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Duskblade of Draktharr

Nightstalker damage decreased and equalized between ranged and melee champions. Melee basic attacks instantly kill wards disabled by Duskblade. Blackout won’t trigger during Red Sweeper.

Nightstalker is responsible for too much of the damage of its core users, making them overbearing when they can purchase it early, and underwhelming if they delay or don’t purchase the item. We’re pulling some of the strict nuking power out of the item and putting some of that strength into the item’s vision control. Some of the lost damage will also be compensated directly into the kits of its core users.

Graves

Attack damage growth and magic resist growth increased. W casts and applies vision reduction more quickly.

Base stats

 W – Smoke Screen

Kayn

W and R ratios increased.

 W – Blade’s Reach

 R – Umbral Trespass

Kha’Zix

Q base damage down; ratio increased; bonus vs isolated targets increased. W bonus damage to monsters removed.

 Q – Taste Their Fear

  W – Void Spike

At the moment, the monster damage in W ties Kha’Zix to the jungle. We’d like to give him a chance to spread his wings elsewhere, so we’re swapping that power for a bigger Q buff than the Duskblade changes warrant alone.

Miss Fortune

Attack damage growth increased.

Base stats

Nocturne

R base damage increased at later ranks. R damage ratio increased.

 R – Paranoia

Rengar

Q damage ratio increased. E damage ratio increased. R damage ratio increased. Several Q and E bugfixes.

While Rengar does often build Duskblade, this is also a part of our extended cleanup of Rengar after the recent Q revert.

 Passive – Unseen Predator

 Q – Savagery

 E – Bola Strike

 R – Thrill of the Hunt

Shaco

Q now grants Shaco’s next basic attack bonus physical damage.

 Q – Deceive

Talon

Passive damage now continues scaling after level 11, until level 18. R ratio increased.

 Passive – Blade’s End

 R – Shadow Assault

Wukong

Attack damage growth increased. Q ratio increased at later ranks.

Base stats

 Q – Crushing Blow

Zed

Q damage to targets beyond the first decreased. Landing multiple shurikens on the same target no longer deals reduced damage. R damage amplification increased at later ranks.

 Q – Razor Shuriken

 R – Death Mark

Kai’sa

Attack range increased. Passive and Q ability power ratios increased. Q range increased. W ability power ratio decreased. E cast time decreased. E movement speed increased. R radius increased.

Kai’Sa’s a new champion, and that means that players are still learning how she works—and in a lot of ways, so are we. One thing that really stands out is that? she does pretty well in the games where she gets ahead, but currently she’s struggling pretty hard to ever get leads in the first place.

The main culprit is her laning phase, where her low range makes it hard for her to get the good trades she needs, so we’re starting by minorly buffing her range. We’re also buffing the mobility her E gives, both by increasing the movement speed and decreasing the cast time, which should allow her a bit more positional freedom to choose when and where she fights.

Her ability power ratios are also way too low to fulfill her flexible itemization fantasy, and with the Guinsoo’s Rageblade changes below, we have some room to make those ratios a lot stronger.

Base stats

 Passive – Second Skin

 Q – Icathian Rain

 W – Void Seeker

 E – Supercharge

 R – Killer Instinct

Lee Sin

Passive energy return increased at later levels. Q range increased. R base damage increased.

Losing Tracker’s Knife has taken away some of the consistency of Lee Sin’s playmaking potential. We’re looking to put some of that back into his kit.

 Passive – Flurry

 Q – Resonating Strike

 R – Dragon’s Rage

Lucian

W base damage increased. R damage ratio increased.

The buffs to Press the Attack certainly helped Lucian, but he could still use some more damage.

 W – Ardent Blaze

R – The Culling

Quinn

Base attack damage decreased. Attack damage growth increased. Many bugfixes and quality of life changes.

Quinn has a lot of bugs and feel-bad moments. We’re smoothing out many of those frustrations, which should lead to Quinn feeling better to play (and being stronger).

Base stats

 Passive – Harrier

 R – Behind Enemy Lines

Rakan

Q and R damage ratios increased.

