PCAxiom Arc
League of Legends (PC) Axiom Arc in Wild Rift
Axiom Arc Current Status
Axiom Arc has been changed in 13 League of Legends patches. 3 buffs, 3 nerfs, 6 adjustments. Most recently adjusted in Patch 26.9 ().
The Brutalizer
Caulfield's WarhammerAxiom Arc Changes
Patch 26.9
changeLast year, we adjusted Axiom Arc to have a higher base refund on its ultimate effect with less scaling. We think this was a mistake, as offering an item early in the game that reduces ultimate cooldowns to this degree on high burst lethality champions can lead to very narrow windows of opportunity for opponents to act.
General
- Flux base cooldown reduction reduced to 10% of total cooldown from 15%.
- Flux cooldown reduction lethality ratio increased to 0.25% per 1 Lethality from 0.15%.
Patch 25.17
buffAxiom Arc is both very weak and very unpopular as an AD assassin legendary. We'd like to shine it up and make it a viable part of the assassin ecosystem by letting assassins spike sooner with its purchase.
General
- Total cost reduced to 2750 gold from 3000 gold.
- Combine cost reduced to 363 gold from 613 gold.
Patch 14.21
changeGeneral
- Bug Fix: If multiple Axiom Arc owners on the same team take down the same target, all of them now properly gain Flux's cooldown reduction, instead of only the killer.
Patch 14.19
nerfGeneral
- Combine cost increased to 613 gold from 563 gold.
- Total cost unchanged.
- Ability haste reduced to 20 from 25.
- Flux base cooldown reduction increased to 15% from 10%.
- Flux cooldown reduction lethality ratio reduced to 0.15% per 1 Lethality from 0.3%.
Patch 14.1
nerfGeneral
- New Recipe: The Brutalizer + Caulfield's Warhammer + 663 gold = 3000 gold.
- Old Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Caulfield's Warhammer + 800 gold = 3000 gold.
- Flux cooldown refund lethality ratio reduced to 0.3% per 1 lethality from 0.4%.
Patch 13.16
changeOur reworked Axiom Arc changes weren’t quite enough to put this new item on the radar for users, so we’re going a bit riskier with the ultimate cooldown refund in hopes it’ll help the item find its place on the Rift. We’ll be keeping a close eye on this change to ensure it’s shaping up as we hope, but we’ll make more changes if necessary.
General
- Base ultimate cooldown refund increased to 10% from 5%.
Patch 13.15
changeGeneral
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now displays the accurate cooldown refund percentage rather than 0%.
Patch 13.14
buffA few lethality items have been underperforming. In this patch we’re looking to ensure that core AD assassins have strongly tailored legendaries that have unique outputs. We’re modifying Axiom Arc into an exciting lethality capstone that can help assassins push games to a close with almost solo carry levels of potential. We believe the idea of getting off two ultimates in a fight should be an exciting game-closing dream for assassins to solo carry. We realize this sounds terrifying for ADC players, so we’re testing this out to see if it's acceptable for the class come late game when speccing into heavy lethality (and thus glass cannon) builds. The start of the split is a good time to test it, but we’ll be keeping a very close eye on these changes.
General
- Base ultimate cooldown refund reduced to 5% from 20%.
- New Effect: Ultimate cooldown refund now scales with 0.4% per 1 Lethality.
Patch 13.1
buffAxiom Arc is a cool item but really only has one core user in Nocturne (and we love him for it). With a buff aimed at assassins, we hope that more players will be casting more ultimates so they can ultimately complete their anime protagonist arc.
General
- Lethality increased to 18 from 10.
Patch 12.8
changeGeneral
- Bug Fix: Flux now properly refunds Devour cooldown.
Patch 12.1
changeGeneral
- Bug Fix: Flux now stacks correctly with the Ultimate Hunter rune.
Patch 11.24
nerfAxiom Arc is supposed to provide ability-based assassins an exciting teamfight output. However, it's been doing that a little too consistently.
General
- Flux ultimate ability cooldown refund reduced to 20% from 25%.
Patch 11.23
newAxiom Arc added to League of Legends
Prior to the Youmuu’s Ghostblade buffs in Patch 11.17, there weren’t many options for assassins to pick up Ability Haste. Axiom Arc is a new Legendary item designed to be the Ability Haste pick-up while also allowing ability-focused assassins to snowball a lead.
General
- Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Caulfield's Warhammer + 800 gold = 3000 gold.
- Stats: 55 attack damage, 10 lethality, 25 ability haste.
- Unique Passive - Flux: Scoring a takedown against an enemy champion within 3 seconds of damaging them refunds 25% of your ultimate ability's total cooldown. Does not reduce cooldown below 0.5 seconds.
- Limited to 1 Axiom Arc.
