Mel gets no modification, Chemtech Soul is bufed, Bloodsong is nerfed, and a 3.0 Attack Speed cap
The League of Legends 15 S1.3 Patch Notes is out. According to the official schedule the game's developers provided, Patch 15 S1.3 is set to be released on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. This update highlights adjustments to the attack speed cap being increased to 3.0, Chemtech and Cloud Drake souls are being adjusted, while Bloodsong is being nerfed as Riot Games is aiming for ADC to find more fun in their role.
Buffs:
Evelynn, Jax, Kayn (blue), Nasus, Quinn, Rakan, Samira, Swain, Thresh, Attack Speed Cap, Chemtech Soul, Domination Keystones
Nerfs:
Cassiopeia, Galio, Jayce (Tank), Miss Fortune, Rell, Skarner, Teemo, Viego, Bloodsong (item), Cloud Soul, Void Grubs, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike
Adjustments:
Champion Bounties (for loosing team)
Swiftplay Buffs:
Fiddlesticks, Nidalee, Ivern, Zoe
Swiftplay Nerfs:
Yorick, Teemo
Swiftplay Adjustments:
Game Pacing Changes
URF Adjustments:
Increasing Attack Speed Cap
Riot's Reasoning behind these changes
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Mel
- After the hotfix, Mel has mostly stalled her winrate growth (similar to Neeko's release; another champ that has similar “play against” learning curve)
- We think her abilities are intuitive and will be learnt over time (drop the stacks, play around her W). We don’t feel the need to make further balance adjustments this patch and feel like she’s in a good spot while we observe how players learn her
- She’s currently extremely popular, which is great and we wanted to make her easy to play because of the influx of new/reviving players who wanted to play her from Arcane (hence the last hitting assistance, easy to use spells, etc.)
Support Item
- We’re trying to strike the right balance of appropriate support power level (and how that impacts ADC satisfaction) and not tanking the satisfaction of the role
- These nerfs are targeted at particularly the more damaging support items to decrease damage in the game. It’s not any higher than Season 14, but doesn’t mean it can’t go down a bit
- We’re still interested in longer term solves to increase ADC and Top agency and satisfaction in particular, but these changes will take a longer time to get right and land
Bounties
- We’re further reducing the value of bounties when a single player is trying to claw the game back while carrying on the losing team
Attack Speed Cap
- A small increase to the Attack Speed cap to 3.0; we don’t want to increase this too high as it makes piloting champions at high attack speed too challenging
- However, we need to balance this against the fantasy of systems (typically items) paying themselves off fully with high attack speed values that don’t (seemingly randomly) get capped
Dragon Souls
- A small rebalancing to the Dragon Souls. Cloud despite being perceived the weakest by the majority players is known as the most powerful by skilled players. Chemtech on the other hand is just underpowered across the board
Domination Tree
- In 25.S1.1, we removed a decent amount of Adaptive from the Domination tree through Eyeball collector. We’re compensating for this somewhat, but not all the way by buffing all of the Domination Keystones. We think it’s still valuable that these assassin style champions (in particular) can take other keystones, so in these cases (like Blue Kayn, Evelynn) we will also buff the champions to compensate for their total power level
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