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League of Legends Patch 4.2
League of Legends Patch 4.2 was released on Feb 10, 2014. This update included changes to 21 champions, with 2 buffs, 5 nerfs, 14 adjustments.
Ashe
Soraka
Dr. Mundo
Evelynn
Thresh
Yasuo
Ziggs
Akali
Elise
Gangplank
Kayle
Kha'Zix
Maokai
Riven
Rumble
Skarner
Sona
Teemo
Xerath
Xin Zhao
YorickItems
New (1)
Statikk ShivChanges (3)
Randuin's Omen
Warden's MailChampions
General
- •New ability icons.
Hawkshot
- •Passive gold changed to 3 from 1/2/3/4/5.
- •Cooldown reduced to 60/55/50/45/40 from 60.
Hate Spike
- •Missile speed reverted to 2000 from 1250, but it now rapidly decays over the duration.
General
- •Flow generation reduced to 1% per ~46 units from 1% per ~40 units.
Steel Tempest
- •Now displays a maximum range indicator while the third cast is available.
Wind Wall
- •Bonus flow generated on Sweeping Strike reduced to 3/6/9/12/15% from 4/8/12/16/20%.
Last Breath
- •Range reduced to 1200 from 1300.
Short Fuse
- •Base damage reduced to 16 + (4/8/12 (at level 1/7/13) * level) from 16 + (7/8/9/10 (at level 1/6/12/18) * level).
- •Damage at level 1 and 18 unchanged.
- •AP ratio reduced to 25/30/35 (at level 1/7/13)% from 35% at all levels.
Hexplosive Minefield
- •Damage reduction from consecutive mines now applies to minions (40% damage for each mine they hit beyond the first).
Spider Form
- •Fixed a bug where the hitbox was smaller than intended - it should now be bigger than her human hitbox (was previously smaller!).
Cannon Barrage
- •Bug fix: Tooltip now displays the correct duration of 6 seconds instead of 7 seconds.
Reckoning
- •AP ratio reduced to 60% from 100%.
Divine Blessing
- •(+7% per 100 AP) added to movement speed bonus.
- •Heal AP ratio increased to 45% from 35%.
Intervention
- •Mana cost removed.
General
- •Fixed a bug where it was only adding 1.6 bonus damage per 1 damage absorbed, instead of 2 bonus damage.
Flamespitter
- •New animation.
Stats
- •Attack speed reduced by 1%. Contrary to Riot's official patch notes, Skarner's base attack speed has not been changed.
Crystal Slash
- •Removed: Slow on empowered attack.
- •New Effect: Skarner gains 8/10/12/14/16% attack speed when hitting enemy units, stacking up to 3 times.
Crystalline Exoskeleton
- •Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 18.
- •New Effect: Bonus movement speed increases over 3 seconds to 16/20/24/28/32% from a flat 15/17/19/21/23%.
- •Removed: Bonus attack speed.
- •Base shield increased to 80/135/190/245/300 from 70/115/160/205/250.
- •Shield AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 60% AP.
Fracture
- •Cooldown increased to 14 seconds from 10.
- •New Effect: Targets hit are slowed by 30/35/40/45/50% for 2.5 seconds.
- •Removed: On-kill heal.
- •Range increased to 1000 from 800.
- •Projectile width reduced slightly.
- •Projectile speed reduced slightly.
Impale
- •New Effect: Target is rooted during wind-up animation (if they get out of range during it they will not be suppressed).
- •Bug Fix: Sound effects will now only trigger on successful impales.
Song of Celerity
- •Fixed a bug where the tooltip improperly showed a +4% per 100 AP scaling for both effects.
- •Fixed a bug where the haste was only using 1% of Sona's AP instead of 2%.
- •Fixed a bug where the slow was only using 2% of Sona's AP instead of 4%.
Toxic Shot
- •Fixed a bug where Toxic Shot was applying Tribute and Spell Weaving.
General
- •Additional quotes, including special taunts for Syndra and Thresh.
Stats
- •Base mana reduced to 238 from 250.
- •Mana per level increased to 47 from 45.
- •Base mana regeneration reduced to 6 from 7.
- •Mana regeneration per 5 per level increased to 0.65 from 0.6.
- •Attack range reduced to 525 from 550.
- •Attack animation slightly shortened.
Mana Surge (Innate)
- •Every 12 seconds, Xerath's next basic attack will restore 30 - 195 mana. The amount of mana restored is doubled if the attack target is a champion
Arcanopulse (Q)
- •First Cast: Xerath starts charging, gradually increasing Arcanopulse's range from 700 to 1400 while slowing down movement speed by up to 50% over the next 1.5 seconds seconds. After 3 seconds, Arcanopulse cancels and half the mana cost is refunded.
- •Second Cast: After a brief cast time, Xerath fires a beam of energy in a line the deals magic damage to all enemies hit.
- •Damage increased to 80/120/160/200/240 (+75% AP) from 75/115/155/195/235 (+ 60% AP).
- •Cooldown adjusted to 9/8/7/6/5 from 7/6.5/6/5.5/5.
- •Mana cost increased to 80/90/100/110/120 from 65/70/75/80/85.
Eye of Destruction (W)
- •Active: Calls down a ground-targeted blast of energy, dealing 60/90/120/150/180 (+60% AP) magic damage to all enemies caught within the blast and slowing them by 10%. Enemies caught in the middle of the blast instead take 90/135/180/225/270 (+90% AP) magic damage and are slowed by 60/65/70/75/80% instead.
- •Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 seconds
- •Mana cost: 70/80/90/100/110
- •Range: 1000
- •Active: Xerath fires an orb of energy forward in a line that detonates on striking an enemy, dealing magic damage and stunning them for between 0.75 and 2 seconds. The stun duration is longer the further the Shocking Orb has travelled.
- •Cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10 seconds
- •Mana cost: 60/65/70/75/80
- •Range: 1000
Rite of the Arcane (Ultimate)
- •Active: Xerath roots himself in place and gains three shots of Arcane Barrage, a very long range magic artillery that does 190/245/300 (+43% AP) magic damage to all enemies hit. Xerath can cancel this effect early. Half of the cooldown is refunded if no shots of Arcane Barrage were used.
- •Cooldown: 130/115/100 seconds
- •Mana cost: 100 at all ranks
- •Range: 3200/4400/5600
General
- •Ghouls are no longer immune to movement nor attack speed slows.
Omen of Famine
- •Tooltip now states that healing is reduced against minions AND monsters, instead of just minions.
Items
General
- •The passive magic damage will now only critically strike if the associated attack critically strikes.
General
- •Fixed a bug where Tibbers, Voidling, and Spider Queen were not being affected by the slow.
General
- •Fixed a bug where Vision Wards weren't granting full true sight vision equal to their normal vision range.
- •Fixed a bug where Vision Wards weren't properly granting true sight in an enclosed area (such as baron pit and dragon pit).
General
- •Fixed a bug where Tibbers, Voidling, and Spider Queen were not being affected by the slow.