LoL Patch 13.17 – Blue Essence Emporium returns!

LoL Esports

August 25, 2023

Davide Xu

Now that Patch 13.16 is on the live servers, let’s take a look at the changes coming for LoL Patch 13.17, which is going to be released on August 30, according to the official patch schedule.

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LoL Patch 13.17 Notes Overview

Patch 13.16 was a small patch compared to previous updates: it mainly looked at nerfing some of the strongest outliers in solo queue, and considering pros won’t be playing on this patch, there aren’t many changes from that perspective as well, although we will have a new version of the surrender vote, which should reduce the negative effects of it in-game.

Luckily, Patch 13.17 should be a bit bigger in size, given that Worlds 2023 is around the corner and Riot is definitely looking into shaking things up ahead of the biggest tournament of the year.

But aside from that, there is great news for the casual player base as well. Aside from the return of the incredible Cosmic skins, the community should be hyped about the return of the Blue Essence Emporium, which was already confirmed last month. This will be the second (and probably the last time) it will be available this year. That said, Riot Games mentioned they will bring a new version of the shop, as well as the ability to mass-disenchant champion shards, saving a lot of time for all those players who have grinded out hundreds of those.

We're moving some champions off pure killing power builds and onto more durable [Aatrox, Hec, Vi, Xin]. We're also doing targeted adjustments to some champs who lost durability (eg. from Shieldbow moving from 1st to 3rd). pic.twitter.com/9iRCfBlTym

— Matt Leung-Harrison (@RiotPhroxzon) August 22, 2023

In terms of balance changes, Riot Phroxzon has pushed out the list of tentative changes coming for this patch. The goal is to nerf some of the best-performing champions, especially the junglers. On top of that, they are looking to shift some champions’ damage builds toward more durable itemizations.

The game developer also made some considerations regarding the jungle catchup experience. “In Preseason, we adjusted catchup XP to trigger when down 2 levels rounding up to be more forgiving [eg. 1.4 round to 2], but had some negative consequences around encouraging too much ganking and optimizing the mechanic actively more than we’d like,” he said.

With that in mind, they want to have roles where both junglers and lanes don’t snowball as harshly off a few mistakes. According to him, this makes LoL more fun for all players.

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How will the upcoming patch impact the meta?

Based on the tentative changes I think this is going in a good direction for solo queue. A good patch with lots going on and most nerfs and buffs are reasonable. Champions like Kindred, Kayn, Kha’Zix, and Naafiri have been terrorizing ranked games, with impressive win rates and high pick rates, so it’s normal to see them getting turned down.

I’m surprised we’re only seeing support nerfs to Xerath: the champion has become a power pick in both normal and professional play, and many players claim he’s quite obnoxious to play against. I think he still deserves a bit of nerf to his scaling since First Strike is extremely powerful on him.

As a jungle player, I’m quite happy with the jungle changes as well and I hope the jungle catchup experience is not as powerful as it used to be. The only issue I have with this is that the current jungle meta will always have players being under-leveled compared to the laners, meaning that you’re hardly ever going to snowball hard from the early game (unless in extreme scenarios). So while you can reduce the impact of mistakes, I feel like Riot should compensate for that with more experience so that players are also incentivized to spam gank.

Patch 13.17 Tentative Changes

Aatrox

P bonus damage changed from physical to magic
W damage changed from physical to magic

Akshan

Health growth: 104 ⇒ 107
Armor growth: 4.2 ⇒ 4.7
AD growth: 3.5 ⇒ 3

Blitzcrank

Base health: 633 ⇒ 650
Base MR: 28 ⇒ 32
Base attack speed: 0.65 ⇒ 0.625
Attack speed ratio: 0.7 ⇒ 0.625
Passive shield ratio: 30% ⇒ 15% – 45% ⇒ 30% (reverted)
W mana cost: 85 ⇒ 75
W attack speed: 30% – 82% ⇒ 30% – 70%
W on-hit damage removed
E mana cost: 40 ⇒ 25
E bonus monster and minion damage removed

Elise

AA damage: 10/20/30/40 (+20% AP) ⇒ 12/22/32/42 (+20% AP)
AA healing: 4/6/8/10 (+8% AP) ⇒ 6/8/10/12 (+8% AP)
E stun duration: 1.6/1.7/1.8/1.9/2 seconds ⇒ 1.6/1.8/2/2.2/2.4 seconds

Evelynn (reverted)

~~W slow: 65% ⇒ 30%~~
~~E empowered base damage: 75 – 175 ⇒ 65 – 165~~
~~R AP ratio: 75% ⇒ 60%~~

Gnar

Mega Gnar Q base damage: 25 – 205 ⇒ 45 – 225
Mega W Base damage: 25 – 145 ⇒ 35 – 155

Hecarim

Base mana: 277 ⇒ 280
Mana growth: 60 ⇒ 40
Base mana regen: 6.5 ⇒ 7
Mana regen growth: 0.6 ⇒ 0.8
Q mana cost: 30 flat ⇒ 28 – 20
W mana cost: 50 – 90 ⇒ 50 – 70
W base heal: 25% ⇒ 20%
W heal AD ratio removed

