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League of Legends Patch 3.9
League of Legends Patch 3.9 was released on Jul 9, 2013. This update included changes to 26 champions, with 3 buffs, 3 nerfs, 20 adjustments.
Nerfs (3)
Changes (20)
Items
Buffs (1)
Nerfs (2)
Champions
Valkyrie
- •Mana cost reduced to 50 from 100.
Missile Barrage
- •Mana cost reduced to 20 at all ranks from 30/35/40.
Satchel Charge
- •Can now be reactivated while in flight, causing the Satchel Charge to detonate on landing.
- •Missile speed increased to 1750 from 1600.
- •Increased knockback distance to 400 from 350.
- •Cooldown now starts when Satchel Charge is cast, not when it detonates.
Stats
- •Base attack damage at level 1 reduced to 47.2 from 51.3.
Mark of the Storm
- •Mark duration reduced to 6 seconds from 8.
Dredge Line
- •No longer travels through some walls.
Pillar of Flame
- •Mana cost reduced to 70/75/80/85/90 from 70/80/90/100/110.
Conflagration
- •Mana cost increased to 70/75/80/85/90 from 60/65/70/75/80.
Pyroclasm
- •Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 100/150/200.
League of Draven (New Innate)
- •When Draven catches a Spinning Axe, or kills a minion or monster, he gains one stack of Adoration. When Draven kills an enemy champion, he consumes half of his Adoration stacks and gains 3 gold per stack consumed. Draven loses half of his Adoration stacks upon death.
Agony's Embrace
- •Fixed a bug where the Sated buff and visual effect appeared when Evelynn hit only spell-shielded targets (visual change only).
Monsoon
- •Fixed a bug where the buff icon countdown didn't properly match the 4-second channeling time.
Shock Blast
- •Basic missile speed increased to 1450 from 1350. (Accelerated Shock Blast missile speed remains the same.)
Acceleration Gate
- •Cooldown increased to 16 seconds at all ranks from 14/13/12/11/10.
Mirror Image
- •The Mirror Image will now attempt to run instead of standing still.
Sigil of Silence
- •Mana cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 70/75/80/85/90.
- •Damage changed to 55/80/105/130/155 (+0.4 ability power) for both initial impact damage and mark detonation damage from was 70/110/150/190/230 (+0.6 ability power) for the impact damage and 20/40/60/80/100 (+0.2 ability power) for the mark detonation damage.
- •Silence duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.
Distortion
- •Cooldown now starts on cast rather than after returning to your Distortion.
- •Mana cost increased to 80/90/100/110/120 from 80 at all ranks.
- •Fixed a bug where Distortion was visible in the fog of war.
Ethereal Chains
- •Slow duration (and time until root) reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.
- •Root duration changed to 1.5 at all ranks seconds from 1/1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2.
- •Cooldown increased to 14/13/12/11/10 seconds from 10 at all ranks.
Mimic
- •Mana cost reduced to 0 at all ranks from 100/50/0.
- •All mimicked abilities now deal their own base damage instead of amplifying the base spell's damage.
Mimic: Sigil of Silence
- •Now deals 100/200/300 (+0.65 ability Power) damage once on impact and again if the mark is detonated.
Mimic: Distortion
- •Cooldown now starts on cast rather than after returning to your Distortion.
- •Now deals 150/225/300/375/450 (+0.975 ability power) damage on impact.
Mimic: Ethereal Chains
- •Now deals 100/200/300 (+0.65 ability power) damage once on impact and again if the target is rooted.
Call of the Void
- •Now correctly grants vision on the entire line path.
- •Damaged targets will now always become visible.
Malefic Visions
- •Will now jump when active on a zombified champion (i.e. Karthus, Kog'Maw, Zyra, etc.).
Double Strike
- •Fixed a bug where Guinsoo's Rageblade wasn't properly giving 2 stacks.
Dark Binding
- •Fixed a bug where Dark Binding wasn't properly snaring stealthed champions.
