League of Legends’ newest patch, Patch 8.14, arrives tomorrow. It’s a little less extreme than this year’s mid-season patches, which flopped the bot lane meta and gutted the jungle, but only barely less extreme.
This patch promises to completely ruin the gold funneling strategy, the cost of which is very drastic, heavy-handed changes to jungle items. On top of that, there’s a lot of heavy Aatrox follow-up work, and the newest line of Worlds victory skins for Samsung Galaxy’s players thanks to their win last year. There’s still the usual nerfing and buffing, but those are the big ones for this week.
Here is the complete and comprehensive list of changes and new features from Patch 8.14, pulled straight from Riot’s patch notes.
Nerfs
Champions
Dr. Mundo
Infected Cleaver (Q): Health cost refund on-hit lowered from 50 percent to 40 percent (still doubled on kills).
Rakan
Gleaming Quill (Q): Cooldown raised from 12-6 seconds depending on rank to 12-8 seconds.
The Quickness (R): Cooldown raised from 120-80 seconds depending on rank to 130-90 seconds.
Sejuani
Glacial Prison (R): Max stun duration lowered from two seconds to 1.5 seconds.
Shen
Twilight Assault (Q): Slow decreased from a flat 35 percent to 15-35 percent depending on rank.
Swain
Demon Flare (R): Max-damage explosion AP scaling lowered from 135 percent to 105 percent.
Talon
Rake (W): Incoming damage lowered from 70-170 depending on rank to 70-130.
Wukong
Nimbus Strike (E): Base damage lowered from 65-245 depending on rank to 65-205.
Zoe
Spell Thief (W): Base damage lowered from 75-255 depending on rank to 75-195, and AP scaling lowered from 65 percent to 55 percent.
Items
Hunter’s Machete/Hunter’s Talisman
If you have the most individual gold on your team, all lane minions will grant 10 less gold. This penalty is removed upon enchantment completion.
Summoner Spells
Teleport
Base cooldown increased by one minute. Cancelled cooldown raised by 40 seconds.
Runes
Conqueror
Bonus AD lowered from 10-35 depending on level to 6-35.
Buffs
Champions
Jinx
Base health increased by 50; health growth lowered by 4.
Sion
Decimating Smash (Q): Base damage raised from 30-100 depending on rank to 30-110. Total AD scaling raised from 45-65 percent depending on rank to 45-75 percent.
Twitch
Base health raised by 40.
Health growth lowered by three.
Ahri
Charm (E): Mana cost lowered by 15. Charm duration raised from 1-2 seconds depending on rank to 1.4-2 seconds.
Cassiopeia
Noxious Blast (Q): Base damage raised from 75-255 depending on rank to 75-275. AP scaling raised from 70 percent to 80 percent.
Corki
Gatling Gun (E): Base damage raised from 80-320 depending on rank to 120-320. Resistance reduction per stack raised from 0.5-2.5 depending on rank to 1-2.5.
Elise
Health growth raised by eight.
Nasus
Passive lifesteal increased from 10-20 percent depending on level to 12-24 percent.
Pantheon
Bonus attack speed at level one raised from zero to eight percent.
Aegis of Zeonia (W): Base damage raised from 50-150 depending on level to 60-160.
Rek’Sai
Queen’s Wrath (Q): Bonus AD scaling raised from 40 percent to 50 percent.
Void Rush (R): Bonus AD scaling raised from 185 percent to 200 percent.
Sivir
Boomerang Blade (Q): Cooldown raised by two seconds.
Vel’Koz
Plasma Fission (Q): AP scaling raised from 60 percent to 80 percent.
Vayne
Silver Bolts (W): Max health true damage raised from 4-12 percent depending on rank to 4-14 percent.
Vi
Base attack speed raised from 0.625 to 0.644.
Assault and Battery (R): Cooldown lowered from 130-70 seconds depending on rank to 110-60.
Viktor
Gravity Field (W): Cast range raised by 100 units.
New Stuff
Champion tweaks
Aatrox
New: Toggling CTRL + 5 now unfurls banner wings, reminiscent of his old design.
Base health lowered from 610 to 580.
The Darkin Blade (Q): Base damage lowered from 20-80 depending on rank to 10-70. Damage to minions lowered from 65-100 percent depending on level to 50-100 percent.
Umbral Dash (E): Recharge rate changed from 20-12 seconds depending on rank to 24-8 seconds.
World Ender (R): Bonus AD raised from 20 percent of total AD at all ranks to 20-25 percent depending on rank. Q’s recast timer is now frozen while reviving.
Fizz
New Seastone Trident (W): No longer applies passive bleed to all minions caught in Q path or to targets hit by R fish or shark. Partially refunds cooldown and mana cost on kill. When used on a target that doesn’t die, Fizz gains on-hit damage equal to 10/15/20/25/30 (plus 30 percent AP) for five seconds.
Karma
Base mana regen raised from 8.5 mana per five seconds to 11.5 mana per five seconds.
Mana regen growth lowered from 0.8 mana per five seconds to 0.5 mana per five seconds.
Base armor raised by 5.6.
Inner Flame (Q): Splash radius raised by 30 units. Soulflare detonation damage lowered slightly from 50-350 depending on Mantra rank to 35-350.
Runes
Ghost Poro
Ghost Poro now requires a trinket placement to activate. When you or your Ghost Poro is in enemy territory, you can 5-10 AP or 3-12 bonus AD depending on level (adaptive).
Zombie Ward
Zombie Wards no longer spawn when friendly wards time out. Instead, destroying a ward causes you to inflict 30-90 magic damage on your next attack, scaling with level.
New cursor
A new cursor has been added to League of Legends, replacing the old one entirely.
Champ select
Failing to ban a champion now defaults to a no-ban, rather than kicking you from the game.
Skins
Samsung Galaxy Gnar, Ezreal, Rakan, Xayah, Taliyah, and Jarvan IV
Hextech Poppy
Published: Jul 17, 2018 12:00 pm