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[penguinofhonor]

Hmm....mixed feelings. The "turrets take ammo, recharge by standing nearby" means I can't effectively drop a pair in one lane and then teleport into another to help out/double farm.

This is one of Heimer's greatest strengths, but he really can't be balanced with it. It's a tremendously powerful ability, and probably one that people underappreciate even if they like it. You don't want your power focused in places that people don't appreciate, because that's a huge block on how fun the champion can be.

[Bordellimies]

Trundle Changes


Oh god, why

[frostshotgg]

I COME BEARING PATCH NOTES!

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New Skins in the Store
Mythic Cassiopeia
Muay Thai Lee Sin

PvP.net v1.63
New Matchmaking Upgrades
Players who are under Level 30 are far less likely to face Level 30s
Greatly improved matchmaking for premade groups of 4
Matchmaking improved for highly skilled players trying to queue with lower skilled friends
Matchmaking in Ranked Solo/Duo Queue now restricts the number of duo queue pairings on each team to 1 per team
Improved initial seeding for Ranked Teams composed of skilled Ranked Solo/Duo players
Summoner Profiles now display the highest Ranked Team rating, instead of Arranged Team ratings

League of Legends v1.0.0.143
Zyra, Rise of the Thorns
Pending the completion of some further testing on PBE, Zyra will be released at a future date.

Akali
Fixed: Mark of the Assassin's tooltip now states the correct Energy return amount

Amumu
Fixed: Despair now displays a range indicator when hovered over

Corki
Fixed: Valkyrie's targeting indicator now scales with distance from Corki

Evelynn (Remade)
Shadow Walk (Passive)
Evelynn fades away into the shadows. She can only be seen by nearby enemy Champions or true sight
While in stealth, Evelynn regenerates 1% of her max Mana every second
Casting spells, taking damage, or dealing damage unstealths Evelynn for 8 seconds
Hate Spike
19/23/27/31/35 Mana, 1.5 second Cooldown
Evelynn fires a line of spikes through a nearby enemy, dealing 40/60/80/100/120 ( 0.45 Ability Power) ( 0.4 bonus Attack Damage) magic damage to all enemies in its path
Hate Spike prioritizes what Evelynn has attacked recently
Dark Frenzy
No Cost, 20 second Cooldown
Passive: Evelynn's spell hits on enemy Champions grant her 4/8/12/16/20 Movement Speed for 3 seconds (effect stacks up to 4 times)
Active: Evelynn removes all slows affecting her and gains 30/40/50/60/70% Movement Speed for 3 seconds
Champion kills and assists refresh Dark Frenzy's cooldown
Ravage
50/55/60/65/70 Mana, 9 second Cooldown
Evelynn slashes a target enemy 2 times, dealing 35/60/85/110/135 ( 0.5 Ability Power) ( 0.4 bonus Attack Damage) magic damage with each strike
Evelynn then gains 60/75/90/105/120% Attack Speed for 3 seconds
Agony's Embrace
100 Mana, 150/120/90 second Cooldown
Evelynn impales all enemies in the targeted area, dealing 15/20/25% ( 1% per 50 Ability Power) of their maximum Health in magic damage and slowing their Movement Speed by 30/50/70% for 2 seconds
Evelynn siphons their pain, gaining a 150/225/300 health shield for each enemy Champion hit which lasts up to 6 seconds

Gangplank
Parrrley
Now refunds half the mana cost if Parrrley kills the target

Garen
Perseverance
Added a buff timer to show when Perseverance will reactivate

Gragas
Fixed: Body Slam no longer stops when encountering created terrain (ex: Anivia's Crystallize)

Graves
Smokescreen
Sight reduction range reduced to 675 from 800

Jax
Fixed: Counter Strike's dodge component now works properly against Shen

Kassadin
Riftwalk
Damage reduced to 60/70/80 from 60/90/120
Ability Power ratio increased to 0.8 from 0.5

Malphite
Ground Slam
Armor ratio reduced to 30% from 50%
Now has a 0.2 Ability Power ratio
Attack Speed reduction duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4

