Riot Games has released the notes for a League of Legends patch set to go live in "early August". The most notable changes seem to be with Cho'gath, Rumble, and the Tribunal system.
While the changes to Rumble may seem like a nerf, it's actually an adjustment to him after a bug fix led to him being overbuffed last patch.
"We over-buffed Rumble in the Jayce patch, but no on really saw that change because we didn't do any other balance changes with that patch," lead champion designer Ryan 'Morello' Scott explained. "Basically we did a bug-fix that made Flamespitter more reliable so you'd get the full damage out of the spell more often. The damage on Flamespitter was extremely high and was balanced for when it was broken."
Following a slew of nerfs to Urgo in last patch, Riot will also be reverting the damage change on Acid Hunter, meaning its base damage will go back up and the attack damage ratio will go back down.
Below are the full changes that will be coming in the next League of Legends update:
League of Legends v1.0.0.144
Diana, Scorn of the Moon
- Pending the completion of some further testing on PBE, Diana will be released at a future date
Amumu
- Cursed Touch (Passive)
- Duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4
- Tantrum
- Mana cost reduced to 35 from 50
- Bandage Toss
- Ability Power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 1.0
- Curse of the Sad Mummy
- Ability Power ratio reduced to 0.8 from 1.0
Brand
- Pyroclasm
- Missile Speed increased to 1000 from 800
- Missile Speed no longer increases when hitting ablaze targets
- If Pyroclasm strikes an ablaze target, the next bounce will now prioritize champions
Cho'gath
- General
- Magic Resist per level increased to 1.25
- Attack Range normalized to 125 from 130
- Rupture
- Cast time reduced to 0.5 seconds from 0.672
- Delay normalized to 0.625 seconds from 0.5 – 0.75
- Feral Scream
- Cast time reduced to 0.5 seconds from 0.6417
- Vorpal Spikes
- Width now increases based on Cho'gath's size
- Feast
- Now grants Cho'gath up to 50 additional Attack Range, based on Feast rank and amount of stacks
- Cast time normalized to 0.5 seconds from 0.43
- Range increased to 150 from 100
Evelynn
- General
- Recommended items on Summoner's Rift now include Boots of Mobility
- Shadow Walk (Passive)
- Restealth duration reduced to 6 seconds from 8
- Dealing periodic damage (ie: Ignite) no longer prevents her from restealthing
- Agony's Embrace
- Cooldown reduced to 120/100/80 seconds from 150/120/90
Hecarim
- Devastating Charge
- Now more responsive when colliding with opponents
- Initial Movement Speed bonus increased to 25% from 0% (still reaches max speed at the same time)
- Onslaught of Shadows
- Enemy flee speed is now higher based on how close the enemy is to Hecarim
Janna
- Zephyr
- Ability Power ratio reduced to 0.6 from 0.8
- Fixed: Janna will no longer sometimes retain the passive bonuses while Zephyr is on cooldown
Lulu
- Wild Growth
- Fixed: Now completes its effects even if the allied target was about to take lethal damage at the time of casting
Rammus
- General
- Now gains 1.25 Magic Resist per level
Rumble
- Junkyard Titan (Passive)
- Danger Zone damage bonus reduced to 25% from 30%
- Flamespitter
- Damage reduced to 90/160/230/300/370 from 90/180/270/360/450
- Fixed: Flamespitter no longer lasts slightly longer than intended
Twitch
- General
- Base Attack Damage increased to 52 from 50
- Venom Cask
- Missile Speed increased to 1400 from 1300
Urgot
- Acid Hunter
- Damage adjusted back to 10/40/70/100/130 (+0.85 total Attack Damage) from 50/80/110/140/170 (+1.2 bonus Attack Damage)
Xin Zhao
- General
- Base Attack Damage reduced to 55.3 from 59
- Attack Damage per level increased to 3.3 from 3
- Audacious Charge
- Damage reduced to 70/110/150/190/230 from 70/115/160/205/250
Yorick
- Omen of Famine
- Ravenous Ghoul will only heal Yorick for 50% the damage it deals to minions
- Omen of Death
- Fixed: The Revenant no longer instantly dies upon casting Omen of Death on an allied Evelynn
Proving Grounds
- Repositioned Health Relics so players are less likely to unintentionally walk through them
- Adjusted Nexus turrets
- Nexus turrets reduced from two to one
- Nexus turrets now have an additional 20 Armor, 800 Health, and 30 base Attack Damage
- Experience curve adjusted so that levels 14-18 take slightly longer to reach
General
- You can now reset the current audio configuration back to defaults from the audio options menu
- Battle Training
- The "Buy Boots" quest will now properly fire
- The "Defeat the Lizard Elder" and "Defeat the Ancient Golem" quests will now properly fire when playing as Ashe
- The tip regarding Champion Ultimate Abilities will now show up properly when playing as Ashe
- Soraka Bot and Nasus Bot will no longer get stuck
- Updated several Champion art assets including splash art and icons for various Mordekaiser, Cassiopeia, Kassadin, Ezreal, and Ashe skins
- Fixed: Summoner's Insight now correctly works with Promote (now correctly grants bonus defensive stats)
- Fixed: Custom game bots now lane properly when allied players are jungling
- Updated tooltips for Ahri, Annie, Jarvan IV, Leona, Lux and Morgana
New Tribunal Feature
- Players punished by the Tribunal will now be e-mailed a "Reform Card" which gives additional details about their case
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