Wild Rift Patch Notes 6.1

Hey everyone! Welcome to Patch 6.1! We hope you’re ready to be transported to a starry new galaxy, because with the arrival of 6.1, our new patch theme, Dual Nova, is also live! You’ll be able to gaze at twinkly stars in the Home Screen, the Shop, and even the Loading Screen. With the arrival of Dual Nova also comes Challenger’s Star and Adventure's Star too! Adventure’s Star isn’t live just yet, but Challenger’s Star is, and there are plenty of fun updates and improvements waiting for you inside. We’ve added a bunch of new goodies for you to earn on your Ranked climb this season, so we can’t wait to see you out there on the Rift while we try and reach new heights. In addition to the new theme, Ryze has also portaled his way onto our Rift and is making his grand debut! Thanks again, Faker, for the assist in helping us announce his arrival. We’ve also got a whole bunch of other quality of life updates and balance changes…Welcome to 6.1!

Reminder: content will be released throughout the patch.

NEW

NEW CHAMPIONS

RYZE, THE RUNE MAGE

Widely considered one of the most adept sorcerers on Runeterra, Ryze is an ancient, hard-bitten archmage with an impossibly heavy burden to bear. Armed with immense arcane power and a boundless constitution, he tirelessly hunts for World Runes—fragments of the raw magic that once shaped the world from nothingness. He must retrieve these artifacts before they fall into the wrong hands, for Ryze understands the horrors they could unleash on Runeterra.

Ryze will be released on April 17 at 00:01 UTC

WILD PASS

A new Wild Pass will be available once the patch launches, and fate is in your favor, because Wondertown Twisted Fate will be the skin for this wondrous Wild Pass! If you level up your Wild Pass to level 75, you’ll also be able to unlock Ascended Wondertown Twisted Fate, and earn tons of goodies on your way there! Additionally, a new Battle Ensign, Wondertown Twisted Fate, will be added to the Wild Pass Emporium, along with the limited-time return of Hexplorer Galio, Stargazer Karma, Ascended Stargazer Karma, Dream Raider Nasus, Ascended Dream Raider Nasus, Superhero Jayce, and Ascended Superhero Jayce!

DUAL NOVA

In our Patch Preview for this patch, we announced that in 6.1 we’d be introducing a special patch theme, Dual Nova! When you log in your home screen will transform into a magical galaxy, and you’ll be greeted by the fully lit up Challenger’s Star and the Adventure's Star. Surrounding them are sparkly constellations that you’ll be able to light up and earn rewards from as you play games. If you want to learn more about Dual Nova, check our article on it!

ADVENTURE’S STAR

As mentioned above and in our Dual Nova article, Adventure’s Star is still gathering cosmic energy, so it won’t be available until May 16, 00:00 UTC. Once it’s live, though, all casual modes will be there, and you’ll be able to earn points to upgrade your Battlefest medal by playing Adventure Mode games. You’ll be able to shine bright, reach challenger, and earn exclusive rewards along the way.

Once Adventure’s Star is live, you’ll notice a few of the matchmaking changes we’ve made. Your grade for each mode will be used as a matchmaking criteria for that mode. We’ve also made some matchmaking adjustments in ARAM and AAA ARAM. In 6.1, the likelihood of solo, duo, and trio parties being matched against full parties has been reduced to narrow the skill gap between the two teams. We’ll also be clamping down on win-trading parties in both of these modes this patch with some countermeasures.

RANKED SEASON

Ranked Season 17 will be launching on April 18 at 03:00 UTC+0 and will end in July 2025. To celebrate the season, a new Ranked skin, Glorious Airgrette Janna, will be blowing into the Reward Track for you to earn! Glorious Crown Ziggs, Glorious Orianna, Glorious Lulu, Glorious Jinx, and Glorious Tryndamere will also be making a return this season, so keep an eye out for notifications in the Ranked portal for more information.

