Patch 7.2c changes

Base Stats Base AD: 54 → 58 Get Excited! Attack Speed: 12% → 25% Jinx was still falling behind even after the crit items were buffed, so she gets help on both ends. The extra 4 base AD steadies her lane trades and her last-hitting, while the near-doubled attack speed on Get Excited! makes her follow-up after a takedown far more dangerous. One kill in a teamfight now often carries straight into the next.

Formless Blade Critical Rate to AR Penetration conversion: 35% → 28% Apotheosis Damage over time: 60/120/180 + 140% bonus AD → 60/110/160 + 50% bonus AD Nilah was dominating in high elo, so her late game takes the hit. The lower conversion rate means stacking crit no longer shreds tanks as quickly, and the drop from 140% to 50% bonus AD scaling on Apotheosis is the decisive one — the more items she finishes, the less her damage over time keeps up. Her early game is largely untouched, so opponents finally get a window as the game runs long.

Base Stats Base HP: 750 → 690 Base AR: 55 → 50 HP per level: 120 → 128 Eclipse Cooldown: 14/13/12/11s → 13/12/11/10s Bonus AR: 40/60/80/100 → 30/50/70/90 Bonus MR: 40/60/80/100 → 30/50/70/90 Leona shrugged off lane poke with no real consequence, so her early durability is shifted into per-level health. Chip damage from her lane opponent now actually sticks. Eclipse loses a tier of resistances but gets a second of cooldown back, meaning she engages more often while absorbing less punishment early on. Once the levels pile up she frontlines exactly as before.

Base Stats Base HP: 690 → 660 HP per level: 120 → 128 Flamespitter Damage: 120/160/200/240 + 110% AP + 6%/8%/10%/12% target max HP → 100/140/180/220 + 125% AP + 7%/8%/9%/10% target max HP Danger Zone damage: 180/240/300/360 + 165% AP + 9%/12%/15%/18% target max HP → 150/210/270/330 + 187.5% AP + 10.5%/12%/13.5%/15% target max HP Scrap Shield Shield: 40/70/100/130 + 6% max HP → 40/80/120/160 + 4% max HP Danger Zone shield: 60/105/150/195 + 9% max HP → 60/120/180/240 + 6% max HP Electro Harpoon Bonus AP damage ratio: 40% → 50% Danger Zone bonus AP damage ratio: 60% → 75% Rumble was putting out heavy damage without committing to AP, so his damage profile gets rebuilt. Flat values and max-HP scaling come down while AP ratios go up, which means bruiser builds lose output and AP builds gain it. Scrap Shield follows the same logic, trading max-HP scaling for rank scaling. The change forces a clear choice between durability and damage instead of letting him have both.

Base Stats Base AR: 46 → 40 Fury of the Sands Cooldown: 75/70/65s → 90/80/70s Like other scaling picks, Nasus had become impossible to punish. Six less base armor makes his early lane noticeably softer and gives his opponent a reason to commit. His ultimate now costs 15 more seconds at rank 1, so he can no longer pop it to start any fight he likes — misjudge the timing and the gap before it returns is long.

Base Stats Base HP: 660 → 630 Base AR: 40 → 37 Rune Prison Damage: 70/110/150/190 + 65% AP + 4% bonus mana → 50/90/130/170 + 55% AP + 3% bonus mana Ryze has been riding high since Archangel's Staff and the other mage items were reworked. Lower base HP and armor make him easier to shove around in the early skirmishes, and Rune Prison loses on all three fronts — flat damage, AP ratio and mana ratio — so it takes longer to reach the mana-stacking payoff he is built around. Fall behind early and the comeback is much harder.

Infinite Duress Cooldown: 80/70/60s → 100/90/80s Base damage: 125/300/475 → 100/275/450 Since his ultimate was changed, Warwick had been picking off priority targets far too reliably. A flat 20 seconds of extra cooldown means it is no longer up for every skirmish, and whiffing it now costs him dearly. The 25 less base damage also means some targets he used to finish will survive on a sliver. Choosing the right moment matters much more than it did.

Living Artillery Mana cost: 40-400 (scaling with casts) → 50-500 (scaling with casts) Range: 12/14/16 → 11/13/15 Base damage: 100/140/180 → 80/120/160 The mage item pass let Kog'Maw stack enough AP and mana to shell opponents from complete safety. The higher mana ceiling makes sustained barrages far more expensive, and one step less range forces him to stand closer than before. The artillery identity stays intact, but opponents now have room to close the gap and answer back.

Base Stats Attack Speed: +30% → +35% Part of a pass that closes the gap between tier 2 and tier 3 boots. Berserker's Greaves gains 5 points of attack speed, making it a perfectly reasonable stopping point before upgrading.

Base Stats Tenacity: +15% → +30% Doubled tenacity turns Mercury's Treads into a genuine answer to CC-heavy compositions. If you keep dying while locked down by stuns and slows, this is now worth rushing.

Block Damage reduction: 6% → 10% A sizeable boost to its auto-attack mitigation. Against marksmen and on-hit fighters you will feel the difference from the laning phase onward.

Noxian Gale Movement Speed (melee/ranged): 15/12% → 10/7% Part of the tier 3 boot power-down. Both melee and ranged users lose 5 points of movement speed, which makes the upgrade less automatic and leaves room to spend that gold elsewhere.

Base Stats MR: +35 → +30 Five less magic resistance as part of the tier 3 boot pass. Its value as a magic damage answer drops slightly.

