Yun Tal Wildarrows

Yun Tal was intended to be a powerful scaling first item with some tradeoffs in terms of its immediate power, but it's so generically powerful that it's crowding out the first item space for crit marksmen. This is a little bit of a power shift to make its unique first item aspect (attack speed) stand out, but also a little bit of power down to make it more comparable to other first items in terms of power.

Yun Tal has found a good place for some traditional botlane marksmen, but melee crit carries are lacking in good crit itemization. We're adding a ranged / melee split to this item to help those melee champions get into crit items earlier in their builds.

Yun-Tal has slid a bit in comparison to Collector with the higher pace of action demand on objectives from Feats. We are trying an aggressive buff to it, but still want it to remain a scaling option compared to Collector.

Yun Tal Wildarrows has gathered a small audience of crit auto-attackers, but it's a bit too weak to actually be worth buying at the moment. We're delivering a few small buffs that should make it a worthy first item for crit attackers.

We're remaking Yun Tal Wildarrows into the early game auto-attack crit item we promised earlier this year when we removed its pseudo-crit damage. Yun Tal is meant to be purchased in the first slot, but as a piece of a late-game crit ADC build, it starts out weaker than its contemporaries (Essence Reaver, Collector) before scaling and surpassing them in teamfight DPS. As with any significantly updated system, we'll be measuring both its user base and its performance on those users to ensure it has a home in the crit ADC space.

We think there's more work to be done for Yun Tal Wildarrows but this light touch actually makes the item stronger in the first two item slots while still getting rid of some gold scaling that was practically identical to just being critical strike damage. Our goal is for Yun Tal, Hurricane, and Infinity Edge to be a satisfying build for core auto-attackers this patch.

Yun Tal Wildarrows added to League of Legends

Our goal with Yun Tal Wildarrows is to add an additional option for AD/Crit users that enables them to keep building offensively while only choosing 1 (or zero) attack speed options. This item should be useful for for those who have a lot of AD (hello Jhin) or those that can quickly deal multiple critical strikes.