League of Legends Patch 8.24 rundown

LoL Esports

December 5, 2018

Kieran Lee

Neeko will be arriving sometime in the middle of patch 8.24 along with her Winter Wonder Neeko skin and a handful of chromas. As expected, the patch contains a few champion tweaks for rebalancing, along with the nerf of the overpowered Dark Harvest rune.

Champion changes

Aatrox – Bonus damage on his Q towards minions has been removed

Akali – Akali continues to be a pain to pay against; as a result, Riot has further nerfed her shroud (W) duration by one second at all levels.

Camille – Base attack speed has been reduced from 0.644 to 0.625 in order to reduce her early game pressure by slowing her clear speed.

Galio – Galio has been adjusted a fair amount, his play style will be changing fairly noticeably with less emphasis on his support like ultimate, but increased damage and effectiveness on his damaging abilities. Q mana cost has been drastically reduced at the later levels, from 70/85/100/115/130 to 70/75/80/85/90 mana. The windblast damage potion has also been increased at all levels, both base and AP scaling wise, however, the flat tornado damage has been removed. Galio’s E cast time has been reduced slightly while its dash speed has also increased, this makes Galio’s E much easier to land. His ultimate (R) no longer provides damage reduction for an ally and no longer knocks up enemies hit, making Galio’s R an inferior pantheon ult.

Illaoi – Test of Spirit (E) cooldown has been reduced at earlier levels from 20/18/16/14/12 to 16/15/14/13/12. Ultimate (R) cooldown also reduced at later levels from 120/105/90 to 120/95/70.

Irelia – W cooldown is longer and damage reduction has been nerfed in order to give opponents a better window to kill Irelia. CD up at earlier levels, while damage reduction has been reduced by a flat 10%, now to 40%.

Jax – Every third auto damage from Jax’s R passive has been nerfed from 100/160/220 to 100/140/180.

LeBlanc – Distortion (W) cooldown has been increased at earlier levels in order to tone down Leblanc’s overly large lane pressure and poke.

Viktor – Viktor’s poke has been hit, with Q cooldown increasing by 1 second at all levels, with its base damage further being reduced. In order to compensate for the reduction in damage, his E will receive a slight cooldown reduction and damage boost. Overall a tone down towards top Viktor.

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Runes

Dark Harvest – Base damage reduced from 40-80 to 20-60, a welcomed change considering Dark Harvest previously had too large an impact in the early game given its scaling nature.