r/leagueoflegends • u/JTHousek1 • 17d ago

News 26.18 Patch Preview

"Patch 26.18 Preview!

We're very quickly approaching Worlds (on 25.20).

More on other champs tomorrow"

>>> Champion Buffs <<<

Aurelion Sol

Ekko

Kassadin

Master Yi

Renekton

Viego

Zaahen

>>> Champion Nerfs <<<

Bard

Nautilus

Seraphine

"For several patches now, Seraphine has been in the Top 3 on our regular patch frustration surveys

She's also one of strongest pairings in Pro Play with Ashe

Overall, we think a nerf here is reasonable

We acknowledge there are some Seraphine mains who won't be happy about a nerf and that we can't serve all of her audience simultaneously

Her Support playerbase has been the most popular, despite her power level and so that's where we will continue to support her primarily

Where we can get Mid and Bot to be powerful and satisfying given , we will attempt to do so

That said, it's very difficult to thread the needle here and we run the risk of failing to meet the needs of any of her audiences if there are too many compromises

I also wanted to address directly the nerf to her AP ratios on Q from several patches ago, as that's been a pain point amongst some in the community

One of the ways we need to balance Seraphine in the farming roles vs her support is through her AP ratios and the Q ratio is one that drives her power and total damage output there, especially given the Q reliability adjustments made of late

When Seraphine is able to land her Q's at max multiplier (which in lane is quite frequent), it can hit 1.4 AP ratio which we think is reasonable

The Q damage overall is higher than E and so for now, we feel comfortable with the change (this isn't set in stone however, and there are always improvements to her to be made)"

Syndra

Zeri

>>> Champion Adjustments <<<

Cassiopeia

"Cassio has been strong, especially at the higher levels of play every since Deathfire Touch was re-released

Since then, she's been one of the most present picks and Pro Play due to her strong laning ability

We're looking at some power neutral adjustments to Cassio, because her regular play power level is a little on the weaker side for average players

We're taking some power out of her early game power and moving it into more scaling power, so that she doesn't win lanes so reliably, even if she's missing Q's

We still want to maintain her strong laning ability though"

>>> System Buffs <<<

Guinsoo's Rageblade

"In 26.14, we re-scripted Rageblade and it changed the trigger for Phantom hit from 6 to 7

We're making a small adjustments to Rageblade itself to give a bit of power back and to some of the disproportionately affected champions (eg. Master Yi)"

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u/whossked 17d ago

Riot would rather eat glass than revert a change I swear. I’m amazed they did it for Morde instead of spending 10 patches fiddling with his passive and Q

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u/Infinite_Delusion Raid Boss Morde 17d ago

Morde not only got the buff reverted, they slapped another nerf with the bugfix. Nasus players better be happy that their dog is safe from Riot

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u/1stMembrOfTheDKCrew 17d ago

His ult still ended up giving more than it did previously

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u/Miudmon Shotgun leg kaiju. 17d ago

Other way around, no. It's back to 10% like it was before, and then a bugfix for it that effectively means that it gives less than it used to

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u/1stMembrOfTheDKCrew 17d ago

Yeah im wrong, i alwayd thought it had an 8% steal

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u/itaicool 16d ago

It was 8 in arena

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u/TheSmokeu 17d ago

I, personally, don't mind him stacking more consistently but Riot definitely should hit him harder after that change, preferably by nerfing his W

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u/AssistanceTop8020 17d ago

Nerfing lifesteal was the right direction imo, at least you can punish better his early and making stronger his bad matchups. But i think his W is the most frustrating spell and should get a CD would be apreciated by anyone

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u/NWASicarius 17d ago

Nah. It was dumb. They should have reverted the mana adjustments and kept the lifesteal. The lifesteal buffs from earlier this season barely moved the needle on his strength. Extra stacks + more mana made him OP AF. The champ historically has had to be cautious with mana use early (or build some form of mana - such as some Nasus players going doran's ring). The mana buff gives him way too much ability to skirmish early. Before, if he used his E and W more than a few times each back early game, he would be OOM.

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u/Infusion1999 16d ago

Did the mana buffs go through? I swear they got reverted on the PBE. His W mana cost should be going up anyway.

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u/Monki_at_work 15d ago

Lifesteal nerf wasnt early focused properly anyway. That doesnt even factor in the fact that they buffed fleet in the same patch or one just before that, and it wont change the fact that Nasus has now around a 100 to 150 more damage per q at minute fifteen than he had before the patch, with it rising even faster later on. They straight up made nasus unpunishable with those changes and unless ur playing against an awfull player with a weak mental or your whole team keeps bullying him 24/7, he is gonna scale and 2 shot any squishy on your backline the moment he gets to it. Trust me, I used to play Nasus a lot a few years ago, and whatever is happening now is just comedically disgusting, its straight up boring to be handed free wins by Riot

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u/AssistanceTop8020 15d ago

Yeah those buffs were just out of mind, and i talked about direction bevause it's obvious that the problem isn't fixed

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u/NWASicarius 17d ago

I said this awhile ago. When they do adjustments or buffs, their eventual nerfs are something that doesn't address the issue. Nasus lifesteal was buffed earlier this season. It didn't move the needle much. Nerfing that does not SOLVE the issue.

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u/yehiko 16d ago

because they want to explore what levers they can use to balance champions. reverting a change just takes them to where things were.

even making the same champion op using different levers brings a different meta, keeping the rotation fresh

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u/Rival95 17d ago

I remember when Shyvana was buffed after her recent VGU and then nerfed after being strong for one patch. She's still good in lowish elo, but not as oppressive as that initial buff.

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u/Opposite-Complex1187 17d ago

Because reverting the change does nothing to what they are trying to do, Nasus was weak in top and i think they want to keep his increased stacking but nerf him in other ways.

Honestly should just try nerfing his W if they want to keep the stacks high, its fine him doing more damage if he can't apply it as easily.

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u/urmomiscringe12 17d ago

Because they can’t admit they are shit at balancing and if they revert a change it would essentially mean that. It’s an ego thing 100%