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League of Legends Patch 8.24
League of Legends Patch 8.24 was released on Dec 5, 2018. This update included changes to 40 champions, with 2 buffs, 6 nerfs, 31 adjustments. It also updated 2 items. The patch also changed 3 game systems: Jungle, Gold & Experience, Map & Terrain. It also changed 1 rune: Dark Harvest.
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Changes (31)
Items
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Changes (1)
Systems
Buffs (1)
Changes (2)
Runes
Nerfs (1)
Champions
Inherent Glamour (Innate)
- •Innate: Neeko is offered a selection of allied champions to take their appereance for up to X seconds. Once selected, there's a 2.5 seconds delay before another champion can be selected.
- •Damaging or taking damage from enemy champions or casting either Blooming Burst or Tangle-Barbs breaks the illusion and puts Inherent Glamour on a static 25 to 10 (based on level) second cooldown.
Blooming Burst (Q)
- •Active: Neeko propels a seed into a target area, which blooms after a short delay, dealing 80/125/170/215/260 (+ 50% AP) magic damage to enemies within.
- •If the burst kills an enemy unit or damages a champion or large monster, it will bloom again to deal 40/60/80/100/120 (+ 20% AP) magic damage. This cannot happen more than twice per Blooming Burst.
- •Mana Cost: 50/60/70/80/90.
- •Cooldown 7 seconds.
Shapesplitter (W)
- •Passive: Neeko resonates with spiritual energy every third basic attack, dealing 50/80/110/140/170 (+ 60% AP) bonus magic damage and granting her 20/25/30/35/40% bonus movement speed for 1 second.
- •Active: Neeko becomes invisibility for 0.5 seconds, sending a temporary clone of her Inherent Glamour sprinting in a target direction for 2 seconds.
- •Both Neeko and the clone gain 20/25/30/35/40% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
- •Mana Cost: No mana cost.
- •Cooldown 20/19/18/17/16 seconds.
Tangle-Barbs (E)
- •Active: Neeko slings a magical spiral in a target direction, dealing 80/115/150/185/220 (+ 40% AP) magic damage and root enemies it passes through for 0.5 seconds.
- •The last champion hit is rooted for 0.7/0.9/1.1/1.3/1.5 seconds. If Tangle-Barbs hits at least two enemies, it grows in size and speed, and the root duration against the last champion hit is further increased to 1.8/2.1/2.4/2.7/3 seconds.
- •Mana Cost: 60/65/70/75/80.
- •Cooldown 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds.
Pop Blossom (R)
- •Active: Neeko begins channel herself with spiritual essence over 1.25 seconds. If Neeko is Inherent Glamour, enemies won't see her channel.
- •Neeko shields herself for 50/80/110 (+ 50% AP) for X seconds, increased by 40/60/80 (+ 40% AP) for each enemy champion nearby, as she leaps into the air for 0.75 seconds, during which enemies are slow by 40%.
- •Upon landing, Neeko bursts with spiritual energy, dealing 250/425/650 (+ 130% AP) magic damage and stun nearby enemies for 1.25 seconds.
- •Mana Cost: 100.
- •Cooldown 90 seconds.
Winds of War
- •Mana cost reduced to 70/75/80/85/90 from 70/85/100/115/130.
- •Gust base damage increased to 70/110/150/190/230 from 50/80/110/140/170.
- •Gust AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 80% AP.
- •Total tornado damage changed to 6% (+ 4% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health from 30/40/50/60/70 (+ 60% AP) (+ 3% per 100 AP of target's maximum health).
Justice Punch
- •Windup before dash reduced to 0.4 seconds from 0.45.
- •Dash speed increased to 2300 from 1900.
- •New Effect: Now deals 50% reduced damage to non-champions.
Hero's Entrance
- •Removed: The targeted ally no longer gains 20/25/30% (+ 8% per 100 bonus magic resistance) damage reduction.
- •Removed: Enemies hit in the center of the impact zone are no longer knocked up for 1.25 seconds. All enemies hit are now knocked up for 0.75 seconds.
Test of Spirit
- •Cooldown reduced to 16/15/14/13/12 seconds from 20/18/16/14/12.
Leap of Faith
- •Cooldown reduced to 120/95/70 seconds from 120/105/90.
The Darkin Blade
- •Removed: Monsters no longer take 10% AD bonus damage.
Infernal Chains
- •Bug Fix: Corrected interaction when casting Flash mid-cast. Skillshot now fires in target direction.
Twilight Shroud
- •Base duration reduced to 4/4.5/5/5.5/6 seconds from 5/5.5/6/6.5/7.
