League of Legends Patch Notes Quick Breakdown 25.23 (15.23): Zaahen arrives and Winter's Rift returns!

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.

Here's a quick TLDR:

• New Champion: Zaahen

• Winter's Rift returns

• Arcane Anniversary Event beginning

• Lots of nerfs to popular ADCs and buffs to less popular ones to shake up the meta

• Lots of champions with buffed modifiers to monster damage to enable them more as a potential jungle

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

Zaahen

• You can see a full rundown of his abilities here.

Arcane Anniversary

• All Arcane Skins returning including Arcane Fractured Jinx

  • Comes with upgrades to the skin (if you already have it, it'll be updated for free)

• 8 Arcane-themed rewards that require you to play 4 games (playing with a premade will count as 2 games)

  • Jinx Butterfly Icon

  • Yelling Caitlyn / Vi Emote

  • 500 Battle Pass XP

  • Salad Cat Jinx Emote

  • Robot Mask Icon

  • 500 Battle Pass XP

  • Guitar Heimerdinger Emote

  • “Arcane Anomaly” Title

Champions

Buffs

• Aatrox

  • Damage to monsters increased

• Ahri

  • W damage increased

• Ambessa

  • Q damage to monsters increased

• Cho'Gath

  • E damage to monsters increased

• Jayce

  • Q damage to monsters increased

• Jhin

  • Base AD increased

  • Passive damage increased (very very slightly)

  • W damage increased

• Malphite

  • W damage to monsters increased

• Miss Fortune

  • R damage increased

• Ornn

  • W monster damage increased

• Riven

  • Passive monster damage increased

• Sion

  • Q monster damage increased

• Skarner

  • Base AD increased

  • Q cooldown decreased

  • Q damage increased

• Swain

  • E damage increased

  • E mana cost decreased

• Tristana

  • AD growth increased

• Volibear

  • Base AD increased

• Xayah

  • Passive damage increased

• Zeri

  • R move speed per stack doubled

Nerfs

• Ashe

  • Q AS nerfed

• Caitlin

  • Passive damage decreased

• Dr. Mundo

  • E bonus HP damage decreased

    • This is to compensate for a bug fix whereh was receiving

• Hwei

  • QE damage nerfed

• Jinx

  • R damage decreased

• Kai'Sa

  • Base armor decreased

  • R cooldown increased

• Mel

  • Passive damage increased

  • E snare duration decreased (.6 seconds at max rank)

• Rek'Sai

  • Passive fury gained on minion hit decreased and max HP gained decreased

• Vladimir

  • Base HP decreased

  • Base armor decreased

Changed

• Fizz

  • Base armor increased

  • Passive damage to monsters increased

  • W damage to monsters increased

  • R cooldown increased (20s at first rank)

    • Goal was to make him less reliant on his ultimate and be potentially flexed into the jungle role

Items

• Sunfire Aegis monster damage increased

Aram Mayhem

• Stat anvils added for 750g a piece and can be purchased after level 9.