League of Legends 25.22 Patch Preview Notes are here and include a handful of buffs, nerfs and adjustments. From @riotphroxzon (source).
Systems
- As mentioned yesterday, Phase Rush is a bit too good at rushing and Biscuits a bit too good as a ubiquitous option that’s taking over too many pages
- Our goal here is to make the splash slots a lot more competitive and so buffing up a variety of competing options
Skarner
- Skarner is receiving a lot of buffs to his baseline damage at the cost of making his R less reliable
- We expect this to make “naked R casts” slightly slower so that if he didn’t land an E beforehand these ults are harder to dodge
Solo Q Champs
- Akshan, Leblanc and Talon are all receiving nerfs as they are a bit too strong and fast at snowballing in Solo Queue
- For LB particularly, she will need to choose her spots a little more wisely, but this feels like an effective way to nerf her for regular players without impacting her Pro Play as much (where her moments to go in are a lot more limited)
- Talon Jungle has been really strong recently, especially in elite, so we’re slowing down his speed to keep really high tempo on the map
World’s Commentary
- Overall, the Swiss Stage has been pretty exciting with a lot of very INTeresting games.
- Not going to comment too much on the state of the meta with the tournament ongoing (will give more detailed thoughts after the tournament is finished), but the Quarterfinals matchups are looking pretty awesome, excited to watch the games
- So far though, Meta seems to be playing out roughly as expected, will be hoping for more champ diversity in the BO5’s
Systems
- Phase Rush is a bit too overbearing with its ability to resist slows to such a great degree.
- In mid-lane especially, the counterplay removal on champs like Ryze, Ori, Taliyah when trying to pin them down is just a bit too strong, so we’re lowering its power there a tad
- This is also a good time to make a variety of changes to some runes that have been on the weaker side.
- Most of the changes here speak for themselves, but Biscuits in particular have been particularly strong ever since we reworked them to be more health and less mana focused
- While this change was overall positive, it resulted in a pretty large hampering of choice across the board and could be a little less powerful
Champions
- Aurelion has been a little worse for wear, barely hitting 50% winrate in certain spots
- Yone was the recipient of several nerfs last patch and we wanted his buff to be a bit more power positive
- So we’re adding another buff in this patch
- Last patch, we also mentioned that Skarner was still in a rough spot, so we’re trying to add some power back here that we won’t need to revert later
- Finally, Voli‘s builds have been decently fixed with the set of changes we made a few patches ago, but his Top lane is still quite weak, so these buffs are aimed there