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Gameplay & Mechanics Current Status

Leaning down - 1 of Gameplay & Mechanics's last 3 changes was a nerf. Gameplay & Mechanics has been changed in 78 League of Legends patches. 9 buffs, 18 nerfs, 51 adjustments. Most recently adjusted in Patch 26.16 ().

Gameplay & Mechanics Changes

Patch 26.16

changeCurrent Patch

Finally, next to the changes to boot rewards in midlane, we are also adjusting MR for all ADC champions to help them out against mages early game. We also hope this will help a few of them in mid lane, where we believe a healthier pool of AD champions (including potentially Akshan and Tristana) will also help create a more diverse jungle meta beyond AD fighters.

Role Quests

  • Support Role Quest
  • World Atlas points gained on damaging champions or turrets reduced to 18 for all range types from 22.
  • World Atlas points gained on using Shared Riches on a minion increased to 18 from 15.
  • Runic Compass points gained on damaging champions or turrets changed to 21 for all range types from 24.
  • Runic Compass points gained on using Shared Riches on a minion increased to 21 from 20.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Support players' Control Ward would be consumed when trying to place them while dead.
  • Minion kill experience and gold penalty outisde of botlane changed to -33% from -25%.
  • Minion kill experience and gold penalty outside of botlane level threshold increased to 5 from 3.

ADC MAGIC RESISTANCE

  • Affected Champions: Akshan, Aphelios, Ashe, Caitlyn, Corki, Draven, Ezreal, Graves, Jhin, Jinx, Kai'Sa, Kalista, Kindred, Kog'Maw, Lucian, Miss Fortune, Quinn, Samira, Senna, Sivir, Smolder, Twitch, Varus, Vayne, Xayah, Yunara, Zeri
  • Magic Resistance: 30 + 1.3/level → 33 + 1.1/level
  • Tristana Magic Resistance: 28 + 1.3/level → 33 + 1.1/level

SUPPORT ROLE QUEST

  • Stack Consumption On Champion / Turret Damage: 22 Melee / 20 Ranged and 24 Melee / 22 Ranged → 18 and 21
  • Stack Consumption On Creep Score: 15 and 20 → 18 and 21
  • Minion Creep Score Experience / Gold Penalty: -25% outside of bot lane until level 3 → -33% outside of bot lane until level 5

Patch 26.15

change

Role Quests

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Mid lane Tier 3 role quest boots could not be refunded with the undo button.

Patch 26.14

nerf

Buffs

  • Trimmed redundant buffs that repeat information already clearly communicated elsewhere in the UI or gameplay state (e.g. role quest progress and other obvious state changes).
  • Moved most item buffs with durations into the inventory on the item itself.
  • Reduced buff bar clutter from lower-impact system, map and item effects that don't meaningfully change player decision-making.
  • Removed display of very short-duration debuffs and effects (˜0.25s), including things like minor slows from Honeyfruit pickups.

Remake

  • New: Remake votes will now begin automatically when eligible rather than requiring a player to type /remake in chat.
  • New: Added a system chat message that announces the idle player who triggered the vote and the current status of the vote to all players in the lobby.

Patch 26.12

change

Role Quests

  • Toplane Quest
  • Teleport
  • Shield health ratio increased to 35% maximum health from 30%.
  • Shield duration reduced to 10 seconds from 30.

Patch 26.11

buff

Role Quests

  • Midlane Quest
  • Bonus attack damage increased to 8% bonus AD from 6%.
  • Bonus ability power increased to 8% AP from 6% AP.
  • Support Quest
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where supports could not undo after purchasing a Control Ward.

Patch 26.10

change

Crowd Control

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where fear VFX would display a black rectangle, particularly on lower graphics settings

