League of Legends patch 8.9 change list

Patch 8.9 is here with many meta-shifting changes because everyone likes a good shake-up. (No? Not everyone?) There’s mage changes, new skins, and the usual balance changes all ready to go.

The mage changes are heavily focused on mana. Most items have been tweaked in how they give mana and each mages has had their base mana and mana regen increased. To trade-off, all those champions also gain less mana per level.

In addition to these changes, we’ve got epic monster changes with Baron Nashor and the summoned version of Rift Herald working a little differently. Rift Herald now dukes out more damage but is more susceptible to attacks on her eye. Baron should be a little harder to take down in the early game.

This patch also comes with two skin releases: Blood Moon Evelynn and Beemo.

As usual, you can check out Riot’s notes here and our tl;dr for you here.

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Mages Changes

Doran’s Ring

No longer gives base mana regen or mana regen on minion kill. Now gives flat mana regen and bonus damage vs minions.

[REMOVED] BASE MANA REGEN No longer gives base mana regen

[REMOVED] MANPIRE:: NO LONGER RETURNS MANA ON MINION KILL

[NEW] FLAT MANA REGEN Now gives 5 mana regen per 5 seconds

[NEW] MANA PUNCH Now gives +5 on-hit damage vs minions

Lost Chapter

Cost and ability power increased.

BUILD PATH Amplifying Tome + Sapphire Crystal + 315 gold ⇒ Amplifying Tome + Sapphire Crystal + Amplifying Tome + 80 gold

COST 1100 gold ⇒ 1300 gold

ABILITY POWER 25 ⇒ 40

Tear of the Goddess

Total cost increased. Mana refund decreased. Max mana increase now increases current mana by current percentage of mana.

COST 750 gold ⇒ 850

MANA COST REFUND 15% ⇒ 10%

UPDATED AQUA INTO WINE When you gain max mana from Tear of the Goddess’s passive, it preserves your percent current mana, rather than granting you the full max mana increase as a current mana increase. This applies to Manamune and Archangel’s Staff as well.

Hextech GLP-800

Combine cost decreased. Mana increased. Slow duration increased. Missile speed increased. Missile spread time decreased.

COMBINE COST 650 ⇒ 450

TOTAL COST (unchanged, offset by Lost Chapter cost increase)

MANA 500 ⇒ 600

SLOW DURATION 1 second ⇒ 2 seconds

MISSILE SPEED 1600 ⇒ 2000

MISSILE SPREAD TIME 0.3 seconds ⇒ 0.2 seconds

CAST TIME 0.25 seconds (unchanged)

Fiendish Codex

Ability power increased.

ABILITY POWER 30 ⇒ 35

UPGRADED Zhonya’s Hourglass and Banshee’s Veil also have 5 more total ability power.

Twin Shadows

Ability power increased.

ABILITY POWER 60 ⇒ 70

Seeker’s Armguard

Total cost decreased.

TOTAL COST 1200 ⇒ 1100

UPGRADED Zhonya’s Hourglass’ total gold cost is unchanged.

Spellbinder

Base ability power increased. Ability power from activation decreased. Combine cost and total cost increased.

TOTAL COST 2800 gold ⇒ 2900 gold

COMBINE COST 700 gold ⇒ 800 gold

ABILITY POWER 100 ⇒ 120

ABILITY POWER MAX ON ACTIVATION 100 ⇒ 80

MOVEMENT SPEED MAX ON ACTIVATION 30% ⇒ 50%

Rylai’s Crystal Scepter

Ability power increased.

ABILITY POWER 85 ⇒ 90

Mejai’s Soulstealer

Glory stacks required for bonus movement speed decreased.

STACKS FOR MOVEMENT SPEED 15 ⇒ 10

Luden’s Echo

Total cost decreased. Mana increased.

TOTAL COST 3300 gold ⇒ 3200 gold

BUILD PATH Lost Chapter + Amplifying Tome + Blasting Wand + 915 gold ⇒ Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + 1050 gold

MANA 500 ⇒ 600

Turrets

Damage to turrets on basic attacks from ability power increased and converted to magic damage.

