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Bel’Veth

The Void Empress

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Aphelios

Passive attack speed and Lethality with rank up increased.

Aphelios has been very weak this patch, and he didn’t get much help from the Durability Update. We're buffing up his passive to help add a little more fire moon power to his guns.

Passive - The Hitman and the Seer

Brand

Passive percent health burn damage decreased.

Brand has been on fire since the Durability Update given that everyone having more HP increases the value of his abilities. We're partially extinguishing his ability to burn his enemies with percent max health damage.

Passive - Blaze

Caitlyn

Q AD scaling decreased early and increased late, mana cost increased early and decreased late. E base damage increased and cooldown decreased.

Cait wasn't in a great place pre-12.10, and her lane bully reputation has only continued to suffer with the update. We're putting more power in her Piltover Peacemaker to help her procure her proper place pressuring preposterous people (lane opponents).

Q - Piltover Peacemaker

E - 90 Caliber Net

Fizz

Health growth decreased. Mana growth increased.

The Tidal Trickster has been keeping his head above water, but his big mana costs feel pretty bad in extended combat. We're giving him more to work with later in the game, but also bringing down his tankiness so he doesn't get too playful out there.

Base Stats

Gragas

Q AP scaling increased, cooldown decreased. E cooldown decreased.

Gragas hasn't been keeping up with the extended fights that came with the Durability Update, so we're topping off his Graggy Ice by giving him some more drinking power and agility to help his rotations in longer skirmishes.

Q - Barrel Roll

E - Body Slam

Gwen

W cooldown increased, bonus armor/MR decreased early and now scales with ability rank. E cooldown refund from first basic attack decreased.

Gwen's been the most dominant top laner in Pro thanks to her high resilience, mobility, and damage. In particular, with longer fight durations, she's more often able to cast Hallowed Mist twice, so we're increasing the cooldown of her incredibly powerful teamfight tool. We're also reverting the E change from 12.7 which was giving her dash more uptime in fights than intended.

W - Hallowed Mist

E - Skip ‘n Slash

Irelia

Q healing increased. E cooldown decreased early.

The Durability Update didn't do our Blade Dancer any favors, greatly reducing her potential to get kills in the early game. While this was intended, she is a bit weaker than we’d like so we're giving her a small sustain boost and more opportunities to stun opponents to help her out in ways that aren’t burst damage. Better nerf buff Irelia.

Q - Bladesurge

E - Flawless Duet

Kayn

Q damage decreased in Darkin form.

Darkin Kayn has been reaping quite a lot of benefits from the Durability Update, with all these champions walking around with more health and whatnot. Pulling some power from his Q to help him find balance post-12.10.

Q - Reaping Slash (Darkin Form)

Kog'Maw

Q armor and MR shred decreased, passive attack speed decreased. W percent max health damage on-hit decreased.

Our little Void puppy has started baring his fangs (oddly enough, they look a lot like Guinsoo's Rageblade). Given his knack for gnawing through his chew toys and enemies in longer team fights, we're head patting down his percent health damage and attack speed.

Q - Caustic Spittle

W - Bio-Arcane Barrage

Lee Sin

Base AD increased. Q damage increased.

Lee Sin has been struggling to consistently snowball his early leads since the Durability Update, so we're rolling back some nerfs implemented in 12.7 to help him find his footing again.

Base Stats

Q - Sonic Wave / Resonating Strike

Lillia

Base health decreased. Passive damage decreased.

Much like Brand and Kayn, Lillia's abilities that deal percent max health damage were indirectly buffed by the Durability Update. We're toning down the areas that benefited most to make her a little less of a nightmare this patch.

Base Stats

Passive - Dream-Laden Bough

Master Yi

HP growth decreased. E base true damage on-hit decreased.

It turns out that when a tanky champion can deal true damage, it's a little strong. We're taking down Yi's durability and true damage, which both greatly benefited from the Durability Update.

Base Stats

E - Wuju Style

Nunu & Willump

Q healing against non-champions increased. E cooldown now decreases with ability rank.

Nunu has been a burst reliant tank, and his nerfs in patch 12.10 negatively affected both his burstiness and his tankiness. We like him being slightly less lethal, but in exchange we’re giving him some additional durability to offset the reduced damage. Also you can now throw more snowballs per game. Like a LOT more snowballs. Snowball fight anyone?

Q - Consume

E - Snowball Barrage

Olaf

Passive maximum Life Steal value threshold increased. Q damage increased, minimum recast time decreased. W cooldown increased late. R passive armor and MR decreased.

With the combination of the Durability Update and his mid-scope, Olaf was living up to his berserker fantasy a little too much, especially up in top lane. We're pulling back on some of his bonus stats and making him less tanky late game in exchange for more jungle clear efficiency to give jungle Olafs some needed help.

Passive - Berserker Rage

Q - Undertow

W - Tough It Out

R - Ragnarok

Rakan

Q healing increased. W cooldown decreased. E mana cost decreased, shield strength increased.

Rakan was hit pretty hard by the Durability Update given his heavy use of shields and his reliance on getting takedowns with his CC (something much harder with more durable champs). We're giving him back what he lost plus a little more in hopes he can make a Grand Entrance back onto the Rift.

Q - Gleaming Quill

W - Grand Entrance

E - Battle Dance

Rengar

Base health decreased. R cooldown increased late.

