This fortnightly patch includes a lot of buffs and nerfs for popular characters.

Nilah was only made available in patch 12.13 two weeks ago, and another update to the fortnightly patch has arrived. A significant portion of the patch 12.14 release for League of Legends focuses on balance changes. Popular champions have experienced nerfs, boosts, and tweaks in both professional and casual play. This is one of the more important upgrades in recent memory because it includes adjustments to items, summoner spells, runes, drakes, Elder Dragons, and Rift Heralds.

The patch 12.14 update affects 18 champions in all, with six of them receiving nerfs, seven receiving buffs, and the remaining five receiving some much-needed modifications. Given that Zeri and Renata Glasc are the most recent champions of this season and have been popular choices in professional competition since their release, their inclusion in the nerf pool is not unusual.

Champions

Buffs

Alistar

Q – Pulverise

• Mana cost: 65/70/75/80/85 ⇒ 55/60/65/70/75
• Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 ⇒ 14/13/12/11/10

Jarvan IV

Q – Dragon Strike

• Damage: 90/130/170/210/250 (+120% bonus AD) ⇒ 90/130/170/210/250 (+140% bonus AD)

E – Demacian Standard

• Cooldown: 12 seconds ⇒ 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds

LeBlanc

Base Stats

• Base mana: 334 ⇒ 400
• Mana growth: 50 ⇒ 55

W – Distortion

• Damage: 75/110/145/180/215 (+60% AP) ⇒ 75/115/155/195/235 (+60% AP)

Nocturne

Passive – Umbra Blades

• Minion damage: No longer deals 50% reduced damage against minions that are the primary target (note: will still do 50% reduced damage to all other minions damaged by Nocturne’s Passive.

Pantheon

Q – Comet Spear

• Minions and Monsters damage: Deals 70% damage to minions and monsters ⇒ Deals 70% damage to minions and 105% to monsters

Teemo

Base Stats

• Mana growth: 20 ⇒ 25

R – Noxious Trap

• Placement range: 400 / 650 / 900 ⇒ 600 / 750 / 900
• Damage: 200 / 325 / 450 (+ 50% AP) ⇒ 200 / 325 / 450 (+ 55% AP)
• Mana cost: 75 Mana ⇒ 75 / 55 / 35 Mana

Varus

Base Stats

• Base AD: 59 ⇒ 62

Nerfs

Gnar

Base Stats

• Base health: 580 ⇒ 540
• Health regeneration growth: 1.75 ⇒ 1.25

Renata Glasc

Base Stats

• Base health: 595 ⇒ 545
• Base AD: 51 ⇒ 49

Seraphine

W – Surround Sound

• Shield: 50/70/90/110/130 (+35% AP) ⇒ 50/70/90/110/130 (+25% AP)
• Heal per ally: 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% (+0.6% per 100 AP) missing health ⇒ 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% (+0.4% per 100 AP) missing health

Sivir

Q – Boomerang Blade

• Cast time bugfix: 0.25-0.18 seconds scaling down with Attack Speed ⇒ 0.25-0.10 seconds scaling down with Attack Speed

W – Ricochet

• Damage to minions: 80% ⇒ 65%
• Gold is Forever (NEW): Bounces now execute minions that are hit by a ricochet and would have been left at less than 15 health

Yuumi

E – Zoomies

• Heal: 70/90/110/130/150 (+35% AP) ⇒ 70/90/110/130/150 (+30% AP)

Zeri

Q – Burst Fire

• Electrocution (NEW): Right clicks executes enemies with health under 60-150 (levels 1-18)(+18% AP) (note: Damage to shields or invulnerabilities does not proc this execute)
• Low on Battery (REMOVED): Uncharged Zeri’s right-click attack no longer does increased damage to enemies below a certain health threshold

R – Lightning Crash

• Bonus magic damage: 10/15/20 (+15% AP) ⇒ 5/10/15 (+15% AP)

Adjusted

Aatrox

Base Stats

• Health growth: 104 ⇒ 114

E – Umbral Dash

• Passive healing: 18/20/22/24/26% ⇒ 18/19.5/21/22.5/24%

R – World Ender

• Increased healing: 25/40/55% ⇒ 25/35/45%

Gangplank

Base Stats

• Base health: 640 ⇒ 600
• Health growth: 104 ⇒ 114
• Base armour: 35 ⇒ 31

Passive – Trial by Fire

• Damage: 55-310 (based on level)(+100% bonus AD) ⇒ 55-310 (based on level)(+100% bonus AD)(+200% Critical Strike Chance)

