ranked Season 6 is here and brings with it some updates and new rewards for you to earn on your climb. As you embark on your climb this season and defeat wooorthy opponents you’ll be able to earn this season’s ranked skin, Glorious Crimson Fiora!

Along with the new seasons we have a few adjustments to Ranked:

Ranked marks will now extend all the way to Challenger.
- Once you reach Diamond, instead of gaining and losing Victory Points (VP) for wins and losses, you’ll now gain a ranked mark per win and lose one per each loss.
  - To progress through each tier of Diamond, you’ll now need to earn six marks per tier.
- You’ll now need to earn at least 20 marks to fulfill the rank requirements to be promoted to Grandmaster.
- You’ll now need to earn at least 40 marks to fulfill the rank requirements to be promoted to Challenger.
To make the entire queue more consistent, Ranked Fortitude and Fortitude Shields will now persist into Diamond up through Challenger.
Removing placement matches at the beginning of the ranked experience.
Since we’re implementing a lot of new changes, our usual season reset will roll some ranks back a bit further than the previous season to help smooth the transition into these updated ranks.

Ranked Season 6 will begin July 16 at 00:01 UTC

LEGENDARY QUEUE

A few weeks after the new ranked season we will introduce a new queue, Legendary queue! This will be an additional queue for you to climb your way through and show off your skill:

Solo queue only.
Available for players who achieve Diamond + in our existing Ranked system.
Will only be available during certain hours of the day.
Will share the same season cycle with our existing Rank queue
Six new major ranks, and each rank will have four sub-tiers for you to climb your way through:
- Warrior IV - I
- Commander IV - I
- Guardian IV - I
- Vanquisher IV - I
- Immortal IV - I
- Legend
If you climb to the top and achieve the prestigious rank of Legend, you’ll also be given a special global ranking on the leaderboard alongside the other players who are able to reach Legend.
There will be a separate matchmaking rating (MMR) in this queue, so the rank and MMR you have in other queues will have no effect on your experience in this new one.
Exclusive rewards will also be available for you to earn during your climb in this new queue!

Legendary Queue will begin a few weeks after Ranked Season 6 begins

WILD PASS

Here straight from the cosmos to brighten your gameplay and this Wild Pass is Stargazer Karma. She’ll be your reward for completing this pass, but don’t worry there's plenty of other dazzling new goodies for you to earn along the way.

The Wild Pass will be available July 14 at 00:01 UTC

EVENTS

STAR GUARDIAN & REDEEMED STAR GUARDIAN

Swear the oath of the first star and embark on a magical journey!

The Star Guardian event begins July 15 at 00:01 UTC

CHAMPION CHANGES

AHRI

Due to the positive reception of Ahri’s rework in League PC, we’re ahrilly excited to be bringing it over to Wild Rift! These new changes bring some new mechanics for Essence Theft and Spirit Rush, an update to her Charm ability to address some frustrations it can cause, and some quality of life improvements for her Fox-Fire ability.

Base Stats
- Ahri gains a stack of Essence Theft whenever she hits an enemy with an ability, stacking up to 3 times. At 3 stacks, her next ability consumes all stacks to heal her for 40/60/80/100 (based on level) +20% Ability Power upon hitting an enemy.
- [NEW] Whenever Ahri scores a champion takedown within 3 seconds of damaging them, she consumes their essence to heal herself for 80/120/160/200 + 40% Ability Power.
Fox-Fire
- Improved the logic of the fox-fire projectile.
Charm
- [REMOVED] Enemies hit by Charm take 20% more damage from Ahri’s abilities for 5 seconds.
Spirit Rush
- [NEW] During Spirit Rush, if Ahri devours a champion’s essence with Essence Theft, Ahri will extend Spirit Rush’s recast duration up to 10 seconds, and she gains an extra charge of Spirit Rush. Can store up to 3 charges.
- Initial Duration: 12s

ANNIE

Annie is strong for a lot of players, but there's some parts of her kit that could use some improvements. We’re cutting away some power in the form of base stats while significantly improving the usability and feel of Disintegrate.