Siphoning Strike
- •Bonus damage now displayed as a buff on Nasus.
Command Protect
- •Orianna now gains a passive range indicator that shows the range at which Clockwork Windup will return to her when attached to an allied champion.
Spear Shot
- •Fixed a bug where Spear Shot was not scaling with bonus critical strike damage when hitting an enemy below 15% health.
Broken Wings
- •Fixed a bug that made it possible to chain more than 3 strikes.
Ki Strike
- •Fixed a bug where the visual effect wasn't properly appearing at the start of the game.
Fury of the Dragonborn remade and renamed to Dragonborn
- •All Fury of the Dragonborn effects have been moved to their respective abilities.
- •Gains 5/10/15/20 (at level 1/6/11/16) armor and magic resist. These bonuses are doubled in Dragon Form.
Flame Breath
- •No longer reduces armor by 15%.
- •Now passes through all units hit instead of stopping at the first.
- •Debuff duration increased to 5 seconds from 4.
- •Damage reduced to 80/115/150/185/220 from 80/125/170/215/260.
- •On-hit magic damage to debuffed targets changed to 2% of the target's maximum health from 15% of Flame Breath's damage (12/18.75/25.5/32.25/39 + 0.09 ability power).
Burnout
- •Fixed a bug where Burnout wasn't scaling with attack damage when Shyvana was in Dragon Form.
Dragon's Descent
- •Passive armor/magic resistance component removed.
- •Passive fury gain increased to 1/2/3 per 1.5 seconds from 1 at all ranks.
- •Fury decay while in Dragon Form reduced to 5 per second from 6 per second.
Death Sentence
- •After initially using Death Sentence the tooltip will now describe his Deathly Leap ability.
Ambush
- •Fixed a bug where Twitch could revive in stealth when Guardian Angel or Chronoshift was active on him.
Final Hour
- •Stealth from Final Hour will now properly be broken upon launching a basic attack.
Elastic Slingshot
- •Fixed a bug where aiming could preemptively break the targets' spell shields.
Items
General
- •Attack damage increased to 60 from 55.
- •Magic resist increased to 40 from 36.
- •Passive attack damage increased to 1 per 2% of missing health from 2.5%.
- •Passive attack damage cap decreased to 35 from 40.
- •Fixed a bug where the cooldown was not properly resetting when upgrading from a Hexdrinker on cooldown.
General
- •Unique Passive - Mana Charge
- •Cooldown per charge increased to 4 seconds from 3.
- •Updated the tooltip to clarify its actual functionality.
General
- •Unique Passive - Mana Charge
- •Cooldown per charge increased to 4 seconds from 3.
- •Updated the tooltip to clarify its actual functionality.
General
- •Unique Passive - Mana Charge
- •Mana gained increased to 8 from 6.
- •Cooldown per charge increased to 4 seconds from 3.
- •Updated the tooltip to clarify its actual functionality.
General
- •Recipe: Rejuvenation Bead + Rejuvenation Bead + Negatron Cloak + 1180 gold = 2080
- •+20 health regen per 5 seconds.
- •+70 magic resist.
- •Unique Passive: Grants a shield that absorbs damage. The shield will refresh after a short period without taking damage.
The Black CleaverChange
General
- •Can no longer apply more than one stack of armor shred in a single basic attack.
General
- •Fixed several unintended interactions with champion abilities and the Stasis active.
General
- •Fixed several unintended interactions with champion abilities and the Stasis active.
League of Legends Patch 3.9 FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
- When did League of Legends Patch 3.9 release?
- League of Legends Patch 3.9 was released on Jul 9, 2013.
- What changed in League of Legends Patch 3.9?
- Patch 3.9 included changes to 26 champions (3 buffs, 3 nerfs, 20 adjustments), plus 8 item updates. See the full breakdown above.
- What was the previous League of Legends patch before 3.9?
- The previous League of Legends patch was 3.8.
- What is the next League of Legends patch after 3.9?
- The next League of Legends patch is 3.10.
