Patch archive · June 9, 2026

Patch 26.12

Riot says A spicy start to Season 2 Act 2

Our summaryPatch 26.12: 14 champions changed (8 buffed, 4 nerfed, 2 adjusted); updates to Systems, ARAM: Mayhem, Arena; 7 bug fixes. Biggest swings: Varus (adjusted), Hwei (buffed), Lee Sin (nerfed).

Across every mode

Buffs
29
Nerfs
11
Adjusted
8
New
0

Champions14 changes

Aatrox

You played 2 games

Buff

Q - The Darkin Blade

  • Sweet Spot Bonus Damage7075
Buff

Q - Snip Snip!

  • Base Damage Per Snip10/13.5/17/20.5/2410/14/18/22/26

E -Skip 'n Slash

  • Bonus Attack Speed20/35/50/65/80%30/42.5/55/67.5/80%

Hwei

You played 3 games

Buff

Q - Subject: Disaster

  • QQ Damage50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+70% AP) (+3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7% Target Max HP)50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+80% AP) (+3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7% Target Max HP)
  • QW Damage60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+25% AP), increased to up to 120 / 201.875 / 302.5 / 421.875 / 560 (+50 / 59.375 / 68.75 / 78.125 / 87.5% AP)60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+30% AP), increased to up to 120 / 201.875 / 302.5 / 421.875 / 560 (+60 / 71.25 / 82.5 / 93.75 / 105% AP)
  • QE Slow30%35%

E - Subject: Torment

  • Cooldown13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11s12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s

Jax

You played 1 game

Buff

Q - Leap Strike

  • Mana Cost6550

E - Counter Strike

  • Target Max Health Damage3.5% minimum damage / 7% maximum damage4% minimum damage / 8% maximum damage
Nerf

Base Stats

  • AD Growth3.73.4

Q1 - Sonic Wave

  • Damage65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+95% bonus AD)60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+90% bonus AD)

Q2 - Resonating Strike

  • Damage65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+95% bonus AD)60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+90% bonus AD)

Nocturne

You played 1 game

Nerf

Q - Duskbringer

  • Damage65 / 110 / 155 / 200 / 24565 / 105 / 145 / 185 / 225

Orianna

You played 3 games

Nerf

Base Stats

  • Base Health585565

Passive - Clockwork Windup

  • Damage Increase Per Stack20%15%

R - Command: Shockwave

  • Damage250/400/550 (+95% AP)225/350/475 (+110% AP)

Ryze

You played 5 games

Nerf

Base Stats

  • Base Health645620
  • Base AD5855

Sylas

You played 4 games

Buff

Q - Chain Lash

  • Initial Damage40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+40% AP)40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+45% AP)

W - Kingslayer

  • Heal Amount20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+20% AP) (+5% Sylas' Bonus HP), increased by up to 100% based on Sylas' missing health20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+30% AP) (+5% Sylas' Bonus HP), increased by up to 100% based on Sylas' missing health

Syndra

You played 4 games

Buff

Base Stats

  • Base Health563583

Q - Dark Sphere

  • Damage80-220 (+65% AP)90-230 (+70% AP)

Tristana

You played 4 games

Buff

Base Stats

  • AD Growth2.93.4

Q - Rapid Fire

  • Mana30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 5015 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35

Varus

You played 2 games

Adjusted

Passive - Living Vengeance

  • On Non-Champ Kill AD and AP10% of his Total AS11% of his Total AS
  • On Champ Kill AD and AP25% of his Total AS33% of his Total AS
  • On Non-Champ Kill AS+50% AS+30% AS

Q - Piercing Arrow

  • Damage53.33 / 100 / 146.67 / 193.33 / 240 (+100% bonus AD) to 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360 (+150% bonus AD)53.33 / 100 / 146.67 / 193.33 / 240 (+80% bonus AD) to 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360 (+120% bonus AD)

W - Blighted Quiver

  • On-Hit Damage8 / 17 / 26 / 35 / 44 (+15% bonus AD) (+25% AP)4 / 13 / 22 / 31 / 40 (+15% bonus AD) (+25% AP)

