Thresh, the Chain Warden

• Thresh is still undergoing PBE testing, and will be released at a later date. Stay tuned for more information on the Chain Warden!

Alistar

• Base movement speed increased to 330 from 325

• Headbutt
  • Range increased to 650 from 600

Amumu

• Cursed Touch
  • Magic resist reduction reduced at later levels to 15/20/25 from 15/25/35

Annie

• Disintegrate
  • Mana cost reduced to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60/70/80/90/100

• Incinerate
  • Targeting cone is now attached to Annie

• Molten Shield
  • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 16
  • Duration reduced to 5 seconds from 8

Blitzcrank

• Mana Barrier
  • Cooldown increased to 90 seconds from 60

• Rocket Grab
  • Will now give vision when it hits a target

Cho'Gath

• Feral Scream
  • Targeting cone is now attached to Cho'Gath

Corki

• Gatling Gun
  • Mana cost reduced to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60/70/80/90/100

Diana

• Pale Cascade
  • Orb detonation has been adjusted to better match Diana’s basic attack range
  • Shield duration increased to 5 seconds from 4

• Lunar Rush
  • Cast range increased to 825 from 750

Evelynn

• Hate Spike
  • Mana cost increased to 16/22/28/34/40 from 14/18/22/26/30
  • Bonus attack damage ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4

• Ravage
  • Damage reduced at later ranks to 35/55/75/95/115 from 35/60/85/110/135
  • Bonus attack damage ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4

• Agony's Embrace
  • Damage changed to 15/20/25% of the target's current health from 15/20/25% of their max health
  • Cooldown increased to 150/120/90 seconds from 120/90/60
  • Cast range reduced to 650 from 800

Ezreal

• Base attack speed reduced to 0.625 from 0.665

Kassadin

• Force Pulse
  • Fixed an issue where Force Pulse would sometimes fire backward after using Rift Walk.

Katarina

• Base movement speed reduced to 345 from 350

• Sinister Steel
  • Movement speed adjusted to 15/20/25/30/35% from 12/20/28/36/44%

Kennen

• Basic attack has been retuned so it’s more responsive

Kha'Zix

• Unseen Threat
  • Damage reduced at later levels to 15-190 from 15-220
  • Slow reduced to 25% from 35%

• Taste Their Fear
  • Bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 1.5 from 1.6
  • Isolation bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 2.0 from 2.4

Lee Sin

• Safeguard
  • Fixed a bug where the tooltip incorrectly stated that Lee Sin regained energy when the shield was broken

• Iron Will
  • No longer grants armor while active
  • Life steal and spell vamp increased to 5/10/15/20/25% from 5/9/13/17/21%

• Cripple
  • Slow amount reduced at earlier ranks to 20/30/40/50/60% from 30/37.5/45/52.5/60%
  • Range reduced to 600 from 800

Mordekaiser

• Siphon of Destruction
  • Targeting cone is now attached to Mordekaiser

Nami

• Base movement speed increased to 335 from 330

• Aqua Prison
  • Cooldown reduced to 14/13/12/11/10 seconds from 16/14.5/13/11.5/10

• Tidal Wave
  • Missile speed increased to 850 from 750

Rengar

• Bonetooth Necklace
  • Now grants +5 Attack Damage

• Unseen Predator
  • Fixed a bug where Rengar could leap while rooted

• Savagery
  • Attack speed duration increased to 4 seconds from 3
  • Fixed a bug where Savagery could be used three times consecutively

• Battle Roar
  • Empowered Battle Roar now heals for 60-400 (based on champion level) instead of 10% of Rengar’s health

• Thrill of the Hunt
  • Initial delay reduced to 1 second from 1.25 (still can be delayed up to 3 seconds)
  • Stealth duration increased to 7 seconds from 5

Riven

• Base health regen reduced to 6 from 10.4
• Health regen per level reduced to 0.5 from 0.9

• Valor
  • Shield amount increased to 70/100/130/160/190 from 60/90/120/150/180

• Blade of the Exile
  • Cooldown increased to 110/80/50 seconds from 75/60/45
  • Targeting cone is now attached to Riven

Shaco

• Hallucinate
  • Controlling the clone no longer reveals Shaco in brush
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Shaco from casting Hallucinate for the rest of the game in certain circumstances

Syndra

• Transcendent
  • Now increases range on Unleashed Power by 75 at max rank

• Scatter the Weak
  • Cooldown reduced at later ranks to 18/16.5/15/13.5/12 seconds from 18/17/16/15/14

Talon

• Noxian Diplomacy
  • Bleed damage reduced to 10/20/30/40/50 from 18/36/54/72/90
  • Bleed bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 1 from 1.2

• Cutthroat
  • Fixed a bug where the damage amplification did not actually apply
  • Fixed an bug that sometimes caused Talon’s Rake to fire backwards after using Cutthroat.

