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League of Legends: Wild RiftAlso in: Dragons in League of Legends

Dragons Current Status

Mixed recently - 2 of Dragons's last 3 changes were nerfs, but the latest change was a buff. Dragons has been changed in 17 Wild Rift patches. 5 buffs, 5 nerfs, 7 adjustments. Most recently buffed in Patch 6.2 ().

Dragons Changes

Patch 6.2

buff

Aspect of the Dragon

  • Total damage increased from 345 to 450.

Dragon pit

  • Elemental Drake
  • Spawn time increased from 05:00 elapse to 06:00.
  • Elder Dragon
  • Spawn time increased from 18:00 elapse to 19:00.

Patch 6.0a

nerf

Aspect of the Dragon's burning damage is too high right now. We nerfed this damage to provide enemies a chance to fight back.

Elder Dragon

  • Burning damage of Aspect of the Dragon: 450 true damage in 3s → 345 true damage in 3s

Patch 5.3a

nerf

We lowered the damage dealt by Hextech Elder Dragon to champions. Now players can focus more on combats with enemies while fighting to slay the dragon. Meanwhile, we boosted the Aspect of the Dragon received by taking down Hextech Elder Dragon, providing higher damage buff in subsequent combat.

Aspect of the Dragon

  • Bounce damage increased from 100 to 200.
  • Bounce damage against single target reduced from 100% to 30%.

Elder Dragon

  • Basic attack
  • Bounce damage against single target reduced from 100% to 80%.
  • Bounce damage reduced from 50% to 30%.

HEXTECH ELDER DRAGON - Hextech Elder Dragon

  • Damage of chain lightning to a single target: 100% → 80%
  • Damage of chain lightning to multiple targets: 50% → 30%

HEXTECH ELDER DRAGON - The Aspect of the Dragon

  • When dealing damage, call down chain lightning on the target. The chain lightning ricochets to nearby enemies, dealing 100 → 200 true damage on each hit. If the chain lightning hits only one target, then deals bonus 100% → 30% true damage (1s cooldown).

Patch 5.3

change

Aspect of the Dragon

  • Reskinned icon to Hextech theme.
  • Removed: No longer burns the target.
  • New effect: Your damaging basic attacks and abilities shoot lightning that chains across up to 3 enemies, dealing 100 true damage per hit. Against only one target, the damage is increased to 200%. (1-second cooldown)

Dragon pit

  • Elder Dragon
  • Reskinned the icon, spawn icon, and health bar for Elder Dragon to Hextech theme.
  • New effect: Elder Dragon's basic attack will shoot lightning that chains across up to 3 enemies, dealing reduced damage based on the number of bounces.

Patch 5.0

buff

Ice Dragon Soul

  • Bonus true damage increased from 12% to 15%.
  • Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12.

Infernal Dragon Soul

  • Base damage increased from 110 to 135.
  • AD ratio increased from 20% bonus AD to 25%.
  • AP ratio increased from 10% AP to 12.5%.

Mountain Dragon Soul

  • Base shield increased from 210 to 260.

Ocean Dragon Soul

  • Base heal increased from 150 to 190.
  • AD ratio increased from 30% bonus AD to 36%.
  • AP ratio increased from 15% AP to 18%.
  • Health ratio increased from 6% bonus health to 7.5%.

Patch 4.4b

buff

Ice Dragon Soul

  • Bonus true damage increased from 10% to 12%.
  • Slow increased from 40% to 50%.

Patch 4.4

buff

Elemental Drake

  • New effect: Grants Aspect of the Dragon buff if it is the third drake slain by the same team.

Dragon Hunter

  • Replaced by Dragon Slayer.

Dragon Slayer

  • Gain a Dragon Slayer stack for every Elemental Drake slain, up to 3. Each type of Drake grants a bonus.

Aspect of the Dragon buff

  • Your next damaging attack or ability against a champion will mark them for 3 seconds. Afterwards, they are slowed briefly and take bonus true damage equal to 10% of the damage taken while marked (15 second cooldown).
  • Your next damaging attack or ability against a champion will create a 250-range explosion upon the target that deals 110 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 10% AP) adaptive damage (5 second cooldown).
  • After 5 seconds without taking damage from champions and turrets, you gain a shield for 210.
  • Your next damaging attack or ability against a champion will heal you for 150 (+ 30% bonus AD) (+ 15% AP) over 4 seconds (6 second cooldown).

