E – Tangle-Barbs
- Damage: 70/105/140/175/210 (+65% AP) => 80/115/150/185/220 (+65% AP).
- Empowered root duration: 1.8/2.1/2.4/2.7/3s => 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3s.

Smolder

Passive – Dragon Practice
- Super Scorcher bonus magic damage: 25–55% (+0–9% with IE) => 25–60% (+0–10.5% with IE) of Dragon Practice stacks, scaling with crit chance.
- Flap Flap Flap bonus magic damage: 8–12.8% (+0–1.44% with IE) => 8–14% (+0–1.8% with IE) of Dragon Practice stacks, scaling with crit chance.
R – Mmooommmm!
- Self-heal: 100/135/170 (+50% bonus AD) (+75% AP) => 100/175/250 (+75% bonus AD) (+75% AP).

Swain

Base stats
- Magic resistance: 31 => 34.
- Armor: 25 => 23.
W – Vision of Empire
- Damage: 70/105/140/175/210 (+60%) => 70/115/160/205/250 (+60%).
- Cooldown: 22/21/20/19/18s => 20/19/18/17/16s.

Tahm Kench

Q – Tongue Lash
- Base healing: 10/13.75/17.5/21.25/25 => 10/20/30/40/50.

Vayne

Base stats
- Health regeneration per 5 seconds: 4 + 0.5/level => 5.5 + 0.4/level.
Q – Tumble
- Mana cost: 46/42/38/34/30 => 30 at all ranks.

Yunara

Q – Cultivation of Spirit
- Passive on-hit damage: 5/10/15/20/25 (+20% AP) => 3/8/13/18/23 (+20% AP).
- Active on-hit damage: 5/10/15/20/25 (+20% AP) => 3/8/13/18/23 (+20% AP).
W – Arc of Judgement
- Slow no longer stacks with other slows.

Experimental Hexplate

Ranged modifier: 70% effectiveness => 50%.
- Attack speed: 35% => 25%.
- Movement speed: 14% => 10%.

Hextech Rocketbelt

Ability haste: 20 => 10.
Active damage: 100 (+10% AP) => 135 (+15% AP).

Runaan’s Hurricane

Attack damage per bolt: 65% => 60%.

Scoreboard Cleanup

Combat-state counters are hidden on scoreboard icons for Death’s Dance, Haunting Guise, Liandry’s Torment, Riftmaker, Kraken Slayer, Terminus, Guinsoo’s Rageblade, Fiendhunter Bolts, Echoes of Helia, Dead Man’s Plate, Spear of Shojin, Overlord’s Bloodmail, Hullbreaker, Jak’Sho the Protean, and Force of Nature.
Strategically relevant counters, including Tear items and Mejai’s Soulstealer, remain visible.

Classic

New champions

Aatrox
- Passive – Blood Well: Basic abilities spend health to build a resource that grants attack speed and enables a revive.
- Q – Dark Flight: Leaps and lands with area damage and a knockup.
- W – Blood Thirst / Blood Price: Toggles every-third-attack effects between healing and bonus damage with a health cost.
- E – Blades of Torment: Projectiles damage and slow enemies.
- R – Massacre: Damages nearby champions and temporarily grants attack speed and attack range.
Caitlyn
- Passive – Headshot: Periodic empowered attacks; attacks from brush build charges faster.
- Q – Piltover Peacemaker: Piercing shot loses damage against subsequent targets.
- W – Yordle Snap Trap: Rooting, damaging traps; up to 2 active.
- E – 90 Caliber Net: Fires a damaging slow and recoils backward.
- R – Ace in the Hole: Channels a powerful targeted shot that another enemy champion can intercept.
Irelia
- Passive – Ionian Fervor: Gains tenacity based on nearby visible enemy champions.
- Q – Bladesurge: Dash applies on-hit effects; kills reset its cooldown and refund some mana.
- W – Hiten Style: Attacks heal passively; activation adds true damage and stronger healing.
- E – Equilibrium Strike: Damages and slows, or stuns if the target has a higher health percentage.
- R – Transcendent Blades: Fires four blades that damage enemies and restore health.
Karma
- Passive – Inner Flame: Missing health grants AP.
- Q – Heavenly Wave: Cone damage; Mantra adds allied healing based on missing health.
- W – Spirit Bond: Tether speeds allies, slows enemies, and damages enemies crossing it; Mantra doubles movement-speed effects.
- E – Soul Shield: Shields a target; Mantra adds damage around that target.
- R – Mantra: Available at level 1, stores up to two charges, and empowers the next basic ability.
Quinn and Valor
- Passive – Harrier: Valor marks enemies for bonus attack damage.
- Q – Blinding Assault: Area damage and blind.
- W – Heightened Senses: Harrier triggers grant attack and movement speed; activation reveals an area.
- E – Vault: Dashes to an enemy and rebounds, damaging, knocking back, slowing, and marking them.
- R – Tag Team:
  Valor replaces Quinn as a fast melee fighter with modified abilities. Recasting uses Skystrike and restores ranged form.

Champion balance

Fiora
- W – Riposte: Bonus AD: 15/20/25/30/35 => 10/15/20/25/30.
Graves
- Basic and critical attack animations sped up.
- Base AD: 54.1 => 50.
- AD per level: 3.1 => 2.5.
- Attack speed per level: 2.9% => 2.5%.
- R – Collateral Damage: Cone damage: 140/250/360 + 120% bonus AD => 140/230/320 + 100% bonus AD.
- R projectile damage unchanged.
Fizz
- Q – Urchin Strike: AP ratio: 60% => 40%.
- W – Seastone Trident: Active AP ratio: 35% => 20%.
Kennen
- W – Electrical Surge: Passive damage: 40/50/60/70/80% total AD => 25/40/55/70/85 + 100% bonus AD.
Nautilus
- Passive – Staggering Blow:
  Fixed excessive critical damage on empowered attacks.
- W – Titan’s Wrath:
  - Shield now correctly accounts for armor and magic resistance.
  - Damage over time: 40/55/70/85/100 + 40% AP => 40/65/90/115/140 + 40% AP.
  - Shield bonus health ratio: 10% => 15%.
  - Shield duration: 9.75 => 10.

