Ambessa

Q cast window increased. Bugfixes.

We're keeping Ambessa's tuning state the same for this patch but there are some small bugs to fix and minor QoL to provide. We're matching Q2's hold duration to her passive and fixing some bugs.

Q - Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam

• Sundering Slam Cast Window: 3.5 ⇒ 4 seconds

Bugfixes

• Passive - Drakehound's Step: Dashes no longer go over player-created terrain.
• R - Public Execution: Movement commands issued before a successful cast will be discarded after slamming the enemy to avoid pathing the player towards a place they are no longer near.

Skarner

Q damage decreased.

Skarner is still the strongest jungler in the game, dealing a boatload of damage for how tanky he is. We'd like to retain that he's a high gold-scaling tank but tying his damage scaling a bit more toward building AD so that he isn't as deadly when built for tanking.

Q - Shattered Earth

• Damage: 10/20/30/40/50 (+80% bonus AD) (+4% of Skarner's bonus health) ⇒ 10/20/30/40/50 (+80% bonus AD) (+3% of Skarner's bonus health)

Zac

Q damage decreased.

Zac is overbearing in the top lane right now and due for a nerf. We're lowering some of his burstier damage, as he doesn't need that given how disruptive he already is. Our goal is for this change to have little impact on his jungle performance where he can reliably grab every blob to consistently refresh his W, compared to top lane where he takes less frequent trades and the burst becomes much more oppressive.

Q - Stretching Strikes

• Damage: 40/55/70/85/100 (+30% AP) (+4% of Zac's maximum health) ⇒ 40/55/70/85/100 (+30% AP) (+3% of Zac's maximum health)

Master Yi

R bonus attack speed increased.

Master Yi is just a touch weak after Blade of the Ruined King's nerfs, so we're giving him a bit more of that late-game carry power that he's known for. We want to make sure Highlander feels like the high point of his power, so we're amping up the amount of attack speed it gives Yi.

R - Highlander

• Attack Speed: 25/35/45% ⇒ 25/45/65%

Caitlyn

R damage decreased.

Caitlyn is performing too well overall, especially when it comes to bursting down her enemies. With Collector only receiving a very small nerf and Yun Tal getting significant buffs this patch, Caitlyn is in need of a small power reduction. We're taking down her scaling spell damage to make her late game more about basic attacks and less about chunking her opponents from out of range.

R - Ace in the Hole

• Damage: 300/500/700 (+150% bonus AD) ⇒ 300/500/700 (+100% bonus AD)

Shyvana

MR growth decreased. E damage decreased.

Shyvana regained almost all the win rate she lost since her last nerf so we're revisiting her sooner than we anticipated. She still substantially overperforms in lower skill brackets, so we're skewing these nerfs to that skill bracket in particular. Shyvana's quite resilient when combining her base stat growth and bonus resists from her passive, so we're lowering these late-game base stats to make it so that she can still end up squishy when she fails to stack her dragons.

Base Stats

• Magic Resist Growth: 2.05 ⇒ 1.5

E - Flame Breath

• Damage: 85/125/165/205/245 (+50% bonus AD) (+80% AP) ⇒ 85/125/165/205/245 (+50% bonus AD) (+70% AP)

Jinx

AD growth increased. W damage decreased.

Lethality caster Jinx is currently going around causing chaos right now, the only thing is that this level of chaos isn't quite enough to warrant any nerfs. So instead we'll be giving Jinx a bit of a boost to incentivize her to opt into builds that lean into her identity as a premiere auto-attacker.

Base Stats

• Attack Damage Growth: 2.9 ⇒ 3.15

W - Zap!

• Damage: 10/60/110/160/210 (+160% total AD) ⇒ 10/60/110/160/210 (+140% total AD)

Rammus

Q cooldown decreased.

Rammus has wound up a little weak, especially for such an AD-heavy jungle meta where he should be on a roll. We're buffing his early Powerball cooldown to give him more tools for his jungle clear which should also give him more chances at disrupting opponents in early game skirmishes.

Q - Powerball

• Cooldown: 16/13.5/11/8.5/6 ⇒ 12/10.5/9/7.5/6 seconds

Azir

W AP ratio increased

We've recently walked back several Azir nerfs that didn't have the effects we wanted and since he's still got some room for additional power we're delivering some more straightforward buffs. There's nothing too fancy here, just an increase of damage that mostly skews toward the late game in order to give him the carry potential that he wants.

