LoL Patch Notes 8.18 – Rundown

LoL Esports

September 12, 2018

Kieran Lee

No major changes, just a few balancing with a much needed nerf to Akali and Sejuani. A new skin line has also been previewed.

Champion changes

Aatrox – Aatrox has received a very slight buff. Increased healing at the later levels against champions on his Umbral Dash (E), while also getting a fairly decent damage buff with his ultimate.

Akali – A much need nerf; Akali’s ultimate base damage has been reduced by around 15% at all levels compared with her previous stats. A great change, considering it does not harm Akali’s laning phase. Instead, it reduces her burst potential in the late game.

Braum – Base health reduced to 540

Kai’Sa – Passive damage now a flat 15% of a target’s missing health, at all points of the game. This will hit pretty hard, as her ability to finish off opponents in the late game has been dramatically reduced.

Lucian – Q damage ratio buffed from 0.6 / 0.7/ 0.8 / 0.9 / 1 to 0.6 / 0.75 / 0.9 / 1.05 / 1.2. The intention was to give Lucian back some of his damage, which he had dramatically lost a few patches ago.

Renekton – A fairly ignorable buff, with his E receiving a base 10 damage increase, while armor pen (empowered) is increased at earlier levels.

Ryze – W rune prison root has been reduced from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds. While 0.5 might not seem like much, Ryze lost a great deal of free damage.

Sejuani – Sej has been hit fairly hard. E damage reduced by 10 at all levels. However, the real nerf to Sejuani comes from the duration change to her slow on the ultimate, coming down from 3 seconds to 1 second.

Trundle – Pillar (E) cooldown increased by 2 seconds at all levels. Fairly ignorable considering its already a high cooldown. Riot will be putting more emphasis on a pillar second max, with its slow percentage dramatically dropping in the early game, however to compensate, once the skill is maxed, the slow has been buffed by 5%.

Vayne – Tumble (Q) cooldown decreased in the early game, allows her to kite much easier in the early game, reducing her hard time in lane.

Viktor – Hex core cost has changed slightly, with its MK-I cost being reduced by 100 gold, and being diverted into the perfect hex core cost, up from 750 to 850.