Here are the early LoL Patch 14.16 patch notes

League of Legends Patch 14.16 continues Riot Games’ heavy focus on the bot lane, with the developers eager to get everything squared away in the Rift’s southern battlefield before the 2024 World Championship begins.

In League‘s first August update, the developers are making waves on Summoner’s Rift by addressing the strongest ADC systems and the Season 14 metagame that revolves around having a marksman in every lane. On top of that, they’re trying to solve top lane by making major changes to death timers, so it’ll now take longer to revive.

And, of course, in the skin department its a celebration of the League world champions T1, with the reigning kings of the title’s esports circuit getting their pro play variants.

Here’s everything about League Patch 14.16 update.

When will League Patch 14.16 go live?

League Patch 14.16 will go live on Wednesday, Aug. 14, aligning with the current 2024 League Patch schedule. We’re currently waiting for the ongoing Patch 14.16 PBE testing to be all wrapped up before any changes are locked in.

Here are all the key patching times for Patch 14.16:

• 3pm CT (NA)
• 5am GMT (EU West)
• 3am CET (EU North East)
• 8am KR (Korea)

On update day, you can anticipate several hours of downtime. As always, matchmaking will be turned off across all League queues three hours before the update.

What’s in League Patch 14.16?

“Strictly weak” League champs get helping hand

The guiding light for buffs this patch, Riot Phreak explained on Wednesday, was to help champions who have been “strictly weak in solo queue.” This includes several ever-popular characters like Orianna, Syndra, Sylas (more on him later), Vi, Skarner, Wukong, and Azir. Riot is also happy if they show up in pro play, but the focus is on queue play rates.

Senna’s stats to receive support rework

Senna is being pushed into more of an Enchanter build over the Lethality focus many players have been guiding her towards in Season 14. Riot has identified this as a mistake, especially because she’s now slumped to a lowly 48 percent win rate, and so they’re trying to make her work better alongside ADCs—and win more in the process.

Riot backtracks on Sylas nerfs

Riot is backtracking on Sylas’ recent nerfs in Patch 14.16 after the mid lane mage was nerfed nearly to the ends of the earth in Patch 14.15.

Since Patch 14.15, Sylas has suffered a major blow to his win rate, which is currently sitting at a low 48.51 percent according to the League stat tracker U.GG. It was at 50.87 percent an update bfeore, in 14.14, so it’s clear the nerfs really did a number on him; the devs now expect these rollback changes to help him a little.

Dying introduces new death timer punishments

Dying on Summoner’s Rift will now have harsher punishments in League’s early stages, with death timers being increased by four seconds from levels one to eight. There will also be a two-second extension added on at level nine.

The purpose of these changes is to make early lobby deaths more punishable. So, be on the lookout for those level one invades and early lane ganks.

T1’s 2023 World Championship skins are here

After their phenomenal win at the 2023 League World Championship, T1’s Worlds skins are finally set to arrive in Patch 14.16 with five T1 skins and one Prestige T1 skin—the latter of which celebrates Zeus’ performance as the finals MVP at the Gocheok Sky Dome. Here are all the new skins coming in this patch:

• T1 Jayce (1,350 RP)
• Prestige T1 Jayce (125 Mythic Essense)
• T1 Lee Sin (1,350 RP)
• T1 Orianna (1,350 RP)
• T1 Jinx (1,350 RP)
• T1 Bard (1,350 RP)

These T1 skins will go live during the Patch 14.16 cycle.

League Patch 14.16 patch notes

Champions

Azir

• Health regeneration increased from 3.5 to five.
• Armor increased from 22 to 25.

Corki

• Q cooldown increased from 8-6 to 9-7, mana cost changed from 60-80 to 80 flat.

Katarina

• Q damage increased from 80-200 (plus 35 percent ability power) to 80-240 (plus 45 percent ability power).
• E base damage reduced from 20-80 to 20-60.
• R on-hit effectiveness reduced from 30-40 to 25-35 percent.

Lucian

• Q damage reduced from 95-215 to 85-205.
• Passive total attack damage ratio reduced from 0.15 to 0.2.

Orianna

• Q ability power ratio increased from 50 to 55 percent.

Senna

• See all changes here.

Skarner

• Health increased from 610 to 630.
• Base attack damage increased from 60 to 63.
• Q bonus attack damage ratio increased from 0.6 to 0.8.

Sylas

• Starting health increased from 575 to 600.
• Passive damage on primary target increased from 25 to 30 percent ability power.
• W base damage increased from 65-205 to 75-215.

Syndra

• R damage per Dark Sphere increased from 90-170 (plus 17 percent ability power) to 100-180 (plus 17 percent ability power).

Vi

• Q max damage increased from 90-290 to 100-300.

Wukong

• Passive armor increased plus one at all levels.
• E attack speed increased by plus five percent at all ranks.

Items

Black Cleaver

• No longer requires 0.01s between stacks.

Blade of the Ruined King

• Attack damage reduced from 55 to 50.
• Attack speed reduced from 30 to 25 percent.
• Melee on-hit damage increased from nine to 10 percent.

Doran’s Blade

• Health reduced from 100 to 80.
• Lifesteal reduced from 3.5 to three percent.

Runes

• No changes this update.

System

Death Timers

• Level 1-8 increased by plus four seconds.
• Level Nine increased by two.
• Level 10 plus unchanged.

Death Homeguards

• Duration increased from five to eight seconds.
• Timer starts when leaving the fountain. Was previously instantly.

Skins

T1 Jayce

Prestige T1 Jayce

T1 Lee Sin

T1 Orianna

T1 Jinx

T1 Bard

Update Aug. 7, 12.27am CT, by Isaac McIntyre: Added all details from Riot’s League PBE testing for Patch 14.16, as per Riot Phreak on X (formerly Twitter).

This article is being updated through the League patch cycle.