LoL Patch 13.23 – Details, Release date, and more

LoL Esports

November 15, 2023

Davide Xu

Now that Patch 13.22 is officially on the live servers, let’s take a look at the upcoming Patch 13.23 coming to LoL.

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LoL Patch 13.23 – What changes are coming?

Patch 13.22 welcomed a series of nerfs to some of the most powerful picks in the meta, as well as a few adjustments on some champions like Seraphine and Janna to better position them as supports. Another notable series of changes was the attack speed buffs to most mid lane mages with the hopes of making their auto attacks less clunky and consistent across the board.

Moreover, there is a vision adjustment that is going to impact the high Elos of the ranked ladder mainly. The reveal radius on attacks is lower and it will also last less so that your teammates don’t get revealed while you’re clearing the ward.

With season 13 coming to an end soon, we will be preparing for the new pre-season, which is going to be in January with Patch 14.1. But before that, we will be getting the return of LoL Arena in Patch 13.23 and a few more adjustments to the meta.

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Patch 13.23 Release Date

According to the official patch schedule, Patch 13.23 will be released on Tuesday, November 21. After that, there will be one more patch before the end of season 13.

How will the upcoming patch impact the meta?

The planned turret changes are quite interesting and worth taking a deeper look at. Riot devs are seemingly looking to give more power to side lanes by granting extra local gold. This will indirectly buff up all the duelists and champions that can exert strong side lane pressure. The inhibitor is also quite interesting: it will make split pushing even more relevant to make better trades on the map. For example, getting an inhibitor for a dragon is going to feel a lot more balanced compared to the current meta.

By looking at the champion changes, Jarvan’s Q nerf might be enough to push him down from the top spot in the jungle. Trundle’s buffs seem nice but not enough to push him in the meta. K’Sante finally gets hit after he has been quite powerful. Ziggs has been quite strong as well and deserved some nerfs. Curious to see how the Riven and Vel’Koz buffs will impact the champions’ play rate: I don’t expect them to be meta all of a sudden, but it might give them more space in the meta, especially when played by OTPs.

Patch 13.23 Tentative Changes

Azir (pulled from data mine)

W now applies on-hit and on-attack effects to the primary target at 50% effectiveness
W base damage from spell rank: 50-118 ⇒ 50-110
W base damage from level ups: 2-92 (level 10-18) ⇒ 2-77 (level 10-18)
AP scaling: 60% ⇒ 55%

Briar

13.22 nerfs properly unreverted
Base health: 610 ⇒ 590
W2 AD ratio: 3.5% per 100 bAD ⇒ 2.5%

Corki

Now replaces Aftershock with Grasp
Now replaces Glacial Augment with First Strike
Now replaces Font of Life with Demolish

Draven

R now returns to Draven if he’s dead

Elise – reverted

~~Spiderlings always regen to full HP when resummoned~~
~~Human E reveals stealthed targets~~
~~Spider E always grants the buff after descending~~
~~Spiderling dash speed when Spider Q’ing targets increased by 20%~~
~~All abilities rescripted~~
~~Spider E cast range: 700 ⇒ 825~~

Janna

Passive damage from MS: 20/25/30/35% ⇒ 30%
W cooldown: 9 – 7 seconds ⇒ 8 – 6 seconds
W cast range: 650 center to center ⇒ 550 edge to edge
R cooldown: 150 – 120 seconds ⇒ 130 – 100 seconds

Jarvan IV

Q cooldown: 10 – 6 seconds ⇒ 10 – 8 seconds

K’Sante

Now replaces Hexflash with Magical Footwear
Passive ult mark damage: 45% – 75% (level 6/11/16) ⇒ 30% – 78% (level 1-18)
Q base damage: 30 – 150 ⇒ 30 – 130
Q cost: 15 ⇒ 27 – 15 ⇒ 28 – 20
E base shield: 45 – 125 ⇒ 50 – 210
E shield ratio: 15% bonus HP ⇒ 10% bonus HP
R base attack damage: 15 – 45 ⇒ 10 – 40
No longer swaps Hexflash for Magical Footwear
W time to full charge: 0.1 second ⇒ 0.66 second
RW time to full charge: 0.1 second ⇒ 0.45

Naafiri

Packmate base AD: 6 – 29.8 ⇒ 5 – 25
E flurry base damage: 65 – 205 ⇒ 60 – 180 (scaling unchanged)

~~Nocturne (likely pulled from patch)~~

Riven

Q AD ratio: 45% – 65% ⇒ 50% – 70%
R bonus AD: 20% ⇒ 25%

Samira

No longer replaces Aftershock with Grasp
No longer replaces Glacial Augment with First Strike

Trundle

AD growth: 3 ⇒ 4
Q mana cost: 30 ⇒ 20

Vel’Koz

Passive base damage: 33 – 169 ⇒ 35 – 180
Passive AP ratio: 50% ⇒ 60%

Yuumi

Now replaces Glacial Augment with First Strike

Ziggs

Base AD: 54 ⇒ 55
Q base damage: 95 – 295 ⇒ 85 – 285
W cooldown: 20 – 12 seconds ⇒ 24 – 12 seconds
W mana cost: 65 ⇒ 80

Turret

Mid inner turret gold: 300 local + 50 global ⇒ 425 local + 25 global
Side lane inner turret gold: 550 local + 50 local ⇒ 675 local + 25 global
T3 turret gold: 50 local + 50 global ⇒ 375 local + 25 global

ARAM Changes

Ashe

W cooldown: 18 – 4 seconds ⇒ 18 seconds flat
R cooldown: 100 – 60 seconds ⇒ 110 – 70 seconds
Her haste nerfs might be reverted but that isn’t something that is scrapable (according to Spideraxe)

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