Turrets & StructuresPatch History

Removed from the game

Bonus Gold for destroying the first Inner Turret Removed

Inhibitor turrets are currently too easy to take down, so we’re increasing their durability to help them withstand heavy sieges

In previous patches, there were some issues with damage from champions to structures. The first was that champions with hybrid damage could not deal damage with part of their Attack Damage or Ability Power to turrets. The second issue was from champions with Ability Power items dealing damage to structures. The amount of damage they could deal, especially in the later stages of the game, was much higher than Attack Damage champs. So, we’ve made adjustments to address these problems.

Nexus shield is performing as we expected, but it's prolonging too many games. So, we’ve adjusted the end time of the Nexus shield mechanic.

In order to prevent back doors or sudden death scenarios from ending the game, we have added a shield to protect the Nexus so that you can join team fights with peace of mind.

We’ve made some adjustments to inhibitors respawning and the countdown visual effects. Inhibitors will now no longer respawn after the 19 minute mark.

To limit turtling tactics in the later stages of the game and keep the overall length of games reasonable, we’re introducing the Base burning System. In the very late stages of the game, turrets will begin to burn, accelerating games to their conclusion.

Previously, any situation in which a champion gets both bonus Attack Damage and Ability Power results in them losing the value of the lower stat when hitting structures. This is because of a specific rule involved in structure damage calculation. We’re changing the way that offensive stats interact with structures so that hybrid builds and situations involving dual stats or bonuses no longer punish you for having both Attack Damage and Ability Power.

This is an invisible mechanic that has been in the game since launch, intended to prevent sudden game ends. We feel this is artificially prolonging games while being difficult to play around due to its low profile. Rather than remove it in one go, we’re reducing its power to better understand its impact in games.

We’ve seen a lot of feedback about turret plating and have heard how much you’ve enjoyed it, but also that you’ve been wanting to have some more time to interact with the plates. We’ve also heard about some of the difficulties around using the first Rift Herald to secure plates due to the tight timings involved. We’re going to be pushing back the time that turret plating falls off, to address both of these concerns at once.

We’ve heard your feedback around wanting more focus on the laning phase and ability to play around individual leads, so we’re bringing in Turret Plates to increase the duration of the laning phase and allow for more opportunities to make skillful plays around a lead in a lane.

We are redistributing turret gold rewards to favor the players actually taking the turret. This should reduce teams snowballing off events they did not participate in.

We’re re-balancing outer tower gold distribution to be focused on local gold rather than global gold. Players should be rewarded more often for outperforming their opponents in lane, not for their teammates’ performance across the map.

In competitive play, we’re seeing a lot of early grouping, making the laning phase almost nonexistent in high-level matches. This is part of our effort to incrementally release systemic changes that maintain the laning phase for competitive games.

Though we think backdooring should be viable in some situations, late game backdooring is becoming too easy. We’re removing the mechanic where the turret defense backdoor bonus lessens in the late game.

Towers now prioritize targeting super minions over siege minions. Gotta take down those supers first.

One feature that isn’t super visible in Wild Rift is the “Domino” effect, which is a structure defensive bonus that kicks in when two turrets in the same lane fall within 45 seconds of each other. The next structure in the same lane takes 66% reduced damage for 30 seconds, indicated by a golden glow. This effect is why the Nexus sometimes feels very tanky. As we’re still in beta, we’re still tuning our game pacing, and in this phase of Closed Beta, we’ll be reducing the effectiveness of the domino bonus.