Patch 15.9

Q damage increased. W mana cost decreased. R magic penetration increased.

Annie released weaker than intended, specifically during her early game. We’re looking to amplify her identity as a burst mage, ease her laning phase, and reduce her mana costs which have been a pain point as of late.

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  Q - Disintegrate

  Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+ 80% AP) → 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 80% AP)

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  W - Incinerate

  Mana Cost: 90 / 95 / 100 / 105 / 110 → 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90

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  R - Summon

  Tibbers: Passive Magic Penetration: 10 / 12.5 / 15% → 15 / 17.5 / 20%

Q damage and bonus attack speed increased.

Ashe is a touch weak right now, so we’re adding some power to her mid-to-late game teamfights to help her thrive in cases where she finds space and time to focus down her targets.

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  Q - Ranger’s Focus

  AD Ratio: 111 / 117 / 123 / 129 / 135% → 110 / 117.5 / 125 / 132.5 / 140%

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  Q - Ranger’s Focus

  Bonus Attack Speed: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65% → 25 / 37.5 / 50 / 67.5 / 75%

Armor growth decreased. Passive damage to monsters decreased. Q damage decreased.

As a new surge of Gwen players have gotten better at her, the apparent rise in mastery has been offsetting some of our recent nerfs. As she’s still one of the strongest champions in the game, and the single strongest one in jungle, we’re delivering some more nerfs to keep up with how well all of you are playing her.

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  Passive - A Thousand Cuts

  Monster Damage Cap: 5 (+ 15% AP) → 5 (+ 10% AP)

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  Q - Snip Snip!

  Damage per Snip: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+ 5% AP) → 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+ 2% AP)

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  Q - Snip Snip!

  Maximum Damage: 110 / 160 / 210 / 260 / 310 (+ 60% AP) (+ 6x Passive) → 110 / 160 / 210 / 260 / 310 (+ 45% AP) (+ 6x Passive)

Base health and AD decreased, AD growth increased. E damage decreased.

Kalista is experiencing a very high ban rate in Pro due to a strong early game and the ability to enable her support pairings. These changes are targeted to significantly reduce her early game strength, while granting some compensation to her power level throughout the game.

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  E - Rend

  Damage: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+ 70% AD) (+ 20% AP) → 5 / 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 (+ 70% AD) (+ 20% AP)

Default item shop updated. W damage increased.

K'Sante has been quite sad in Solo Queue recently, and had very little presence in Pro due to a particular ap tank busting top laner. In this patch we’ll be buffing his W rank-up incentive slightly to better even out the discrepancy between maxing W and E second. In addition, we’re updating his default item shop page to show more tank items which should help avoid non-optimal itemization choices.

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  W - Path Maker

  Base Damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 → 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165

Passive duration increased. Q mana cost decreased. E mana cost decreased.

Leona is falling slightly behind her tanky support counterparts and we think some slight adjustments to her mana especially in early game should help. Additionally, we think her allies should feel that they have leeway using her passive on minions or champions, so we’re increasing its duration a tad.

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  Passive - Sunlight

  Duration: 1.5 → 2.5 seconds

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  Q - Shield of Daybreak

  Mana Cost: 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 → 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50

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  E - Zenith Blade

  Mana Cost: 60 → 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60

E shield strength increased. R damage and bonus movement speed increased.

Morgana has fallen behind in terms of power in all of her roles. Currently, her ultimate doesn't quite give her enough mobility to prevent her opponents from escaping. So to help her lock down her targets, we’re giving her ult more power and a stronger Black Shield to incentivize playmaking and increase success.

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  E - Black Shield

  Shield Strength: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+70% AP) → 100 / 155 / 210 / 265 / 320 (+70% AP)

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  R - Soul Shackles

  Damage: 175 / 250 / 325 (+ 80% AP) → 200 / 275 / 350 (+ 80% AP)

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  R - Soul Shackles

  Bonus Movement Speed: 10 / 35 / 60% → 20 / 40 / 60%

W cooldown increased early. E AD ratio decreased.

The dawg’s mastery curve continues to climb as players learn the limits of her new kit. We’re targeting generic nerfs to her in both roles, but looking to maintain her as viable in both jungle and mid. Turns out a lot of you know what the dog doin.

