LoL Patch 13.7 | Major nerfs incoming!

Davide Xu
April 4, 2023
LoL Esports

Now that Patch 13.6 is on the live servers, it’s time for us to take a look at the potential changes coming in Patch 13.7, which will be released on Apr. 5th.

Patch 13.7

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League Patch 13.7 Notes

After pushing out big patch notes for the last couple of months, Riot released a “smaller” Patch 13.6. Despite the low amount of changes, they might be quite impactful, considering they hit some of the most popular champions like Aurelion Sol.

Furthermore, we have Milio finally jumping on Summoner’s Rift on the live servers: it will be exciting to see how quickly players can master the champion and be successful down in the bottom lane.

UPDATE (Mar. 28th): Game Designer Riot Phroxzon revealed which changes the dev team is currently working on. According to them, the meta is “close”, but they are bringing some adjustments to nerf some of the best-performing champions, especially in the jungle pool.

UPDATE (Mar. 29th): Full Patch preview changes added with numbers.

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How will the upcoming patch impact the meta?

Riot is mainly looking to nerf some of the champions that have dominated the meta over the last two patches, while also tagging some of the more popular champions in professional play. Sejuani and Vi are getting heavily hit in this patch so we might see them fall out of meta soon.

The Wukong and Lee Sin changes aren’t going to be that influential. They will still be good picks overall, especially considering Death’s Dance getting reverted.  Be on the lookout for Graves: he’s going to make a return in solo queue.

The Veigar nerfs are quite substantial, especially considering the highest cost of his core early-game component (catalyst of Aeons). His win rate might take a big hit.

The Annie nerf is going to hit support Annie rather than her mid version. Interesting to see whether Katarina’s buffs will push her into top-tier territory.

Azir, on the other hand, is still an unknown quantity: we will have to see how players respond to the new changes.

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Patch 13.7 Tentative Changes

We recently got the planned champion changes. If you want to know the numbers and what’s being changed, make sure to check back in a few days!

Champion Changes

Alistar 

  • Base armor: 44 >>> 47
  • Base Health: 670 >>> 685

Azir – Phreak shared a preview of the changes

  •  Base armor: 19 >>> 22
  • Attack speed growth: 5% >>> 6%
  • Q mana cost increased from 65 – 85 >>> 70 – 110
  • Q stab range: 370 >>> 325
  • W mana cost: 40 flat >>> 40 – 20
  • W base damage: 50 – 90 >>>  50 – 118
  • W damage per level: 0 – 110 >>>  0 – 92 (total damage 50 – 200 >>> 50 – 210)
  • Turret duration: 30 seconds >>> 45
  • Passive summon range: 500 >>> 7000

Katarina

  • P dagger magic damage: 68-240 (based on level) (+ 60% bAD) (+65/75/85/95% (levels 1/6/11/16) AP) >>> 68-240 (based on level) (+ 60% bAD) (+70/80/90/100% (levels 1/6/11/16) AP)
  • R Bonus AD Ratio: 18% bAD (+30% bAD per 100% bonus AS) >>> 16% bAD (+50% bAD per 100% bonus AS)

Kalista

  • AD growth 3.5 >>> 3.75
  • Oathsworn Bond Ceremony: 12 >>> 8

Graves

  • Crit Bonus: 20% >>> 30%
  • R cooldown: 120-60 >>> 100-60

Alistar

  • Armor: 44 >>> 47
  • Base Health: 670 >>> 685

Yasuo

  • P shield: 100 – 475 >>> 100 – 575
  • E bonus per stack: 15 – 25 base damage per stack >>> 15% – 23% total damage per stack (scaling linearly with champ level)
  • E stacks: 2 >>> 4

Rammus

  • W armor ratio: 40% – 100% >>> 40% – 80%

Veigar

  • Q AP ratio: 60% >>> 45 – 65%
  • W AP ratio: 100% >>> 70 – 110%
  • E – Veigar can no longer hide his E VFX from enemies by placing it inside certain walls.
  • R AP ratio: 75% >>> 65 – 75%

Olaf

  • Passive AS: 60 – 100% >>> 50% – 100%
  • Q damage: 70 – 270 >>> 65 – 265

Sejuani

  • Passive Elite Monster Damage cap: 300 >>> 250
  • Q cooldown: 18 – 12 >>> 19 – 13 (up by 1 second at all ranks)
  • R cooldown: 120 – 80 >>> 130 – 90 (up by 10 seconds at all ranks)

Vi

  • Q Minimum Physical Damage: 55/80/105/130/155 (+70% bonus AD) >>> 45/70/95/120/145 (+80% bonus AD)
  • Q Maximum Physical Damage: 110/160/210/260/310 (+140% bonus AD) >>> 90/140/190/240/290 (+160% bonus AD)
  • E Damage: 10 – 90 (+110% AD)(+90%AP) >>> 0 – 60 (+120% AD)(+100% AP)

Wukong

  • Base AD: 68 >>> 66
  • W cooldown: 22 – 12 >>> 22 – 14
  • E bonus AS: 40 – 60% >>> 35 – 55%

Lee Sin

  • Base AD: 68 >>> 66
  • Base armor: 36 >>> 34

Zeri 

  • Health growth: 115 >>> 110
  • P shield steal: 60% of damage dealt >>> 45% of damage dealt
  • R bonus AD ratio: 100% >>> 85%

Annie

  • E cooldown: 12 – 8 >>> 12 – 10 seconds
  • E base shield: 60 – 220 >>> 60 – 200

Kha’zix 

  • Isolated range: 425 >>> 375
  • W Evolution slow: 60% >>> 40%
  • W Evolution Iso slow: 90% >>> 75%
  • R duration: 10 >>> 12 seconds

Thresh

  • Q cooldown refund on hit: 3 >>> 2 seconds

System changes

Abyssal Mask

  • Health: 500 >>> 550

Death’s Dance

  • Build path changed from 2 Pickaxes + Vest  >>> Pick + Vest + Warhammer (same price)
  • AD: 65 >>> 55
  • Armor: 50 >>> 45
  • Ability haste: 0 >>> 15

Catalyst of Aeons

  • Total cost: 1100 >>> 1300
  • Health: 225 >>> 300
  • Total cost of Rod of Ages and Abyssal Mask unchanged

Grevious Wounds

  • Oblivion Orb/Morellonomicon/Chemtech Putrifier/Executioner’s Culling/Mortal Reminder/Chempunk Chainsword: all items apply Grevious Wounds to targets that completely block the damage with shields, invulnerable targets are still exempt

Competitive changes

In Ranked Solo and Ranked Flex queues, normal surrender (4 out of 5 OR 70% of team members must agree to pass the vote) is available at 20 minutes ⇒ 15 minutes. Unanimous early surrender requirement has been removed. This change will go live around ~7pm UTC on Apr. 7th.

We’ll be running an experiment in Normal Draft in EUN, OC, and RU during the 13.7 patch cycle, specifically to test some of our functionality around matchmaking for the upcoming Quick Play queue type. For these regions during the testing window, the changes will be as follows: 

  • Autofill is removed.
  • All players in a party must choose unique primary assignments.
  • If a player chooses a priority role as their primary assignment, they do not need to pick a secondary assignment. If they choose a non-priority role as their primary assignment, they can only choose a priority role or fill as their secondary assignment.
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