Patch 26.12 Notes

We've got some more changes to follow up the recent Season 2 & support meta with a nerf to AP Xin Zhao and buff to Yuumi, as well as preparation with an eye towards MSI on the patch after this one through creating opportunities for some diversity in champion picks in the tournament. While some of these changes are specifically pro-oriented (sorry, Varus), most of them should be pretty applicable across all levels of play, like Lee Sin and Nocturne being less menacing in the jungle. We'll be continuing this approach for one more patch before going back to business as usual. Looking for more information on all things League of Legends? Check out our community-run wiki here ! Wrong patch notes? You can find the TFT patch notes here !

Prestige Sinful Shores LeBlanc, Sinful Shores Brand, and Sinful Shores Hwei will be available June 10, 2026.

We are happy to open up Normal Draft availability for ME, OC and SG from windowed time to 24/7, as we've seen meaningful queue time improvement across regions since late 2025.

Apex duo restriction was turned on with S2 start in some regions where the Apex players also got a reset. We are actively monitoring the health of those top tier matches to build confidence and understand what match quality improvements we need to make to re-enable duo for Apex players in those regions, but don't currently feel comfortable in flipping the switch without making some improvements. We will let you know when we're in a state to re-enable.

We are introducing Honor and active penalty information to your social panel so you can easily track your standing, view your progress towards redemption, and see how your behavior impacts your games. The panel will display current Honor, restrictions, and actions you must take to restore standing, serving as a constant reminder of the positive community we are building together.

We're looking to give Aatrox some love as he's been sitting on the sidelines for some time now, even though signs point to the Darkin being a solid pick in the current meta. We're putting more power into his Q sweet spot to reward him for his core skill check and make him a real threat against lumbering tanks and squishies alike.

• Sweet Spot Bonus Damage : 70 ⇒ 75

Gwen has been cut out of the meta for quite some time across all skill brackets. She lost some power with 26.09's minor rework to Dusk and Dawn, so we're giving her some of that power back in the early game. She'll remain a scaling pick, but a weaker first item spike has cost her early game a bit too much. These changes should help Gwen players live that snip and skip fantasy at all stages!

• Base Damage Per Snip : 10/13.5/17/20.5/24 ⇒ 10/14/18/22/26
• Bonus Attack Speed : 20/35/50/65/80% ⇒ 30/42.5/55/67.5/80%

Hwei's 26.08 changes to how his ability slows stack and interact with other sources of slows had a larger negative impact than expected. While we had put in a compensation buff along with that change, it's clear after a few patches that he has ended up worse off from the change, so we are giving him some power spread between his Q and E to keep all his abilities feeling relevant.

• 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%
• Cooldown : 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11s ⇒ 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s

Our favorite Grandmaster at Angling has been patiently waiting for his time to strike. Jax is meant to be a high-damage threat who ramps up in fights, but currently he's been a (fish)bait pick against durable opponents. These changes should help with that, without pushing him over the (fishing) line.

• Mana Cost : 65 ⇒ 50
• Target Max Health Damage : 3.5% minimum damage / 7% maximum damage ⇒ 4% minimum damage / 8% maximum damage

The recent changes taking away some of Lee Sin's kit restrictions have been cool for Lee players, but he's clearly just too powerful now. With more outplay potential, we are nerfing his raw damage to balance him out.

• AD Growth : 3.7 ⇒ 3.4
• Damage : 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+95% bonus AD) ⇒ 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+90% bonus AD)
• Damage : 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+95% bonus AD) ⇒ 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+90% bonus AD)

Nocturne has been in quite a strong spot for a while, especially in the higher echelons of play. We like how distinct he feels to play with his relatively low ultimate cooldown, but that means we are going to pull power out of his 1v1 and farming since he has such strong tools to quickly create unequal fights.

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

Often called League's "perfect champ," Orianna in recent years has been doing it all and more: dominating lane, protecting allies, and outputting extremely reliable damage in teamfights. As the highest pro priority in recent patches, we feel like too much of her power is in early lane dominance. She should still show up - just more situationally and for 3k elo shockwaves rather than early game bullying.

