Riot Games has released a full preview for League of Legends (LoL) Patch 26.11 and the copious amounts of changes it’s bringing.
Riot had promised fewer large-scale mid-season patches, yet is making substantial adjustments to the game ahead of the LoL Mid-Season Invitational esports tournament.
LoL Patch 26.11 has a lot to take in, including changes for nine champions and huge systemic nerfs and buffs.
Here is a breakdown of what League of Legends players can expect from the next update.
Riot Phroxzon Explains LoL Patch 26.11 Changes
As usual, LoL lead gameplay designer Matt ‘Phroxzon’ Leung-Harrison has given fans a full preview of the next patch.
Primarily, he has confirmed that this huge update is mostly made up of systemic changes to bring melee supports back into the LoL meta.
He also gave additional context to some of the champion changes, including why Heimerdinger is getting buffed:
“After the minion changes in the previous patch, Heimer’s turrets are a bit worse for wear. We’re giving him a feel-good QOL change so that his turrets aren’t killed by ranged minions without being able to attack back.”
Phroxzon also explained why, despite the Smolder hotfix and Deathfire Touch being changed from adaptive to AP damage, Smolder is getting even more nerfs:
“While we are making changes to the Deathfire Touch interaction that will affect Smolder, we still think he will be too strong after these changes.
“The changes to Smolder are targeted at also making his squishy Crit builds more optimal so he is more assailable later in the game.”
And finally, Phroxzon revealed that Quinn jungle could be legit in 26.11 after Riot tried to make it viable in the last patch:
“Quinn has landed in a pretty weak spot for Jungle and in this state, it’s pretty close to griefing team when picked. So, we’re giving it a pretty sizeable buff to give it a legitimate shot at being powerful and viable. Players so far have expressed interest in playing it!”
Upcoming Champion Buffs
- Diana
- P Monster Damage: 230% ⇒ 270%
- W health bonus health ratio: 9%-11% ⇒ 18%-22% on full orb detonation
- Ekko
- P Cooldown per target: 5 ⇒ 4s
- Heimerdinger
- Q Turret Range increased: 530 ⇒ 550, +50 against Minions
- E Vision Duration increased: 1s ⇒ 1.25s, to resolve edge case where turrets lose vision and don’t fire their beam
- Kassadin
- Q CD: 10-8 ⇒ 9-7
- W Passive Damage: 20 (+10% AP) ⇒ 25 (+10% AP)
- Quinn
- P Bonus Monster Damage: 50 ⇒ 75
- Q Monster Damage: 150% ⇒ 200%
Upcoming Champion Nerfs
- Brand
- Smolder
- Passive: Bonus Magic Damage on Q: 40-60% of your passive stacks (Scaling with Crit Chance) ⇒ 25-55% of your passive stacks (Scaling with Crit Chance)
- Passive: Bonus Magic Damage on E: 12% of your passive stacks ⇒ 8%-12% of your passive stacks (Scaling with Crit Chance)
- Teemo
- E Damage: On-hit/Poison scaling: (+10% bonus AD / +20% bonus AD) ⇒ (+5% bonus AD / +10% bonus AD)
- Armor growth: 4.95/lvl ⇒ 4.5/lvl
Upcoming Champion Adjustments
- AP Xin Zhao
- Passive Damage: 15/30/45/60% Bonus AD (Levels 1/6/11/16) ⇒ 15/30/45/60% Bonus AD (+5/10/15/ 20% AP) (Levels 1/6/11/16)
- Passive Healing: 3/4/5% Max HP (+50/65/90% AP) (Levels 1/6/11) ⇒ 3/4/5% Max HP (+45/55/80% AP) (Levels 1/6/11)
System Buffs
- Aftershock
- Bonus Resists: 35 (+80% Bonus AR/MR) ⇒ 45 (+75% Bonus AR/MR)
- Guardian
- Cooldown: 90 – 40 (Levels 1-18)⇒ 75-40 (Levels 1-18)
- Shield Amount: 45 – 180 (+25% AP) (+5% Bonus HP) ⇒ 40-150 (+20% AP) (+6% Bonus HP)
- Heartsteel
- Damage To Permanent HP Conversion: 8% ⇒ 10%
- Knight’s Vow
- Damage Reduction: 12% ⇒ 14%
- Healing Ratio :: 10% ⇒ 12%
- Locket of the Iron Solari
- Armor and MR: 25 ⇒ 30
- Zeke’s
- Now waits for up to 5 seconds after casting your ultimate for a valid enemy to be close enough to you before triggering the Storm effect
System Nerfs
- Dreammaker
- Blue Bubble DR: 75-255 (Levels 1-18), but only affects the literal first instance of damage ⇒ 50 – 194 (Levels 1-18), but affects the entire first damaging spell
- Purple Bubble Damage: 50-170 (Levels 1-18), triggering On-Hit ⇒ 40-160 (Levels 1-18), triggering on damaging attack or ability, with AoE reduction for AoE triggers (See Nami E)
- Echoes of Helia
- Damage Stored: 35% ⇒ 30%
- Moonstone Renewer
- Starlight Grace Unique effect no longer double dips in Heal/Shield Power AND Grevious Wounds
- Summon: Aery
- Shield Value: 30 – 100 (Levels 1-18) (+10% bonus AD) (+5% AP) ⇒ 20-100 (Levels 1-18) (+10% bpmis AD) (+5% AP)
System Adjustments
- Grubs
- Structural DoT Damage: (3/9/12 Melee II 1.5/4.5/6 Ranged) ⇒ (4/12/16 Melee II 2/6/8 Ranged)
- Summoned Grub HP: 60% of Melee Minions ⇒ 100% of Melee Minions
- Hexplate
- Passive Ult Bonus (Ranged): 50% AS and 20% MS for 8 seconds ⇒ 35% AS and 14% MS for 8 seconds (Melee Unchanged)
- Imperial Mandate
- Reworked: Now Builds from Blasting Wand + Bandle Glass + 700g (2400g)
- Grants 65 AP, 15 AH, 150% Base Mana Regen
- Unique – Control: Grants Immobilizing Abilities an additional +15 AH
- Unique – Command: When you immoblize an enemy champion, apply 6% Vulnerable for 4s. (Vulnerable means they take % Increased Damage)
- Deathfire Touch
- Statikk Shiv
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Meanwhile, Riot is working on allowing LoL players to queue in three roles with the upcoming League Next update.
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