LOL | PBE Patch 26.09: Upcoming Balance Changes & New Items!

Summary:

Ezreal receives major AP buffs
Zeri adjusted (more range, lower scaling)
Shyvana is getting reworked
New starter items and boots added
Statikk Shiv reworked
New two runes introduced

Note: Everything is subject to change, as this is a live preview of PBE changes. This post will be updated as more changes are added.

Items

New Items

Doran’s Bow – AD, attack speed, omnivamp starter
Doran’s Helm – Tank starter item
Gluttonous Greaves – Boots with scaling omnivamp
Immortal Path – Upgraded boots with 5% increased damage, 15% increased healing bonus effects

Item Changes

Dusk and Dawn – Reduced stats, now heals based on AP and bonus health
Voltaic Cyclosword – Passive reworked, now triggers on abilities
Axiom Arc – Lower cooldown refund, improved lethality scaling
Staff of Flowing Water – Reduced stats, now grants additional passive ability haste
Statikk Shiv – Reworked (AD + AP + attack speed, chain lightning effect)
Hubris - Passive base AD reduced from 15 to 12

New Statikk Shiv chain effect.

Removed

Opportunity
Trailblazer
Phase Rush

Runes

Deathfire Touch – New rune (damage over time)
Stormraider’s Surge – New rune replacing Phase Rush
Arcane Comet – Reduced base damage, now scales with distance
Hail of Blades – Reduced attack speed, now deals bonus true damage

Systems / Gameplay

WASD movement option added
Toplane quest – Slight XP nerf, bonus XP on takedowns
Midlane quest – No more empowered recall, now grants AD/AP
Botlane quest – Reduced gold bounty

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Champion Changes

Ezreal

Ap Ezreal changes:

Q AP ratio increased from 15% to 40%
W AP ratio increased from 70 - 90% to 90% flat
R AP ratio increased from 90% to 110%
R minion base damage reduced from 175 - 375 to 150 - 350
R minion bonus AD ratio increased from 50% to 100%
R minion AP ratio increased from 45% to 110%

Kennen

AD Kennen buffs:

P damage can now critically strike for 140% damage + 40% bonus crit damage (technically on W but lets go with P)
E duration is now increased by 1 second per critical strike, duration cannot exceed 4 seconds

Teemo

AD Teemo buffs:

E on-hit now scales with 10% bonus AD
E DoT now scales with 5% bonus AD

Xin Zhao

AP Xin Zhao buffs:

P heal AP ratio changed from 65% to 50 - 75%
W slow duration now scales with 0.5% AP
E AP ratio increased from 60% to 120%
E bonus attack speed reduced from 40 - 80% to 38 - 70%
E attack speed now scales with 10% per 100 AP and 1% per 5% attack speed

Zeri

Zeri changes:

Attack range increased from 500 to 550
Excess attack speed to AD reduced from 70% to 60%
Q base damage increased from 15 - 23 to 21 - 37
Q AD ratio reduced from 104 - 120% to 102 - 110%
W AP ratio increased from 25% to 50%
E bonus base damage increased from 17 - 25 to 22 - 30
E duration changed from next 3 attacks to next 5 seconds
E cooldown increased from 22 - 18 seconds to 24 - 18
E cooldown is now only refunded on Q and charged attacks instead of all spells on Charged attacks
R bonus AD ratio reduced from 100% to 60%
R move speed increased from 10% to 15%
R move speed per stack increased from 1% to 1.5%
R stack duration increased from 1.5 seconds to 2.5
P minion execute thresh increased from 60 - 150 (18% AP) to 70 - 160 (20% AP)

Shyvana

Shyvana changes:

AD growth increased from 3 to 4
Base attack speed increased from 0.625 to 0.638
Attack speed ratio reduced from 0.699 to 0.638
Q cooldown refund reduced from 1 second to 0.5
Q passive AP ratio removed (1.1% per 100 AP)
Q active AP Ratio increased from 25% to 30%
W base shield increased from 60 - 140 to 75 - 155
W shield health ratio changed from 5% max HP to 12% bonus HP
W damage bonus AD ratio removed (40%)
W damage AP ratio increased from 20% to 65%
W cooldown reduced from 14-12 seconds to 13-9
Dragon W base heal reduced from 75-200 to 60-100
Dragon W heal no longer scales with 10% bonus AD and 5% AP
Dragon W heal now scales with 4-8% missing HP
Dragon W heal no longer increased up to 100% based on missing HP
E base damage reduced from 50-200 to 50-110
E damage no longer scales with 35% bonus AD
E AP ratio increased from 70% to 75-95%
E now deals 5% of target's max HP, capped at 200 against monsters
E slow changed from 20-40% to 30% flat (rank 3)
E cooldown reduced from 12-10 seconds to 12-8
E AP ratio reduced from 75-95% to 60-80% (70% flat live)
E subsequent damage reduced from 50% to 40%

Udyr

Udyr changes:

Q on-hit base damage changed from 5-45 to 6-36
Q on-hit bonus health ratio changes from 1.5% flat to 1.2 - 2%
Q on-hit bonus AD ratio reduced from 25% to 20%
Q on-hit now scales with 1.5% max HP
Q active bonus AD ratio reduced from 4% per 100 bAD to 3.5%
Empowered Q bonus AD ratio reduced from 7% per 100 bAD to 5%
Empowered Q now scales with 1% per 100 bonus HP
Empowered Q lightning AP ratio reduced from 0.8% per 100 AP to 0.6%
W shield now scales with 50% bonus AD
Empowered W shield now scales with 100% bonus AD
Empowered W heal now scales with 50% bonus AD
E speed now scales with 5% per 100 bonus AD
Empowered E speed now scales with 10% per 100 bonus AD

Zoe

Zoe changes:

W base damage reduced from 20 - 60 to 15 - 55
W AP ratio reduced from 15% to 10%
E cooldown increased from 16 - 12 seconds to 18 - 14
E cooldown is now refunded by 16 - 30% if it hits an enemy champ

Ambessa

Ambessa nerf:

R cast time increased from 0.55 seconds to 0.7

Briar

Briar nerf:

Health growth reduced from 100 to 95

Gragas

Gragas buff:

W damage reduction increased from 10-18% to 10-26%

Tahm Kench

Tahm Kench buffs:

E grey health stores increased from 45-100% to 55-100%
R move speed increased from 40% to 60%

Taliyah

Taliyah buff:

Q base damage increased from 50-120 to 55-125

Warwick

Warwick buff:

P base damage increased from 6-46 to 6-55

New PBE Skins Preview: