Patch 14.7 Notes

Camille

Q bonus move speed increased, cooldown decreased. W outer cone damage increased. E damage decreased.

Camille has been pretty sad in top lane ever since the walls got pushed back. We think she could use some larger scope work in the future, but that doesn’t mean we can’t buff her right now. So we’re playing up some top-specific strengths targeted primarily at her laning phase, which is power she’ll carry into the rest of the game. We’re mostly giving her better sustained target access, which she’ll actually appreciate when she’s got solo lane levels of gold and experience. Because we’re concerned about support Camille’s power level, we’re bringing down her Hookshot burst a little as compensation. Our hope is that she remains viable in both roles and that top laners specifically feel more impact.

Q - Precision Protocol

• Bonus Move Speed: 30/32.5/35/37.5/40% ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50%
• Cooldown: 9/8.25/7.5/6.75/6 ⇒ 9/8/7/6/5

W - Tactical Sweep

• Outer Cone Base Damage: 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% Max HP ⇒ 6/6.5/7/7.5/8% Max HP

E - Hookshot

• Damage: 80/110/140/170/200 (+90% bonus AD) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+90% bonus AD)

Fiora

Base attack damage decreased.

Fiora’s a bit too strong, especially in early game where they’re supposed to be more of skill matchups than feel like she’s winning by default. So we’re going to adjust her ability to win sustained fights against other fighters by making a small change to her base AD.

Base Stats

• Attack Damage: 68 ⇒ 66

Galio

Passive damage increased. W damage reduction increased. E damage increased.

Last patch, we preemptively nerfed Galio to ensure the changes didn't land too strong. Since he landed weaker than we expected, we'll be walking back on these nerfs as they're no longer necessary. We're specifically reverting nerfs that affect him more while he's in melee range, as he needs the durability from W and the damage from passive and E to secure kills during that window. While the passive ratio buff will also strengthen his full AP builds, we're okay with that result because it skews him mid and is still helpful for his AP and HP builds.

Passive - Colossal Smash

• Magic Damage: 15-115 (based on level) (+100% AD) (+40% AP) (+60% Bonus Magic Resistance) ⇒ 15-115 (based on level) (+100% AD) (+45% AP) (+60% Bonus Magic Resistance)

W - Shield of Durand

• Magic Damage Reduction (halved for physical damage): 20/25/30/35/40 (+4% per 100 bonus magic resistance) (+1% per 100 bonus health) ⇒ 25/30/35/40/45% (+4% per 100 AP) (+8% per 100 bonus magic resistance) (+1% per 100 bonus health)

E - Justice Punch

• Damage: 75/115/155/195/235 (+90% AP) ⇒ 90/130/170/210/250 (+90% AP)

Karma

W root duration decreased at lower ranks. R+E AoE shield increased.

Karma’s changes last patch landed very close to our goal, but we still want to do a little more to preserve her support power level. In order to do this, we’re decoupling her E ranks from the Mantra-E numbers to make it more in-line with the rest of her abilities, and make it less punishing if you don’t dump skill points into E. These changes should net around a 20-25% increase in shielding to her secondary targets through Mantra-E.

W - Focused Resolve

• Root Duration: 1.4/1.55/1.7/1.85/2 ⇒ 1.6/1.7/1.8/1.9/2

R - Mantra

• R+E AoE Shield: 39-129 (based on E and R ranks) (+31.5% AP) ⇒ 45/81/117/153 (based on R ranks) (+40.5% AP). (Note: Move speed and single-target shield unchanged)

Kayn

Q Damage increased.

Shadow Assassin Kayn took a huge hit last patch, largely due to his synergy with Profane Hydra being heavily nerfed. He’s still got some half-decent builds with other items, so we’ll be buffing him with those in mind, since we expect him to climb as players adapt to the new normal. These changes will also slightly buff Rhaast, since he uses the basic version of Q before he transforms.

Q - Reaping Slash

• Damage: 75/95/115/135/155 (+80 Bonus AD) ⇒ 75/95/115/135/155 (+85% Bonus AD)

Lux

Passive magic damage increased. Q magic damage increased.

Lux support is getting hit by the Zaz’Zak's change this patch, and since she's currently at a reasonable power level we'd like to give her a compensation buff. So we're buffing her ratios in a way that both roles will appreciate, but it should have slight skew for mid due to the wave clear benefits.

Passive - Illumination

• Magic Damage: 30-200 (based on level) (+25% AP) ⇒ 30-200 (based on level) (+30%AP)

Q - Light Binding

• Magic Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+60% AP) ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240 (+65% AP)

Nami

W magic damage decreased, healing increased, and bounce fall off reduced. E magic damage decreased.

