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Patch 26.18

September 9, 2026

Patch 26.18. Five classic champions join League Classic (Fiora, Galio, Poppy, Shyvana, Xin Zhao) and ARAM Mayhem's augment pools are reworked. Full balance changes below.

Bard ▼ Nerf

Armor: 34 + 5/level → 32 + 4.7/level

Cassiopeia ◆ Adjustment

Passive move speed bonus: 6-40% → 5-36%
Q Damage: 75/110/145/180/215 → 65/100/135/170/205
Q AP Ratio: 65% → 75%
E Mana Cost: 40 → 45
E Base AP Ratio: 10% → 20%
E Enhanced AP Ratio: 55% → 45%
E Damage: 52-120 → 50-120
R Damage: 150/250/350 → 125/225/325
R AP Ratio: 50% → 75%

Ekko ▲ Buff

Q Mana Cost: 50/60/70/80/90 → 40/50/60/70/80
Q Return Damage AP Ratio: 60% → 70%

Kassadin ▲ Buff

Q AP Ratio: 70% → 80%
R Base Damage: 70/90/110 → 80/95/110

Master Yi ▲ Buff

Armor Growth: 33 + 4.5/level → 33 + 5/level
R Move Speed: 35/45/55% → 40/50/60%

Nautilus ▼ Nerf

Attack Damage: 61 + 3.3/level → 58 + 3.3/level
Q Damage: 85/130/175/220/265 → 85/125/165/205/245

Seraphine ▼ Nerf

E Cooldown: 11/10.5/10/9.5/9s → 11s flat

Syndra ▼ Nerf

Passive Splinter Mana: 20-255 → 20-199
W Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8s → 13/12/11/10/9s

Viego ▲ Buff

Attack Damage Growth: 3.5 → 4
Passive heal now scales further with bonus AD/AP/bonus attack speed/bonus HP

Zaahen ▲ Buff

Q now goes on cooldown immediately on resurrection (new)
Q2 Damage: 25/50/75/100/125 → 30/60/90/120/150

Zeri ▼ Nerf

W bonus AD ratio: 120% → 100%
W wall-impact bonus AD ratio: 180% → 150%

Guinsoo's Rageblade ▲ Buff

Seething Strike stack duration: 3s → 4s

Spin to Win (ARAM augment) ▲ Buff

Ultimate damage increase: 30% → 50%

Ultra Hydra (ARAM augment) ◆ Adjustment

Can no longer sell Hydra items while this augment is active (new)

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Patch 26.17

August 25, 2026

Patch 26.17. League Classic gets two extra rune pages, more IP/XP per game, champion select swapping, and a Council voting system. Full balance changes below.

Aurelion Sol ▲ Buff

Q Mana Cost Per Second: 35/40/45/50/55 → 30/35/40/45/50
W Cooldown: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16s → 22/20/18/16/14s

Cho'Gath ▲ Buff

E Base Damage (3 attacks): 20/40/60/80/100 → 30/50/70/90/110 (+30% AP unchanged)

Graves ▼ Nerf

Q initial damage bonus AD ratio: 65% → 55%
Q return damage bonus AD ratio: 55/70/85/100/115% → 45/60/75/90/105%

Irelia ▲ Buff

Q AD ratio: 70% → 80%
W damage reduction per 100 AP: 7% → 8%
R AP ratio: 70% → 100%

LeBlanc ▲ Buff

Base attack speed ratio: 0.4 → 0.625
Attack speed growth: 2.35% → 1.5%
W AP ratio: 80% → 90%
R+W AP ratio: 80% → 90%

Nasus ▼ Nerf

Passive lifesteal: 12/18/24% → 10/15/20%

Nocturne ▼ Nerf

Base armor: 38 → 36
Base health: 655 → 640

Qiyana ◆ Adjustment

Q damage: 70/100/130/160/190 → 80/110/140/170/200 (bonus AD ratio 85% → 90%)
Q monster damage modifier: 175% → 160%

Thresh ▼ Nerf

E active damage: 75/120/165/210/255 → 65/110/155/200/245 (AP ratio 70% → 60%)

Trundle ▲ Buff

W attack speed: 30/45/60/75/90% → 30/50/70/90/110%

Vayne ▼ Nerf

Base health: 550 + 103/level → 580 + 98/level
Base health regen: 3.5 + 0.55/level → 4 + 0.5/level
Base attack speed ratio: 0.658 + 3.3%/level → 0.67 + 2.8%/level
Q mana cost: 30 → 46/42/38/34/30
W true damage (% target max HP): 6/7/8/9/10% → 4/5.5/7/8.5/10%
W minimum damage: 50/65/80/95/110 → 40/55/70/85/100

