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League of Legends Patch 5.18
League of Legends Patch 5.18 was released on Sep 16, 2015. This update included changes to 27 champions, with 6 buffs, 7 nerfs, 14 adjustments.
Changes (14)
Items
Buffs (1)
Changes (1)
Champions
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.
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.
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.
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.
League of Legends Patch 5.18 FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
- When did League of Legends Patch 5.18 release?
- League of Legends Patch 5.18 was released on Sep 16, 2015.
- What changed in League of Legends Patch 5.18?
- Patch 5.18 included changes to 27 champions (6 buffs, 7 nerfs, 14 adjustments), plus 5 item updates. See the full breakdown above.
- What was the previous League of Legends patch before 5.18?
- The previous League of Legends patch was 5.17.
- What is the next League of Legends patch after 5.18?
- The next League of Legends patch is 5.19.