Base Stats
- Movement speed: 335 → 330
- Armor per level: 4.7 → 3.9
  - Armor at level 15: 96 → 85
Disintegrate
- Projectile speed: Increased by 20% Increased: 15 → 18
- Explosion radius: Increased by .25 Increased: .75 → 1

DIANA

This Lunari warrior is a little too oppressive in higher levels of play, so we’re tapping down the damage of her dash to cut down on some of the damage output she has when fully maximizing Moonlight.

LUNAR RUSH
- Base Damage: 50/85/120/155 → 40/75/110/145

DR. MUNDO

Dr. Mundo has been underperforming in higher levels of play when compared to other tanks. To allow him to better compete and go where he pleases in the Baron Lane, we’re reworking the initial heal that he gains from his ultimate so that it is not as easily countered by anti-heal items such as Mortal Reminder.

MAXIMUM DOSAGE
- Initial heal: Heals 20% of his missing health → Increases his base health by 15/20/25% of missing health.

GALIO

We’re making it a bit easier to approach your foes while charging in with Shield of Druand and giving Galio a bit more durability so he can look to take those risker engagements.

Base Stats
- Health per level: 125 → 135
  - Health at level 15: 2320 → 2460
SHIELD OF DURAND
- Movement Speed reduction when charged : 25% →15%

JAX

Jax is currently over performing in the jungle, especially in higher levels of play. To combat this, we’re removing Jax’s ability to gain stacks when attacking jungle camps, while increasing the damage dealt by his Leap Strike and Empower abilities to give some power back in the Jungle, while also lending him a hand in the Baron Lane.

Base Stats
- Attack Damage: 58 → 64
Base Stats
- No longer effective on monsters
- Now max 5 stacks, 1 stack per hit, no doubling on minions/champs
- Per stack: 2.5/4.5/6.5/8.5% →5~19%
Leap Strike
- 60/115/170/225 → 70/125/180/235
Empower
- Base damage: 45/90/135/180 → 55/100/145/190
Counter Strike
- Cooldown: 14/12/10/8s → 12.5/11/9.5/8s

JHIN

Recently, we’ve seen that in higher levels of play Jhin has been jhinuinely struggling. We’ve seen great success for other champions when adding a little extra duration to their skill-based crowd control abilities, so we’re buffing up the root on Deadly Flourish. While we’re at it, we’re also amping up the bonus damage on Dancing Grenade to pay skill Virtuosos off for executing their targets properly.

Dancing Grenade
- Damage Amp from bouncing: 35% → 44%
Deadly Flourish
- Root duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 → 1.5/1.75/2/2.25

KARMA

As players have mastered Karma, she’s shown to be slightly too dominant in the laning phase but more critically, far too strong at protecting her allies in the later stages of the game. So, we’re bringing down these two key aspects to keep Karma’s overall power focused more on her strengths of disruption, rather than shielding her teammates.

INNER FLAME
- Mana cost: 50 → 60
INSPIRE
- Base shield: 60/100/140/180 → 60/90/120/150
- Mantra base Enhanced Shield: 150/210/270/330 → 120/180/240/300

LEONA

Despite being a support most players can always lean on, Leona isn’t performing as well as we’d like in higher levels of play. For that rea-sun, we’re trying something new and increasing her threat and engage range, which should give players room for more skill expression.

ZENITH BLADE
- Range: 8 → 8.5
SOLAR FLARE
- Range: 9.5 → 10.5

LUX

Despite the popularity of playing this luminous lady in the support position, she’s currently not performing as well as we’d like there, so we’re adding some spark to the value of Lux’s primary supportive output.

