LoL Patch 13.20 – Details, Release date, and more

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October 5, 2023

Davide Xu

With Patch 13.19 hitting the live servers, it’s time to take a look at the upcoming Patch 13.20 that will be coming to LoL.

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LoL Patch 13.20 – What changes are coming?

Patch 13.19 is officially out and it will be the Worlds Patch. It had some pro-play focused changes as Riot hopes to have a balanced state at their biggest tournament of the year, so not many buffs and nerfs were made.

That being said, Patch 13.20 is already building up to be an immense meta shifter. According to game designer Riot Phroxzon, we are getting a major K’Sante rework, as well as important runes, dragons, and jungle changes. Additionally, Riot is also tweaking up the Doran starting items, as well as the support items, giving them more power but taking off the possibility to stack them. You can check out the tentative changes in the section below.

The LoL patch 13.20 release date is October 11th 2023.

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How will the upcoming patch impact the meta?

There are a lot of adjustments coming in, especially on some of the fundamental aspects of the game. The most notable one is without a doubt the jungle changes: camps become a lot tankier and neutral objectives will be less powerful across the board. All dragons have been nerfed, which should theoretically reduce the bot lane-centric meta that plagued the game for years.

Junglers should also have less impact early on, as Riot has been looking to tune down their overall agency. Turret plate gold has gone down as well, further reducing the snowballing power in the game. Overall, we should expect a slower game pace compared to the past, favoring the rise of scaling picks. It’s still a bit early to judge, but this feels like the general direction the game will have.

Patch 13.20 Tentative Changes

Champion Changes

Akshan

Q bonus movement speed: 40% ⇒ 20 – 40%

Bel’Veth

P AS after spell cast: 25 – 50%, scales linear by level ⇒ 20 – 40%, scales using stat progression multiplier
E Damage reduction: 70% ⇒ 42 – 70%
Damage can now crit Damage: 8-16 (+6% AD) ⇒ 7-11 (+8% AD)
On-hit damage: 6% ⇒ 8%
R True form out of combat MS: 25 – 75 ⇒ 10 – 80
R Remora health: 40 – 60% ⇒ 20 – 70%

Galio

W cooldown: 18 – 16 seconds ⇒ 18 – 14 seconds
W passive Shield timer: 12 seconds ⇒ 12 – 8 seconds (scales with level 1, 6, 11)

K’Sante

Health: 610 + 108 ⇒ 570 + 115
Armor growth: 4.7 ⇒ 5.2
P mark no longer scales with 20% bonus resists during R
Q base damage: 50 – 150 ⇒ 30 – 150
RQ cooldown reduction: 1 second ⇒ 25%
R wall damage damage: 150 – 350 + 20% AD ⇒ 70 – 150 + 100% AP
R bonus AD: 5 + 32.5% bonus resists ⇒ 15 – 45 + 25% bonus resists
R omnivamp: 10% + 0.75% per 100 bonus HP ⇒ 10% – 20%
R now grants 25% – 45% bonus attack speed
R health: 55% max HP ⇒ 65%
R knock back: 350 ⇒ 300
RW damage reduction: 30% + 1.2% per 100 bHP + 12% bonus resists ⇒ 50% – 75% based on lvl
RW now reduces cooldown: 24 – 16 seconds ⇒ 18 – 12 seconds
R non-wall damage damage: 35 – 105 + 20% AD ⇒ 70 – 150 + 100% AP
R wall damage damage: 150 – 350 + 20% AD ⇒ 70 – 150 + 100% AP
R bonus AD: 5 + 32.5% bonus resists ⇒ 15 – 45 + 25% bonus resists
R omnivamp: 10% + 0.75% per 100 bonus HP ⇒ 10% – 20%
R now grants 25% – 45% bonus attack speed
R health: 55% max HP ⇒ 65%
R knockback: 350 ⇒ 300
R AP ratio: 100% ⇒ 65%

Kai’Sa

Base armor: 28 ⇒ 25

Jinx

Hp per level: 100 ⇒ 105
Passive: 25% bonus AS on kill can stack again
R CD: 75 – 55 seconds ⇒ 70 – 50 seconds
R minimum damage: 30 – 60 (+15% bAD) ⇒ 32.5 – 62.5 (+16.5% bAD)
R maximum damage: 300 – 600 (+150% bAD) ⇒ 325 – 625 (+165% bAD)

Milio

Passive: Burn now always considered Milio’s damage; does not steal kill credit. Enables Chemtech Putrifier through allies.
E recharge timer: 18 – 14 seconds ⇒ 17 – 13 seconds
E shield: 60 – 160 ⇒ 60 – 180
R healing AP ratio: 30% ⇒ 40% ⇒ 50%

