League Of Legends Patch 4.5 Notes

• HEALTH PER LEVEL: 85 ⇒ 90
• FEROCITY EFFECT SCALING: Per ability level ⇒ Per champion level

• STEALTH: Rengar becomes visible mid-leap ⇒ at the beginning of the leap

• BUG FIX: Fixed a bug where the bonus damage from Savagery could crit
• COOLDOWN: 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds ⇒ 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 seconds
• DAMAGE: 30/60/90/120/150 (+1.0 attack damage at all ranks) ⇒20/40/60/80/100 (+1.0/1.05/1.10/1.15/1.20 attack damage)
• REMOVED ATTACK SPEED BUFF: 30/35/40/45/50% attack speed for 4 seconds
• BASIC ATTACK BUFF WINDOW: 2 seconds ⇒ 3 seconds
• REMOVED UTILITY: Usable on structures

• DAMAGE: 30/60/90/120/150 (+2.0 attack damage) based on skill level ⇒20-235 (+1.5 attack damage) based on champion level
• ATTACK SPEED BUFF: +60/70/80/90/100% attack speed based on skill level ⇒ +50-101% attack speed based on champion level
• ATTACK SPEED BUFF DURATION: Unchanged (5 seconds)
• NEW ATTACK DAMAGE BUFF: +10% attack damage for 5 seconds

• COOLDOWN: 15/14/13/12/11 seconds ⇒ 12 seconds at all ranks
• DAMAGE: Unchanged (50/80/110/140/170 (+0.8 ability bower))
• BONUS ARMOR & MAGIC RESISTANCE: +15/22/29/36/43 armor & magic resistance ⇒ +10/15/20/25/30 armor & magic resistance
• BONUS ARMOR & MAGIC RESISTANCE DURATION: 3 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds
• NEW UTILITY: Bonus armor & magic resistance increases by 50% per enemy champion or large monster hit (no cap)

• DAMAGE: 50/80/110/140/170 (+0.8 ability power) based on skill level ⇒40-240 (+0.8 ability power) based on champion level
• MINIMUM HEAL: 20 + (10 x level) ⇒ 12 + (4 x level)
• MAXIMUM HEAL: 40 + (20 x level) ⇒ 75 + (25 x level)

• NEW UTILITY: Targeted ability ⇒ Skillshot
• COOLDOWN: 12/11/10/9/8 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds at all ranks
• DAMAGE: 60/105/150/195/240 (+0.7 attack damage) ⇒50/100/150/200/250 (+0.7 attack damage)
• RANGE: 575 ⇒ 1000
• MOVEMENT SPEED SLOW-50/55/60/65/70% movement speed ⇒-60/65/70/75/80% movement speed
• MOVEMENT SPEED SLOW DURATION: Unchanged (2.5 seconds)

• DAMAGE: 60/105/150/195/240 (+0.7 attack damage) based on skill level⇒ 50-340 (+0.7 attack damage) based on champion level
• ROOT DURATION: 1 second ⇒ 1.75 seconds

• COOLDOWN: 140/105/70 seconds ⇒ 120/95/70 seconds
• NEW UTILITY: Rengar only gains movement speed when moving toward enemy champions
• MOVEMENT SPEED BONUS: +20/25/30% movement speed ⇒ +15% movement speed
• NEW UTILITY: After breaking stealth, Rengar gains +25/45/45% movement speed for 5 seconds
• NEW UTILITY: After breaking stealth, Rengar gains 1 ferocity per second for 5 seconds
• NEW UTILITY: Targets are alerted when Rengar is within 1000 range and stealthed, but do not gain vision of him.