AP TO DAMAGE CONVERSION 50% ⇒ 60%

NEWTHE WHOLE THING If a basic attack uses ability power bonus to turrets, the whole attack will convert to magic damage, rather than only the ability power scaling portion.

Champions

25 mages have more mana regen and base mana, but less mana growth. 5 other mages have more mana regen.

Ahri

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 334 ⇒ 418

MANA GROWTH 50 ⇒ 25

Anivia

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 396 ⇒ 495

MANA GROWTH 50 ⇒ 25

Annie

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 334 ⇒ 418

MANA GROWTH 50 ⇒ 25

Azir

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 350 ⇒ 438

MANA GROWTH 42 ⇒ 21

Brand

MANA REGEN 8 per 5 seconds ⇒ 10.65 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 375 ⇒ 496

MANA GROWTH 42 ⇒ 21

Cassiopeia

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 334 ⇒ 418

MANA GROWTH 63 ⇒ 31.5

Fiddlesticks

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 400 ⇒ 500

MANA GROWTH 56 ⇒ 28

Heimerdinger

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 308 ⇒ 385

MANA GROWTH 40 ⇒ 20

Karthus

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 373 ⇒ 467

MANA GROWTH 61 ⇒ 30.5

Lissandra

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 380 ⇒ 475

MANA GROWTH 60 ⇒ 30

Lux

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 384 ⇒ 480

MANA GROWTH 47 ⇒ 23.5

Malzahar

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 300 ⇒ 375

MANA GROWTH 55 ⇒ 27.5

Orianna

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 334 ⇒ 418

MANA GROWTH 50 ⇒ 25

Swain

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 374 ⇒ 468

MANA GROWTH 57 ⇒ 28.5

Syndra

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 384 ⇒ 480

MANA GROWTH 60 ⇒ 30

Taliyah

MANA REGEN 7 per 5 seconds ⇒ 9.335 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 340 ⇒ 425

MANA GROWTH 60 ⇒ 30

Twisted Fate

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 266 ⇒ 333

MANA GROWTH 38 ⇒ 19

Veigar

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 392 ⇒ 490

MANA GROWTH 52 ⇒ 26

Vel’Koz

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 375 ⇒ 469

MANA GROWTH 42 ⇒ 21

Viktor

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 324 ⇒ 405

MANA GROWTH 50 ⇒ 25

Xerath

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 367 ⇒ 459

MANA GROWTH 44 ⇒ 22

Ziggs

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 384 ⇒ 480

MANA GROWTH 47 ⇒ 23.5

Zilean

MANA REGEN 8.5 per 5 seconds ⇒ 11.335 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 361 ⇒ 452

MANA GROWTH 60 ⇒ 30

Zoe

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 340 ⇒ 425

MANA GROWTH 50 ⇒ 25

Zyra

MANA REGEN 10.5 per 5 seconds ⇒ 15.335 per 5 seconds

BASE MANA 334 ⇒ 418

MANA GROWTH 50 ⇒ 25

These champions, while also affected by the Doran’s Ring, don’t tend to build any of the mana items we’re touching this patch. So, we’re only adjusting their mana regen, but leaving their base mana and mana growth untouched.

Diana

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

Galio

MANA REGEN 7 per 5 seconds ⇒ 9.335 per 5 seconds

Kayle

MANA REGEN 6 per 5 seconds ⇒ 8 per 5 seconds

Morgana

MANA REGEN 11.5 per 5 seconds ⇒ 15 per 5 seconds

Teemo

MANA REGEN 7.2 per 5 seconds ⇒ 9.6 per 5 seconds

Champions

Amumu

Riot Games

Q mana cost decreased.

Q - Bandage Toss

COST 80/90/100/110/120 mana ⇒ 50/55/60/65/70 mana

Caitlyn

Riot Games

Passive can no longer crit and now simply has a percentage increase over damage dealt to champions.

Passive - Headshot

DAMAGE TO CHAMPIONS +50% (modified by critical strike) total attack damage (unchanged)

[UPDATED] DAMAGE TO NON-CHAMPIONS +100% (modified by critical strike) total attack damage

Dr. Mundo

Riot Games

R healing increased.

