Wild Rift Patch Notes 2.6

Whether you want to fight for justice, inflict pain on your enemies, or just go where you please—Kayle, Morgana, and an updated Dr. Mundo are here and bringing lots of updates with them! Also in 2.6: New Ranked Rewards, URF, 5 bans, and explosive balance changes around the map!
Game Updates
Ben Forbes, Alice Labrecque, Nick Frijia, Sean Mason

Do you want to fight for justice? Inflict pain on your enemies? Or just go where you please? Kayle, Morgana, and an updated Dr. Mundo are here giving you new and exciting ways to take down your enemies, in whatever style you please. They are also bringing tons of exciting updates with them!

New Ranked Rewards are here, featuring a new currency, store, and pass to reward you for your climb even more! If you’ve been tired of playing against your least fav champ, we’ve got you covered with five bans in champ select. You’re also going to want to do some thumb exercises since Ultra Rapid Fire mode (URF) is making its debut appearance on Wild Rift!

Finally, it’s been a minute since we’ve made some balance changes, and now that the Horizon Cup is complete, we’re ready to ruffle some feathers. We’re showing some love to some champions who have been in need of it, and curbing some of the explosive power that's been all over the map.

Check out the latest Patch Preview to get a peek at the weeks ahead.

Reminder: content will be released throughout the patch.

NEW

NEW CHAMPIONS

KAYLE, THE RIGHTEOUS

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Born to a Targonian Aspect at the height of the Rune Wars, Kayle honored her mother’s legacy by fighting for justice on wings of divine flame. She and her twin sister Morgana were the protectors of Demacia for many years—until Kayle became disillusioned with the repeated failings of mortals, and abandoned this realm altogether. Still, legends are told of her punishing the unjust with her fiery swords, and many hope that she will one day return…

Kayle will be released on December 3 at 00:01 UTC.

MORGANA, THE FALLEN

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Conflicted between her celestial and mortal natures, Morgana bound her wings to embrace humanity, and inflicts her pain and bitterness upon the dishonest and the corrupt. She rejects laws and traditions she believes are unjust, and fights for truth from the shadows of Demacia—even as others seek to repress it—by casting shields and chains of dark fire. More than anything else, Morgana truly believes that even the banished and outcast may one day rise again.

Morgana will be released on December 3 at 00:01 UTC.

DR. MUNDO, THE MADMAN OF ZAUN

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Utterly mad, tragically homicidal, and horrifyingly purple, Dr. Mundo is what keeps many of Zaun’s citizens indoors on particularly dark nights. Now a self-proclaimed physician, he was once a patient of Zaun’s most infamous asylum. After “curing” the entire staff, Dr. Mundo established his practice in the empty wards that once treated him and began mimicking the highly unethical procedures he had so often experienced himself. With a full cabinet of medicines and zero medical knowledge, he now makes himself more monstrous with each injection and terrifies the hapless “patients” who wander near his office.

Dr. Mundo’s VGU will be released on December 3 at 00:01 UTC. All previous owners will keep him and his skin upgrades, free of charge.

NEW FEATURES

CHAMP SELECT

Last time we spoke to you about champ select, we introduced three bans and talked about adding five in the near future. We feel like we have a big enough roster in Wild Rift now to be able to support and implement five champion bans! We hope that everyone enjoys being able to ban their least favorite champion.

We’re also updating the visuals of champ select to make position assignment more clear to all players.

*Wild Rift has been available in open beta for more time in some regions than for others, and many of you may still be learning new champions. Due to this, some regions will not launch 5 bans for the time being.*

RANKED REWARDS

Exciting updates to Ranked Rewards are here! We want to make Ranked feel even more rewarding for those of you that are committed to the climb.

Read more about Ranked Rewards here!

SEASON REWARD TRACK

  • Similar to the Wild Pass, but for Ranked!
  • Earn Season Points for the Ranked games you play
  • Reward system will track individual performance in games
  • Gain points and progress by winning games, playing your assigned role, showing sportsmanlike conduct, and by just being a good teammate!

RANKED REWARDS

  • Each season’s Glorious skin is now available through Season Rewards
  • Gold+ players will be celebrated with a skin overlay for the Glorious skin’s loading screen splash
  • Other exciting goodies like emotes, profile borders, and more will be on the track
  • Earn Ranked Coins and spend them in the Ranked Store!

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RANKED STORE

  • New store full of exciting new goodies that can be purchased with Ranked Coins!
  • Glorious skins from previous seasons will be available for Ranked Coins
  • Will also include lots of other new goodies we hope you’ll love, like new emotes to show off your rank, recall effects, skin poses for Glorious skins, and more!

