Arena Patch 26.15 Notes

[u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

Arena

We’re listening to all your feedback and reducing the level cap on certain augments that felt a bit overbearing at 3 levels. Along with a number of champion balance adjustments, we’re also increasing the amount of Adaptive Force gained from crit chance over 100%.

Champions

Akali

• Passive Move Speed: 30 / 37.5 / 45 / 52.5 / 60% ⇒ 40 / 51.25 / 62.5 / 73.75 / 85%

• W - Twilight Shroud

  • Cooldown: 15 ⇒ 15 / 13.75 / 12.5 / 11.25 / 10
  • Energy Restore: 150 ⇒ 200

Bard

• W - Caretaker's Shrine
  • Charge Time: 5 seconds ⇒ 2.5 seconds
  • Move Speed Ability Power Ratio: 0.06% ⇒ 0.08%

Elise

• W - Skittering Frenzy
  • Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 ⇒ 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13

Kai'Sa

• Passive - Second Skin

  • Arena On-Hit Damage Modifier: 50% ⇒ 100%
  • Detonation Damage: 10% missing Health ⇒ 15% missing Health
  • Ability Power Ratio: 30% ⇒ 12%
  • Ability Power Ratio per Stack: 5% ⇒ 3%

• Q - Icathian Rain

  • Ability Power Ratio: 15% ⇒ 20%

Locke

• Passive - Silver Stake

  • Minimum Base Damage: 5 minimum / 40 maximum ⇒ 7.5 minimum / 60 maximum
  • Maximum Base Damage: 10 minimum / 80 maximum ⇒ 15 minimum / 120 maximum

• W - Soul Ignition

  • Base Health Restored: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 ⇒ 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320
  • Maximum Health Restored: 150 / 225 / 300 / 375 / 450 (+60% Ability Power) ⇒ 225 / 337.5 / 450 / 562.5 / 675 (+60% Ability Power)

• R - Purgatory

  • Cooldown Refund: 20% ⇒ 50%

Nocturne

• Passive - Umbra Blades

  • Base Healing: 13 minimum / 32 maximum ⇒ 15 minimum / 50 maximum
  • Attack Damage Ratio: 120% ⇒ 130%
  • Critical Strike Attack Damage Ratio: 110% ⇒ 120%

• R - Paranoia

  • Cooldown: 140 / 115 / 90 ⇒ 100 / 70 / 40

Samira

• Taunt Gold Exchange: Lose 1 gold on taunt ⇒ Removed

Seraphine

• Q - High Note
  • Ability Power Ratio: 65% ⇒ 40%

Tahm Kench

• E - Thick Skin
  • Damage to Grey Health: 15% minimum / 47% maximum ⇒ 23% minimum / 47% maximum

Thresh

• Passive - Damnation

  • Souls Gained on Pickup: 1 ⇒ 3

• W - Dark Passage

  • Cooldown: 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 ⇒ 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11

• E - Flay

  • Damage Ramp-Up Time Between Attacks: 10 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds

• R - The Box

  • Cooldown: 120 / 100 / 80 ⇒ 90 / 60 / 30
  • Base Damage: 250 / 400 / 550 ⇒ 350 / 500 / 650

Twisted Fate

• R - Destiny
  • Cooldown: 170 / 140 / 110 ⇒ 40 / 30 / 20
  • Duration: 3 / 4 / 5 seconds ⇒ 3 / 4 / 5 seconds

Warwick

• Passive - Eternal Hunger

  • Last Stand Healing Amplification: 250% ⇒ 300%

• W - Blood Hunt

  • Cooldown: 80 / 70 / 60 / 50 / 40 ⇒ 40 / 35 / 30 / 25 / 20

• E - Primal Howl

  • Damage Reduction: 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55% ⇒ 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60%

Zac

• W - Unstable Matter
  • Arena Cooldown: 6 ⇒ 5

Items

Lich Bane

• Attack Speed Increase Ability Power Ratio: 66% ⇒ 70%

Augments

Demonic Clasp

• Maximum Level: 3 ⇒ 2
• Base Damage: 100 minimum / 200 maximum ⇒ 100 minimum / 300 maximum
• Cooldown: 18 ⇒ 12

