Patch 6.3f changes

Oceanus Trident

• Shield-breaking effect: unchanged
• Base stats: reduced

• The item keeps its job and loses its all-purpose appeal. Cutting through shields works exactly as before, so it remains the answer to a team that stacks them. The weaker base stats mean it is no longer worth buying into matchups that do not call for it, which puts the decision back on reading the enemy composition.

Stridebreaker

• Damage: reduced

• Stridebreaker is part of the same sweep across the offensive enchants. Counting the activation as a chunk of your damage no longer holds up, but its job of catching a target is untouched. If you were buying it for the damage, the cleaner read now is to cover damage elsewhere in the build and treat the enchant purely as mobility.

Base Stats

• AD growth per level4 → 4.5

Base Stats

• Early Base AD: reduced

Bio-Arcane Barrage

• Max HP percent damage at early ranks: reduced

• This pushes back the point where Kog'Maw starts to take over. The lower early Base AD makes last-hitting and lane trades less comfortable, and Skill 2 (Bio-Arcane Barrage) no longer chews through health bars until its later ranks. Melting durable targets early is off the table, so he spends more of the game playing safe and waiting on items and skill points.

Razor Shuriken

• Energy cost: reduced

Living Shadow

• Energy restored: increased

• Zed's energy turns over faster, so a misread costs him much less time. The cheaper Skill 1 (Razor Shuriken) lets him keep poking in lane instead of standing still to recover, and the larger restore on Skill 2 (Living Shadow) shortens the gap between clearing a wave and going in. Fewer stretches locked out by an empty energy bar make him easier to pick up for players who are not used to the class.

Protobelt Enchant

• Damage: reduced

• Four offensive enchants are cut together in this patch, and Protobelt Enchant is one of them. The lower damage means you can no longer count on the activation to finish someone by itself, so it has to be paired with a teammate's damage. What it keeps is the opening it creates, so it is better judged as a way to close distance than as a source of kills.

Goredrinker

• Damage: reduced

• This is the enchant for champions who step forward and brawl, and the lower damage narrows the swing a single activation can create. Diving in and getting back out is less dependable, so timing the engage with the rest of the team matters more than committing alone. The other offensive enchants were cut in the same patch, so swapping to one of them does not recover much.

• Switcheroo!

• Rocket damage ratio: increased

• This gives Jinx back through her kit what the item changes took away. The higher ratio on the rocket form pays off most when several enemies are packed together, so hitting the whole group is worth more than it used to be. It also makes standing off at range and chipping away at a contested objective a more reasonable way to spend the fight.

Ardent Censer

• Healing and shielding values: reduced
• Adjusted so it can be purchased earlier

• Ardent Censer gives up per-cast strength in exchange for arriving sooner. Each heal or shield covers less than it used to, but a support can start propping up the team before their build would previously have come together. Since the item no longer wins fights on raw numbers, choosing who to buff and when now does more of the work.

Rework

• Zyra's whole kit is reworked to make her plants a bigger presence

Plants

• Stats adjusted, additional effects added

Rampant Growth

Reworked to enrage nearby plants

• Plants are no longer a side effect of Zyra's kit — they are the main body of her damage. Because the plants themselves carry adjusted stats and new effects, how many you keep alive decides how much output you actually have. Skill 2 (Rampant Growth) now enrages the plants already standing around her rather than acting on its own, so the order matters: set plants down first, then press Skill 2 (Rampant Growth). Holding a spot where those plants have line of sight into the fight is what decides how much Zyra contributes.

Double Up

• Base damage: reduced
• Early AD ratio: reduced

• This pulls back how hard Miss Fortune can push a lane on her own. With both the base damage and the early ratio down, the bounce off a minion no longer takes a meaningful chunk out of an opponent at low levels. The later ranks are untouched, so the play is to farm safely early and look for trades once her items are online.

Flowing Water Staff

• Healing and shielding effects: reduced
• Base stats: adjusted

• This lands alongside the Ardent Censer change as part of a general pull-back on enchanter items. The smaller heals and shields make it harder for one support to keep a focused carry alive on their own. With the base stats reworked as well, the item is worth weighing against what the support's own abilities bring rather than buying it for the buff alone.

Base Stats

• Base movement speed: reduced

Starfire Spellblade

• Passive base damage: reduced

Divine Judgment

• Damage: reduced
• Ratio: reduced

• Three separate cuts land at once, all aimed at how much a fed Kayle decides a game by herself. The slower base movement speed makes her positioning in lane and her escapes from a gank a little more awkward. With the Skill 3 (Starfire Spellblade) passive and both the damage and scaling on Ult (Divine Judgment) coming down, her late-game output drops as well, so surviving long enough to reach it matters more than before.

Forbidden Idol

• Base stats: adjusted to match the changes to its completed items

• With Ardent Censer and Flowing Water Staff both toned down, the component that feeds them is lined up to match. How long the component is worth sitting on before finishing it changes along with the upgrades, so the build timing deserves a fresh look. Rushing it early is a less automatic decision than it was.

Galeforce

• Damage: reduced

• Galeforce comes down in line with the other offensive enchants, Protobelt Enchant among them. With less damage on the activation, it closes out fewer kills, and its value shifts toward chasing or getting out. The pecking order among the offensive enchants barely moves, so the real question is whether the enchant slot should go to offense at all instead of defense or crowd-control removal.

Zeke's Convergence

• Damage and chase potential granted to tanks: reduced

• An item built around fighting alongside an ally had turned into a solo offensive tool for tanks. With the damage and the chase pressure lowered, a frontliner can no longer walk through to the enemy backline on the item's strength alone. It sits closer to its intended role of supporting a paired damage dealer.

Howling Abyss

Map adjustments

ARAM

New augments added

• The single-lane modes get an update on both fronts. With the map adjusted, where fights start and where you fall back to are worth relearning rather than assuming. The added augments widen the mid-game choices, so an awkward champion roll leaves more room to steer the game a different way.