Here is the patch preview, which'll give you an overview to the changing coming to Nasus, Quinn, and the new Howling Abyss map coming in this patch.
Continue reading for a full set of patch notes and more information!
Here they are, fresh off the chopping block:
Lissandra
Lissandra the Ice Witch is in the 3.6 build and will be released at a later date.
Sejuani
Sejuani
has been relaunched with a new model, updates to her story and a
revised kit. For more information on the Winter’s Wrath, click here.
- Frost Armor (Passive)
- Damaging an enemy with an ability or basic attack grants Sejuani bonus armor and reduces movement-slowing effects on her for a short duration
- Arctic Assault (Q)
- Sejuani charges forward, knocking enemies into the air and dealing magic damage to them based on their maximum health. The charge stops after knocking an enemy champion into the air
- Flail of the Northern Winds (W)
- Sejuani's next basic attack deals bonus magic damage to her target and all nearby enemies. She then spins her flail, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies for a few seconds
- Permafrost (E)
- Passive: Sejuani’s abilities and basic attacks apply Frost to enemies
- Active: Sejuani damages and slows all nearby enemies afflicted with Frost
- Glacial Prison (Ultimate)
- Sejuani throws a frost-forged bola in a line. If the bola hits an enemy champion, it shatters, stunning the target and all nearby enemies. If the bola reaches its maximum range without striking an enemy champion, it shatters and slows nearby enemies
Trundle
Trundle
has been relaunched with a new model, updates to his story, and changes
to his kit. For a full rundown of the Troll King’s changes, click here.
- King's Tribute (previously Decompose)
- No gameplay changes
- Chomp (previously Rabid Bite)
- Damage adjusted to 20/40/60/80/100 (+1.0/1.05/1.1/1.15/1.2 attack damage) from 30/45/60/75/90 (+0.8/0.9/1/1.1/1.2 attack damage)
- Now slows target by 75% for 0.1 seconds on hit
- Animation speed scales with Trundle's attack speed
- Frozen Kingdom (previously Contaminate)
- Attack speed bonus increased to 20/35/50/65/80% from 20/30/40/50/60%
- Now grants 8/11/14/17/20% increased healing to Trundle
- No longer grants tenacity
- Pillar of Ice (previously Pillar of Filth)
- Now interrupts channels
- Duration reduced to 6 seconds from 6.5
- Subjugate (previously Agony)
- Now deals 20/22/24 (+2 per 100 AP)% max health damage instead of 200/350/500
- Armor and magic resist drain adjusted to 20% from 15/20/25%
- Second drain effect now applies over 4 seconds and keeps the stats for another 4 seconds afterwards instead of draining over 6 seconds
Brand
- Pyroclasm
- Now properly bounces to other targets after hitting an enemy affected by Blaze
Corki
- Missile Barrage
- Fixed a bug where using Missile Barrage restarted the cooldown for gaining another missile
Dr. Mundo
- Infected Cleaver
- Can be cast at any health value, but will not reduce health below 1
- Masochism
- Can be cast at any health value, but will not reduce health below 1
Draven
In
Patch 3.5, we changed Draven’s Spinning Axe to lead Draven more
accurately when he was benefitting from movement speed increases.
Unfortunately, these changes were very disruptive for dedicated Draven
players and didn’t offer enough potential for skilled players to
showcase their skill through covering long distances between throwing
and catching. We decided to revert the change.
- Spinning Axe
- Reverted a recent change affecting how Draven was led by Spinning Axe, restoring prior functionality
- Axe drop location will no longer be placed on the far side of impassable terrain from Draven
Ezreal
- Pulsefire Ezreal
- Fixed a bug where Pulsefire Ezreal would occasionally not see gold popups for some of his last hits on targets in plain view
- Fixed a bug where Pulsefire Ezreal would play his death animation a second time if Trueshot Barrage was leveled up while dead
Fiddlesticks
- Drain Life
- Fixed a bug where Fiddlesticks would not immediately attack his target after successfully channeling Drain Life
Karma
With
our previous patch changes, we increased Karma’s overall usability and
Mantra generation. These changes are more focused on smoothing out
Karma’s early game presence by giving a damage increase to Inner Flame’s
lower levels and buffing Inspire to make it far more effective at level
one.
Additionally, by lowering the cooldowns
of three of Karma’s abilities – including her Mantra – Karma will
synergize better with Gathering Fire, allowing her to scale into late
game.
