Notes published July 14, 2026, live on servers July 15, 2026
Pandemonium's Patch 26.14 is here, and it's mostly a mid-lane shakeup with a Locke follow-up nerf and a T1 championship skin wave dropping alongside it. Corki, Mordekaiser, Nami, and Yunara all get real power added back in, while Garen, Jayce, Locke, Senna, and Seraphine get reeled in after strong showings. Azir doesn't get numbers touched at all. Riot instead fixed a pile of item/rune interaction bugs that were quietly underselling him. Blue Buff also picks up scaling Ability Haste to matter more in the late-game jungle, and ARAM/Arena both get their usual pass of augment and champion tuning.
This pass targets "high frustration Augments," buffs a few underperformers, and tweaks the Augment RNG system, which had been "offering the same kinds of Augments too often."
Fixed a bug where Divine Domain could grant infinite Attack Range.
Fixed a bug where Combusting Interest did not grant gold to champions' damage over time effects like Darius, Teemo, and Twitch.
Fixed a bug where Smolder could be offered Combusting Interest.
Fixed a bug where It's Go Time did not correctly grant bonus move speed with Master Yi's E, Ashe's Q, and Twitch's Q.
Fixed a bug where High Roller sometimes failed to drop an Anvil when a unit died.
Fixed a bug where Drop Bear could sometimes die immediately after spawning.
Fixed a bug where you could still get another active summoner after choosing Shark Tempest and SnowBomb.
Fixed a bug where Pursuit of Haste was offered to Yasuo E.
Arena
Focused on "buffing underperformers across the board," plus a new Jeweled Gauntlet/Vulnerability crit interaction and burn tags added to several Augments.
Bug Fix: Power Flowers now correctly grants courage.
Locke
Q Cooldown:10 - 6⇒8.5 - 4.5
E Cooldown:10⇒8
E2 Ability Power Ratio:0.4⇒0.65
R Cooldown:120 - 80⇒90 - 60
Quinn
Passive Harrier Cooldown:7s - 2.56s⇒5s - 1.83s
E Cooldown:12 - 8⇒10 - 6
Rakan
Q Base Damage:70 - 250⇒95 - 275
Samira
R Damage:10 / 20 / 30⇒15 / 30 / 45
Skarner
E Move Distance Post Grab:675⇒1000
R Base Damage:250 - 450⇒350 - 550
Move Speed While Active:40%⇒60%
Swain
R Demonic Power Generated per Second While Draining:20⇒25
Demonic Power Lost:10⇒15
Amped Demonic Power Lost After 5s:15⇒20
Yorick
Q Missing Health Ratio:3% - 7%⇒6% - 10%
R Maiden Health Modifier:70%⇒100%
Zoe
Passive Ability Power Ratio:35%⇒40%
Q Ability Power Ratio:0.6 - 1.5⇒0.7 - 1.75
W Magic Damage per Bolt:15 - 55⇒20 - 80
R Cooldown:11 - 5⇒8 - 2
Items
NEW Wildfire Interaction: Now counts Wildfire as a burn
Phantom Dancer
Move Speed:8% - 10%⇒10%
Attack Speed:60%⇒65%
Kraken Slayer
Attack Speed:35%⇒40%
Navori Flickerblade
Attack Speed:35%⇒40%
Rapid Firecannon
Attack Speed:30%⇒35%
Augments
Divine Intervention
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NEW Hexbolt Interaction: Cooldown is now reduced by 2 seconds when you trigger Hexbolt
NEW Capstone Interaction: Max Level capstone now triggers even if you are already invulnerable from Divine Intervention
NEW Quantum Computing Interaction: Now properly works with Quantum Computing, and will multicast with a 0.25 second delay between casts, for a max invulnerability duration of 3.5 seconds
Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where having both of these would sometimes prevent a spell from critting
NEW Double Tap Interaction: 5 second per spell cooldown
NEW Critical Rhythm Interaction: 4 second per spell cooldown
Riot is adding optional parental permissions that limit text/voice chat, block friend requests, and hide the social panel friends list, managed through the account control page once a parent email is connected.
Summoner's Rift Clash - MSI Cup
Registration Begins: July 13 @ 11:00AM (Local Time)
Tournament Dates: July 18 and 19 (~ 4 - 7 PM Local Time, varies by region)
Trimmed redundant buffs that repeat information already clearly communicated elsewhere in the UI or gameplay state (e.g. role quest progress and other obvious state changes).
Moved most item buffs with durations into the inventory on the item itself.
Reduced buff bar clutter from lower-impact system, map and item effects that don't meaningfully change player decision-making.
Removed display of very short-duration debuffs and effects (˜0.25s), including things like minor slows from Honeyfruit pickups.
Fixed a bug where Caitlyn's Headshot may fail to fire while in brush.
Fixed a bug where Guinsoo's Rageblade's first Phantom Hit would apply one attack earlier than expected.
Remake votes will now begin automatically when they are eligible rather than requiring a player to type /remake in chat. Chat context now explains which player triggered the remake vote and why.
Deafen and self-mute functionality can now only be toggled once every 60 seconds to prevent spam and disruptive one-way communication.
Upcoming Skins & Chromas
The following skins will be released in this patch