Prismatic Barrier
- Second shield value: 75/105/135/165 + 30% Ability Power → 100/140/180/220 + 40% Ability Power

NAUTILUS

Nautilus hooks aren’t quite sinking as well as we’d hoped, so we’re making some adjustments to the hitbox to make it a bit easier to drag enemies down. While we’re at it, we’re buffing up some of the damage he deals to monsters to get his clear up to a healthier speed.

DREDGE LINE
- Width against units: 1→1.3
- Width against wall: 0.4 → 0.2
TITAN'S WRATH
- Monster damage ratio: 150%→ 200%

NASUS

Recently, Nasus’ power has been stacking up and he’s become an extraordinarily dominant pick, especially in lower levels of play. So we’re tightening his leash and making it less punishing to not pressure Nasus in the early laning phase.

Siphoning Strike
- Cooldown: 5.5/5/4.5/4s →7/6/5/4s

PYKE

Pyke hasn’t been the best at hunting down targets on his List, so we’re giving him a bit more damage and even more reasons to stack up Armor Penetration.

Base Stats
- Attack Damage per level: 1.7 → 2.65
BONE SKEWER
- Damage: 100/165/230/295 → 110/175/240/305
PHANTOM UNDERTOW
- Damage: 105/145/185/225 → 110/160/210/260
- Armor penetration ratio for stun duration: 1% → 1.5%

RIVEN

Riven’s Valor is a powerful tool for both repositioning and soaking damage. This on-demand power has led to Riven being too dominant for the players who have mastered her, while not quite strong enough for others, so we’re bringing up some defensive base stats in exchange for a weaker shield.

Base Stats
- Base health: 610 → 650
- Health regeneration: 9 → 10.5
VALOR
- Shield: 105/145/185/225 → 75/110/145/180

SETT

Sett has been struggling to hold his own, so we’re sett-ing things straight, and increasing the AD ratio associated with his Haymaker ability and reducing the cooldown of Facebreaker. This should provide even more opportunities for skilled Sett players to disrupt enemy champions during teamfights and skirmishes.

HAYMAKER
- Bonus AD ratio: 10% per 100 AD →15% per 100 AD
FACEBREAKER
- Cooldown: 14/12.5/11/9.5s → 13/11.5/10/8.5s

SHYVANA

With the incoming Elemental Rift changes shaking up the Dragons, Shyvana will also be receiving a new passive. Draconic Bloodline stacks up as Shyvana farms, ganks, and takes objectives, granting the evolutions previously attached just to specific Dragon kills to now granting them over the course of the game regardless of what Shyvana is doing—with a big bonus for focusing on the Dragons.

Base Stats
- Large Monster kills, Champion takedowns, and Epic Monster kills grant stacks of Draconic Bloodline. For every 100 stacks of Draconic Bloodline, Shyvana evolves one of her abilities in order from first to last.
  - Large Monster kill stacks: 8
  - Champion takedown stacks: 12
  - Rift Herald/Baron Nashor kill stacks: 12
  - Dragon kill stacks: 35

SINGED

Singed has been a powerful pick for a while, but the recent buffs to Rylai’s have pushed him over the edge and into overpowered territory. His new found power also put him into the spotlight in both ranked and organized play, so we’re cutting down on some of his power.

Base Stats
- Base health: 650 → 610
Insanity Potion
- Duration: 25s → 18s

TEEMO

Teemo has been struggling to find his footing as a Baron Laner, especially in higher levels of play. Since we thought there was mush-room for some adjustments in this Scout’s kit we’re giving him a mini rework that will allow him to better perform across all levels of play. With this rework, Teemo’s Noxious Traps no longer leave behind a poisonous puddle after they explode, but will instead apply damage over time to the target that steps on it, regardless of the target’s position after triggering the trap. We are also increasing the range of Blinding Dart and reducing the channel time of Guerilla Warfare, while increasing its cooldown and mana cost to compensate for its increase in efficiency.

