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LoL 4.7 Patch notes released

Riot turns their back on some of the changes they made at the start of the season and offers some miniscule champion changes as well in the latest patch.

Laning appears to be longer in this patch as all towers now have the damage reduction buff on them early in the game. Therefore, we'll be seeing less rotations in the early game and more jungle pressure and emphasis on dragon, which had its gold value increased. Additionally, Riot is offering some alternative build paths to certain champions and changing summoner Heal yet again.

Champions

Braum

Braum, the Heart of the Freljord, will be released a bit later during Patch 4.7.

Gragas

Graggy and his barrels have hit the gym. Barrel Roll grants vision (don't ask how that relates to going to the gym), and Gragas can throw his Explosive Cask further.

Pre-update, Gragas liked his R and Q more for their target erasing potential than their utility and displacement. Now that Graggy isn't one-shotting entire teams with barrels, we can buff up his other strengths to emphasize his barrel-throwing play-making power.

Q - Barrel Roll

NEWUTILITYGrants vision after it reaches its destination

CLARITYReduced size of cast indicator to better represent the actual radius

W - Drunken Rage

BUGFIXBuff no longer consumed on hitting a ward

R - Explosive Cask

RANGE1050 ⇒ 1150

CLARITYReduced size of cast indicator to better represent the actual radius

Jarvan IV

Martial Cadence now deals more damage, but the cooldown starts out higher and scales down over time. Golden Aegis costs less mana and is a flat cost across all ranks.

In the foreword of patch 4.6 we spoke about the challenges of creating a healthy top lane, and one option we're pursuing is to make teamplay-oriented champions more competitive in the current landscape. Specifically for Jarvan IV: even if he's behind he can still provide a lot of value via Cataclysm, and this gives him more incentive to help out in fights rather than farming minions in isolation. These changes are to give him that extra bump he needs in the early game to keep up.

Passive - Martial Cadence

DAMAGE6/8/10% (at levels 1/7/13) ⇒ 10% at all levels

SAME-TARGET COOLDOWN6 seconds at all levels ⇒ 10/8/6 seconds (at levels 1/7/13)

W - Golden Aegis

COST45/50/55/60/65 mana ⇒ 30 mana at all ranks

Kassadin

Up front: We overshot the Kassadin buffs last patch. Specifically, making Kassadin's magic shield stronger ended up making him a little too stifling against a majority of mid lane champions which, in turn, amps up his already strong snowballing power. On that note, while the concept of a magic shield has a strong connection to Kassadin's thematic and strategic niche, we're still examining a way to balance between thematic cohesion and raw champion strength.

Q - Null Sphere

MAGIC SHIELD40/80/120/160/200 (+0.8 ability power) ⇒40/70/100/130/160 (+0.3 ability power)

Kha'Zix

Targets now need to be further away from each other to be considered 'isolated' for Kha'Zix's damage amplification. Turrets now count as friendlies when it comes to preventing isolation. Kha'Zix now needs to wait a bit longer before re-entering stealth via his R.

As an assassin, Kha'Zix should be looking for windows of opportunity (or should be relying on his teammates to create those windows) to engage. Instead, Kha'Zix has so much raw power that he's simply forcing engagements and kills on his own. When assassins can start and end a fight without support, that typically points to an overall lack of tactical weaknesses (which champions need to have in order to maintain meaningful counterplay). These changes are to offer more windows of opportunity against Kha'Zix and should make him think twice before going all-in, but this will be an ongoing project as we examine Kha'Zix's core role and strengths.

Q - Taste Their Fear / Evolved Enlarged Claws

ISOLATION RADIUS350 units from nearest ally ⇒ 500 units from nearest ally

NEWGAMEPLAYTurrets now count as allies when determining whether a target is isolated

R - Void Assault / Evolved Active Camouflage

STEALTH RECAST1 second between stealth casts ⇒ 2 seconds between stealth casts

Lissandra

For Lissandra's birthday, we're giving her a more reliable Frozen Tomb!

R - Frozen Tomb

NEWUTILITYNow stops enemy champion's movement immediately on application of stun (dashes, jumps, etc will be halted)

BUGFIXNow goes on cooldown when it finishes casting, instead of when it begins casting

Malphite

Granite Shield now recharges faster at later levels, and Brutal Strikes costs a low amount of mana at all levels.

We like how Malphite's Granite Shield works for the early laning phase, but it has trouble scaling into the rest of the game. Brutal Strikes was designed to help Malphite trade damage when he's in someone's face, but its higher mana costs weren't allowing it. Similar to Jarvan, Malphite offers a lot of unique team-focused wombo combo power even when he's behind, so we're also giving him some help to compete.

