Mid August Patch Preview

Posted on at 8:53 AM by Moobeat
The Mid August patch preview is out and it has oodles of changes for Garen, Katarina, Varus, Zyra, and a small change for buddy lists.



Recap of Changes:
Garen
  • 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.
* 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.


Katarina 

  • 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.
* More information available here.

Varus
  • Updated the particle on his ultimate, Chain of Corruption, to be bigger and more noticeable.

Zyra
  • They mention the nerfs that were hotfixed into the game a few days ago. Click here for details on those changes.
UI
  • You can now add notes about people on your friends list.
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?

Similarly, it looks like there might be a new look for the aura gained after slaying Baron Nashor.