LoL Patch Notes 26.2

Riot explains this one in its notes: Revenant Reign Viego on leagueoflegends.com.

Faelights and Vision

Snowballing and Game Length

• Less downtime with more frequent minion spawns and homeguards can contribute to feeling like there's constant action happening.
• Hitting towers and getting those chunks of damage from crystalline overgrowth both feel more rewarding (and more confronting on the receiving end), so it feels like progress is being made faster, even if it's not actually that much faster.
• Barons are being taken earlier, since they're spawning at 20 minutes again. That said, Baron takes are a bit weaker than they were before (gives +150G instead of +300G), so games don't typically end after the first Baron push. Players have often associated the first Baron take with the game being over, but that is proving to be a bit less of the case this Season.

Aegis of Valor

Role Balance

Tower Durability

Support Quest Usability

• First, you can now double bind the role quest slot. So you’ll be able to set your preferred hotkey to both the role slot and the item slot where you used to hold it in your inventory.
• We’re also adding the role quest hotkey to the client keybinds menu so you can make your changes before you hit the rift.
• Finally, in the following patch, we’re moving control wards to the support role quest slot at the start of the game instead of halfway through the match when the quest completes. This change should allow support players to more easily build up muscle memory.

Bug Fixes - ARAM & ARAM:Mayhem

• Fixed a bug where Hexgates did not allow players to teleport behind the turret.
• Fixed a bug where players were interrupted when trying to use the Portal's in Koeshin's Crossing Map.

Bug Fixes - ARAM:Mayhem Only

• Fixed a bug where Glass Cannon prevented Bloodthirster from triggering.
• Fixed a bug where Smolder’s Q did not work with ReEnergize.
• Fixed a bug where Flashy and Flash 2 would cancel Fiddlesticks’s R channel.
• Fixed a bug where Empyrean Promise’s range was smaller than intended.
• Fixed a bug where Sword of the Blossoming Dawn’s passive could target the wrong ally.
• Fixed a bug where snowball damage from Snowball Upgrade and The Biggest Snowball was triggering Aurora’s and Zaahen’s passives.
• Fixed a bug where First Strike was not tracking gold correctly in From Beginning to End.

Systems

• Reduced CC chain duration from 5 of the last 7 seconds ⇒ 4 of the last 7 seconds.
• (NEW) When combo breaker triggers you take 10% + 5% for each time this has triggered max HP true damage. This resets on death and on combat end.

Champions

• E Cooldown 10-8 ⇒ 12-10
• R Armor Pen 10/20/30% ⇒ 5/15/25%
• P Stacks per round reduced from 12 ⇒ 10
• Bonus HP reduced from 250/400/550 ⇒ 250 / 350 / 450
• Plant Duration reduced from 8s ⇒ 6s
• Q cooldown now starts when the spell ends (just like in URF).
• Remove P Damage mod || 12.5 – 46.5 (based on level) ⇒ 25 – 93 (based on level)
• P CD 15 ⇒ 10
• R CD 160/140/120 ⇒ 130/100/90
• Q: Second bolt damage increased from 50% ⇒ 75%

Augments

• Reverted to its old version || Now reduces the Cooldown of all abilities by 1.25s On-Hit.
• Hold delay 1.25s ⇒ 0.75s
• No longer goes into stealth when you’re unable to move, and stealth is disabled on crowd controlled.
• Adaptive Force per hat increased from 10 ⇒ 12
• Moved from Gold ⇒ Silver

Items

• Bounce Range reduced from 1500 ⇒ 750
• Bonus AD ratio reduced from 0.65 ⇒ 0.5
• Attack Speed Aura increased from 30% ⇒ 45%
• MS increased from 20 ⇒ 35

Riot explains this one in its notes: ARURF on leagueoflegends.com.

• Master can duo with D1 ⇒ GM
• Master cannot duo with D2
• GM can duo with Master ⇒ Challenger
• GM cannot duo with D1
• Challenger can duo with GM ⇒ Challenger
• Challenger cannot duo with Master
• D1 Visible cannot duo with [D1/Master Visible + GM MMR]
• D2 or below visible rank cannot duo with any Master+ MMR
• KR and CN remain unchanged as they are already on stricter rules: KR duo is allowed up to D1 and below, and CN duo is up to Master and below.
• Reminder: as part of the regular seasonal ranked operation, Apex MMR duo restriction will be turned back on in 26.2, after we temporarily disabled it in 26.1 to celebrate season start climbing.

• Surrender Time: 15 minutes ⇒ 12 minutes

• Registration Begins: January 19 @ 11:00 AM (Local Time)
• Tournament Dates: January 24 and 25 (~4-7 PM Local Time, varies by region)

• Attack Delay While Moving for Melee Champions: Removed
• Attack Delay While Moving for Non-Marksman Ranged Champions: Reduced
• Attack Delay While Moving for Marksman: Unchanged (Note: Ezreal, Kai’Sa, and Kindred were slightly reduced)