WEEKEND REWARD SERIES

  • Every weekend earn bonus progression the Season Rewards track—if you win
  • The series ends after three wins or after 48 hours, whichever happens first

RANKED S4

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Speaking of ranked... Ranked S4 is here, starting Dec 5 at 03:00 UTC! Are you ready to clock in for the climb? If so, Glorious Orianna will be your reward! Good luck to everyone embarking on their climb this season!

WILD PASS S4

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A new Wild Pass is here! We could drag-on for hours about all the goodies you can earn, but we want to let you scale through the Wild Pass yourself to see just what’s waiting for you. However; we can’t hold it in any longer and have to share that Hexplorer Shyvana is your reward for completing this Wild Pass!

NEW PLAYERS

Have your friends had the itch to just blow something up since they watched Arcane? Well now, they can…kinda! When one of your friends downloads Wild Rift for the first time they will get to experience a new mission track filled with rewards themed around Jinx, who does blow stuff up.

NEW MODES

ULTRA RAPID FIRE (URF)

It’s time for you to stretch your thumbs, because our new game mode, Ultra Rapid Fire (URF) is making its debut appearance! Champions have unlimited mana and greatly reduced cooldowns in this mode, so hop in a cannon with your favorite champion and get ready to spam some spells!

URF availability may vary among regions due to different testing processes and results.

NEW SKINS

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Releasing December 3 @ 00:01 UTC:

  • Arcane Jinx *
  • Arcane Vi *
  • Blade Mistress Morgana
  • Corporate Mundo **
  • Frozen Prince Mundo
  • Hexplorer Shyvana
  • Rageborn Mundo
  • Viridian Kayle

Releasing December 4 @ 00:01 UTC:

  • Glorious Orianna

Releasing December 9 @ 00:01 UTC:

  • Mecha Kha’Zix
  • Mecha Rengar
  • Warden Jax

Releasing December 15 @ 00:01 UTC:

  • Crystal Rose Ezreal †
  • Crystal Rose Jarvan IV †
  • Crystal Rose Lux †
  • Crystal Rose Sona †

* Available in store for purchase now

** Now Legendary-tier

† Wild Rift debut

ACCESSORIES

You can earn or purchase accessories from a bunch of different sources. Please check the relevant page in game for more information on how to get ‘em!

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Baubles: Dragon You Down With Me; Common Scents; Hextech Headgear; Urf Shattering; Glazed Look; Watch for the Thorns

Icons: Cloudbringer’s Grace; Infernal Might; Oceanic Will; The One And Only Urf; Purrfection; Welcome Welcome!; Hextech Mayhem; Crystal Rose; Angel of Mercy; Angel of Judgement; Rift Newb

Emotes: (Iron-Challenger), Baby!; Don’t Bother Your Betters (Iron-Challenger); Best Buddies; Inseparable Allies; Might of Family; Perfect Partner; URFtastic!; Well Hello There; Here, For You; Crystal Clear Victory; Need A Hand?; Check Yourself; Heck Yeah!; Burn, Baby, Burn!; For Real?; Beautifully Done; Dunkmaster Darius; Just Peachy; Snowdown Snowman

Icon Borders: Hexplorer Horns

Recalls: Tagalong Dragon; Ringing in the New Year With A Boom!; Glorious Triumph; Crystal Petals

Player Emblems: S3 Challenger Banner; S3 Grandmaster Banner; S3 Master Banner; S3 Diamond Banner; S3 Emerald Banner; S3 Platinum Banner; S3 Gold Banner

Rift Emblems: KO Rift Emblem; Draconic Emblem; Hear Ye Emblem

Spawn Tags: Two Faces of Justice; Righteous Fury; Merciful Forgiveness; DenewBee

Profile Borders: Orianna’s Glory; Shyvana’s Collection

Homeguard Trails: Glorious

All accessories will be released throughout the patch.

EVENTS

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PATH OF JUSTICE

Explore the sibling rivalry of Kayle and Morgana through missions and grab either of them for free!

The Path of Justice event begins December 3 at 00:01 UTC

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ULTRA RAPID BINGO

Sharpen your spatulas, hop in a cannon and get ready to complete missions to fill out your Bingo card for some fun prizes!

The Ultra Rapid Bingo event begins December 10 at 00:01 UTC

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CRYSTAL ROSE

Set down your weapon. May I have this dance?

The Crystal Rose event begins December 15 at 00:01 UTC

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HEXTECH MAYHEM

Play a special mission in game and earn a Ziggs icon to celebrate the launch of Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, and all of Ziggs’ hextastic beats!

