Patch 13.19 Notes

Azir

Q cooldown increased.

Last patch we changed Crown of the Shattered Queen in hopes of nerfing the item for Pro play while maintaining its power level in solo queue. That said, we still want to be cautious around Azir taking an overly dominant position at Worlds this year. Here's a light nerf to his early laning to open up more counterplay against him. This will make an Azir pick a dedication to late game power without smooth sailing through the laning phase.

Q - Conquering Sands

• Cooldown: 12/10.5/9/7.5/6 seconds ⇒ 14/12/10/8/6 seconds

Briar

Attack speed growth decreased. W healing decreased, damage against minions and monsters increased, maximum percent health damage against minions and monsters decreased. Various quality of life changes and bugfixes.

While Briar on release looked quite weak, her power level has increased as players have learned the in(t)s and outs of her kit and item builds. We're reducing her healing once she gets a few items, especially against jungle monsters, to give opponents a better shot at bringing down a fed Briar. On top of that, we're adding a host of quality of life changes and bug fixes, including a frenzy bar! Now it should be easier to tell how much time is left to activate Snack Attack.

Base Stats

• Attack Speed Growth: 2.5% ⇒ 2.3%

Q - Head Rush

• newLogic Update: Q is now properly tagged as an attack reset for interactions like Hail of Blades

W - Blood Frenzy

• newShow Me the Fury: Added a Fury Bar to display the remaining duration of Frenzy
• Tooltip Update: W - Blood Frenzy's tooltip now clarifies that casting W does not remove or replace the empowered Blood Frenzy granted by R.

W - Snack Attack

• Healing: 35/42.5/50/57.5/65% ⇒ 36/42/48/54/60%
• Increased Damage Against Minions and Monsters: 20% ⇒ 10%
• Maximum Percent Missing Health Damage Against Minions and Monsters: 500 ⇒ 400
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug that caused the percent missing health damage to be able to critically strike.
• newSlow Down There: Added a short minimum cooldown after casting Snack Attack to prevent double casts with high haste builds.

E - Chilling Scream

• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where knocked back enemies would sometimes not be stunned after hitting player-created terrain.

R - Certain Death

• newINCOMING!: Pinging R now tells teammates which enemies are in range.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where Briar would become stuck attacking the wrong targets if Certain Death's target died during the cast time.

Miscellaneous

• Challenges: Briar is now properly tagged as a Noxian champion for Challenges.
• Item Recommendations: Briar's recommended items have been updated.
• Rune Recommendations: Briar's recommended runes have been updated.

Galio

R cooldown decreased.

Galio mid is currently weak in all skill brackets and has room for some more power. Since he's already successfully fulfilling his role as an anti-mage in lane, we'll be buffing him in a way that increases his general power without altering his matchups. We're targeting his R cooldown as it's currently quite high compared to most other globals, and we want to give Galio players more opportunities to use this defining ability to impact the map.

R - Hero's Entrance

• Cooldown: 200/180/160 seconds ⇒ 180/160/140 seconds

Gangplank

R cooldown decreased, Death's Daughter upgrade slow increased, Raise Morale upgrade movement speed increased.

Gangplank is an underperforming top laner whose raw damage numbers can't really get much higher than they already are. So instead we're giving him some power in his more unique niches: ultimate upgrades and his ability to affect two parts of the map at once. Some of his tooltips are hooked up in weird ways, so the tooltips for his upgrades won't be updated until the next patch.

R - Cannon Barrage

• Cooldown: 180/160/140 seconds ⇒ 170/150/130 seconds
• Upgrade - Death's Daughter Slow: 60% for 1 second ⇒ 75% for 1 second
• Upgrade - Raise Morale Movement Speed: 30% for 2 seconds ⇒ 40% for 2 seconds

Jhin

R minimum physical damage increased.

Last patch we identified Jhin as an underperforming champion who doesn't find significant success in solo queue or pro play. However, we knew we were buffing Stormrazor that patch, so we elected to wait and see how those changes affected him. We think he's still a bit below the bar so we're providing him with some more power this patch. We're seriously ramping up his ult damage for two reasons: First, where possible, every champion should have a reliably powerful ultimate so that even if you're having a bad game, you can rely on a long cooldown window of power to try to get back into the game. Second, Jhin is canonically someone who wants to murder, so it's important that his damage is up to snuff.

R - Curtain Call

• Minimum Physical Damage: 50/125/200 (+25% total AD) ⇒ 64/154/244 (+25% total AD)

LeBlanc

Attack speed ratio decreased, attack speed growth increased, AD growth decreased, mana growth decreased, mana regeneration growth decreased. W magic damage increased. E magic damage increased.

