Update history and meta predictions
Numbers are transcribed from the official Riot patch notes; the commentary is ours. This page covers patch 7.3 (released 2026-09-21).
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Patch 7.3 rebuilds the attack speed and crit items from the components up, and base Critical Strike Damage rises from 175% to 200%. The Attack Speed cap goes from 2.5 to 3. New items such as Stormrazor and Yun Tal Wildarrows join the shop, while Cloak of Agility and Magnetic Blaster are gone. On the champion side, Caitlyn's Ace in the Hole and Xayah's Bladecaller now scale with crit; both gain base damage and lose bonus Attack Damage ratio. Yasuo's and Yone's critical strikes deal only 90% of normal critical strike damage. Outer turrets go from 3000 to 7000 Health, and turret plating now stays for the whole game. Jungle monster stats now grow with the average champion level instead of game time. Hwei also joins as a new champion.
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Ranked Season S23. Five bans now apply from day one instead of after the first two weeks.
A new Legendary S rating sits above S, and from Platinum to Challenger, queuing for an in-demand role earns bonus rewards (this season: Support, Jungle and Fill). Legendary Ranked is open to players who reached Master this season or Grandmaster or higher last season.
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This Wild Pass is the Pencil Sharpener pass, with the skins Pencil Sharpener Kog’Maw and Ascended Pencil Sharpener Kog’Maw. Every Wild Star is now earned by level 75, and buying Elite adds 200 right away. The Wild Pass store is gone, and banners now cost 455 Wild Stars.
The Reindeer Mini Pass starts on December 3.
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100 gold cheaper, 3 points less Attack Speed.
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It gains 15 Attack Damage and 3 more points of Armor Penetration. In return it now costs 1200, up 400, and builds from a Long Sword.
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500 gold cheaper with 10 points less Attack Speed, and it now builds from one Dagger instead of two.
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One point less Movement Speed. Patch 7.3 lowers Movement Speed from 5% to 4% across the board — ten items in all, this one included.
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It drops Attack Speed for 15% Critical Rate. Attack Damage falls by 5 and the price by 50.
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It loses its 15 Attack Damage and gains 20% Attack Speed instead, 100 gold cheaper and built from a Dagger.
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It is no longer a crit item. It loses Critical Rate and Health, and gains 20 Attack Damage and 15% Lifesteal instead, at 3200 gold, up 200.
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Attack Damage rises by 15 to 50. Cloak of Agility leaves the recipe; it now builds from Caulfield’s Warhammer and Brawler’s Gloves.
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It loses its 15% Attack Speed and gains 10 Attack Damage. Movement Speed goes from 5% to 4%.
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Five more Attack Damage. Noonquiver replaces Cloak of Agility in the recipe, and the total stays at 3000 gold.
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Five more Attack Damage and 5 points of Attack Speed for 100 more gold, with Movement Speed down from 5% to 4%. Yunara’s first ability can now trigger Bring It Down through its spread.
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Its 10% Omnivamp becomes 12% Lifesteal. It is 100 gold cheaper with 5 points less Attack Speed. The in-game description (checked 2026-09-29) lists Ruined Strike at 6% of current Health (8% for melee), not the 7% (8.5%) in the official notes.
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It gains 35 Attack Damage and 30 Ability Power and loses its 5% Movement Speed, at 100 gold less.
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Five more points of Attack Speed and a new 20% Tenacity, with the recipe still totaling 2800 gold.
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300 gold cheaper, with 5 less Attack Damage and 5 more points of Attack Speed.
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It loses 20 Attack Damage and 250 gold of price. Movement Speed goes up from 5% to 7% — the opposite of most other Movement Speed items this patch.
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250 gold cheaper, with 5 more points of Attack Speed and a new 4% Movement Speed. Wind’s Fury is removed.
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Last Whisper’s effect folds into a flat 30% Armor Penetration stat. Attack Speed is gone, Attack Damage rises by 10, and the price drops by 300.
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Limit Break is removed, and Infinity now raises Critical Damage to 230% instead of 200%. Attack Damage rises by 10 to 75.
Pickaxe and Brawler's Gloves replace Cloak of Agility in the recipe. In game the price is still 3400 gold (checked 2026-09-29), 100 less than the 3500 the official recipe adds up to.
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Attack Damage rises by 15 to 40 and Mana to 500. Ability Haste drops by 5 and the price rises by 200.
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Like Manamune, it gains 15 Attack Damage, loses 5 Ability Haste and costs 200 more.
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Frostbite, which applied Grievous Wounds, is removed, and the slow now lands only on enemies below 60% Health. In return it gains 10 Attack Damage and 35% Armor Penetration as a base stat, and costs 200 less.
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150 gold cheaper, with 5 fewer points of Attack Speed and 1 less of Movement Speed.