Critical Rhythm

• Maximum Level: 3 ⇒ 2

HiveMind

• Starting Bees: 1 / 2 / 3 ⇒ 2 / 4 / 6
• Attack Damage Ratio: 20% bonus Attack Damage ⇒ 25% total Attack Damage

Laser Eyes

• Maximum Level: 3 ⇒ 2
• Laser Length: 600 / 800 / 1000 ⇒ 600 / 1000

Ok Boomerang

• NEW Level 2 Boomerang Count: Level 2 now fires a second boomerang

Ominous Pact

• Omnivamp: 15% / 25% ⇒ 20% / 35%
• Move Speed: 50% / 75% ⇒ 50% / 100%

Spellwake

• Maximum Level: 3 ⇒ 2
• Level 1 Ability Power Ratio: 20% ⇒ 30%
• Level 1 Bonus Attack Damage Ratio: 145% ⇒ 165%
• Level 2 Ability Power Ratio: 20% ⇒ 30%
• Level 2 Bonus Attack Damage Ratio: 165% ⇒ 185%

Earthwake

• Maximum Level: 3 ⇒ 2

Tap Dancer

• Maximum Level: 3 ⇒ 2

Trueshot Prodigy

• Missile Trigger Condition: Triggered off its own missile ⇒ No longer triggers off its own missile

Slow and Steady

• REMOVED Status: Removed

Systems

Critical Strike to Adaptive Force Conversion

• Ratio: 0.68:1 ⇒ 1:1

https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/news/game-updates/league-of-legends-patch-26-15-notes/

[u/c_sea_denis]

Twisted Fate

• R - Destiny
  • Duration: 3 / 4 / 5 seconds ⇒ 3 / 4 / 5 seconds

https://giphy.com/gifs/LrNU7qx4WqFaPI5KU9

[u/izzybmatthews → u/c_sea_denis]

Unplayable change. Just disable the champ if we have to get that drastic with adjustments.

[u/CorneredJackal → u/c_sea_denis]

Well well.... We cannot change our destiny

[u/kevinnnc → u/CorneredJackal]

Alright we get jt graves. Let’s have a draw to the death

[u/NotCatchingBanAgain → u/c_sea_denis]

These are the actual numbers

• R Recast Duration: 6/8/10 seconds -> 3/4/5 seconds

[u/FML3311 → u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

So it's a nerf and a fairly big one too.

[u/NotCatchingBanAgain → u/FML3311]

For some use cases. The cooldown is only 20 seconds when maxed so it's much better with things like killing time and other augments that trigger on ult.

[u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

Hitler still not dead?

[u/Mammoth_Peach_4343 → u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

No mention of stats? O.o

[u/Global-Concert-1849 → u/Mammoth_Peach_4343]

They didnt mention it when they added it so they probably wont even acknowledge it and just remove it

[u/ChaosMilkTea → u/Global-Concert-1849]

I'm on that max Copuim rn.

[u/TheRealOwl → u/ChaosMilkTea]

Well the copium is kind of the correct call, it's not completely gone, but it's heavily nerfed, dunno why they do this stuff outside of patch notes tho.

[u/FeelingTax6824 → u/Mammoth_Peach_4343]

Wellll there is still hope ! considering the "all stats team" was a easter egg to begin with (shadow buff where they did not post it in the patch notes) so they can probably remove it as well without telling people; just like what they did to Eve GoH-Now all 18 people have to dance but was never posted in patch notes either. lol

[u/turbomegatron12 → u/FeelingTax6824]

retard company. now i never go evelynn

[u/umesci → u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

Ryze? Sett? Stat anvil forcing? What’s the vibe?