BLINDING DART
- Range: 5 → 5.5
GUERILLA WARFARE
- Channel Time: 1s → 0.5s
- Cooldown: 22s → 25s
- Mana Cost: 40 → 60
NOXIOUS TRAP
- Explosion Radius: 2.7 → 2.5
- [NEW] Teemo now places a mushroom trap that detonates when an enemy steps on it, dealing 100/175/250 + 30% AP magic damage over time and slowing the target hit by 30%/40%/50% for 3 seconds.
  - This ability no longer creates a Poisonous Puddle and the damage over time effect persists on the enemy champion that triggered the mushroom trap, disregarding their position.

TWISTED FATE

The Cardmaster has recently been succeeding significantly more with AD-oriented builds. While we don’t mind diversity, we do want to ensure that the AP build feels worthwhile compared to other options, so we’re doing some slight power shifts between different parts of Twisted Fate’s kit.

Base Stats
- Attack Damage per level: 3.6 → 2.65
- Attack Damage at level 18: 103 → 90
Wild Cards
- AP ratio: 65% → 70%
Stacked Deck
- Active Attack Speed: 40/50/60/70% → 40/45/50/55%

VARUS

Caster builds have been dominant on Varus for all of Wild Rift’s lifetime, and attack-oriented builds have been much weaker, so we’re making some adjustments to bridge the gap between the two.

Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown: 16/14/12/10s → 15/14/13/12s
Blighted Quiver
- Passive on-hit damage: 8/12/16/20 → 12/16/20/24
- Passive on-hit damage for 6 seconds after using Blighted Quiver: 16/24/32/40 → 24/32/40/48

VEIGAR

After recent buffs, it turns out we made this mastermind a bit too evil, as Veigar has grown into one of the most dominant mages in the mid lane. We’re shaving off some of his generic power to bring him more in line with other mages.

Base Stats
- Health per level: 115 →105
  - Health at level 15: 2180 → 2040
- Armor per level: 3.9 → 3.5
  - Armor at level 15: 90 → 84

WUKONG

We’re bringing a change over that has been very popular on League PC for this Monkey King, and we hope he can use this new feature to trick his enemies on the battlefield even more.

WARRIOR TRICKSTER
- Can now move Wukong over walls

XIN ZHAO

Xin Zhao is currently one of the most dominant junglers on the Rift, particularly in higher levels of play, because of his strong dueling potential and reliable control. We’re pulling back on how frequently Xin Zhao can cast his Three Talon Strike ability to give enemy junglers a fighting chance.

Three Talon Strike
- Cooldown: 8/7/6/5s → 9/8/7/6s

CHAMPION ULTIMATE COOLDOWN ADJUSTMENTS

In addition to the other balance updates we are making adjustments *checks notes* to almost every champion's ultimate cooldown. So, we’re going to steal a page from League PC’s book and also spare our mental and skip writing context for every champion. But we do have some broader context on why we’re making these adjustments.

We’ve been listening to a lot of player feedback and seen that some ultimates cooldowns are quite long, and over the course of a game you may not get many opportunities to cast them. While Wild Rift’s game times are close to half of League PC’s, our ultimate cooldowns were only slightly shorter, so we are reducing ultimate cooldowns by a small percentage across the board. We hope this allows players to learn, experiment more, and increase the frequency of high moments for champions, while making sure we maintain meaningful windows of counterplay around ultimate cooldowns.

ULTIMATE DURATION ADJUSTMENTS

While reviewing our systems in combination with the ultimate cooldown changes in this patch, we found that combat-relevant ultimates in Wild Rift have very long durations compared to the duration of engagements. This can potentially lead to very high uptime on ultimates that can be frustrating or confusing when active so frequently, so we have gone through and cut down slightly on very long-duration ultimates.

URF CHANGES

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

ITEMS

NEW ENCHANTMENT: MAGNETRON ENCHANT

The selfless enchants we already have in Wild Rift are good when you want to help out your team as a whole, but not great options for supporting one ally in particular. Magnetron is here to allow for both more aggressive or peeling support choices. You can dive right into the fight to look for an engage with your teammate, or looking to peel for your squishy backline carry, Magnetron is here and packaged into a way to rapidly get to them and help them out whenever you get there.

