Cleaning up some edge-cases for champion roles to make sure tanks are tanking and fighters aren't getting immediately punished for wrapping around a flank.

Fighter's innate Omnivamp made Omnivamp items like Bloodthrister and Hand of Justice obsolete, instead incentivizing them to build 3 damage items rather than their usual offense/defensive hybrid builds. Similarly, Assassins felt underserved by their Role's relatively invisible power.

We're reassigning melee carry champions (whether Fighter or Assassin) under the Fighter tag, and shifting their bonus Omnivamp to scaling Attack Speed, a solve that will also address the odd power curve many of our melee carries experience (being stronger earlier and weaker late game). With more attack speed late game, they should cast more often, giving them more chances to reap the benefit of big Omnivamp bursts (if they build things like Bloodthirster), or just make them an even glassier (and riskier) cannon. While the Assassin tag is leaving this set, it may come back in the future where we find a more specific use-case for the role.

The changes to attack speed is to accommodate the scaling attack speed buffs for Fighters coming this patch. In addition to those changes, we've added one Yone resistance buff as his AOE and stacking passive were very reliant on the Omnivamp the role previously had.

Prismatic Orbs are meant to be game-warping, exciting highroll moments for players. However, their varied outputs often left players feeling disadvantaged rather than rewarded. We're revamping the Prismatic Orbs so players all get the same rewards, making the gaps between players smaller, and also adding a new variety of rewards to really make them exciting in those rare moments.

We've also added two incredibly rare and novel orbs that we're excited for you to get your Mittens on. And just to reiterate, Prismatic Orbs are very rare and are seen in just under 4% of games, in Stages 3 or 4.

Artifacts are too common and over the power budget for our Gold Orbs, so we're taking them out and increasing the odds of other Gold rewards.

We want to keep Artifacts powerful but balanced, and one way we do so is by limiting how often players get to experience them. We think the best way right now is in 1 specific Opening Encounter (Artifact Encounter), Prismatic orbs, and specific Augments.

With Roles Revamped altering how backliners generate mana, we're reducing the power of PvE rounds that focus backliners (something that used to give them a bit of Mana to get that initial cast off faster and survive the encounter).

Immunity and Untargetability made for some weird and frustrating interactions where positioning to focus a Luchador carry could backfire. While there is a place for Immunity and Untargetability, its accessibility is not only too common, but also takes up a disproportionate amount of the trait's power budget that is either not used effectively at all (e.g. your primary tank jumps in and out of aggro resulting in your backliners getting targeted), or is used so effectively it takes up the entirety of the trait's power. With the removal of this part of Luchador, we're able to index more into their max Health heal, creating a more intuitive source of power that can be built around (more max HP = bigger heal, more resistances gets more out of that heal).

Mighty Mech's been a popular comp since day one, but the giant (7) piece hasn't had its moment to assemble. Time to roll out some buffs!

Prodigy is one of our top performing comps, but not all Prodigies are making high enough grades to be S-tier. We're trimming some of the team-wide power of the trait, while nerfing the strongest piece of the comp as well (Yuumi). This allows us to give just a tad bit of power to the least prodigious prodigy, Malzahar.

Currently, the trait power of Star Guardian is too heavily skewed towards the deeper end of the vertical. We're making adjustments across the board to allow the trait to be more splashable, stronger earlier, and a tad weaker later.

Malphite is the reliant rock that keeps the Crew (and more) comps from falling into a hard place. We're lightening the load he has to carry with a few nerfs that should have him more in line with other 1-cost Tanks, but we've got some compensation buffs to his go-to vertical in the form of crewmate buffs for Sivir and Ziggs!

Kai'Sa has a very high power-ceiling that gets even higher with optimal Power-Up and team building. We're lowering her base AD, so she'll need to get a few stacks to reach her previous form.

Vi's been outdone by her other 2-cost Juggernaut counterpart. We wanna make sure both our Zaun dwelling frontliners can pack and take a punch.

In the past, Senna would take a flat 2.4 seconds to resolve her ability, so even if she'd cancel it early, refunding Mana in the process, she'd still be stuck in her animation, standing there and doing nothing for upwards of a second. We've opted to redo her ability internally (it still does the same general thing), allowing her to return to normal attack patterns after casting much faster and resolve a few bugs in the process. This is a buff, so we're tagging on a damage nerf to her newly super-reliable ability.

