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Today Riot officially released the Patch 3.12 notes including changes to Katarina, Lucian, Olaf, Shen and Thresh.
As per usual, the patch affects a variety of champions and items, but the focus is put on Katarina, Lucian, Olaf, Shen and Thresh
and the so popular nowadays Trinity Force.
Katarina: Death Lotus
- No longer has a cast time delay before channeling (previously had a 0.25 second delay)
- Total damage increased to 400/575/750 (+2.5 ability power)(+3.75 bonus attack damage) (from 400/500/600 (+2.0 ability power)(+3.0 bonus attack damage))
- Channel time increased to 2.5 seconds (from 2)
- Cooldown reduced to 60/52.5/45 seconds (from 60/55/50)
With the changes Riot are aiming for more dynamic gameplay, centered around channeling/interrupting her ultimate. The balance between longer cast time but no delay is aimed to keep the overall damage approximately the same.
Lucian: Lightslinger
- When Lightslinger's target dies before the second shot hits, the second shot will now always attempt to find another target
Piercing Light
- Laser hit box width reduced to 100 units (from 120)
- Piercing Light now leads its target by 80 units when cast on an enemy champion
With those changes, Lucian's Piercing Light spell will always hit the primary target, which would remove the possibility of avoiding the spell without even trying by the enemy players. In addition his passive procs will not be wasted, and instead will target another enemy, if the first dies before the hit lands.
Olaf: Olaf gets major updates on all of his abilities, his kit is remade in order to be balanced on both competitive level and solo ladder.
Shen: Shadow Dash
- Shen's damage reduction from taunted enemies now only applies to their basic attacks (previously reduced all physical damage)
Thresh: Death Sentence
- Cooldown increased to 20/18/16/14/12 (from 18/16.5/15/13.5/12)
- Cooldown now reduced by 3 seconds if Death Sentence strikes an enemy
With the ability to reduce the cooldown of Death Sentence based on proper hits, Riot are aiming to benefit high skill players and to reward them for their effort.
When it comes to items the biggest change is the "nerf" of Trinity Force.
- Total cost increased to 3728 gold (from 3628)
- UNIQUE Passive – Rage: movement speed bonus now halved for ranged champions
The increase of price and reduce movement speed bonus for ranged champions is aimed to balance the item and affect the current trend and almost necessity to pick Corki or Ezrael, due to the high efficiency of the item.
Last but not least, Garen is pimped with a nice, new visual update.
For full patch notes follow the link.
Source - League of Legends