- Inner Flame
- Damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 60/110/160/210/260
- Focused Resolve
- Cooldown reduced to 16/15/14/13/12 seconds from 16/15.5/15/14.5/14
- Inspire
- Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 12
- Movement speed bonus increased to 40/45/50/55/60% from 20/30/40/50/60%
- Mantra
- Cooldown reduced to 45/42/39/36 seconds from 45
Lulu
- Mana per level increased to 55 from 50
- Glitterlance
- Mana cost increased to 60/65/70/75/80 from 40/50/60/70/80
Malzahar
- Call of the Void
- Mana cost reduced to 80/85/90/95/100 from 80/90/100/110/120
- Null Zone
- Mana cost reduced to 90/95/100/105/110 from 90/100/110/120/130
Nasus
With
a 95% movement speed and attack speed reduction at max levels, Wither
was completely shutting down champions reliant on auto-attacks with no
opportunity for counterplay. By reducing the attack speed slow, Nasus is
still effective at suppressing champions, but his victims will now have
the option to turn and fight.
- Wither
- Attack speed slow amount has been halved
Nunu
- Consume
- No longer expends Visionary if the target dies before Consume resolves
Olaf
- Reckless Swing
- Can be cast at any health value, but will not reduce health below 1
Quinn
We
wanted to highlight Quinn’s great strengths as an unconventional AD
carry with high cross-map mobility. As such, Quinn can now use Tag Team
more reliably in and out of fights, and the additional movement speed on
Heightened Senses should allow her to remain more elusive in
skirmishes.
For the other two changes, we gave
Blinding Assault an ability power ratio so that players can gain some
additional power when building items like Trinity Force or when
receiving the Baron Nashor buff. For Vault, we added a mini stun on
Quinn’s target as she dashes toward them, making it more reliable as an
escape.
- Blinding Assault
- Now has a 0.5 ability power ratio
- Heightened Senses
- Passive as Quinn now grants 20/30/40/50/60 movement speed in addition to the attack speed bonus
- Vault
- Now briefly interrupts the target
- Tag Team
- Maximum movement speed bonus increased to 80/90/100% from 80% at all ranks
- Base movement speed bonus increased to 20/30/40% from 20% at all ranks
- Cooldown reduced to 140/110/80 seconds from 140/120/100
- Skystrike can now be cast 1 second after activating Tag Team, down from 2.5
Rumble
- Flamespitter
- No longer prevents Rumble from automatically acquiring basic attack targets
Shen
- Ki Strike
- Fixed a bug that caused Ki Strike to be consumed when attacking wards
Sivir
- Fleet of Foot
- Now also grants its effect when Boomerang Blade and Ricochet hit enemy champions
Thresh
Death
Sentence and its passive were providing too many benefits at early
levels with their high poke, burst damage, and lowered cooldowns. By
moving the passive damage bonus from Death Sentence to Flay, Thresh
players will now need to think strategically about how they level their
skills.
- Death Sentence
- Damage increased to 80/120/160/200/240 from 80/110/140/170/200
- Passive moved to Flay
- Flay
- Damage reduced to 65/95/125/155/185 from 65/105/145/185/225
- Now has Death Sentence’s previous passive (bonus damage on basic attacks)
- Fixed a bug that caused the passive's damage to be consumed when attacking wards
- Fixed a bug where Flay sometimes dealt more damage than intended
With
these changes, we wanted to accomplish a few separate things. First, we
wanted to tone down Udyr’s overpowering early game Tiger Stance damage,
but we also wanted to let him scale better into late game. These
changes were implemented by scaling the attack damage ratios on Tiger
Stance’s active damage.
Second, by changing the
active damage of Tiger Stance from magical to physical, it should be
more intuitive to itemize against Udyr. Additionally, it will also be
easier for Udyr to itemize properly, as he will gain further benefits
from attack damage focused items like Black Cleaver or Last Whisper.