Passive - Granite Shield

RECHARGE RATE10 seconds at all levels ⇒ 10/8/6 seconds (at levels 1/7/13)

W - Brutal Strikes

COST50/55/60/65/70 mana ⇒ 25 mana

Miss Fortune

More like Mage Fortune amirite?

We saw a unique opportunity to support Miss Fortune's off-builds without impacting her game health and play patterns. This is a fancy way of saying we added AP ratios to Double Up.

Q - Double Up

NEWAP RATIO ON 1ST TARGET HIT0.35

NEWAP RATIO ON 2ND TARGET HIT0.50

Minor Changes & Bug Fixes

General

BUGFIXFixed a number of graphical issues affecting older video cards

BUGFIXFixed a bug where ward-jumping abilities (ex. Lee Sin's Safeguard) would sometimes go on cooldown when attempting (and failing) to jump over walls to wards outside the ability's max range

Fizz

E - Playful / Trickster

BUGFIXFixed some cases where Fizz could be stunned or rooted while on his troll pole

Kog'Maw

R - Living Artillery

NEWUTILITYMana cost is now displayed on the cast icon (similar to Kassadin's Rift Walk)

BUGFIXTooltip corrected to display the actual range (1400/1700/2000 ⇒1200/1500/1800)

Nautilus

Passive - Staggering Blow

BUGFIXTooltip corrected to display the actual time between roots on the same target (12 seconds ⇒ 9 seconds)

Rengar

Passive - Unseen Predator

BUGFIXUsing an empowered ability immediately after leveling the base ability for the first time no longer triggers the base ability's cooldown

Q - Savagery / Empowered Savagery

BUGFIXThe bonus damage now applies lifesteal

Bonetooth Necklace

BUGFIXFixed a bug where stack bonuses were being lost upon switching trinkets

Shen

R - Stand United

BUGFIXFixed a bug where Stand United would occasionally cancel itself

Twitch

We're ironing out some minor issues in the wake of Twitch's VU. We're also reviewing Rat-a-tat-tat's interaction with structures as we work on its inability to target Inhibitors or the Nexus.

General

RECOMMENDED ITEMSNow includes a trinket

AUDIOFixed a few bugs preventing several VO interactions from working

Q - Ambush

BUGFIXFixed a display bug where Ambush's cooldown would appear to start when Twitch entered stealth but reset to its actual cooldown once the stealth effect ended.

R - Rat-Ta-Tat-Tat

BUGFIXFixed a bug where Rat-Ta-Tat-Tat could sometimes critically strike towers

Vladimir

W - Sanguine Pool

BUGFIXFixed some cases where Vladimir could be stunned or rooted while in his troll pool

BUGFIXTooltip corrected to indicate the actual heal amount (12.5% ⇒15%)

Summoner Spells

Heal

When we added more utility to Heal, our focus was to create a spell that added depth to the summoner spell pool while also giving heal-focused supports an ability that let them remain effective against Ignite. On live, however, this wasn't the case as it was primarily being picked up by solo laners to circumvent burst-heavy aggressive play (particularly for champions whose abilities were affected by Grievous Wounds).

REMOVEDGRIEVOUS WOUND CLEANSERemoves Grievous Wounds

Graphical Updates

We're continuing along our goal of making gameplay more readable, satisfying, and visceral. Also awesome. And pretty.

Flash particles updated
Clarity particles and sound effect updated
Cleanse particles and sound effect updated
Exhaust particles and sound effect updated
Revive particles and sound effect updated
Screenshots in the spells tab of your profile have been updated according to recent changes

Items

Feral Flare line

When we designed Feral Flare, we looked at 'carry' junglers who picked up Wriggle's Lantern and looked for ways to support that playstyle. Then we released Feral Flare and realized we may have gone too far.

While Feral Flare does deliver on its core goal of supporting carry junglers, it's also doing it at the expense of potentially several other players on the map. Because Feral Flare's power is essentially tied to how long junglers can ignore their team, the optimal strategy has been to hide away for as long as possible before making a first appearance as the strongest champion on the map - even in comparison to solo laners who have to scrap out their gold against equally matched opponents (we mentioned this in the foreword, but it's worth repeating here). Long-term, we still like the concept of 'carry' style junglers, but we're currently exploring ways to support them in a way that's healthy for the game.

