Wild Rift Patch Notes 4.3

Welcome to Patch 4.3—The Fighting Spirit Update! We hope you’re ready for the fight of your life, because this patch we’re packing with some extra punch!

Ready to skip into the Baron Lane and rain terror on her foes is Nilah! She’s joining Wild Rift this patch and we’re sure she's going to bring lots of joy to all of your games, and help you whip your foes into shape! We also have a flurry of gameplay updates, including our revamp of the rune system, some changes to boot enchantments, as well as your regularly scheduled balance adjustments. We can’t wait to see all the new builds you concoct in the new rune system, so be sure to share your favorites with us!

All our fighters are geared up and ready for the legendary Tournament of Souls! We have new skins showing our fighters in their best fighting garb, a new event, promotion, gamemode and more! We can’t wait for you to hop into the action when the update goes live later today!

While that’s all for now, this is just the first patch of the Fighting Spirit update and you can check out more of the content still to come in our latest Patch Preview:

Enjoy the action and we’ll see you back here for Patch 4.3a!

Reminder: content will be released throughout the patch.

NEW

NEW CHAMPIONS

NILAH, THE JOY UNBOUND

Nilah is an ascetic warrior from a distant land, seeking the world’s deadliest, most titanic opponents so that she might challenge and destroy them. Having won her power through an encounter with the long-imprisoned demon of joy, she has no emotions other than unceasing jubilation—a small price to pay for the vast strength she now possesses. Channeling the demon’s liquid form into a blade of unparalleled might, she stands defiant against ancient threats long forgotten.

Nilah will be released on July 21 at 00:01 UTC.

WILD PASS

Here to steal your dreams—Dream Raider Thresh! He’s sure to give you a fright, and turn any dream into a nightmare, but he’s bringing lots of goodies with him! Don’t sleep on these rewards, queue up and earn progress your way through to end! You can also pick up Unleashed Dream Raider Thresh from the Wild Pass Emporium!

As a reminder this will be our first Wild Pass of Patch 4.3, so Food Spirits Yuumi will be available later on!

The Wild Pass will be available on July 18 at 00:01 UTC

RANKED SEASON 10

Patch 4.3 is bringing with it the start of a new ranked season! Play games, reach your goals, and earn a brand new ranked skin along the way—Glorious Basilisk Jarvan! In addition to the new season and ranked skin, we also have made changes to the ranked system, added a new tier above challenger, and made some tweaks to Legendary Queue! You can learn more about all our Ranked changes in our Ranked Update and FAQ blog!

Ranked S10 will begin on July 18 at 00:01 UTC

TAG DUEL

We hope you’ve been training and are ready to duke it out, because Tag Duel is here! This is a 1v1 mode where the goal is for you to kill your opponent multiple times! With this new mode comes some new rules though:

• You’ll get to select three champions and be able to swap between them during the game.
  • Swapping between champions will consume super meter charges.
  • The super meter charges automatically and can be seen at the top of the screen.
• When you swap between champions, all your cooldowns are refunded.
• All champions will auto-buy and auto-level up during the game.
• All champions share a single health bar, once it’s depleted you’ll lose a life and all champions will respawn with full health and cooldowns.
• This mode will take place in a small arena with no minions, so you can focus on the fighting!
• And of course we had to add some proper theming to match Soul Fighter!

Tag Duel will be available on July 21 at 00:01 UTC until August 7

SOUL FIGHTER BOUNTY

Everybody, let's make some noise for DRAAAVEN! The Soul Fighter Bounty is a promotion where you’ll have a chance to get Soul Fighter Draven (Special Edition)—even though Draven would probably argue that all of his skins are “special edition.” To participate you’ll need to purchase boxes that will cost 400 Wild Cores a piece. Each box you open you’ll have a chance to receive the following:

After opening boxes and receiving vouchers you can redeem them for these items:

EVENTS

SOUL FIGHTER

It’s time to compete in the legendary Tournament of Souls! Learn more about Yasuo and Draven’s journey as you unlock rewards!

The Soul Fighter event begins July 21 at 00:01 UTC

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

RUNES

We’ve heard a lot of feedback that you all want more from runes, so we’ve re-designed the rune system to give you more options! We hope this new system gives you more room to explore runes and experiment your build paths on champions. And if you don’t want to experiment or cook up your own rune path, you can also choose to use the general guaranteeing minimum runes that we put at the first row at any time.