Patch 26.9

change

Role Quests

  • All quests
  • Added a debuff in the HUD to indicate when the passive point generation penalty is active.
  • Penalty for objectives outside of the lane changed to -75% from -50%.
  • New Effect: Penalty for objectives now scales to -0%, based on quest progress.
  • New Effect: Completing a Recall channel now disables passive point generation for 12 seconds.
  • New Effect: Every 2 minutes spent in lane, now bank 1 minute grace time to roam without penalty to the passive progress.
  • "While in top/mid/bottom lane" redefined to anywhere in the lane, instead of near or past the lane's Outer Turret only.
  • Toplane Quest
  • Passive points per second while in toplane reduced to 1.5 from 1.6.
  • Incoming experience modifier reduced to 111% from 112.5%.
  • New Effect: Now grants 80 bonus experience on champion takedowns.
  • Midlane Quest
  • Passive points per second while in midlane reduced to 1.5 from 1.6.
  • Removed: No longer grants Empowered Recall upon completing the quest (300 second cooldown, reduced by 60 seconds per champion takedown, starts after first use and on channel completion).
  • New Effect: Now grants 6% bonus AD and 6% AP.
  • Botlane Quest
  • Passive points per second while in botlane reduced to 1.5 from 1.6.
  • Bonus champion gold bounty reduced to 40 gold from 50 gold.
  • Bonus gold is now shown separately in HUD text numbers.

Patch 26.4

nerf

Omnivamp

  • Removed: Healing no longer applies to Smite and Ignite damage.

Patch 26.3

change

Pinging

  • Undocumented / Bug Fix: Unleashed Teleport used via the Top Lane Role Quest will now send the proper chat messages when pinged after a player sees it used instead of showing the generic "(Champion) Unleashed Teleport" message.

Patch 26.1

buff

Critical Strikes

  • Base critical strike damage increased to 200% from 175%.

Feats of Strength

  • Mechanic removed.

Omnivamp

  • New Effect: Heal 100% of the post-mitigation damage dealt, with the effectiveness reduced to 33% against minions and monsters with area of effect, damage-over-time, and pet spells.
  • Old Effect: Heal 100% of the post-mitigation damage dealt, with the effectiveness being reduced to 20% against minions and monsters.

Role Quests

  • New: Complete objectives based on the role assigned to you in champion select and get rewarded with unique power.
  • In all queues that employ assigned positions, each player is now automatically given the quest associated with their assigned position.
  • In Custom games, players will incur a 15-second timer during which they have to select their position.
  • Tournament games use a special UI to automatically assign role quests.
  • Swiftplay and rotating game modes will not have this feature enabled, and will retain the same jungle and support quest rules as before.
  • Role progress starts tracking at 1:05.
  • Top Lane Quest
  • Criteria: Earn 1200 points.
  • Objectives: Champion takedowns (15 points), minion kills (2 points in top lane, 1 point in any other lane), turret takedowns (50 points in top lane, 25 points in any other lane), turret plates (40 points in top lane, 20 points in any other lane), epic monster takedowns (30 points).
  • Passive: +1 point per 3 seconds, increased to +8 per 5 seconds in and around top lane (Note: roughly, past your outermost living turret in your assigned lane.)
  • Rewards: Gain Unleashed Teleport as a bonus summoner spell, if Teleport was already chosen than gain a shield for 30% maximum health for 30 seconds after teleporting, 600 bonus experience, 12.5% increased experience from all sources, and increased level cap (up to level 20).
  • Jungle Quest
  • Criteria: Earn 35 points.
  • Objectives: Gain 1 point for each treat fed to a jungle pet.
  • Rewards: Upgraded Smite, 10 gold bonus gold and 10 bonus experience from jungle camps, 4% bonus movement speed in the jungle or river, increased to 8% while out of combat.
  • Mid Lane Quest
  • Criteria: Earn 1350 points.
  • Objectives: Champion takedowns (25 points), minion kills (2 points in mid lane, 1 point in any other lane), turret takedowns (50 points in mid lane, 25 points in any other lane), turret plates (40 points in mid lane, 20 points in any other lane), epic monster takedowns (30 points). Champions gain 3% of damage dealt to champions as quest progress.
  • Passive: +1 point per 3 seconds, increased to +8 per 5 seconds in and around the mid lane. Gold and experience from minions reduced by 25% outside of mid lane until level 3.
  • Rewards: Tier 2 Boots automatically upgrade to Tier 3 Boots, and Empowered Recall (5 minute cooldown). Champion takedowns reduce the cooldown on Empowered Recall by 60 seconds.
  • Bot Lane Quest
  • Criteria: Earn 1350 points.
  • Objectives: Champion takedowns (15 points), minion kills (3 points in bot lane, 1.5 points in any other lane), turret takedowns (50 points in bot lane, 25 points in any other lane), turret plates (40 points in bot lane, 20 points in any other lane), epic monster takedowns (30 points).
  • Passive: +1 point per 3 seconds, increased to +8 per 5 seconds in the Bot Lane playspace.
  • Rewards: Gain 300 gold, minion kills grant an extra 2 gold, champion takedowns grant an extra 50 gold, boots moved to 7th slot.
  • Support Quest
  • Criteria: Earn 800 points.
  • Objectives: Earn gold through the support quest of World Atlas and Runic Compass. Gain 1 point per 1 gold earned.
  • Passive: Gold and experience from minion kills and from Support Quest Items is reduced by 25% outside of bot lane until level 3.
  • Reward: Upgraded support item, bonus item slot for Control Ward (store up to 2 wards), Control Ward cost reduced to 40 gold.

