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What's New

With this patch, we have a bunch of systems adjustments aimed at some of the strategies that have been emerging in bot lane, as well as opening up some space for itemization diversity in jungle.

Recently we've been seeing increased support roaming really early into the game, to the point where they seem to be operating as a second jungler. While this may be interesting as a strategic option, we feel it is damaging to game integrity when it's the default approach and supports are no longer meaningfully participating in a lane, so we're making higher tradeoffs for this playstyle by tweaking role quest progress for supports and directly addressing specific champions like Camille who have moved into the support role leading this meta.

Related, mages are picking up as a prominent class selection in bot lane in both pro and regular play. While they've been niche but powerful picks for a long time, both from your feedback and the stats, it's clear that it's time for some adjustments to equalize the power here a bit between mages and ADCs. Similar to the approach with supports above, they'll still be viable, just not clearly dominant.

Additionally, we are tweaking the AD fighter itemization space and the jungle pets to encourage a more diverse meta beyond Sundered Sky users to include more AP and Tank junglers. We're excited to see what shakes out next!

T1 Galio, T1 Xin Zhao, T1 Seraphine, T1 Ambessa, T1 Yunara, MVP T1 Miss Fortune, and Victorious Rengar will be available July 15, 2026.

Champions

Azir

  • Azir is feeling more headless chicken than valiant falcon right now. But rather than straight numerical buffs, we're preening his feathers of impactful bugs and changing some rune interactions that should make him start squawking about Shurima more often.

W - Arise!

  • On-Hit? More Like On-Destroy: Scorch, Liandry's Torment, Blackfire Torch, and Hextech Alternator now deal 100% of their damage on-hit instead of 50%
  • Double-tap: Conqueror will now apply 2 stacks on-hit instead of 1
  • Laser Focus: Press the Attack now applies to the primary target hit

R - Emperor's Divide

  • Be Gone, Peasant!: Now knocks back jungle monsters

Corki

  • Everyone's favorite incoherent aviator is having trouble taking off in bot lane. So, we want to give a little more firepower to Corki's sorties later in the game, and really enhance his spell-weaving missile firing fantasy

Garen

  • Garen is dishing out too much justice across all skill brackets right now. So, we're going to tap down the Demacian Justice just a tad to make him a little less oppressive, while still rewarding well-timed target selection and inspiring fear in the hearts of those who shirk justice.

Jayce

  • Jayce quickly climbed the ranks after our 26.03 adjustments and has stayed at the top of the pack. Additionally, he has become a fairly comfortable blind pick champ due to his Rune flexibility, and is the most picked top laner in higher ranks. Right now he's building like an assassin, but playing like a fighter, which we prefer to the tank Jayce era. These changes should tap down on his speediness and high durability while preserving what makes him fun.

Locke

  • Locke's release has gone relatively smoothly, and we are now tuning him down a bit as players have had time to pick him up. We want to open up more counterplay by reducing how long he can pressure with his Q. And we're bumping down the healing on his W because he's not an enchanter, after all.

Mordekaiser

  • Morde has lost a fair amount of power ever since the Riftmaker bugfix in 26.10 and could use some love, so we're rewarding him more for when he gets you in his Grasp and enhancing the Lord of Death's 1:1 fantasy.

Nami

  • Nami has been feeling a bit like a fish out of water since the Mandate changes, especially when combined with her nerf in 26.7. We've targeted her E which has been feeling a bit underwhelming with her new builds, which should shift the tides a bit in her favor to help her make a bigger splash.

Items

Immortal Path

Immortal Path has really been living up to its name lately on a couple of mid picks who can use the item, with a higher winrate than expected even for its niche pick rate. These changes should leave it worth building but more reasonable in output.

  • Damage Increase While Above 50% Maximum Health: 5% ⇒ 4%
  • Healing, Shielding, and Regeneration Increase While Below 50% Maximum Health: 15% ⇒ 12%

Protoplasm Harness

Protoplasm is overperforming across the board and is leading to particularly potent spikes on champions that buy it early. We still want to make sure it's still an exciting option for tank champs, so we're focusing on decreasing its early single item spike power.