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Five more Attack Damage and 1 point less Armor Penetration. The recipe still totals 3300 gold.
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One point less Movement Speed. Patch 7.3 lowers Movement Speed from 5% to 4% across the board — ten items in all, this one included.
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Heaven’s Circle replaces Shimmering Spark in the recipe, the price drops by 100, and it gains 5 Ability Haste.
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One point less Movement Speed. Patch 7.3 lowers Movement Speed from 5% to 4% across the board — ten items in all, this one included.
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It drops Health and Ability Haste to focus on heal and shield power: 200 gold cheaper at 700, with 2 more points of Heal and Shield Power.
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It drops Health and Ability Haste and costs 300 less, with 3 more points of Heal and Shield Power. Movement Speed goes from 5% to 4%.
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Health is gone and Ability Haste drops by 5, while Heal and Shield Power rises by 3 points and the price drops by 100.
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Health is gone and Ability Power and Ability Haste drop, while Heal and Shield Power rises by 3 points and the price drops by 150.
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It now builds from Bandleglass Mirror, and Movement Speed drops from 5% to 4%. The game shows a price of 2500 gold (checked 2026-09-29), 50 more than the 2450 the official recipe adds up to.
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Health is gone; it gains 10 Ability Power and 50% base Mana Regen, and costs 100 more.
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300 gold cheaper, with 100 more Health and 5 more Ability Haste. Max Mana and Heal and Shield Power are gone.
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Health is halved to 200 and the price drops by 150.
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300 gold cheaper, with part of its Armor moved into 25 Magic Resist. Health drops by 100 and Ability Haste by 5.
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200 gold cheaper, with half its Armor moved into 20 Magic Resist. Health drops by 150.
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It drops Armor and Magic Resist, gains 400 Health for 600 total plus 20 Ability Haste, and costs 150 less.
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150 more max Mana and 100 gold cheaper.
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Part of its Armor moves into 30 Magic Resist and Ability Haste drops by 5, for 200 gold less.
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600 gold cheaper at 2400, with 50 less Health and 10 less Magic Resist.
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15 more Attack Damage and 5 more Armor. The price became 3200 gold, then rose again to 3300 in 7.3a (3300 confirmed in game on 2026-09-29).
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150 more max Health. Kindlegem joins the recipe, which still totals 2600 gold.
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Like Winter’s Approach, it gains 150 max Health.
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It gains 300 Health and loses 10 Armor and 10 Magic Resist, for 100 more gold.
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Surging Scales, now removed, leaves the recipe; the total stays at 2800 gold. Patch 7.3 lowers Movement Speed from 5% to 4% across the board — ten items in all, this one included.
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50 more max Health for 50 more gold.
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Pickaxe and Ruby Crystal replace Bami’s Cinder in the recipe; the total stays at 3000 gold.
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One point less Movement Speed. Patch 7.3 lowers Movement Speed from 5% to 4% across the board — ten items in all, this one included.
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Its 5% Movement Speed is gone and Attack Damage rises by 6, with 5 less Ability Haste. Hearthbound Axe replaces Stinger in the recipe.
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10 less Ability Power, 50 less max Health and 5 fewer points of Attack Speed.
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It gains 80 Ability Power and 5 points of Attack Speed, loses 5 Ability Haste and costs 100 more. Nashor’s Talon leaves the recipe.
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Inevitable Demise’s critical strike threshold goes from 35% to 40%.
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100 gold cheaper, and its 5 Ability Haste is gone.
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Ability Power per stack is standardized to 1.667 times the Attack Damage value: the low end rises from 4 to 5 and the high end from 8 to 8.33. The Attack Damage values do not change.
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Monster stats now scale with the average champion level rather than game time. Rift Scuttler first spawns at 1:30.
Baron Nashor shreds 0.5 Armor and Magic Resist with each hit (up to 100 stacks), and the gold from a summoned Rift Herald charge drops from 200 to 50.
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Turrets are rebuilt. Outer turret Health rises from 3000 to 7000, and plates now stay for the whole game, falling off as Health drops below 90%, 75%, 55%, 30% and 0%.
The new Crystalline Overgrowth builds crystals on a turret over time that burst as true damage on a champion’s first basic attack — larger the higher the attacking team’s average level, up to 18.9% of the turret’s max Health. Turrets also take 20% more damage from melee champions.
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Minions now deal 60% damage to champions. From 5:30 they gain 25 Movement Speed every 150 seconds, up to 6 times.
Super Minion base Health rises from 800 to 1100, and they empower nearby minions based on how many enemy inhibitor turrets are down.
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Critical Damage is now 200% for every champion. Attack Speed ratios are no longer split between melee and ranged; each champion has its own.
Champions whose abilities scale with crit were adjusted individually to match (see each champion’s entry).
