Patch 5.19 Notes

Leashing

Over the seasons, leashing went from being a set of basic rules to having so many edge-cases it felt almost random when something would reset or wouldn’t, leaving you without a good sense for what caused it (and more importantly, how to avoid it in the future). With that in mind, we built a new system - called Patience - to better support future jungling patterns and behaviors.

• When a monster is in an aggressive state but can’t find any targets to attack (ex. its target died or became untargetable)
• When a monster’s target is too far away from the monster’s initial spawn location or the monster is VERY far away from its initial spawn location
• When the monster is forced to switch targets

Jungle Tuning

Thanks to the new leashing rules above, this makes taking Gromp over the wall impossible (he’d lose his patience!), so we’re making him easier to kite and juggle without taking damage. Similarly, fixing a case that would let Bigwolf attack over a wall in some scenarios!

Many moons ago, we began talking about making Rune Bundles in the service of helping players just getting started on their Tier 3 Rune Pages. Then, we realized we could make a bunch of really popular ones 50% off permanently, so we’re just doing that instead.

Once the Worlds train starts rolling, we'll be activating a number of features in the client for easy access to information surrounding the World Championship as it unfolds.

HUD Customization

Still bathing in your feedback. Still makin’ HUD updates.

• New preference to display or hide summoner names on the scoreboard
• New preference to mirror the scoreboard layout
• New preference to display team frames on the left side of the screen

Ping Display Changes

Colored ping bars can be pretty arbitrary to the average player, as there's no accepted 'standard' of what someone should do when they see yellow - or red - bars instead of green. We're making a simple change so there's more clarity around what a player's connection speed is to the game server so they can derive meaningful information from that. This is a long piece of context to say we want to show you real information, not colors.

• Resolved a cause of random disconnects in the client. If you disabled Windows IP Helper to mitigate the problem, you can now safely re-enable it!
• Fixed a bug where Sated Devourer’s bonuses were sometimes persisting after the enchanted item was sold
• Unit- and ground-targeted spells will once again automatically fire if you cast them out of range, then Flash into range while moving
• Fixed an inconsistency with Bilgewater Cutlass's active cooldown
• Resolved multiple cases of the Character Quality setting (under Video) being overridden by other video settings
• Lissandra once again tells the story of the Howling Abyss if you wait long enough after winning an ARAM