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League of LegendsPatch 8.17
League WikiLeague of Legends Patch 8.17 was released on Aug 29, 2018. This update included changes to 18 champions, with 8 buffs, 1 nerf, 9 adjustments.
Nerfs (1)
Items
Tempered Fate
- •Cooldown reduced to 110/95/80 seconds from 130/115/90.
Bladework
- •Modified critical strike damage increased to 160/170/180/190/200% from 140/155/170/185/200%.
Bladesurge
- •Minion increased damage increased to 100% from 70%.
Shadow Step
- •Empowered duration increased to 7/7.5/8/8.5/9 seconds from 5/6/7/8/9.
Shadow Step A (Shadow Assassin)
- •Bonus movement speed increased to 80% from 70%.
Meditate
- •Cooldown reduced to 28 seconds from 35.
- •Damage reduction increased to 60/62.5/65/67.5/70% from 50/55/60/65/70%.
- •Turret damage reduction increased to 30/31.25/32.5/33.75/35% from 25/27.5/30/32.5/35%.
Thrill of the Hunt
- •Cooldown reduced to 110/90/70 seconds from 130/100/70.
Decisive Strike
- •Base damage reduced to 30/60/90/120/150 from 30/65/100/135/170.
Perfect Execution
- •Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it dealt damage to all opponents based on the health of the last enemy struck, rather than calculating damage individually for each.
Nature's Grasp
- •Bug Fix: SFX now correctly line up with the ability's duration.
Deep Sea
- •Bug Fix: No longer leaves her spine behind while moving during her recall animation.
General
- •Name changed to Nunu & Willump from Nunu.
- •Title changed to the Boy and his Yeti from the Yeti Rider.
- •Complete visual upgrade across all skins.
- •New artwork for Original, Grungy, Nunu Bot, Demolisher, Sasquatch, and Workshop.
- •Tweaked artwork for TPA and Zombie.
- •New voice over.
- •New lore.
Stats
- •Base attack damage reduced to 57 from 67.
- •Base armor increased to 32 from 28.
- •Attack damage growth reduced to 3 from 4.
Call of the Freljord (Innate)
- •Innate: Nunu's and Willump's next instance of damage dealt to an enemy champion, large monster or turret grants both Willump and the nearest allied champion Call of the Freljord for 4 seconds, prioritizing the ally with highest attack speed.
- •Call of the Freljord: Targets gain 20% bonus attack speed and 10% bonus movement speed. Willump's basic attacks additionally deal 30% AD bonus physical damage against the main target and to enemies around himself.
- •Nunu and Willump cannot trigger Call of the Freljord from the same enemy again for a time. Successive triggers of Call of the Freljord will stack with duration, up to 40 seconds, after which the duration will be refreshed.
- •On-Target Cooldown: 10 seconds (not affected by cooldown reduction).
Consume (Q)
- •Active: Willump takes a bite of a target enemy, dealing damage and healing himself, increased by 50% when below 50% of maximum health.
- •Against champions, heals for 37.5/60/82.5/105/127.5 (+ 50% AP) (+ 5% bonus health) health and deals 60/100/140/180/220 (+ 50% AP) (+ 5% bonus health) magic damage.
- •Against minions and monsters, heals for 75/120/165/210/255 (+ 50% AP) (+ 10% bonus health) health and deals 340/500/660/820/980 true damage.
- •Target range: 125.
- •Mana Cost: 60.
- •Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8 seconds.
Biggest Snowball Ever! (W)
- •Active: Nunu conjures a Biggest Snowball Ever! that Willump channel with increasing movement speed in the target direction for up to 10 seconds, increasing its size over 5 seconds.
- •The duo is immune to slow during the charge. The trajectory can be adjusted over the duration at a highly reduced capacity that increases while turning in the same direction, resetting when changing direction.
- •The snowball will hit enemies it passes through, and explodes upon colliding with an enemy champion, large monster or terrain, hitting enemies within range of the explosion.
- •Enemies hit take magic damage, up to a maximum of 180/225/270/315/360 (+ 150% AP), increased by 0% to X% (based on charge time), and are airborne for X to X (based on charge time) seconds.
- •After 10 seconds, upon re-activation or if the duo are interrupt, they will let loose the snowball, sending it rolling forward for an additional 1 to 3 (based on charge time) seconds during which it will not grow any larger.
- •Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70.
- •Cooldown: 14 seconds.
Snowball Barrage (E)
- •Active: Nunu throws a volley of 3 snowballs in the target direction over 0.4 seconds, each snowball shattering upon hitting an enemy, each snowball dealing magic damage 16/24/32/40/48 (+ 5% AP) to enemies in a cone. Enemies hit 3 times are slow by 50% for 1 second. Champions and large monsters hit once are also Snowbound for 4 seconds, resetting on each hit.
- •Snowball Barrage can be re-activated up to 2 times at no cost for 3 seconds. An enemy cannot be slow more than once. After 3 seconds, it is Willump's Turn.
- •Willump's Turn: Willump root Snowbound enemies around him for 0.5 to 1.5 (based on level) seconds, dealing them 20/30/40/50/60 (+ 50% AP) magic damage.
- •Target range: 690.
- •Barrage Cooldown: 1 seconds (affected by cooldown reduction).
- •Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70.
- •Cooldown: 14 seconds.
Absolute Zero (R)
- •Active: Nunu and Willump channel heat from the area around them for up to 3 seconds. Moving ends Absolute Zero's effects immediately, and the area is invisible if the duo is not sight.
- •The duo gains a 65/75/85 (+ 30/40/50% bonus health) shield while channel that refreshes each second, and enemies within the frosted area are slow by 50%/65%/80%/95% (at level 0/1/2/3) (based on channel time).
- •Enemies caught in the frozen area when the channel ends or is interrupted take magic damage, up to a maximum of 625/950/1275 (+ 250% AP), increased by 0%/X%/X%/X% (at level 0/1/2/3) (based on channel time).
- •Mana Cost: 100.
- •Cooldown: 110/100/90 seconds.
Shepherd of Souls
- •Mist Walker base attack damage changed to 2 to 99 (based on level) from 2 to 100 (based on level).
Items
General
- •Nightstalker damage reduced to 30 to 150 (based on level) from 30 to 200 (based on level).
- •Lethality increased to 21 from 18.
General
- •Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Spectral Waltz passive would sometimes not trigger.
General
- •Storm's Edge base damage reduced to 140% from 160%.
- •Storm's Edge increased damage percent reduced to 0.5% critical strike chance from 0.75%.
- •Formula changed to 140% to 200% (based on critical strike chance) from 160% to 200% (based on critical strike chance).
- •Attack speed increased to 35% from 25%.
- •Attack damage reduced to 60 from 65.

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Bard
Fiora
Irelia
Kassadin
Kayn
Master Yi
Rengar
Garen
Akali
Lee Sin
Maokai
Nami
Nunu & Willump
Taric
Varus
Wukong
Yorick
Duskblade of Draktharr
Phantom Dancer
Stormrazor