Nexus Blitz Alpha Concludes · League of Legends patch note

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Nexus Blitz Alpha

The Nexus Blitz Alpha ends with patch 8.18. Thanks to everyone who tried out the mode and gave us feedback! We'll be back soon with a rundown of how things went and where we're going next.

Champions

Aatrox

E passive healing increased at later ranks. R bonus attack damage increased at later ranks.

E – Umbral Dash

PASSIVE HEALING VS CHAMPIONS 20/21.25/22.5/23.75/25% ⇒20/22.5/25/27.5/30%

R – World Ender

BONUS ATTACK DAMAGE 20/22.5/25% ⇒ 20/25/30%

Akali

R base damage decreased.

R – Perfect Execution

BASE DAMAGE (BOTH CASTS) 120/180/240 ⇒ 100/150/200

Braum

Base health decreased.

Base stats

BASE HEALTH 576.6 ⇒ 540

Kai'Sa

Passive damage decreased at later levels.

Passive – Caustic Wounds

PROC DAMAGE 15-20% target's missing health (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 15% target's missing health (at all levels)

Lucian

Q damage ratio increased at later ranks.

Q – Piercing Light

DAMAGE RATIO 0.6/0.7/0.8/0.9/1.0 bonus attack damage ⇒0.6/0.75/0.9/1.05/1.2 bonus attack damage

Renekton

Empowered E damage increased. Empowered E armor reduction increased at early ranks.

E – Slice and Dice

EMPOWERED DICE DAMAGE 60/105/150/195/240 ⇒70/115/160/205/250

EMPOWERED DICE ARMOR REDUCTION 15/20/25/30/35% ⇒25/27.5/30/32.5/35%

Ryze

Empowered W root duration decreased.

W – Rune Prison

EMPOWERED ROOT DURATION2 seconds ⇒ 1.5 seconds

Sejuani

E base damage decreased. R storm slow duration decreased.

E – Permafrost

BASE DAMAGE 30/45/60/75/90 ⇒ 20/35/50/65/80

R – Glacial Prison

STORM EXPLOSION SLOW DURATION 3 seconds ⇒ 1 second

Trundle

E cooldown increased. E slow decreased at early ranks, increased at later ranks.

E – Pillar of Ice

COOLDOWN 22/20/18/16/14 seconds ⇒ 24/22/20/18/16 seconds

SLOW PERCENT 30/35/40/45/50% ⇒ 15/25/35/45/55%

Vayne

Q cooldown decreased at early ranks.

Q – Tumble

COOLDOWN 6/5/4/3/2 seconds ⇒ 4/3.5/3/2.5/2 seconds

Viktor

First Hex Core upgrade cost decreased.

Passive – Glorious Evolution

HEX CORE MK -1 COST 1250 gold ⇒ 1150 gold

PERFECT HEX CORE COST 750 gold ⇒ 850 gold

Smite Auto-Select

Smite

If you're assigned Jungle in draft queues, you'll load into Champion Select with Smite already selected! You're still free to swap Smite out (or swap to Smite if you aren't assigned Jungle) in cases where you're running an offbeat comp or want to switch roles with a teammate.

Minimap Icons

OK 4KMinimap icons now scale with minimap size on Summoner's Rift, Howling Abyss, and Twisted Treeline. Players with 4K monitors, rejoice!

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where Nunu was sometimes invisible to enemies while rolling his W – Biggest Snowball Ever! out of fog of war
Fixed an FPS hitching issue that occurred when Voidbringer Illaoi sucessfully Teleported while her W – Harsh Lesson attack buff was active
Ravenous Hunter's tooltip no longer counts healing done while you're already at full health
Alt-tabbing out of the loading screen while on Fullscreen settings no longer causes loading screen images to disappear when you tab back in
Omega Squad Veigar's W – Dark Matter warning indicator is now much clearer for colorblind players

New Game Mode

Odyssey: Extraction

Available until October 9, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. PT

Join the crew and Ziggs as they fight their way through hordes of aliens in the co-op game mode Odyssey: Extraction. Head to the game mode primer to learn more.