AzirBuff
Azir gains 10 more mana per level, so he has 170 extra mana by level 18. He can afford to throw Conquering Sands [Q] around in lane now.
Base Stats
- Mana Growth: 40/Level ⇒ 50/Level
Notes published Oct. 20, 2026, live on servers Oct. 21, 2026
Patch 26.21 goes after bot lane. Caitlyn, Jinx and Tristana all lose power, and Gluttonous Greaves costs more. The jungle's top picks get trimmed too, while a handful of quiet mages pick up buffs, and ARAM: Mayhem launches Journey to Stardom with a Headliner band in every game.

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Azir gains 10 more mana per level, so he has 170 extra mana by level 18. He can afford to throw Conquering Sands [Q] around in lane now.
Base Stats
It's a real nerf, even with the early bump. Headshot [Passive] drops to 60–80% AD with weaker crit scaling, while Piltover Peacemaker [Q] gains up to 20 base damage at rank five.
Passive - Headshot
Q - Piltover Peacemaker
Decimate [Q] drops to a 4 second cooldown at max rank. One second faster means more spins in a long fight.
Q - Decimate
Jinx loses a quarter point of AD per level and 20 base health. That's 4.25 less attack damage at level 18, so her snowball starts slower.
Base Stats
Safeguard [W] goes from 7 to 8 seconds. Dragon's Rage [R] loses 75 damage at max rank on both the kick and the collision, and Tempest [E] stops revealing enemies who stealth after it hits them.
W - Safeguard
E - Tempest
R - Dragon's Rage
With less mana and a smaller early Soul Ignition [W], harass sticks to Locke now. He gets paid later, since Ashen Pursuit [E] climbs to 100 damage (+50% AP) at max rank.
Q - Ritual Nails
Base Stats
W - Soul Ignition
E - Ashen Pursuit
Make It Rain [E] deals 20 more damage at every rank. Bullet Time [R] crits hit for 145% and scale harder with bonus crit damage, which makes up for losing Hubris power.
E - Make It Rain
R - Bullet Time
Small nerf. Pounce [W] loses up to 20 damage, and Primal Surge [E] gives 10% less attack speed at every rank.
W - Pounce
E - Primal Surge
Absolute Zero [R] now hits for up to 1450 at rank three, 175 more than before. It's compensation for the damage he lost when Rocketbelt got cut.
R - Absolute Zero
Her [Q] and [W] each gain 5% AP ratio. Lane stays the same, and her late combo chunks a little harder.
Q - Command: Attack
W - Command: Dissonance
Edge of Ixtal [Q] loses 10 damage at every rank. It's a partial rollback of a recent buff that hit harder than intended.
Q - Elemental Wrath / Edge of Ixtal
Defensive Ball Curl [W] gives 2 less flat armor per rank, and both resist ratios now cap at 50% instead of 60%. He's still tanky, just less of a wall late.
W - Defensive Ball Curl
Ryze gets paid for scaling. Overload [Q] climbs to 100% Flux bonus damage at max rank (rank one actually drops a bit) with more move speed, and Rune Prison [W] gains 10% AP ratio.
Q - Overload
W - Rune Prison
Sion gets 8 more health per level, which is 136 extra at level 18. Unstoppable Onslaught [R] also ramps to +200% damage over a full 3s charge, so committing to the ult actually rewards you.
Base Stats
R - Unstoppable Onslaught
Unraveled Earth [E] hits for 10 more plus 10% AP, and the detonation adds 5. Land the knockback combo and it hurts now.
E - Unraveled Earth
Taric's spells don't fizzle anymore when his bound ally goes untargetable mid-cast. The one exception is Dazzle [E], which still won't come out of a Vanished ally.
Q - Starlight’s Touch
E - Dazzle
R - Cosmic Radiance
Rapid Fire [Q] loses 20% attack speed at rank one. Early all-ins get much weaker, though rank five stays at 120%.
Q - Rapid Fire
Destiny [R] now reveals untargetable champions too. Same fix Taric got.
R - Destiny
Top lane Varus maxes Blighted Quiver [W], and that's what gets hit, with less on-hit and stack damage. Piercing Arrow [Q] now ramps up to 70% over its channel to make up for it in bot.
Q - Piercing Arrow
W - Blighted Quiver
Plasma Fission [Q] drops from 7 to 6 seconds. Organic Deconstruction [Passive] tops out higher too, at 205 (+65% AP).
Passive - Organic Deconstruction
Q - Plasma Fission
Viktor's a bit slower at 330 move speed. Siphon Power [Q] shields for less, and the shield lasts 2 seconds instead of 2.5, which hurts most in early skirmishes.
Base Stats
Q - Siphon Power
Jungle Wukong loses early armor, since Stone Skin [Passive] now starts at 4.5 per stack. Lane Wukong gets 2 more base health regen to make up for it.
Base Stats
Passive - Stone Skin
Both of his builds get help. Three Talon Strike [Q] scales at 45% bonus AD, and Audacious Charge [E] now converts 1% per 4% bonus attack speed.
Q - Three Talon Strike
E - Audacious Charge
Mortal Steel [Q] drops from 110% to 105% AD ratio. It's a trim, nothing more.
