Adventurers, it’s dangerous to go alone—take these patch notes!
With the vital balance outliers adjusted in our 11.17 Mid-Patch Update, 11.18 turns the focus to opening up more late game frontline options with nerfs to staple frontliners (Ivern, Jax, Volibear), continuing to adjust Radiant Items, and making 3-star 4-costs feel as dangerous as they should be. We’ve also got the new Inktale Little Legends and Esports Pengu!
The consistency that Assassin provides in the mid to late game is enough to create an entire franchise of games.
With heavy fingers, I inform you that we had to put a plug in the chug bug comp. While Yasuo’s cast time change feels good, the buff allowed him to ramp up faster and more consistently than we anticipated. To preserve the satisfaction with the new cast time, we're decreasing his stacking true damage.
Bursting from the canvas of the painted world comes an all new Little Legend thematic: Inktale! There are five variants each for Ao Shin, Featherknight, and Paddlemar. They’ll be available by direct purchase, through eggs, or through bundles (of joy)!
In this painted world, five elements (Azure, Terra, Darkspark, Ember, and Galeborn) vie for domain on the canvas. But which will you choose as the final layer of your masterpiece? Check 'em out in all of their inky beauty here!
Inktale Egg |
1 LL Egg |
$3.99 |
490 RP |
5 Inktale Eggs |
5 Egg Bundle |
$18.99 |
2450 RP |
10 + 1 Inktale Egg Bundle |
10 + 1 Egg Bundle |
$37.99 |
4900 RP |
Inktale Megabundle |
Bundle of 21 Inktale Eggs + 3 Bonus Inktale Eggs + 3 Bonus Fearless Fellowship Eggs |
$79.99 |
10290 RP |
Large, like my dreams of LP gains.
Turns out Jax really doesn’t need a weapon with those solid stats and his high-value traits of Ironclad and Skirmisher. Jax has become a plug-and-play unit that provides too much universal value without much commitment. But hey, if you really are committed to Jax, we’re throwing in a 3-star buff to repay ya.
Our needed nerf to Ivern’s Daisy addresses the CC loaded into their most popular comps (Abomination/Revenant). With the changes below, we’re growing Daisy’s identity as a tanky stat ball, while pruning back on some of her overly impactful CC.
Finally, we’re addressing two Sentinel champions that greatly benefitted from optimal itemization.
Volibear has been the premier late game frontline for just about any comp that could fit a Revenant in, or better yet, get a Revenant Emblem. While we hit his Health last patch, it turns out he bearly felt that. This time around, we’re returning to take power from his damage and shield pop to make Volibear less of a hard counter to players running Locket, Nightbringer, or Skirmisher.
Our Kayle changes are mostly targeting her power with Deathblade builds.
Like me in my P.E. flashbacks, Locket and Statikk Favor are almost never picked. Statikk Favor’s MR shred just isn’t enough to hang with the cool AP comps, and Locket’s flat shield falls off late game when all the super athletic Volibears show up. We’re Baching up Statikk Favor with more shred and giving Locket universal power in the late game with flat health in addition to the shield. This, paired with our Volibear nerf, could have you saying that Locket is at it’s Prime now—and so are we readers, so... are... we.
Small, like the LP gains of my reality.
I’ve been yordle-ing from the mountaintops for this buff.
As Chug Jug enjoyers ourselves, we’re happy with the damage Gragas can gulp down. But the damage he puts out is diluted compared to the dedication it takes to brew up a 3-star.
He’s making a list, and checking it twice.
It’s hard to 3-star a 4-cost, so it should definitely be #worth doing so. Some call outs here: 3-star Diana will likely overkill. 3-star Karma will only be delayed from her next cast by the spell's lockout time (1.5s).
Continuing to refine Viego after our adjustments last patch with the goals of making him less of a nuisance at 1-star without items, and better when starred up and empowered by items or traits.