Update history and meta predictions
Numbers are transcribed from the official Riot patch notes; the commentary is ours. This page covers patch 6.3a (released 2026-05-28).
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Boot items are nerfed across the board, shrinking early stat advantages. New aggressive runes (Dark Harvest, Chain Assault, Tyrant) make burst and high-kill-potential champions more threatening. The meta tilts toward snowballing.
Our take
Ten Ability Haste comes off, and the drop in cast frequency is easy to feel. Champions built around quick turnaround — poking and backing off, or clearing waves with abilities — lose the most. Since 6.3a lowers every pair of boots, this is a level-setting change rather than these boots falling behind the rest. With longer gaps between casts, a missed ability leaves you exposed for longer than before.
Our take
Two points of flat penetration come off, so targets who have started buying armor take a little less. Flat penetration still does its best work against low-armor targets, but it bites less into anyone stacking resistances early. This is part of the same 6.3a pass that lowered every pair of boots. Against a team that stacks armor, penetration now has to come from an item as well, not just boots.
Our take
Five AD comes off, weakening basic attacks and AD-scaling abilities by the same amount. It is part of the across-the-board boot pass in 6.3a, so rushing boots for an early spike pays less than it did. Clear speed depends directly on this number, so early camps and waves take slightly longer. Nothing else about the boots changed, so this is not a reason to reorder the build.
Our take
The 10% ceiling is untouched; only the floor drops, from 7% to 3%. Wherever the effect sits at the low end of that range it now absorbs far less, so the boots do least for you right after you buy them. Plated Steelcaps alone no longer answers a physical-damage team, and a real armor item has to come sooner. The ceiling is intact, so in long fights where the effect sits at its highest the boots still deliver.
Our take
Ten AP comes off, and ability damage drops the moment the boots are finished. Patch 6.3a lowers every pair of boots at once, so early power has to come from somewhere else in the build. Later items close the gap, but champions that leaned on boot AP for their lane trades start noticeably slower. Only the AP moved, so buying boots early for the movement speed is still the same call.
Our take
Five AD comes off, trimming the damage side of the attack-speed boots. Only the AD changed, so the number of swings stays the same and each hit simply lands lighter. With 6.3a lowering every pair of boots, no choice offers the early stats it used to. You still buy them for the attack speed; the missing damage has to come from the rest of the build.
Our take
The same shape of change as Plated Steelcaps: the 12% ceiling stays, the floor falls from 7% to 3%. Boots alone no longer blunt magic damage the way they did, so a proper MR item has to come earlier. With both defensive boots cut in 6.3a, rushing them is much less of a default.
675 recorded changes across 29 versions, from 6.3 through to the current 7.3a. It is built for tracking how often a single champion has been buffed or nerfed.
The largest is 7.2 with 175 entries — the patch that rebuilt boots and introduced tier 3. Others run to a handful of lines, so the version numbers alone say nothing about how much the meta shifted.
Of the 675 entries, 231 are champion changes. The rest cover items and runes, ARAM and Arena tuning, ranked seasons and system-level work.
Selecting a version also brings up a meta prediction for that patch, 29 versions in all. It is an AI-written read rather than measured data; the tier list is where you check what the win rates actually did.
Counts reflect the patch data bundled with this site. A new patch takes a short while to appear.