Surrender

  • Remake eligibility window changed to 0:55–2:25 from 1:30–3:00.

Patch 25.24

change

Basic attacks

  • Bug Fix: Attack hit VFX and SFX no longer prematurely play when an attack is canceled.
  • Bug Fix: Casting abilities or using item actives with no cast time no longer interrupts attacks.
  • Attack hit VFX and SFX now once again prematurely play when an attack is canceled.

Patch 25.20

change

It's important that players have a fair fight in their early laning phases, both in pro play and everywhere else. Thankfully, our more recent lane swap mitigation tactics have removed 2v1 lanes at the start of game from pro play while generally not intruding on everyone else. In the interest of cultivating exciting and non-deterministic laning phases this Worlds, we're extending lane swap detection for another minute in top lane. As this mechanic only affects support champions venturing to the far side of the map, this won't affect your level 1 Aurelion Sol roams… unless you're playing ASol support.

Lane Swap Detection

  • Top Lane Detection: Until 3:00 → Until 4:00

Patch 25.17

change

Pinging

  • New: Enemy summoner spell uses and ultimate ability casts now have improved information context when pinged.
  • In the simplified view of the updated Death recap, summoner spells and ultimate ability icons can now be pinged to inform the team with a message in chat: " used ".
  • If a player has not participated in combat with the enemy champion who used a summoner spell and/or ultimate ability but had allied sight of its cast, they can now also ping the used summoner spell to inform the team with the same message in chat.
  • In this case the displayed message is different than when pinging the summoner spell without having seen the enemy using it.

Patch 25.12

change

Pings

  • Bug Fix: Honor 5 players no longer sometimes receive debug text in chat in place of the proper message warning them of the ping limit.

Patch 25.11

change

Critical strikes

  • Bug Fix: Certain champions' critical strikes no longer ignore blind.

Nemesis Quests

  • Disabled in order to fix bugs.
  • Nemesis Quests have been re-enabled.

Patch 25.9

buff

Feats of Strength

  • Tier 3 Boots upgrade cost reduced to 500 gold from 750 gold.
  • Only 2 Voidgrub now need to be taken down to earn a point toward Monster Slaying instead of 3 (the entire spawn group).
  • The announcement is deferred until after the camp has fully reset.

Patch 25.7

change

We're further shrinking the lane swap detection area so that it should no longer catch champions who find themselves fighting in the enemy jungle.

Nemesis Quests

  • Bug Fix: Restored buffs/debuffs for Fishing in the Lavender Sea (Bel'Veth vs Jax).

Sudden Death

  • Bug Fix: Some indicators for Sudden Death being active are no longer missing.

LANE SWAP DETECTION

  • Lane Swap Detection in mid lane has been shrunk to no longer overlap with most of the Raptor Pit.

Patch 25.6

change

When we implemented our anti-lane swap changes last patch, we wanted to affect regular play as little as possible while also removing lane swaps from First Stand. We're tuning the system to further reduce the impact on regular play by alleviating the frequency and severity of the lane swap debuff. By shortening the time frame and reducing the overall minion penalty, we hope to have the best of both worlds for pro and regular play alike.

Nemesis Quests

  • Bug Fix: Certain buff tooltips no longer display debug text.

Anti-Lane Swaps

  • Start Time: 1:30 → 1:35
  • End Time in Top Lane: 3:30 → 3:00
  • End Time in Mid Lane: 3:30 → 2:15
  • Minion Gold/XP Penalty: 50% → 25%
  • Alert Improvements:If you're about to trigger lane swaps on your teammate, the warning message is now clearer that you're about to trigger lane swaps but haven't done so yet.

