League of Legends Patch 25.17
League of Legends Patch 25.17 was released on Aug 26, 2025. This update included changes to 27 champions, with 10 buffs, 5 nerfs, 12 adjustments.
Irelia
Kassadin
Kayn
Kog'Maw
Miss Fortune
Morgana
Nilah
Sett
Teemo
Vayne
Gwen
Master Yi
Rumble
Singed
Yunara
Aurora
Bel'Veth
Blitzcrank
Briar
Gangplank
Jayce
Rek'Sai
Rell
Senna
Viego
Viktor
Xin ZhaoItems
Buffs (2)
Axiom Arc
Horizon FocusChanges (2)
Profane Hydra
Shattered ArmguardChampions
W AP Ratio increased. E cooldown decreased at higher ranks and AP damage ratio increased.
Defiant Dance
- •Minimum AP ratio increased to 50% AP from 40% AP.
- •Maximum AP ratio increased to 150% AP from 120% AP.
Flawless Duet
- •AP ratio increased to 100% AP from 80% AP.
- •Cooldown reduced to 16/14.5/13/11.5/10 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12.
Q Damage increased. E damage increased.
Null Sphere
- •AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 60% AP.
Force Pulse
- •AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 65% AP.
Q and W mana costs decreased.
Reaping Slash
- •Mana cost reduced to 40 from 50.
Blade's Reach
- •Mana cost reduced to 40/45/50/55/60 from 60/65/70/75/80.
Q damage increased. W damage increased. R damage increased at higher ranks.
Caustic Spittle
- •AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 80% AP.
Bio-Arcane Barrage
- •AP ratio increased to 1.5% per 100 AP from 1% per 100 AP.
Living Artillery
- •Minimum AP ratio increased to 35/40/45% AP from 35% AP at all ranks.
W mana cost decreased at higher ranks. W damage increased at lower ranks.
Tormented Shadow
- •Minimum base damage per tick increased to 9/15.5/22/28.5/35 from 7/14/21/28/35.
- •Maximum base damage per tick increased to 18/31/44/57/70 from 14/28/42/56/70.
- •Mana cost reduced to 70/80/90/100/110 from 70/85/100/115/130.
Q secondary monster damage increased.
Formless Blade
- •Cone monster damage increased to 100% from 10%.
E monster damage increased.
Knuckle Down
- •New Effect: Now also does spell damage in addition to basic damage.
Facebreaker
- •Bonus monster damage increased to 125 to 250 (based on level) from 100 at all levels.
Mushrooms (and eggs and other objects) are now more visible.
Noxious Trap
- •Mushroom object stealth opacity increased to 50% from 30%.
W monster damage increased.
Silver Bolts
- •New Effect: Damage is now modified to 140/155/170/185/200 against monsters.
- •Old Effect: Damage is capped at 200 against monsters.
Base Armor decreased, and Attack Speed Growth increased. R slow decreased at lower ranks.
Stats
- •Base armor reduced to 33 from 36.
- •Attack speed growth increased to 2.5% from 2.25%.
Needlework
- •Initial slow reduced to 30/45/60% from 60% at all ranks.
- •Subsequent slow reduced to 15/20/25% from 25% at all ranks.
Base Health decreased. Q damage decreased.
Stats
- •Base health reduced to 655 from 669.
Alpha Strike
- •Primary on-hit damage modifier reduced to 65% from 75%.
- •Lesser on-hit damage modifier reduced to 16.25% from 18.75%.
Passive damage decreased. Q damage decreased at higher ranks.
Junkyard Titan
- •Overheat on-hit damage target health ratio reduced to 4% of target's maximum health from 5%.
Flamespitter
- •Base damage per tick reduced to 5/7.08/9.17/11.25/13.33 from 5/7.5/10/12.5/15.
Q damage per application decreased.
Poison Trail
- •Debuff duration reduced to 2 seconds from 2.2.
- •Maximum linger ticks reduced to 7 from 8.
- •Minimum linger damage reduced to 35/52.5/70/87.5/105 (+ 74.375% AP) from 40/60/80/100/120 (+ 85% AP).
- •Tooltip now includes the first damage instance in its calculations.
Fixed several bugs that could cause Yunara to deal more or less damage with on-hit effects.