- •Maximum duration reduced to 6/6.5/7/7.5/8 seconds from 8/8.5/9/9.5/10.
- •Bug Fix: Transition into her slowed animation has been restored.
Perfect Execution
- •Bug Fix: SFX volume no longer stacks when hitting multiple targets.
Defiant Dance
- •Cooldown increased to 20/18/16/14/12 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12.
- •Base damage reduction reduced to 40% from 50%.
- •Removed: No longer grants 1 additional stack of Ionian Fervor.
Vanguard's Edge
- •Bug Fix: Corrected interaction when casting Flash mid-cast. Skillshot now fires in target direction.
Distortion
- •Cooldown increased to 18/16/14/12/10 seconds from 14/13/12/11/10.
Headbutt
- •Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing it to stun his target without displacing them if he cast recall in the middle of his W+Q combo to cancel the combo.
- •New run animation during Trample.
General
- •Bug Fix: Ruby Chroma's head flame VFX are now much more visible on all graphics settings.
Despair
- •Bug Fix: Particles no longer separate and clip through elevated terrain.
General
- •Updated sound and visual effects.
- •SFX have been cleaned up for her joke, taunt, dance, laugh, death, and idle actions.
- •New basic attack missile and hit VFX.
Rebirth
- •Glow VFX increase the closer she is to revival and the hatching moment is more impactful.
Flash Frost
- •VFX more clearly indicate the hitbox and center zone.
- •Visuals updated to retain impact of a legendary skin.
Crystallize
- •Updated wall model and frosty ground VFX.
- •SFX updated for clarity and icy thematics.
Frostbite
- •Missile is more distinct from Anivia's basic attack.
- •"Crit" hit is brighter and better defined.
Glacial Storm
- •Freljord range indicator added.
- •Blizzard VFX improved.
- •New SFX added for when the storm is fully formed and when Glacial Storm deactivates.
- •Visuals updated to retain impact of a legendary skin.
- •Gold range indicator adjusted to better match hitbox.
General
- •Updated sound and visual effects.
- •New basic attack trail and hit VFX.
- •New basic attack hit SFX.
- •Basic attacks now have paper/briefcase SFX.
- •New idle sounds added.
Infected Cleaver
- •New trail VFX added.
- •Hit VFX improved.
- •Clearer throw and hit SFX.
- •Now has paper/briefcase SFX.
Burning Agony
- •VFX now shows actual area of effect.
- •Enemies are visually set on fire when damaged.
- •Activation SFX is clearer.
- •Now has "buy/sell" arrow and paper VFX.
- •Now has digital SFX.
Masochism
- •New buff VFX on wrists.
- •Zaun SFX elements added.
Sadism
- •Initial burst VFX are bigger.
- •Effect VFX are easier to see and read more as a heal.
- •Zaun SFX elements added.
- •Now has "buy/sell" arrow and paper VFX.
- •Now has digital SFX.
Mystic Shot
- •Bug Fix: Corrected interaction when casting Flash mid-cast. Skillshot now fires toward target position.
Essence Flux
- •Bug Fix: Corrected interaction when casting Flash mid-cast. Skillshot now fires toward target position.
- •Bug Fix: Recall VO has been restored.
General
- •Updated sound and visual effects.
- •New basic attack hit VFX.
Barrel Roll
- •Range indicator and grog VFX more clearly indicate area of effect.
Drunken Rage
- •He now glows to indicate the damage reduction effect.
- •Bubble VFX reduced.
Body Slam
- •Added new dash VFX to indicate area of effect.
- •Hit VFX are more impactful.
- •Pretzel dash VFX restored.
Explosive Cask
- •Grog and barrel trail VFX improved to indicate area of effect and feel more impactful.
- •VFX and SFX changed to be more distinct from Barrel Roll.
H-28G Evolution Turret
- •Bug Fix: Beam attack cooldown now once again scales with cooldown reduction.
- •Turret stats have been moved into the expanded tooltip (hold SHIFT). Expanded tooltip now indicates that turret health scales off of Heimerdinger's ability power.
- •Bug Fix: Dying while third turret charge is stockpiling no longer allows him to get a fourth charge.
Hextech Micro-Rockets
- •Bug Fix: Tooltip now notes the actual calculation for minion damage instead of noting an incorrect and irrelevant "60% damage" modifier.
Hextech Rocket Swarm
- •Missile 1 damage unchanged.
- •Missiles 2 to 5 base damage increased to 32/45/58 from 28/39/49.