Morgana

W AP ratio: 14% ⇒ 17%
Monster damage: 155% ⇒ 165%
E Cooldown: 24-16 seconds ⇒ 26-16 seconds
R Movement Speed: 5-55% towards enemies ⇒ 10-60% in all directions
R Stun duration: 1.5 seconds ⇒ 1.5/1.75/2 seconds
R Damage: 150 – 300(+70% AP) ⇒ 175 – 325 (+ 80% AP)

Quinn

Base health: 603 ⇒ 565
AD growth: 2.4 ⇒ 2.7
Movement speed: 335 ⇒ 330

Zed

W cooldown: 20 – 14 seconds ⇒ 20 – 17

Ziggs

Q collision radius: 150 ⇒ 180

System Changes

Death Timer changes

Levels 2-3: reduced by 2 seconds
Levels 4-6: reduced by 4 seconds
Level 7: reduced by 5 seconds
Level 8: reduced by 6.5 seconds
Level 9: reduced by 4 seconds

Rune Changes

Conqueror

Adapative force per stack: 2 – 4.5 ⇒ 1.8 – 4.2 (2 – 4.5 AP ⇒ 1.8 – 4.2 AP) (1.2 – 2.7 AD ⇒ 1.08 – 2.52 AD)

Fleet Footwork

Base heal: 10 – 125 ⇒ 10 – 140 ⇒ 10 – 130 (10 – 100 on live)
Still has the ratio nerfs

Lethal Tempo

Melee attack speed: 10% – 15% ⇒ 10% – 14%
Ranged attack speed unchanged

Item Changes

Blighting Jewel

Price: 1250 ⇒ 1100
Void Staff total price unchanged

Duskblade of Draktharr

Ability haste: 20 ⇒ 15
Max Nightstalker damage: 18% ⇒ 16%

Lord Dominik’s Regard nerf:

Bugfix: Now properly amplifies damage dealt into shields
Maximum damage amplifier: 0 – 25% ⇒ 0 – 22%

Youmuu’s Ghostblade

Haunt Lethality: 3 – 12 ⇒ 7 – 18

Starting Item Changes

Only one Doran item can be purchased now
Doran Blade HP: 80 ⇒ 100
Doran Blade AD: 8 ⇒ 10
Doran Ring HP: 70 ⇒ 90
Doran Ring AP: 15 ⇒ 18
Doran Shield HP: 80 ⇒ 110
Doran Shield HP regen: 0 – 40 ⇒ 0 – 45
Dark Seal HP: 40 ⇒ 50

Support Item Changes

Spellthief’s HP: 10 ⇒ 25
Spellthief’s AP: 8 ⇒10
Sickle HP: 10 ⇒ 25
Sickle AD: 5 ⇒ 6
Shoulderguard HP: 30 ⇒ 50
Shoulderguard AD: 3 ⇒ 4
Relic HP: 30 ⇒ 50
Relic AP: 5 ⇒ 7

Rune changes

Comet damage: 30 -100 + 35% bAD + 20% AP ⇒ 30 – 130 + 10% bAD + 5% AP
Dark Harvest damage: 20 -60 + 25% bAD + 15% AP ⇒ 20 – 80 + 10% bAD + 5% AP
Electrocute damage: 30 -180 + 40% bAD + 25% AP ⇒ 30 – 220 + 10% bAD + 5% AP
Aery damage: 10 – 40 to + 15% bAD + 10% AP ⇒ 10 – 50 + 10% bAD + 5% AP
Aery shield: 30 – 75 + 35% bAD + 22.5% AP ⇒ 30 – 100 + 10% bAD + 5% AP
Taste of Blood heal: 16 – 30 +15% bAD + 8% AP ⇒ 16 – 40 + 10% bAD + 5% AP
Waterwalking MS: 25 ⇒ 10
Waterwalking adaptive force: 5 – 30 ⇒ 13 – 30

Jungle changes

Smite can be cast on minions and pets, damage is still 40 after other changes to Smite
Champion smite damage: 20 – 160 ⇒ 40 flat
Tier 3 Monster AoE damage: 50% ⇒ 100%
No longer grants epic monster damage reduction with 2+ nearby allies
Mosstomper no longer grants tenacity and slow resistance
Mosstomper shield: 60 – 281 (level 1 – 18) ⇒ 180 – 300 (10 – 18), around 2 – 7% more shield
Gustwalker brush MS: 45% ⇒ 30%
Gustwalker monster kill MS: 60% ⇒ 45%
Scorchclaw damage now has to be triggered from an attack or ability instead of any source of damage (including Smite)