The Hextech Mayhem event begins December 15 at 00:01 UTC

CHAMPION CHANGES

AMUMU

Amumu just wants to make some friends and give them a hug, but recently he hasn’t been performing the same across all levels of play, which has left him getting less hugs. We are increasing his gameplay options and lowering some of his teamfight power so he can make some new friends.

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  • Base health: 650 → 570
  • Base mana regeneration: 21 → 15

Bandage Toss

  • [NEW EFFECT]: Can recharge up to two stacks, with 17/16/15/14s recharging time, affected by ability haste
  • Mana cost: 55/60/65/70 → 35/40/45/50
  • Cooldown: 14/12/10/8s → 3s (no longer affected by ability haste)
  • Base damage: 80/145/210/275 → 60/95/130/165

Despair

  • Base flat damage: 10/15/20/25 → 15/20/25/30
  • Base percentage damage: 1.1/1.4/1.7/2% → 1/1.2/1.4/1.6

Tantrum

  • Slow ratio: 30% → 20%

Curse of the Sad Mummy

  • Effect Range: 5 → 4.75
  • Stun Duration: 1.5/1.75/2s → 1.5s

ASHE

Ashe is still underperforming a bit in lane, so we’re bringing up her attack damage in the early game to better match other carries’ autoattacks.

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  • Base attack damage: 52 → 58

CAITLYN

The Sheriff of Piltover has been looking a bit strong since she’s made her debut appearance. Her ultimate has been used too effectively as a poke tool, so we are cutting down on its base damage. We still want to preserve the power of Ace in the Hole to execute Caitlyn’s enemies, but want to make sure it’s being used to close a case, not open one.

ACE IN THE HOLE

  • Base damage: 300/525/750 → 200/375/550

GRAGAS

Gragas was dominating at all levels, but after all our changes he’s been falling off a bit too much, especially in high level play. We are cautiously giving him back some of his power in the jungle.

Drunken Rage

  • Maximum monster damage: 300 → 400

Explosive Cask

  • Base damage: 150/275/400 → 200/300/400

GRAVES

Graves has still continued to be a popular and powerful pick. We’re reducing the power of critical strike builds in particular, since they are currently dominating the build paths of this outlaw.

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  • Base critical strike damage multiplier: 140% → 130%

Quickdraw

  • Cooldown: 15/14/13/12 → 16/15/14/13

IRELIA

Irelia is a strong champion in multiple positions, and is even more powerful in the hands of skilled players. However, she's also ripping through her opponents a bit too early in the game, so we're cutting down on the base damage she gets from her passive to make it more difficult for her to brute force her way through the early game.

IONIAN FERVOR

  • On-hit damage: 14-70 scaling with level (10 + 4/level) → 10-66 scaling with level (6 + 4/level)

VANGUARD'S EDGE

  • [BUGFIX] Fixed a bug in tooltips where the wall duration was increasing with ability rank. It has always been constant at 3 seconds.

JAYCE

Jayce has been performing below our expectations since his release, so we're providing him with some buffs that we believe will allow him to shine bright in the Baron Lane.

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  • AD per level: 3.6 → 4.55
  • Base armor: 35 → 40

TO THE SKIES! / SHOCK BLAST

  • To The Skies! (hammer) base damage: 60/105/150/195/240 → 60/110/160/210/260
  • To The Skies! (hammer) effect radius: 2.25 → 2.5
  • Shock Blast (cannon) base damage: 70/135/200/265/330 → 70/140/210/280/350

LIGHTNING FIELD / HYPER CHARGE

  • Mana regeneration: 6/9/12/15/18 → 8/11/14/16/20

THUNDERING BLOW / ACCELERATION GATE

  • Acceleration Gate + Shock Blast damage modifier: 40% → 50%

KENNEN

Kennen is a safe and powerful pick who can use his range, reliable crowd control and high mobility to bully melee champions. We want to provide some counterplay for his opponents so we are shifting his power.

THUNDERING SHURIKEN

  • Base Damage: 85/140/195/250 → 75/140/205/270

ELECTRICAL SURGE

  • Base Damage: 60/95/130/165 → 60/90/120/150

MISS FORTUNE

Miss Fortune has been in need of some love for a while. We want to give her the ability to rotate and roam more, so we are putting some spring in her strut and giving her ultimate a bit of a damage boost.