Rengar has been finding a lot of success with his lethality and fighter builds recently, especially in Elite tiers of play. We’re giving him some more generalized nerfs for now while we keep an eye on how his builds and itemization choices land this patch.

Base Stats

R - Thrill of the Hunt

Ryze

E AP ratio increased, mana cost decreased.

We're loosening up some of Ryze's mana restrictions so his spellcasting is a little more forgiving while he's scaling up. We understand that this isn’t going to resolve all of the issues he’s currently facing, but this should help make him a little less blue while we look into new ways to make Ryze feel good in solo queue without dominating pro play.

E - Spell Flux

Samira

AD growth increased. Q AD scaling increased.

Since the Durability Update, Samira has been struggling to find those explosive leads and snowball opportunities. We're increasing her scaling a bit so she's got more potential to style on her enemies in later stages of the game.

Base Stats

Q - Flair

Senna

Passive Mist Wraith drop rate for Senna's minion kills increased. Q slow strength decreased; slow duration decreased early and now scales with rank.

Senna has been a bit too strong with the Durability Update, consistently winning lane and oppressing her opponents. We're taking down her power as a support and, in exchange, giving ADC Senna more chances to collect Mist Wraiths.

Passive - Absolution

Q - Piercing Darkness

Swain

Passive healing decreased. W magic damage and AP scaling decreased. R healing per tick decreased.

Turns out Swain's new empire was Patch 12.10, quickly rising to power in every lane. We're nerfing him across the board with particular attention to Top and Mid, making his healing and damage lower at later stages of the game.

Passive - Ravenous Flock

W - Vision of Empire

R - Demonic Ascension

Sylas

W mana cost decreased, AP ratio for healing increased, cooldown decreased early. E cooldown decreased early.

With the Durability Update, Sylas has found himself unable to burst down opponents like he used to. While his burst has been nerfed, we actually aren’t planning on buffing it back to what it once was. Instead we want to give him back power in other meaningful ways. For now, we're buffing his versatility so he can find more ways to fight the system.

W - Kingslayer

E - Abscond / Abduct

Tahm Kench

Passive magic damage on-hit increased. Q heal increased. R shield strength increased.

UNBENCHED. UNLOADED. UNCLOGGED. The Durability Update wasn't particularly nice to Tahm in any of his roles, so we're granting this fish's wishes by giving him some compensatory buffs to his heals and shields which should help him stick around longer in extended fights.

Passive - An Acquired Taste

Q - Tongue Lash

R - Devour

Taliyah

Base health decreased. Passive updated. Q damage decreased. E damage to monsters increased. R updated.

Taliyah's mid-scope update in Patch 12.9 was great for Taliyah players, especially those in Elite tiers of play. We're introducing some Elite-skewed nerfs that should erode some of her power as well as some QoL changes and bug fixes to help her out.

Base Stats

Q - Threaded Volley

E - Unraveled Earth

R - Weaver's Wall

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Taliyah would be unable to reactivate and destroy her wall if she took damage while the wall was up

Taric

Q healing increased, mana cost decreased and no longer increases with rank. E cooldown decreased, stun duration increased.

Taric hasn’t been the radiant gem he once was, so we’re giving him some large buffs that should help him thrive in extended combat situations to help him shine in the new meta.

Q - Starlight's Touch

E - Dazzle

Tryndamere

Q healing increased. R cooldown decreased.

Tryndamere took a big tumble in patch 12.10. His healing from Fury comes at a high cost so we're reverting the pre-emptive healing nerfs we gave him in patch 12.10 while giving his ultimate more up time in games.

Q - Bloodlust

R - Undying Rage

Veigar

Base armor decreased and armor growth increased. E cooldown increased.

We're targeting Veigar's level scaling by limiting access on his E. This should bring his team fight control back to reasonable heights, especially in late game after he gets some Ability Haste.

Base Stats

E - Event Horizon

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Veigar's Q - Baleful Strike tooltip incorrectly stated that bonus stacks could be obtained by last hitting champions (so don't save your Q to last hit champions)

Wukong

W cooldown increased early. E bonus damage to monsters decreased.

Wukong was already quite powerful before, and the durability update pushed him over the edge. We're looking to nerf his jungle role through clear speed and tap down top a bit as well through early mobility.

W - Warrior Trickster

E - Nimbus Strike

Xin Zhao

Passive healing AD ratio increased. W damage increased, mana cost now decreases with rank.

Xin Zhao doesn't pose as much of a threat to backline carries as he used to, so we're giving him a bit more damage on his fairest spell and returning some of his extended combat power.

Passive - Determination

W - Wind Becomes Lightning

Zeri

Q active damage increased, charged basic attack AP ratio and damage based on target's missing health increased, slow on charged basic attacks removed. W AD scaling increased, slow strength decreased, cooldown decreased. E cooldown decreased, cooldown reduction per basic attack and crit decreased. R cooldown decreased, move speed per stack decreased, stacks per champion hit with initial cast increased.

Zeri, Zeri, we've nerfed you so much you haven't been remotely scary. So this time around, we're giving you more damage to make you merry. That said, buffs come at a cost, and we're being wary, so we're lowering your utility and mobility, you electric carry.

Q - Burst Fire

W - Ultrashock Laser

E - Spark Surge

R - Lightning Crash