Nami is at one of her historically weakest points and we think she could use a little love. In line with our other changes around support damage, we’re pulling out some mid-game damage through her E rank up and W AP ratio and re-adding it into her healing and overall teamfight output with W’s bounce power.

W - Ebb and Flow

• Magic Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+55% AP) ⇒ 60/95/130/165/200 (+50% AP)
• Healing: 55/75/95/115/135 (+25% AP) ⇒ 55/80/105/130/155 (+40% AP)
• Bounce Falloff: -15% (+7.5% per 100 AP) ⇒ -10% (+10% per 100 AP)

E - Tidecaller’s Blessing

• Magic Damage: 20/35/50/65/80 (+20%AP) ⇒ 20/30/40/50/60 (+20%AP)

Nasus

Passive life steal increased. Q bonus physical damage increased.

Nasus hasn’t been performing so well in Solo Queue. We feel that he scales really well but struggles in lane, as he's able to be punished harshly. We'd like to reduce some of that harshness by increasing his Q damage to help him stack and trade better when using it on his opponent early. We’re also pairing this with an increase to his passive as we nerfed it when Divine Sunderer was still around and it’s no longer necessary to keep it lower.

Passive - Soul Eater

• Life Steal: 11/16/21% (based on level) ⇒ 12/18/24% (based on level)

Q - Siphoning Strike

• Bonus Physical Damage: 30/50/70/90/110 (+Siphoning Strike stacks) ⇒ 40/60/80/100/120 (+Siphoning Strike stacks)

Olaf

Q bonus monster damage added. W bonus attack speed duration increased and mana cost increased. E cooldown refund increased when hitting monsters.

Olaf is intended to be a solid jungler but has had a hard time lately, and similar to Sylas, he’s already strong in solo lanes. We’d like to give him better tools to succeed as a jungler by increasing his clear speed, as it should be one of the highest in the game since objective control is his primary strength as a jungler.

While these changes will mostly help Olaf jungle they will still help him top some, so we're including an increase to his ultimate mana cost. We'll pay attention to how this lands and if it ends up restricting his mana pool by too much, we'll follow up to make sure he's still viable in top lane.

Q - Undertow

• newBonus Monster damage: 5/10/15/20/25

W - Tough it Out

• Bonus Attack Speed Duration: 4 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds
• Mana Cost: 30 ⇒ 50

E - Reckless Swing

• Cooldown Refund: 1 second per basic attack ⇒ 1s per basic attack, increased to 2 seconds when hitting monsters

R - Ragnarok

• Mana Cost: 0 ⇒ 100

Rek’Sai

Passive fury gained from hitting minions, wards, and plants reduced and healing reduced at lower levels.

Rek’Sai is slightly too strong as a jungler, but not unreasonably so. As a top laner, though, she’s an immovable object. We’re pulling her top-lane specific levers in order to bring down that early sustain with a smaller nerf expected for her in the jungle.

Passive - Fury of the Xer’Sai

• Fury gain from minions, wards, and plants: 12.5 ⇒ 5
• Heal: 12-20% Max HP (based on level) ⇒ 10-20% Max HP (based on level)

Rell

Base magic resist growth increased. Q bonus monster damage removed. W bonus monster damage removed. E bonus monster damage removed.

Rell has long held a spot in Pro play as a low-economy jungler who excels at securing objectives and succeeding on very little gold income. However, this specific set of strengths for this very small set of players have often prevented us from making adjustments that would be good for the 90% of Rell players who enjoy her in support. So we’re ripping off the bandage and removing all of Rell jungle’s monster modifiers, effectively removing her secondary role from the game. As these modifiers carried a little bit of power for her support gameplay, we’re giving her a small direct buff as compensation. If it’s not enough, we’re happy to give her a little more in two weeks' time.

Base Stats

• Magic Resist Growth: 1.85 ⇒ 2.05

Q - Shattering Strike

• Bonus Monster Damage: Removed

W - Crash Down / Mount Up

• Crash Down - Bonus Monster Damage: Removed
• Mount Up - Bonus Monster Damage: Removed

E - Full Tilt

• Bonus Monster Damage: Removed

Senna

Fewer souls dropped from allied support items killing minions, more souls dropped from Senna killing minions.

We noticed a bug that arrived in patch 14.1 that made Senna get the full drop chance from allied support item executes, which substantially increased her power as a farming bot laner. We’re fixing that bug in this patch and returning her on-kill drop chance near where it was before.