Strut

  • Bonus movement speed gained over time: 35/45/55/65 → 50/60/70/80

Bullet Time

  • AD Ratio: 75% → 85%
  • AP Ratio: 20% → 25%

NUNU & WILLUMP

Nunu and Willump have snowballed their way to the top again, this time due to some recent buffs to tanks in general. We’re going to preserve the power that the boy and his yeti have gained from itemization changes but cut down slightly on how fast they can clear the jungle and eat through objectives in order to balance out this new strength.

CONSUME

  • Cooldown: 11/10/9/8s → 12/11/10/9s

SENNA

While Senna is not struggling power wise, her ultimate has been too inconsistent at long ranges. We are upping the missile speed so that Senna can have fewer mists and more hits on her long-range ultimate casts.

DAWNING SHADOW

  • Missile speed: 100 → 170

SORAKA

Soraka is a premier healer, but has still been lagging behind her fellow enchanters. We want to improve her ability to sustain her allies while also making the trade off of sacrificing her health more rewarding.

Astral Infusion

  • Heal: 80/120/160/200 → 90/130/170/210

TWISTED FATE

Twisted Fate has dealt himself a powerful hand that has made him overwhelmingly dominant in high level play. We are taking a few cards out of his deck to cut back on some of his excess power, and focusing on his ultimate range so that he can’t access almost every part of the map from the mid lane.

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  • Health per level: 115 → 105
  • Base health at level 15: 2180 → 2040

Pick a Card

  • Cooldown: 6/6/6/6s → 8/7.5/7/6.5s

Destiny

  • Teleport range: 5000 → 4200

VEIGAR

Veigar is our tiny master of evil, but he is falling a bit short on showing other mid laners just how evil he really is. We’re boosting his baseline stats and damage to help perform better in lane so he can show his foes just how evil he really is. NYEHEHEHE!

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  • Base health: 530 → 570
  • Base armor: 30 → 35

DARK MATTER

  • Base damage: 80/145/210/275 → 100/160/220/280

PRIMORDIAL BURST

  • Base damage: 155/230/305 → 170/240/310

XAYAH

Our resident rebel was in need of some buffs, but our recent ones left her flying a bit too high. Since players have adjusted their builds to match Xayah’s higher attack damage, we are cutting back on some of her late game power.

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  • Base attack damage : 64 → 58

DEADLY PLUMAGE

  • Cooldown: 19/17/15/13 → 19/18/17/16

XIN ZHAO

Xin Zhao has recently been struggling to keep up with other junglers. We’re boosting his early survivability and his late game scaling so that he can better sustain himself in the midst of skirmishes and teamfights.

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  • Base HP: 610 → 650
  • Armor per Level: 3.9 → 4.3
    • Armor at Level 15: 90 → 96

ZED

The Master of Shadows has been dominating across all skill levels. We’re bringing down the strength of his early game to make it more difficult for Zed to get ahead and give him some vulnerabilities for his opponents to exploit.

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  • Armor: Reduced from 40 → 35

Razor Shuriken

  • Base Damage: 80/130/180/230 → 70/120/170/220

ZIGGS

Ziggs’ fuses have been burning and causing massive explosions all across the Mid and Dragon Lane. We’re going a bit harder with our changes in hopes to curb some of his hexplosive power.

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  • Health per level: 115 → 105
    • Health at level 15: 2180 → 2040

  • Base Mana: 480 → 435

Bouncing Bomb

  • Mana cost: 45/50/55/60 → 55/60/65/70

Mega Inferno Bomb

  • Cooldown: 80/65/50s → 95/80/65s

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

NEW ITEMS

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BANSHEE'S VEIL

Mages have been lacking a good defensive tool, so we’re bringing over Banshee’s Veil from League PC. This item will allow mages to invest in some Magic Resist and grant them a spell shield to protect themselves from pesky crowd control.

  • Total Cost: 3000g
    • Builds from Needlessly Large Rod (1400g) + Negatron Cloak (900g) + 700g
  • 70 Ability Power
  • 40 Magic Resist
  • 10 Ability Haste
  • UNIQUE PASSIVE - Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability.

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EDGE OF NIGHT

For players who are looking for a spell shield along with some Armor Penetration, we’re also bringing Edge of Night over from League PC! This item will especially be good in the hands of an assassin who has been looking for a bit more time when jumping in on the backline.

  • Total Cost: 3000g
    • Builds from Serrated Dirk (1000g) + Jaurim’s Fist (1200g) + 800g
  • 250 Health
  • 50 Attack Damage
  • UNIQUE PASSIVE - Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability.
  • PASSIVE - Gouge: 10 Armor Penetration

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HEXTECH MEGADRIVE

This item is for supports who love using their active items! Hextech Megadrive allows you to reduce your active item cooldowns through the use of your heals, shields, and when you immobilize your opponents.

