LoL Patch 26.12 Notes

Highlights

• Prestige Sinful Shores LeBlanc, Sinful Shores Brand, and Sinful Shores Hwei release June 10, 2026.

• Normal Draft becomes available 24/7 in ME, OC, and SG.

• Apex duo restrictions remain active in affected regions while Riot monitors match quality.

• Honor and active penalty information are being added to the social panel.

Champions

Aatrox

• Q - The Darkin Blade:

  • Sweet Spot Bonus Damage: 70 => 75

Gwen

• Q - Snip Snip!:

  • Base Damage Per Snip: 10/13.5/17/20.5/24 => 10/14/18/22/26

• E - Skip 'n Slash:

  • Bonus Attack Speed: 20/35/50/65/80% => 30/42.5/55/67.5/80%

Hwei

• Q - Subject: Disaster:

  • QQ Damage: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+70% AP) (+3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7% Target Max HP) => 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+80% AP) (+3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7% Target Max HP)

  • QW Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+25% AP), increased to up to 120 / 201.875 / 302.5 / 421.875 / 560 (+50 / 59.375 / 68.75 / 78.125 / 87.5% AP) => 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+30% AP), increased to up to 120 / 201.875 / 302.5 / 421.875 / 560 (+60 / 71.25 / 82.5 / 93.75 / 105% AP)

  • QE Slow: 30% => 35%

• E - Subject: Torment:

  • Cooldown: 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11s => 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s

Jax

• Q - Leap Strike:

  • Mana Cost: 65 => 50

• E - Counter Strike:

  • Target Max Health Damage: 3.5% minimum damage / 7% maximum damage => 4% minimum damage / 8% maximum damage

Lee Sin

• Base Stats:

  • AD Growth: 3.7 => 3.4

• Q1 - Sonic Wave:

  • Damage: 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+95% bonus AD) => 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+90% bonus AD)

• Q2 - Resonating Strike:

  • Damage: 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+95% bonus AD) => 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+90% bonus AD)

Nocturne

• Q - Duskbringer:

  • Damage: 65 / 110 / 155 / 200 / 245 => 65 / 105 / 145 / 185 / 225

Orianna

• Base Stats:

  • Base Health: 585 => 565

• Passive - Clockwork Windup:

  • Damage Increase Per Stack: 20% => 15%

• R - Command: Shockwave:

  • Damage: 250/400/550 (+95% AP) => 225/350/475 (+110% AP)

Ryze

• Base Stats:

  • Base Health: 645 => 620

  • Base AD: 58 => 55

Sylas

• Q - Chain Lash:

  • Initial Damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+40% AP) => 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+45% AP)

• W - Kingslayer:

  • Heal Amount: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+20% AP) (+5% Sylas' Bonus HP), increased by up to 100% based on Sylas' missing health => 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+30% AP) (+5% Sylas' Bonus HP), increased by up to 100% based on Sylas' missing health

Syndra

• Base Stats:

  • Base Health: 563 => 583

• Q - Dark Sphere:

  • Damage: 80-220 (+65% AP) => 90-230 (+70% AP)

Tristana

• Base Stats:

  • AD Growth: 2.9 => 3.4

• Q - Rapid Fire:

  • Mana: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 => 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35

Varus

• Passive - Living Vengeance:

  • On Non-Champ Kill AD and AP: 10% of his Total AS => 11% of his Total AS

  • On Champ Kill AD and AP: 25% of his Total AS => 33% of his Total AS

  • On Non-Champ Kill AS: +50% AS => +30% AS

• Q - Piercing Arrow:

  • Damage: 53.33 / 100 / 146.67 / 193.33 / 240 (+100% bonus AD) to 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360 (+150% bonus AD) => 53.33 / 100 / 146.67 / 193.33 / 240 (+80% bonus AD) to 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360 (+120% bonus AD)

• W - Blighted Quiver:

  • On-Hit Damage: 8 / 17 / 26 / 35 / 44 (+15% bonus AD) (+25% AP) => 4 / 13 / 22 / 31 / 40 (+15% bonus AD) (+25% AP)

Xin Zhao

• Passive - Determination:

  • Healing: 3 / 4 / 5% Max HP (+45 / 55 / 80% AP) => 2 / 3.5 / 5% Max HP (+40 / 50 / 70% AP)

• W - Wind Becomes Lightning:

  • Mana Cost: 60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40 => 60

• E - Audacious Charge:

  • Mana Cost: 50 => 60

Yuumi

• Passive - Feline Friendship:

  • Heal Amount: 20 - 110 (+25% AP) (Levels 1 - 18) => 20 - 110 (+30% AP) (Levels 1 - 18)

• E - Zoomies:

  • Shield Amount: 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165 (+30% AP) => 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165 (+40% AP)

Summoner Spells

Teleport

• Max Health Shield: 30% for 30 seconds => 35% for 10 seconds

ARAM: Mayhem

• Ability Augments directly upgrade champion abilities, and Quest Augments now include multi-tier quests that can evolve multiple times.

• The Trait System is removed for this season, with some former trait bonuses converted into standalone Augments.

• Removed Augments include ???, Buff Buddies, Cerberus, Cheating, Crack Open That Egg, Demon's Dance, Executioner, Feel the Burn, Frost Wraith, Gash, Grandma Chili Oil, Hat on a Hat, Holy Fire, im a baby kitty, Keystone Conjurer, Laser Heal, Lightning Strikes, Poro Blaster, Poro King, Rabble Rousing, Red Envelopes, Repulsor, Restless Restoration, Self Destruct, Slow and Steady, Snowball Roulette, Speed Demon, The Brutalizer, Tormentor, Trailblazer, Trueshot Prodigy, Twice Thrice, Upgrade Cutlass, Upgrade Hubris, Upgrade Mikaels, Upgrade Thornmail, Void Rift, Watch Out! Cupcake!, Weighted Popoffs, and Wind beneath blade.

