The Essence Emporium is back and will run from May 13 to June 10! Along with chromas and other special Emporium content, we’re adding a brand new title—”Big Serious Gamer”—for those that have mountains of BE piled up.

Ambessa

After getting to see the impact of last patch’s ultimate nerfs, they’ve been very effective at increasing counterplay at high skill levels. However, we still see an opportunity to shift some power from jungle into top while promoting a bruiser playstyle. As a result, we’re giving her some better early power, while keeping her jungle clear and general lategame potential the same.

Q - Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam

• Target Max Health Damage: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6% ⇒ 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6%
• Bonus Monster Damage: 125 ⇒ 75

R - Public Execution

• Healing Percentage: 10 / 12.5 / 15% ⇒ 15 / 17.5 / 20%
• Healing Effectiveness vs Monsters: 40%⇒ 25%

Build pickrate increases Increase >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	7.09%	28.51% 21.42%
	5.59%	21.36% 15.77%

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Anivia

The Ice Birb has been strong for quite some time, icing out opponents in top, mid, and support without much build or playstyle differentiation, which is why we’re opting for base stat adjustments. While the change will impact her across roles, we’re targeting her durability to allow for more all-in windows to crack the egg in top lane in particular.

Base Stats

• Base Armor: 21 ⇒ 19
• Armor Growth: 4.5 ⇒ 4.1

Ashe

As one of our premier utility ADCs, Ashe is pumping out a bit too much damage. We’re giving her a minor nerf to her Q damage so she can’t have the best of both worlds.

Q - Ranger's Focus

• Total Damage: 110 / 117.5 / 125 / 132.5 / 140% AD ⇒ 110 / 115 / 120 / 125 / 130% AD

Galio

Our favorite Demacian colossus has been quite sad between the removal of Phase Rush and the mid role quest adjustments. We’re flipping the script and helping him deliver justice by reducing some of his mana costs and tuning up the reward for a well-aimed Justice Punch. His ultimate is also lacking a bit of oomph in the damage department with how epic it is, so we’re helping it scale with his signature stat!

Q - Winds of War

• Mana Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 ⇒ 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

E - Justice Punch

• Total Damage: 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 (+90% AP) ⇒ 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 / 240 (+100% AP)

R - Hero’s Entrance

• ** NEW ** Total Damage: Now scales with 100% bonus magic resistance

Lee Sin

Over time, Lee Sin has watched as other champs surpass him in both flair and mobility. We are looking to give him more opportunities to use the tools that allow him to fly around the map while making sure his high moments truly feel like such at all moments in the game.

W - Safeguard

• Shield: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+80% AP) ⇒ 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 (+ 80% AP)
• Flat Cooldown: 12s when used on non-champions and 6 when used on champions ⇒ 7s at all points
• ** NEW ** Shield on non-champions: Lee Sin gets his shield when jumping to a minion or ward

E - Tempest

• Magic Damage : 35 / 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 (100% AD) ⇒ 35 / 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 (90% AD)

R - Dragon’s Rage

• ** NEW ** Unconditional Collateral: A champion’s body will continue to fly, knock up, and do damage even if killed mid-flight

Naafiri

Naafiri has been top dog for a while now in both mid and jungle. We are looking to tame some of her power by reducing her damage output a bit.

Q - Darkin Daggers

• Minimum Bonus Physical Damage: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 (+ 40% bonus AD) -⇒ 30 / 42.5 / 55 / 67.5 / 80 (+ 40% bonus AD)
• Maximum Bonus Physical Damage: 60 / 90 / 120 / 450 / 180 (+ 140% bonus AD) ⇒ 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+ 140% bonus AD)

R - Hounds’ Pursuit

• Physical Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (120% bonus AD ) + 15 / 25 / 35 (+12% bonus AD) per packmate ⇒ 150 / 225 / 300 (120% bonus AD) + 15 / 22.5 / 30 ( +12% bonus AD) per packmate

Quinn

Quinn has been struggling in the top lane environment due to a number of system changes across 2026. We’re looking to let her impact the map with her unique ultimate as a laner by reducing her high mana barrier and also want to open the door (bush?) to the jungle. We’re excited to see if she can thrive as a natural predator in the jungle, and see if she and Valor can prey on the latest new jungler we introduced, Fizz (birds like fish)!

