League of Legends 9.23 patch notes: the pre-season is here
Patch 9.23 kicks off the pre-season with an absolutely gigantic update.
9.22 Champion Changes
Senna
Senna escapes from the lantern on November 10!
Ashe
W - Volley
- Cost: 50 mana ⇒ 70 mana
Blitzcrank
Q - Rocket Grab
- Base Damage: 80/135/190/245/300 ⇒ 70/120/170/220/270
Ivern
Q - Rootcaller
- Leave Room For Daisy: Ivern will now always dash into melee range of the target
- Three's A Crowd: Fixed a bug where Ivern would land inside some jungle camps when dashing with his Q
- Abra-Kadabra-Alakazam: Fixed a bug where allies would teleport to unexpected locations when Ivern would dash to a rooted target
Kai'Sa
Q - Icathian Rain
- Non-Minion Multi-Hit Missile Damage: E30% ⇒ 25%
Kalista
W - Sentinel
- Bonus Damage On Marked Targets: 5/7.5/10/12.5/15% of target's maximum health ⇒ 10/12/14/16/18% of target's maximum health
- Mark Duration: 3 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds
Kayle
Q - Radiant Blast
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- Base Damage: 70/115/160/205/250 ⇒ 60/100/140/180/220
W - Celestial Blessing
- Cost: 60/70/80/90/100 mana ⇒ 70/80/90/100/110 mana
Malphite
R - Unstoppable Force
- Ratio: 1.0 ability power ⇒ 0.8 ability power
Nautilus
R - Depth Charge
- Primary Target Base Damage: 200/325/450 ⇒ 150/275/400
Pantheon
Q - Comet Spear
- Minion Damage Reduction: 20% ⇒ 30%
- Execute Threshold: 25% of target's maximum health ⇒ 20% of target's maximum health
W - Shield Vault
- Removed No Longer Walking All Over You: Pantheon's dash speed is no longer increased from boots
Sejuani
Base Stats
- Attack Damage: 64 ⇒ 66
- Health Regen Growth: 0.85 ⇒ 1
- Attack Speed Growth: 3% ⇒ 3.5%
Q - Arctic Assault
- Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+0.4 ability power) ⇒ 80/130/180/230/280 (+0.6 ability power)
E - Permafrost
- Bugfix: Passive now properly resets its debuff duration when reapplying at max stacks
Sylas
Base Stats
- Health Regen: 7 ⇒ 9
- Health Regen Growth: 1 ⇒ 0.9
- Magic Resist: 36.1 ⇒ 39
W - Kingslayer
- Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60 mana
Xayah
W - Deadly Plumage
- Bonus Attack Speed: 40/47.5/55/62.5/70% ⇒ 35/40/45/50/55%
9.22 Bug Fixes
- If her target dies before Caitlyn's Energized (via items like Rapid Firecannon and Statikk Shiv) Passive - Headshot hits them, Caitlyn will no longer be damaged in their stead
- Ornn's second R - Call of the Forge God activation now properly knocks up enemies close to it
- Gangplank's E - Powder Keg's barrels no longer trigger Teemo's R - Noxious Trap's shrooms
- Game invites will no longer disappear if the game owner changes modes
- Fizz's Q - Urchin Strike now properly breaks spell shields
- Twisted Fate's R - Destiny will no longer block projectiles (like turret or dragon attacks) if it is interrupted
- If Taric casts R - Cosmic Radiance and dies during the cast window, the cooldown will now reflect the proper time and not reflect his W - Bastion cooldown
- Rek'Sai's R - Void Rush refund now properly and consistently works when enemy champions die during the cast and dash of the ability
- Syndra's R - Unleashed Power HUD icon now properly shows how many Dark Spheres are available to use on cast
- Nidalee's Q - Takedown's empowered basic attacks now properly deals damage to traps
- When Sion casts R - Unstoppable Onslaught out of its range, the ability will now properly cast immediately instead of after he walks into cast range
- When Q - Twin Bite is on cooldown, Shyvana's basic attacks on structures now properly reduce the ability's cooldown
- Rift Herald's summon trinket now properly has the 1 second lockout period that all trinkets have to prevent accidental usage
9.22 Skins and Chromas
Skins
- True Damage Yasuo
- True Damage Akali
- True Damage Ekko
- True Damage Qiyana
- True Damage Senna
- True Damage Qiyana Prestige Edition
Chromas
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