Malzahar
Summon Voidling (Passive)
Voidlings prioritize enemies Malzahar is autoattacking if Malefic visions isn't present
Voidling pathing and general AI improved
Voidlings will now hide in brush and won't attack if Malzahar is in brush and not in combat
Voidling dance animation added
Call of the Void
Delay is now consistent at 0.6 seconds
Now deals damage in a single hit - rather than two separate hits
Now grants vision along the entire line path - rather than only at the two end points
Now deals damage to units surrounding the end points
Null Zone
Cast time removed - Malzahar may now cast this ability while moving
Damage now starts 0.25 seconds after casting the ability
Nether Grasp
Malzahar ignores orders that would cancel his ultimate within the first 0.5 seconds of Nether Grasp
Voidlings prioritize champions immobilized in Nether Grasp above all other priorities

Mordekaiser
Fixed: Children of the Grave's initial damage now correctly draws turret aggro

Morgana
Black Shield
Cooldown increased at earlier ranks to 23/21/19/17/15 seconds from 15 at all ranks
Cast range increased to 750 from 600
Soul Shackles
Leash range is now more accurate (now updates every 0.25 seconds from 0.5 seconds)

Nocturne
Shroud of Darkness
Shield duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2
Paranoia
Cooldown increased at earlier ranks to 180/140/100 seconds from 160/130/100
Updated Umbra Blades tooltip

Nunu
Fixed: Visionary will now grant free cost spells even if spells were ranked up while the Visionary buff was already active

Orianna
General
Fixed: Attack Range is now 525 at all times.
Command: Attack
Ability Power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
Command: Shockwave
Fixed: Now stuns enemies that were in the middle of a movement skill.

Sejuani
Fixed: Arctic Assault no longer stops when encountering created terrain (ex: Anivia's Crystallize)

Sona
General
Basic attack and Power Chord missile speeds increased to 2000 from 1500
Aura persistence duration reduced to 1 second after deactivation from 2
Global cooldown reduced to 0.5 seconds from 2
Power Chord
Power Chord now resets your attack timer so you can use it immediately
Crescendo
Now deals all its damage instantly, rather than over time
Fixed: Opponents can no longer Cleanse the damage portion of Crescendo

Shen
Ki Strike
Damage reduced to 4 4 per level from 4 6 per level

Teemo
Camouflage (Passive)
Fixed: Teemo now gains the Attack Speed buff instantly after leaving invisibility

Tristana
Explosive Shot
Fixed: Passive damage no longer activates from spell damage
Fixed: Tooltip now reflects the Ability Power ratio

Twitch (Remade)
Stats
Attack Range increased to 550 from 500
Base Health increased to 389 from 356
Health per level increased to 81 from 78
Base Mana increased to 220 from 180
Mana per level increased to 40 from 35
Base Attack Damage reduced to 47 from 51.56
Attack Damage per level reduced to 3 from 3.3
Attack animation improved
Deadly Venom (Passive)
Damage reduced to 12/24/36/48 per stack from 15/30/45/60
Ambush
60 Mana, 16 second Cooldown
After 1.25 seconds, Twitch becomes invisible for 4/5/6/7/8 seconds and gains 20% Movement Speed. Twitch gains 30/40/50/60/70% Attack Speed for 5 seconds after revealing himself
Venom Cask
50 Mana, 13/12/11/10/9 second Cooldown
Twitch hurls a cask full of venom to target area that slows targets by 25/30/35/40/45% for 3 seconds and adds 2 stacks of Deadly Venom
Expunge
70/75/80/85/90 Mana, 12/11/10/9/8 second Cooldown
Deals 20/35/50/65/80 plus 15/20/25/30/35 ( 0.2 Ability Power) ( 0.25 bonus Attack Damage) per stack of Deadly Venom as physical damage to all nearby enemies affected by Deadly Venom
No longer removes Deadly Venom stacks
Spray and Pray
100/125/150 Mana, 120/110/100 second Cooldown
Twitch's basic attacks become powerful piercing bolts with 300 bonus range, and Twitch gains 20/28/36 Attack Damage. Each bolt deals 20% less damage to subsequent targets down to a minimum of 40% damage. Lasts 7 seconds.