RANKED UPDATES

With the arrival of Challenger’s Star, we’ve also made the following updates to Ranked Rewards:

• Rewards are now easier to obtain, including the Ranked Reward skins, which will allow you to enjoy and focus more on your Ranked climb! It will now only take five games to earn them.
• We’ve removed Season Rewards, Season Collections, Promotion Rewards, and Legendary Ranked Rewards.
• The Ranked Store has been moved to the Collected Legends Redemption Store.
• Added Weekly Rewards, Ranked Season Rewards, Legendary Season Rewards, and Beginner’s Rift Expedition to Main Modes.
• Increased and improved the rewards available in the new, consolidated reward system.
• Adjusted time to earn Ranked Season Skins, it will now take five games.
• Added tier rewards and monthly ranking rewards for Legendary Ranked.
• With the retirement of the Season Rewards system, Season Rewards Boost Cards will expire at the start of the new season, changing to XP boost cards!

Additionally, as we mentioned in our Annual Letter, we’re going to continue to take a look at the Ranked experience and make updates to improve it. We’ll continue to keep an eye on these and make adjustments as needed. The new mechanics for Patch 6.1 are:

• Rising Star: Receive one bonus Mark when you win a Ranked game with an S rating in Gold or lower.
• Remake for unbalanced team compositions: If your team composition is deemed unbalanced for Ranked, a remake vote will be triggered at the end of the champion selection phase. If a player on the team with the unbalanced composition votes to remake, the game will be terminated and the EOG summary displayed. Conditions for a remake vote are:
  • Your team is not a full party.
  • 4 or more selected champions are marksmen/mages.

And last but certainly not least, we’re also introducing a new rank-up event. If you rank up to Masters during the event, you’ll earn the title “A Master’s Mark: Trailblazer,” which can be used for the rest of this season. You’ll also receive the Ranked Wings cosmetic, which will be displayed in various locations on your profile during the season and permanently displayed in your Season Trophy Case.

LEGENDARY RANKED UPDATES

Legendary Ranked, where the best of the best rise to the top, has also received the following updates this patch:

• Updated tier names. Warrior has now been removed and the following are renamed:
  • Commander → Legendary Commander
  • Guardian → Legendary Master
  • Vanquisher → Legendary Grandmaster
  • Immortal → Legendary Challenger
  • The Legend tier remains unchanged
• We’ve also added the Legendary Energy system. When you get an S or A rating or achieve Great Player in a game, you’ll now earn more Legendary Energy. The better you play, the more energy you will earn.
• We’ve made adjustments to the Legendary Ranked champion pool. Instead of the current Champion Score of 1,000 or higher, you can now use any champion with an all-time highest Champion Score of 1,000 or higher, giving you more flexibility in your champion choices.
• We’re introducing a new bonus to welcome players to Legendary Ranked! There will be Mark-loss protection for your first loss of the season.
• Lastly, we’ve adjusted Legendary Ranked tier carry-over rules. Your Legendary Ranked tier and final Ranked tier in the previous season will now grant Legendary Point bonuses at the start of a new season.

CHAMPION SCORE SYSTEM

With some of our adjustments to Legendary Ranked, we also wanted to take a look at Champion Score, and make sure it was a competitive system. We’ve made the following adjustments:

• We’re decreasing the base Champion Score obtainable in lower Legendary Ranked tiers and increased the weight of Legendary Ranked Factor in comparison to S15.
• We’re lowering the base Champion Score obtainable in all Ranked tiers and adjusted the Game Score and Game Performance Score weightages. Fewer games are now needed to reach maximum Champion Score.
• We’re adding the Legendary Challenge, available on Saturdays and Sundays after Legendary Ranked starts. You can earn bonus Champion Score, Legendary Ranked Factor, and Legendary Energy in Legendary Challenge. These bonuses have a separate upper limit distinct from the original obtainment limits of each rank and will count toward your ranking on the leaderboard.
• We’re also revamping the Lane Icons and increasing them from five to eight different icons. The Lane Level system remains unchanged.
• Levels 4 and 5 have been added to Master of Versatility. Go challenge yourself and reach even greater heights!