Q – Parrrley

• Base damage: 20/45/70/95/120 ⇒ 10/40/70/100/130

E – Powder Keg

• Slow amount: 40/50/60/70/80% ⇒ 30/37.5/45/52.5/60% (+0.25% per 1% Crit Chance at all ranks)
• Bonus physical damage: 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 / 180 ⇒ 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 / 195

E Bonus damage on crit: 25% ⇒ 10%

Janna

E – Eye of the Storm

• Shield amount: 65/90/115/140/165 ⇒ 75/100/125/150/175
• Bonus heal and shield power: 20% ⇒ 15%

R – Monsoon

• Heal per second: 90/145/200 (+45% AP) ⇒ 100/150/200 (+50% AP)

Kayn

Base stats

• Health growth: 99 ⇒ 109

Passive – The Darkin Scythe

• Rhaast passive heal: 25-35% (based on level) of damage dealt to champions ⇒ Heal 20-30% (based on level) of damage dealt to champions

Wukong

 Base stats

• Base health regeneration: 2.5 ⇒ 3.5 per 5 seconds

Passive – Stone Skin

• Health regeneration per stack (max 10): 0.5% ⇒ 0.35%

Items

Chempunk Chainsword

• Combine cost: 300 ⇒ 500
• Total cost: 2600 ⇒ 2800

Enchanter Items

• Forbidden Idol heal and shield power increase: 10% ⇒ 8%
• Ardent Censer heal and shield power increase: 10% ⇒ 8%
• Mikael’s Blessing heal and shield power increase: 20% ⇒ 16%
• Redemption heal and shield power increase: 20% ⇒ 16%
• Staff of Flowing Water heal and shield power increase: 10% ⇒ 8%
• Moonstone Renewer maximum stacks: 5 ⇒ 4

Sunfire Aegis

• Immolate damage: 12-30 (based on level) (+1% bonus health) ⇒ 15 (+1.75% bonus health)

Potions & Runes

Potions

• Health potion healing: 150 ⇒ 120
• Refillable potion: 125 ⇒ 100
• Corrupting potion: 125 ⇒ 100

Biscuit Delivery

• Health and mana restoration: 10% of missing Health/Mana ⇒ 8% of missing Health/Mana
• Increase to maximum mana: 50 ⇒ 40

Bone Plating

• Cooldown: 45 seconds ⇒ 55 seconds

Conditioning

• Base stat increase: 9 Armor and Magic Resist ⇒ 8 Armor and Magic Resist
• Total bonus stat increase: 4% increase to total Armor and Magic Resist ⇒ 3% increase to total Armor and Magic Resist

Guardian

• Cooldown: 70-40 seconds (based on level) ⇒ 90-40 seconds (based on level)

Scorch

• Damage: 15-35 (based on level) ⇒ 20-40 (based on level)

Second Wind

• Heal: Regenerate 6 (+4% Missing health) over 10 seconds ⇒ Regenerate 3 (+4% Missing health) over 10 seconds

Sudden Impact

• Bonus lethality and magic penetration: 7 Lethality and 6 Magic Penetration ⇒ 9 Lethality and 7 Magic Penetration

Time Warp Tonic

• Bonus move speed while under the effect of a potion or biscuit: 4% ⇒ 2%

Unflinching

• Bonus slow, resist, and tenacity: 10-30% based on missing health ⇒ 5-25% based on missing health

Summoner Spells

Challenging Smite

• Smite target damage reduction: 20% ⇒ 10%

Exhaust

• Exhausted target damage reduction: 40% ⇒ 35%

Systems

Drakes

Changes to all drakes

• Current health damage percentage on attack: 7% ⇒ 5%
• Health pre-rift transformation: 2650 (+240 per level) ⇒ 3450 (+380 per level)
• Health post-rift transformation: 4350 (+240 per level) ⇒ 6950 (+380 per level)

Cloud Drake

• Attack damage: 50 ⇒ 35
• Cloud Drake dragon slayer buff: 3.5% Slow Resist & Out-of-Combat Movespeed ⇒ 7% Slow Resist & Out-of-Combat Movespeed
• Cloud Soul dragon slayer buff: 10% bonus movement speed and 50% bonus movement speed for 6 seconds after casting Ultimate ⇒ 15% bonus movement speed and 50% bonus movement speed for 6 seconds after casting Ultimate

Hextech Drake

• Attack damage: 66.7 ⇒ 47
• Hextech Drake dragon slayer buff: 6% attack speed and 6 Ability Haste ⇒ 9% attack speed and 9 Ability Haste

