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.
The first major patch for Season 2 introduces a sweeping update to AP items, but the biggest new thing to look forward to may be the new game mode, Brawl, which you can read more about here. Brawl will be live at 8:00 AM Pacific time on May 14th and will be around until patch 25.13 goes live on June 24th.
For a full breakdown of exactly what has been changed, check out Riot’s official patch notes here.
Items
Buffs
Bloodletter's Curse
Cryptbloom
Hextech Rocketbelt
Horizon Focus
Luden's Companion (just cost reduction)
Malignance
Nashor's Tooth (just cost reduction)
Rabadon's Deathcap (just cost reduction)
Nerfs
Liandry's Torment
Lich Bane
Changed
Stormsurge (Gold on pre-emptive takedown and move speed on squall removed, but base move speed increased and cost decreased)
Seraph's Embrace (buff when low mana, nerf when high mana)
Champions
Buffs
Smolder (Passive Q damage and E damage increased)
Nerfs
Cho'Gath (Base attack speed increased, Q and E damage decreased)
Fiddlesticks (Q fear duration decreased, W damage increased -- support nerfed, jungle neutral)
Kayn (HP growth decreased)
Lulu (Armor growth decreased, R cooldown increased)
Naafiri (P monster damage decreased)
Vi (Q damage adjusted, R mana cost reduced but damage decreased)
Xin Zhao (Armor growth decreased)
Yuumi (R heal decreased)
Changed
Senna (Passive crit chance and soul drop increased, Q heal decreased)
