League of LegendsPatch 25.19

PCAhriBuffShare

Ahri is statistically fairly weak right now, so we’d like to give her an edge in aggressively diving into the enemy team, risking her life for the resets.

PCBrandBuffShare

Brand is a little weak, especially in his more income-heavy roles. So we’re giving him a bit more power to let him run over games where he gets off to a good start by nuking his opposition.

PCCaitlynBuffShare

Caitlyn's been missing from pro play for quite some time now despite her reputation as a lane bully. As her ability casts are potent enough, we’re pushing up her basic attack power with the hope that she has a real shot at making it into some games this Worlds.

PCDianaBuffShare

Diana is a reasonably performant mid laner but overall weak as a jungler. So we’re buffing her bespoke monster mod in order to give her clear a bit more power.

PCDravenBuffShare

Draven has a bit of room for buffs in regular play and is completely missing from pro. We're giving him a little power this patch to see if he can make it back into the spotlight.

PCJinxBuffShare

Jinx has been all but missing from pro play and we're hoping that with a little nudge to her early game she'll find her way back on stage.

PCLeBlancBuffShare

With a hope of seeing some flighty assassin play in mid lane, we’re buffing LeBlanc ahead of Worlds by giving her better wave control and PVP burst, especially in protracted side lanes where she’s able to reliably get access to her target. We’re also wary of LeBlanc’s current status in support, so we’re backloading this power into those later-game side lane positions.

PCLilliaBuffShare

Lillia is a little weak and we’d like to see some AP junglers at Worlds, so she’s the perfect candidate for a buff this patch. By playing up her ultimate, we’re hoping she’ll succeed more in highly skilled and coordinated environments.

PCMelBuffShare

Mel is statistically very weak and even though she sports a rather high ban rate, that doesn’t mean she has to be quite so underpowered for her player base. We’re playing up high-skill applications of her offensive output in order to bring her up in higher MMRs, where she performs much worse.

PCSeraphineBuffShare

Seraphine is a very popular support and occasional mid laner, but is unfortunately quite weak where a lot of her players are, which is in lower MMR. As Seraphine is the deathball mage-enchanter, we don’t want to get rid of that strength, but we also want her to be more self-reliant (mid lane), less reliant on her teammates knowing how her abilities work (low MMR), and more useful to her team when performing mage-like duties, such as helping take down epic monsters.

PCCorkiNerfShare

Corki is becoming a little stale in pro play so we’re delivering a nerf to open up the bot lane metagame for Worlds this year. We’re hoping to pro-skew this nerf by removing some of his trivial wave pushing.

PCPantheonNerfShare

Pantheon continues to dominate the pro jungle meta, and frankly he just doesn’t have a high skill gank pattern: Simply click on the enemy and they receive a stun. As a result, we’re swinging very hard to bring down some of his power.

PCPoppyNerfShare

Poppy finally has a relatively equivalent win rate spread across her roles, but is overall a little too strong in all three. She’s also near the top jungle spot in pro play and we’d like to create more room for other junglers to get play.

PCSivirNerfShare

Sivir is a little OP in regular play and somewhat dominates the pro play sphere. While we’re happy to have a healthy share of hyper-carries, we’d like if Sivir had more competition in that archetype.

PCJaxChangeShare

We’d like to see Jax as a more meta-defining top laner at Worlds this year but acknowledge he’s already strong enough for regular players, so we’re making his strengths more windowed, something that highly skilled players and coordinated teams can readily harness.

PCLee SinChangeShare

Lee Sin is a very performant jungler at almost all levels of play but is suspiciously absent from pro. Our goal with this patch is a series of power-neutral adjustments that should give him a sharp early game strategic niche without significantly changing his win rate.

PCSyndraChangeShare

We’re delivering some power-neutral adjustments to Syndra, making her a stronger lane bully and teamfight carry mage while siphoning some power that should disproportionately impact non-pro players.

PCRedemptionNerfShare

Redemption has found its place as a near unanimous first item for tank supports in pro play. We’re looking to pull back on Redemption’s power to allow items like Locket and Knight’s Vow to compete.

PCCelestial OppositionChangeShare

We’re fixing a long-standing issue with Celestial Opposition that gave it very weird optimizations. Essentially, players could send a clone forward and it would result in a nearly guaranteed slow-bomb on a short cooldown. While it’s fine that clones often mimic items, getting slowed by thin air just isn’t a good experience. So now the champion (or clone) must be alive in order for Celestial Opposition’s slow to trigger. This means that, for example, attacking Neeko W won’t result in you getting crowd controlled.