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Champion Adjustments and Gameplay Improvements

Patch8.17
Quick Take5 changes

Patch 8.17 brings champion adjustments, item tweaks, and bugfixes.

  • New: Nunu & Willump enters the Fields of Justice.
  • Buff: Annie attack range increased, Bard R cooldown reduced, Kassadin R cooldown reduced, Kayn E duration and movement speed buffed, Master Yi W cooldown reduced and damage reduction increased, Rengar R cooldown reduced.
  • Nerf: Fiora E crit damage at early ranks reduced, Garen Q damage reduced, Varus base health reduced but health growth increased, Wukong gained bonus attack speed, Yorick Mist Walker damage reduced early, Taric adaptive damage defaults to physical.
  • Updated: Stormrazor crit modifier decreased but attack speed increased; Duskblade proc damage reduced but lethality increased.
  • Fixed: Phantom Dancer passive bug, Akali R damage calculation, Maokai R sfx, ranged VFX, Deep Sea Nami animation.

8.17 Patch Highlights

Nexus Blitz

The Nexus Blitz live alpha continues this patch. For a rundown of changes coming this patch, head to the update article!

Champions

Nunu & Willump

Nunu & Willump, the Boy and His Yeti will start their adventure in patch 8.17! Get rolling with these links:

Annie

Attack range increased.

ATTACK RANGE 575 ⇒ 625

Bard

R cooldown decreased.

R – Tempered Fate

COOLDOWN 130/110/90 seconds ⇒ 110/95/80 seconds

Fiora

E crit damage on second attack increased at early ranks.

E – Bladework

CRIT DAMAGE ON SECOND ATTACK140/155/170/185/200% ⇒160/170/180/190/200%

Garen

Q damage decreased at later ranks.

Q – Decisive Strike

BASE DAMAGE 30/65/100/135/170 ⇒ 30/60/90/120/150

Irelia

Q damage bonus to minions increased.

Q – Bladesurge

INCREASED DAMAGE TO MINIONS 70% ⇒ 100%

Kassadin

R cooldown decreased at early ranks.

R – Riftwalk

COOLDOWN 6/4/2 seconds ⇒ 5/3.5/2 seconds

Kayn

E duration increased early. Shadow E movement speed increased.

E – Shadow Step

DURATION5/6/7/8/9 seconds ⇒ 7/7.5/8/8.5/9 seconds SHADOW ASSASSIN BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED70% ⇒ 80%

Master Yi

W cooldown decreased; damage reduction increased early.

W – Meditate

COOLDOWN 35 seconds ⇒ 28 seconds DAMAGE REDUCTION 50/55/60/65/70% ⇒ 60/62.5/65/67.5/70%

Rengar

R cooldown decreased early.

R – Thrill of the Hunt

COOLDOWN 130/100/70 seconds ⇒ 110/90/70 seconds

Varus

Base health decreased; health growth increased.

Base Stats

HEALTH 549 ⇒ 499 HEALTH GROWTH 86 ⇒ 89

Wukong

Now has level 1 bonus attack speed.

Base Stats

BONUS ATTACK SPEED AT LEVEL 10% ⇒ 8%

Yorick

Mist Walker damage decreased.

Mist Walkers

ATTACK DAMAGE GROWTH (LEVELS 2-7) 3 ⇒ 1 ATTACK DAMAGE GROWTH (LEVELS 8-13 )5 ⇒ 6 ATTACK DAMAGE GROWTH (LEVELS 14+) 10 ⇒ 11

Taric

Adaptive damage now defaults to physical.

ADAPTIVE DAMAGENow defaults to physical if Taric has no bonus attack damage or ability power

Items

Stormrazor

Guaranteed crit damage decreased below 30% crit. Attack speed increased and attack damage decreased.

CRITICAL STRIKE MODIFIER 160-200% (at 0-30% crit chance) ⇒ 140-200% (at 0-30% crit chance) ATTACK SPEED 25% ⇒ 35% ATTACK DAMAGE 65 ⇒ 60

Duskblade

Proc damage decreased. Lethality increased.

PROC DAMAGE 30-200 (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 30-150 damage (at levels 1-18) LETHALITY 18 ⇒ 21

Summoner Spells

Changed a service related to summoner spell configuration. If you haven't played a particular queue in a couple of months, your summoner spells in that queue may reset to Heal/Ghost. Just a heads up!

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug where Phantom Dancer's Spectral Waltz passive would sometimes not trigger
  • Fixed a bug where Akali's R – Perfect Execution dealt damage to all opponents based on the health of the last enemy struck, rather than calculating damage individually for each
  • Maokai R – Nature's Grasp's sfx now correctly line up with the ability's duration.
  • Fixed a bug where ranged attacks and targeted projectiles would have their VFX appear from the champion's last seen location, if they were not currently in vision
  • Deep Sea Nami no longer leaves her spine behind while moving during her recall animation.

Source: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-817-notes

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