Anti-Lane Swaps - Bounties

  • Gold Lead Detection Time: 14 → 6 minutes (Note: Objective Bounty timing unchanged at 14 minutes.)
  • Bounty Suppression by Lead Severity: 0 / 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100% → 30 / 60 / 90 / 100%

Anti-Lane Swaps - Atakhan

  • Increased Atakhan form thresholds by ~10%

Patch 25.S1.3

buff

Attack speed

  • Default attack speed cap increased to 3.003 from 2.5.

Feats of Strength

  • Bug Fix: In the announcement overlay, the icon for completing Warfare is no longer sometimes missing upon a team earning the third and final kill without enemies progressing any feat.
  • Bug Fix: No longer fails to progress feats and grant the Blessing of Noxus upon completion to players currently inside Realm of Death at the time of progressing.

Patch 25.S1.2

change

Feats of Strength

  • Replaced the First Blood feat with the "Warfare" feat:
  • Warfare – First to three kills.
  • Bug Fix: Completion overlay under the announcement banners no longer sometimes displays icons in lower resolution.
  • Bug Fix: Pinging a feat on the scoreboard now plays the chat message SFX.
  • Bug Fix: No longer displays the own team overlay icons when an enemy team progresses a feat after enemies have won them.

Patch 25.S1.1

change

Feats of Strength

  • A Best-of-Three (first to 2) competition to complete various "Feats". A teams earns 1 point upon:
  • An ally drawing First Blood
  • Scoring the First Turret
  • Taking down the first 3 Epic monsters
  • The winning team is awarded the Blessing of Noxus:
  • Automatically modifies Tier 2 Boots into a Triumphant version, granting them a small stat bonus varying by item.
  • Unlocks paid, Tier 3 upgrades for Boots items. At least 2 Legendary-tier items must be equipped before being able to buy them.
  • The fulfillment of Feats of Strength is indicated below the announcement overlay upon completing one related action.
  • The current status for both teams can also be viewed in the scoreboard.
  • Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly assigns victory to the first team that gains only a single out of the three epic monster objectives, if they had completed one other type of feat beforehand.
  • Bug Fix: No longer sometimes assigns victory to the first team that completes one feat.
  • Undocumented / Bug Fix: No longer grants rewards to the team that lost the Feats of Strength as well, upon them meeting the requirements later in the game.

Patch 14.20

nerf

Targeting Forgiveness

  • Undocumented / New: Certain abilities now have a grace radius where, if no valid target has been directly selected upon their use, the game will automatically search for the nearest one to cast the ability on, within a forgiveness radius.
  • This system is primarily meant for ally-targeted abilities.
  • Unless otherwise stated, the default forgiveness radius of an applicable ability is 175 units.
  • List of new, forgiveness-applicable abilities:
  • Caretaker's Shrine
  • Stand Behind Me
  • Hero's Entrance
  • Eye of the Storm
  • Inspire & Defiance
  • Cozy Campfire (including recast) & Warm Hugs
  • Black Shield
  • Tidecaller's Blessing
  • Command: Protect
  • Battle Dance
  • Stand United (has a reduced forgiveness radius of 100)
  • Astral Infusion
  • Bastion
  • You and Me! (initial cast)
  • Chronoshift
  • Bug Fix: All applicable abilities no longer are able to illegally cast on allied minions when the forgiveness radius is utilized.

Patch 14.16

buff

Crowd Control

  • Bug Fix: Units affected by charm can no longer act for a brief period after its effect ends, when another crowd control effect that may prevent action is active at that moment.

Respawn

  • Champion respawn timer on Summoner's Rift increased to 10/10/12/12/14/16/20/25/28/32.5/35/37.5/40/42.5/45/47.5/50/52.5 seconds from 6/6/8/8/10/12/16/21/26/32.5/35/37.5/40/42.5/45/47.5/50/52.5.

Patch 14.10

change

Clones

  • All champion clones now indicate CLONE in their name.

Patch 14.9

change

Lethality

  • The statistic is now implemented as a proper one (hard-coded) instead of being inherited through a script.

Patch 14.2

buff

Surrender

  • Quickplay surrender time for a 3 out of 5 or 50% votes for surrendering to pass has been increased to 20 minutes from 15.

