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League of Legends Patch 8.4

League of Legends Patch 8.4 was released on Feb 22, 2018. This update included changes to 29 champions, with 9 buffs, 4 nerfs, 16 adjustments.

Champions

Darius League of Legends Patch NotesPCDariusBuff

Crippling Strike

  • Cooldown reduced to 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds from 9/8/7/6/5.
  • AD ratio increased to 40/45/50/55/60% AD from 40% AD at all ranks.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it sometimes failed to damage certain units (e.g. Dark Procession).

Apprehend

  • Armor penetration increased to 10/15/20/25/30% from 5/10/15/20/25%.
Evelynn League of Legends Patch NotesPCEvelynnBuff

Whiplash

  • Base damage increased to 55/70/85/100/115 from 40/55/70/85/100.
  • Empowered base damage increased to 95/115/135/155/175 from 70/90/110/130/150.

Dark Wind

  • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds at all ranks from 12/11.5/11/10.5/10.
  • Bonus damage against monsters increased to 100% from 50%.
  • Removed: Dealing 50% bonus damage to minions.

Crowstorm

  • Cooldown reduced to 140/110/80 seconds from 150/140/130.
Kog'Maw League of Legends Patch NotesPCKog'MawBuff

Bio-Arcane Barrage

  • Bonus magic damage maximum health ratio increased to 3/3.75/4.5/5.25/6% of target's maximum health from 3/3.5/4/4.5/5%.
Ornn League of Legends Patch NotesPCOrnnBuff

Bellows Breath

  • Cooldown increased to 17/15/13/11/9 seconds from 13/12/11/10/9.
  • Target's maximum health ratio changed to 12/13/14/15/16% of target's maximum health from 10/12/14/16/18%.
  • Shield duration increased to 3.5 seconds from 2.5.
  • Brittle duration reduced to 3 seconds from 6.

Searing Charge

  • Charge base damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 30/50/70/90/110.
  • Charge bonus armor ratio increased to 40% bonus armor from 30%.
  • Charge bonus magic resistance ratio increased to 40% bonus magic resistance from 30%.
  • Shockwave base damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 50/90/130/170/210.
  • Shockwave bonus armor ratio increased to 40% bonus armor from 30%.
  • Shockwave bonus magic resistance ratio increased to 40% bonus magic resistance from 30%.
  • New Effect: The shockwave damage is only applied to units not hit by the initial charge.

Call of the Forge God

  • Brittle duration reduced to 3 seconds from 6.
Poppy League of Legends Patch NotesPCPoppyBuff

Iron Ambassador

  • Base damage increased to 20 to 180 (based on level) from 10 to 180 (based on level).

Heroic Charge

  • Base damage increased to 60/80/100/120/140 from 55/75/95/115/135.
Renekton League of Legends Patch NotesPCRenektonBuff

Reign of Anger

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where his abilities failed to grant him the correct amount of Fury when initiating combat.

Cull the Meek

  • Base damage increased to 65/100/135/170/205 from 65/95/125/155/185.
  • Empowered base damage increased to 100/150/200/250/300 from 95/140/185/230/275.
Swain League of Legends Patch NotesPCSwainBuff

Vision of Empire

  • Mana cost reduced to 70/85/100/115/130 from 90/100/110/120/130.

Demonic Ascension

  • Heal per second increased to 20/35/50 from 15/30/45.
  • New Effect: Cooldown and Soul fragments are fully refunded if Swain dies during the channel time of Demonic Ascension.
  • Bug Fix: The Ultimate Hat now properly reduces Demonic Ascension's cooldown.
  • Health restored require to cast Demonflare reduced to 125/300/450 (at level 6/11/16) from 150/300/450 (at level 6/11/16).
  • Area of effect starts slightly more in the direction of Swain's movement at high movement speeds.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he could remain in Demonic Ascension when affected by Whimsy.
Zed League of Legends Patch NotesPCZedBuff

Death Mark

  • Cooldown reduced to 120/90/60 seconds from 120/100/80.
Gangplank League of Legends Patch NotesPCGangplankNerf

Parrrley

  • Mana cost increased to 60/55/50/45/40 from 40 at all ranks.