Target a nearby ally champion within 5 range to dash to them, then taunt the closest enemy champion within 2 range for 1 second. (90 second cooldown)
- This effect can only taunt one enemy per activation.
- This taunt only affects champions.
- The taunt duration is reduced to .5s if the affected enemy champion has been taunted by the Magnetron Enchant in the last 10 seconds.
Total cost: 800g

NEW ENCHANTMENT: REPULSOR ENCHANT

Repulsor presents a new enchantment for two purposes: pushing away nearby enemy divers, and splitting up the enemy team. We’re looking to open up some new space both for the selfish defensive uses and also for the more aggressive initiators with this short-range knockback.

Knock back enemies within 3.5 range to 3.5 range away from the caster. (60 second cooldown)
Yasuo is not allowed to use his ultimate off of Repulsor.
Total cost: 500g

NEW ENCHANTMENT: VEIL ENCHANT

As with Magnetron, Veil is another option for helping out a specific ally rather than your entire team. Here we’re adding a spell shield for an ally as a way to either selectively block a specific spell with good timing, or use it early to deter enemies from using spells on your chosen carry.

Grant a nearby targeted ally a spell shield for 3 seconds that blocks the next enemy ability. (45 second cooldown)
- Cannot be cast on yourself.
Total Cost: 500g

BOOTS OF SWIFTNESS → BOOTS OF FUROR

Boots of Swiftness main purpose is to counter slows, which has been long overshadowed by Mercury’s Treads simply offering Tenacity instead to reduce the duration of all crowd control effects. We’re looking to move this item into a different space by opening up the new Boots of Furor to attack-based champions that might be looking for a bit more in-combat speed to kite or chase down their enemies.

Footwear movement speed :: Reduced from 50 → 40
[REMOVED] Sleek: Movement speed slows are reduced by 30%
[NEW] Rage: When you attack a target, you gain 30 movement speed for 2 seconds.
- Does not stack with the Rage passive from Phage or its various upgrades.

FIMBULWINTER

Fimbulwinter is currently providing too much safety for ranged champions, so we’re pulling back on how much shield power this gives when ranged champions opt into this item.

Shield ranged modifier: Reduced from 70% → 50%

GARGOYLE ENCHANT

Adding additional health based on a percentage of your current health is a lot of math to do and read, especially when you’re in the middle of trying to win out your games. We’re making the defensive output of this enchant into a shield rather than health gain which should be much more readable at a glance, while making sure it maintains the reduced damage to enemies to ensure that this item is primarily used as a defensive tool.

[REMOVED] All current functionality
[NEW] Gain a shield that absorbs 30% of your maximum health that decays over 4 seconds. The shield value increases by 100% if there are three or more nearby enemies. Deal 40% less damage for 3 seconds. (60 second cooldown)

HEXTECH PROTOBELT ENCHANTMENT

Protobelt is a highly flexible enchant that can be used to escape danger or dive right in, and its cost does not properly account for being so powerful both in the offensive and defensive use cases, so we’re adjusting it.

Cost: 500g → 800g

HULLBREAKER

Hullbreaker is currently being abused by ranged champions in higher levels of play despite this item being designed as an option for fighters. We’re reducing the resistances this item provides to champions and minions when a ranged champion uses it so that Hullbreaker still remains an option for those champions, but not the most optimal pick up.

Bonus Armor and Magic Resistance gained by the item owner: 10 − 50 (based on level) → 10 − 50 (5-25 if ranged)
Bonus Armor and Magic Resistance gained by allied minions: 50 − 170 (based on level) → 50 − 170 (25-85 if ranged)

QUICKSILVER ENCHANT

Quicksilver has had trouble competing in the defensive space with other actives like Stasis, so we’re looking to push it into a space as the clear counter to crowd control. Adding both a short duration on the immunity and some additional Tenacity and Slow Resistance afterwards should reduce the sensitive timing required to make good use of this item as well as empower the enchant to be extremely effective against incoming crowd control, not just one specific spell.