Jungle camps changes

Normal Camp HP: 100 – 200% (level 1 – 11) ⇒ 100 – 235% (level 1 – 18)
Buff Camp HP: 100 – 200% (level 1 – 11) ⇒ 100 – 270% (level 1 – 18)
Level 1 Large Raptor HP: 1100 ⇒ 1200; HP scaling: 100 – 235% (level 1 – 11) ⇒ 100 – 235% (level 1 – 18)
Small/Medium Krug XP: 100 – 135% (level 1 – 9) ⇒ 100 – 145% (level 1 – 9)
Pet DPS Ratio: -10% bAD, -2% AP, +10% bArmor, +10% bMR
Scuttle crab HP: 100 – 213% ⇒ 100 – 360%; Gold/XP Reward: 100 – 180% (level 1 – 9) ⇒ 100 – 230% (level 1 – 18)%

Jungle healing changes

Heal on kill: 30 – 166, up to 225% based on missing HP ⇒ 12% missing HP
Mana on kill: 19 – 87, up to 225% based on missing mana ⇒ 20% missing mana
Pet healing is 70% of pet DPS (unchanged)
[New] – Heal cap: 12 – 45 (level 1 – 12)

Anti poaching

Large Monster Armor/MR: 20 ⇒ 42
Small Monster Armor/MR: 0 ⇒ 20
Jungle item bonus damage to non-Epic monsters: 20% ⇒ 42%

Minion XP Penalty

Minion XP Penalty: 60 – 25% (Minute 0 – 14) ⇒ 70 – 0% (Minute 0 – 20)
No longer locks penalty on Avatar completion
Comeback XP threshold: 1.1 levels down ⇒ 1.5 levels down

Dragon changes

Infernal AP/AD: 5% ⇒ 3%
Infernal soul base damage: 80 ⇒ 100
Ocean regen: 2.5% missing HP ⇒ 2% missing HP
Ocean soul base heal: 130 ⇒ 150
Ocean soul base mana restore: 80 ⇒ 100
Cloud slow resist and MS: 7% ⇒ 4% ⇒ 5%
Cloud soul MS: 15% ⇒ 20%
Mountain bonus resists: 8% ⇒ 5%
Mountain soul base shield: 180 ⇒ 220
Hextech haste and attack speed: 7.5 ⇒ 5
Hextech soul slow: 40%/30% ⇒ 45%/35%

Turret Plates

Plate gold: 175 ⇒ 125

Rift Herald

Local Gold: 200 ⇒ 100

Baron Nashor

Total HP: 12,600 (+180 per minute) ⇒ 15,000 (+180 per minute)

Upcoming skins

Coven Akali – 1350 RP

They came to Akali encircling from the tree canopy at an impossible speed, their taunts leading her deeper still into the Elderwood until at last she was lost. Then a voice whispered the choice right into her ear: die in these woods alone or emerge in their charge.

Coven Akali Prestige Edition – 1350 RP

Arriving clad in a bold and sporty body suit, Akali’s gala attire has us all spellbound. Subversive and on the cutting edge of fashion, she’s fierce and redefines how we think of the wicked witch of the woods. And so she walked out of the woods… straight into the arms of the Coven

Coven Elise – 1350 RP

They came to Elise long ago, crawling through the underbrush, their many eyes locked with hers as a deal was made. The unfathomable powers of an Old God for her devotion and humanity. Reborn in the image of an arachnoid deity, Elise lingers along the edges of the Elderwood, enticing to their doom all those foolish enough to believe her a mere folktale.

Coven Nami – 1820 RP

They called to Nami from the deep, their voice carrying a promise of power greater than any she had ever known. All Nami needed to do was feed it. She has now forsaken her oaths, her coven, spending endless nights lurking just below the murky waterways of the Elderwood in search of her next sacrifice to the Leviathan.

Coven Nilah – 1350 RP

They came to Nilah in a cacophony of cracking brambles and bone, offering unbridled talents in exchange for her loyalty. She obliged by filling a vessel with the deep crimson that dripped from the thorns. She now carries with her this godly relic along with the knowledge that she is destined for more than this coven can ever give.

Coven Syndra – 1350 RP

They came to Syndra in a thundering flutter of carrion wings, beckoning her to free herself from the limitations of mortals. Following the wings’ foul wind to a ritual site, she along with another witch awakened the Horned King from his putrid tomb. She now seeks retribution against all who stand against the Coven or the Old Gods.

Old God Mordekaiser

Once known as the Horned King, Old God Mordekaiser turned that which was once dead to his cause, using their shambling forms to topple kingdoms and claim their lands as his own. Before he was slain by the Eclipse Knights, he swore that when he returned to this world, they would all bend to his will and take to the frontlines of his undead army.

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