Patch 14.1

change

Basic attacks

  • Undocumented / Bug: Attack hit VFX and SFX now prematurely play when an attack is canceled.

Lethality

  • Removed: Armor penetration no longer scales by 62.2222 to 100% (based on level) of its value based on your level.
  • Now grants flat armor penetration equal to its value at all levels.

Omnivamp

  • Removed: No longer has healing penalties for Area damage and Pet damage damage, at 33% effectiveness.
  • New Effect: Now heals for a percentage of the full amount of damage dealt.
  • New Effect: Now has a healing penalty for damage dealt to minions and monsters, at 20% effectiveness.

Patch 13.23

change

Pings

  • Any ally scoreboard item, ultimate, or summoner spell cooldown ping is now sent to the team if the item or ability is in the last 50% of its cooldown.

Patch 13.22

change

Pings

  • For 10 seconds after scoring an epic monster takedown, all allied scoreboard pings directed at the player's champion are visible to their team.
  • "Generic", "Alert", and "Enemy Missing" pings may now only be used 3 times within 6 seconds without restriction.
  • Bug Fix: Restriction timer changed to 6/12/16/20/24 seconds from 5/15/30/60/120.

Patch 13.21

nerf

Pings

  • Prefix for party ping changed to "[Party]" from "[Premade]".

Surrender

  • The success threshold for an early AFK surrender has been lowered to 70% from 100%.

Patch 13.20

nerf

Respawn

  • Champion respawn timer reduced to 6/6/8/8/10/12/16/21/26/32.5/35/37.5/40/42.5/45/47.5/50/52.5 seconds from 6/8/10/12/14/16/21/27.5/30/32.5/35/37.5/40/42.5/45/47.5/50/52.5.

Pings

  • Allied scoreboard pings are now sent to your premade party instead of being self only. These are denoted by "[Party]" at the beginning of the message.
  • For 10 seconds after getting a champion takedown, all allied scoreboard pings directed at your champion are visible to the team.
  • The bait ping has been replaced with the enemy vision ping, and the hold ping has been replaced with the need vision ping.
  • The vision cleared ping and the vision ping wheel have been removed.

Patch 13.19

change

Pings

  • New functionality has been developed that allows the adjustment of the recipients of pings.
  • Allied pings are now only displayed to the player that used the ping. Note that self pings, enemy pings, and neutral pings are unaffected by this change.
  • Any allied information on the scoreboard and UI that is pinged only displays that information to the pinger in the chat, being designated as [Self].
  • The following pings are affected:
  • Allied Portrait (Alive and Time until Respawn)
  • Allied Level
  • Allied Ultimate Cooldown
  • Allied Primary and Secondary Rune Trees
  • Allied Summoner Spell 1 and 2
  • Allied Item Slots 1-6
  • Allied Trinket Slot
  • Undocumented: Restriction timer changed to 5/15/30/60/120 seconds from 6/12/16/20/24.

Patch 13.16

nerf

Crowd Control

  • Bug Fix: Ground no longer causes affected champions to become stuck in their walking animation.

Surrender

  • Removed: Name of the player that starts a surrender vote is no longer revealed in the chat.
  • After starting a surrender vote, the player that started the surrender vote will not be able to begin another vote for 6 minutes.
  • Team-wide surrender cooldown unchanged at 3 minutes.
  • The surrender vote will now automatically resolve when a vote can no longer pass and will no longer remain open waiting for players to vote.
  • The surrender box text has been updated to reflect the type of surrender vote being called: Surrender, AFK Surrender, or Remake.

Patch 13.7

buff

Grievous Wounds

  • New Effect: All sources of the effect that are dependent on damage dealt now apply it even if the damage was completely mitigated by a shield.

Patch 13.3

nerf

Attack move

  • Bug Fix: Attack move commands that are issued while root will no longer be invalid, and properly prompt your champion to attack nearby targets now.

Grievous Wounds

  • Removed: Enhanced Grievous Wounds.
  • All sources of the debuff now apply it at 40% effectiveness.

Objective voting

  • Bug Fix: Voting panel now is correctly displayed at all times.

Surrender

  • Removed: Early surrender votes in Normal games must no longer be unanimous.
  • After 15 minutes, a surrender with 4 votes for and 1 against will pass.

Patch 13.1

change

Objective voting

  • Votes can now be cast manually in the HUD.

