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Champion Adjustments and Gameplay Improvements

Patch8.16
Quick Take4 changes

Patch 8.16 delivers tank buffs, burst rune nerfs, and targeted adjustments to several champions.

  • Buff: Amumu, Hecarim, Leona, Rammus, and Sion receive buffs to their defensive or offensive capabilities.
  • Nerf: Aatrox, Fizz, Orianna, Quinn, Rakan, Taliyah, Trundle, Tryndamere, Wukong, and Zoe see nerfs to their power. Burst runes including Electrocute, Summon Aery, Celerity, Cheap Shot, Sudden Impact, and Scorch are also nerfed.
  • Fixed: Heal cooldown reverted to 240 seconds; Summoner Level and End of Game Lobby quality-of-life improvements; bugfix for custom game dodging.
  • Updated: Nautilus and Tahm Kench receive rebalances to their shields and abilities.

-League of Legends Devs

Patch Highlights

Champions

Aatrox

E passive healing against non-champions decreased. Charges granted on learning E decreased. R cooldown increased at early ranks.

E – Umbral Dash

PASSIVE HEALING AGAINST NON-CHAMPIONS 33% ⇒ 15% CHARGES WHEN LEARNED 2 ⇒ 1

R – World Ender

COOLDOWN 140/130/120 seconds ⇒ 160/140/120 seconds

Fizz

W damage ratio decreased. R damage ratio decreased.

W – Seastone Trident

ACTIVE DAMAGE RATIO 0.6 ability power ⇒ 0.5 ability power ON-HIT DAMAGE RATIO 0.4 ability power ⇒ 0.35 ability power

R – Chum the Waters

GUPPY DAMAGE RATIO 0.9 ability power ⇒ 0.8 ability power CHOMPER DAMAGE RATIO 1.1 ability power ⇒ 1.0 ability power GIGALODON DAMAGE RATI O1.3 ability power ⇒ 1.2 ability power

Hecarim

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

Q – Rampage

BASE DAMAGE 55/90/125/160/195 ⇒ 55/95/135/175/215 DAMAGE RATIO 0.6 bonus attack damage ⇒ 0.7 bonus attack damage

Orianna

Base magic resist decreased.

Base Stats

MAGIC RESIST 30 ⇒ 26

Quinn

Attack damage growth decreased.

Base Stats

ATTACK DAMAGE GROWTH 3 ⇒ 2.4

Rakan

Health and armor decreased.

Base Stats

HEALTH 510 ⇒ 480 ARMOR 36 ⇒ 33

Taliyah

Movement speed decreased. W cooldown increased at early ranks. R wall no longer grants vision.

Base Stats

MOVEMENT SPEED 340 ⇒ 335

W – Seismic Shove

COOLDOWN 12 seconds ⇒ 16/15/14/13/12 seconds

R – Weaver's Wall

REMOVEDVISION Wall no longer grants vision

Trundle

Q base damage decreased at later ranks. Q damage ratio increased at later ranks. Q attack damage sap duration decreased.

Q – Chomp

BASE DAMAGE 20/40/60/80/100 ⇒ 20/30/40/50/60 DAMAGE RATIO 1.0/1.05/1.1/1.15/1.2 total attack damage ⇒1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4 total attack damage STOLEN ATTACK DAMAGE DURATION 8 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds

Tryndamere

E cooldown increased at later ranks.

E – Spinning Slash

COOLDOWN 13/11.5/10/8.5/7 seconds ⇒ 13/12/11/10/9 seconds

Wukong

Q base damage decreased. Q damage ratio decreased.

Q – Crushing Blow

BASE DAMAGE 30/60/90/120/150 ⇒ 10/40/70/100/130 DAMAGE RATIO 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 total attack damage ⇒1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4 total attack damage

Zoe

Passive damage decreased at all ranks. W damage ratio decreased.

Passive – More Sparkles!

BASE DAMAGE LEVELS 1-6 12/15/20/25/30/35 ⇒ 10/12/16/20/24/28 BASE DAMAGE LEVELS 7-10 48/53/67/73 ⇒ 34/40/46/52 BASE DAMAGE LEVELS 11-14 79/86/93/100 ⇒ 60/68/76/84 BASE DAMAGE LEVELS 15-18 109/117/126/135 ⇒ 94/104/114/124 DAMAGE RATIO 0.325 ability power ⇒ 0.2 ability power

W – Spell Thief

DAMAGE RATIO0.55 ability power ⇒ 0.4 ability power

Tanks

Amumu

E passive now scales with bonus armor and magic resist.