Kayn

W bonus AD ratio: 130% ⇒ 100% ⇒ 110%

Kha’Zix

Q bonus AD ratio: 115% ⇒ 105% ⇒ 110%

Kindred

E base slow: 50% ⇒ 30%
E health ratio: 8% missing ⇒ 5% missing

Lux mid

Base Mana regeneration: 8 ⇒ 7
Passive damage: 20 – 190 (+20% AP) ⇒ 30 – 200 (+25% AP)
Q cooldown: 11 seconds at all ranks ⇒ 11/10.5/10/9.5/9
E damage: 70 – 270 (+80% AP) ⇒ 65 – 265 (+80% AP)

Naafiri

Base health: 650 ⇒ 635
Packmates now take double damage from melee attacks
Packmate cooldown: 25 – 10 seconds ⇒ 30 – 15 seconds
Q bonus damage: 35 – 95 +70% bAD ⇒ 30 – 90 + 40% bAD
Q base heal: 45 – 125 ⇒ 45 – 105
E dash bonus AD ratio: 60% ⇒ 50%
E explosion bonus AD ratio: 90% ⇒ 80%

Orianna

Health growth: 105 ⇒ 110
W base damage: 60 – 240 ⇒ 70 – 270

Quinn

Health growth: 99 ⇒ 107
Q base damage: 20 – 120 ⇒ 20 – 100
E base damage: 40 -160 ⇒ 40 – 140

Samira

Base health: 600 ⇒ 630

Sylas

E knock up duration: 0.3 seconds ⇒ 0.5 (bugfix, there was a mismatch between the knock-up duration between the numbers of the tooltip and the duration in-game)

Twisted Fate

Q AP Ratio: 80% ⇒ 90%

Tryndamere

Attack range: 125 ⇒ 175

Vex

Q base damage: 60 – 240 ⇒ 70 – 250
W cooldown: 20 – 12 seconds ⇒ 16 – 12
Pinging R now shows targets in chat

Passive shield health ratio: 10% max HP ⇒ 12% max HP
P cooldown refund: 3 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds
E cooldown: 14 – 8 seconds ⇒ 12 – 8 seconds
R base damage: 150 – 500 ⇒ 150 – 400
R bonus AD ratio: 110% ⇒ 90%

Xerath

Base mana regeneration: 8 ⇒ 6.85
Passive unit kill CD restore: 2 seconds ⇒ 2.5 seconds
W mana cost: 70 – 110 ⇒ 80 – 120

Xin Zhao

P heal: 6 – 74 + 10% AD ⇒ 3 – 4% (1/6/11) max HP
P heal AP ratio unchanged

Zoe

HP regen: 6.5 ⇒ 7.5
E sleep duration: 2.25 seconds ⇒ 2.5 seconds
E magic resistance duration: 20/22.5/25/27.5/30% ⇒ 30% flat

Jungle changes

Epic monster damage reduction: 20% ⇒ 5%
Damage against pets and champs: 20 – 160 (1 – 18) ⇒ 40 – 100 (6 – 18)
Slow duration: 2 seconds ⇒ 1.5 seconds
Gustwalker MS: 45% ⇒ 35%
Gustwalker monster takedown MS: 60% ⇒ 45%
Mosstomper tenacity and slow resist: 20% ⇒ 10%
Mosstomper shield: 60 – 281 (1 – 18) ⇒ 120 – 220 (8 – 18)

Catchup XP rounding

Jungle catchup XP level difference: always rounds up ⇒ rounds normally

Dragon

Now displays a patience bar to create more consistency with other jungle monsters

Future’s Market

Base debt: 145 gold ⇒ 100
Debt per minute: 5 ⇒ 8
- This is a nerf until 17 minutes

Bloodthirster

Health threshold for AD: 50% ⇒ 70%

Dusbklade of Draktharr (pushed to this patch)

Now destroys incoming projectiles when triggered
No longer invulnerable to damage while untargettable

Evenshroud

Bonus damage amplification: 10% ⇒ 7%

Goredrinker

Caulfield’s Warhammer replaced by Phage in recipe (total gold cost unchanged at 3200)
Health increased from 300 ⇒ 450 ⇒ 400 (450 ⇒ 600 for Ornn version)
AD: 55 ⇒ 50 ⇒ 55 (70 ⇒ 65 for Ornn version)

Immortal Shieldbow

Shield changed from 215 – 500 (levels 11 – 18) ⇒ 250 – 500 (levels 10 – 18) ⇒ 290 (levels 11-18)
- Overall buff at all levels

Statikk Shiv (nerf)

AP ratio: 30% ⇒ 15%

Spear of Shojin

Spear of Shojin recipe changed from Warhammer + BF Sword + Kindlegem ⇒ Pickaxe + Warhammer + Kindlegem, total gold cost unchanged at 3300
Health: 350 ⇒ 500
AD: 65 ⇒ 60
Dragonfroce: 8 + 8% bAD ⇒ 16 + 4% bAD (buffed until 200 AD)

Stridebreaker

Health: 300 ⇒ 450 ⇒ 375 (450 ⇒ 600 ⇒ 525 for Ornn version)
AD: 60 ⇒ 55 ⇒ 60 (70 ⇒ 65 ⇒70 for Ornn version)

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