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She gives up 3 base Attack Damage, and in return Second Skin scales with her current Plasma stacks. The missing-health portion doubles its AP ratio.
Void Seeker leans on Attack Damage and loses 10 points of AP ratio. Supercharge now reads total bonus Attack Speed instead of the Attack Speed from items alone, with a higher cap, so Attack Speed from runes or allies counts too.
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This is a kit rework. The Attack Speed that used to come from maxing poison stacks is gone; instead leaving stealth grants six seconds of it, rewarding him for setting up a position before he strikes.
Venom Cask becomes a thrown zone that grants vision, slows, and applies a stack every second. Contaminate picks up an AP ratio but can only be cast while a poisoned target is within 1200 units.
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The Culling's bullet count now scales with Critical Rate and Critical Damage, so stacking crit buys him more shots.
Piercing Light flattens its bonus AD ratio to 100% at every rank: 35 points better at rank 1, 25 points worse at rank 4. Base Attack Damage rises by 2 but per-level growth drops 0.5, leaving him 5 lower at level 15.
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Six more base Attack Damage, and both Headshot and Ace in the Hole now read Critical Damage, so crit buys ability damage as well as auto-attack damage.
A Headshot on a trapped enemy adds 190 plus 30% bonus AD at rank 4, making it far more worthwhile to shoot something standing in a trap.
From 7.3 each champion carries their own Attack Speed ratio. Caitlyn sits at 0.625.
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Whirling Death gains an execute: if an enemy champion it hits has less current Health than Draven's current Adoration stacks, it kills them. Build stacks, then look for the throw.
Damage falloff per hit eases from 8% to 5% and the floor rises from 40% to 50%, so multi-hits keep more of their damage. The bounty drops, though — 80 to 60 base and 4 to 3 per stack.
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Love Tap changes how it grows. Critical Rate used to feed the multiplier directly; now it starts at 0.6 and adds 40% of Critical Rate, so even 100% crit no longer doubles it.
Double Up’s second shot moves from a flat 120% to whatever your Critical Damage is, and Bullet Time reads Critical Damage too. Strut gains 5 initial Movement Speed and loses 10 at the cap, so it ramps sooner and peaks lower.
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Inferno Trigger gets cheaper and faster: two seconds off the cooldown at every rank, no mana cost, a higher base and 20 points less AD ratio. Lifesteal now applies to it at 66.7% effectiveness.
In exchange she loses 2 base Attack Damage and 0.5 per level, and Blade Whirl drops 30 points of bonus AD ratio. Flare no longer triggers Lifesteal at all.
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This is close to an across-the-board buff. Burst Fire doubles its base damage, and Ultrashock Laser gains both base damage and ratios.
Lightning Crash extends Overcharge from 1.5 to 2.5 seconds and doubles the extension — 7.5 seconds on a crit — which makes it much easier to hold through a fight. The conversion of excess Attack Speed into Attack Damage also rises from 50% to 60%.
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Super Mega Death Rocket! gains 10 seconds of cooldown at rank 1 and 5 at rank 2, with rank 3 unchanged. Its bonus AD ratio falls to 12% at the low end and 120% at the high end.
Attack Damage per level drops from 4.5 to 4 as well, which is 7 less by level 15 and a thinner late-game base.
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Avengerang gains a lot of base damage — 50 at rank 1 and 110 at rank 4. Its AD scaling moves from total to bonus Attack Damage, so early on it leans on the flat numbers.
Comeuppance now reads Critical Damage, and Heroic Swing moves from a flat 150% to 70% of your Critical Damage. Attack Damage per level falls from 5.5 to 4.5 and minion damage is lower too.
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Gatling Gun flattens its resistance shred: 2 more at rank 1, 4 less at rank 4, so the ceiling on a long burn-down is lower.
Phosphorus Bomb gains 20 points of AP ratio and loses 15 of bonus AD ratio, pushing it toward Ability Power. Missile Barrage loses ratio on both the normal and the Big One missiles, and Attack Damage per level drops 0.5.
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Three more base Attack Damage and 0.2 more per level, which works out to 5.8 higher at level 15. Base stats only this patch.
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Four more base Attack Damage. From 7.3 Attack Speed is per champion: Kog’Maw carries a 0.665 ratio, 0.2 base bonus Attack Speed, and 0.03 per level.
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Four more base Attack Damage and nothing else. His abilities are untouched.
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Bladecaller now scales with Critical Rate and Critical Damage. Its base damage rises by 10 while the bonus AD ratio falls from 90% to 50%, so it needs crit to reach its old totals.
Deadly Plumage gives up 5 points of Attack Speed and gains 5 on the feather damage, with Movement Speed flattened to 30% at every rank.
