LoL Patch 14.23 – Season 14 coming to an end…

LoL Esports

February 20, 2025

Davide Xu

With Ambessa and Patch 14.22 hitting the live servers, it’s now to turn our eyes to the upcoming update, LoL Patch 14.23. Here’s everything you need to know.

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LoL Patch 14.23 – 2 patches before the end of the year

LoL Patch 14.22 was officially released on November 6 and with that, a new cycle of updates is starting for Riot developers before the season wraps up.

The biggest update in the current patch is the introduction of Ambessa Medarda. The champion is finally hitting Summoners’ Rift and she will be at the center of the spotlight with the upcoming release of Arcane season 2 this weekend. Considering how powerful her kit is, we might expect her to receive several changes as the dev team will look to balance her based on her performance on the live servers.

Speaking of Arcane, Riot will be releasing a series of Arcane-themed skins for Vi, Singed, and Caitlyn. The latter will also receive a Prestige version.

As always, you can find the detailed numbers below given by game designer Riot Phroxzon in the Patch 14.23 preview.

Patch 14.23 Release Date

According to the official patch schedule, Patch 14.23 will be released on Wednesday, November 20. This will be the 23rd patch out of the 24 updates planned for the year.

How will the upcoming patch impact the meta?

While the list of changes is not that big, especially compared to previous patches, there are quite a few considerable adjustments to some of the most powerful champions from the higher Elos. Rell, Smolder, and Aurora have all been dominating professional play and the high ends of the ranked ladder.

The overall changes seem to be in a good direction: Aurora’s ultimate was far too powerful on the right players since it gave little to counterplay once she trapped enemies. For Smolder, nerfing down his scaling won’t make him as oppressive the moment he reaches the needed stacks.

Among the buffs and nerfs, the highlights are Rengar and Tahm Kench. The former is getting better snowball potential while the latter is getting nerfed given his new popular AP tank build. Other changes shouldn’t be as impactful.

In the meanwhile we wait for the patch to be released, check out the tier lists for the current patch:

LoL Patch 14.23 Tentative Changes

Champion changes in Patch 14.23

Ambessa

Q2 cast window: 3.5 ⇒ 4
Passive dashes no longer go over player-created terrain
R movement commands issued before a successful cast will be discarded after slamming the enemy into the ground to avoid pathing the player towards a place they are no longer near

Aurora

Q now automatically recasts if the duration runs out without Aurora recasting the spell. Can still recast to end early
Q cooldown: 8 – 6 seconds ⇒ 9 – 7 seconds
Q damage: 40 – 140 ⇒ 45 – 145
Q range: 850 ⇒ 900
E range: 800 ⇒ 825
Passive movement speed removed
W now grants 20 – 40% MS on cast
R grants W MS while inside of it, rather than amplifying MS
R no longer traps enemies, now slows them on exit by 75% for 1.5 – 2 seconds
R duration: 1.5/2/2.5 seconds ⇒ 2/3/4 seconds

Azir

W AP Ratio: 35 – 55% ⇒ 40 – 60%

Caitlyn

R bonus AD ratio: 150% ⇒ 100%

Jinx

AD growth: 2.9 ⇒ 3.25
W total AD ratio: 160% ⇒ 140%

Kha’Zix

Armor: 36 ⇒ 32
Evolved W isolated slow: 75% ⇒ 60%

Kog’Maw

Q shred: 23 – 31% ⇒ 16 – 32%
E damage: 75 – 255 + 70% AP ⇒ 70 – 230 + 65% AP

Miss Fortune

Q Mana: 43 – 55 ⇒ 40

Master Yi

R attack speed: 25/35/45% ⇒ 25/45/65%

Rell

Passive now deals 5% total armor + MR magic damage on-hit
Passive minimum steal: 0.8 – 2 ⇒ 1 – 2
Base armor: 36 – 107 ⇒ 30 – 103
Base MR: 30 – 65 ⇒ 28 – 59
Attack speed growth: 1.5% ⇒ 2%
Attack animations sped up
W dismounted movement speed: 297 ⇒ 315
W dismounted armor/MR scaling: 12% ⇒ 15%
W mounted MS: 335 – 380 (332.5 – 355 in combat, scaling with levels) ⇒ 330 – 355 (by W rank)
Q, W1, W2: stun duration reduced by 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 seconds ⇒ Tenacity now affects Crash Down
E retreating MS: 9 – 12% – 12 – 16% ⇒ 10%
E chasing MS: 18 – 24% – 24 – 32% ⇒ 25%
E cooldown: 15 seconds ⇒ 14 – 10 seconds
E damage: 25 – 65 + 3% max HP ⇒ 5 – 7% max HP

Rammus

Q cooldown: 16 – 6 seconds ⇒ 12 – 6 seconds

Rengar

R bonus damage: 50% total AD ⇒ 100% total AD
R armor shred: 12/18/24 ⇒ 15/20/25

Shyvana

MR Growth: 2.05 ⇒ 1.5
E AP Ratio: 80% ⇒ 70%

Skarner

Q bonus HP Ratio: 4% ⇒ 3%

Smolder

Q/W/R minion mods: 110%/140%/100% ⇒ 100%/100%/50%
Q damage: 15 – 55 + 100% total AD + 40% stacks ⇒ 65 – 125 + 130% bonus AD + 30% stacks
Now restores 15 mana on kill
Q bounce damage: 75% ⇒ 50%
Q burn damage: 0.8%% stacks + 2%% bonus AD + 1%% AP ⇒ 0.4%% stacks + 2.5%% bonus AD
W1 damage: 45 – 165 + 25% bonus AD ⇒ 30 – 110 + 60% bonus AD
W2 damage: 25 – 85 + 25% bonus AD ⇒ 30 – 110 + 60% bonus AD
E damage: 15 – 35 + 10% total AD + 20% stacks ⇒ 5 – 25 + 25% total AD + 10% stacks
E bolt: 5 + 1 per 150 stacks ⇒ 5 + 1 per 100 stacks
W mana: 60 ⇒ 50 – 70
R cooldown: 140/130/120 seconds ⇒ 120 seconds

Tahm Kench

Passive AP ratio: 2% per bonus 100 HP ⇒ 1.5% per bonus 100 HP
R shield AP ratio: 150% ⇒ 100%

Teemo

E monster mod: 150% ⇒ 125%

Zac

Q max HP ratio: 4% ⇒ 3%

Item Changes

The Collector

Price: 2950 ⇒ 3000

Yun Tal Wildarrows

Price: 3000 ⇒ 2900
Passive duration: 4 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds
Passive cooldown: 40 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds

Youmuu’s Ghostblade (ranged only)

Out of combat MS: 20 ⇒ 10
Active duration: 6 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds

System Changes

Bounties

Champion bounties grow 14% faster from kills and assists
Champion bounty reduction due to losing increased up to 4x
Maximum contribution to objective bounties from gold leads doubled

Upcoming skins

Arcane Brawler Vi
Shimmer Lab Singed
Commander Caitlyn
Prestige Commander Caitlyn – 2000 event tokens