Q - Mortal Steel
Rampant Growth [W] seeds come back faster at the early ranks, 2 seconds quicker at rank one. More plants, more often.
W - Rampant Growth
Bastion Breaker loses 4 Lethality and some Shaped Charge damage. Sabotage doesn't expire anymore, so you can hold the bonus until an objective is actually up.
Dawncore now gives 15 AP per 100% base mana regen, up from 10. Supports other than Soraka finally have a reason to finish it.
A 100 gold price hike. Marksmen who rush them get there later.
Hubris now splits by range. Melee users get 15 base AD, while ranged users drop to 10 and only 2 per stack, which is why Miss Fortune gets buffs.
Mayhem's Journey to Stardom update puts a Headliner band in every game, and each band bends the rules its own way. A big batch of new Augments comes in while some old ones leave. There's also a new mission track that ranks you up from Newbie to Superstar, though Butcher's Bridge and Koeshin's Crossing sit out this patch.
Headliners
New Augments
Silver Blue Barrier
Flow of Spirit
Fruitify
Gift of the Drowned
Hands Off The Talent
Lich Brain
Lonely Warrior
No Mana, No Problem
Sound Barrier
Ultimate Recursion
Gold Arcane Axiom
Armored Impact
BEES!!!
Brass Blast
CRIMSON COBALT
Double Time
Enchanting Butterflies
Get Jinxed
Heavy Is The Crown
Jeweled Bracelet
Recoil
Salvation
Sap Magic
Still Here
Take’em Down Down Down
The Boom and the Bass
Tickle Monster
Upgrade: Stormsurge
Weapon Of Destiny
Prismatic Big Shot
Bouncing Bees
Group Hug
Mosh Monster
Third Times The Harm
Totentanz
Removed Augments
League Classic brings back old-kit Mordekaiser and Yorick, along with Hecarim and an extra-long-range Lucian. Kassadin gets every nerf reverted and Atma's Impaler returns to its old peak. Aatrox and Karma get buffs, while Irelia gets nerfed.
Champions
New - Mordekaiser
Passive - Iron Man
Q - Mace of Spades
W - Creeping Death
E - Siphon of Destruction
R - Children of the Grave
New - Yorick
Passive - Unholy Covenant
Q - Omen of War
W - Omen of Pestilence
E - Omen of Famine
R - Omen of Death
New - Hecarim
Passive - Warpath
Q - Rampage
W - Spirit of Dread
E - Devastating Charge
R - Onslaught of Shadows
New - Lucian
Passive - Lightslinger
Q - Piercing Light
W - Ardent Blaze
E - Relentless Pursuit
R - The Culling
Aatrox
Passive - Blood Well
Irelia
Base Stats
Passive - Ionian Fervor
Karma
Q - Heavenly Wave
W - Spirit Bond
Kassadin
Q - Null Sphere
R - Riftwalk
Items
Atma's Impaler
Bugfixes
Arena's strongest Augments come down and the weakest go up, so one-Augment combos need more help to pop off. Outlier champions get pulled toward the middle, often through odd changes like a much bigger ratio on Briar's charged Chilling Scream [E].
Champions
Bel'Veth
Q - Void Surge
R - Endless Banquet
Briar
Q - Head Rush
E - Chilling Scream
Elise
E - Cocoon
W - Skittering Frenzy
Ezreal
R - Trueshot Barrage
Fiora
Passive - Duelist's Dance
Q - Lunge
Galio
W - Shield of Durand
R - Hero's Entrance
Gangplank
W - Remove Scurvy
R - Cannon Barrage
Gnar
W - Hyper
R - GNAR!
Kayn
Passive - The Darkin Scythe
Katarina
R - Death Lotus
Lee Sin
E - Tempest
Malzahar
W - Void Swarm
Milio
Q - Ultra Mega Fire Kick
R - Breath Of Life
Miss Fortune
Q - Double Up
R - Bullet Time
Morgana
Q - Dark Binding
E - Black Shield
Nidalee
W - Bushwhack
R - Aspect of the Cougar
Rengar
W - Battle Roar
Renata Glasc
R - Hostile Takeover
W - Bailout
Skarner
Q - Shattered Earth
W - Seismic Bastion
Teemo
E - Toxic Shot
Urgot
W - Purge
Varus
E - Hail of Arrows
Yone
R - Fate Sealed
Yuumi
W - You and Me!
Zaahen
Passive - Cultivation of War
Items
Turbo Chemtank
Galeforce
Night Harvester
Mirage Blade
Moonflair Spellblade
Augments
Big Brain
Castle
Chroma Flux
Courage of the Colossus
Dawnbringer's Resolve
Dual Wield
Flashy
Hive Mind
Minionmancer
Nesting Doll
Rite of the Forge God
Spin to Win
Trueshot Prodigy
Starting next patch, each player sees their own Mythic Shop offerings. This patch lines up the rotation timers ahead of that, so check when things are leaving.
The patcher now needs a CPU with SSE 4.2, which raises the AMD minimum by one generation. Older AMD chips without it can't run League anymore.
The following skins will be released in this patch



The following chromas will be released this patch
Source: Riot's official Patch 26.21 notes.