Cultivation of Spirit
- •Bug Fix: On-hit damage on spread attacks caused by Runaan's Hurricane Wind's Fury bolts that hit the primary target now properly apply at reduced effectiveness instead of full effectiveness (as if a primary attack hit them).
- •Bug Fix: Runaan's Hurricane Wind's Fury bolt damage is no longer incorrectly also modified by Cultivation of Spirit's reduced on-hit effectiveness on each of the bolts' primary targets.
- •Bug Fix: Item on-hit effects no longer fail to deal damage on valid targets when a sufficiently large number of spread attacks are taking place simultaneously.
- •Bug Fix: Item on-hit effects which stack now gain and consume stacks at the correct timing and can no longer sometimes trigger twice per individual hit when a sufficiently large number of spread attacks are taking place simultaneously.
Between Worlds
- •Bug Fix: Tooltip now notes the correct rift duration.
Royal Maelstrom
- •Bug Fix: Navori Flickerblade Transcendence now properly applies to Void Surge per-direction cooldown when triggering it via Royal Maelstrom. Previously, the visual indicator for direction availability still lit up as if the effect was applied and the direction was available, even though it could not actually be cast, due to the bug.
Static Field
- •Undocumented: Bolt damage now applies as default damage instead of spell damage.
Blood Frenzy
- •Bug Fix: No longer sometimes has a brief delay before aggroing a valid target.
Powder Keg
- •Bug Fix: Explosion no longer sometimes cancels his and enemies' attack.
General
- •Bug Fix: Other players no longer see a debug icon on his status bar in his target frame.
Arcane Inventor
- •Transform Mercury Cannon
- •Bug Fix: Restored empowered attack primed SFX.
Tunnel
- •Bug Fix: No longer unintentionally causes her to enter combat upon casting the ability.
Ferromancy: Crash Down
- •Bug Fix: Tooltip now notes the proper shield health ratio in accordance with the V25.16 change.
Attack Speed Growth increased. Q heal increased.
Stats
- •Attack speed growth increased to 3% from 2%.
- •Attack speed growth reduced to 2.6% from 3%.
Piercing Darkness
- •Base heal increased to 40/60/80/100/120 from 40/55/70/85/100.
Sovereign's Domination
- •Bug Fix: Enemies' Sundered Sky Lightshield Strike no longer sometimes fails to incur its cooldown on Viego who has entered possession at least once during the game, allowing them to illegally trigger the effect on him twice.
Siphon Power
- •Bug Fix: Tooltip now notes the correct buff duration for Discharge's attack of 4 seconds instead of 3.5.
General
- •Updated ability icons.
- •Complete visual update across all skins.
- •New splash artwork for Original, Commando, Imperial, and Winged Hussar.
- •Adjusted splash artwork for Viscero, Warring Kingdoms, Secret Agent, Marauder, and Firecracker.
- •New voice-over.
- •Updated sound effects.
- •Commando cost increased to 750 from 520.
- •Imperial cost increased to 750 from 520.
- •All Legacy skins will be unvaulted temporarily for the duration of the 25.17 and 25.18 patch cycles.
Wind Becomes Lightning
- •New Effect: Now causes him to slash four times rather than only once, slashing once on-cast and then 3 times over the next 0.15 seconds.
- •Total slash damage is unchanged.
- •Only the initial slash can generate a Determination stack.
Audacious Charge
- •Bug Fix: No longer fails to cast when used on a target outside of its maximum target range during Crescent Guard cast time.
Crescent Guard
- •Bug Fix: Tooltip now correctly mentions that the damage cap also applies to minions and not only monsters.
Items
Axiom 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.
Horizon Focus continues to be unpopular as an aggressive AP-Haste stat stick, especially because it's rather weak. We're here to push it up into viability by making it easier to sneak into a build and ensure the damage throughput is worthwhile.
General
- •Total cost reduced to 2750 gold from 2800 gold.
- •Combine cost reduced to 200 gold from 250 gold.
- •Ability power increased to 125 from 115.
Profane Hydra is a weak assassin item right now and it fails to fit the typical AD assassin power curve of attempting to spike early in the game. So to buff this item without ballooning late-game burst to the moon, we're making it a more competitive early option by giving it a significant price cut.
General
- •Total cost reduced to 2850 gold from 3200 gold.
- •Combine cost reduced to 313 gold from 663 gold.
- •Attack damage reduced to 55 from 60.
General
- •Bug Fix: No longer displays in the All Items grids.