[NEW] GLACIAL AUGMENT

• Attack slows enemy champions by 20% for 1.5 seconds. For the same champion, the slowdown triggers only once every 10 seconds.
• Immobilizing an enemy will trigger 3 glacial rays to emanate from them towards you and this enemy champion, creating icy zones that last for 3 seconds.
• Enemies in icy zones are slowed (1% bonus health of carrier +20%), and their damage is reduced by 15% against your allies. The slowdown effect will last for 1.5 seconds after leaving the icy zone. (20 seconds cooldown)

[NEW] FIRST STRIKE

• In 0.25 seconds of entering a battle against enemy champions, damage caused on enemy will grant 5 gold and first strike effect lasting 3 seconds, which makes you deal bonus 9% true damage on enemy. After the effect, gold from the effect duration time will be granted (melee attack 100%/ remote attack 86%). (20 seconds cooldown)

[NEW] LAST STAND

• Extra 5-11% adaptive damage against enemy champions when health is lower than 60%.
• Maximum bonus damage will be provided when health is lower than 30%.

[NEW] LEGEND: ALACRITY

• Gain 3% bonus attack speed when engaging in taking down monsters, enemy champions and minions, up to 20% at maximum stacks.

[NEW] LEGEND: TENACITY

• Gain 3% tenacity and 3% slow resist, up to bonus 15% tenacity and 20% slow resist when engaging in taking down monsters, enemy champions and minions.

[NEW] LEGEND: BLOODLINE

• Gain 1% omnivamp, up to bonus 7% of omnivamp when engaging in taking down monsters, enemy champions and minions.

[NEW] LEGEND: SHIELD BASH

• After gaining shield or heal, the next attack against the enemy will be reinforced and deal bonus 5 - 30 + 20% Attack Damage +10% Adaptive Ability Power. (7 seconds cooldown)

[NEW] MARK OF THE WEAK

• Using abilities to deal damage to enemies will mark them as weak, increasing damage taken by them by 4 - 7%, the mark disappears after they take ability damage 3 times or after 7 seconds have passed. (20 seconds cooldown)

[NEW] EMPOWERED ATTACK

• Every 10 seconds, the next attack will be reinforced, dealing 35 - 50 bonus adaptive damage.

[NEW] CHEAP SHOT

• Deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage to enemies whose movement is impaired. (7 seconds cooldown)

[NEW] EYEBALL COLLECTOR

• Gains 0.5 Attack Damage or Ability Power when an enemy is taken down, up to 10 stacks, and gains a bonus 10 Attack Damage or 20 Ability Power reaching 10 stacks.

[NEW] INGENIOUS HUNTER

• 20 Item ability haste. Gains a bonus 4 item ability haste when an enemy is taken down. Stacks up to 5 times.

[NEW] ZOMBIE WARD

• After removing an enemy ward, spawns a zombie ward in its place, granting vision of the surrounding area for 120 seconds. Also gains 2 Attack Damage or 4 Ability Power. Stacks up to 5 times. Gives a bonus 10 Attack Damage or 20 Ability Power upon reading 5 stacks.

[NEW] COURAGE OF THE COLOSSUS

• Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45+1% max health for 3 seconds when immobilizing an enemy. (10 seconds cooldown)

[NEW] REVITALIZE

• Gains a 5% amplification effect when casting heal or shield. If the target’s health is lower than 40%, amplifies its effect by an additional 10%.

[NEW] OVERGROWTH

• When 1 monster or 2 minions are taken down nearby, gains permanent 2 max health. Max health can be increased infinitely. Gains bonus 3.5% max health upon reaching 30 stacks.

[NEW] HEXTECH FLASTRAPTION

• Replaces this item with Hex Flash when Flash is still on cooldown. You can blink to a new location after channeling for 1.5 seconds. (20 seconds of cooldown)

[NEW] ITEM CRAFTING

• Gains a chance to buy 1 item outside of the fountain every 3 minutes but it will cost 150 bonus gold.

[NEW] COUP DE GRACE

• When an enemy has less than 40% health, deals 7% bonus adaptive damage.

[NEW] FUTURE’S MARKET

• You can purchase items on credit. Credit limit: 145+7/minutes. Credit purchase is available 2 minutes in game.

[NEW] NULLIFYING ORB

• Shield: 60 + 50% bonus Attack Damage + 30% Ability Power → 60 - 190 (with level up)

FONT OF LIFE

• Team heal: 6% Maximum health + 30% Ability Power → 3% Maximum health + 15% your Ability Power
• Self heal: 2% Maximum health + 10% Ability Power → 1% Maximum health + 5% Ability Power

OVERHEAL

• [OLD]: After participating in the defeat of an enemy champion, restore 10% of lost health, and deal an additional 5% damage to champions with less than 35% health → [NEW]: After participating in the defeat of an enemy champion, restore 10% of lost health, 10% of maximum mana and energy.