Rakan is currently struggling when paired with most marksmen. The obvious exception is Xayah—the two lovebirds are doing pretty well together. We’re looking to make Rakan more impactful on his own without further increasing his strength alongside his partner.

 Q – Gleaming Quill

 W – Grand Entrance

 E – Battle Dance

Xayah

Xayah and Rakan’s basic attacks no longer trigger feathers from each other’s Deadly Plumage.

As above, bringing Xayah and Rakan’s strength together down.

 W – Deadly Plumage

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Shurelya’s Reverie

When you a support but you and your squad wanna go in.

With the removal of Talisman of Ascension, the support item landscape was missing the “everybody in” item. Since we were remaking it anyway, we took a look at who we wanted picking up this item. Ultimately, we wanted to make sure that it wasn’t super attractive to tanks (they already have Righteous Glory), but felt good on most other supports.

Abyssal Mask

Aura radius decreased; potency increased.

When we moved ability power off of Abyssal Mask and onto Banshee’s Veil, we hoped to cement Abyssal as less of a core mage item and more of a tank pickup to boost allied mages. However, the high range on its aura has made it a compelling damage option on mages that also provides defensive value intended for tanks. As a result, we’re seeing a lot of mages pick it up as a “get me through mid lane with no interaction possible” item, without paying much of a hit to their late game damage. Shrinking the aura will sharpen the intended user base to champions who want to get up close and personal.

Seraph’s Embrace

Shield mana ratio decreased. Shield duration decreased.

Seraph’s Embrace’s shield is providing too much safety for its purchasers.

Dead Man’s Plate

Slow is now magic damage instead of physical. Momentum generation tweaked.

Dead Man’s Plate is underperforming at the moment, and we’re taking a pass at giving it some love. While we do so, we’d like to sharpen its identity as the item for fighters, who really shine when they get the opportunity to maneuver around a fight laying down damage.

As such, we’re going under the hood and tweaking the way DMP generates Momentum. If you’re able to lock a target in place (hello Maokai/Nautilus) and prevent them from kiting you that much, you won’t get as much damage and you’re unlikely to get a lot of slows. On the other hand, if you’re darting around a fight (Irelia, Renekton) you’ll feel the full impact of the passive.

Hopefully, when fighters see this item, they’ll think to themselves “yes.”. When tanks see this item, they’ll think to themselves “no.”

Guinsoo’s Rageblade

Cost decreased. Attack damage and ability power decreased. Base magic damage on-hit decreased; ratio added. Physical damage on-hit added. Stack bonuses now scale with stats from other sources.

Guinsoo’s Rageblade currently has two problems: It’s only good on a select few champions, and on those champions it serves as an insane first item spike. We’re hitting both problems by changing its statline and on-hits to scale directly with other stats. TL;DR, Guinsoo’s shouldn’t be as immediately powerful of a rush item, but it fits into a few more types of builds.

Hextech GLP-800

Cost decreased.

This item is still a bit too weak.

Statikk Shiv

Energized proc damage decreased at higher levels. Lightning no longer deals bonus damage to minions.

The combination of proc damage and wave clear is allowing any marksman to be their team’s wave clear all on their own, making Statikk Shiv too dominant a pick over the other zeal items.

Rapid Firecannon

Energized proc damage increased.

We’re taking this opportunity to match the damage of Rapid Firecannon to that of Statikk Shiv, to make it a more clear choice between extra range and extra wave clear.

Ignite

Damage increased.

For a while now, Heal and Teleport have been outclassing Ignite mid lane, especially in pro play. To increase diversity in Summoner spells, we’re pushing a bit more power into Ignite.

Heal

Cooldown increased.

In general, defensive spells should have higher cooldowns than offensive spells. That is, if two opposing player uses Heal and Ignite in the same fight, there should be a window where the Ignite player has a summoner spell edge and can try and make another play. Currently, Heal’s cooldown is probably a bit too low for players to take advantage of that disparity, so we’re upping it.