We’re seeing a few Bilgewater items perform too well for even the Black Market to sell, so we’re lowering the power ceiling to better match other Silver Serpent options, which should have us seeing more pirate-tactics emerge as competitive choices.

“Noxians—I hate these guys.” Ezreal, but not us, cause we’re buffing Noxus (7) in the hopes of a more powerful Atakhan in the mid to late game.

With our Yordle nerfs in our first mid-patch update keeping fast-nine Yordle strategies in check, we’re now able to add a bigger buff for reroll Yordle strategies, further increasing the bonus HP and Attack Speed your three-star Yordles grant each other.

Piltover as a trait and comp is our worst-performing trait when not used as a splash. Instead of buffing the Invention Modules, we’re addressing their core units who’re typically required to unlock T-Hex, their premiere carry (who’s also been a bit hit or miss). With the core Piltovans a bit more worthy of board space, hopefully we can usher in a Progress Day worthy of attending.

One comp that was all but missing from the Paris Open was reroll Yasuo, and while the comp can find moments of success of the back of the better brother (no @’s please), Yasuo’s been too much of a dead weight for his brother, which is really saying something given how used to coming back from the dead Yone is.

The doctor is in.

Lux tends to spend more time being sold for Sylas than time spent on end-game victory screens. We’re giving her a small buff to the two-target burst component of her laser that’ll help Demacia purist boards and Sylas fans looking to reignite the two’s spark by picking up additional copies even after she’s used to break Sylas out of unlock-jail.

Miss Fortune is just a tad over the three-star 4-cost power bar, but with her being easier to three-star via the Black Market, we’re going extra hard with our nerf here.

With early Rift Herald unlocks, a 1200 HP body is often enough to tempo into the mid-game, making for a healthier road to a fast 9 and Baron.

With one end-game board coming down a tad, we’re also lifting our two low-performing end-game carries. And while T-Hex still can’t physically clap, he’ll surely be able to clap other boards more often.

Taking a pass to make sure our worst-performing Augments are worthy of your precious clicks.

We're hitting Yordle (6) pretty hard as one of the bigger engines for fast 9, but the trait as a reroll trait isn't overperforming, so we're shipping quite a few compensation buffs to many of the low-cost Yordles later on.

As for Bilgewater, our nerf is aimed at strategies that use Bilge-toggling to access powerful items/units for econ before transitioning to a mostly Legendary board. With a few changes we're making it harder to farm Serpents unless you're staying in Bilgewater (5) or (7) for an extended duration.

Here we're focused on buffs for the few in our roster of 100 that aren't worthy of their cost, while nerfing a couple of overperforming 5-costs.

Some call-outs here: Our 2-cost rerolls landed a bit weak with Tryndamere and Yasuo.

For Diana, we're nerfing her around her best-in-slot build: an Attack Speed focused build that allows her to cast a lot, AND deal a surprisingly high amount of physical damage. So, we're lowering her AD and her base AS to align her Titan's/Rageblade build with other, more AP-focused builds (which are performing fine).

Many of our 5-costs are getting tuned to keep them in check with their tier and rarity to Unlock. Lucian & Senna, Fiddlesticks, Kindred, and Sylas are all end-game carries that are dominating final boards. Meanwhile, some of our other 5-costs aren't able to keep up with their Legendary expectations.

For Sylas, we tested around boards with and without 4 Arcanist (has Annie and Tibbers), but regardless of the comp, he was having too much impact taking out un-itemized units almost by accident, all the while threatening carries in the back with his Lux laser.

Overall, we're bringing down the overperforming Augments with a focus on the econ-linked ones. At the same time, we're buffing some of our worst performing Augments that aren't linked to fast-nine strategies.

Our best performing Item both due to its flexibility and sheer stats is getting a bit less stat heavy.

Missed the Dortmog reveal? Relive it now—heck, put it on a loop while you queue for your first game—some say that's lucky.

Whether you're climbing the ranked ladder or just trying to fill out your Lorefinder, there's an option for you!

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For more information (and examples) on the new Unlockable Champions mechanic, check out our gameplay overview article. As for here, we're just going to cover the core rules.

