PCAtakhanPatch History
League of Legends (PC)
Atakhan was removed from the game in Patch 26.1.
January 7, 2026
Atakhan Current Status
Atakhan has been changed in 8 League of Legends patches. 4 buffs, 2 nerfs, 2 adjustments. Removed in Patch 26.1.
Atakhan Changes
Patch 25.12
changeGeneral
- Adjusted score accumulation rules between top and bottom half to render spawns more equal between the two halves instead of more frequent in the bottom one.
Patch 25.9
nerfGeneral
- Base attack damage increased to 100 from 75.
- Removed: Voracious form, the temporary False Life buff reward and the permanent False Life (Gold) buff reward.
- Removed: Ruinous form and his Crown of Carnage buff reward.
- New: Atakhan only spawns as Thornbound.
- Most mechanics and assets are unchanged and inherited from the Ruinous form.
- Side selection, unique terrain, passive Blood Rose spawning rules are unchanged.
- Uses Ruinous form's attacks and abilities.
- Adjusted score accumulation rules.
- Upon being taken down, Thornbound Atakhan grants the following rewards to the slaying team:
- All Blood RoseLarge Blood Rose Blood Roses on the map are automatically collected on behalf of the slaying team.
- Purifies all current and future Bloody Petals into Spirit Petals, which award 25% bonus experience and 25% more adaptive force. Additionally, awards 10 to 20 extra Spirit Petals stacks.
- Grants the permanent Spiritual Purification buff.
- Spiritual Purification: Upon scoring a champion kill, purify the slain enemy's body, gaining 1 Spirit Petals stack and blessing the area under their death location (500 units radius). The blessed area instantly explodes, dealing adaptive damage to enemies within equal to 15% of their current health and lingers for 1.5 seconds, slow enemies within by 60%.
- Ring hit base damage reduced to 10 to 180 (based on level) from 11.5 to 207 (based on level).
- Ring hit health ratio reduced to 8% of target's current health from 9%.
- Bug Fix: Restored the unique voiceline for killing Sahn-Uzal.
Bloody Petals
- Base experience reduced to 20 from 23.
- Buff icon is now visible at 0 stacks of the buff.
Patch 25.8
buffGeneral
- New Effect: Is now always visible within brush.
- His full voiceover script is now available in-game.
Patch 25.6
buffGeneral
- Score threshold for form determination has been increased by 10%.
- [Voracious can appear slightly more frequently on average.]
Patch 25.5
buffGeneral
- Earlier kills score multiplier increased.
- Turret dive kills score multiplier increased.
- Turret dive score multiplier now also applies to kills that take place between two turrets in the same lane instead of only the turrets' radius.
- Bug Fix: Voracious Atakhan's form ability no longer sometimes uses placeholder VFX.
Patch 25.4
changeGeneral
- Score accrual
- New Effect: Now generates 100 to 0% (based on minutes) higher score from champion damage.
- New Effect: Now generates more score from earlier kills than later kills (diminishing per scored kill).
- New Effect: Kills under the enemy turret (tower dives) now grant significantly more score.
- Score threshold for form determination has been adjusted to match the above changes.
Patch 25.S1.2
nerfGeneral
- Increased score threshold between the forms.
- Voracious form will now appear more frequently, on average / Ruinous form will now appear less frequently, on average.
- [Listed numbers were 15% to 25% frequency for the Voracious form / 85% to 75% frequency for the Ruinous form.]
- Adjusted the score weights between top half and bottom half so that he appears in the more appropriate side more frequently.
- [Listed numbers were 50% frequency for both sides from 40% top side / 60% bottom side.]
- Score per champion kill reduced by a major amount.
Bloody Petals
- Base experience reduced to 23 from 25.
- Maximum experience reduced to 46 from 50.
- Adaptive force scaling now reaches the minimum at 34 stacks instead of 39.
Patch 25.S1.1
buffBloody Petals
- New: This permanent, neutral buff is granted by picking up Blood Roses or Large Blood Roses, and as a direct reward from taking down Ruinous Atakhan.
- Bloody Petals: For each stack, gain 25 experience and 0.6/0.2 (at level 0/39) (based on stacks) bonus Attack Damage or 1/0.333 (at level 0/39) (based on stacks) Ability Power (Adaptive). Each team member is granted an additional 0/100% (based on their KDA) experience.
- Stacks infinitely.
Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin - New Epic Monster
- Spawns at 20 minutes at the entrance of either top and bottom lane in the river. The location is determined by the side (half of the map) where the most kills and damage have occurred by 14 minutes. This is done via an internal "score", and the amount of score added is different between kills and damage.
- At 14 minutes, terrain will appear on the respective side, marking his camp's location. The terrain consists of two walls in a circular arrangement, each facing each other along the river line. The river brush at the entrance where Atakhan spawns is removed.
- Over the course of the next 6 minutes, 8 Blood Roses and 8 large Blood Roses will grow in the same quadrant of the map as the camp.
- Can spawn in one of two forms, Voracious and Ruinous.
- Both forms of Atakhan have identical basic attacks and a bolt ability, but also a unique special ability that differs between the two forms.
- His attacks and abilities apply stacks of the Frail and Unworthy debuff for 4 seconds which may stack up to 50 times and refreshes with each attack and ability hit. For each stack, the target's resistances are reduced by 1, for a maximum of 50 resistances reduction.
- Basic attacks apply 1 stack.
- Bolt ability applies 5 stacks per bolt.
- Form ability applies 3 stacks per hit.
- Voracious Atakhan:
- Spawns with lower score.
- Ability deals damage over time in a 600-radius area under him.
- Rewards all members of the slaying team with two buffs, a temporary and a permanent one.
- False Life
- Effect: Upon taking death, enter resurrection for 5.5 seconds, during which you are invulnerable, untargetable, and lockout. After 2 seconds into the duration, you blink to your summoning platform. If taken to lethal damage by an enemy champion, they instead gain 1 stack of Bloody Petals and 100 gold. The regular kill bounty is not dispensed, and on-kill/takedown effects do not trigger.
- Duration: 150 seconds.
- False Life
- Effect: Gain an additional 40 gold when scoring a champion takedown.
- Duration: Permanent.
- Ruinous Atakhan:
- Spawns with higher score.
- Ability deals damage in 8 constricting rings over 2.5 seconds around his camp, starting at the circle outlined by the camp's terrain.
- Upon being taken down, grants 6 stacks of Bloody Petals to the killing team, spawns 6 Blood Roses and 6 large Blood Roses around his camp and rewards all members of the slaying team with the Crown of Carnage buff.
- Crown of Carnage
- Effect: Gain 25% increased effects from all epic monster buffs.
- Duration: Permanent.
- Buff details:
- Touch of the Void — 25% more damage.
- Hunger of the Void — Effect unknown.
- Eye of the Herald — Mercenary has 25% increased health, deals 25% increased damage to all targets, and duration of stun and knockup during Rift Herald Rodeo is increased by 25%.
- Dragon Slayer — Each stack's stat bonus is increased by 25%.
- Chemtech Dragon Soul — 25% more damage while below the threshold.
- Cloud Dragon Soul — 25% more bonus movement speed on both the regular and the super buff.
- Hextech Dragon Soul — 25% more damage and slow.
- Infernal Dragon Soul — 25% more damage.
- Mountain Dragon Soul — 25% larger shield.
- Ocean Dragon Soul — 25% more health and mana restoration.
- Aspect of the Dragon — 25% more damage.
- Hand of Baron — 25% more attack damage and ability power.