Pings

  • Bait ping icon updated.

Patch 12.23

nerf

Pings

  • Ping sizes have been slightly reduced.
  • Improved clarity of the Push ping VFX.
  • Polished the ping ripple VFX and visual fidelity of the icons.

Patch 12.22

change

Objective voting

  • A new voting function has been added that will appear when objectives such as Dragon are pinged, similarly to a surrender vote. All players can vote and indicate whether or not they would like to take or contest that objective.
  • Jungler's vote counts as two votes and a total of 4 votes for or against will be considered aligned.

Pings

  • Ping wheel user interface has been updated.
  • New icons and indicators for Caution, Retreat (formerly Danger), On My Way, Assist Me, and Enemy Missing.
  • New pings have been added to the ping wheel, including Push, All-In, Hold, and Bait.
  • Another ping wheel has been added primarily for vision pings, which include Vision Cleared, Enemy Vision, and Need Vision.
  • The Need Vision ping leaves behind a small persistent indicator that lasts for a minute or until a ward is placed nearby. Only one of these indicators may be active at a time, and using this ping again overrides the previous one.
  • A ping not visible on the screen is now notified based on which direction it came from by displaying it on the edge of the screen. Enemy Missing pings will show on your screen regardless of where they are pinged on the map while Retreat, On My Way, Assist Me, Hold, All-In, and Push pings will only be displayed if they are pinged within 3000 units (approximately corner to corner of your screen when fully zoomed out) of your screen’s edge.

Remake

  • Before 3:00, if a player is within the spawn for 90 consecutive seconds, their team is able to initiate a remake.
  • At 45 seconds, this player will receive a message in the chat informing them that they need to leave the spawn. If they still haven't done so after 25 seconds, they will receive a pop-up message with the same reminder.

Surrender

  • Early unanimous surrender vote option is now available if an AFK player is detected between 3:30 and 15:00 rather than from 10:00 to 15:00.

Patch 12.21

change

Clones

  • Bug Fix: Champion clones now correctly receive increased damage from consecutive turret shots.

Remake

  • Remake is now available between 1:30 and 3:00, instead of only being available at 3:00.
  • Window length increased to 90 seconds from 30.
  • Idle length detection reduced to 90 seconds from 180.
  • New: If the remake conditions are met between game start and 3:00, teams will have from 1:30 to 3:00 to start a remake vote by typing "/remake". Players have 30 seconds to type /remake from the conditions being met, so if the conditions are met at 2:59, players have until 3:29 to start a vote.
  • Old: At 3:00, the impacted team has 60 seconds to start a vote by typing "/remake" in chat
  • Remake is now available in ARAM & Rotating Game Modes with the same updated rules.

Patch 12.14

change

Clones

  • Bug Fix: Clones of champions will now properly display borders of Mythic and Masterwork items in their inventory.

Patch 12.13

change

Buffs

  • Bug Fix: Many aura buffs no longer constantly refresh their duration in the HUD.

Patch 12.11

nerf

Grievous Wounds

  • Standard effect reduced to 25% from 30%.
  • Enhanced effect reduced to 40% from 50%.

Patch 12.10

nerf

Grievous Wounds

  • Standard effect reduced to 30% from 40%.
  • Enhanced effect reduced to 50% from 60%.

Recall

  • A new Honor recall VFX is now available in-game and will automatically apply to the following:
  • Players who are Honor Level 5.
  • Players who are Honor Level 3 or above and have been honored by one or more non-premade teammate in their last game.
  • Players who are Honor Level 3 or above and have been honored by two or more premade teammates in their last game.
  • The Challenger recall animation has also been updated.
  • If a player is eligible for both Honor and Challenger recalls, the Challenger recall VFX will take precedence over the Honor recall.

Patch 11.8

change

Omnivamp

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where omnivamp was healing double the intended amount.

Patch 10.23

nerf

Critical Strikes

  • Base critical strike damage reduced to 175% from 200%.

Patch 10.13

change

Crowd Control

  • Bug Fix: Displacement effects like stun, charm, etc. on fear champions will no longer expire along with the fear debuff when it times out.

Patch 10.11

change

Executions

  • Bug Fix: When a player is executed by a neutral damage source (minions, monsters, turrets, etc.), they will no longer get the early game death Homeguards.