• ITEM TYPE: Basic item ⇒ Trinket (different versions for Warding Totem, Scrying Orb and Sweeping Lens trinket lines)
• COST: 800 gold ⇒ Free
• TROPHY GAIN: Unchanged (+1 per kill or assist)
• REMOVED DEATH PENALTY: -1 stack on death
• REMOVED BONUS ATTACK DAMAGE: +5 attack damage (+2 additional Attack Damage per level)
• 3 TROPHY BONUS: +10 armor penetration, +5% cooldown reduction ⇒+25 movement speed out of combat and in brush
• 6 TROPHY BONUS: +25 movement speed ⇒ +125 Unseen Predator leap range, Tier 2 vision active
• REMOVED 9 TROPHY BONUS: +150 Unseen Predator leap range
• NEW 12 TROPHY BONUS: +5 seconds to Thrill of the Hunt duration
• REMOVED 14 TROPHY BONUS: +3 seconds to Thrill of the Hunt duration, first ability used after Thrill of the Hunt generates an additional point of Ferocity
• NEW 20 TROPHY BONUS: Thrill of the Hunt movement speed bonus doubled to +30% movement speed, Tier 3 vision active (Warding Totem version gains Greater Stealth Totem active)

Gragas

Gragas gained stronger close-combat abilities! Drunken Rage now empowers his next attack to deal additional magic damage (plus a large portion of the target’s maximum health) and Body Slam stuns and knocks back stricken foes. In exchange, Graggy’s lost some of his long-range damage in both Barrel Roll (although Barrel Roll now slows movement speed) and Explosive Cask. Gragas just makes more sense as a fat, scrappy brawler than a long-range…barrel…sniper?

When we initially designed Gragas, we intended for him to be a drunken brawler who jumped into the fight to mess things up. As players began to master him, however, they focused more on his high ability power ratios and sniping potential while relying on Body Slam and Drunken Rage to get away. While we like to support emergent strategies for champions, playing Gragas like a long-range mage created some very imbalanced situations where either he could one-shot his opponents (success) or he couldn’t (failure) and therefore became more sad than drunk. With this rework, Gragas should deliver on the core fantasy of a tanky drunkard who takes on his foes belly first.

General

Passive – Happy Hour

 Q – Barrel Roll

 W – Drunken Rage

E – Body Slam

R – Explosive Cask

Armor seals have become such a standardized rune that players have learned to play with – and around – them. These buffs are to compensate for that dependency.

Anivia

Anivia‘s received a small quality-of-life buff to create a clear best use case (if you just want more damage) for Glacial Storm.

R – Glacial Storm

Fiddlesticks

Did you know that when Fiddlesticks hides in a bush and you don’t have vision of him, he can still affect you with Dread? Astute players knew this and learned to watch for his debuff, which made Fiddlesticks sad. We fixed that so Fiddlesticks wouldn’t be so sad.

Passive – Dread

Graves

Quickdraw costs less mana to use, Collateral Damage’s explosion damage is now the same as the impact damage.

We’re emphasizing the collateral part of Collateral Damage.

E – Quickdraw

R – Collateral Damage

Heimerdinger

Apex Turret no longer spawns with a beam charge stored so it can’t be dropped for an instant line-nuke. H-28G Evolution Turret and Apex Turret deal less damage.

The ‘Dinger’s been whomping a little too hard in the early game, so we brought Heimer’s overall power level back to a reasonable place while keeping his late game gains. Additionally, the Upgraded!!! Apex Turret changes are meant to emphasize the difference (damage now vs. maximum damage later) between an Upgraded!!! Rocket Storm versus an Upgraded!!! Apex Turret.

Q – H-28G Evolution Turret

Q – H-28Q Apex Turret

Kha’Zix

Kha’Zix must stay out of stealth longer between casts of Void Assault. Evolved Active Camouflage no longer reduces damage from turrets when Kha’Zix is stealthed.

We love seeing Kha’Zix players adapt to the changes to Evolved Active Camouflage. Unfortunately, the increased duration of Void Assault combined with extremely short between stealth windows meant that Kha’Zix was straight face-tanking abilities and turret aggro rather than swiftly moving in and out of fights. These changes let Kha’Zix’s opponents have a way to respond when the bug is out hunting.