- •Missiles 6 to 20 base damage reduced to 50% of lesser base damage from 60% (now matches AP ratio modifier).
- •Missiles 6 to 20 base damage reduced to 16/22.5/29 from 16.8/23.4/29.4.
- •Maximum base damage: 503/697.5/892 from 499/687/862.
- •Bug Fix: Once again shares a cooldown with Hextech Micro-Rockets.
CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade
- •Bug Fix: Stun duration has been fixed.
CH-3X Lightning Grenade
- •Bug Fix: Stun duration has been fixed.
- •Bug Fix: Can no longer cast it immediately after CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade if timed exactly.
General
- •Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing the audio on his basic attacks to sometimes be missing.
Void Seeker
- •Bug Fix: Corrected interaction when casting Flash mid-cast. Skillshot now fires toward target position.
Void Spike
- •Bug Fix: On-hit VFX are no longer significantly louder than base.
Void Ooze
- •Bug Fix: Restored self and ally view bubble VFX and enemy view bubbles are now more red.
Double Strike
- •Bug Fix: Basic attack no longer cancels if Double Strike's stack counter expires mid-attack.
General
- •Updated sound and visual effects.
- •New basic attack hit VFX.
Reign of Anger
- •Glowing hand VFX are more clear when empowered.
- •Eyes now glow red as well.
Cull the Meek
- •VFX more clearly indicate area of effect, scaling with Dominus.
- •Unempowered casts are recolored.
Ruthless Predator
- •Mostly unchanged.
Slice and Dice
- •VFX cleaned up; ground sand added.
- •Empowered cast VFX are much clearer.
Dominus
- •New sandstorm and range indicator VFX.
- •Dragonflies changed to scarabs.
- •Outback and Prehistoric use base VFX. Galactic and Bloodfury use recolored base VFX. Rune Wars, Scorched Earth, Pool Party, SKT T1, and Renektoy have unique ult effects.
Devour
- •Bug Fix: SFX have fully been restored.
General
- •Updated sound and visual effects.
- •New basic attack missile and hit VFX.
Blinding Dart
- •Missile is more distinct from Teemo's basic attack; hit VFX improved.
Move Quick
- •Run trail VFX added with skin-specific effects.
Toxic Shot
- •Missile is more distinct from basic attack and Blinding Dart.
Noxious Trap
- •Explosion now shows actual area of effect.
- •Skin-specific explosion effects added for Astronaut, Cottontail, Super, and Panda skins.
- •Bug Fix: Now properly plays his channel animation.
Death Sentence
- •Bug Fix: No longer has classic particles when breaking the chain.
General
- •Bug Fix: Champion-specific taunt and joke VO lines are now properly synchronized with her animations.
Blighted Quiver
- •Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that allowed his allies to detonate it.
General
- •New walk animation added without boots (currently base skin only).
Siphon Power
- •Cooldown increased to 9/8/7/6/5 seconds from 8/7/6/5/4.
- •Base damage reduced to 50/65/80/95/110 from 60/80/100/120/140.
Death Ray
- •Cooldown reduced to 12/11/10/9/8 seconds from 13/12/11/10/9.
- •Damage AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 50% AP.
Steel Tempest
- •Bug Fix: Audio cues have been restored.
Items
General
- •Removed from the game.
General
- •Healing changed to all types of damage from only physical damage.
Runes
General
- •Base damage reduced to 20 to 60 (based on level) from 40 to 80 (based on level).
- •Removed: Can no longer trigger off other procs (e.g. Scorch, Liandry's Torment) aside from Luden's Echo, whose effect is built to behave like a separate ability.
System Changes
Murk Wolves
- •Initial spawn time increased to 1:30 from 1:29.
Raptors
- •Initial spawn time increased to 1:30 from 1:28.
Bounty System
- •The new bounty system has been fixed on non-Summoner's Rift maps.
Summoner's Rift
- •Summoner's Rift is once again covered in snow for the Snowdown Showdown 2018 event.
League of Legends Patch 8.24 FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
- When did League of Legends Patch 8.24 release?
- League of Legends Patch 8.24 was released on Dec 5, 2018.
- What changed in League of Legends Patch 8.24?
- Patch 8.24 included changes to 40 champions (2 buffs, 6 nerfs, 31 adjustments), plus 2 item updates, 1 rune change and 3 game system updates. See the full breakdown above.
- What was the previous League of Legends patch before 8.24?
- The previous League of Legends patch was 8.23.
- What is the next League of Legends patch after 8.24?
- The next League of Legends patch is 8.24b.