I believe the famous phrase is “Gotta catch Kog'Maw, Rammus, and Smolder,” often shortened to “Gotta catch em' all,” but the real meaning here is all of them, not just Kog' Maw and Rammus. To help with that, we've got a nice damage buff for our cutest fire-breathing dragon in training.

Udyr's continued to brush off damage with big heals and reduced damage from resistance itemization and/or the Colossal Power-Up. By reducing his healing ability he shouldn't shrug off the damage that does get through. But that's not the only nerf we have to Udyr's go-to comp. With his stalling ability, Duelists are able to stack up Kraken's Fury to an unmatched degree (looking at you Ashe). We've got an item rework for Kraken's that will keep it strong, but less abusable in these situations—read on to find out more.

We're giving Poppy's shield HP scaling, making her a viable Heavyweight vertical tank carry!

We're also bringing down the power of Leona and Yuumi so they don't continue to crowd out other fast 8 comps.

You may have noticed Ryze damage popping up near the top of damage charts even when he's not your core carry. He's pretty good, but since we're nerfing a lot of the A and S-tier comps we foresee him becoming an even more dominant force without appropriate nerfs, especially since we're already seeing him at the center of a few high-elo comps (the most popular being Mentor Mech). With our nerf, we only hit the Mentor version as his base form is likely fine, especially as we bring the overall power of the set down.

Twisted Fate can do a lot of damage off his marks, but if that unit dies before the mark goes off, he's forced to fold early. We're moving some of his mark damage to his ability so he'll always be able to benefit from the hand he's dealt.

We're shifting Zyra into a better damage carry and less of a utility-plant by moving the HP and teamwide attack speed into pure damage!

Despite a recent buff, Mundo's Champion Augment hasn't been able to land him a seat in top four. We're giving Mundo a better toss of the chair and a mana buff to have him throwing chairs like they're elbows. Now that's what I call a chairitable buff.

Kraken's Fury can quickly stack up to be our highest damaging item, leaving tanks in disarray and causing backliners to get one-shot just moments afterwards. We're adjusting the item so it doesn't go infinite anymore, but instead provides a burst of Attack Speed upon reaching max stacks.

While not a bad item, Nashor's Tooth has had something of an identity crisis as of late. We're now reworking it to provide Mana with each attack, allowing it to scale with attack speed, but even more Mana if those attacks critically strike, making those low-damage Sorcerer auto attack crits have much more impact. To help with those crits, the item now gives 20% critical strike change, so just remember to pair it with other crit items to get the most out of the item slot.

Blue Buff is still our premiere Mana Regen item, but we want to give it a similar treatment to our other double core item carry options like Deathblade or Deathcap. Blue Buff will now grant 10% additional AD and AP from all sources making it the perfect pair for the just mentioned items.

We're adjusting Quicksilver to provide stacking attack speed similar to Rageblade, but this time fulfilling a need for attack speed outside of getting a Bow component. This should have it compete less with Titan's Resolve too, as it'll be more appreciable on Attack Speed scaling champions. With how crucial and popular Rageblade is on many of our champions, we're confident Quicksilver will be a good alternative—especially if you're melee or against a CC heavy team.

Artifacts have been a high moment for players since their overhaul. However, as they've become more common and powerful, they've also begun to exceed the power-budget given. We're realigning that Artifacts lie between Radiants and Completed items in terms of power and have tuned them to be closer, while also reducing their drop frequency from systems.

New champion specific Power Ups should create new reroll comps to shake up the meta.

We're buffing a lot of our Power Ups that have been crowded out by the dominant few. The goal here is to make sure you feel good about at least one of your offerings when you pop a fruit. We still see a few flaws in the system (eg: Offering Shred when you have Shred), and we aim at solving some of these in the future, but for now enjoy a much larger list of viable Power-Up options!

“Combat Start” items have been updated for consistency. “Combat Start” effects only trigger if the item is on the champion when combat starts. Additional effects on the item will function when placed mid-combat. Tooltips have been updated to clarify this.

We've been following the PHd thesis, literature reviews, and IRB submissions on wave theory and #lowrollgate, and after a deep investigation, we've corrected two bugs impacting the number of champions in pools (and thus their appearance rate in shops), that should leave shops feeling better. With these bugs found, we'll continue to investigate other systems in case they are impacting champion pools too.