League of Legends – 10.11 Patch Notes | Mid-Patch Updates

VOLIBEAR

The Relentless Storm

The battle-spirit of the Freljord arrives with more lightning and savage claws in 10.11!

• Volibear Biography
• Volibear Livestream Reveal
• Volibear Livestream Reveal Recap

High-res versions of Volibear’s updated splashes are available on League Displays!

FIDDLESTICKS

Passive Effigy posing time increased. Abilities cast when posing as Effigy now Terrify enemies. W minion damage increased.

Adding what feels like a natural mechanic to Fiddlestick’s Q passive to enforce his identity as the scariest scarecrow, while adding some general spookiness to boot. We’re also throwing a bone to mid and top Fiddle players by increasing his waveclear since it’s a bit hard to function as a laner with his current toolset.

PASSIVE – A HARMLESS SCARECROW

Q – TERRIFY

W – BOUNTIFUL HARVEST

GANGPLANK

Base AS ratio increased.

Giving Gangplank a bump in his AS so that he can play around faster barrel combos and potentially shoot for a Zeal item instead of other AD items—meaning more crits, more explosions, and more scraps while in melee range. Notably, this will also sharpen his Trinity Force spike.

BASE STATS

E – POWDER KEG

GRAVES

Q first shot damage ratio reduced.

Graves has smoked out his enemies in higher levels of play, so we’re quickdrawing back some of his Lethality-based power by curtailing his AD ratio which will also affect his ability to heavily snowball in gold. This shouldn’t affect his other builds as much, since they’re less reliant on the additional damage, so we’re hoping this encourages players to try those out too for shooting off the legs of his enemies.

Q – END OF THE LINE

HECARIM

Q base damage increased; minion damage reduction increased.

Despite us making him more menacing in 10.6, Hecarim is still underwhelming at almost all levels of play. Giving him some extra clear power in the jungle and output for extended combat, while making sure not to creep his minion clearing power too much.

Q – RAMPAGE

JANNA

W base damage decreased later.

Although we believe Battle Janna is her best approach to the lane, her harass is weathering her enemies a little too well. Trimming down this ferocious tempest’s poke a tad.

W – ZEPHYR

KAI’SA

Q bonus AD ratio increased. R range increased later.

As a non-Zeal marksman who is already relatively weaker than other marksman champions, we felt Kai’Sa warranted some special attention this patch outside of the aforementioned marksman changes.

Q – ICATHIAN RAIN

R – KILLER INSTINCT

LUX

E2 slow duration increased.

Our ray of sunshine has been struggling in both of her lanes in varying levels of games (all levels of play as a support and in high-elo as a mid-laner). With a longer slow, she’ll hopefully feel more reliably powerful when casting out her combo and bring more utility to her team.

E – LUCENT SINGULARITY

SYNDRA

E cooldown increased.

Syndra is one of the strongest performing mid laners at the moment, and she’s usually seen as a relatively safe pick. We’re reducing access to her stun so that enemies can take advantage of her window of vulnerability while it’s down.

E – SCATTER THE WEAK

TALON

Q cost increased; heal on kill decreased early.

Talon continues to be one of the most powerful mid laners in high-elo, often with an early Q max. We’re carving out some of his sustain so he can’t stall out the early lane to reach his item spikes as trivially.

Q – NOXIAN DIPLOMACY