We’re well underway into the 15th season of League of Legends, and all this said, it doesn’t appear Riot is going to stop anytime soon with the patches.
Now, the full patch release calendar is here, and the next patch on the slate is 25.20.
Here's all of the changes coming thus far.
League of Legends Patch 25.20: All Champion Changes and More
The next League of Legends patch is going to change up quite a few champions, alongside changing other elements of the game, as is the case with most LoL patches.
While these changes are going to be exciting, you’re going to want to be in the know what's coming.
Below is what we know so far.
>>> Champion Buffs <<<
"Mastery Curve Buffs
Each of the other buffs in the list are aimed at champions that facially look statistically fine (typically >50% winrate), but are actually on the weaker side when taking into account their mastery curve"
Anivia
Fizz
Katarina
"On the flip side here is Katarina, an interesting case study, who has a pretty steep mastery curve, while also having one of the highest expert shares (and therefore lower novice shares) in the game
This pushes up her public Winrate required to be balanced, when taking these factors into account
Most other champions with similarly steep mastery curves tend to have higher novice rates (which pulls their public Winrate down) while also having a pretty disastrously low game 1"
Malphite
"Take for example Malphite; a champion who only grows 2-3% Winrate when fully mastered
This typically manifests most strongly with champions who are quite performant on game 1, who don't grow that much with high amounts of play, have a high "novice share" (people who are new to playing the champion) or all of them"
Pantheon (Jungle)
"Pantheon was overnerfed last patch and it wasn't our intention to remove him completely from the meta, so we're looking to claw some of that back"
Veigar
>>> Champion Nerfs <<<
Briar
"This patch, we're targeting a few junglers (and one flex) that are posting up really strong performances in regular play; Volibear, Warwick, Briar.
These 3 are strong statchecks in regular play where spacing gameplay is harder to access, so we're taking them down a bit"
Orianna
Volibear
Warwick
Wukong
"With Pantheon and Poppy both nerfed, we expect Wukong to rise
We're looking to bring him down to be closer to the rest of the frontrunners in Jungle as a result"
>>> Champion Adjustments <<<
"We're seeing a lot of different meta reads going into Worlds and are interested to see how the clash of regions shakes up and not looking to change things dramatically
So, we're looking at adjustments to just 2 other champs"
Azir
"On the flip side, Azir is still looking too strong in Pro, but net nerfing him from his current state for regular play feels pretty bad.
Instead, we're looking for a power neutral change that shifts some power away from some of the Pro attributes to other parts of his kit to give him some more clear strengths and weaknesses that hopefully gives some power back to regular players in the process"
Camille
"Camille is a champion who's just on the fringe of viability and we're looking to give her a power neutral bump that helps some of the Pro attributes in an effort to increase viable options amongst scaling "1v9" AD fighters"
Graves
"Graves has been going pretty much full lethality one shot builds for a while
We're looking at some adjustments here to correct his builds and open up some different types of more durable builds (within reason)"
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