COLLECTED LEGENDS: NEW SEASON, NEW GAMEPLAY

We’ve made the following updates for this Collected Legends Season:

• Added new patch rewards, including Chroma skins, exclusive Companions, and other exciting rewards.
• Rewards are now easier to obtain and there are even more rewards available now! For every card set you complete, you will receive a Surprise Chest. Collect all five card sets in a collection to obtain the grand reward for that collection and unlock the next collection.
• It’s now easier to obtain the cards you want! The probability of duplicate cards dropping in card packs, especially duplicate Gold cards dropping in Prismatic Card Packs, has been greatly reduced.
• Recurring Reward Chests: If you earn all three grand rewards in the current phase before the next phase is available, you'll be switched over to a Recurring Collection, a new feature where you can repeatedly earn chests for rewards.
• More Surprise Easter Eggs have been added. Game Reward card packs now have a chance to trigger Easter Eggs. When triggered, you will receive Easter Egg bonuses when claiming the card packs.
• Crafting cards for your collections is now easier with the convenient "Craft All" button on the card set screen. You can now craft several cards with a single tap as long as you have enough Omnishards.
• Opening card packs now takes less time with the handy "Open All" button that lets you open more than one card pack at the same time.

ANTI-CHEAT

• We're continuing to increase the capabilities of our anti-cheat system, Embedded Vanguard, to combat cheating in Wild Rift. Starting soon after the launch of this patch, if we detect a cheater in a match, that match will be terminated with no wins or losses distributed to unaffiliated players, the cheater will be banned.
• You can read more about Embedded Vanguard and our anti-cheating efforts on Wild Rift here.

CUSTOMIZED BUTTONS FOR ALL MODES

• We’ve added a new “Champion Controls” tab to settings - Controls and UI:
  • "Quick cast empowered attacks," "Cast on button press", "Flash Combo", and "Manual Aim Time Limit" have been moved to the new tab. "Joystick Dead Zone (Rumble's Flamespitter)" has also been added.
• Joystick Dead Zone (Rumble’s Flamespitter):
  • Adjusts the size of the joystick's dead zone when Rumble casts Flamespitter. When casting Flamespitter, Rumble will stop moving if the joystick moves into the dead zone. He will start moving again when the joystick moves out of the dead zone.
• Changed the "Quick cast empowered attacks" setting from an on-off toggle to a set of three options:
  • Off, Champion (Default), All
• "Manual Aim Time Limit" (for Viktor's Hextech Ray and Rumble's The Equalizer): When enabled, the indicator displays a countdown timer.

ITEMS

NEW ITEMS

[NEW] Bandle Fantasy

Base Stats:

• Total cost: 3000g
• Ability Power: 80
• Magic Penetration: 7%
• Max Mana: 300
• Ability Haste: 20

Build Path:

• Lost Chapter (900g) + Blasting Wand (800g) + Ring of Revelation (400g) + 900g

Flameblossom:

• Damaging an enemy champion with an active ability spawns a trap at their feet. After a brief delay, the trap deals magic damage equal to 100 plus 15% Ability Power to enemies in it (8s cooldown per target). If a target is hit by more than one trap set by the same champion within a short duration, traps after the first deal only 20% damage.

[NEW] Malignance

Base Stats:

• Total cost: 3000g
• Ability Power: 75
• Magic Penetration: 7%
• Max Mana: 400
• Ability Haste: 20

Build Path:

• Lost Chapter (900g) + Fiendish Codex (1000g) + Ring of Revelation (400g) + 700g

Scorn:

• Your ultimate abilities gain 20 Ability Haste.

Hatefog:

• Damaging a champion with your ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage equal to 60 plus 5% Ability Power per second and reducing their Magic Resist by 10. Burn radius increases with damage, reaching maximum radius at 800 damage.

Enchantments: [NEW] Hextech GLP- 800

Base Stats:

• Enchantment cost: 500g

Frost Bolt (Active):

• Fire a spray of icy bolts that explode on first enemy hit, dealing magic damage equal to 40–75 plus 20% Ability Power. (30s cooldown) Enemies hit are slowed by 90%, decaying to 30% plus 0.035% Ability Power over 2s.

ITEM CHANGES  

Boots of Mana

[New] Big Bully:

• Attacks and active abilities deal 18 bonus physical damage to minions.