Players take damage based upon each stage, and one more for each unit remaining on the battlefield. We're adjusting the flat damage to make Stage 3 more meaningful, rewarding tempo play and strong flexible boards. With Lore & Legends we expect fast 8/9 strategies to be much more consistent (this is due to more powerful late game units with Unlockables and XP/Level odds changes). So, to make sure Stage 3 still has impact (and tempo play/reroll is viable), we're slightly increasing the player damage. Our damage reduction for Stage 4, along with XP changes, should make the mid-game feel a bit longer and reliable to play for.

Getting to Level 8 will be a bit harder, but hitting your desired 4-costs will be much more consistent and rewarding. Going from 8 to Level 9 and 10, will be a bit easier, rewarding you for building a strong Level 8 board.

Making it to Level 8 and 9 will now feel much more comfortable to roll for your desired 4- or 5-costs—just remember to have a bit of gold when you do get there.

With Prismatic Traits now mostly (Ionia and Yordle have Augments) reliant on hitting Level 10 with two Emblems, we want to make sure that it is viable to pursue them, so we're increasing the odds of seeing Spatulas and Pans on Carousels

Last set we removed Assassin from our Roles Revamped rework. We're adding it back with a rework for our extended roster.

Do not think, just do. Champions now enter the flow state faster than you can say Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

New set, new Opening Encounters. Overall, Opening Encounters should have a lower impact than previous sets.

The big swap here is from Wandering Trainer to Ryze's Emblem Ensemble, which instead of giving you a Golem with three Emblems, simply gives you three random Emblems. Overall, Wandering Trainer is one of our most popular Opening Encounters, and it has been so since its early Portal versions. But the amount of impactful RNG here, along with our move back to two-Emblem Prismatics, would allow for hitting Prismatic Traits too early if we kept Wandering Trainer around. Swapping to Emblems means you will still have to hit Level 10 to activate any of our super powerful Prismatic trait breakpoints, while also maintaining the excitement of an Opening Encounter that asks you to adapt your comp so dramatically!

There's always so much to cover with a new set! Good thing we have plenty of friends who're more than willing to lend a helping hand with things like comp guides, pretty cheat sheets, and more!

The following Augments are lost to time in the Grand Library:

Bringing back some fan favorites, from Kent's favorite Celestial Blessing (which now has a new powerful shield for its Prismatic version) to Prism's preferred and elegant NO SCOUT NO PIVOT. We've also made some adjustments to returning Augments, such as Cruel Pact to keep in line with our XP changes, Binary Airdrop to allow for the full team Binary value dream, and NO SCOUT NO PIVOT to allow you to slot in a 4- or 5-cost later on in the game and gain the benefit for them!

The following Augments have been uncovered alongside Ixtali artifacts and Shuriman ruins:

New set, new (and larger) roster, and more Augments adjusted to match! Of note is our buff to Kingslayer which will be much more consistent, and a much sharper Glass Cannon.

Know Your Enemy now lets you Know Your Enemy.

No one needs 5 belts, and they especially don't need 5 Rods. What they need is one Rod, one Rod that ends with a “ger”... Rodger.

With new sets being such a huge moment, we're taking some time to make sure our core items don't become too legendary or unclickable to the point of lore.

All Radiant items are now EXACTLY two times their base model in stats. Any exceptions are light and only because the core effect cannot be duplicated (e.g. Edge of Night, Last Whisper, Infinity Edge).

As we alluded to in our set Learnings article, we're swapping out quite a lot of Artifacts this time around. Some of these will even contribute to the new Darkin trait, while others bring fun fantasies inspired by past mechanics, or fill holes left by Artifacts rotating out.

We're also rebalancing Artifacts with the goal of making them less sharp than before, while still being more specific than core items. Overall, Artifacts should be more powerful than our core items, especially on their preferred users, but less powerful than our Radiant Items. We know that this may take some time to get right, especially with 100 champions available to cook up powerful combos with, but we've made a considerable effort to this end with the sweeping Artifact balance changes below.