R – Void Assault

R – Evolved Active Camouflage

Lee Sin

Safeguard’s cooldown will be cut in half if Lee Sin uses it on an allied champion or himself. In exchange, Safeguard’s cooldown has gone up and will no longer give Lee a shield if he dashes toward a non-champion unit.

Even though he was designed to be a high-risk early game champion, Lee Sin can get around making risky plays because of his high mobility and early game base power. We were considering some larger changes to give Lee more early game risk and a way forward into the end game, but your concerns that we would be heavily altering some of Lee’s core play patterns (which wasn’t our intent!) helped us decide that we should slow our roll. These changes mean Lee will need to take more risks in mobility but don’t touch his overall power curve. They also give Lee a real reason to play with his teammates rather than inanimate wards.

W – Safeguard

W – Iron Will

Leona

The correct play against Leona in lane is to poke her down to make her engages riskier, but her high defensive stats and health regen were mitigating this a little too much. By reducing the bonus armor/magic resistance on Eclipse, Leona‘s a slightly more viable in-combat target. Plus, if she doesn’t get a kill, that combat damage will stick harder.

General

W – Eclipse

Lulu

Help, Pix!’s duration of staying on an enemy has been reduced (ally duration remains unaffected). Casting Help, Pix! on an allied minion no longer gives that minion a shield but still puts Pix on the minion. Help, Pix! deals less base damage at higher ranks.

When we made our 2014 Season changes to supports, we wanted to make them feel good about buying AP items. For most supports we gave them forms of additional utility with smaller gains in damage, but Lulu ended up getting a lot in both categories. We actually like mid Lulu, but want to make sure that the reasons for choosing her weren’t due to her low-interaction (and high-obnoxiousness) lane harass pattern where she can get instant damage with Help, Pix! before following it up with two high-powered guaranteed Glitterlances. Choosing Lulu as a solo mage champion over being a duo-lane support should come with strategic tradeoffs, but many players were choosing her regardless of team composition or enemy matchups. Ultimately we had to hit some of Lulu‘s high offensive power, but we’re also committed to ensuring this doesn’t have a huge impact on support Lulu (who actually comes with tradeoffs like no guaranteed farm or gold generation), so we’ll look at ways to help support Lulu if she comes out too weak because of these changes.

E – Help, Pix!

Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune now has a meaningful mid to late game where she can deal more damage and scale harder (via Impure Shots and Bullet Time) from her early lane advantages. In exchange, MF’s lost some of her lane bully power (reduced Double Up damage and lower early damage from Impure Shots).

In the past, Miss Fortune‘s been seen as the go-to markswoman with a strong early game presence who transitions to high AoE power. As the landscape of League has changed, however, she’s been left in the dust for both strengths, so we wanted to give her something of her own to get excited about. So while we did need to tune down some of MF’s early game bullying, we did so to further highlight the shock and awe factor of Bullet Time and Impure Shots.

Passive – Strut

Q – Double Up

W – Impure Shots

E – Make It Rain

R – Bullet Time

Renekton

Dominus’ health bonus and AoE magic damage are lower in early ranks and higher at later ranks.

While we’re very aware of the high strength Renekton brings to the lane, we’re tackling his strengths carefully over time. Dominus was the best ability to look at first, because its high strength was giving the croc an almost guaranteed lane win once he hit level 6. This change also lets Renekton scale a little better into the late game so his early advantages can be built on.

R – Dominus

Twisted Fate

We’re finding a middle ground from our changes back in 3.10 to let Twisted Fate gank with a pre-picked card easier.

W – Pick A Card

Wukong

Wukong‘s armor shred on Crushing Blow now scales with level (starts out lower before ending up at his old value). Cyclone’s total attack damage ratio has been reduced.