- Tiger Stance
- Active damage changed to physical instead of magic
- Active damage changed to 30/80/130/180/230 (+1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5/1.6 attack damage) from 30/80/130/180/230 (+1.5 total attack damage)
- Active attack speed increased to 30/40/50/60/70% from 15/20/25/30/35%
- No longer grants attack speed as a persistent effect
- New persistent effect: Basic attacks deal 15% of his total attack damage as bonus physical damage on hit
- Bear Stance
- Udyr now only dashes when stunning champions
Vayne
- Condemn
- Range now accurately matches her attack range
Vi
- Vault Breaker
- Fixed a bug that caused Vault Breaker to become uncastable after activation
- Excessive Force
- Can no longer be cast while charging Vault Breaker
Zac
- Increased transparency when in brush
Zed
Previously,
Zed could safely farm large minion waves with Shadow Slash by
consistently resetting the cooldown of Living Shadow. These changes were
intended to promote aggressive play with Zed while also creating a
window for players to engage on him in lane.
- Living Shadow
- Cooldown reduced to 18/17/16/15/14 seconds from 22/20.5/19/17.5/16
- Shadow Slash
- Hitting minions and monsters no longer reduces Living Shadow's cooldown
- Hitting enemy champions reduces Living Shadow's cooldown by 2 seconds, up from 1
Items
Elixir
of Fortitude is meant to be an “all-in” burst of power for players
looking to take control of a situation. With its low cost, however,
players were simply defaulting to it as a general starting item with no
significant repercussion. Increasing the gold cost of Elixir of
Fortitude aligns it better with the risky strategy it was intended for.
- Elixir of Fortitude
- Cost increased to 350 gold from 250
Alongside
our Elixir of Fortitude change, we wanted to tackle ultra-high sustain
starts where players were beginning the game with as many health potions
as possible in order to safely sustain in lane for long periods of
time. However, these high sustain starts also destroy any incentive
players have to interact. Manaless champions in particular benefitted
from these starts, resulting in some mana-based opponents being unable
to burn through the high levels of sustained HP. We will monitor
starting item builds and champions that relied heavily on high potion
starts, but wanted to focus on addressing passive high-sustain builds
first.
- Health Potion
- Limited to 5 Health Potions at a time
- Mana Potion
- Limited to 5 Mana Potions at a time
- Ionian Boots of Lucidity
- Upgrade cost reduced to 650 gold from 700 (total cost is now 1000 from 1050)
- Tiamat
- Combine cost reduced to 265 from 665 (total cost is now 1900 from 2300)
- Attack damage reduced to 40 from 50
- Ravenous Hydra
- Combine cost increased to 600 from 200 (total cost unchanged)
The Howling Abyss
- The Howling Abyss has replaced The Proving Grounds in custom games and the basic tutorial
- A 5v5 All-Random queue has been enabled for matches played on the Howling Abyss
- Restricted to players of level 5 or above
- Players may reroll for a different champion in Champion Select for 200 reroll points
- All players have been credited with 200 reroll points
- Additional reroll points are gained by completing matchmade Howling Abyss games
- Reroll point gains increase based on the number of champions the player owns
- Reroll point count can be checked in the player profile.
Game Interface
- Smart Ping
- Updated the ping icons to better match other game visuals
- Item shop
- Can now be resized by dragging from the bottom right-hand corner
- Default size now determined by screen resolution
Leagues
- Fixed an issue where the end of game screen would incorrectly show "League info processing" instead of updating immediately
- Champion headers designed for each specific league have been added to the Leagues tab in player profiles
- LP 'clamping' has been smoothed. Players will experience more predictable LP gains and losses as they approach 100 LP
- Dodging a match in a promotional series now counts as 1 loss. This will still end your series if you were one loss away from losing it
General
- Baron Nashor/Dragon
- Now immune to effects that would reduce their damage
- Baron Nashor, Dragon, and Vilemaw kill messages are now bolded in chat
- Twisted Treeline altar capture messages are now bolded in chat
- Items with charges now display the charge counter in the inventory rather than displaying as a buff
- Players will no longer see reconnect messages from the enemy team
- Trundle has replaced Master Yi in the basic tutorial
- Spell shields now only block one spell even if multiple spells hit the target in rapid succession
- Blind Random has been added as a pick type in custom games. This mode works the same as All Random, but the enemy team's champions will not be displayed in champion select
- Players with video cards that use software vertex shaders (primarily integrated cards like those in laptops) should see a 10-40% FPS performance improvement across all maps
With every patch, we strive to improve the look of the game in varying degrees. We recommend that you have the latest available video card drivers installed.
If you didn't take time to check out the patch preview, Howling Abyss will also feature an in game "chose your alliance" quest. More details on how the quest will trigger and how to earn these cool summoner icons soon.
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