P - Harrier

• ** NEW ** Bonus Monster Damage: 50

Q - Blinding Assault

• ** NEW ** Bonus Monster Damage : Now deals 50% increased damage to monsters

R - Behind Enemy Lines

• Mana Cost : 100 / 50 / 0 ⇒ 50 / 25 / 0

Build pickrate increases Increase >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	9.31%	15.71% 6.4%

View all Quinn builds

Shyvana

With the introduction of the most recent Shyvana changes, players have been finding success building more health and ability haste. As such, we’re looking to bring a bit of her innate defensive capabilities down to make taking down this dragon a bit more reasonable.

Base Stats

• Health per level : 100 ⇒ 95

W - Inferno Aegis

• Cooldown: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 ⇒ 13 / 12.25 / 11.5 / 10.75 / 10
• Shield: 75 / 95 / 115 / 135 / 155 (+12% bonus health) ⇒ 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 (+12% bonus health)

Build pickrate increases Increase >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	8.90%	50.47% 41.57%
	8.73%	26.14% 17.41%

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Smolder

Smolder's early game has been bolstered significantly after gaining access to Deathfire Touch. While we’re nerfing DFT, we still expect it to be his best keystone, so we’re also tapping him down to compensate.

Q - Super Scorcher Breath

• Damage: 65 / 80 / 95 / 110 / 125 (+130% bonus AD) ⇒ 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120 (+130% bonus AD)

W - Achooo!

• Explosion Physical Damage: 10 - 110 (+65% bonus AD) (+80% AP) ⇒ 10 - 110 (+50% bonus AD) (+80% AP)

Build pickrate increases Increase >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	18.99%	94.58% 75.6%
	18.57%	64.29% 45.72%
	5.08%	8.39% 3.3%
	5.08%	8.51% 3.43%

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Wukong

Across roles, Wukong has been struggling to find success as of late. We’re looking to help him turn things around by empowering his trickster playstyle to reward clever and creative uses of his clones.

W - Warrior Trickster

• Clone Damage: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% ⇒ 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60%
• Clone Duration : 3.25 ⇒ 4

E - Nimbus Strike

• Bonus Attack Speed: 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% ⇒ 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60%

Build pickrate increases Increase >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	6.27%	39.91% 33.64%

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Zed

Zed has soared in power along with huge spikes in pickrate with Season 2’s changes, and we think he’s still going to be extremely solid despite systemic nerfs. We’d like to preserve his identity as a strong laner, but hit some of his most guaranteed damage.

P - Contempt for the Weak

• Max Health Damage: 6 / 8 / 10% ⇒ 5 / 7.5 / 10%

E - Shadow Slash

• Damage: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+80% bonus AD) ⇒ 70 / 92.5 / 115 / 137.5 / 160 (+70% bonus AD)

Build pickrate increases Increase >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	11.63%	51.83% 40.2%

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Zeri

Zeri’s new direction and feel have seemed really promising across tiers, but with her winrate being lower as players take time to adjust their playstyle and itemization (looking at you Stormrazor, not looking at you Shiv!). We want to make Zeri speed gaming more accessible!

Q - Burst Fire

• Base Damage: 21 / 24 / 27 / 30 / 33 ⇒ 22 / 26 / 30 / 34 / 38
• Excess attack speed conversion to AD : 50% ⇒ 60%

R - Lightning Crash

• [BUGFIX] Overcharged duration: Attacks during R currently extend the R duration by 1.5s. Changing that to 2.5s to match the new Hypercharged MS stack duration.

Having just been introduced last patch, we’re starting to see Doran’s Bow being picked up by a few champions, but the risk of taking a starting item with no health was a bit too great even considering the damage upside. We’re looking to make it a bit more compelling to take that risk.

• Attack Damage: 6 ⇒ 8

Doran’s Helm is meant to be an exciting item to hold onto after the early game with the resistances it offers scaling better than Doran’s Shield’s health regeneration. However, it is currently a bit too difficult to make it out of the early game. We are looking to lighten the early game load so that players can get to the mid game high points.

• Health : 110 ⇒ 140

The new omnivamp boots line is successfully filling a gap in boot itemization we intended, filling in nicely as a defensive-offensive hybrid item for many of our high damage champs across roles. We’re now seeing them being taken at a bit too high of a rate and are looking to bring them back in line with other options.