Statistically, Wukong‘s performed very well since his launch, despite being played in a number of positions (top, mid, and jungle). Now that Wu’s found a position that circumvents his natural weaknesses, we can tune some of his high damage – particularly when he comes roaring out of the jungle with raw offensive items. We considered other options but realized most didn’t do enough to tackle his overbearing damage in the early ranks (as an example, removing the armor shred on Crushing Blow versus neutral monsters has minimal impact if you consider how much armor they begin with).

Q – Crushing Blow

R – Cyclone

Ziggs

Ziggs‘ attack range has been reduced.

Ziggs has a super safe laning phase, even when he’s constantly harassing his opponents with abilities and auto attacks. This change is to add a little more risk to Ziggs when he goes in for a hit.

General

Q – Orb of Deception

Blitzcrank

Q – Rocket Grab

Jarvan IV

Cataclysm should now be more reliable for Jarvan IV to land.

R – Cataclysm

Jinx

R – Super Mega Death Rocket!

Malzahar

Malzahar‘s voidling’s attack priority system has been reworked to function more intuitively and not just occasionally sit there.

Passive – Summon Voidling

Nami

General

Pantheon

Passive – Aegis Protection

Talon

R – Shadow Assault

Still in the process of making Blue Trinkets less sad. Maybe it’s the color.

Scrying Orb (level 1)

Scrying Orb (level 9)

Farsight Orb

We’re a little concerned that Spirit of the Elder Lizard is skewing the landscape of the early jungle toward high damage champions who sustain (and thrive) thanks to their offensive prowess. We’re still keeping a close eye on Elder Lizard, but are moving conservatively in the meantime.

 NEW: Feral Flare

It’s finally here! Picking up after our 4.4 changes to Wriggle’s Lantern, we wanted to introduce a new jungle item that “rounds out” the pool. Feral Flare specifically focuses on late-game farming in the jungle at the expense of meaningful early to mid game power.

 NEW: Aether Wisp

Lich Bane

Twin Shadows

 NEW: Forbidden Idol

Morellonomicon

Talisman of Ascension

Frost Queen’s Claim

Will of the Ancients

Aegis of the Legion

Locket of the Iron Solari

Warden’s Mail

Glacial Shroud

Iceborn Gauntlet

Frozen Heart

 Boot Enchantments

Because Homeguard boots are so strong as a defensive item, we realized we needed to bring the offensive boot enchantments up to parity. Boot enchants should be an opportunity to personalize your play, so… have a few more choices!

Enchantment: Alacrity

Enchantment: Captain

Enchantment: Distortion

Enchantment: Furor

Enchantment: Homeguard

Tier 2

Tier 1

Tier 2

Feast

Similar to our armor seal changes, lifesteal quintessences are a fairly standardized rune on certain champions, so we wanted to compensate for the change in specific cases.

Scavenger

Completely unrelated buff here – we noticed that Scavenger’s range was smaller than Ancient Coin (occasionally resulting in one granting gold while the other didn’t), so we fixed it.

Exhaust

Exhaust has fallen out of favor as Ignite has become the staple for kill lanes around the world. Additionally, the successful “use case” of Exhaust has grown more difficult as burst damage combinations become the norm (both through the current popular support roster and overall damage contributions in lane). These buffs to Exhaust are to give it a stronger defensive use case while also letting the player feel better about using it in a timely manner.

Heal

While the current live environment heavily favors all-in engagements, we wanted a summoner spell that could be reliably used for defensive lanes. These changes let us expand the scope of Heal so that it has more cool use cases and playmaking opportunities.

Ignite

Partially to compensate for the Heal changes and because when you set someone on fire, that should make them real visible.

Barrier

We heard your feedback and have tuned up the uniqueness of the Barrier particle.

Dragon

Dragon now deals a percentage of the target’s current health as damage (this goes up over time). Dragon’s debuff now reduces total damage dealt by 20%. Dragon gains additional armor and magic resistance over time.

In the mid to late game when champions have enough damage, taking the Dragon becomes a high value, low risk objective. These changes should help the Dragon scale better as a late game objective (rather than a quick gold boost).