Powder Keg

  • Removed: Barrels granting sight of other units.
  • Keg duration reduced to 25 seconds from 60.
Shyvana League of Legends Patch NotesPCShyvanaNerf

Stats

  • Attack damage growth reduced to 2.8 from 3.4.

Twin Bite

  • AD ratio reduced to 20/35/50/65/80% AD from 40/55/70/85/100% AD.
Tristana League of Legends Patch NotesPCTristanaNerf

Buster Shot

  • Cooldown increased to 120/110/100 seconds from 100/85/70.
Twitch League of Legends Patch NotesPCTwitchNerf

Contaminate

  • Base damage reduced to 20/25/30/35/40 from 20/35/50/65/80.
Akali League of Legends Patch NotesPCAkaliChange

Twin Disciplines

  • Bug Fix: Now correctly trigger Overheal.
Amumu League of Legends Patch NotesPCAmumuChange

Despair

  • Bug Fix: Now correctly deactivates when he runs out of mana.
Gnar League of Legends Patch NotesPCGnarChange

Boomerang Throw

  • Base on-catch cooldown reduction reduced to 40% from 45%.

Hop

  • Base damage increased to 50/85/120/155/190 from 20/60/100/140/180.

GNAR!

  • Removed: Passively increasing Boomerang Throw on-catch cooldown reduction to 50/55/60%.
Gragas League of Legends Patch NotesPCGragasChange

Drunken Rage

  • Bug Fix: Activating it while attacking an inhibitor will no longer cause him to path towards the blue side fountain.
Jax League of Legends Patch NotesPCJaxChange

Counter Strike

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the buff could take up to 0.25 seconds to take effect.
Kalista League of Legends Patch NotesPCKalistaChange

Stats

  • Base attack range reduced to 525 from 550.
  • Base attack damage reduced to 66 from 71.
  • Base attack speed increased to 0.694 from 0.644.
  • Attack speed delay reduced to -0.1 from -0.03.
  • Attack speed growth increased to 3.5% from 2.5%.

Martial Poise

  • Bug Fix: No longer path towards the blue side fountain if given a movement command to dash while attacking an enemy inhibitor.

Sentinel

  • Removed: Gaining 10% to 27% (based on level) bonus attack speed while near her Oathsworn.
  • New Effect: While near her Oathsworn now gains 5/10/15/20/25 bonus attack damage.

Rend

  • Mana refund reduced to 10/15/20/25/30 from 30 at all ranks.
Kha'Zix League of Legends Patch NotesPCKha'ZixChange

Mecha

  • Void Assault
  • Bug Fix: Chromas' VFX are now always visible to the enemy when used.
Rakan League of Legends Patch NotesPCRakanChange

Sweetheart

  • Bug Fix: Health bar has been adjusted so it no longer obscures several animations.
Rengar League of Legends Patch NotesPCRengarChange

Stats

  • Base attack damage reduced to 65 from 68.
  • Attack damage growth increased to 3 from 1.5.
  • Base attack speed increased to 0.666 from 0.625.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 3% from 3.5%.
  • Base health reduced to 585 from 586.2.