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 

[New] Base Stats:

• Base Mana Regen: +150%

Rylai’s Crystal Scepter 

Base Stats:

• Max Health: 350 → 300
• Ability Power: 70 → 65
• Magic Penetration: 0% → 7%

RUNES

Sudden Impact 

• [Removed] For 4s after exiting stealth or using a dash, leap, blink, or teleport, damaging an enemy champion additionally deals 10–80 true damage. (10s cooldown)
• [New] Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 10–80 true damage once after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth within 4s. (10s cooldown) The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels:
  • Level 5: Deal an additional 10 true damage.
  • Level 9: Deal an additional 20 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.

Transcendence

• [Removed] Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
  • Level 1: Gain 6 Ability Haste.
  • Level 6: Gain an additional 6 Ability Haste.
  • Level 11: After a basic ability hits the target, reduce 15% of the ability's cooldown. (8s cooldown)
• [New] Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
  • Level 1: Gain 6 Ability Haste.
  • Level 5: Gain an additional 6 Ability Haste.
  • Level 9: After a basic ability hits the target, reduce 10% of the ability's cooldown. (8s cooldown)

SUMMONER’S RIFT

Enchanted Buffs

[New] Mechanics:

• Some monsters can now evolve— Red Bramblebacks and Blue Sentinels already on the battlefield will evolve at a set time every game.

  • At the 07:30 mark of the game, the Red Brambleback and Blue Sentinel will evolve into Empowered Red Brambleback and Empowered Blue Sentinel.

  • At the 12:00 of the game, the Red Brambleback and Blue Sentinel will evolve into Evolved Red Brambleback and Evolved Blue Sentinel.

Enchanted Gates

[Adjusted] Mechanics:

• Cooldown after teleport: 15s → 10s

• Mid-game teleport end points (7:30–11:30) have been repositioned so that landing is safer but still convenient for movement.

[New] Mechanics:

• During the mid game (7:30–11:30), using the Enchanted Gates grants a 3-second decaying Movement Speed bonus after you land.

• Enchanted Gates can only be used by allied champions during the mid game (7:30–11:30).

Ixtali Scorpion

[New] Mechanics:

• While summoning the Ixtali Scorpion, your location will be revealed.

• Turret damage to the Ixtali Scorpion: 100% → 80%

[Adjusted] Mechanics:

• When in range, turrets will prioritize attacking the Ixtali Scorpion over minions.

• We've also adjusted the Ixtali Scorpion's stats to balance the impact brought by the change in turret target priority.

Enchanted Gift (PVP Only)

[New] Mechanics:

• During the early game (01:00–07:00, while no outer turrets have fallen), an Enchanted Gift spawns in each lane every 90s for both teams. The Enchanted Gifts will spawn behind each team's players in the lane. If no player is present in the lane, they will spawn near the team's outer turret.

• An Enchanted Gift stays on the battlefield for 50s after it spawns, during which players can pick it up by going to it. Picking it up grants a random Enchanted Tool item and a small amount of gold. The item must be used within 60s before it expires.

• Each set of Enchanted Gifts that spawns in the lane grants the same random Tool to both teams.

[New] Random Enchanted Tools:

• Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will: Eating the biscuit restores Health and Mana over time.

• Midas Touch: Instantly kill a target minion, gaining gold and three minion execution charges with a greatly increased execution threshold. Killing a minion consumes one charge.

• Goldrush Dart: Throw a dart that deals damage to enemies it passes through. Hitting champions and minions grants gold. You get more gold if it hits a champion.

• Recon Flare: Fire a Recon Flare that grants vision of the surrounding area and reveals enemies in the area. The Health of revealed traps and wards is reduced to 1, and gold is granted for every enemy revealed.

• Growth Potion: After a brief delay, grow in size and deal increased damage.

• Shrink Potion: After a brief delay, shrink in size and gain Movement Speed.

GAMEPLAY

Unbound Frenzy

Champion Changes

In 6.1, we’ll be adding four new champions to Unbound Frenzy! You can look forward to magical transformations in their kits, courtesy of the Chili Immortal!

Fiora

• Duelist's Dance reveals more Vitals, and striking multiple Vitals with Lunge transforms it into Blade Waltz. Riposte stabs at multiple angles, and Grand Challenge reveals all Vitals on enemy champions.

Heimerdinger

• Heimerdinger can place turrets on allied champions and connect turrets to fire laser beams with H-28 G Evolution Turret. UPGRADE!!! provides a stronger buff to basic abilities.