LeBlanc's core build has shifted into a manaless AD build that turns her into a very frustrating top lane split pusher. If she wants to build like a fighter, then she should also have meaningful mana constraints which we’ll be introducing here. Meanwhile, mage builds can rely on bonus mana from sources like Lost Chapter and Luden's Tempest. Since nerfing her baseline mana pool and even her late game attack damage is a nerf to her mage power level, we're giving her compensation in the form of some AP ratios. The change to her attack speed ratio and attack speed growth will result in identical attacks per second for LeBlanc unless she acquires sources of bonus attack speed.

Base Stats

• Attack Speed Ratio: 0.625 ⇒ 0.4
• Attack Speed Growth: 1.4% ⇒ 2.2%
• Attack Damage Growth: 3.5 ⇒ 2.7
• Mana Growth: 55 ⇒ 25
• Mana Regeneration Growth: 1 ⇒ 0.8

W - Distortion

• Magic Damage: 75/115/155/195/235 (+60% AP) ⇒ 75/115/155/195/235 (+65% AP)

E - Ethereal Chains

• Magic Damage from Initial Cast: 50/70/90/110/130 (+30% AP) ⇒ 50/70/90/110/130 (+35% AP)

Lee Sin

Base armor increased. W lifesteal and spell vamp increased. E magic damage increased.

We're certainly aware of the "It's Worlds, time to buff Lee Sin" memes but in all honesty, most Lee Sin players aren't finding much success in their games at home, even in high-skill games. We're targeting a mix of guaranteed power via armor and making a button press for Lee more impactful. A short window of 5% omnivamp is just not enough power to make W2 worth pressing outside of activating his passive, so we're giving it a solid increase in early power that falls off late game. We're also aware that some players have begun taking him into solo lanes, where he maxes E - Tempest/Cripple second. Bringing up early Iron Will sustain will disproportionately help those lanes, so we're preemptively addressing that role with a nerf.

Base Stats

• Base Armor: 34 ⇒ 36

W - Iron Will

• Lifesteal and Spell Vamp: 5/10.5/16/21.5/27% ⇒ 10/14/18/22/26%

E - Tempest

• Magic Damage: 35/65/95/125/155 (+100% AD) ⇒ 35/60/85/110/135 (+100% AD)

Lissandra

W root duration increased.

Lissandra's been on thin ice in terms of power, both in solo queue and in Pro play. To increase her power as a counterpick against certain champions like LeBlanc, Fizz, and Akali, we're slightly increasing the root duration on her W. The intention is to increase her advantage against champions who need to get up close to trade with her while not affecting other matchups.

W - Ring of Frost

• Root Duration: 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 seconds ⇒ 1.25/1.35/1.45/1.55/1.65 seconds

Nunu & Willump

E AP ratio increased.

AP Nunu is quite popular despite not being very strong. This patch, we're giving some love to a well-liked off-build, as tank Nunu is performing just fine. GET READY FOR SOME EXTRA MAGICAL SNOWBALLS!

The choice to buff Snowball Barrage here is to create some tension in AP Nunu's combat. Their ultimate and W snowball already deal a ton of damage, but AP Nunu should be more than a burst mage. Requiring him to remain in close range to get maximum power out of buying AP should enrich the gameplay for them and their opponents.

E - Snowball Barrage

• Magic Damage per Hit: 16/24/32/40/48 (+10% AP) ⇒ 16/24/32/40/48 (+15% AP)
• Maximum Total Magic Damage: 144/216/288/360/432 (+90% AP) ⇒ 144/216/288/360/432 (+135% AP) (Note: Including the damage upon rooting an enemy, this totals to 164/246/328/411/492 (+215% AP))

Pyke

Health growth increased. W cooldown decreased.

Pyke has been lurking below the surface recently, and not in his usual "I'm fine being underwater" sense but more like he's just not quite where we want him to be in terms of power. To give him some power back without making his damage too oppressive, we'll be increasing his mid-to-late-game survivability. We also intend to give Pyke an alternative ability max option with W for lanes where he won't be aggressively using E as much.

Base Stats

• Health Growth: 104 ⇒ 110

W - Ghostwater Dive

• Cooldown: 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds ⇒ 12/11/10/9/8 seconds

Rek'Sai

Passive heal decreased. Q damage decreased. W - Unburrow movement speed decreased. W - Unburrow base damage increased.

Rek'Sai gained a lot of power with the Stridebreaker buffs a few patches ago so we're taking another swing and bringing down her power level. Instead of primarily targeting her early damage (though we are providing some small changes here), we're targeting the power level of burrowing, which high MMR players use disproportionately well, as she's not nearly as strong in other skill brackets.

