Graves Patch Notes

The patch notes for 10/19's Patch, which includes both Graves and the Harrowing Skins, have been released. Outside of the Skarner, Dominion, and Gunblade changes from the patch preview, nothing else major else is going on; we have some small buffs for Shaco, Corki, Orianna and minor nerfs for Gangplank and Talon.

New Skins in the Store

• Hired Gun Graves
• Jailbreak Graves
• Haunting Nocturne
• FrankenTibbers Annie
• Bewitching Nidalee
• Definitely Not Blitzcrank

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Graves, the Outlaw

• Buckshot: Graves fires three bullets in a cone damaging all enemies in the projectiles path. Enemies at close range can be hit by multiple projectiles, but each one beyond the first will deal reduced damage.
• Smokescreen: Graves fires a smoke canister at the target area that deals damage and creates a cloud of smoke. Enemies inside the smoke cloud have reduced sight range and movement speed.
• Quickdraw: Graves dashes forward gaining an attack speed boost for several seconds. Attacking enemies lowers the cooldown of this skill.
• Collateral Damage (Ultimate): Graves fires an explosive shell dealing heavy damage to the first target it hits. After hitting a champion or reaching the end of its range the shell explodes dealing damage in a cone behind the target.
• True Grit (Passive): Graves gains increasing armor and magic resistance the longer he remains in combat.

Corki

• Gatling Gun
  • Now has a base damage of 20/32/44/56/68 per second
  • Duration has been adjusted to 4 seconds at all levels
  • Scales with 0.4 bonus Attack Damage ratio per second, from 0.4 total Attack Damage ratio every second

Gangplank

• Raise Morale
  • Active movement speed reduced to 8/11/14/17/20 from 10/14/18/22/26
  • Active attack damage reduced to 12/19/26/33/40 from 14/22/30/38/46

Kog'Maw

• Bio-Arcane Barrage duration reduced to 8 seconds from 10

Orianna

• Basic attack range increased to 525 from 500

Riven

• Broken Wings
  • Now counts as an attack command when you use it to lock-onto a target.
  • Slightly extended duration of collision ignoring with minions after using this ability

Shaco

• Health per level increased to 84 from 80
• Base Health increased to 525 from 501
• Base Mana increased to 270 from 250

Skarner

• Attack Speed per level increased to 2.1% from 1.44%
• Energize will no longer activate when attacking Towers.
• Crystal Slash Mana cost decreased to 15 at all ranks from 22/24/26/28/30
• Fracture will now heal Skarner if Fracture kills its target.
• Impale duration increased to 1.75 from 1.5 seconds

Talon

• Base health regeneration reduced to 7.25 per 5 seconds from 9.5
• Base mana regeneration reduced to 6.75 per 5 seconds from 10

Dominion

• Ambient experience gain has been lowered by 10%
• Lowered the point where Nexus Health will only be affected by holding capture points (and not by Champion Kills or Neutralizes) to 100 Nexus Health from 125 Nexus Health
• Health Pack pickups will now grant 20% more Mana
• Personal Scoring has been adjusted to more evenly reward defensive play:
  • Minion Kill reward increased to 2 points from 1
  • Channel Interrupt reward increased to 5 from 2
  • Martyr (dying on point) now gives an additional 10 points over its previous bonus
  • Point defense bonus is granted more regularly
  • There is now a score bonus associated with getting a Champion kill or assist while being on or near a point.

Items

• Tear of the Goddess, Archangel's Staff, and Manamune now display their current bonus mana again
• Hextech Gunblade
  • Attack Damage reduced to 40 from 60
  • Ability Power reduced to 70 from 75
  • Life Steal reduced to 15% from 20%
  • Spell Vamp reduced to 20% from 25% and is now UNIQUE

Personally, I'm sort of surprised we say Talon nerfs in the form of a slash to regeneration instead of cranking up the mana costs. As a pretty avid fan of both Talon and Gangplank, I can't complain at these small stabs are two of my favorite pubstomp champs.