• New Silver Augments include Adaptive Ward, Don't Change the Channel, Double Defense, Forged By The Master, It's Go Time, Pursuit of Power, Quest: Support Main, Siphon, Snowday, Stackosaurus Rex, Stay Resolute, and Trusty Weapon.

• New Gold Augments include Archmage, BONK!, Combusting Interest, Endless Decimation, From Downtown, Hide on Bush, Lil' Extra Help, Mercy's Strike, Nature is Healing, the Healing, Overextender, Pat On The Back, Porcupine, Pressure Cooker, Pursuit of Haste, Ravenous Bind, Rejuvenation, Shark Bait, Shark Tempest, Snowblast, Terrain'd, Tooth Fairy, Void Dash, Warlock Juicebox, Wee Woo Wee Woo, and Yowch, My Coins!

• New Prismatic Augments include Chain Reaction, Dimension Shift, DropBear, Echo Cast, En Passant, Hellbent, High Roller, Multishot, One Trick Pony, Overloaded, Pin Cushion, Poro Stampede, Quickstep, Rite of Ascension, Spellsplit, Spirit Bomb, Squishy Slappy Grab, Surge Field, Terror, Titan's Resolve, and Tripleshot.

• Augment adjustments:

  • Blade Waltz now tries to retarget the initial target for the final attack.

  • Draw Your Sword AD: 30% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650) => 24% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)

  • Draw Your Sword AS: 25% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650) => 20% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)

  • Draw Your Sword HP: 30% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650) => 24% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)

  • Draw Your Sword MS: 25% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650) => 20% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)

  • Spin Me Right Round now grants 400 minimum attack range for champions below it.

Arena

• Champion changes:

  • Akali R AP Ratio: 30% => 40%; R Cooldown: 120/90/60 => 90/75/60

  • Brand Q Stun Duration: 1.75s => 1.5s; W Cooldown: 10s-8s => 12-10s

  • Karthus Q Base Damage: 60-140 => 40-116; Q AP Ratio: 45% => 35%

  • Lillia Q Movement Speed Per Stack: 3%-7% => 2%-6%

  • Nocturne Passive Cooldown: 12 => 9s; W Cooldown: 20s-12s => 18-10s

  • Pyke W Cooldown: 14s-10s => 12s-8s

  • Quinn W Attack Speed: 30%-70% => 28-80%; W Cooldown: 20s-10s => 14s-10s

  • Talon E Per Wall Cooldown: 26s-6s => 16s-0s

• Item changes include buffs or cooldown reductions to Banshee's Veil, Eclipse, Edge of Night, Iceborn Gauntlet, Kaenic Rookern, Maw of Malmortius, Seraph's Embrace, Opportunity, Profane Hydra, Prowler's Claw, Serylda's Grudge, Spectral Cutlass, Trinity Force, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Zeke's Convergence.

• Guardian Angel, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Wooglet's Witchcap no longer share a lockout.

• Decapitator stack generation now has melee/ranged splits: Basic Attack Melee - 2, Ranged - 1; Spell cast Melee - 4, Ranged 3.

• Augment changes:

  • Clown College on-death True Damage is now Magic Damage.

  • Dual Wield On-Attack Damage Applied: 40% => 40%/50%/60%

  • Ethereal Weapon max level increased from 2 => 3.

  • Now You See Me Cooldown: 10s/5s => 5s/0.5s; Movespeed After Blink: 50% => 50%/75%

  • Scopiest Weapons Ranged Values: 75/125/175 => 90/135/180

  • Self Destruct Timer: 15s => 13s

  • Stackosaurus Rex now works on permanent Augments and item effects.

  • Upgrade Collector Max Level Execution Threshold: 2% => 1.5%

• Disabled Augments: ???, Adamant, Bounce of the Poro King, Devil on Your Shoulder, Donation, Upgrade Hubris, and Wind Beneath Blade.

• Map and systems:

  • Petricite Grove removed the center-left blast cone.

  • Bombs are now untargetable while rolling.

  • In 1v3 last-player-standing situations, allies revive slightly faster.

  • Vote phase all-voted check timing: 7s => 5s

• Guests of Honor:

  • Vayne adds Swindler's Orb, granting 40% shield reaving on all damage done.

  • Kindred Wolf Bonus HP: 10% => 15%

  • Evelynn Health is Set to 50 => 75

  • Yone hunter round win gold increased from 250 to 500.

  • Swain removed from round 2.

  • Nilah removed from round 8.

Bugfixes & QoL

• Fixed Helping Hand buffs from certain starting items not being removed when sold or undone.

• Fixed dying before Smite upgraded at 45 seconds keeping Smite at one charge.

• Fixed Rift Herald dealing magic damage to turrets instead of true damage if the driver had more AP than AD.

• Fixed Imperial Mandate's Control passive granting Ability Haste to abilities that do not CC but swapped to CC spells.

• Fixed Practice Tool keybinds failing to save when using WASD Inputs in the Options Menu.

• Fixed Elise's human-form death animation playing when she died in Spider form.

• Fixed several Neeko disguise homeguard run animation issues with Wukong skins.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

• Sinful Shores Hwei releases this patch with chromas.