R - Sadism

HEALING 40/50/60% maximum health ⇒ 50/75/100% maximum health

Garen

Riot Games

Q base damage increased at later ranks. W resistances increased.

Q - Decisive Strike

BASE DAMAGE 30/55/80/105/130 ⇒ 30/65/100/135/170

W - Courage

MAXIMUM RESISTANCES 30 ⇒ 40

Irelia

Riot Games

Passive now refreshes its duration when attacking large monsters.

Passive - Ionian Fervor

[UPDATED] MONSTER STACKS Now also refreshes its duration when attacking large monsters

Ivern

Riot Games

Passive health cost decreased. Passive maturation time decreased at later ranks. Q missile width increased.

Passive - Friend of the Forest

COST 25% of maximum health ⇒ 22.5% of maximum health

MATURATION TIME 40-6 (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 40-30 (at levels 1-6), 27-15 (at levels 7-11), 11-3 (at levels 12-14), 1 (level 15+)

Q - Rootcaller

MISSILE WIDTH 65 ⇒ 80

Kai’sa

Riot Games

Evolved Q missile count decreased. Missile damage is now flagged as area of effect. E duration decreased.

Q - Icathian Rain

EVOLVED Q 12 missiles ⇒ 10 missiles

BOMBARDMENT Missile damage is now flagged as AoE in all cases.

E - Supercharge

DURATION 5 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds

TOO MUCH Runaan’s Hurricane bolts no longer grant Supercharge’s cooldown reduction

Kassadin

Riot Games

Q magic damage shield strength increased.

Kassadin currently needs a bit more help to get through his laning phase.

Q - Null Sphere

SHIELD 40/70/100/130/160 ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160

Kennen

Riot Games

W 5th hit base damage and bonus attack damage ratio increased at later ranks; ability power ratio decreased. W active base damage decreased; ability power ratio increased. Kennen now loses E defenses but gains attack speed upon exiting lightning form.

W - Electrical Surge

5TH ATTACK BASE DAMAGE 15/20/25/30/35 ⇒ 10/20/30/40/50

5TH ATTACK DAMAGE RATIO (AD) 60% bonus attack damage ⇒ 60/70/80/90/100% bonus attack damage

5TH ATTACK DAMAGE RATIO (AP) 0.3 ability power ⇒ 0.2 ability power

ACTIVE BASE DAMAGE 65/95/125/155/185 ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160

ACTIVE DAMAGE RATIO 0.55 ability power >> 0.8 ability power

E - Lightning Rush

[NEW] STRIKE MORE THAN TWICE Kennen gains 30-70% attack speed for 4 seconds upon exiting Lightning Rush

[NEW] IMPATIENT Lightning Rush’s defensive bonuses are lost upon exiting Lightning Rush

Leona

Riot Games

W base damage increased.

W - Eclipse

BASE DAMAGE 40/80/120/160/200 ⇒ 60/100/140/180/220

Lux

Riot Games

Q base damage increased and cooldown decreased. W shield now doubles on return even if it hadn’t hit an ally on the way out. E missile speed, radius, and mana cost decreased. E cooldown at later ranks decreased.

Base Stats

BONUS ATTACK SPEED AT LEVEL 1 0% ⇒ 7%

ATTACK SPEED GROWTH 1.36% ⇒ 1%

HEALTH GROWTH 91 ⇒ 85

Q - Light Binding

BASE DAMAGE 50/100/150/200/250 ⇒ 70/115/160/205/250

COOLDOWN 13/12.5/12/11.5/11 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds

COST 50/55/60/65/70 mana ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60 mana

W - Prismatic Barrier

RETURN SHIELD 200% if Lux shields an ally on the way out ⇒ 200% always

SPEED OF LIGHT Lux now shields herself and fires the missile at the start of cast (instead of after the 0.25 second cast time). She is still rooted for the cast time.

E - Lucent Singularity

MISSILE SPEED 1300 ⇒ 1200

RADIUS 350 ⇒ 310

COST 70/85/100/115/130 mana ⇒ 70/80/90/100/110 mana

COOLDOWN 10 seconds ⇒ 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds

Rammus

Riot Games

W armor bonus decreased.