Unseen Predator

  • Bonetooth Necklace trophy bonuses change:
  • 1 Trophy: Changed to 1% bonus AD from 1 (+ 1% bonus AD).
  • 2 Trophies: Changed to 4% bonus AD from 3 (+ 3% bonus AD).
  • 3 Trophies: Changed to 9% bonus AD from 7 (+ 7% bonus AD).
  • 4 Trophies: Changed to 16% bonus AD from 13 (+ 13% bonus AD).
  • 5 Trophies: Changed to 25% bonus AD from 20 (+ 20% bonus AD).
  • New Effect: Once Rengar's gained Bonetooth Necklace stacks from all three enemy champions on Twisted Treeline, the per-target lockout now resets so he can get his fourth and fifth stacks, capped at 5 stacks.
  • Distance from target upon landing reduced to 50 from 100.
  • Leap speed reduced to 1450 from 1600.
  • New Effect: Now has a voice response to gaining a Bonetooth Necklace stack and generating Ferocity.
  • Bug Fix: No longer repeatedly use a VO line when reaching maximum Ferocity stacks.

Savagery - Rework

  • Removed Active: Rengar slashes all enemies in an arc in the target direction before piercing all enemies in line, dealing 30/50/70/90/110 (+ 20/30/40/50/60% bonus AD) physical damage per strike.
  • Removed Empowered Active: Savagery's total physical damage is increased to 120 to 392 (based on level) (+ 220% bonus AD).
  • New Active: Rengar's next two basic attacks gain 40% bonus attack speed, with the first within 3 seconds also dealing 20/50/80/110/140 (+ 10% AD) bonus physical damage. The first basic attack also gains 25 bonus range (Unseen Predator range unaffected).
  • New Empowered Active: Savagery's bonus physical damage is increased to 30 to 240 (based on level) (+ 30% AD) and applying it grants Rengar 50% to 101% (based on level) bonus attack speed for 5 seconds.
  • It grants Ferocity and attack speed against turrets, but does not deal bonus damage.
  • Ability icon reverted to the icon before V6.22.
  • Particles and sounds have been added/re-added to support the old ability animation and buffs. This includes stuff for skins.

Battle Roar

  • Cooldown reduced to 16/14.5/13/11.5/10 seconds from 20/18/16/14/12.

Thrill of the Hunt

  • Enemy vision range reduced to 1600 at all ranks from 2000/3000/4000.
  • Rengar vision range changed to 2500/3000/3500 from 2000/3000/4000.
  • Bonus movement speed increased to 40/50/60% from 40% at all ranks.
  • Removed: Closest enemy leap guarantees a critical strike.
  • New Effect: Closest enemy leap deals 30% AD bonus physical damage and shred the target's armor by 12/18/24 for 4 seconds.
  • New Effect: The closest enemy to Rengar alerts all allies within 1200 range about his presence.
  • New Effect: Enemies revealed by Thrill of the Hunt stay revealed for the spell's duration.

General

  • Bug Fix: Can no longer gain Mana Potion from Kleptomancy.

Savagery

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the empowered attack fizzled if Savagery's buff expired during the attack animation.
Ryze League of Legends Patch NotesPCRyzeChange

Spell Flux

  • Bug Fix: Now correctly spreads to nearby units when it kills units who have any form of life after death.
Skarner League of Legends Patch NotesPCSkarnerChange

Fracture

  • Bug Fix: Now correctly stun targets afflicted by Fracture's Crystal Venom if they received the debuff in between when he began and initiated the attack.
Talon League of Legends Patch NotesPCTalonChange

Stats

  • Base magic resistance increased to 39 from 32.1.
  • Base armor reduced to 30 from 32.
Udyr League of Legends Patch NotesPCUdyrChange

Turtle Stance

  • Bug Fix: Now correctly trigger Overheal.
Volibear League of Legends Patch NotesPCVolibearChange

Rolling Thunder

  • Bonus movement speed while moving towards enemies increased to 30/37.5/45/52.5/60% from 30/35/40/45/50%.
  • New Effect: When he changes direction (from "towards champions" to any other direction), his bonus movement speed now decays over 1 second rather than falling off immediately.

Frenzy

  • New Effect: Biting a minions now also halves Frenzy's cooldown.