Madred's Razors

MAIM PASSIVE+60 damage against monsters ⇒ +50 damage against monsters

Wriggle's Lantern

NEWUTILITYKills and Assists now count toward transforming into Feral Flare

MAIM PASSIVE+100 damage against monsters ⇒ +75 damage against monsters

Feral Flare

MAIM PASSIVE+100 damage against monsters ⇒ +75 damage against monsters

REMOVEDHEAL SCALINGBasic attack heal increases with stacks

REMOVEDTRANSFORM STAT BONUSGains Attack Damage + Attack Speed when transformed from Wriggle's Lantern

ATTACK DAMAGE+15 ⇒ +12

ATTACK SPEED+35% ⇒ +30%

Sunfire Cape

Sunfire Cape is an AoE damage aura item, but its current effect looks most like a a debuff on the wearer, even to the point of being confused with Red Buff's or Ignite's effects. This rework more clearly lines up Sunfire's visual with its gameplay.

VISUALSParticles updated

Aggro Display

To improve aggro awareness and reduce visual noise, we've removed all aggro outlines and added an animated icon above the health bars of minions and neutral monsters. Targeting an enemy or neutral should now be much clearer as an outline around a unit now only means you're targeting it. This approach more closely lines with the intent of the aggro indicator feature, which is to convey game mechanics, not player behavior. Time to work on that combat awareness!

MINION & MONSTER AGGRO DISPLAYOrange outline ⇒ Animated HP bar icon

REMOVEDCHAMPION AGGRO DISPLAYOrange outline

Summoner's Rift

The below changes are aimed specifically at competitive play, and we can talk about them in that light. With the trinket change, we initially went with a longer starting cooldown so trinkets wouldn't have an impact on early game invades, but quickly saw the optimal strategy was to just all-in invade before swinging up (or down) to take out a few towers. Reducing the Trinket cooldown means they'll be incorporated into early game strategies and we're hoping they still allow for aggressive strategies to exist in the pre-laning phase. For the Dragon and Turret changes, we saw very few strategic tradeoffs when it came to fast-pushing lanes with multiple champions, so we're aiming to introduce some in the form of slightly higher rewards for Dragon and slightly higher penalties for teams trying to fast-push lanes. This also let us bring parity back to objectives across Summoner's Rift, as all outer towers now have the same Fortification buff. We'll be keeping a close eye on the fallout of these changes (particularly in competitive play).

Trinkets

STARTING COOLDOWN120 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds

Dragon

GLOBAL GOLD REWARD125 gold ⇒ 145 gold

Turrets

NEWFORTIFICATIONAll outer turrets now have Fortification (added to Bottom lane)

FORTIFICATION DAMAGE REDUCTION-20 ⇒ -30

FORTIFICATION DURATION480 seconds ⇒ 420 seconds

Summoner's Rift & Twisted Treeline

Jungle

BUGFIXFixed a bug where abilities that dealt damage based on maximum monster health were being calculated on base health instead of actual max health (this is a mid-lategame buff in all affected cases)

Crystal Scar

Thresh

We gave Thresh some love on this map and it's helped him see more play (and a lot more success), but now he's just crazy. Like 400 armor Thresh with no armor items crazy.

Passive - Damnation

SOUL STACKS4 souls per unit ⇒ 2 souls per unit

Kassadin

This change is aimed at bringing the new Kassadin rework a little more in line with other maps.

R - Riftwalk

COOLDOWN9/8/7 seconds ⇒ 9/7/5 seconds

NEWSoul Anchor (Trinket)

It's finally here! With Revive being such a dominant Summoner Spell on Dominion, we realized we could take advantage of the unused Trinket slot to create more diversity while also balancing its use case.

CHARGE RATE+1 at levels 1/9/14

CHARGE CAP2 (level 14 charge will disappear if unstorable)

UTILITYGrants a short burst of Movement speed on revive

CATSSoul Anchor version of Rengar's Bonetooth Necklace added

Bots

We're continuing to update our AI features! Specifically, players have been asking for more Bot options in Custom Games, as well as bots that can Flash, so we addressed that.

Intermediate bots can now be added to custom games
All bots are available on Beginner difficulty in custom games
- To maintain game-to-game consistency for newer players, the Co-op vs. AI Beginner roster is unchanged
Intermediate bots will now use Flash both offensively and defensively

LoL Client

Ignore feature

We've added a few safeguards to prevent players from accidentally ignoring their friends (so if your friend says this, it's now an excuse).

The end-of-game screen "Ignore User" button has been removed. Players can still ignore offensive individuals by right-clicking their summoner name and selecting "Ignore User" from the menu.
Added a confirmation prompt when ignoring players from the air client

Team Builder

Solo players can now see which role/position combinations are in high demand when deciding their spec
Estimated wait times for solo players are now more accurate
Team Builder matchmaking has been improved
"Play Again" has been added to the post-game screen, allowing Captains to automatically invite their friends from the same match to a new Team Builder lobby.
Team Builder invites are now labeled as "Team Builder" instead of "Classic"

Source - Riot Games

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