Patch 10.6

change

Healing

  • Bug Fix: Omnivamp and spellvamp effects now properly provide healing even if the targets are shielded.

Patch 10.3

change

Energized

  • Bug Fix: Champions' on-hit abilities now properly build up energy stacks from items and runes with Energized.
  • Bug Fix: Champions with double attacks now properly gain the amount of Energized stacks they should be receiving for two attacks.

Patch 10.2

change

Forced crowd control

  • Bug Fix: Champions can no longer ignore any forced movement crowd control effect (i.e. taunt, flee, charm) by using any targetable summoner spells (i.e. Smite, Ignite, Exhaust) on a target that is out of their range.

Patch 9.19

change

Pings

  • Bug Fix: Adjusted the default keybindings for some pings ("This is warded" moved to H, "Hold position" moved to J).

Patch 9.12

change

Surrender

  • Bug Fix: The "End-of-Vote" flash on the Surrender box no longer re-appears when the timer expires for those who have already voted.
  • Bug Fix: The Surrender box can now be properly be moved around.

Patch 9.6

change

Pets

  • Bug Fix: Pets now properly trigger Spellthief's Edge, Frostfang, and Remnant of the Watchers gold generation, Electrocute and Dark Harvest.

Patch 8.21

nerf

Attack speed

  • No longer uses attack delay to determine champions' base attack speed.

Patch 8.17

change

Projectiles

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where ranged attacks and targeted projectiles would have their VFX appear from the champion's last seen location, if they were not currently in vision.

Patch 8.13

nerf

Death Timers

  • Death timer at level 1 to 6 reduced to 6 to 16 (based on level) seconds from 10 to 22.5 (based on level).
  • Death timer at level 7 reduced to 21 seconds from 25.
  • Death timer beyond level 8 unchanged.

Pets

  • Bug Fix: Pet attacks more accurately draw turret aggro.

Patch 8.9

change

Pings

  • Pings' design rework, made smoother.

Patch 8.7

change

Attack Move

  • The 'Attack Move on Cursor' setting now checks a larger area for a valid target before defaulting to attacking the closest unit to your champion.

Patch 7.24

change

Pings

  • Pinging a turret, nexus, or inhibitor now messages its percent health remaining in team chat.

Recall

  • Enabled for testing. This will only be available to Challenger players on live.

Patch 7.23

change

Spell Shields

  • Bug Fix: Re-fixed a series of bugs where some channeled effects were interrupted through spell shields by hard crowd control.

Patch 7.20

change

Spell Shields

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a group of identical bugs where some channeled abilities (ex. Glacial Storm) were being interrupted through spell shields.

Patch 7.19

change

Ping

  • You can now ping everything on the scoreboard.

Patch 7.14

change

Lethality

  • Flat armor penetration changed to scale with your level instead of your target's level.

Patch 7.7

change

Pinging

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a couple of bugs around using Shift + Left click as a ping hotkey
  • Bug Fix: While dead, pinging abilities that are on cooldown no longer tells allies they're ready to cast.

Spell shields

  • Bug Fix: Fixed some weird interactions with spell shields locking some abilities out of use.

Patch 7.6

change

Spell Shields

  • Bug Fix: Fixed some interactions causing abilities to do weird things if cast at the same time a spell shield on the user was popped.

Patch 7.2

change

Lethality

  • New Formula: 1 Lethality = 0.62 to 1 (based on target's level) armor penetration
  • Formula: Armor penetration=Lethalityx(0.6+0.4x(Target's level/18))
  • Old Formula: 1 Lethality = 0.43 to 1 (based on target's level) armor penetration
  • Formula: Armor penetration=Lethalityx(0.4+0.6x(Target's level/18))

Patch 6.9

nerf

Grievous Wounds

  • Now affects all healing instead of only self-healing.

Death Timers

  • Death timers slightly reduced around the 20-35 minute window.

Patch 6.1

change

Tenacity

  • Fixed a bug where disarm weren't being reduced.

Patch 5.23

nerf

Death Timers

  • Time that game time starts influencing death timers reduced to 10 minutes from 35 minutes.
  • Modifier to death timer reduced to 0.5% from 2%. Cap remains at 50%.
  • Maximum modifier is now reached at 60 minutes, changed from at 47.5 minutes.

