Recap of Changes:
Garen
* Xypherous went into a LOT of detail about the changes and what their aim was. I suggest you stop over there and read up if these Garen changes seem curious.
- Decisive Strike now removes slows when activated and it's silencing effect now scales in duration with rank.
- Judgement scales with total attack damage, AD ratio scales with rank
- Courage now gives a passive % increase on his armor/mr instead of bonus armor/mr on minion kill.
- Demacian Justice has a longer cool down at rank one and shorter cool down at rank 3.
Katarina
* More information available here.
- Her W is now called Sinister Steel and is a totally new ability.
- Shunpo now always has damage reduction on use.
- Death Lotus now has the healing reduction effect from her old W+Q combo.
- Bouncing Blades now applies a mark that, when consumed, deals additional damage.
Varus
- Updated the particle on his ultimate, Chain of Corruption, to be bigger and more noticeable.
Zyra
UI
- They mention the nerfs that were hotfixed into the game a few days ago. Click here for details on those changes.
As pointed out by a reader, if you look during the friends list the friends list of the you can see a shiny Facebook button sitting there loud and proud. Has Riot finally figured out the problems that were preventing its previous integration?
- You can now add notes about people on your friends list.
Similarly, it looks like there might be a new look for the aura gained after slaying Baron Nashor.