Passive - Absolution

• Soul Drop Chance on Allied Support Minion Kill: 28% ⇒ 8.4%
• Soul Drop Change on Minion Kill: 2.8% ⇒ 8.4%

Smolder

Base armor increased. Q bonus damage based on crit chance increased.

Smolder got hit a bit harder than we wanted to last patch, so we’re returning some power in ways we think won’t be terribly frustrating. Now that he’s less evasive through E, he can stand to be more baseline durable. And now that his late-game power isn’t nearly as guaranteed, we’re going to return some damage in a way that asks him to build squishier items and be closer to his target.

Base Stats

• Armor: 24 ⇒ 26

Q - Super Scorcher Breath

• Bonus Physical Damage based on Crit Chance: 0-30% ⇒ 0-50%

Sona

Passive Staccato damage increased. Q ally bonus magic damage reduced. W heal increased. E ally move speed increased.

Sona, like Nami, is getting her defensive and utility outputs buffed with a compensation damage nerf in the fairly invisible Q aura. We’re juicing her Q-passive just a little as it’s currently the weakest option and is a more appreciable place to give her damage. We expect these changes to be power and appreciation up for Sona and her allies.

Passive - Power Chord

• Staccato Damage Bonus: 40% ⇒ 50%

Q - Hymn of Valor

• Ally Bonus Magic Damage: 10/15/20/25/30 (+20% AP) ⇒ 10/15/20/25/30 (+10%AP)

W - Aria of Perseverance

• Heal: 30/45/60/75/90 (+15% AP) ⇒ 30/45/60/75/90 (+30% AP)

E - Song of Celerity

• Ally Move Speed: 10/11/12/13/14% (+2% per 100 AP) ⇒ 10/12/14/16/18% (+2% per 100 AP)

Volibear

R cooldown increased.

While we deeply love the bear (Editor add, not designer note), he’s still been a bit too much of a menace in Solo Queue and we’re not seeing that slow down much despite the previous nerfs. First, we’re removing an expectation-breaking interaction between his Q and Sundered Sky, which was granting him extremely large amounts of burst damage. Second, we think he needs a little bit more siphoned off and we feel like the bear enjoyers out there value the move speed from his Q more so than the frequency of the R so we want to pull back some of that previous R cooldown buff that we gave him.

Q - Thundering Smash

• Crits only increase Volibear’s attack damage instead of total ability damage

R - Stormbringer

• Cooldown: 140/120/100 ⇒ 160/135/110

Sylas

Q monster damage increased.

Sylas jungle has been quite a weak link for him lately, but he has a playerbase that we'd like to support. Since he lacks any room mid, we’re separating his Q modifier to hasten his jungle clear. This change isn't intended to make Sylas a top tier jungler, but rather to make him more functional for those who play it. For now, we’re staying on the safer side for this initial buff and will revisit his jungle clear as needed.

Q - Chain Lash

• Minion and Monster Damage: 40% ⇒ 40% for minions and 70% for monsters

Zaz’Zak’s Realmspike

We’re taking a long look at the damage coming out of the support role and this patch we’re going after some exclusively-damage sections.

Zaz’Zak’s is bound to mage supports where champions like Xerath and Lux have support as their strongest role, which leaves us little room to buff them in places like mid lane. Bloodsong creates similar problems for fighters like Camille and Pantheon with respect to their top lane power. In general, we don’t expect these damage-focused champions to switch support items, but would like if enchanters and tanks would build these items less frequently. Imperial Mandate rounds out this list as a support item that provides almost exclusively damage.

• Void Explosion Damage: 20 (+20%AP) (+4% Target Max HP) ⇒ 10 (+20% AP) (+3% Target Max HP)
• Cooldown: 8/7/6 at level 1/11/16 ⇒ 10

Bloodsong

See Zaz’Zak for more context.

• Spellblade AD Ratio: 150% ⇒ 100%

Imperial Mandate

See Zaz’Zak for more context.

• Current HP Damage: 12% ⇒ 10%

Statikk Shiv

Statikk Shiv is a bit too strong now that crit ADCs have a great late game awaiting them. So we’ve adjusted the cost so that it doesn’t hastily bring them to the late game as much as it did in the past.

• Total Cost: 2700 ⇒ 2900

World Atlas

While we've seen a decline in double support items in most regions, we're still seeing some teams do double or more support items. This change should ensure that it's no longer a thing and that support items are only appearing on the intended role that should be grabbing them.

• Excessive Minion Kill Threshold: 20 minions in 5 minutes ⇒ 20 minions (divided by the number of support items on your team) in 5 minutes. This update applies to all support items.
• For additional clarity this would be 10 minions over 5 minutes if two people on your team have World Atlas, then 7 minions over 5 minutes if three people have it, etc.