Majestic Roar

  • New Effect: Now slightly airborne hit enemies.
  • New Effect: Enemies who are dashing or airborne, before Majestic Roar is cast, are dealt an additional 40/60/80/100/120 (+ 30% AP).
  • Bug Fix: Summoned Rift Herald will now be terrified properly.
Xin Zhao League of Legends Patch NotesPCXin ZhaoChange

General

  • New artwork for Original.

Determination

  • Bonus physical damage reduced to 15/25/35/45 (at level 1/6/11/16)% AD from 20/40/60/80 (at level 1/6/11/16)% AD.

Wind Becomes Lightning

  • Base cast time and duration extend of other abilities reduced to 0.5 from 0.6.
  • Spear Thrust now originates from Xin Zhao's position at the end of the cast.

Audacious Charge

  • Short-ranged dashes will now correctly move him forward to the target.
Zoe League of Legends Patch NotesPCZoeChange

Stats

  • Health increased to 560 from 526.
  • Base attack damage increased to 58 from 56.

More Sparkles!

  • Base damage increased to 12 to 135 (based on level) from 12 to 135 (based on level).
  • AP ratio increased to 32.5% AP from 25% AP.

Paddle Star!

  • Base damage reduced to 45/60/75/90/105 from 45/75/105/135/165.
  • AP ratio reduced to 20% AP from 40% AP.
  • Removed: Applying More Sparkles! damage to enemies past the first hit.

Spell Thief

  • Minions can no longer drop shards for Teleport.
  • Bonus movement speed increased to 30/40/50/60/70% from 10/25/40/55/70%.
  • AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 40% AP.

Sleepy Trouble Bubble

  • Removed: Refunding 10/15/20/25/30% of cooldown when hitting an enemy champion.
  • New Effect: Removing the Drowsy effect now prevents the target from falling sleep.

Portal Jump

  • Bug Fix: Can now correctly use Portal Jump to get out of Demonic Ascension drain circle.
  • Bug Fix: No longer ignores unit collision for the rest of the game after using Portal Jump.

Items

Oblivion Orb League of Legends ItemPCOblivion OrbNEW

General

  • Recipe: Ruby Crystal + Amplifying Tome + 665 gold = 1500 gold.
  • Stats: +25 ability power, +200 health.
  • Unique Passive - Touch of Death: +15 magic penetration.
  • Builds into: Morellonomicon.
  • Availability: All maps.
Spellbinder League of Legends ItemPCSpellbinderNEW

General

  • Recipe: Aether Wisp + Needlessly Large Rod + 700 gold = 2800 gold.
  • Stats: +100 ability power, +10% movement speed.
  • Unique Passive - Spellsteal: Gains a Spellbinder charge each time a nearby enemy or allied champion, including yourself, uses an ability, up to a maximum of 100 charges.
  • Unique Active - Spellburst: Grants 1 to 100 (based on charges) ability power for 4 seconds, and 0.3% to 30% (based on charges) bonus movement speed decaying over 4 seconds (60 second cooldown).
Ancient Coin League of Legends ItemPCAncient CoinBuff

General

  • New Effect: Grants 5 bonus movement speed.

General

  • New Recipe: Tear of the Goddess + Amplifying Tome + Lost Chapter + 915 gold = 3200 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Tear of the Goddess + Needlessly Large Rod + 1100 gold = 3100 gold.
  • Ability power reduced to 50 from 80.
  • Mana increased to 650 from 250.
  • New Effect: Grants 10% cooldown reduction.
  • New Unique Passive - Haste: Grants an additional 10% cooldown reduction.

General

  • New Effect: Grants 10 bonus movement speed.

General

  • New Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Needlessly Large Rod + 1100 gold = 3600 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Blasting Wand + Amplifying Tome + 1265 gold = 3800 gold.
  • Unique passive ability power increased to 40% from 35%.

General

  • Total cost reduced to 4600 gold from 4800 gold.
  • Unique passive ability power increased to 40% from 35%.

General

  • New Effect: Grants 10 bonus movement speed.
  • Bug Fix: Now is correctly filtered under health, not armor.

