Today, League of Legends received a huge update that focused on balancing some champions and adding a brand new champion – Talon, The Blade’s Shadow. The patch included a long awaited nerf to Jax and a minor buff to Kayle. This patch also added several UI improvements such as the ‘kill callout’, which are essentially the Counter-Strike death indicators (Who killed who). Alongside Jax and Kayle, any champion with a healing ability was also given some changes that encourages them to play more offensively. Some of the major champions that were affected were Nidalee, Soraka, and Taric.
Mercy (Passive): Talon’s auto-attacks deal additional damage to a target that is under the influence of any crowd control effect
Noxian Diplomacy: Talon viciously stabs his enemy, dealing heavy physical damage and causing them to leave a blood trail that Talon can use to track them.
Rake: Talon fans out three blades in front of him that quickly return to him, dealing damage and slowing any target hit in either direction.
Cutthroat: Talon leaps behind his target and silences them for a short duration, amplifying the damage of any of his follow up attacks and abilities.
Shadow Assault (Ultimate): Talon enters stealth for a short duration, gaining a movement speed boost and sending blades that deal damage to all enemies in their path flying in every direction. Once the blades reach a certain distance, they pause and form a circle. When Talon reappears from stealth, the blades return to him, once again dealing damage to any opponent they pass through.
Jax
- Leap Strike damage reduced to 20/45/70/95/120 from 35/60/85/110/135
- Empower
- Damage reduced to 60/95/130/165/200 from 75/110/135/180/215
- Empower now breaks spell shields
Kayle
- Attack damage per level increased to 2.8 from 2.5
- Attack speed per level increased to 2.5 from 2
- Reckoning
- Now scales with bonus attack damage at a 1.0 ratio in addition to a 1.0 ability power ratio
- Damage amplification increased to 6/7/8/9/10% from 5% at all levels
Nidalee
- Javelin Toss
- Mana Cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 60/70/80/90/100
- Cooldown reduced to 6 seconds from 7 seconds
- Pounce
- May now be affected by Cooldown Reduction
- Cooldown increased to 4 seconds from 3 seconds
- Primal Surge
- Mana cost adjusted to 60/80/100/120/140 from 65/70/75/80/85
- Base heal adjusted to 50/85/120/155/190 from 60/90/120/150/180
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 1.25
- Swipe ability power ratio increased to 0.4 from 0.2
- Aspect of the Cougar now grants 10/15/20 armor and magic resistance instead of 10% Dodge
- Fixed several tooltip errors (especially those in Cougar form)
Soraka
- Recommended Items updated
- Base health increased to 446 from 426
- Base health per level increased to 71 from 67
- Starcall
- Cooldown reduced to 2.5 seconds from 3 seconds
- Base damage reduced to 60/85/110/135/160 from 60/90/120/150/180
- Ability power ratio increased to .4 from .25
- Mana cost reduced to 35/40/45/50/55 from 40/50/60/70/80
- Shred increased to 8/9/10/11/12 from 8 at all levels
- Maximum stacks reduced to 10 from 20
- Range increased by 30
- Astral Blessing
- Ability power ratio reduced to .45 from .9
- Cooldown increased to 20 seconds from 10 seconds
- Base Heal increased to 70/140/210/280/350 from 60/120/180/240/300
- Armor buff increased to 25/50/75/100/125 from 20/35/50/65/80
- Armor buff duration increased to 5 seconds from 4 seconds
- Cast range increased to 750 from 650
- Infuse
- Ability power ratio increased to .75 from .6
- Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 15 seconds
- Silence duration adjusted to 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 from 1/1.5/2/2.5/3
- No longer grants double Mana when casting on yourself
- Wish
- Ability power ratio reduced to .7 from 1.3
- Mana cost reduced to 100/175/250 from 200/275/350
Taric
- Base attack speed increased to .625 from .613
- Imbue
- Ability power ratio reduced to .6 from 1.1
- Cooldown increased to 20/19/18/17/16 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12 seconds
- Basic attacks now reduce Imbue?s cooldown by 1 second (from 2) but the reduction now increases to 3 seconds when attacking an enemy champion
For a complete look at the official release notes, click here.