DRAGON SOUL REWORK

  • [NEW]: When a team kills three dragons successively, they will gain a bonus Dragon Soul Buff, which grants a new bonus effect.
  • The element of the dragon soul buff is the same as the first dragon that spawns, which is the one that changes the environment of the map.
  • If both teams don’t kill all the three dragons in a game, the Dragon Soul Buff will not be granted to any team.

DRAGON SOUL REWORK - Dragon soul buffs

  • Infernal Dragon Soul buff effect: Gain 3% Attack Damage and Ability Power.
  • Infernal Dragon Soul effect: Cause an explosion (250 radius) at the target's position when dealing damage to enemy champions with your attacks and abilities. Deals adaptive damage (110 + 20% bonus Attack Damage + 10% Ability Power). (5s cooldown)
  • Mountain Dragon Soul buff effect: Gain 3 + 2% armor and magic resistance.
  • Mountain Dragon Soul effect: Gain a 210 omni-attribute shield if you don’t receive damage from champions or turrets for 5s.
  • Ocean Dragon Soul buff effect: Regenerate 2% lost health every 5s.
  • Ocean Dragon Soul effect: When dealing damage to enemy champions with attacks or abilities, you’ll regenerate a certain value of health in 4s (150 + 30% bonus Attack Damage +15% Ability Power +6% bonus health). (6s cooldown)
  • Ice Dragon Soul buff effect: Gain 7 ability haste.
  • Ice Dragon Soul effect: Mark the target for 3s when dealing damage to enemy champions with attacks or abilities. Slows enemy champions when the mark disappears, and deal bonus true damage equal to 10% of the damage the enemy champions received during the marked period.

Patch 4.2

nerf

Once the laning phase ends there is usually a lull in the game, where you don’t have an objective to take down. So we’re making some adjustments to Elemental Dragons, Elder Dragon and some other systems so that the pace of the game will feel more frenetic and progressing into the mid-game will feel smoother.

Dragon pit

  • Drake respawn time reduced from 5:00 to 4:30.
  • Drake despawn time reduced from 19:00 elapse to 17:30. In-combat despawn time at 17:50.
  • Elder Dragon spawn time reduced from 20:00 elapse to 18:00
  • Elemental Drake
  • Base health reduced from 5000 to 4000.
  • Health growth increased from 150 to 180.
  • Kill team gold reduced from 60 gold to 40 gold.
  • Ice Drake - New Drake
  • When the map transforms into the Ice Rift, it summons ice paths along walls in the jungle. Ice paths grant movement speed over them. Blast Cone will transform into Cryoblossoms. Hitting a Cryoblossom will a fire an ice bolt that will inflict brief stasis to the first enemy hit.

Dragon Hunter

  • Ice Drake - New stacking buff
  • +7/17.5/28 (based on stacks) ability haste.

ELEMENTAL DRAGONS AND ELDER DRAGON

  • Elemental drake respawn interval: 5 min → 4m 30s
  • Elder Dragon spawn time: 20m → 18m
  • Elemental Dragon despawn time: 19m → 17m 30s (if in combat at 17m 30s, the despawn time will be delayed and disappear at 17m 50s)
  • Elemental Dragon health
  • Base health: 5000 → 4000
  • Health per level: 150 → 180
  • Elemental Dragon defeat reward: 60 team gold + 40 kill gold → 40 team gold + 40 kill gold

Patch 3.3b

nerf

Dragon Slayer

  • Bonus resistances reduced from 6+3%/12+6%/18+9% (based on stacks) to 3+2%/6+4%/12+8% (based on stacks).
  • Bonus AD/AP reduced from 4/8/12% (based on stacks) to 3/6/12% (based on stacks).
  • Health regeneration reduced from 3/6/9% (based on stacks) to 2/4/8% (based on stacks).

Elder Immolation

  • Damage per tick increased from 60 to 100.

Patch 3.3

change

Elemental Rift

  • Elemental Rift will change the map after the first dragon slain.
  • If no Elemental Dragon was slain, then the terrain changes when the elemental dragon despawns.
  • Infernal: Burns away brush and collapses walls.
  • Mountain: Causes walls and terrain to rise out of the earth.
  • Ocean: Brush and Honeyfruit grow as the river floods.
  • New: Added Elder Dragon, which replaces the Elemental Elder Dragons. This monster will grant Elder Immolation when slain.