• Total Cost: 950g ⇒ 1000g
• Slay - Omnivamp Per Stack: 1% per takedown, up to 6 stacks max ⇒ .6% per takedown, up to 10 stacks max

Lich Bane

Last patch, we made adjustments to further differentiate our two AP Sheen items. For Lich Bane, rather than proccing Spellblade through getting in their face (like what Dusk and Dawn builds provide), we’re tuning up Lich Bane’s Movespeed to help you get into position for a better scaling proc.

• AP ratio : 40% AP ⇒ 45% AP
• Movespeed : 4% ⇒ 6%

Voltaic Cyclosword

Following its adjustments and the removal of Opportunity, we expected Voltaic Cyclosword to see more play. We’re happy to see it making an impact on the meta, but are lowering its power slightly by increasing its price tag.

• Total Cost: 2900g ⇒ 3000g

Build pickrate changes Change >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	9.97%	19.09% 9.13%

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Deathfire Touch

Even after the hotfix nerf, Deathfire Touch is burning a bit too strongly in early laning trades. We’re shaving off just a bit of damage at lower levels to make it less oppressive.

• Damage Per Second: 4 - 12 (Levels 1 - 18) (+7% bonus AD) (+2.5% AP) ⇒ 3 - 12 (Levels 1 - 18) (+7% bonus AD) (+2.5% AP)

Build pickrate changes Change >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	24.69%	84.23% 59.54%
	23.13%	53.76% 30.63%
	20.68%	88.51% 67.83%
	19.66%	76% 56.35%
	19.34%	87.49% 68.16%

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Stormraider's Surge

Stormraider's Surge has landed on the soft side, underperforming on most champions trying it out, so we are going to push its duration a bit.

• Move Speed: [40% Melee | 30% Ranged] for 3 seconds ⇒ [48% Melee | 36% Ranged] for 4 seconds

Build pickrate changes Change >5%

Build	PR increase	Pickrate
	20.45%	39.07% 59.52%
	9.68%	32.59% 22.9%
	6.78%	27.79% 34.57%
	5.63%	11.2% 16.83%
	5.25%	38.25% 43.5%

View all Stormraider's Surge builds

Previously, when an enemy champion attacked an allied minion, the enemy champion would enter the minions’ aggro priority list. We’re removing this action entirely from aggroing minions to prevent it feeling like minions sometimes randomly change their target. They have a nexus to take down, anyway.

When we detect severely disruptive behaviors during a match that add up to irredeemably ruining their team’s chances of winning , we’ll allow the team with the disruptive player to vote to end the match so that everyone can save themselves some time. The bar for this is high, and most penalties will still be distributed post-game. We’re looking to improve upon this system by proactively offering a vote to end the match when severely disruptive behavior is detected during a match.

• When a player is confirmed to be engaging in severely disruptive behavior during a match, their team will be prompted to vote to end the match. The disruptive player and their premade will not be eligible to vote.
• If a match termination vote passes, the team with the disruptive player will not lose any LP or MMR. The other team will receive LP as usual for a win. The disruptive player gets banned.
• If a match termination vote fails, the game will continue. The team with the confirmed disruptive player cannot lose LP, but has the opportunity to win LP if they can claim victory. This is primarily to avoid detected behaviors terminating matches that might be close to resolution, like when you’re about to destroy the enemy Nexus but one of your allies a minute ago decided to sell all of their items and run in circles in your base.

We’ve made large updates to our text detection models to more accurately detect disruptive or inappropriate text across all languages with fewer false positives.

Bravest of the Brave

• Level 2 gold increased from 750 ⇒ 1500

Fan the Hammer

• Max level reduced from 3⇒2
• Cooldown per side 7/6/5 ⇒ 7/5

Juiced

• Max level increased to 2
• Damage done increased from 4.5% ⇒ 9% of mana spent.
• Capstone: Whenever you spend 400 mana increase Juiced damage by 10% for the rest of the round.
• Firesale
• When removed or replaced, gain gold equal to 30% of the gold gained by Firesale.
• Combination Fried Rice
• Max level 1 ⇒ 3
• Auto levels based on levels put into the rice augments.
• Ability Haste -100 ⇒ -50
• Damage per level 100% ⇒ 100/125/150%
• Healing per level 75%⇒ 75/100/125%