• Shadow Assault
  • Damage reduced at later ranks to 120/170/220 from 120/190/260
  • Bonus attack damage ratio reduced to 0.75 from 0.9

Udyr

• Monkey's Agility
  • Now additionally increases Udyr's armor and magic resist by 4% per stack

Vi

• Vault Breaker
  • Fixed a bug where Vault Breaker would sometimes not refund mana or cooldown when interrupted
  • Fixed a bug where interrupting Vault Breaker would sometimes render Vi unable to cast spells
  • Fixed a bug where Vault Breaker's stun duration was sometimes shorter than intended
  • Fixed a bug where Vi would sometimes stop attacking after hitting a champion with Vault Breaker

• Excessive Force
  • Increased the responsiveness of Vi's attacks after using Excessive Force

• Assault and Battery
  • Fixed a bug where targets could cast spells after being knocked into the air
  • Fixed a bug where characters with stealth could cause Assault and Battery to miss
  • Fixed a bug where damage was not applied to targets immune to disable effects

Ziggs

• Short Fuse
  • The cooldown indicator now more accurately shows when Short Fuse is available.

Summoner's Rift

• Jungle
  • Wraith
    • Base gold increased to 30 from 25
    • Base health increased to 1000 from 750
  • Lesser Wraith
    • Base health reduced to 150 from 250
  • Giant Wolf
    • Base gold increased to 55 from 40
    • Base health increased to 1100 from 900
  • Wolf
    • Base health reduced to 200 from 300
  • Golem
    • Base gold increased to 55 from 45
    • Base health increased to 1200 from 1000
  • Small Golem
    • Base health reduced to 300 from 500

Items

• Item tooltips have been revised to improve consistency

• Manamune
  • Attack damage increased to 20 from 10

• Archangel's Staff
  • Ability power increased to 60 from 50
  • Mana charge amount increased to 6 from 5

• Crystalline Flask
  • Cost increased to 345 from 225
  • Now restores 120 health and 60 mana over 12 seconds from 100 health and 40 mana over 10 seconds per charge

• Mikael's Crucible
  • Can no longer target allied minions

• Last Whisper
  • Combine cost increased to 1025 from 860 (total cost is now 2300 from 2135)

• Hextech Gunblade
  • Spell vamp is now UNIQUE

• Iceborne Gauntlet
  • Duration of slow field reduced to 2 seconds from 3
  • Slow percentage reduced to 30% from 35%
  • Slowing field now displays team color rings

• Philosopher's Stone
  • Now correctly grants 5 gold per 10 seconds (was 4 gold per 10 seconds)

• Enchantment: Homeguard
  • Homeguard now works immediately after purchasing the enchant

• Spirit of the Elder Lizard
  • Now grants +10% cooldown reduction

• Spirit of the Spectral Wraith
  • Ability power increased to 50 from 40
  • Cooldown reduction is no longer UNIQUE

• Sanguine Blade
  • Combine cost reduced to 500 gold from 800
  • Attack damage increased to 65 from 60
  • Attack damage per stack increased to 6 from 5
  • Max stacks reduced to 5 from 7

• Blackfire Torch
  • New recipe: Kage's Lucky Pick + Fiendish Codex + Haunting Guise
  • Total gold cost: 3950 (combine cost: 700)
  • Ability power increased to 80 from 70
  • Cooldown reduction increased to 20% from 10%
  • Now grants 10 mana regeneration per 5 seconds

• Will of the Ancients
  • New recipe: Kage's Pick + Hextech Revolver
  • Total gold cost is now 2550 (combine cost: 585)

• Twin Shadows
  • Ability power reduced to 40 from 50
  • Magic resist increased to 40 from 30
  • Movement speed increased to 6% from 5%

• Banner of Command
  • Ability power reduced to 40 from 50
  • Now grants 10% cooldown reduction

• Banshee's Veil
  • Combine cost increased to 600 from 490 (total cost is now 2610 from 2500)
  • Health increased to 400 from 300

• Ninja Tabi
  • Once again reduces 10% damage from all basic attacks, rather than only champion basic attacks

• Liandry's Torment
  • Health increased to 300 from 200
  • Ability power reduced to 60 from 70

• Wooglet's Witchcap
  • New recipe: Blasting Wand + Blasting Wand + Chain Vest
  • Total gold cost: 3500 (combine cost: 1060)
  • Armor reduced to 40 from 50