Base Stats AR: +35 → +30 Also part of the tier 3 boot pass. Five less armor makes it a slightly thinner answer to physical damage.

Base Stats AP: +40 → +35 Bully True damage: 22 → 18 Both the ability power and the true damage come down, reining in what had become the strongest damage option among the tier 3 boots.

Base Stats Max HP: +425 → +350 AR: +20 → +40 Recipe: Bami's Cinder (1300g) + Ruby Crystal (500g) + Cloth Armor (500g) + 600g → Bami's Cinder (1300g) + Chain Vest (900g) + 700g Sunfire Aegis rarely got picked as a first answer to physical damage, so its role is sharpened. It trades 75 health for double the armor at +40, leaning hard into the identity of a tanky item that shoves waves while trading. The recipe drops from three components to two, making the build path easier to plan around.

Base Stats Attack Speed: +15% → +25% Stridebreaker was not paying off for the attack-speed reliant champions it was designed for. Ten more points of attack speed finally make the chase-and-keep-hitting pattern work the way it should.

Base Stats Heal and Shield Power: +6% → +9% Purify Cooldown: 90s → 75s A direct buff meant to restore its place among defensive support items. On top of the stronger healing and shielding, 15 seconds off Purify means the second use is far more likely to be available when fights come back to back.

Base Stats MR: +75 → +80 Magebane Shield: 70-180 (by level) + 10% max HP → 50-150 (by level) + 14% max HP Kaenic Rookern had fallen behind since the mage item pass. Five more magic resistance, and Magebane trades flat shielding for max-HP scaling at 14%. The more health a tank stacks, the thicker the shield gets — which is exactly who wants to eat a mage's burst.

Stat Bonus AD and AP: +3% → +4% Dragon Soul Adaptive damage: 135 + 25% bonus AD + 12.5% AP → 180 + 35% bonus AD + 15% AP Part of a pass raising the value of elemental drakes and souls overall. Infernal gives more per stack, and its soul gains on both the flat value and the ratios. How many dragons your team has taken now translates directly into teamfight damage.

Dragon Soul Shield: 260 → 350 Ninety more shielding on the soul. The barrier that goes up before a fight is now thick enough to absorb an opening engage and turn the fight around.

Stat Bonus Missing health restored every 5 seconds: 2% → 2.8% Dragon Soul Healing: 190 + 36% bonus AD + 18% AP + 7.5% bonus HP → 250 + 48% bonus AD + 25% AP + 10% bonus HP Both in-combat and post-combat sustain go up together. The more skirmishes a game contains, the wider the gap grows — and the more often you can move to the next fight without recalling.

Minions take reduced damage from other minions until 6:00 — Removed The reduced minion-on-minion damage let baron laners freeze a wave in place for a very long time. That behaviour is reverted, so waves push and pull as they used to. With baron laners gaining more ways to affect the map this patch, pinning the lane down is no longer the reliable play it was.

A broad buff pass aimed at low pick rate champions. The picks whose cooldowns and mana costs were nearly halved feel completely different in the mode's constant skirmishing, where they can now keep casting instead of running dry. Bard (2) Caretaker's Shrine Cooldown: 15/14.5/14/13.5s → 8/7/6/5s Mana cost: 70 → 35 Nocturne (2) Shroud of Darkness Cooldown: 18/16/14/12s → 9/8/7/6s Mana cost: 50 → 25 Nunu & Willump (3) Snowball Barrage Cooldown: 12s → 6s Mana cost: 55/60/65/70 → 25/30/35/40 Annie (3) Molten Shield Cooldown: 14s → 7s Mana cost: 60 → 30 Gnar (3) Hop / Crunch Cooldown: 21/18/15/12s → 10.5/9/7.5/6s Zilean (2) Twisted Timeflow Cooldown: 14.5/13.5/12.5/11.5s → 9.5/8.5/7.5/6.5s Mana cost: 35 → 15 Karma (2) Focused Resolve Cooldown: 15s → 7.5s Mana cost: 55/60/65/70 → 25/30/35/40 Orianna (3) Command: Protect Cooldown: 9s → 4.5s Mana cost: 60 → 30 Skarner (3) Ixtal's Impact Cooldown: 18/16/14/12s → 9/8/7/6s Mana cost: 50/55/60/65 → 20/25/30/35 Jarvan IV (2) Golden Aegis Cooldown: 10s → 5s Mana cost: 30 → 15 Olaf Damage taken: 85% → 80% Riven Damage taken: 85% → 80% Zoe Damage dealt: 120% → 125% Amumu Damage taken: 90% → 85% Viego Damage taken: 85% → 80% Xin Zhao Damage taken: 85% → 80% Shen Energy cost reduction: 33% Akali Energy cost reduction: 33% Kennen Energy cost reduction: 33% Zed Energy cost reduction: 33% Master Yi (1) Alpha Strike NEW: 120% AP ratio Master Yi (2) Meditate AP ratio: 80% → 400% The two Master Yi entries are a different kind of change: Alpha Strike gains an AP ratio it never had, and Meditate's ratio is multiplied by five. Read it as an experiment to see whether an AP Master Yi build can stand on its own.

Fixed a bug where Diana's balance adjustment applied increased damage taken instead of the intended damage reduction. The modifier was inverted, so anyone picking Diana had been fighting at a disadvantage they were never meant to have. It now reduces damage as designed.