Items

Spirit Visage: Health regeneration per 5 seconds: 4 => 20.
Force of Nature: Health regeneration per 5 seconds: 20 => 40.
Warmog’s Armor: Health regeneration per 5 seconds: 10 => 30.
Banshee’s Veil: Shop stat filter corrected from Ability Power to Health.

Gameplay fixes

Shyvana’s W can no longer be recast while active; R correctly cancels channels.
Kayle’s Q no longer incorrectly applies on-hit effects.
Teemo correctly regains W’s movement-speed bonus after death.
Sion no longer lifesteals from enemy inhibitors.
QSS, Mercurial Scimitar, and Gangplank’s W no longer incorrectly grant temporary vision during
Graves’ W nearsight.
Additional fixes cover champion text, artwork, role icons, rune-page layout, and summoner-spell audio.
Act II Battle Pass arrives in patch 26.21.

ARAM: Mayhem

Champions

Bard
- Meep AP ratio: 50% => 67%.
- Meep recharge: 8s => 5s.
- Meep attack damage per 3-chime breakpoint: 6 => 10.
Garen
- Passive regeneration: 1.5%–1.01% => 2%–12%, as listed by Riot.
- W cooldown: 22–12 => 18–12.
- W shield: 18% => 20% bonus health.
- W passive stacks per minion kill: 0.4 => 0.75.
K’Sante
- W cooldown: 14–10 => 10.
- W damage reduction: 30% => 45%.
- E shield: 13.5% => 15% bonus health.
Lee Sin
- Passive bonus attack speed: 40% => 50%.
- Passive energy restoration: 20/30/40 => 30/40/50.
- W shield: 60–240 => 80–320.
- Q2 damage: 60–180 => 80–240.
Swain
- Damage taken: 105% => 100%.
- Healing: 95% => 100%.
- Soul Fragment restoration: 6% flat => 3%–6%, scaling with level.
Thresh
- Passive soul drop: 2 => 3.
- W cooldown: 21/20/19/18/17s => 19/18/17/16/15s.

Augments

Juiced
- Mana drain removed.
- Damage-to-mana ratio: 4.5% => 7%.
- New ranged modifier: 80% of the 7%.
Leg Day
- Slow resistance: 40% => 50%.
Missile Split
- Splits at missile end or recast instead of the first unit hit.
Shark Tempest
- Slow: 30% for 3s => 40% for 3s.
- Base area damage: 50–100 => 100–200.
- Attached damage over 3s: 75–225 + 0.6 bonus AD + 0.36 AP => 90–270 + 0.75 bonus AD + 0.45 AP.
Squishy Slappy Grab
- Cooldown: 35s => 30s.
- Damage: 30–100 + 10% bonus health => 50–150 + 15% bonus health.
- Shield per target: 35–150 + 50% bonus armor + 50% bonus MR => 50–200 + 50% bonus armor + 50% bonus MR.
Tooth Fairy
- Damage check now uses pre-mitigation damage.
Triggered Inferno
- Cooldown: 15s => 5s.

Bug fixes

Infernal Soul and Jeweled Gauntlet no longer count minion damage.
King Me correctly clears after quest completion and properly transmutes into functional Overloaded.
Skilled Sniper correctly grants ability cooldown benefits to Aurora’s Q.
Echo Cast fixes address Shen’s E failing after Flash or queued spells, plus movement commands changing clone direction.
Spell Split fixes address Lucian’s W, summoner spells interrupting splits, and spell queuing.
Urgot’s W no longer destroys Rite of Ascension’s Soul.
Minion Mancer correctly amplifies
Shaco’s R explosion and
Ivern’s R knockup.
Shark Bait, Prom Queen, and Ultra Hydra receive interface fixes.

ARAM

Bel’Veth
- Damage dealt: 105% => 100%.
- Damage taken: 95% => 100%.
- Tenacity: 20% => 0%.
Locke
- Damage dealt: 105% => 115%.

Ranked 5s

Queue window: 4 p.m.–2 a.m. => 4 p.m.–4 a.m., server time.

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

Orianna’s R visuals and hitbox correctly align when cast before the ball reaches a fast-moving ally.
Sylas’s stolen Nautilus R no longer fizzles after losing vision.
Xin Zhao’s Q no longer goes fully on cooldown when its first attack is dodged.
Shyvana’s R correctly interrupts enemy teleports.
Kayle’s Q no longer incorrectly triggers Spellblade.
Large melee champions’ attack range correctly interacts with Immolate range.
Sivir’s E correctly blocks Leona’s E and Miss Fortune’s Q damage.
Malphite’s R no longer disables Flash.
Rapidly pressing Recall no longer grants Guinsoo’s Rageblade stacks.
Runaan’s Hurricane bolts no longer trigger minions’ Call for Help.
Additional fixes address rune-page overflow, Classic menus and sorting, item and spell icons, chromas, and Sona’s E description.

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

Available October 7, 2026:
- Prestige Classic Baron Kog’Maw.
- Prestige HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Sett.
- HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Ezreal, Kayn, Aphelios, Yone, and K’Sante.