Infernal Drake

• Attack damage: 100 ⇒ 70
• Infernal Drake dragon slayer buff: 4% bonus attack damage and ability power ⇒ 6% bonus attack damage and ability power

Mountain Drake

• Attack damage: 150 ⇒ 105
• Mountain Drake dragon slayer buff: 6% bonus armour and magic resist ⇒ 9% bonus armour and magic resist

Ocean Drake

• Attack damage: 100 ⇒ 70
• Ocean Drake dragon slayer buff: 2% missing health per 5 seconds ⇒ 3% missing health per 5 seconds

Elder Dragon

• Health: 6400 (+180 per minute) ⇒ 6400 (+290 per minute)

Rift Herald

• Chonky (NEW): Rift Herald now has 75% more health when summoned with Eye of the Herald for the second time
• You All Get Gold (NEW): Rift Herald now grants 200 local gold to the team that killed it

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

Challenges

• The “Challenges Are Here” introduction tooltip has been removed. 
• You can now change the order that your Challenge Tokens are displayed in. Open the Identity Customizer, select the token slot you wish to change, and select the token you want displayed there

Sion Bugfix Bundle

• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to sharply turn the direction of Sion’s ultimate
• Fixed a bug where Sion’s basic attacks would sometimes automatically cancel while in combat
• Fixed a bug where Sion’s Q would prematurely end its charge if it was cast immediately after E
• Fixed a bug where W would not be castable immediately after completing a Q cast
• Fixed a bug where Sion could animation cancel his R into Q combo that made the stun duration of point blank ultimates longer than intended

Other bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where clone champions (e.g. Shaco, LeBlanc, Neeko) would not properly display Mythic and Ornn Mythic item borders in their clone’s inventory
• Fixed a bug where opponent summoner spell’s tooltips would display certain values as 0 if viewed before said champion is seen in-game
• Fixed a bug where Yone could no longer return to his body after using his E – Soul Unbound while under effects like Camille’s R – Hextech Ultimatum or Mordekaiser’s R – Death Realm
• Fixed a bug where the visual effects of Yone’s third Q – Mortal Steel would disappear earlier than intended
• Fixed a bug where Qiyana’s Q > W > Q combo would deal less damage than intended
• Fixed a bug where Bel’Veth’s E – Royal Maelstrom would temporarily have global range when Berserked by Renata’s R – Hostile Takeover
• Fixed a bug where casting Rek’Sai’s R – Void Rush on an enemy vessel created by Illaoi’s E – Test of Spirit would cause Rek’Sai to stop rendering
• Fixed a bug where part of Varus’ Q – Piercing Arrow visual effects would stop rendering after casting his E – Hail of Arrows
• Fixed a bug where Nilah’s Passive – Joy Unending was unintentionally proccing Fimbulwinter’s passive
• Fixed a bug where Akali’s Passive – Weapon Mark weapon spin animation would be delayed when issuing a movement command
• Fixed a bug where Nilah’s Q – Formless Blade empowered basic auto attack would last longer than intended if used during her E – Slipstream
• Fixed a bug where Nilah’s Q – Formless Blade empowered basic auto attacks would damage Nilah when Berserked by Renata’s R – Hostile Takeover
• Fixed a bug where boots would override mythic item passive move speed if placed in a lower item slot than the mythic item
• Fixed a bug where Black Cleaver’s bonus damage tracker was not correctly tracking damage against shields
• Fixed a bug where Lethality mythic items were not properly tracking damage
• Fixed a bug where Nilah’s Champ Select lock-in sound effects were playing too loudly
• Fixed a bug where Sejuani’s Q – Bristle Arctic Assault’s visual effects were not properly showing
• Fixed a bug where Singed’s R – Insanity Potion visual effects were not properly showing
• Fixed a bug where Nilah’s W – Jubilant Veil would not grey out to reflect it is unable to be cast during her R – Apotheosis
• Fixed a bug where Nilah’s Q – Formless Blade empowered auto attacks’ visual effects would not properly display
• Fixed a bug where Eclipse’s damage tracker was not working correctly
• Fixed a bug where Poro Snax in ARAM was not correctly displaying their beautiful flavour text
• Fixed a bug where Luden’s effect missiles would sometimes affect other items’ tooltip damage trackers
• Fixed a bug where the Identity Customizer would open to the wrong section on subsequent views.
• Fixed a bug where stunned and knock up animations were not correctly playing for several champions

Updated the tooltip on Jarvan IV’s W so that it now displays the correct information