W - Defensive Ball Curl

FLAT ARMOR ON ACTIVATION 20 ⇒ 30

Poppy

Riot Games

Base movement speed decreased. W movement speed and resistances decreased. Passive and E range increased. Snapcast R now knocks up for a lower duration and no longer makes enemies untargetable. Charged R missile speed increased.

Base stats

BASE MOVEMENT SPEED 345 ⇒ 340

Passive - Iron Ambassador

RANGE BONUS 300 ⇒ 350

W - Steadfast Presence

MOVEMENT SPEED BONUS 32/34/36/38/40% ⇒ 30%

BASE RESISTANCES BONUS 15% ⇒ 10%

RESISTANCES BONUS BELOW 40% HEALTH 30% ⇒ 20%

E - Heroic Charge

RANGE 425 ⇒ 475

R - Keeper’s Verdict

[NEW] HASAGI Snapcast no longer makes enemies untargetable during knock-up

SNAPCAST KNOCKUP DURATION 1 second ⇒ 0.75 seconds

BASE DAMAGE 210/310/410 ⇒ 200/300/400

CHARGED MISSILE SPEED 1600 ⇒ 2000

Shyvana

Riot Games

E and R ability power damage ratio increased. W ability power damage ratio removed.

W - Burnout

[REMOVED] ABILITY POWER DAMAGE RATIO 10% ⇒ 0%

E - Flame Breath

FIREBALL DAMAGE RATIO (AP) 0.3 ability power ⇒ 0.7 ability power

R - Dragon’s Descent

DAMAGE RATIO 0.7 ability power ⇒ 1.0 ability power

Sona

Riot Games

Base attack damage increased. Power Chord damage increased.

Base stats

BASE ATTACK DAMAGE 46 ⇒ 49

Passive - Power Chord

BASE DAMAGE 15-235 (at levels 1-18) ⇒ 20-240 (at levels 1-18)

Syndra

Riot Games

Q’s Transcendent bonus is now bonus damage to champions, not longer Sphere duration.

Passive - Transcendent

DARK SPHERE UPGRADE Dark Sphere’s last 2 additional seconds ⇒ Dark Sphere deals +15% damage to champions

Talon

Riot Games

Bugfixin’

Q - Noxian Diplomacy

BUGFIX Fixed a bug where Talon’s Q range was lower than expected

RANGE 500 ⇒ 575

Warwick

Riot Games

Base attack damage decreased. Q damage decreased at later ranks.

Base stats

ATTACK DAMAGE 66 ⇒ 63

Q - Jaws of the Beast

TARGET’S MAXIMUM HEALTH DAMAGE 6/7/8/9/10% ⇒ 6/6.5/7/7.5/8%

Ziggs

Riot Games

E base damage increased at later ranks.

E - Hexplosive Minefield

BASE DAMAGE 40/65/90/115/140 ⇒ 40/75/110/145/180

Items

Guinsoo’s Rageblade

Bugfixin’

Guinsoo’s? Jhinsoo’s. This’ll make sense, we promise.

BUGFIX Fixed a bug where Rageblade interacted with other bonus attack damage-granting effects to grant more attack damage than intended (lookin’ at you, Jhin, Master Yi, Infernal Drake, etc.).

Epic Monsters

Baron Nashor

Base damage decreased. Base health increased. Corruption damage increased.

BASE DAMAGE 400-550 (at minutes 20-40) ⇒ 285-435 (at minutes 20-40)

BASE HEALTH 6400 ⇒ 9000

BARON CORRUPTION 30 (+5% total attack damage) every 0.5 seconds to the target with the lowest corruption stacks ⇒ 120 + (30% total attack damage) every basic attack and spike attack, (these occur every 0.75 seconds). Baron corruption attack is also represented with different visual particles now to make the difference more clear. (Champions gain corruption by being hit by his attacks/spells).

Summoned Rift Herald

Takes less damage from charging. Does more damage to towers with charge. Takes more damage from eye pokes.

