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League of LegendsPatch 5.18
League WikiLeague of Legends Patch 5.18 was released on Sep 16, 2015. This update included changes to 27 champions, with 5 buffs, 7 nerfs, 15 adjustments.
Changes (15)
Items
Buffs (1)
Changes (1)
Yordle Snap Trap
- •Mana cost reduced to 30 from 50.
- •Cooldown reduced to 16/14/12/10/8 seconds from 20/17/14/11/8.
Stats
- •Base armor increased to 29 from 27.
Martial Cadence
- •Fixed a visual bug where Martial Cadence empowered autoattacks were sometimes not playing an animation.
Dark Binding
- •Mana cost reduced to 50/55/60/65/70 from 50/60/70/80/90.
Stats
- •Mana growth increased to 63 from 50.
Scatter the Weak / Dark Sphere
- •Fixed a bug where spheres would sometimes not be knocked back if near maximum range.
Baleful Strike
- •The passive will now generate AP on assists.
Dark Matter
- •Cast time removed (previously 0.25 seconds). Veigar must still complete a 0.25 second casting animation to begin issuing new commands, but all effects now happen instantly.
- •Total delay effectively reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5.
Emperor's Divide
- •No longer pushes back/damages Zz'Rot Portal
Winter's Bite
- •Mana cost increased to 55/60/65/70/75 from 45/50/55/60/65.
Powder Keg
- •Bonus physical damage to champions reduced to 60/90/120/150/180 from 80/110/140/170/200.
- •Armor penetration reduced to 40% from 50%.
Stats
- •Health growth reduced to 74 from 82.
Pix, Faerie Companion
- •Now triggers Tribute once per attack (while attached to Lulu only).
Crystal Spires
- •Fixed a bug where the bonus attack speed and movement speed were scaling too quickly early game.
Fracture
- •Slow reduced to 30/35/40/45/50 % from 45/50/55/60/65 %.
General
- •Epic monsters are no longer immune to the Chill debuff, but will still resist the crowd control.
Miasma
- •Fixed a bug where Miasma would be sometimes invisible to the enemy team.
Hemorrhage
- •Fixed a bug where Darius would gain Noxian Might even if the target blocked the 5th stack of Hemorrhage (e.g. with a spellshield).
Decimate
- •Healing reduced to 12% from 15%.
- •Maximum healing increased to 36% from 30%.
- •Mana cost increased to 30/35/40/45/50 from 30 at all ranks.
Spider Queen
- •Base damage reduced to 10/15/20/25 from 10/20/30/40.
- •AOE mitigation increased to 25% from 20%.
Arcane Shift
- •Now scales with 50% bonus AD.
Idol of Durand
- •Idol of Durand can't be cancelled by movement commands for the first 0.25 seconds of its duration if it strikes at least one enemy champion.
Demacian Justice
- •Kills against Garen will no longer be considered for determining the villain.
- •Killing champion clones will not longer be considered a kill for determining the villain.
Stats
- •Base armor reduced to 20 from 24.88.
- •Armor growth increased to 3.75 from 3.5.
Harvester of Sorrow
- •Health cost increased to 25/35/45/55/65 from 0 at all ranks.
- •New Effect: If self-cast while no allies are nearby, you will instantly use the secondary active.
- •Damage per second ability power ratio increased to (+22.5% AP) from (+15% AP).
- •Damage zones no longer overlap for double damage.
- •Reactivation base damage increased to 70/95/120/145/170 from 50/70/90/110/130.
- •Healing on minions reduced to 25% of reactivation damage from 33%.
- •Maximum number of targets harvested reduced to 2 from 3.
Broken Wings
- •Fixed a bug where Broken Wings cooldown was improperly reset at the end if certain actions occurred in between casts
Tongue Lash
- •Smoothed out the interaction between the Tongue Lash + Devour combo for normal cast. Now, casting Devour at any point while the tongue is mid-air will allow you to eat a monster or minion from a distance instead of needing to left-click devour mid-lash.
Thick Skin
- •Grey health now has a colorblind variant.
Explosive Charge
- •Explosive Charge no longer fizzles if detonated at 4 stacks by Rocket Jump. There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom.
General
- •Fixed a few cases where Viktor was gaining mana when hit by certain abilities.
Elastic Slingshot
- •Updated the tooltip to reflect the new maximum channel time. 0.9/1.05/1.2/1.35/1.5 seconds instead of 0.9/1/1.1/1.2/1.3.
- •Updated the indicator to reflect the new maximum range from last patch.
General
- •Plant priority updated: (changes in bold)
- •Against champions, Zyra's basic attacks apply a high-priority mark for 3 seconds and her plants apply a lesser-priority mark on their target for 3 seconds.
- •# Sources of taunt, even if they are out of range.
- •# High-priority marks, prioritizing the most recently applied.
- •# Lesser-priority marks, prioritizing those nearest to the plant.
- •# Champions within 350 units of the plant (prioritizing nearest).
- •# Non-champions Zyra has recently attacked (prioritizing most recent).
- •# Any unit in range (prioritizing closest).
- •Fixed a bug where plants would sometimes remain aggroed on targets they cannot see, preventing them for attacking.
- •Fixed a bug where a plants second attack would sometimes take a long time to begin.
- •Plants will now rotate to face their next target faster.
Items
General
- •Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
General
- •Damage per stack reduced to 0.67 from 1.
General
- •On-hit damage reduced to 50 from 60.
General
- •Armor reduced to 30 from 35.
- •Timer before charge is lost reduced to 5 seconds from 8. Buff duration unchanged.
General
- •Tooltip updated to clarify that silences and blinds do not affect momentum generation/decay.
- •Fixed a bug where Whimsy was not affecting Momentum.

Caitlyn
Jarvan IV
Morgana
Syndra
Veigar
Azir
Braum
Fiora
Gangplank
Lulu
Skarner
Twitch
Anivia
Cassiopeia
Corki
Darius
Elise
Ezreal
Galio
Garen
Mordekaiser
Riven
Tahm Kench
Tristana
Viktor
Zac
Zyra
Dead Man's Plate