Dragon Buffs

  • Dragon Slayer buff effects will grow more potent based on the number of dragons your team has slain.
  • Infernal Dragon: 4/8/12% Attack Damage and Ability Power
  • Mountain Dragon: 6+3%/12+6%/18+9% Armor & Magic Resist
  • Ocean Dragon: 3/6/9% missing Health Regeneration
  • Elder Immolation lasts for 120 seconds or until champion death.
  • Damaging an enemy causes them to burn for 60 true damage per second for 3 seconds.
  • Dealing damage with champion abilities, basic attacks, or Elder Immolation to an enemy below 15% health will execute them.

Dragon Spawns

  • First dragon spawn: 5:00 elapse.
  • Dragon respawn: 5:00.
  • Spawning non-repeating random Elemental Dragons.
  • Elemental dragon despawn: 19:00 elapse.
  • If the Elemental Dragon is in combat, it won't despawn until 19:30 elapse.
  • Elder Dragon spawn: 20:00 elapse.
  • Elder Dragon respawn: 5:00.
  • Elemental Rift will be enabled in Ranked and Normal modes on July 16 (00:01 UTC).

Patch 3.2a

change

Elemental Rift

  • Slaying Dragons will now grant you points towards getting Dragon Soul.
  • The first team to reach 3 points will obtain Dragon Soul.
  • The first two Dragons will be worth 1 point each.
  • After the first two Dragons are slain, the following Dragons that spawn will be worth 2 points, instead of 1.
  • The terrain will now change after the second Dragon is slain.
  • Elder Dragon will spawn after a team has claimed the Dragon Soul and respawn every 5 minutes.
  • Elemental Rift will be available to play May 26 (00:01 UTC).

Patch 3.2

buff

Elemental Rift

  • We're letting the Elemental Dragons fly into a limited game mode once again.
  • Rather than obtaining Dragon Soul, each Elemental Dragons' elemental effect will stack, which can put you head and smolders above your opponents. Once you slay your second Dragon, each following Dragon kill will increase the power of the Dragon buffs.
  • The terrain will change after the first Dragon is slain.
  • Individual Elemental Dragons will still grant their elemental effect.
  • Instead of Dragon Soul, after your team slays its second Dragon, the elemental effects can stack. This will increase the power of each individual dragon buff.
  • Infernal Dragon: Grants 4/6/8% adaptive attack damage or ability power.
  • Ocean Dragon: Restores 3/4.5/6% missing health every 5 seconds.
  • Mountain Dragon: Grants 6/9/12% armor and magic resistance.
  • Elder Dragon will spawn at 20 minutes with a 4 minute respawn timer.
  • The Elemental Rift game mode will be available to play May 17, 2022 (00:01 UTC).

Dragon

  • Spawn timer increased from 4:00 elapse to 5:00.

Patch 3.1b

change

Elemental Rift

  • Elemental Rift will be returning this patch in a limited game mode.
  • This version won't be dragn-drop from our first test, but it will look pretty similar, just with a few adjustments:
  • After the first Dragon is slain, the terrain will change. This should give you and your teammates unique gameplay opportunities earlier on.
  • The team who slays two Dragons, will be granted one of the powerful souls.
  • Elemental Rift will be available to play from April 29, 2022 (00:01 UTC) to May 5, 2022 (00:01 UTC).

Patch 3.1a

change

Elemental Rift

  • Elemental Rift will be available to play until April 10, 2022 (4:59 PM PT).