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  W - The Call of the Pack

  Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 → 26 / 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 seconds

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  E - Eviscerate

  Dash Damage: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 (+ 50% bonus AD) → 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 (+ 40% bonus AD)

Q mana cost reduced.

Orianna has hit a point where she’s in need of a small buff. Her mana costs are among the most painful in the game, so we’re looking to address that by allowing her to cast her most spammable spell sliiiiiiiightly more often.

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  Q - Command

  Attack: Mana Cost: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 → 35 at all ranks

Recommended items updated.

We’ve done a pass on Rengar’s recommended items for top and jungle, prioritizing items that perform better. Like most item changes, we expect this to result in a small, indirect buff for our favorite jungle cat.

Empowered Q damage increased.

We're happy with recent Shen buffs directionally, but they haven't quite hit the magnitude we're looking for. We've given him more utility, but what he needs now is more damage to actually fight it out in lanes. It's time to bring it back.

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  Q - Twilight Assault

  Empowered Bonus Magic Damage: 10-40 (based on level) (+ 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6% target’s max HP) → 10-40 (based on level) (+ 5 / 5.5 / 6 / 6.5 / 7% target’s max HP)

Mist Walker damage from monsters decreased.

Another patch, another Yorick change! Look, we’re just going for thematically resonant changes at this point. After all, he can’t die. We’re looking to reduce his power level in the jungle a little, as he’s still a bit overboard in that role.

• Passive - Shepard of Souls

  Mist Walker Damage to Monsters: 70% → 60%

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  R - Feast and Q - Consume

  May be pinged to display the total damage to monsters when off of cooldown

Boots of Swiftness are a bit overpowered relative to other boots, leading to champions zipping around combat more than we’d like.

Boots of Swiftness are a bit overpowered relative to other boots, leading to champions zipping around combat more than we’d like. Ultimately, we’re going with a small direct nerf that should keep it in line with other boot options.

Rod of Ages’ new build path has made it overtake mage mana itemization, and as a result, its high durability has slowed down champion interactions below what we think makes for the best gameplay.

Rod of Ages’ new build path has made it overtake mage mana itemization, and as a result, its high durability has slowed down champion interactions below what we think makes for the best gameplay. We think as a whole, mages are rather balanced and we intend to ship a larger pass on mage itemization to make sure all AP items are worthy of purchasing in an upcoming patch, but right now we want to tap the newly-popular Rod of Ages to make sure bursty champions can attack more normal-sized health pools.

Symbiotic Soles are a solid option for supports, which we’re very happy about, but they’re too game-warping for laners, as the empowered Recall lets them quickly reset every few waves, removing all sense of attrition.

Symbiotic Soles are a solid option for supports, which we’re very happy about, but they’re too game-warping for laners, as the empowered Recall lets them quickly reset every few waves, removing all sense of attrition. So we’re making some adjustments to retain their power for roaming around the map but make them worse when spamming Recall over and over.

Biscuits are intended to be a lane sustain tool with some decision-making around their optimal usage, but their current state highly rewards saving them until as late in the game as possible and using them at as close to death as possible.

Biscuits are intended to be a lane sustain tool with some decision-making around their optimal usage, but their current state highly rewards saving them until as late in the game as possible and using them at as close to death as possible. Some decision-making is desirable, but we don't love the hold-for-midgame-skirmish strategies or how pushed the power of biscuits are when the user is extremely low, so we’re taking a swing at both of these.

In the eternal Ignite vs. Teleport debate, Ignite has come up on the losing end as of late. It’s a bit under-picked, so we’re giving it a meaningful buff to its late game da…

In the eternal Ignite vs. Teleport debate, Ignite has come up on the losing end as of late. It’s a bit under-picked, so we’re giving it a meaningful buff to its late game damage, specifically aimed at mid and top laners.

Among the options in its drawer, Unflinching is competing with a scaling rune (Overgrowth) and a kit-bound rune (Revitalize).

Among the options in its drawer, Unflinching is competing with a scaling rune (Overgrowth) and a kit-bound rune (Revitalize). In order to make it make sense in this slot compared to the other options, we're shifting it to be an early game-skewed counter option.