[REMOVED] All current functionality
[NEW] Grants immunity to crowd control effects for 0.5s.
[NEW] Grants 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resistance for 1.5s.
[NOTE] This enchant can still be used while under the effects of non-knockup crowd control

SHADOWS ENCHANT - REMOVED

Shadows Enchant hasn’t met the bar for what we’re looking for in our item system. It isn’t purchased as much, despite being competitive in raw power compared to other enchants. We’re removing this for now, but are potentially open to exploring other options in the future for long-range chasing and scouting actives.

STASIS ENCHANT

Stasis has always been the go-to enchant for defensive purposes, and often for offensive purposes as well. Its broad usability and flexibility are both huge selling points for this golden active, and ultimately it’s simply more powerful than the other boots upgrades, so we’re increasing the cost to make it clear it’s a tier above the other enchantments.

Total Cost: 800g → 1000g

RUNE CHANGES

KEYSTONE: CONQUEROR

Conqueror has been an overly dominant pick within the rune system for quite some time. To sharpen this keystone and create space for other keystones to shine, we are reworking Conqueror so that it requires more stacks to reach its effect and provide bonus Physical Vamp and Magical Vamp opposed to bonus Adaptive Damage.

Total Stacks: Increased from 5 → 6
Maximum attack damage (Adaptive): Increased from 10-30 →12-36
Maximum magic damage (Adaptive): Increased from 15-45 → 18-54
[REMOVED] When fully stacked, deal 10% (melee) | 7% (ranged) bonus Adaptive Damage to champions.
[NEW] While fully stacked, gain 8% (melee) | 5% (ranged) Physical Vamp and Magic Vamp

KEYSTONE: FLEET FOOTWORK

As an oversight to the last set of Fleet Footwork changes, we did not properly address the power of Fleet’s healing against monsters. We’re here to correct that mistake, as we don’t want junglers optimizing around using a keystone to bypass damage dealt by the jungle during their clears.

Healing mod against minions → Healing mod against minions and monsters
- 60% for melee, 20% for ranged (same)

KEYSTONE: GRASP OF THE UNDYING

We’ve been looking to open up more keystone options to a wider variety of champions, and Grasp of the Undying is only used by a few tanks and melee champions. With these adjustments we’re hoping to expand who this rune can be viable for, while also keeping it in a similar spot for those who pick it up to be more durable.

Damage: 3% Maximum health → 3% Maximum health + 20% Attack Damage +10% Ability Power
Range mod: 50% efficiency → 40% efficiency

KEYSTONE: KRAKEN SLAYER

Kraken Slayer has been less powerful in the later stages of the game than intended. We’re buffing up the base damage later on, and allowing more champions access to the power this keystone offers.

On-attack effect → On-hit effect
- This means that skills that apply the effects of attacks, such as Ezreal’s Mystic Shot or Fiora’s Lunge, can now stack and apply Kraken Slayer.
Base damage: 28-70 → 28-84

DOMINATION: BRUTAL

Brutal is currently the most picked Domination rune due to how reliable and broadly usable it is for a large pool of champions. To promote rune diversity, we are sharpening Brutal to provide Adaptive on-hit damage instead of flat Adaptive Damage.

[REMOVED] Gain 7 bonus Attack Damage or 14 Ability Power (Adaptive).
[NEW] Basic attacks deal 7-14 bonus physical/magic damage on-hit against champions (Adaptive).

JUNGLE

SMITE & JUNGLE CAMP ADJUSTMENTS

Junglers typically opted into Brutal in order to improve their clearspeed. Since we’re taking away how optimal it is to pick a rune to just increase your clearspeed. But we don’t want to nerf jungle clears across the board, so we’re buffing up the burn damage junglers get from Smite and reducing early jungle camp health in order to get similar clearspeed to what was seen prior to this patch.