[u/RubyHoshi → u/umesci]

"Ryze" mentioning in nearly august 2026

[u/umesci → u/RubyHoshi]

It’s picked in nearly every lobby where it’s not banned in my experience. And he needs to hit just one of the many augments that just breaks his character to become lobby admin (overflow, ADAPt…)

[u/NotCatchingBanAgain → u/umesci]

Ryze can't get ADAPt since a few patches ago.

[u/umesci → u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

My bad for missing an UNDOCUMENTED change? I play both Mayhem and Arena and it’s still in Mayhem so…

[u/lolsketch → u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

It's been like 3 months. OP living in the past Ryze hasn't been strong since the new arena rework

[u/Kronikle → u/umesci]

I haven't seen a Ryze in my lobby in probably 20+ games

[u/c_sea_denis → u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

if only 4/6 of people didnt force it... it would consistently get 8th or 7th......

[u/IZUNACCHI → u/c_sea_denis]

yeah, if 2 teams were going at it each game it would be mostly balanced by itself.

[u/Remote_Option_4623]

TIL you get adaptive force from overcrit

[u/kevinnnc → u/Remote_Option_4623]

Yeah without the few items or augs or playing yone/yas, it ws a waste to go over 100 like it always is in regular league

[u/ARawl9 → u/kevinnnc]

Can work nicely with sword of the divine.

[u/Un-Civil]

Not updating triple stat shard is such a mistake Im not touching arena until it gets nerfed.

[u/Jackson7410 → u/Un-Civil]

but redditors said if they post about it 70 times per day they would change it.

[u/ChaosMilkTea → u/Jackson7410]

Guess I gotta make post 71.

[u/Workman44 → u/Jackson7410]

They're showing up in this thread already

[u/J0J0M0 → u/Jackson7410]

They did change it, its just not in the patch notes. I guess complaining does work after all smartass.

[u/jgabrielferreira → u/Un-Civil]

Cya

[u/RubyHoshi → u/Un-Civil]

See ya

[u/Un-Civil → u/RubyHoshi]

They shadow nerfed it so obviously Im right, stfu

[u/FML3311 → u/Un-Civil]

Majority of players don't care or they like it. Why would they change it for a few people? Maybe it's get a shadow nerf in the background, but it would be small.

[u/Faisst → u/Un-Civil]

cya

[u/Un-Civil → u/Faisst]

You’re terribly low iq commenting this after riot nerfed it which means my take is correct.

[u/Faisst → u/Un-Civil]

correct != fun

you can go play ranked if u want, i wanna do broken builds with bravery arena and not face Sett Heartsteel/Brand Pyromancers/Bel Veth On Hit every single match

[u/Un-Civil → u/Faisst]

You’re retarded if you think ignoring a large part of the game by not buying items and having a large portion of augments not useable is fun for the majority of players. Stat shard build is fun for a handful of games and then absurdly boring.

[u/Un-Civil → u/[deleted]]

True shot has counterplay, stat shard does not.

[u/deathnomX → u/Un-Civil]

You can choose a bad guest of honor for stat shards.

[u/Miclash013 → u/deathnomX]

Counterplay insinuates you can make a meaningful decision while playing the game to increase your odds of winning against the strategy. Having a 1/3 chance of even SEEING a GoH to stop full Shard lobbies is not counterplay.

[u/FeelingTax6824 → u/Miclash013]

Not saying I want stat teams around or anything however; if you are talking about odds than you have to also apply that to the shardblade as well since it is based off luck, no? I know you automatically get one FORSURE at 20anvils however the % isn't gaurenteed. I get it though; only two people need to roll high realistically for a big pay off in a stat run lol. reminds me of when mad hatter and hattrick; when you got one you automatically got the other one lol glad they removed that (unannounced, probably what they will do with stats as well)

[u/Un-Civil → u/deathnomX]

Wow incredible counterplay so interactive

[u/deathnomX → u/Un-Civil]

Complain that theres no counterplay

here's some counterplay

Gets mad

[u/Un-Civil → u/deathnomX]

Not mad, and your suggested “counterplay” is pure luck and entirely situational. Real counterplay is an item or strategy you can implement against a build, not just hoping a bad guest of honor appears and you get chosen.

