The last patch before the League of Legends World Cup is here. Update 7.18 will form the platform on which the best teams in the world compete against each other.
In the last updates, Riot tried to create the most even playing field possible and to adjust the outliers up and down with minimal changes.
The new champion Ornn will also be tweaked a bit in this patch, but it is disabled for the World Cup as it was released recently.
League of Legends Patch 7.18 Champion Changes
Here are the highlights of the changes:
Azir: One of the champions that has gone out of the spotlight and will soon receive major changes.
First, his ultimate is increased in base damage: 150/225/300 ⇒ 150/250/450
Cassioppeia: The base damage of her E ability was too high and enabled her to build defensive items with good damage:
E - double tooth
ADDITIONAL DAMAGE AGAINST POISONED TARGETS 15/40/65/90/115 ⇒ 10/30/50/70/90
ADDITIONAL SCALING AGAINST POISONED TARGETS 0.4 ability power ⇒ 0.5 ability power
Elise: Base damage of her W - Explosive spider is reduced but it scales better with ability power. Your abseil gets 18s instead of 14s cooldown at the highest rank.
Gnar: His basic life is reduced from 540 to 510 that he himself does not become too stable.
Gragas: His basic armor is reduced and his e-belly ram has a slightly smaller radius so that he cannot empty camps in the jungle too quickly.
Jarvan IV .: A little too stable while jumping into the back row of enemies and dealing damage. Riot weakens his shield a little.
W - Golden Aegis
BASE SHIELD 65/90/115/140/165 ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160
ADDITIONAL SHIELD PER CHAMPION 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4 % of Jarvan's maximum life ⇒ 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3 % of Jarvan's maximum life
Kalista: Your Ultimate will get a longer cooldown - 150/120/90 seconds.
Lucian: Was too "safe" in middle lane, so his E-Merciless Pursuit will be extended to earlier ranks on cooldown.
Ryze: The eternal problem child Ryze only knows extremes, either too strong or completely too weak. At the moment he is not played much, so his W rune cage gets a little more scaling with skill strength to improve his combo from 0.2 to 0.6.
Tristana: Too good in the early game, so its charge is weakened.
E - explosive charge
BOMB RATIO 0.5 / 0.65 / 0.8 / 0.95 / 1.1 bonus attack damage ⇒ 0.5 / 0.6 / 0.7 / 0.8 / 0.9 bonus attack damage
BOMB RATE ON 4 STACKS 1.1 / 1.43 / 1.76 / 2.09 / 2.42 bonus attack damage ⇒ 1.1 / 1.32 / 1.54 / 1.76 / 1.98 bonus attack damage
Game mode rotation:
Invasion continues this patch as part of the Star Guardian: A New Horizon event. Sagittarius by 09/26/2017 at 8:59 a.m. CEST together with other Star Guardians the city from monster waves. Complete missions on a dynamic map to earn Starlight Tokens that you can convert into a New Horizon Eye and a mysterious Hextech Champion (random permanent champion). Some missions also grant you temporary Star Guardian championship emotes that you can present in games.
In the five-player PvE game mode "Invasion", all Star Guardian skins can be played for free "
There are also a number of bug fixes and customized items, as well as new skins and chromas.
If you are interested in the complete patch notes, can be found on the Riot homepage.