General

  • Ability power increased to 85 from 75.
Wit's End League of Legends ItemPCWit's EndBuff

General

  • Total cost reduced to 2400 gold from 2500 gold.
  • Combine cost reduced to 380 gold from 480 gold.
  • Bonus magic damage on-hit increased to 42 from 40.
  • Magic resistance stolen reduced to 3 from 5.
  • New Effect: Melee champions instead steal 6 magic resistance per basic attack.
  • New Effect: Now stacks up to 30 magic resistance stolen from 25.
Aether Wisp League of Legends ItemPCAether WispNerf

General

  • Added to recipe for Spellbinder and Twin Shadows.
  • Removed from recipe for Luden's Echo.
Amplifying Tome League of Legends ItemPCAmplifying TomeNerf

General

  • Added to recipe for Archangel's Staff, Luden's Echo, and Oblivion Orb.
  • Removed from recipe for Rabadon's Deathcap and Morellonomicon.
Blasting Wand League of Legends ItemPCBlasting WandNerf

General

  • Added to recipe for Luden's Echo and Morellonomicon.
  • Removed from recipe for Rabadon's Deathcap.

General

  • Removed from recipe for Hextech GLP-800.
Fiendish Codex League of Legends ItemPCFiendish CodexNerf

General

  • Added to recipe for Twin Shadows.
  • Removed from recipe for Morellonomicon.
Frozen Mallet League of Legends ItemPCFrozen MalletNerf

General

  • Ranged attack slow reduced to 20% from 30%.
Lost Chapter League of Legends ItemPCLost ChapterNerf

General

  • Total cost increased to 1100 gold from 900 gold.
  • Combine cost increased to 315 gold from 115 gold.
  • New Unique Passive - Haste: Grants 10% cooldown reduction.
  • Added to recipe for Archangel's Staff, Hextech GLP-800, and Luden's Echo.
  • Removed from recipe for Morellonomicon.

General

  • Added to recipe for Spellbinder.
  • Removed from recipe for Archangel's Staff and Luden's Echo.
Relic Shield League of Legends ItemPCRelic ShieldNerf

General

  • Health reduced to 50 from 75.
Targon's Brace League of Legends ItemPCTargon's BraceNerf

General

  • Health reduced to 125 from 175.
Void Staff League of Legends ItemPCVoid StaffNerf

General

  • Ability power reduced to 70 from 80.
Tracker's Knife League of Legends ItemPCTracker's KnifeRemoved

General

  • Removed from the game.
Corrupting Potion League of Legends ItemPCCorrupting PotionChange

General

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it could not be used if a Mana Potion was currently in use.
Haunting Guise League of Legends ItemPCHaunting GuiseChange

General

  • Ability power increased to 35 from 25.
  • Removed Unique Passive - Eyes of Pain: +15 magic penetration.
  • New Unique Passive - Madness: Deal 2% increased damage for each second in combat with champions, up to a maximum of 10%.
Hextech GLP-800 League of Legends ItemPCHextech GLP-800Change

General

  • New Recipe: Lost Chapter + Hextech Revolver + 850 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Catalyst of Aeons + Hextech Revolver + 750 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Mana increased to 500 from 400.
  • Removed: +300 health.
  • Removed Unique Passive - Eternity: Restore mana equal to 15% of damage taken from champions. Restore health equal to 20% of mana spent, up to 25 health per cast, while toggle abilities can heal for up to 25 per second.
  • New Effect: Grants 10% cooldown reduction.
  • New Unique Passive - Haste: Grants an additional 10% cooldown reduction.
  • Active Frost Bolt base damage reduced to 75 to 150 (based on level) from 100 to 200 (based on level).
  • Active Frost Bolt AP ratio reduced to 20% AP from 35% AP.
  • New Effect: Active Frost Bolt now only damages and slows first unit hit (per missile).
  • Active Frost Bolt slow duration increased to 1 second from 0.5.
  • Active Frost Bolt angle reduced to 40 degrees from 50 degrees.
  • Active Frost Bolt range increased by 200 units.
  • Active Frost Bolt slow reduced to 40% from 65%.
  • Active Frost Bolt missile speed reduced to 1600 from 2000.
Liandry's Torment League of Legends ItemPCLiandry's TormentChange