Urgot
Acid Hunter
Damage adjusted to 50/80/110/140/170 ( 1.2 bonus Attack Damage) from 10/40/70/100/130 ( 0.85 total Attack Damage)
Lock-on missile cast range reduced to 1200 from 1500
Fixed: Rank 1 range is no longer higher than the other ranks
Noxian Corrosive Charge
Cooldown increased to 15/14/13/12/11 seconds from 11 at all ranks
Cast range reduced to 900 from 950
Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser
Cast range reduced to 550/700/850 from 700/775/850

Vladimir
Sanguine Pool
Movement Speed bonus now decays over time

Xerath
Arcane Barrage
Reduced the delay between casting the spell and the impact to 0.5 seconds from 0.875 seconds
The visual indicator for the ultimate will appear at the start of the cast bar instead of at the end

Xin Zhao (Remade)
Stats
Base Attack Speed increased to 0.672 from 0.658
Attack Speed per level increased to 2.7% from 2.5%
Challenge (Passive)
Xin Zhao challenges his target with his basic attacks and Audacious Charge, reducing their Armor by 15% for 3 seconds. Only one target can be challenged at a time.
Three Talon Strikes
Now reduces his other ability cooldowns by 1 second with each strike
Attack Damage ratio increased to 1.2 from 1.0
Cooldown reduced to 9/8/7/6/5 seconds from 10
Battle Cry
Passive: Heals Xin Zhao for 26/32/38/44/50 ( 0.7 Ability Power) every third basic attack
Active no longer reduces other abilities' cooldowns
Cooldown reduced to 16/15/14/13/12 seconds from 24/22/20/18/16
Mana Cost increased to 40 from 35
Audacious Charge
Now challenges the target
Damage increased to 70/115/160/205/250 ( 0.6 Ability Power) from 70/110/150/190/230 ( 0.4 Ability Power)
Slow increased to 25/30/35/40/45% from 20/25/30/35/40%
Slow duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5
Range reduced to 600 from 650
Cooldown reduced to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12
Crescent Sweep
Now knocks all unchallenged targets back
Now has a 1.0 bonus Attack Damage ratio
Cooldown increased to 100/90/80 seconds from 75
Armor and Magic Resist bonus adjusted to 15/20/25 per champion hit from 25 7/10/13 per champion hit
Now has a new particle

Yorick
Fixed: Unholy Covenant (Passive) no longer reduces true damage

Ziggs
Satchel Charge
Cooldown reduced at earlier ranks to 26/24/22/20/18 seconds from 30/27/24/21/18

Summoner's Rift
Outer turret vision range increased to 1095 from 800

Twisted Treeline
The Dragon on Twisted Treeline now has the same chat kill announcement as the Dragon on Summoner's Rift

Items
Heart of Gold
Health reduced to 200 from 250
Ionic Spark
Added a counter to show when Ionic Spark will be charged
Philosopher's Stone
Health Regen per 5 seconds reduced to 15 from 18
Avarice Blade, Heart of Gold, Kage's Lucky Pick, and Philospher's Stone now have counters in their tooltip to indicate how much gold the item has generated over the course of the game

Co-op vs. AI
Changed the way bots evaluate towers to better take into account minions and enemies
Changed return to base logic for bots to make them more likely to heal and purchase items
Dominion bots should now properly ignore invisible units when deciding to defend capture points
Beginner bots are now less likely to assist each other during kill and retreat situations
Fixed: Bot assist logic now works during the laning phase
Updated Ashe Bot's item build
Master Yi Bot should now properly purchase Sanguine Blade on Dominion instead of The Bloodthirster

General
Added character portraits to the Spectator-mode Dragon and Baron kill announcements
Fixed: Spectator no longer occasionally causes floating text announcements to be permanently displayed throughout the game
Fixed: When using time controls, gold numbers will no longer get stuck on the screen for some users
Fixed several issues that occur when reconnecting, including ghost minions, invisible champions, untargetable towers, and strange store behavior
When disconnected, the game will now attempt to reconnect automatically

Summary:
Gangplank, Malzahar, Orianna, Sona, Xerath, Ziggs, Outer Turrets buffed.
Graves, Nocturne, Morgana, Sejuani, Shen, (AP) Tristana, Vladimir, Yorick, Heart of Gold, Philosopher Stone, D/C Bugs nerfed.
Evelynn (Full Remake, Buff), Twitch (Early/Mid+ Late-), Kassadin (AP+ Mana/Tank-), Malphite (AP+ Everything Else-), Urgot (Mid+ Early-, Large Overall Nerf), Xin Zhao (Usefulness+ CC Lock-) changed.