Xerath ▼ Nerf

Base health: 596 → 575
Q damage: 75/115/155/195/235 → 70/110/150/190/230 (90% AP ratio unchanged)

Yasuo ▲ Buff

Passive crit damage taken reduction: -10% → -5%

Yone ▲ Buff

Passive crit damage taken reduction: -10% → -5%

Stormrazor ▲ Buff

Attack speed: 20% → 25%

Sundered Sky ▼ Nerf

Health: 450 → 400
Attack damage: 45 → 40

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Patch 26.16

August 11, 2026

Patch 26.16. Three more classic champions (Akali, Kennen, Shen) and several system mechanics adjusted to diversify the bot lane meta. Full balance changes below.

Azir ▲ Buff

Q damage: 60/80/100/120/140 → 75/95/115/135/155 (+35-55% AP unchanged)

Bel'Veth ▼ Nerf

Health growth: 110 → 105
R true form attack speed: 5/15/25% → 6/13/20%

Camille ◆ Adjustment

Mana: 339 → 375
Passive shield: 20% max health → 10/15/20/25% max health (levels 1/7/13/19)
Passive cooldown: 18/14/10/6s → 14/11/8s (levels 1/7/13)
W cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11s → 12/11.5/11/10.5/10s
W outer cone damage: 6/6.5/7/7.5/8% → 7/7.5/8/8.5/9% (+2.5% per 100 bonus AD)

Gwen ▲ Buff

Passive heal: 50% post-mitigation, capped 10-25 (+6.5% AP) → 67%, capped 12-40 (+7% AP)

Kennen ▲ Buff

R bonus resistances: 20/40/60 → 25/50/75
R damage: 40/75/110 (+22.5% AP) → 40/80/120 (+25% AP)
R maximum damage: 300/562.5/825 → 300/600/900

Nasus ◆ Adjustment

Q stacks per minion/monster: 3 (12 vs champions/large minions/monsters) → 4 (10 vs champions/large minions/monsters)

Poppy ◆ Adjustment

Attack damage: 60 → 56
Health regen: 8 → 9
Mana: 280 + 40/level → 300 + 45/level
Q bonus AD ratio: 100% → 75% (+7-9% max health scaling by level)
Q monster cap: 75/105/135/165/195 → 85/120/155/190/225
Q slow: 20/25/30/35/40% → 20/23/26/29/32% (+8% per 1000 bonus health)
W total armor/MR: 12% (doubled below 40% HP) → 16% (doubled below 40% HP)

Berserker's Greaves ▲ Buff

Attack speed: 25% → 30%
Attack speed (T3): 40% → 45%

Black Cleaver ▲ Buff

Attack damage: 40 → 45
Fervor move speed: 20 for 2s → 20 melee / 10 ranged for 2s

Eclipse ▲ Buff

Damage: 6% max health melee / 4% ranged → 8% / 5%
Shield: 160 + 40% bonus AD melee / 80 + 20% ranged → 150 + 40% / 75 + 20%

Runaan's Hurricane ▲ Buff

Move speed: 4% → 5%
Wind's Fury bolt damage: 55% AD → 65% AD

Sterak's Gage ▲ Buff

Bonus attack damage: 45% base AD → 50% base AD

Sundered Sky ▼ Nerf

Recipe: Tunneler + Caulfield's Warhammer + Ruby Crystal (400g) + 500g → Tunneler + Caulfield's Warhammer + 900g
Healing: 100% base AD melee / 50% ranged + 6% missing health → 90% / 45% + 4% missing health
Health: 400 → 450

Sunfire Aegis ◆ Adjustment

Damage: 20 (+1% bonus health) → 20 (+1.5% bonus health)
Minion/monster modifier: 160% / 200% → 150% / 180%
Recipe cost: 600g → 700g

Tiamat ▲ Buff

Attack damage: 20 → 25

Fleet Footwork ▲ Buff

Healing: 10-130 → 15-160 (bonus AD/AP scaling unchanged)

Hail of Blades ▼ Nerf

Attack speed: 120% melee / 60% ranged → 90% / 60%
Bonus true damage: 4-20 (+8% bonus AD, +6% AP) → 2-20 (+12% bonus AD, +10% AP)

Support Role Quest ▼ Nerf

Stacks needed (champion/turret): 22/20 and 24/22 melee/ranged → 18 and 21
Off-lane minion penalty: -25% until level 3 → -33% until level 5

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