General

  • Removed Unique Passive - Eyes of Pain: +15 magic penetration.
  • New Unique Passive - Madness: Deal 2% increased damage for each second in combat with champions, up to a maximum of 10%.
  • New Effect: Unique passive dealing bonus magic damage is now named Torment.
  • Torment damage per second changed to 1% of target's maximum health from 2% of target's current health.
Luden's Echo League of Legends ItemPCLuden's EchoChange

General

  • New Recipe: Lost Chapter + Amplifying Tome + Blasting Wand + 915 gold = 3300 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Aether Wisp + 1100 gold = 3200 gold.
  • Ability power reduced to 90 from 100.
  • Removed: +10% bonus movement speed.
  • New Effect: Grants 500 mana.
  • New Effect: Grants 10% cooldown reduction.
  • New Unique Passive - Haste: Grants an additional 10% cooldown reduction.
Morellonomicon League of Legends ItemPCMorellonomiconChange

General

  • New Recipe: Oblivion Orb + Blasting Wand + 650 gold = 3000 gold.
  • Old Recipe: Lost Chapter + Fiendish Codex + Amplifying Tome + 665 gold = 2900 gold.
  • New item icon.

New stats

  • Stats: +80 ability power, +300 health.
  • Unique Passive - Touch of Death: +15 magic penetration.
  • Unique Passive - Cursed Strike: Dealing magic damage to an enemy champion inflicts them with Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.

Old stats

  • Stats: +100 ability power, +400 mana.
  • Unique Passive: +20% cooldown reduction.
  • Unique Passive: Enemy champion takedown restore 20% of maximum mana.
  • Unique Passive: Dealing magic damage to an enemy champion below 35% health inflicts Grievous Wounds to them for 8 seconds.

General

  • Total cost reduced to 1800 gold from 1900 gold.
  • Combine cost reduced to 550 gold from 650 gold.
  • Health reduced to 350 from 500.
Ruby Crystal League of Legends ItemPCRuby CrystalChange

General

  • Added to recipe for Oblivion Orb.
Seraph's Embrace League of Legends ItemPCSeraph's EmbraceChange

General

  • Ability power reduced to 50 from 80.
  • Mana increased to 1400 from 1000.
  • New Effect: Grants 10% cooldown reduction.
  • New Unique Passive - Haste: Grants an additional 10% cooldown reduction.
Thornmail League of Legends ItemPCThornmailChange

General

  • Bug Fix: Now correctly applies the cripple debuff to minions and monsters attacking its owner.
Twin Shadows League of Legends ItemPCTwin ShadowsChange

General

  • Recipe: Fiendish Codex + Aether Wisp + 650 gold = 2400 gold.
  • Stats: +60 ability power, +7% movement speed, +10% cooldown reduction.
  • Unique Active - Spectral Pursuit: Summons 2 spooky ghosts that hunt down nearby champions, revealing and haunting them on contact. Haunted enemies are slowed by 40% for up to 5 seconds based on the distance the ghosts travel (90 second cooldown).
  • Availability: All maps.

League of Legends Patch 8.4 FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions
When did League of Legends Patch 8.4 release?
League of Legends Patch 8.4 was released on Feb 22, 2018.
What changed in League of Legends Patch 8.4?
Patch 8.4 included changes to 29 champions (9 buffs, 4 nerfs, 16 adjustments), plus 33 item updates. See the full breakdown above.
What was the previous League of Legends patch before 8.4?
The previous League of Legends patch was 8.3.
What is the next League of Legends patch after 8.4?
The next League of Legends patch is 8.5.