  • Total Cost: 2700g
    • Builds from Lost Chapter (1050g) + Giant’s Belt (1000g) + 650g
  • 300 Health
  • 200 Mana
  • 35 Ability Power
  • 15 Ability Haste
  • UNIQUE PASSIVE - Tinker: Reduces the cooldown of your active items by 10% (5 second cooldown) when healing and shielding your allies, and by 15% (no cooldown) when immobilizing your enemies.

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IXTALI SEEDJAR

Ixtali Seedjar brings something new to Wild Rift, and lets supports tap into their inner gardener. Roam the map and collect seeds with your teammates so you can plant your very own Honeyfruit, Scryer’s Bloom, and Blast Cones all over the map!

  • Total Cost: 2500g
    • Builds from Chain Vest (900g) + Negatron Cloak (900g) + 700g
  • 45 Armor
  • 45 Magic Resist
  • UNIQUE PASSIVE - Propagation: When you or an ally hit a nearby plant, it drops a seed that only you can see. You can pick up and replant that seed at any location on the map.
  • PASSIVE - Spring: 5% movement speed

ITEM ADJUSTMENTS

ROD OF AGES

Rod of Ages has been a first item choice for almost all mana-based Ability Power champs in the game. Stacks are being acquired too quickly, so we are slowing the rate of stack generation in order to make this a scaling item.

  • Stacking rate: Stacks every 30 seconds → Stacks every 45 seconds
  • Time to full stacks: 300 seconds (5 minutes) to full stacks → 450 seconds (7.5 minutes) to full stacks

RUNE CHANGES

RESOLVE: FONT OF LIFE

For champions in the support role, Font of Life is the strongest keystone option in most scenarios. It is overperforming both in short trades and longer teamfights. We're cutting down on how generous Font of Life is for extended combat but preserving its supportive power in individual moments to more clearly differentiate it from Aery and Aftershock.

  • Mark duration: 4s → 3s
  • Cooldown: 6 seconds for melee champions, 10 seconds for ranged champions → 8 seconds for melee champions, 12 seconds for ranged champions

SOCIAL

GUILDS

A few updates to Guilds and GvG are on the way:

  • Added the ability to share Guilds directly via URL
  • Added limited time Arcane-themed Guild icons
  • Added titles to dialogue screens for context
  • Increased dialogue text size
  • Other various bugfixes and QoL improvements to Guilds and GvG

CLOSE FRIENDS

Helping Close Friends feel a little closer:

  • The Close Friend icon is now displayed for Tier 1 friendships
  • Spawn effects and tags are now available at Tier 2 friendships (previously Tier 3)
  • Tier 3 friendships now award exclusive in-game emotes that trigger in-game:
    • When one player scores a kill and the other assists them (triggers once per game)
    • When one player scores an ace and the other assists them
    • When one player destroys a turret and the other assists them
  • Added the option of separately turning on notifications for Close Friends (at Tier 2 or higher) and Subscribed friends
  • Other various bugfixes and QoL improvements to Close Friends

COMMUNICATIONS

  • Emotes from allies can now be seen on your HUD at all times
  • Added an option to mute different kinds of player communications separately from the scoreboard

SHARE SCREEN

  • Overhauled the visuals of more share screens, notably Guilds, Ranked and Leaderboards

CONTROLS

  • Players can now target friendly allies with tap casted abilities. Additional options can be found in the in-game settings menu.
  • Added a setting to lower the camera height.
  • Updated the target lock setting to turn off target lock completely, allowing only tap casts.
  • Added new controls default presets that will help newer players access a simpler set of controls to learn the game with. New accounts will have this set based on their League experience.
    • “Beginner” and “Advanced” defaults are now selectable in the controls settings page

REPORTING

  • Upgraded intentional losing detection and penalties

EXTRA BITS

  • Events now feature a countdown timer to give more information when a new one starts
  • Updated the visual effects for Solari Chargeblade
  • Improved device power consumption in 90 and 120fps mode
  • Optimized multiple parts of the matchmaking algorithm, particularly for premades and new players
  • Added the option to enable or disable push notifications from the in-app settings menu

FREE-TO-PLAY CHAMPION ROTATION

Dec 2 - Dec 8: Lee Sin, Lucian, Katarina, Kennen, Rakan, Renekton, Shyvana, Sona, Veigar, Xayah

Dec 9 - Dec 15: Aurelion Sol, Darius, Evelynn, Jax, Lulu, Senna, Varus, Vayne, Xin Zhao, Ziggs