ITEMS

DUSKBLADE OF DRAKTHARR

Nightstalker：

• [NEW]: First basic attack against an enemy champion causes 20 - 125 bonus physical damage and slows enemies by 99% for 0.25 seconds. Cooldown will be refreshed when an enemy has been taken down.
• [REMOVED]: Being unseen for 1 second causes your next basic attack against a champion to deal 20 - 125 bonus physical damage and slows them by 99% for 0.25 seconds. Buff lasts for 5 seconds if you are in the view of one enemy, and ranged attacks do not slow enemies.

SUPPORT ITEM ADJUSTMENT

This patch we want to offer support players some more items and also make sure the build paths are smoother while also providing them more support during the laning phase. To do this, we’ll be adding a new support item: Ancient Coin, and adjusting the effects of Spectral Sickle and Relic Shield. We’re also accelerating the upgrading speed of the quest items and giving the advanced support items a sustaining growing effect. This will give supports the flexibility to choose their items depending on the champions they pick, their individual play styles, and their lane matchups.

ANCIENT COIN

• Price: 500g
• Stats:
  • 80 Health
  • 5 Ability haste
• Passive:
  • Charge once per 30 seconds (max 3 charges). Every minion nearby taken down will grant 55 gold by consuming 1 charge, and regenerate 15-65 health. Champions equipped with Ancient Coin do not engage in minion bounty allocation and grant 50% of bounty solely, the bounty from minions taken down will be fully provided to the nearest ally. Grant only 50% gold from monsters.
• Quest:
  • Transform to Talisman of Ascension after granting 500 gold.

SPECTRAL SICKLE

• Price: 500g
• Versatile：
  • Gain 10 attack damage or 20 ability power (adaptive)
• Passive:
  • Gain 1 charge every 30 seconds (max 3 charges). When near an ally, damaging abilities and attacks against champions or structures grant 65 gold by consuming 1 charge and regenerate 20-80 health. Champions equipped with Spectral Sickle do not engage in minion bounty allocation and grant 50% of bounty solely, the bounty from minions taken down will be fully provided to the nearest ally. Grant only 50% gold from monsters.
• Quest:
  • Transform to Black Mist Scythe after granting 500 gold.

RELIC SHIELD

• Price: 500g
• Stats:
  • 125 Health
• Passive:
  • Gain 1 charge every 30 seconds (max 3 charges). When attacking minions, you consume 1 charge and execute minions below 65% health, granting full bounty to ally champions and bonus 65 gold to yourself and healing you for 20-80. Champions equipped with Relic Shield do not engage in minion bounty allocation and grant 50% of bounty solely, the bounty from minions taken down will be fully provided to the nearest ally. Grant only 50% gold from monsters.
• Quest：
  • Transform to Bulwark of the Mountain after granting 500 gold.

TALISMAN OF ASCENSION

• Stats：
  • 125 health
  • 15 skill haste
• Passive：
  • Grant 75 gold every 60 seconds and gain 1 point Spirit Power (max 10). Every point of Spirit Power provides 25 health, 2 Attack Damage or 4 Ability Power (adaptive).

BLACK MIST SCYTHE

• Stats：
  • 14 Attack Damage or 28 Ability Power (adaptive)
  • 10 Ability haste
• Passive：
  • Grant 75 gold every 60 seconds and gain 1 point Spirit Power (max 10). Every point of Spirit Power provides 25 health, 2 Attack Damage or 4 Ability Power (adaptive).

BULWARK OF THE MOUNTAIN

• Stats：
  • 175 Health
  • 10 Ability haste
• Passive：
  • Grant 75 gold every 60 seconds and gain 1 point Spirit Power (max 10). Every point of Spirit Power provides 25 health, 2 Attack Damage or 4 Ability Power (adaptive).

[REMOVED] HARROWING CRESCENT

[REMOVED] TARGON’S BUCKLER

BOOTS AND ENCHANTMENTS ADJUSTMENTS

This patch we’re also making adjustments to all of the boots and their build paths and prices to ensure that they are providing enough support during the earlier fights that may break out. We also are adding new boots that better suit mages, marksmen, and assassins, since there were not very good options for them. We’re also removing Protect Enchant, and adding a new passive enchantment for supports: Revitalizing Grail. We also felt like having active enchantments too early would cause a bit too much chaos in those early teamfights, so players can now only choose their active enchantment after 6 minutes in-game.