E – Tantrum

NEW BONUS DAMAGE REDUCTION 3% bonus armor + 3% magic resist BASE DAMAGE REDUCTION 2/4/6/8/10 (unchanged)

Leona

W cooldown decreased at later ranks.

W – Eclipse

COOLDOWN 14 seconds ⇒ 14/13/12/11/10 seconds

Nautilus

W base shield decreased slightly early, increased at later ranks. W maximum health scaling decreased at later ranks. W duration and cooldown decreased.

W – Titan's Wrath

BASE SHIELD 65/70/75/80/85 ⇒ 60/70/80/90/100 SHIELD SCALING 9/11/13/15/17% maximum health ⇒ 9/10/11/12/13% maximum health DURATION 10 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds COOLDOWN 18 seconds ⇒ 12 seconds

Rammus

W bonus resists increased.

W – Defensive Ball Curl

BONUS ARMOR 50/60/70/80/90% ⇒ 60/70/80/90/100% BONUS MAGIC RESIST 25/30/35/40/45% ⇒ 30/35/40/45/50%

Sion

W health gain increased.

W – Soul Furnace

MAXIMUM HEALTH GAIN FROM ENEMIES 3 ⇒ 4 MAXIMUM HEALTH GAIN FROM LARGE ENEMIES 10 ⇒ 15

Tahm Kench

Q slow duration and cooldown decreased. W duration decreased at later ranks. W cooldown significantly increased. W mana cost decreased. W cooldown now halved on enemy Devour.

Q – Tongue Lash

SLOW DURATION 2 seconds ⇒ 1.5 seconds COOLDOWN 6 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds

W – Devour/Regurgitate

DEVOUR DURATION 4/4.5/5/5.5/6 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds ENEMY CHAMPION DURATION Half ally duration (unchanged) COOLDOWN 14/13/12/11/10 seconds ⇒ 28/25/22/19/16 seconds NEW YUMMY Cooldown is halved on enemy cast COST 90 mana ⇒ 60 mana

Runes

Burst Runes

Summon Aery

Base damage decreased at early levels. Base shielding increased at early levels.

BASE DAMAGE 15-40 (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 10-40 (at levels 1-18) BASE SHIELDING 30-80 (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 35-80 (at levels 1-18)

Electrocute

Base damage decreased. Damage ratio decreased.

BASE DAMAGE 50-220 (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 30-180 (at levels 1-18) DAMAGE RATIO (AD) 0.5 bonus attack damage ⇒ 0.4 bonus attack damage DAMAGE RATIO (AP) 0.3 ability power ⇒ 0.25 ability power COOLDOWN 50-25 seconds (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 25-20 seconds (at levels 1-18)

Celerity

Movement speed conversion into adaptive stat decreased.

ATTACK DAMAGE 9.6% bonus movement speed ⇒ 6% bonus movement speed ABILITY POWER 16% bonus movement speed ⇒ 10% bonus movement speed

Cheap Shot

Base damage decreased at early levels.

BASE DAMAGE 15-40 ⇒ 8-40

Sudden Impact

Lethality and magic penetration decreased.

LETHALITY 10 ⇒ 7 MAGIC PENETRATION 8 ⇒ 6

Scorch

Base damage decreased. Cooldown decreased.

BASE DAMAGE 20-60 ⇒ 10-30 COOLDOWN 20 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds

Summoner Spells

Heal

Cooldown decreased.

In patch 8.6, Heal was crowding out other options in mid lane, so we lengthened its cooldown. This pushed both marksmen and mid laners onto teleport (which has had a much more notable impact on the meta), so we're reverting the Heal nerf.

COOLDOWN 270 seconds ⇒ 240 seconds

Summoner Level

You can now show off your summoner level and borders on banners in game lobbies.

End of Game Lobby

BRB BATHROOM When playing with a premade group, the status of each player will display above the "Play Again" button

Bugfixes

  • Players are no longer blocked from creating custom games if they have dodged from champ select.

Source: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-816-notes

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