League of Legends Patch Notes Quick Breakdown 25.18

League of Legends Patch Notes Quick Breakdown 25.18

Overview

We’re going to give you a quick rundown of key points from the latest patch. You can also see how these changes have affected the meta by looking at our Champion Statistics page, which highlights changes in Win Rate between patches.

With the season in full swing, this patch aims more at fine tuning champions instead of introducing new roles or other big changes. It also ushers in the long awaited T1 2024 Worlds Skins! Quick TLDR:

  • T1 Worlds Skins

  • Faker MVP Sylas Skin

  • Bans have begun rolling out for bots and boosters

  • Death recap visual polish

  • Your Shop returns until October 7th

For a full breakdown of exactly what has been changed, check out Riot’s official patch notes here.


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Champions

Buffs

  • Amumu - Q cooldown and mana cost decreased.

  • Ashe - AD growth increased.

  • Cassiopeia - Mana increased. E damage vs poisoned targets increased.

  • Garen - E damage increased.

  • Hwei - Passive and E abilities' damage increased. WQ movement speed increased.

  • Jayce - Q damage increased.

  • Vel'Koz - E cooldown decreased. R damage increased.

    • Aimed to improve both mid and support but moreso mid

  • Zac - R now Ghosts.

    • Will no longer get stuck on minions

Nerfs

  • Annie - W damage decreased. R magic pen decreased.

  • Aurora - Passive damage adjusted.

  • Azir - Attack Speed growth decreased. W damage decreased.

  • Galio - Passive and Q damage decreased.

  • Qiyana - Base AD and Armor Growth decreased. Passive damage decreased.

  • Sylas - Passive damage to monsters decreased.

    • Jungle targetted

  • Volibear - Passive AP ratio decreased.

  • Yunara - Base Health and AD decreased. E bonus movement speed and duration decreased.

Adjusted

  • Briar - Q damage decreased, now deals physical damage. W bugfix. R alert sound now plays after a delay, range increased, damage decreased.

    • Q damage decreased to compensate for R being stronger and easier to hit

  • Illaoi - Passive QoL change. W damage decreased. E vessel duration decreased.

    • Aimed to keep her tentacles up longer

  • Taliyah - Q and Q2 mana cost decreased, damage decreased. E mana cost decreased, damage decreased.

    • Lowering mana costs to encourage more AP to be built on her

Items

  • Bami's Cinder

    • Buffed from 50% amp on monsters to 100%

  • Sunfire Cape

    • Buffed from 50% amp on monsters and minions to 60%

  • Mercurial Scimitar

    • +10 AD, -5 MR, +.5s Active duration