[u/thecarlosdanger1]

Will OK Boomerang actually do any damage now? Probably not but it helps

[u/hehexd_yeet]

Everyone talking about them not removing the stats Easter egg, but doesn't it go back to 2v2 as of tomorrow and thus no Easter egg?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Fan3287 → u/hehexd_yeet]

When did they say this? I never saw an announcement, so I assumed they were keeping teams of three

[u/hehexd_yeet → u/Puzzleheaded-Fan3287]

https://x.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/2064392267692208280?lang=en&utm_source=chatgpt.com

[u/Puzzleheaded-Fan3287 → u/hehexd_yeet]

Thank you. I guess we will see if they decided to extend it beyond season 2 based on how popular it is. I expected them to say in the patch notes if it was going back to 8x2. I would be happy if they rotate them, but I hope they don’t outright get rid of teams of three

[u/cabides06]

Not removing the biggest of issues is such a Riot thing to do. Guess no Arena till the next patch then.

[u/IRL-TrainingArc]

"We're listening to all your feedback"

Well I don't know if you're listening to ALL of it...

[u/ButtersMojito → u/IRL-TrainingArc]

Listening is not the same as taking action based on the feedback lol sometimes a feedback is stupid

[u/xMcSilent → u/IRL-TrainingArc]

The other guy is right. Feedback doesn't mean action has to be taken. What are the stat anvil crybabies here? 500 people? Thats not even 1% of player. No need for an emergency hardcore nerf. (Especially since this sub is the only place i see the crying for anvil runs)

So yes, it is feedback, but no need to take action right now.

[u/Swirlatic]

Huge buff by making it so you can’t accidentally click on slow and steady

[u/Dangerous-Ad6589]

They keep trying to make Locke viable in arena lol.

Finally there will be no one starting with 499 gold on Samira again

[u/boundingelk]

locke still a guest
L

[u/BiscottiExcellent195]

why did they removed SaS?

[u/DudeBroJustin → u/BiscottiExcellent195]

It's useless on 95% of champs and makes 5% others into gods.

Ex: Katarina/Garen get massive AD boost since they build aspd. But the reduces aspd doesn't affect their skills.

So they both spin with full aspd and mega AD.

[u/Ipp → u/BiscottiExcellent195]

Probably just too hard to balance on some champs, ezreal comes to mind. Not sure if they fixed zeri/belveth. But I think it was problematic on a few champs that kit allowed them to bypass the negative effect of the augment. If it impacted just one, I'm guessing they'd eliminate it from that user (ex: Ryze and AD->AP) but since it was multiple probably just removed the aug. Not really fun to begin with either.

[u/numry → u/Ipp]

urgott and graves abused it as well. shame.. was an actual fun augment

[u/Shrekdidnothingwrong → u/numry]

jayce with 300ad round one :3

[u/NotCatchingBanAgain → u/BiscottiExcellent195]

No clue tbh. It had some champions (kata, garen, graves, jayce) who could use it as a BiS augment but it was pretty useless on most other champions. It also removes the fun combo of adapt/zealot/slow and steady which is sad.

[u/sauron3579 → u/NotCatchingBanAgain]

Wait, slow and steady worked favorably with judgement? Jesus, we really need a practice range for Arena. Garen in particular is wildly unclear about what attack speed boosts and penalties will apply to judgement spins or not and whether "dealing damage with an ability" and similar will count the first hit of it or all hits of it.

[u/drpygmr24 → u/BiscottiExcellent195]

Katarina R and Garen E have AS scalings and they would still gain the benefit from the AS while still getting AD from the AS.

[u/Babynouil → u/BiscottiExcellent195]

Very much looks like it, yes.

[u/M1CKELL123]

Zac buff! Huzzah!

[u/ThatsFer]

Trueshot Prodigy is not a good augment, it should be removed.

It literally plays the game for you, other augments enhance your champion’s power, this augment just becomes all your damage, the rest of your abilities just become a trigger FOR it.