  • Cost: 2500 ⇒ 2600
  • Bonus Health: 200 - 300 ⇒ 100 - 300
  • Healing: 200 - 400 ⇒ 100 - 400

Hextech Rocketbelt

Rocketbelt's popularity on usually immobile mages, rather than AP bruisers, is giving us flashbacks of the Galeforce days. We're adjusting its stat incentives to make it slightly less appealing when compared to other damage-focused options but also keep it feeling good on its traditional core users that rely on the item for engage. There's also a Ruby Crystal in its build path that didn't exist in days where the item built out of Kindlegem and was a little more clunky.

  • Build Path: Hextech Alternator + Fiendish Codex + Amplifying Tome + 300 ⇒ Hextech Alternator + Kindlegem + Ruby Crystal + 350
  • Active Cooldown: 40 seconds ⇒ 50 seconds
  • Ability Power: 70 ⇒ 60
  • Health: 300 ⇒ 350

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug where Divine Domain could grant infinite Attack Range.
  • Fixed a bug where Combusting Interest did not grant gold to champions' damage over time effects like Darius, Teemo, and Twitch.
  • Fixed a bug where Smolder could be offered Combusting Interest.
  • Fixed a bug where It's Go Time did not correctly grant bonus move speed with Master Yi's E, Ashe's Q, and Twitch's Q.
  • Fixed a bug where High Roller sometimes failed to drop an Anvil when a unit died.
  • Fixed a bug where Drop Bear could sometimes die immediately after spawning.
  • Fixed a bug where you could still get another active summoner after choosing Shark Tempest and SnowBomb.
  • Fixed a bug where Pursuit of Haste was offered to Yasuo E.

Arena

Welcome back, Arena enjoyers! Our focus this time is on buffing underperformers across the board. We're touching up a few Augments, including adding new functionality for the Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability crit interaction.

On the champion side, we're tuning a broad group of outliers, including Locke, who has been struggling since being added to the roster. Rounding things out, we've added the burn tag to a few Augments and made some tweaks to attack speed items.

Champions

Ambessa

  • Q1 Base Attack Damage Ratio: 60% ⇒ 45%
  • Q2 Base Attack Damage Ratio: 90% ⇒ 70%

Gragas

  • Passive Heal Ratio: 3.5% ⇒ 5.5%
  • E Base Damage: 80 - 220 ⇒ 80 - 260

Heimerdinger

  • Q Beam Base Damage: 30 - 90 ⇒ 40 - 120
  • Beam Ability Power Ratio: 45% ⇒ 55%

Illaoi

  • Q Passive Tentacle Damage Amplification: 4% - 20% ⇒ 10% - 30%

Kled

  • Passive Mount Cooldown: 15 ⇒ 12
  • Bug Fix: Power Flowers now correctly grants courage.

Locke

  • Q Cooldown: 10 - 6 ⇒ 8.5 - 4.5
  • E Cooldown: 10 ⇒ 8
  • E2 Ability Power Ratio: 0.4 ⇒ 0.65
  • R Cooldown: 120 - 80 ⇒ 90 - 60

Quinn

  • Passive Harrier Cooldown: 7s - 2.56s ⇒ 5s - 1.83s
  • E Cooldown: 12 - 8 ⇒ 10 - 6

Rakan

  • Q Base Damage: 70 - 250 ⇒ 95 - 275

Samira

  • R Damage: 10 / 20 / 30 ⇒ 15 / 30 / 45

Skarner

  • E Move Distance Post Grab: 675 ⇒ 1000
  • R Base Damage: 250 - 450 ⇒ 350 - 550
  • Move Speed While Active: 40% ⇒ 60%

Swain

  • R Demonic Power Generated per Second While Draining: 20 ⇒ 25
  • Demonic Power Lost: 10 ⇒ 15
  • Amped Demonic Power Lost After 5s: 15 ⇒ 20

Yorick

  • Q Missing Health Ratio: 3% - 7% ⇒ 6% - 10%
  • R Maiden Health Modifier: 70% ⇒ 100%

Zoe

  • Passive Ability Power Ratio: 35% ⇒ 40%
  • Q Ability Power Ratio: 0.6 - 1.5 ⇒ 0.7 - 1.75
  • W Magic Damage per Bolt: 15 - 55 ⇒ 20 - 80
  • R Cooldown: 11 - 5 ⇒ 8 - 2