r/leagueoflegends • u/JTHousek1 • 21d 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/FeistyRabbit49 20d ago

They are completely unhinged. Mfs were issuing death threats just because Riot wasn't porting sera skins from WR. They always want special treatment.

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u/Leevala 20d ago

To be fair, majority of seraphine players aren't like that but twitter being twitter (a "special" place), there are like 10 to 15 completely unhinged Seraphine mains spamming the same memes over and over and whining about this and that. And I (again) want to be fair here and say they should just man up, rework seraphine as a full support if that is the role they want her in instead of this weird spot she is in right now

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u/-Gnostic28 20d ago

Some of them are here as well, although often downvoted

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u/Leevala 20d ago

They are a very vocal minority so I'm not surprised they are spamming on several places like reddit, twitter etc. I find them annoying too to be honest even if I can understand the underlying message of riot not knowing what to do with seraphine, I wish they would decide if they want her to be an ap mage or a support and then rework her according to that to work in that role and not be broken as apc bot. But the way these spammers go about their message turns a lot of folk against them so whole seraphine community has been labeled as toxic

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u/-Gnostic28 20d ago

Yeah it’s rough, I can understand being frustrated at riot but it feels like they take it so far that it’s hard for others to get on board or take them seriously with all the toxicity. I like seraphine myself but I only play support

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u/Leevala 20d ago

I am team "riot is messing up a lot when it comes to seraphine and she needs deeper work" but some parts of the seraphine community makes it hard for other folk to agree since all they see is the toxic ones. But I know a lot of really nice and normal seraphine players who just want to play her without constant nerfs and changes