DAMAGE TO SELF ON TURRET CHARGE 150 + 25% current health ⇒ 25% current health

DAMAGE TO TURRET ON TURRET CHARGE 150 + 25% current health ⇒ 40% of current HP or 1500, whichever is greater.

EYE DAMAGE 20% maximum health ⇒ 40% maximum health

Runes

[UPDATED] Unsealed Spellbook

Unsealed Spellbook is now a completely different keystone.

[NEW] TAKE THIS! Swap one of your equipped summoner spells to a new, single-use summoner spell. After using the single-use summoner spell, your original summoner spell will swap back in.

FIRST SWAP AVAILABLE 6 minutes

SWAP COOLDOWN 4 minutes, permanently reduced by 15 seconds each time you swap to a summoner spell you haven’t yet swapped to

STILL TICKING Your original summoner spells continue cooling down in the background while swapped out

STORE COMES TO YOU You can now swap your summoner spells anywhere on the map as long as you’re out of combat

BUGFIX 3.9 Closing the Unsealed Spellbook tab while dead no longer prevents you from re-opening it until respawn

Chrysalis

Bugfixin’

BUGFIX 3.1 Chrysalis’s adaptive damage bonuses no longer revert to health when in combat with enemy champions

BUGFIX 2.10 Chrysalis’s tooltip now indicates the proper amount of adaptive stats granted once transformed

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Katarina’s R - Death Lotus could not be cast if enemies in range could not be seen
• Katarina can now correctly ping her R - Death Lotus if no valid targets are nearby
• Azir is no longer missing VO lines for R - Emperor’s Divide
• Manaflow Band can no longer be triggered by certain items
• Casting summoner spell Exhaust now correctly puts the caster in combat
• Fixed a bug where the bonus attack damage did not count towards Zed’s bonus attack damage scaling on Q - Razor Shuriken
• Fixed a bug where certain zombie states prevented future stacking of Manaflow Band
• Fixed a bug where W - Blighted Quiver’s basic attack played the base skin’s sound effects instead of those for whatever skin was in use
• Muramana and Seraph’s Embrace now correctly grant gold when sold
• Shockblade Zed Ruby Chroma no longer steals particles from Championship Zed if both skins are present in the same game
• Forecast Janna’s umbrella no longer gets burnt before the lightning strikes her during her joke animation
• Dragonblade Riven’s E - Valor trail is no longer invisible on lower graphics settings
• Death Blossom Kha’Zix’s wings from E - Evolved Leap no longer lose textures and transparency when recalling
• El Macho Mundo’s W - Burning Agony particles are no longer base and have been restored to orange fists
• Pool Party Rek’Sai’s tunnels now properly use the correct textures and base tunnels can no longer be seen through the deflated tunnels
• VFX have been restored for Zilean’s Q - Time Bomb’s expiration
• Unique SFX for W - Blighted Quiver have been restored for Varus and all skins.
• Birdio is no longer incorrectly listed as a Mythic skin
• VO lines have been added to Azir’s R - Emperor’s Divide that are now consistent on all skins and base
• Championship Thresh’s R - The Box VFX are no longer misplaced if the ability is cast while moving
• Captain Fortune’s shoulders no longer clip through her coat during her recall animation
• Glaive Warrior Pantheon’s cape now moves more naturally during all of his animations
• Malzahar’s Q - Call of the Void VFX no longer flicker
• Shyvana Bot no longer becomes dormant while in Dragon form
• Rammus Bot no longer becomes dormant while in Q - Power Ball
• Fixed a bug where Teemo’s R - Noxious Trap mushrooms and Jhin’s E - Captive Audience would trigger repeatedly against intro bots

Upcoming Skins & Chromas

The following skins will be released this patch:

• Blood Moon Evelynn
• Beemo

Riot Games

The following chromas will be released in patch 8.6:

• Beemo (Ruby)
• Beemo (Peridot)
• Beemo (Aquamarine)
• Beemo (Amethyst)
• Beemo (Rose Quartz)
• Beemo (Obsidian)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Ruby)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Pearl)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Sapphire)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Rose Quartz)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Catseye)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Tanzanite)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Obsidian)
• Mecha Zero Sion (Meteorite)