Poor Urgot just can't catch a break. His only point of being good just got faceraped.

[Journier]

urgots Q dmg just got a dramatic increase , holy shit, or wait off bonus dmg instead of total.... but artillery pure AD urgot got ze rape.

[Techhead]

AP Trist got hit really hard here. 

[umiman]

I came to see what Riot finally did to my beloved Eve after an eternity of shitting on her (though it still won't bring me back to LoL).

Jesus christ. She's going to slaughter everything! It's shit like this:

Dark Frenzy
No Cost, 20 second Cooldown
Passive: Evelynn's spell hits on enemy Champions grant her 4/8/12/16/20 Movement Speed for 3 seconds (effect stacks up to 4 times)
Active: Evelynn removes all slows affecting her and gains 30/40/50/60/70% Movement Speed for 3 seconds
Champion kills and assists refresh Dark Frenzy's cooldown

And this:

Agony's Embrace
100 Mana, 150/120/90 second Cooldown
Evelynn impales all enemies in the targeted area, dealing 15/20/25% ( 1% per 50 Ability Power) of their maximum Health in magic damage and slowing their Movement Speed by 30/50/70% for 2 seconds
Evelynn siphons their pain, gaining a 150/225/300 health shield for each enemy Champion hit which lasts up to 6 seconds

And this!

While in stealth, Evelynn regenerates 1% of her max Mana every second

Seriously! They have to be doing this on purpose! Intentionally releasing super overpowered characters. Hell, I distinctly remember Riot talking about the mistakes they did in the past regarding champion design such as Lee Sin and Irelia where they had skills that could do too many things at once, making them by that very nature impossible to balance. Then they do this.

Unless in the time I left, the power creep got so egregious that this kind of stuff is commonplace now, I think she's going to roflstomp every single thing she encounters.

[penguinofhonor]

The biggest reason she's overpowered is the sound effect on her ult. It's this horrible, nails on a chalkboard screech. As OP as Lux's laugh, definitely.

I'm hoping they release this patch Friday or Saturday rather than on Monday. I really want to play some Eve.

[Errol]

Heimer now reminds me of TF2 engi and Touhou at the same time. This might be a good thing. Actually, that kit sounds super awesome.

[Jopax]

Urgot wasn't really nerfed, just adjusted slightly, his early game is just a tad weaker but he scales quite nicely into lategame with his Q now, should be fine.

And I hope those Eve stats are a joke, that shit looks broken, what the hell are they thinking, I mean, do they even look at this stuff before releasing it?

[Graven]

Did someone say "Oh god where is Graven to explain in great detail with his unfathomable Dominion knowledge what the new patch means for Dominion!"?

I honestly played very few twitch games, 3 or 4, and I can't be truly unbiased yet. The changes are meant to make him a better straight-up AD carry in SR, but fights in SR and Dom differ wildly - first off, there are no full-on teamfights in Dominion, not fighting is often the better chance, unless you can guarantee an unfair fight, letting the enemies escape is not a bad thing, since the fights are for territory control, no wards and so on.

What this means is, I counted Old Twitch as the best Dominion carry, because he was a great provider of information - Oracles is avoidable and there are no pink wards, so it's easy to spot the enemy team and hover around them without being detected. Information is the most important thing in LoL, but even more in Dominion, since there are no wards and no ways to know exactly where the enemies are apart from a few champion abilities.

This also allowed Twitch to pick and choose his fights to a great extent, not to mention making him a great tool for helping and controling bot, focusing on the point of attacking and positioning, negating the enemy carries/squishies because he could afford to stay in stealth for as long as he wanted.

New twitch's stealth is 8 second at most. This is less than rank 1 ambush before. What this means is Twitch can no longer afford to stay in the jungle stealthed and just pick off stragglers, or scout for his team. His is now "tactical stealth", also known as "awww, isn't it cute ^_^" or "omg what is this overpowered bs" depending on the champion who has it.