SpellCraft

• Base slow reduced from 20%⇒10%
• AP ratio per red sticker reduced from 40% ⇒ 30%
• BAD Ratio per red sticker reduced from 30% ⇒ 20%
• Slow per sticker increased from 30% ⇒ 40%
• Chroma Flux
• Movespeed per sticker increased from 20 ⇒ 30
• Stats On Stats On Stats
• Capstone: Stat anvil percent amp increased from 10% ⇒ 20%
• Stats On Stats
• Capstone: Stat anvil percent amp increased from 10% ⇒ 20%
• Stats
• Capstone: Stat anvil percent amp increased from 10% ⇒ 20%
• Bread Sandwich
• Max level 1 ⇒ 3
• Auto levels based on levels put into the rice augments.
• Ability Haste per level 200 ⇒ 200/300/400

Gamba Anvil

• Max level 2>1
• Legendary item anvil reduction 500 > 750
• Stat anvil reduction 150/300 > 250
• Ability Haste per level 200 ⇒ 200/300/400

Draw Your Sword

• Bonus HP: 25/35/45% ⇒ 25/30/35%
• Bonus AD: 25/35/45% ⇒ 25/30/35%
• AS: 20% ⇒ 15%

Jeweled Gauntlet

• Crit Damage: 140/160/180% ⇒ 140/150/160%

Righteous Fury

• Spell damage per stack: 2/4/6% ⇒ 2/3/4%

The Brutalizer

• Max level reduced from 3 ⇒ 2

Katarina

• Passive refund on takedown reduced from 75s ⇒ 15s

Shyvana

• Emberstrike
• Damage: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+ 110% AD) ⇒ 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 (+ 100% AD)

Xin Zhao

• Three Talon Strike
• Damage: 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 40% bonus AD) ⇒ 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 30% bonus AD)
• Cooldown: 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5 ⇒ 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6
• Audacious Charge
• AS: (+ 10% per 100 AP) ⇒ (+ 5% per 100 AP)
• Cooldown: 11 ⇒ 13

Petricite Grove

• Adjusted player spawn locations

Petricite Grove’s Petricite Bombs

Each spawner's initial spawns 6-12 seconds after combat starts.

• Respawn rate changed from 15s ⇒ 20s

Ancestral wood’s Bulwark Blossom

• Added ticks to its healthbar.

Reckoner’s Arena Pillars

• Added ticks to the healthbars.

Base line durability

Damage Reduction Percent increased by 5% on round 8 (Crafting round).

Black Hole Gauntlet

Black Hole size now scales more directly with your champion's size.

Size is now capped at 3 times its base size.

Pyromancer's Cloak

• Blaze AoE per additional burn source reduced from 40 ⇒ 30
• Per champion cooldown 3 ⇒ 5s

Garen: Perseverance

Tooltip updated to note that you'll heal when at 50 health.

Hwei: Blank Canvas

• Tooltips updated
• Rerolling an augment level offering now has a sticker

Jarvan IV: Heavy Is The Crown

• Crown Thieves beware, Size adjustment increased from 20% ⇒ 25%.

Tahm Kench: Dark Bargain

• Compulsion for Power: Stat Anvils granted reduced from 2 ⇒ 1
• Compulsion for Wealth: Gold granted reduced from 3000 ⇒ 2500
• Abstain from Wealth, Power, and Risk: Max Health restored increased from 5% ⇒ 10%.
• All players are now offered the same choices rather than randomly rolling.

• Fixed a bug where players could flash behind a wall (either on purpose or by accident) in the new Petricite Grove map
• Fixed a bug where Chauffeur was snapping allies back to their dead teammates position (We promise this won’t happen in teams of 3)
• Fixed a bug where Nocturne’s Guest of Honor would some times ult the player irl (aka their entire screen goes dark)
• Fixed a bug where players weren’t being granted an additional augment from Tahm Kench’s Guest of Honor if augments slots were full
• Fixed a bug where Hivemind was doing twice as much damage as intended
• Fixed a bug where ??? is healing much more than intended
• Fixed a bug where receiving Prowler’s Claw or Goredrinker from Poppy’s Guest of Honor would break Shardholder eligibility
• Fixed a bug where the Void Immolation Quest augment was preventing players from purchasing Rabadon’s Deathcap
• Fixed a bug where magic penetration wasn’t being tracked or boosted by Shardholder
• Fixed a bug where Minionmancer amplified damage was not being applied to Azir’s Sand Soldiers (W)
• Fixed a bug where Double Tap can trigger Power Flower multiples (or consume the entire plant if max leveled)
• Fixed some race conditions that occurred when trying to spam click anvils (Please stop using spam clickers)
• Fixed a bug where Despoil was not stacking on blinks. They did work on dashes though!
• Fixed a bug where players are unable to move while activating Wooglet’s stasis when they have the We’ll Be Right Back capstone unlocked
• Fixed a bug where pools from Morgana’s Guest of Honor would sometimes leave invisible pools on other Arenas

The following bugs were fixed in 26.9 but were not documented. Our apologies on that!