• Base Health : 585 ⇒ 565
• Damage Increase Per Stack : 20% ⇒ 15%
• Damage : 250/400/550 (+95% AP) ⇒ 225/350/475 (+110% AP)

Ryze's early game trading has only gotten stronger with Deathfire Touch. For a champion known as a scaling combo mage, we feel his laning has gotten too unassailable. So like Orianna, we're tuning down his early game a bit to keep his power budget in the late game as he's intended to be.

• Base Health : 645 ⇒ 620
• Base AD : 58 ⇒ 55

Sylas is one of the champions who has come out worse for wear since the start of Season 2. We think he is still a powerful early lane bully, but he's lost enough power that his scaling is critically low to the point he's completely one note, so we are helping him out there.

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

Pass the ball, Ori! Syndra has had some of her more reliable damage stripped away recently in W and R, so we want to give her the tools to start pushing for that scaling fantasy with Dark Sphere, her highest variance bread and butter ability. We're hoping this mix of exciting and functional buffs gets players across skill brackets interested in her untapped power.

• Base Health : 563 ⇒ 583
• Damage : 80-220 (+65% AP) ⇒ 90-230 (+70% AP)

it's been two years since we've seen marksmen run over the mid meta, and while we absolutely don't want to go back to that world, we do feel like some marksmen in mid make for an interesting flavor of game. Tristana makes for a good candidate as she's been absent since we added mana costs to her Q in a couple seasons back. We'll be pulling back on some of those nerfs here and improving her level scaling generally.

• AD Growth : 2.9⇒ 3.4
• Mana : 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50⇒ 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35

Varus has steadily become the highest priority ADC & top laner over the course of the year among the top tiers of gameplay. While the changes to Experimental Hexplate should help alleviate his dominance in top lane, in bot lane, we're looking to further disincentivize oppressive early game focused lethality builds, while being relatively less impactful to the most common on-hit builds and helping them scale a bit better.

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

AP Xin Zhao continues being far too strong in mid lane. We are following up last patch's adjustment with a straight nerf this time to his ability to sustain both his health and mana in lane.

• Healing : 3 / 4 / 5% Max HP (+45 / 55 / 80% AP) ⇒ 2 / 3.5 / 5% Max HP (+40 / 50 / 70% AP)
• Mana Cost : 60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40 ⇒ 60
• Mana Cost : 50 ⇒ 60

As the only champion in the game with built in Heal/Shield power, Yuumi was hit hardest by the Moonstone Renewer mechanics changes in 26.09. We are giving her AP ratios a compensation buff to help keep enchanter items optimal for her.

• Heal Amount : 20 - 110 (+25% AP) (Levels 1 - 18) ⇒ 20 - 110 (+30% AP) (Levels 1 - 18)
• Shield Amount : 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165 (+30% AP) ⇒ 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165 (+40% AP)

• Max Health Shield : 30% for 30 seconds ⇒ 35% for 10 seconds

Ability Augments are Augments that directly upgrade one of your champion's abilities. You'll only ever receive Ability Augments that are usable for your champion.

Quest Augments are Augments that grow stronger as you complete specific objectives during the game.

We're removing the Trait System for this season.

Earlier this year, we explored how Traits affected player choice and build variety. While some Trait effects, like High Roller and Archmage were very popular, the system also reduced variety in Augment decisions. To preserve the fun parts, we've converted some Trait bonuses into standalone Augments so you can still enjoy their fantasies without being locked into a full Trait.

This time around, we're giving extra attention to fighters and tanks. We've added more combat-focused Prismatic Augments to help them survive longer and move through fights more aggressively. Having trouble surviving after getting a kill? HellBent lets you revive if you stack it high enough. Looking for a Bel'Veth-style reset fantasy? Rite of Ascension refreshes your cooldowns and heals you on takedowns. We've also removed some older Augments that no longer delivered on their gameplay fantasy. Our goal is to rotate the pool to focus more on champion abilities, and make sure every Augment feels exciting to select. Overall, our goal with each update is to keep Mayhem feeling fresh, experimental, and full of new discoveries. We wish you the utmost Mayhem and see you on the bridge!