Let's explore that for a second.

- Wukong. Has dash. Leaves clone, allows for juking abilities and unstealthed jukes in brush.
- Talon. Has dash, silence and slow.
- Vayne. Has short-range dash, has cc.
- Akali. Has dash, incredible burst.
- Teemo. Has mushrooms and a blind.
- Shaco. Haha.

Now Twitch is the only ranged character apart from Vayne and Teemo who has access to stealth. He also has a slow, too, which is now targetted. The problem is all the other tactical stealth characters can use their stealth as a last-ditch escape effort. You're Vayne and you're being chased in the jungle? Pop that ult and juke around the next corner! You're Talon and there's several nasty peoples incoming? Pop that ult and wing it! You're Shaco? Haha.

Twitch uses his as an engage, and to escape from battles if given the chance (i.e. unattacked), but never for an instant "oh god help me right now" button. He couldn't before, true, but it was a much better engage ability simply due to the duration. Now it's used more as a very short-time initiation and steroid.

Neotwitch is in all honesty a better AD carry than Old Twitch. I haven't run the numbers, but he does more damage, stacks poison easier, and his expunge now scales with AD, not to mention actually has an ult now.

What he isn't is the best Dominion carry. I have yet to play a few more games with him, but he fills a much more traditional AD carry role now, instead of old scout/assassin/carry Twitch, which by default places him behind the Vayne/Kog'maw AD carry union.

What's that? Noone said what I assumed at start? Oh...ehm...oh.

edit : Oh yeah, Xin's ballistic missile build seems incredibly OP now since I literally haven't seen a Xin feed post-15 minutes, and I literally haven't seen an Eve do anything but feed. Take that for what you will!

[Dariush]

Is it only me or Singed is utter shit? I played him yesterday, got something along the lines of 2/10/7 and swore to myself never to play him again. Today I had a match with Singed on my side who claimed the same thing like five minutes into the match. The only half-decent ability is E, but it still sucks compared to any other pull/CC. So, what's so cool about him?

[Bluerobin]

You don't play Singed like any other champion. I don't know the specifics of how to build/play him (health/mana/movespeed is obvious, though), I just know that Singed = always run+poison, never die.

[Fikes]

What is the best option for recording and posting matches? It turns out I am pretty terrible at this game and it is starting to annoy me.

At least I try to pick the job the team needs.

Top: Shen or Mundo
Mid: Karth or Vlad
Bot AD: Ashe or Kog
Bot support: Jana
Jungle: Lee Sin or Ram.

I took a long break from LoL too, so running into the newest champs throws me.

[Dariush]

How exactly are you supposed to do hit-and-run with a champion without stealth, without any blinks or dashes, with exactly one shitty MS boost in his ult and exactly one direct-damage-dealing ability that just happens to be melee-range?

[Knirisk]

How exactly are you supposed to do hit-and-run with a champion without stealth, without any blinks or dashes, with exactly one shitty MS boost in his ult and exactly one direct-damage-dealing ability that just happens to be melee-range?

Build Catalyst, boots, upgrade to RoA. Because his passive gives him health for mana, RoA is such a huge health steroid that it's not even funny. Grab Glacial Shroud for more health, mana, and armor. If you want even MORE health, grab a Banshee's Veil. Otherwise, grab FoN, but usually a BV isn't necessary. Picking up a bit of AP doesn't hurt, but Singed does like his Rylai's as well. Basically, he gets so much health, tankiness, and movement speed that he's practically unstoppable, even if he doesn't do any damage. However, his base values on the poison are decent enough that he can farm whole minion waves and split push like crazy.

Singed doesn't need to join team fights because the team fights always come to him. With Rylai's, his ultimate, FoN, and his natural tankiness, he can pretty much escape anything with a bit of CC reduction. The idea isn't to do a hit-and-run. It's to be a pain in the ass. Pushing all the lanes like Singed does means that the enemy can't engage your towers. And if you lose a team fight? That's fine. Pester the shit outta the enemy so that they chase you instead of the objectives. Wasting 30-40 seconds of their time seriously cuts down on their ability to complete objectives.

Speaking of which, I need to replay Singed soon. The only problem is that a lot of top lane champions just wreck him.