[NEW] BOOTS OF MANA

• Build path:
  • Boots of Speed (400g) + Amplifying Tome (500g) + 500g= 1400g
• Stats:
  • 60 Ability Power
  • 200% Mana restore
  • 8 Magic penetration
  • 45 Movement speed

[NEW] BOOTS OF OUTBURST

• Build path:
  • Boots of Speed (400g) + Long Sword (500g) + 600g= 1500g
• Stats:
  • 8 Armor penetration
  • 30 Attack Damage
  • 45 Movement speed

BERSERKER’S GREAVES

• Build path:
  • Boots of Speed (400g) + Long Sword (500g) + 500g= 1400g
• Stats:
  • 15 Attack Damage
  • 30% Attack speed
  • 45 Movement speed

IONIAN BOOTS OF LUCIDITY

• Build path:
  • Boots of Speed (400g) + Ruby Crystal (500g) + 500g= 1400g
• Stats:
  • 30 Ability haste
  • 150 Health
  • 45 Movement speed
• Passive:
  • Reduce 15% of ability cooldown

MERCURY’S TREADS

• Build path:
  • Boots of Speed (400g) + Ruby Crystal (500g) + 450g= 1350g
• Stats:
  • 35 Magic resistance
  • 150 Health
  • 100% Health restore
  • 45 Movement speed

PLATED STEELCAPS

• Build path:
  • Boots of Speed (400g) + Ruby Crystal (500g) + 450g= 1350g
• Stats:
  • 35 Armor
  • 150 Health
  • 100% Health restore
  • 45 Movement speed

GLUTTONOUS GREAVES

• Build path:
  • Boots of Speed (400g) + Long Sword (500g) + 500g= 1400g
• Stats:

• 7% Omnivamp
• 30 Attack Damage
• 45 Movement speed

[REMOVED] BOOTS OF FUROR

MAGNETRON ENCHANT

• Magnetron (Active):
  • Cast distance: 6 → 8
  • [NEW]: Can be casted to minions/monsters
  • [REMOVED]: Taunt

LOCKET ENCHANT

• Locket (Active):
  • Shield type: Magic shield → Normal shield
  • Shield value: 70 - 420 → 60 - 390

PROTOBELT ENCHANT

• Enchant price: 800g → 500g
• Protobelt/Missiles (Active):
  • Magic damage: 75 - 145 → 70
  • Additional missile damage: Fixed as 7
  • Dash speed: Increased to 20

REDEEMING ENCHANT

Redeem [NEW]: 50% of cooldown will be returned if ally champions are not healed.

[NEW] REVITALIZING GRAIL

• Enchantment Price: 500g
• Bless (Active): Bonus 20% effect of shield or heal for ally champions.

[REMOVED] PROTECT ENCHANT

SYSTEMS

[NEW] TIME OF PURCHASING ENCHANTMENT IN STORE

• Players can only purchase enchantment items in store after a certain period of time in game (6 minutes in Summoner‘s Rift).

[NEW] MECHANISM OF STRATEGIC POINT

We want to make sure that games are more fair and ensure that there isn’t a team that just gets steamrolled, so we’re implementing a new mechanic that will let players who are at a disadvantage have a chance to change the game state and bring their team back into it.

• In the mid-game or late-game, when one team is at a disadvantage, strategic points will be provided to them, with which they can grant bonus bounty if points are seized.
• If the gap is growing larger, the game will trigger a bonus kill bounty. Teams at a disadvantage will all share a small amount of bonus by taking down the enemy champion.

NEXUS SHIELD

Nexus shield is performing as we expected, but it's prolonging too many games. So, we’ve adjusted the end time of the Nexus shield mechanic.

• End time of Nexus shield mechanism: 18 minutes → 16 minutes

SCRYER’S BLOOMS

We’ve optimized Scryer’s Blooms in base and adjusted their mechanism so that they provide more vision for players at a disadvantage, and also make them smoother to use.

• Fixed directions of base Scryer’s Blooms, attack from any angle will only make them grant vision of a corresponding jungle.
• Scryer’s Blooms will immediately die when attacked by the enemy, without any vision effect.
• Expanded the vision of Scryer’s Blooms on its tail part thus they could grant vision of dragons’ pits.

SKINS

Soul Fighter Draven Releasing July 21 @ 00:01 UTC	Soul Fighter Draven (Special Edition) Releasing July 21 @ 00:01 UTC
Soul Fighter Xin Zhao Releasing July 21 @ 00:01 UTC	Soul Fighter Yasuo Releasing July 21 @ 00:01 UTC
Soul Fighter Nilah Releasing July 21 @ 00:01 UTC	Soul Fighter Irelia Releasing July 21 @ 00:01 UTC