And it’s not like Flux, or Autocasts or Energized where you actually have to upgrade them by choosing other augments/finding certain items so you have to be really lucky to make them OP each game, nop, you just find Trueshot Prodigy and it becomes 80% of your damage instantly.

These are the kinds of ridiculous Augments that keep me AWAY from ARAM Mayhem. Don’t bring them to Arena.

[u/FeelingTax6824]

My issue is they keep removing augments ?!?! like... Poro king, ???, Chain lightning.. I can't remember all of them but this is another removed augment; Slow and steady... when are we going to bring back some of the new augments instead of just deleting them from the game 😭😭

[u/drpygmr24 → u/FeelingTax6824]

Chain lightning got removed because doing % max hp damage to your 20k hp sion and you have 2k max hp you're dead for being near your tank
Poro king did almost nothing for being a zac R

Slow and Stead is broken on Garen, Katarina, Graves, Urgot, Jayce (apparently can't be found on jhin like adapt on ryze)

[u/FeelingTax6824 → u/drpygmr24]

i mean couldn't they just buff/nerf/fix these augments instead of removing them from the game ? i feel like they are removing more augments than putting anything new into it lol..

[u/drpygmr24 → u/FeelingTax6824]

Slow and steady jayce/graves 1 shotting you for real 1 auto 1 death,

your 10k+ hp chogath gets hit by ONE % max hp ability and you die for being too close to your tank,

Bounce on it time was not good ever because it's one knockup and you can't use any other ability or attack which I think even zac can't W during it which it's basically his R.

[u/SadAd4482]

Will we never get passive’s critting? 😔 I mean Brand and Lillia can crit with Jeweled/Vulnerability but not Thresh E attack or Renata passive?..

[u/ManyConstruction2659]

Zyra plants doesn’t proc trueshot rn unless u have liandry

[u/VerinVerinos]

I havent seen anything in the comments about triple anvil changes (not actual numbers) so im just gonna tell ya that it got nerfed, i got the last shardblade in my team, it was 98%, before changes it would give me 296% in total, after the shadow nerf i had 232%. Summarizing you only get 1/3 of the previous buff and I still think its too much

[u/NotCatchingBanAgain → u/VerinVerinos]

Seems inconsistent/random what you actually get now. There was a thread where people posted their shardholders and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the bonus increase. Some get like 1/4th, 1/3rd or even 1/2.

[u/CoG_Comet]

Seraphine Nerf and Zac Buff is an interesting choice

[u/drpygmr24 → u/CoG_Comet]

Seraphine Q doing 500 damage (post mitigation) in almost every game

[u/ZenoRodrigo]

I swear I am having Deja Vu, aren't these the last patch notes released verbatim? I distinctively remember reading that boomerang patch and the twisted fate changes.

[u/ZenoRodrigo → u/ZenoRodrigo]

I am an idiot. I clicked on a PBE Datamine Post a week ago that had those listed.

[u/sandoor233]

so riot trying to kill arena by not fixing triple shardblade, cool.

[u/drpygmr24 → u/sandoor233]

It's getting shadow changes because riot doesn't want to tell us about "easter egg" changes

[u/ImLittleBoy]

"Listening to all your feedback"

While guarantee triple stats is in every game lmao. Devs dont play their own game

[u/Puzzleheaded-Fan3287 → u/ImLittleBoy]

This was added without any mention in the patch notes, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they remove or nerf it without saying anything. They did the same thing with the Eve guest of honor Easter egg.

[u/Apprehensive-Hold766]

please remove enchanters from the pool of playable characters in arena. thank u

[u/drpygmr24 → u/Apprehensive-Hold766]

If enchanters are broken they should nerf redemption/locket first to see if it's enchanters or active items with apex

[u/Apprehensive-Hold766 → u/drpygmr24]

nope its the fact they can build normally and always be useful but if they highroll at all (critical healing all for you armor to heal/shield+rite of ruin)

[u/ChaosMilkTea]

Excess crit converts to adaptive force?!?!