6/17/12 Patch Notes

With no reveal or teaser, it was not really looking good for those waiting, with bated breath, for a new champion this week. Instead, we have a patch full of bug fixes and quality of life changes, including some ultimate based pets having new move systems and the elo loss for dodging a ranked game being removed.

PvP.net v1.61

• Players can now earn unlimited rewards per day in Co-op vs. AI. After 180 minutes, rewards continue to be earned at 75% the normal rate.
• Custom games now have a separate pool of 120 daily reward minutes that is no longer shared with Co-op vs. AI.
  • Only applies to Summoners level 15+. Lower level Summoners earn unlimited rewards per day.
• Updated the IP reward forumula for Co-op vs. AI:
  • Games of medium to long length will yield larger rewards
  • Games of short length will yield smaller rewards
    • On Summoner's Rift, "short" is generally less than 24 minutes
    • On The Crystal Scar, "short" is generally less than 12 minutes
  • Players should see an increase in IP reward per game so long as they aren't quickly steamrolling the bots
• The Tournament Draft Custom Game mode will now allow Summoners to pause the game
• Dodging a Ranked Game will no longer result in loss of Elo but the time before you can join any queue again has greatly increased
• Adjusted the way Elo is handled for newly formed ranked teams; many new teams will see their Elo increase as a result.
• Normal Draft Mode (Please note that these additions were incorrectly stated in the Darius patch notes)
  • Normal draft has changed so that premade groups are not prioritized over solo players
    • Solo players have a 20% chance of being the team captain with banning powers and first pick, regardless of the premade status of the rest of the team
    • If a solo player is not team captain, the player will be given a random slot in the pick order
    • If players group up before a game, their host absorbs all of their chances, i.e. the host of a 4-man premade has an 80% chance to be captain
• A feedback sound now plays when spending mastery points

League of Legends v1.0.0.141
Annie

• Summon: Tibbers
  • Reactivating 'Summon: Tibbers' while the Bear is active now allows you to control your pet, similar to Alt+Right Clicking
  • You will also see a self-only targeting particle when using this ability, depicting what command your pet is following

Caitlyn

• Yordle Snap Trap now properly ignores unit collision when placed

Corki

• Missile Barrage
  • Missile Barrage's area of effect and particle are now properly centered around the point of impact
  • Missile Barrage's spell icon is now tinted when 'The Big One' is ready

Mordekaiser

• Children of the Grave
  • Reactivating 'Children of the Grave' while the Ghost is active now allows you to control your pet, similar to Alt+Right Clicking
  • You will also see a self-only targeting particle when using this ability, depicting what command your pet is following

Nidalee

• If Pounce's movement extends past Nidalee's current movement order location, that order will be cancelled (she will no longer automatically walk backwards to that point)

Riven

• If Broken Wings' movement extends past Riven's current movement order location, that order will be cancelled (she will no longer automatically walk backwards to that point)

Rumble

• Rumble now has a marker at 50 Heat to denote when he has reached the Danger Zone
• Flamespitter is now more responsive especially while moving and turning
• Electro-Harpoon now has a swirling icon overlay and a slight icon shift to denote the second shot

Shaco

• Hallucinate
  • Reactivating 'Hallucinate' while the Clone is active now allows you to control your pet, similar to Alt+Right Clicking
  • You will also see a self-only targeting particle when using this ability, depicting what command your pet is following

Soraka

• Fixed a bug where Wish would sometimes not grant assists

Tristana

• Fixed a bug with Explosive Shot's passive not working correctly with Madred's Razors and Wriggle's Lantern

Warwick

• Blood Scent
  • Warwick will now immediately gain the bonus of Blood Scent if he reduces a target’s health below 50%
  • Warwick will now immediately gain the bonus of Blood Scent when it is activated

Veigar

• Event Horizon will now always correctly stun enemies who use dash abilities to pass through it

Viktor

• Tuned Death Ray travel speeds and hitbox precision, especially when cast near walls
• Fixed an issue where Chaos Storm could sometimes be cast twice

Yorick

• Omen of Death
  • Reactivating 'Omen of Death' while the Ghoul is active now allows you to control your pet, similar to Alt+Right Clicking
  • You will also see a self-only targeting particle when using this ability, depicting what command your pet is following

Items

• Mana Potion gold cost reduced to 35 from 40

Co-op vs. AI

• Added Alistar Bot and Dr. Mundo Bot
• Intermediate bots will now sell their Doran's items to buy an additional item after completing their builds
• Beginner bots will no longer purchase elixirs
• Updated several bots' item builds

General

• Summoner’s Rift (Winter) has been disabled
• Updated the Item Shop to display 8 build options for items, increased from 6
• Circle portraits are now correctly aligned with team colored outlines during announcements
• There is now new messaging to inform players that leaving games can result in temporary bans in League of Legends
• Neutral Minion Camps now have new icons on the Minimap
• Champions that have died now display an icon on the Minimap
• Updated several Champion art assets including splash art and icons for various Akali, Alistar, Amumu, Caitlyn, Mundo, Jax, Renekton, Tristana, Teemo, Twisted Fate, Warwick, Xin Zhao, and Pantheon skins
• Fixed several missing particles for various Champions

Additionally, Foxfire Ahri and Panda Teemo have made it into this push, but have yet to be made available for purchase. My ASSUMPTION is that they will be released later in the week, along side Pulsefire Ezreal


On the topic of things not yet made available, you may have noticed the absence of the ARAM Training Grounds, a "new" map for custom games, from the patch notes.

Hey guys, I want to give you a quick update on this. While we still plan to ship the assets for the Proving Grounds custom game mode with the next patch, we will not have it enabled on patch day. Very late in the cycle some concerns with platform stability arose, so we're going to delay turning it on for a few days to iron that out. My apologies! It will still be playable on the PBE in the mean time.

 - Brackhar, Technical Designer, via the official forums.