Silver Augments

Gold Augments

Prismatic Augments

Blade Waltz

Will now attempt to re-target the initial target for the final attack so player will be able to land near the initial target

Draw Your Sword

Spin Me Right Round

• For example: Quick Step – Casting your self-targeted AoE ability makes you dash forward (Yes, Garen E and Kennen R are very happy about this!)
• Archmage - Gold
• High Roller - Prismatic
• Snowday - silver
• Make it Rain >>> Yowch, My Coins! - Gold
• Wee Woo Wee Woo - Gold
• Stackosaurus Rex - Silver
• ???
• 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
• Wind beneath blade
• 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
• Trusty Weapon
• Archmage
• BONK!
• Combusting Interest
• Endless Decimation
• From Downtown
• Hide on Bush
• Lil' Extra Help
• Mercy's Strike
• Nature is Healing
• Our 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
• Yowch, My Coins!
• 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
• Tripleshot
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Grants 400 minimum attack range for those below it

Arena 3x6 has been going strong and we've seen how much you all are loving it! We feel like the game is generally in a good state, and want to focus on buffing some under performers, particularly AD assassins who have always struggled to find success in Arena. Among other changes, we're making some adjustments to help in "last player standing" situations, tweaking some Guests of Honor, and making some changes to petricite bombs.

Akali

Brand

Karthus

Lillia

Nocturne

Pyke

Quinn

Talon

Banshee's Veil

Decapitator

Guardian Angel, Zhonya's Hourglass, Wooglet's Witchcap

These no longer share a lockout, allowing you to buy Guardian Angel with a Stasis item.

Eclipse

Edge of Night

Iceborn Gauntlet

Imperial Mandate

Kaenic Rookern

Maw of Malmortius

Seraph's Embrace

Opportunity

Profane Hydra

Youmus's Ghostblade

Prowler's Claw

Serylda's Grudge

Spectral Cutlass

Sterak's Gage

Trinity Force

Voltaic Cyclosword

Zeke's Convergence

Clown College

Dual Wield

Ethereal Weapon

Now You See Me

Scopiest Weapons

Self Destruct

Stackosaurus Rex

Now works on permanent Augments and item effects, including:

Upgrade Collector

Petricite Grove

Revives

Vote Phase

Vayne

Kindred

Evelynn

Yone

Swain

Nilah

• R AP Ratio: 30% ⇒ 40%
• R Cooldown: 120/90/60 ⇒ 90/75/60
• Q Stun Duration: 1.75s ⇒ 1.5s
• W Cooldown: 10s-8s ⇒ 12-10s
• Q (reverted to match SR) Base Damage: 60-140 ⇒ 40-116
• Q Ability Power Ratio: 45% ⇒ 35%
• Q Movement Speed Per Stack: 3%-7% ⇒ 2%-6%
• Passive Cooldown: 12 ⇒ 9s
• W Cooldown: 20s-12s ⇒ 18-10s
• W Cooldown: 14s-10s ⇒ 12s-8s
• W Attack Speed: 30%-70% ⇒ 28-80%
• W Cooldown: 20s-10s ⇒ 14s-10s
• E Per Wall Cooldown: 26s-6s ⇒ 16s-0s
• Cooldown: 40s ⇒ 20s
• Stack generation now has a melee/ranged split.
• Basic Attack: Melee - 2, Ranged - 1
• Spell cast: Melee - 4, Ranged 3
• Melee Shield Base Value: 250 ⇒ 300
• Ranged Shield Base Value: 125 ⇒ 150
• Cooldown: 20s ⇒ 10s
• Slow Amount: 25% ⇒ 30%
• AoE Radius: Increased from 300 ⇒ 400
• Ability Haste: 10 ⇒ 15
• Matches the SR version
• Out of Combat Timer: 15s ⇒ 10s
• Cooldown: 30s ⇒ 20s
• Cooldown: 45s ⇒ 30s
• Out of Combat Timer: 4s ⇒ 3s
• Cleave Melee Ratio: 40% ⇒ 60%
• Cleave Ranged Ratio: 20% ⇒ 30%
• Cooldown: 20s ⇒ 10s
• Cooldown: 25s ⇒ 15s
• Attack Damage: 40 ⇒ 50
• Ability Haste: 10 ⇒ 15
• Slow Amount: 30% ⇒ 50%
• Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 60
• Cooldown: 15s ⇒ 5s
• Cooldown: 30s ⇒ 20s
• Health: 333 ⇒ 375
• Attack Damage: 35 ⇒ 40
• Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 60
• Lethality: 18 ⇒ 20
• Cooldown: 20s ⇒ 15s
• On-death True Damage is now Magic Damage
• On-Attack Damage Applied: 40% ⇒ 40%/50%/60%
• Max level increased from 2 ⇒ 3
• On hits at each level 1/2/3
• Cooldown 10s/5s ⇒ 5s/0.5s
• Movespeed After Blink: 50% ⇒ 50%/75%
• Ranged Values Increased : 75/125/175 ⇒ 90/135/180
• Timer: 15s ⇒ 13s
• Phenomenal Evil
• Infinite Recursion
• Tank Engine
• Heart Steel
• Hubris
• Yun Tal Wild Arrows
• Max Level Execution Threshold: 2% ⇒ 1.5%
• ???
• Adamant
• Bounce of the Poro King
• Devil on Your Shoulder
• Donation
• Upgrade Hubris
• Wind Beneath Blade
• Removed the blast cone in the center left of the map
• Bombs are now untargetable while rolling
• If you are in a last player standing situation (1v3), you revive allies slightly quicker.
• Reduced the time it takes before the game checks if all players have voted from: 7s ⇒ 5s
• NEW Swindler's Orb: Grants 40% shield reaving on all damage done
• Wolf: Bonus HP 10% ⇒ 15%
• Health is Set to 50 ⇒ 75
• Hunter round win gold increased from 250 to 500
• Removed from round 2
• Removed from round 8
• Fixed a bug that was preventing certain on-hit items from hurting the Bulwark Blossom
• Fixed a bug where Jeweled Gauntlet was not converting Ability Power from ADAPt into Crit Chance
• Fixed a bug where Jeweled Gauntlet was not converting Ability Power from Adaptive Force into Crit Chance
• Fixed a bug where abilities with dashes were still retaining the bonus Ability Haste after Dashing is removed
• Fixed a bug where Trickster Demon was not being triggered on Jhin's Lotus Trap (E)
• Fixed a bug where Bel'Veth attack speed cap was being erroneously set when equipped with augments that are supposed to uncap attack speed
• Fixed a bug where Jinx's attack speed was being erroneously set when equipped with augments that are supposed to uncap attack speed when she triggers her Get Excited! Passive
• Fixed a bug where players could still purchase Sunfire Aegis and Hollow Radiance after completing Quest: Icathia's Fall
• Contract Killer Now correctly displays its capstone effect (mark an additional target) and gold increased when leveling this up.

• Fixed a bug where the Helping Hand buff from certain starting items wasn't removed when sold or undone.
• Fixed a bug where dying before smite upgraded at 45 seconds would keep Smite at one charge.
• Fixed a bug where Rift Herald would deal magic damage to turrets instead of true damage if the champion driving it had more AP than AD.
• Fixed a bug where abilities that don't CC but swapped to CC spells (Elise E, Leblanc R, etc.) gained Ability Haste from Imperial Mandate's Control passive.
• Fixed a bug where Practice Tool keybinds would fail to save when using WASD Inputs in the Options Menu.
• Fixed a bug where Elise's human form death animation was played when she died in Spider form.
• Fixed several cases where Neeko would not play the proper homeguard run animation when disguised as Wukong with various skins.