Today, League of Legends received another update, adding a brand new champion – Shyvana, the Half-Dragon. The patch included balances to their last champion Graves, buffs to Wukong and Olaf and nerfs to Shaco and Caitlyn. This patch also has a change to the new Dominion mode, where minor settings have been tweaked.
Fury of the Dragonborn (Passive):
Twin Bite:
Burnout:
Flame Breath:
Dragon’s Descent (Ultimate):
Graves
- True Grit
- Buff duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4
- Armor and magic resistance per stack reduced to 3 from 4 at max level
- Buckshot damage per additional missile reduced to 30% from 35%
Wukong
- Crushing Blow
- Total attack damage ratio increased to 1.1 from 1.0
- Fixed a bug where Crushing Blow did not display critical strikes or benefit from life steal
- Decoy
- Casting Decoy no longer instantly shows a reduction in Wukong’s mana bar to enemies
- Fixed a bug where Wukong’s stealth state did not ignore unit collision
- Improved general Decoy behavior and placement – the Decoy should now more accurately mimic Wukong’s previous position and behavior
- Wukong is now pushed forward slightly when using Decoy, rather than the Decoy being pushed back from Wukong’s position
- Nimbus Strike
- Attack speed bonus increased to 30/35/40/45/50% from 20/25/30/35/40%
- Attack speed duration increased to 4 seconds from 3
Olaf
- Undertow missile speed increased to 1600 from 1500
- Ragnarok
- Now breaks crowd control effects upon activation
- Duration adjusted to 6 seconds at all ranks from 5/6.5/8
Shaco
- Rewrote his Deceive, Hallucinate, and Champion tips for more clarity
- Deceive will now still critically strike even if you break stealth (ie: to cast Jack in the Box)
- Jack in the Box
- Base damage reduced to 35/50/65/80/95 from 35/55/75/95/115
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.2 from 0.25
- Activation range reduced to 300 from 350
- Cast range increased to 425 from 400
- Hallucinate
- Fixed a bug where Shaco’s clone wouldn’t trigger Two-Shiv Poison’s passive
Caitlyn
- Piltover Peacemaker base damage reduced to 20/60/100/140/180 from 20/65/110/155/200
- Yordle Snap Trap activation radius reduced to 135 from 150
Dominion
- Respawn time adjustments are now +2/-2 seconds regardless of the size in score difference
- Crystal Scar’s Aura armor penetration reduced to 12% from 15%
- Personal Score reward for assisting in capturing or neutralizing a point increased to 25 from 10
- Garrison has been changed to be an untargeted spell, similar to Promote. It will only become castable when in range of an eligible Capture Point.
- Fixed the channel time display for capturing the central runes to match the actual capture time. The actual time to capture is unchanged.
- Fixed a bug where capture points could be moved off of their platforms
- Fixed a crash when audio was disabled
For a complete look at the official release notes, click here.