Patch 5.22

nerf

Grievous Wounds

  • Effect reduced to 40% from 50%.
  • Effect now only affects self-heals.
  • Minions will drop aggro from targets in the jungle or river.
  • Minions will lost interest in targets who enter the jungle or river.
  • Wards will now leave rubble on the ground when they are destroyed or time-out. You can now track your enemy's warding habits. This expire after a seemingly random amount of time between 30 seconds and 5 minutes.

Pathfinding

  • Complete re-write of pathfinding-related code to make the system more predictable and forgiving, helping alleviate a lot of creep blocking pains. This should vastly improve:
  • Collision with overlapping units, if you've ever seen someone get "stunned" by a ward or krugs (effectively granting a ghost-like effect allowing you to get free).
  • How units path through packs of other units, such as a huge minion waves.
  • Relating to the previous, predicting locations where you may soon get stuck and avoiding it (game-of-chicken preventing).

Patch 5.13

change

Skillshots

  • Reference: The overhaul from last patch is now active on all servers.

Patch 5.12

change

Skillshots

  • Complete rewrite of skillshot-related code to make the system vastly more responsive.
  • Fixed a bug where projectiles would occasionally pass through an enemy champion.
  • Projectile skill shot collision now goes by the edge of a unit rather than their center.

Recall

  • If you have the shop open while recalling, it will close when recall is cancelled.
  • Grace period at the end of recall normalized to 0.1 seconds from a random amount between 0 and 0.25 seconds.

Patch 5.11

change

Recall

  • The Shop will now close if recall is interrupted.
  • Recall's "safety buffer" currently varies between 0 and 0.25 seconds. This has been standardized. Unknown to what standard, although the post seems to imply the delay is intended.

Patch 5.10

nerf

Gameplay

  • Super minion magic resistance reduced to -30 from 40.

Patch 5.9

change

Attack Move

  • "Attack Move on Cursor" can now be enabled in the options. This causes attack-move to select the target nearest the cursor if there are multiple enemies in range, rather than the closest enemy. This will still default to closest enemy if there are no enemies near the cursor. — This will be released as enabled by default.

Patch 4.21

buff

Death Timers

  • Minimum death timer increased to 10 seconds from 7.5.
  • Maximum death timer increased to 52.5 seconds from 50.

Patch 4.20

buff

Death Timers

  • Death Timers are now increased by 2% every 30 seconds starting at 35 minutes, rather than 2% every 60 seconds starting at 25 minutes to a cap of 150% at 47:30.

Patch 0.9.25.24

nerf

Recall

  • Now has a buff icon and sound.
  • Fixed a bug which made some icons show up with incorrect colors.
  • Summoning beacon particles at the start of the game.
  • Load time optimizations.
  • Bandwidth optimizations.
  • Crash bug fixes.
  • Fixed a problem with units rotating during attacks at odd times.
  • Fixed a bug with path finding related to pathing through Brush.
  • Multiple clicking for movement fixed (i.e. the system no-longer ignores clicks).
  • Reduced the size League of Legends takes up on disk.
  • Client memory footprint improvements.
  • Corpses no longer grant sight client side (FOW bug).

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Frequently Asked Questions
When was Gameplay & Mechanics last changed in League of Legends?
Gameplay & Mechanics was last adjusted in League of Legends Patch 26.16, released August 11, 2026. That patch changed Role Quests (Support Role Quest); ADC MAGIC RESISTANCE (Affected Champions: Akshan, Aphelios, Ashe, Caitlyn, Corki, Draven, Ezreal, Graves, Jhin, Jinx, Kai'Sa, Kalista, Kindred, Kog'Maw, Lucian, Miss Fortune, Quinn, Samira, Senna, Sivir, Smolder, Twitch, Varus, Vayne, Xayah, Yunara, Zeri).
How many times has Gameplay & Mechanics been buffed or nerfed in LoL?
Gameplay & Mechanics has been changed in 78 League of Legends patches: 9 buffs, 18 nerfs, 51 adjustments.
Is Gameplay & Mechanics getting buffed or nerfed in LoL?
Leaning down - 1 of Gameplay & Mechanics's last 3 changes was a nerf. Gameplay & Mechanics was last adjusted in Patch 26.16.
Was Gameplay & Mechanics changed in LoL Patch 26.16?
Yes - Gameplay & Mechanics was adjusted in Patch 26.16. The full change details are in the patch history on this page.