Passive - Fury of the Xer'Sai

• Maximum Heal when Burrowed: 15-125 (+2-12% maximum health (increases every 3 levels)) ⇒ 10 (+2-10% maximum health (increases each individual level))

Q - Queen's Wrath

• Bonus Physical Damage: 34/38/42/46/50% Total AD ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50% Total AD

W - Burrow

• Bonus Movement Speed: 15/20/25/30 (levels 1/6/11/16) ⇒ 5/10/15 (levels 1/6/11)

W - Un-burrow

• Physical Damage: 50/65/80/95/110 (+80% Bonus AD) ⇒ 50/85/120/155/190 (+80% Bonus AD)

Renekton

Base magic resistance decreased.

Renekton has been performing particularly well in high MMR solo queue and Pro play. He has a very high Elite/Pro pick rate due to his safety and consistency as a blind pick, so we're targeting his base Magic Resistance to make him more vulnerable to certain matchups such as Gwen, Kennen, and Rumble, while preserving his much needed early game strength against other champions.

Base Stats

• Base Magic Resistance: 32 ⇒ 28

Syndra

Q magic damage increased.

Syndra is an iconic mid lane Champion who has historically been stuck in Pro jail. Thankfully, her update in 12.19 has given us the space to make her strong in the hands of most players without being a Pro play problem. With this newfound power budget, we'll be increasing her Q base damage slightly to help her get early lane priority, amping up a slim strategic niche among mages.

Q - Dark Sphere

• Magic Damage: 70/105/140/175/210 (+70% AP) ⇒ 75/110/145/180/215 (+70% AP)

Twitch

R missile speed increased.

In a routine sweep of champion viability and satisfaction, we identified Twitch as a Champion that isn't necessarily weak but could use some quality of life improvements. We think Spray and Pray is the coolest part of Twitch's arsenal and want to play up the differences between R being up and R being down. The change here is a small increase to the reliability of his ultimate as it'll be less likely that someone simply walking sideways will dodge the bolts. Plus he won't feel as much of a need to be in melee range just to make his attacks hit. His attacks are still Flashable and other fast dashes can get out of the way, but Spray and Pray will be a bit more reliable.

R - Spray And Pray

• Missile Speed: 4000 ⇒ 5000

Zeri

Base movement speed decreased.

Zeri has had the highest Pro ADC presence in top Leagues this season, and with the 13.18 Xayah nerf she's expected to become even more prevalent of a pick at Worlds. To ensure more bot lane diversity, we've decided to nerf her. While her solo queue win rate isn't particularly problematic, she still has a very high Elite pick rate and is clearly a contested Champion. We're targeting her base movement speed as she already has plenty of mobility with her E and R, and we want to increase her vulnerability throughout the game.

Base Stats

• Base Movement Speed: 335 ⇒ 330

Randuin's Omen

Some items are highly specific in their niche, and that's perfectly fine. However, it's important that these items are strong in their appropriate game states. Randuin's Omen should be the go-to anti-crit item, but its price and overall efficiency make it bad, even when the opposing team's champions suggest it should be good. A 10% cheaper Randuin's Omen (now matching many other tank legendaries) should make it best in slot when critical strikes are the primary damage you're receiving without it becoming the default tank armor item.

• Total Cost: 3000 ⇒ 2700

Seeker's Armguard

Low-price reactive purchases should be solid options that let you slightly delay your offensive buildup in order to slow down threats against you. They're not meant to turn you invulnerable, but meaningfully shift how easily you can be killed. If these items are strong, players should be willing to buy them sometimes without them being default purchases every time the appropriate matchup shows up. Right now, Seeker's Armguard is below the bar set by items like Hexdrinker and Bramble Vest. This is a small buff aimed at making the occasional detour into early armor worthwhile for mages.

• Armor: 15 ⇒ 20

Statikk Shiv

Statikk Shiv was modified in 13.18, lowering its minion damage and increasing its stat profile. These changes landed a bit higher power than we intended, so we're once again reducing its anti-minion power.

• Electroshock Damage to Minions: 200 ⇒ 150

Pinging any allied information on the tab scoreboard and UI now only displays that information to the pinger in the chat and will be designated by [SELF]. This will affect the following pings:

• Allied Portrait (Alive and Time until Respawn)
• Allied Level
• Allied Ultimate Cooldown
• Allied Primary and Secondary Rune Trees
• Allied Summoner Spell 1 and 2
• Allied Item Slots 1-6
• Allied Trinket Slot

The following pings have not been changed and will still be displayed to your entire team:

• Pinging your own information in the scoreboard pings as normal to allies.
• Pinging neutral and enemy information in the scoreboard (dragon timers, enemy summoner spells, etc) prints out as normal to allies.
• Pinging your own character portrait prints out that value for your team.