Smite

Burn damage: 30 per 5s → 50 per 5s

Gromp

Base health: 2200 → 2000
Health per level: 80 → 100

Red Brambleback

Base health: 2700 → 2500
Health per level: 120 → 140

Blue Sentinel

Base health: 2700 → 2500
Health per level: 120 → 140

SYSTEM

TURRET PLATING SYSTEM

We’ve heard your feedback around wanting more focus on the laning phase and ability to play around individual leads, so we’re bringing in Turret Plates to increase the duration of the laning phase and allow for more opportunities to make skillful plays around a lead in a lane.

Early Game Stats Bonus:

From 0 to 4 min, Mid and Baron Lane Turrets gain 90 Armor and Magic resist → from 0 to 3 min, Mid and Baron Lane Turrets gain 50 Armor and Magic resist
From 0 to 4 min, Dragon Lane Turret gain 40 Armor and Magic resist for 4 minutes after game start → Removed

Turret Plating:

All turrets have plating → Only outer turrets have plating
Turret Plating Duration: Permanent → From 0 to 6:30 min
Plating number: 3 plating equally distributed per turret → 5 plating equally distributed per turret
Plating Gold (Local):
- Outer Turret: 150 per plating → 150 per plating
- Inner Turret: 125 per plating → 0
- Inhibit Turret: 150 per plating → 0
Turret Destruction Gold:
- Global Gold: 75 (Unchanged)
- Local Gold:
  - Outer Turret: 175 → 200
  - Inner Turret: 150 → 350
  - Inhibitor Turret: 175 → 200
Plating Defense:
- The outer turrets gain bonus armor/magic resist based on health status. When the health is no more than 100/80/60/40/20%, respectively the turret will gain 40/80/160/240 Armor/Magic resist

Early Game Siege Protection:

Turrets gain additional bonuses for multiple enemy champions near it within 3 minutes of game start → within 6:30 minutes of game start
- 2 champions: 10 Armor and Magic resist → 10 Armor and Magic resist
- 3 champions: 250 Armor and Magic resist → 50 Armor and Magic resist
- 4 champions: 300 Armor and Magic resist → 150 Armor and Magic resist
- 5 champions: 350 Armor and Magic resist → 250 Armor and Magic resist

TRINKET AND WARDS

Since the updates to the trinket system, players have learned to take advantage of swapping between trinkets to gain extra value, particularly from the new control ward trinket. We’re removing this swapping optimization in order to make the choice between which trinket you take a more intentional choice, rather than allowing swapping to be a way to gain extra vision and/or vision denial.

Using a trinket will cause all different wards placed by the trinkets to despawn
- Example: using yellow or red despawns pink, using pink or red despawns yellow

ENCHANTMENT SWITCH SYSTEM

Previously, it was possible to swap between different enchantments, but only by selling your entire boots slot and buying a new one. We’re making it possible to simply open the shop and purchase a new enchantment whenever you’d like, but adding some additional rules around the cooldowns to prevent some of the more abusive or jarring situations that could happen by switching between actives.

While you have a boot enchant, you may purchase another enchant directly from the shop rather than needing to sell your entire boots slot.

Example: If you have Mercury’s Stoneplate, you can directly swap this for Mercury’s Glory by purchasing the Glorious Enchant in the shop.

Gold Cost: The cost of “swapping” = (the cost to buy the same new boot and new enchantment) - (the gain of selling your current boots + enchantment)
- The shop will calculate this value for the player, and display the cost of swapping.
- Cooldown when Swapping Enchantment
- After swapping, the new Enchantment will be placed in a cooldown state, where cooldown = 20% of the enchantment’s max cooldown vs. 100% of the enchantment’s current cooldown (if player has used it before and still on cooldown), taking the greater value of the 2