W - Arise!

• Damage: 50/65/80/95/110 (+35/40/45/50/55% AP) (+0-45 based on level) ⇒ 50/65/80/95/110 (+40/45/50/55/60% AP) (+0-45 based on level)

Rell

Base stats, Passive, Q, W and E adjusted.

We're delivering a kit update to Rell this patch with a few goals to get us towards a similarly-balanced version of Rell that's more fun and engaging for her players and more interactive for her opponents.

First, we'd like to significantly increase Rell's opponents' access to counter-play. Much of her kit perfectly combos into itself, meaning Q-Flash typically guarantees the entire rest of her kit landing, regardless of whom she's fighting. We're lowering her overall crowd control and ensuring that spells such as Crash Down properly interact with Tenacity, so that players itemizing against crowd control can succeed better against Rell.

Second, we'd like to make her kit feel better to play. Her crowd control strength warped the rest of her kit around it, making her have low and unsatisfying damage values, a fairly miserable-feeling dismounted form, and an overall lack of differences between being mounted and unmounted. We're changing a whole bunch of numbers and re-introducing her passive's on-hit damage to reinforce dismounted Rell as a reasonably slow yet tanky duelist of a tank while ensuring her mounted flavor is fast but meaningfully squishier. We're also making her attacks smoother and bringing up power in several small areas such as cooldowns to make Rell a more fun experience all around.

Third, we're delivering some simplifications to better match how players expect Rell to act. Her bonus move speed in mounted form is now based upon points in W and is listed in W's tooltip instead of E. Her active move speed on E is now straightforward instead of ramping up by very small amounts over the duration. W, which most players assumed was her most important skill, is now actually her best first-max instead of her worst one.

Base Stats

• Armor / Armor Growth: 36 + 4.2 ⇒ 30 + 4.3
• MR / MR Growth: 30 + 2.05 ⇒ 28 + 1.8
• Mana / Mana Growth: 350 + 45 ⇒ 320 + 40
• Mana Regeneration and Growth: 6 + 0.35 ⇒ 7 + 0.7
• Movement Speed: 330 ⇒ 315
• Attack Speed Growth: 1.5% ⇒ 2%
• Attack Windup: 0.336-0.312 (based on level) ⇒ 0.3
• Attack Speed Animation Scaling: 40% ⇒ 100% (note: Attack Speed will animate Rell's attacks faster.)

Passive - Break The Mold

• [NEW]: Now deals 5% total Armor/MR magic damage on-hit
• Minimum Resists Stolen: 0.8-2 ⇒ 1-2

Q - Shattering Strike

• Stun Duration: 0.75 ⇒ 0.65 seconds

W - Ferromancy: Crash Down

• [NEW]: Now stuns enemies for 0.8 seconds
• [REMOVED]: Dismounted 10% slow has been removed
• Cooldown: 11 ⇒ 10 seconds
• Knock-Up Duration: 1 ⇒ 0.4 seconds
• Dismounted Armor / MR: 12% ⇒ 15%
• Dismounted Attack Speed: 30% ⇒ 20%

W - Ferromancy: Mount Up

• Cooldown: 11 ⇒ 10 seconds
• Knock-Up Duration: 0.4 seconds (note: unchanged)
• Stun Duration: 1 ⇒ 0.6 seconds
• Mounted Movement Speed: 335-380 out of combat, 332.5-355 in combat (levels 1-13) ⇒ 330/335/340/345/350/355 (based on ability rank)

E - Full Tilt

• [REMOVED]: Movement Speed no longer ramps up from 75% effectiveness over 2 seconds
• Cooldown: 15 ⇒ 14/13/12/11/10 seconds (based on ability rank)
• Damage: 25/35/45/55/65 (+50% AP) (+3% of target's maximum health) ⇒ 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% of the target's maximum health (+3% per 100 AP)
• Damage Cap: 150 ⇒ 150-300 (based on levels 1-18)
• Initial Movement Speed Towards Enemies: 18/19.5/21/22.5/24% ⇒ 25%
• Initial Movement Speed Running Away: 9/9.75/10.5/11.25/12% ⇒ 10%
• Maximum Movement Speed Toward Enemies: 24/26/28/30/32% ⇒ 25%
• Maximum Movement Speed Running Away: 12/13/14/15/16% ⇒ 10%