• Fixed a bug where Infernal Conduit was not reducing ability cooldowns as expected
• Fixed a bug where Puppeteers Pull Their Strings was unaffected by Apex Inventor
• Fixed a bug where Hollow Radiance’s Immolate does not trigger
• Fixed a bug where purchasing an anvil too early when Poppy is selected as the Guest of Honor would prevent a second prismatic anvil from opening
• Fixed a bug where Pinball Snowball is dealing way more damage than expected

Viktor

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%
• Passive Stacks per Kill
• Champion: 20 ⇒ 8
• Cannon 10 ⇒ 5
• ** NEW ** In ARAM maps, Viktor gains 1 stack every 5 seconds.

Bilgewater Cannon QoL

• Movement lockout from not taking the canon: 2s ⇒ 0.5s
• Movement lockout from landing after taking the canon: removed

Big Brain

• ** NEW ** Refresh on Respawn or every 70 seconds

Fan the Hammer

• No longer triggers on minions

Outlaw's Grit ** NEW ** Stacks now reset based on a 15s duration instead of a fixed timer

• Stacks show up on buff bar

Upgrade Zhonya's

• ** NEW ** Grants 50% Bonus MS during Stasis

Viktor

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 100%
• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 100%
• Passive Stacks per Kill
• Champion: 20 ⇒ 8
• Cannon 10 ⇒ 5
• ** NEW ** In ARAM maps, Viktor gains 1 stack every 5 seconds.

Bilgewater Cannon QoL

• Movement lockout from not taking the canon: 2s ⇒ 0.5s
• Movement lockout from landing after taking the canon: removed

• Fixed a bug where Dropkick could permanently reveal an enemy killed by it under specific circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where Qiyana would be given water when using W on walls.
• Fixed a bug where using Bilgewater’s Cannon would trigger health relics when flying over them.
• Fixed a bug where killing a unit with Snowball would sometimes not trigger Upgrade: Snowball’s effect.
• Fixed a bug where Azir’s soldiers did not trigger Marksmage.
• Fixed a bug where Outlaw’s Grit would be granted stacks by each map’s unique transportation.
• Fixed a bug where Gangplank would gain multiplicative amounts of Damage reduction or increase when chaining barrels.
• Fixed a bug where Snowball benefited from Item Damage increases.
• Fixed a bug where Clones of a champion with Slow and Steady did not have their Attack Speed limited.
• Fixed a bug where Bounce of the Poro King went through spellshields.
• Fixed a bug where taking certain snowball augments would reset your non-snowball summoner spell’s cooldown.
• Fixed a bug where Laser Heal would erroneously reset cooldowns of spells that should have stayed sealed, such as Riven R or Rumble while Overheated.
• Fixed a bug where Ultimate Awakening would erroneously reset cooldowns of spells that should have stayed sealed.
• Fixed a bug where Dropkick dealt bonus damage to ALL units below the execute threshold, not just champions.
• Fixed a bug where Briar could get snowball permanently disabled when using at the same time as her R.
• Fixed a bug with various augments where resetting cooldowns of Ammo spells would grant you 1 more charge than the maximum allowed of charges.
• Fixed a bug where Neeko would apply Mad Scientist’s size change to her clone twice.
• Fixed a bug where Tank Engine incorrectly displayed its granted health in the tooltip.

We are continuing to iterate on our joystick and accessibility support in response to feedback.

• Accessibility buttons may now be natively mapped to inputs in the in-game Options menu. Turn on WASD input and click on an input to bind it. Pressing a button will bind that button.
• The default unchangeable button binds have been removed.

The following skins will be released in this patch:

Rain Shepherd Ivern

PROJECT: Quinn

The following chromas will be released this patch:

Rain Shepherd Ivern

PROJECT: Quinn