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Six more base Attack Damage, and both Rocket Jump and Buster Shot pick up bonus AD ratios, so Attack Damage now feeds her abilities.
Explosive Charge’s active reads Critical Rate and Critical Damage. Against that, Rocket Jump costs 3 more seconds of cooldown at rank 4 and slows less, and Attack Damage per level falls from 6 to 5.
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Fleet of Foot gains a lot of Movement Speed: 31–45 by level becomes 55–70, an increase of 24 to 25.
Boomerang Blade gains base damage and now scales with crit, while Ricochet drops its flat damage for a pure AD percentage. Spell Shield’s cooldown refund falls 10 points and the Attack Damage per morale stack is lower.
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Six more base Attack Damage and 15 more points of ratio on Tumble at every rank, while Final Hour nearly doubles its Attack Damage — 35 to 50 at rank 3.
Silver Bolts flattens its max-Health true damage: 4 points more at rank 1 and 2 points less at rank 4, so it is stronger before it is maxed.
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Attack Damage per level climbs from 2.65 to 4, which is 18.9 more by level 15 — a big change.
Volley gains 50 base damage and a shorter cooldown, with mana now varying by rank. Ranger’s Focus costs 20 less mana, and Frost Shot slows 5 points harder at every level.
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Crit works differently for him now. His critical strikes deal 80% of normal Critical Damage, but the fourth shot hits turrets harder and Curtain Call’s fourth shot moves from a flat 200% to whatever your Critical Damage is.
The conversion into Attack Damage loses 5 points from Critical Rate and 1.5 from level. Base Attack Damage rises 2 and per-level growth 0.45.
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Her critical strikes now deal 90% of normal Critical Damage, and every 20 Mist stacks grant 10% Critical Rate instead of 15%.
Dawning Shadow gains damage and 20 points of AP ratio, but the shield’s Mist coefficient halves from 4 to 2. Piercing Darkness loses 30 base damage at rank 4.
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The conversion of excess Critical Rate into Attack Damage falls from 0.6 to 0.5, and his critical strikes deal 90% of normal Critical Damage — a give-back for base Critical Damage rising to 200%.
Last Breath loses 50 base damage and 10 points of bonus AD ratio.
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His shotgun’s Critical Damage multiplier rises from 1.3 to 1.5. Combined with base Critical Damage moving to 200%, crit builds scale more cleanly.
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Like Yasuo, his excess Critical Rate conversion drops to 0.5 and his critical strikes deal 90% of normal Critical Damage.
Spirit Cleave gains 10 base damage at rank 4 but loses max-Health percentage and shield ratio. Soul Unbound flattens its stored-damage share — 3.5 points more at rank 1, 1 less at rank 4 — and Fate Sealed gains 50 damage at rank 3 while losing 20 points of AD ratio.
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His crit interactions are pulled back: both the current-Health portion and the second hit of Blade of the Ruined King take only 80% of your Critical Damage, offsetting the higher base.
He loses 2 base Attack Damage and 0.3 per level, Sovereign’s Domination heals 5% instead of 7%, and Harrowed Path gives 10 points less Attack Speed at every rank.
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Bloodlust’s Attack Speed is gone entirely, and so is the bonus Undying Rage used to add to it. In exchange he gains 10 base Attack Damage and 0.6 Armor per level.
Bloodlust drops its flat Attack Damage and instead scales per 1% missing Health by rank — 0.5 to 0.9 at rank 4 — so it pays off once he is hurt. Mocking Shout’s Attack Damage reduction also splits by rank, reaching 80% at rank 4.
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He loses 30 base Health but gains Health per level, 112 to 140, which leaves him roughly 360 Health higher at level 15 — weaker early, sturdier late.
Undertow loses 15 points of bonus AD ratio and Ragnarok grants 10 less Armor and Magic Resist at every rank.
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The Relentless Storm flattens its damage: 1 more at level 1, 12 less at level 15, so the ceiling is lower.
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Snowball Barrage loses its 150% damage modifier against monsters, so its clear now runs on raw numbers. Paired with the Smite changes in 7.3, that reshapes how he moves through the jungle.
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Both monster damage modifiers are gone — 80% on Razor Shuriken and 60% on Shadow Slash. How much of his jungle clear comes back depends on the Smite changes.
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Mystic Shot loses base damage and gains cooldown — 25 less and a second longer at rank 1. In exchange, the cooldown refund now applies to Mystic Shot itself, so landing it repeatedly is the point.
Trueshot Barrage gains 50 damage and 10 points of AP ratio at rank 3, while ranks 1 and 2 get worse. It pays off once maxed.
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Her bonus damage on crit falls from 10% to 8%, and the growth per 100 Ability Power drops by the same amount. Discipline flattens its bonus Attack Speed: 2.5 points more at rank 1, 5 points less at rank 4.
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.