Lillia

• Blooming Blows autocasts at no cost; Watch Out! Eep! has a greater jump distance and jumps over terrain; Swirlseed deals splash damage in a bigger area; and Lilting Lullaby makes enemies sleep longer.

Rumble

• When Rumble is Overheated, Junkyard Titan grants Attack Speed and Movement Speed and burns nearby enemies, dealing damage over time. While Overheated, Flamespitter's flamethrower range also increases. When Rumble is in the Danger Zone, Electro Harpoon launches three harpoons. The Equalizer fires additional rockets at enemy champions in range.

Stat Adjustments for Unique Loadouts

• Damage bonuses for ability-based playstyles have been given to Master Yi, Yasuo, and Renekton.

AAA ARAM

Hextech ARAM has been renamed "AAA ARAM," where "AAA" stands for "Augments, Awesomeness, and Adventures." AAA ARAM will be available to play later in this patch, and we’ll share more updates in the Patch Notes that it launches!

ARENA

Arena will also be launching later within the 6.1 patch when Adventure's Star has gathered enough cosmic power! We have some exciting updates that we will also share in the Patch Notes for the patch Arena goes live!

SYSTEM UPDATES AND OPTIMIZATIONS

Enchantment Purchase

• When you buy mid-tier boots different from the boot enchantment in your loadout, the boots in your loadout bar will be automatically updated to match the enchantment you've bought, letting you buy them more easily.
  • For example, if your loadout contains Steel-plated Teleport but you bought Mercury's Treads, the loadout bar in the Item Shop will be automatically updated to Mercury's Teleport.
• After buying an enchantment, you can exchange your boots for other mid-tier boots of the same enchantment in the Item Shop. The exchange cost is calculated using the same rules as other items.

Single-Player Mode

• Optimized the Laning Training and Simulation Training mode screens.
• Optimized the behavior of AI bots in Laning Training.
• Optimized the victory conditions for Laning Training.
• Expanded the AI bot champion pool for Laning Training and Simulation Training, providing you with a larger selection of champions commonly used in lanes different from their conventionally assigned lanes to practice with.

Player Behavior Mail

• Added a stand-alone player behavior mail tab for mail related to violation reports and penalties.

Chroma System

The Chroma system has been upgraded. We've expanded the Chroma skin pool while making them easier to get… all at the same cost!

• Upgraded Chroma skin artwork. Secret designs have been upgraded to include color-changing art. The artwork in the game loading screen and Collections - Skin tab will change to the same color scheme as the secret design.
• Simplified the Chroma Raffle Draw, making it easier for you to draw Chroma skins. Standard Chroma skins can now be directly purchased, and an option that lets you purchase a full set of Chroma skins (1 secret design + 6 standard designs) has been added.
• Removed Detectors. Any unused Detectors will be converted into Scanners at a ratio of 2:1 (values will be rounded up, e.g.: 3 Detectors → 2 Scanners).

Companion Mementos

• Upgraded the Companion Memento system: Optimized gameplay experience and upgraded the rewards. Collect more Companions and play games for a chance to obtain Orange Gemstones, Collected Legends Gold Card Packs, and other rare rewards.

Yellow Dot Notifications

• Added new yellow dot notification display options and optimized notification displays on some screens.

Customized Buttons

• Added Button Transparency to Custom Button Layout settings. You can now adjust transparency levels for various buttons.

SKINS

Soul Fighter Ryze Releasing April 17 @ 00:01 UTC	Soul Fighter Lucian Releasing April 17 @ 00:01 UTC
Soul Fighter Wukong Releasing April 17 @ 00:01 UTC	Soul Fighter Garen Releasing April 17 @ 00:01 UTC
Prestige Soul Fighter Irelia Releasing April 17 @ 00:01 UTC

BUG FIXES 

• Fixed an issue where damage from First Strike would awaken targets that Lillia’s Lilting Lullaby had caused to fall asleep. 

• Added a Heat icon indicator and fixed the issue where Rumble's Heat was not displayed.

• Fixed the issue where Viego's possession of Yone becomes permanent if he is crowd controlled after casting Soul Unbound.