Patch 3.1

change

Elemental Rift

  • Wild Rift is going Elemental. You'll be able to test and play our first version of Elemental Rift in this limited game mode.
  • There will be three Dragons: Mountain, Infernal, and Ocean, which will change the terrain of the map and grant powerful buffs. You may notice one element is missing, Cloud Dragon. During our playtests, Cloud Dragon offered hidden power that made it less enticing for teams to play around and we wanted to give the other elements room to shine.
  • This is just our first version of Elemental Rift and what you play in this game mode might be very different from what comes in Patch 3.2 and we look forward to hearing your feedback.
  • On the death of the second dragon, the map will change and open new and unique gameplay opportunities for your team:
  • Mountain Rift: Forges new terrain in the jungle, along with a defensive wall in front of the Dragon pit.
  • Infernal Rift: Burns away brush and opens new pathways to red and blue buff.
  • Ocean Rift: Spawns more brushes across the map along with some extra Honeyfruit.
  • Slaying each Dragon grants your team some bonuses, but once you slay three Dragons, you get a powerful soul:
  • Mountain Dragon: Increases armor and magic resistance.
  • Mountain Soul: Grants a shield after not taking damage for a short while.
  • Infernal Dragon: Grants bonus attack damage and ability power.
  • Infernal Soul: Creates explosions around your abilities and attacks, dealing bonus adaptive damage in a circle around your target.
  • Ocean Dragon: Restores health over time.
  • Ocean Soul: Restores more health when dealing damage to enemies.
  • Lastly we've revamped the powerful Elder Dragon, making it closer to League PC's Elder Dragon. Once Dragon Soul has been taken by a team, Elder Dragon will be up for grabs.
  • It will offer its game-ending true damage effect and execute enemies when they drop to low health.
  • The Elemental Rift game mode will be available to play from March 31, 2022 (05:00 PM PT) until April 10, 2022 (04:59 PM PT). Content availability varies by region.

Dragon Slayer

  • Cloud Dragon
  • Bonus movement speed reduced from 6% to 5%.
  • Infernal Dragon
  • Bonus damage dealt reduced from 6% to 5%.
  • Mountain Dragon
  • Shield reduced from 6% maximum health to 5%.
  • Ocean Dragon
  • Physical and magic vamp reduced from 8% to 7%.
  • Elder Dragon
  • Elder Cloud
  • Bonus movement speed increased from 9% to 10%.
  • Bonus movement speed per stack reduced from 3% to 2.5%.
  • Elder Infernal
  • Bonus damage dealt increased from 9% to 10%.
  • Bonus damage dealt per stack reduced from 3% to 2.5%.
  • Elder Mountain
  • Shield increased from 9% maximum health to 10%.
  • Shield per stack reduced from 3% maximum health to 2.5%.
  • Elder Ocean
  • Physical and magic vamp increased from 12% to 14%.
  • Physical and magic vamp per stack reduced from 4% to 3.5%.

Patch 2.2b

nerf

Infernal and Cloud Dragon are running a little hotter (and… windier) than Mountain and Ocean. We’re lightly nerfing them to close the gap. These adjustments should make them still worth taking, but less game-deciding.

Dragon Slayer

  • Infernal Dragon bonus damage reduced from 8% to 6%.
  • Elder Infernal Dragon bonus damage reduced from 12% to 9%.
  • Elder Infernal Dragon bonus damage per stack reduced from 4% to 3%.
  • Cloud Dragon bonus movement speed reduced from 7.5% to 6%.
  • Elder Cloud Dragon bonus movement speed reduced from 11.25% to 9%.
  • Elder Cloud Dragon bonus movement speed per stack reduced from 3.75% to 3%.

Infernal Dragon

  • Damage bonus: 8% → 6%

Elder Infernal Dragon

  • Damage bonus: 12% → 9%
  • Damage bonus per stack: 4% → 3%

Cloud Dragon

  • Movement speed bonus: 7.5% → 6%

Elder Cloud Dragon

  • Movement speed bonus: 11.25% → 9%
  • Movement speed bonus per stack: 3.75% → 3%

Patch 1.1

change

Dragon

  • Base burn damage over 3 seconds reduced to 45 from 50.
  • New effect: The burn damage now scales depending on how many dragons your team has already slain (45/60/75/90 base damage for 1/2/3/4 dragons slain).

Elemental Elder Dragon

  • New effect: The elemental effect gets increased by 50% per dragon your team has already slain.

More Wild Rift System Changes

Dragons Wild Rift FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions
When was Dragons last changed in Wild Rift?
Dragons was last buffed in Wild Rift Patch 6.2, released July 16, 2025. That patch changed Aspect of the Dragon (Total damage increased from 345 to 450); Dragon pit (Elemental Drake).
How many times has Dragons been buffed or nerfed in Wild Rift?
Dragons has been changed in 17 Wild Rift patches: 5 buffs, 5 nerfs, 7 adjustments.
Is Dragons getting buffed or nerfed in Wild Rift?
Mixed recently - 2 of Dragons's last 3 changes were nerfs, but the latest change was a buff. Dragons was last buffed in Patch 6.2.
Was Dragons changed in Wild Rift Patch 7.2c?
No - Dragons was not changed in Patch 7.2c. Its most recent change was in Patch 6.2.