• Hextech Sweeper
  • New UNIQUE passive - Trap Detection: Nearby stealthed enemy traps are revealed

• Grez's Spectral Lantern
  • Attack damage reduced to 20 from 25

• Lightbringer - Remade!
  • New recipe: Grez's Spectral Lantern + Pickaxe
  • Total gold cost: 2425 (combine cost: 300)
  • +50 attack damage
  • +20 armor
  • +12% life steal
  • UNIQUE passive - Vanquish: Basic attacks have a 20% chance to deal 100 bonus magic damage (doubled for non-champions)
  • UNIQUE passive - Trap Detection: Nearby stealthed enemy traps are revealed
  • UNIQUE active: Cover s a target area in a stealth-detecting mist that grants vision for 10 seconds (60 second cooldown)

Masteries

• Pickpocket
  • Now displays a buff timer after attacking to show the time before gold can be earned again

Twisted Treeline

• Speed Shrine removed! There’s now a Ghost Relic in its place.
  • The Ghost Relic replenishes 94-315 health and a small amount of your ability resource. It also grants a brief speed boost.
  • The Ghost Relic spawns at 1:55 and respawns every 90 seconds.

• New items now available
  • Lightbringer
  • Runic Bulwark
  • Ohmwrecker

Proving Grounds

• New items now available
  • Blade of the Ruined King

Co-op vs. AI

• Bots are now more likely to use activatable items.
• Added Darius Bot to Co-op vs. AI on all maps.
• Fixed a bug where Shen Bot wasn't casting Stand United.
• Co-op vs. AI will now properly display as a co-op vs. AI match instead of a 5v5 pvp match.

Spectator

• Gold totals with more than three digits will now include punctuation for easier readability
• Directed camera positioning will now take the health bars for Baron and Vilemaw into account
• Fixed a bug that could cause directed camera to focus on recalling champions even with no enemies nearby
• Added spectator chat callouts for powerful items such as Athene's Unholy Grail and Blade of the Ruined King

Ranked

• Added a new provisional medal for players and teams that are in their placement matches
  • All players and teams have been temporarily set to this medal in preparation for Season 3

UI

• Improvements to the item shop
  • Holding the CTRL key while clicking on categories in the All Items tab will now select multiple categories, similar to using the check boxes
  • Fixed a bug where the item shop could show you as owning more of an item than you actually have
  • Fixed a bug where items in the recommended item pane would light up even if you couldn't afford the item
  • Fixed a bug where items that could not be sold were showing a sell value
  • Improved the responsiveness of double clicking to purchase items
  • Improved the performance of the item shop during various item updates (opening the item shop, searching, purchasing and selling)

• Adjusted the graphics for the borders on vote tallies in the surrender display

General

• Turrets
  • Now prioritize minions in the following order:
    • Player-owned minions (ex: Tibbers, Zyra Plants)
    • Super Minions, Cannon Minions
    • Melee Minions
    • Caster Minions

• Added keybindings for Self Casting Items
• Fixed keybinding for Show/Hide HUD
• Changed the "Ended Killing Spree" chat messages to better indicate that the number shown is the total gold received for the kill
• Fixed a bug where players couldn’t send chat messages at end of game
• Fixed a bug where champions affected by near-sightedness (Graves's Smokescreen, Nocturne's ultimate) could attack their team mates
  

• The Minimap has been improved:
  • Wards now show special icons on the minimap
  • Players are outlined in blue while recalling
  • Players are outlined in orange while using teleport

• Teleport is now colored based on enemy/ally team
• Fixed an issue that was causing player health bars and ultimate indicators in the team UI to update too slowly
• Fixed an issue where purchasing a legendary item (ex: Runic Bulwark, Blade of the Ruined King) would consume all components of a lower tier instead of just those necessary for the recipe
• Fixed a rare issue where certain spells (ex: Ezreal’s Mystic Shot) could land an unintentional critical hit
• Hovering over your attack damage stat will display your champion's auto attack range
• You may now unlock the game camera while holding down your mouse button on the minimap
• Pinging a tower in the basic tutorial will no longer display an unlocalized string
• The camera snap that occurs when you respawn can be disabled by setting "DisableCameraSnapOnRespawn=1" in the [General] section of Game.cfg
• You now have a few extra seconds to finish a kill streak if the target is the last member of the team alive
• Muting a player will now mute that player's emote sounds
• Added teammate chat callouts for new items such as Sightstone, Mikael's Crucible and Ohmwrecker
• Fixed a bug preventing buff durations from drawing on the target frame

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