Xin Zhao

You played 17 games

Adjusted

Passive - Determination

  • Healing3 / 4 / 5% Max HP (+45 / 55 / 80% AP)2 / 3.5 / 5% Max HP (+40 / 50 / 70% AP)

W - Wind Becomes Lightning

  • Mana Cost60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 4060

E - Audacious Charge

  • Mana Cost5060

Yuumi

You played 3 games

Buff

Passive - Feline Friendship

  • Heal Amount20 - 110 (+25% AP) (Levels 1 - 18)20 - 110 (+30% AP) (Levels 1 - 18)

E - Zoomies

  • Shield Amount65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165 (+30% AP)65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165 (+40% AP)

Systems1 changes

Teleport

Adjusted
  • Max Health Shield30% for 30 seconds35% for 10 seconds

ARAM: Mayhem8 changes

What are Ability and Quest Augments?

Change
  • For example: Quick Step – Casting your self-targeted AoE ability makes you dash forward (Yes, Garen E and Kennen R are very happy about this!)
  • Previously, Quest Augments only had a single unlock threshold, but in this update we're introducing multi-tier Quest Augments that can evolve multiple times into even stronger versions. Older Quest Augments, like Quest: Steel Your Heart, have also been updated with clearer visuals and requirement tracking in the UI.

What happened to the Trait System?

Change
  • Archmage - Gold
  • High Roller - Prismatic
  • Snowday - silver
  • Make it Rain >>> Yowch, My Coins! - Gold
  • Wee Woo Wee Woo - Gold
  • Stackosaurus Rex - Silver

What about other Augments?

Removed Augments

Change
  • ???
  • Buff Buddies
  • Cerberus
  • Cheating
  • Crack Open That Egg
  • Demon's Dance
  • Executioner
  • Feel the Burn
  • Frost Wraith
  • Gash
  • Grandma Chili Oil
  • Hat on a Hat
  • Holy Fire
  • im a baby kitty
  • Keystone Conjurer
  • Laser Heal
  • Lightning Strikes
  • Poro Blaster
  • Poro King
  • Rabble Rousing
  • Red Envelopes
  • Repulsor
  • Restless Restoration
  • Self Destruct
  • Slow and Steady
  • Snowball Roulette
  • Speed Demon
  • The Brutalizer
  • Tormentor
  • Trailblazer
  • Trueshot Prodigy
  • Twice Thrice
  • Upgrade Cutlass
  • Upgrade Hubris
  • Upgrade Mikaels
  • Upgrade Thornmail
  • Void Rift
  • Watch Out! Cupcake!
  • Weighted Popoffs
  • Wind beneath blade

New Augments

Silver Augments

Change
  • Adaptive Ward
  • Don't Change the Channel
  • Double Defense
  • Forged By The Master
  • It's Go Time
  • Pursuit of Power
  • Quest: Support Main
  • Siphon
  • Snowday
  • Stackosaurus Rex
  • Stay Resolute
  • Trusty Weapon

Gold Augments

Change
  • Archmage
  • BONK!
  • Combusting Interest
  • Endless Decimation
  • From Downtown
  • Hide on Bush
  • Lil' Extra Help
  • Mercy's Strike
  • Nature is Healing
  • Our Healing
  • Overextender
  • Pat On The Back
  • Porcupine
  • Pressure Cooker
  • Pursuit of Haste
  • Ravenous Bind
  • Rejuvenation
  • Shark Bait
  • Shark Tempest
  • Snowblast
  • Terrain'd
  • Tooth Fairy
  • Void Dash
  • Warlock Juicebox
  • Wee Woo Wee Woo
  • Yowch, My Coins!

Prismatic Augments

Change
  • Chain Reaction
  • Dimension Shift
  • DropBear
  • Echo Cast
  • En Passant
  • Hellbent
  • High Roller
  • Multishot
  • One Trick Pony
  • Overloaded
  • Pin Cushion
  • Poro Stampede
  • Quickstep
  • Rite of Ascension
  • Spellsplit
  • Spirit Bomb
  • Squishy Slappy Grab
  • Surge Field
  • Terror
  • Titan's Resolve
  • Tripleshot

Augment Adjustments

Draw Your Sword

Adjusted
  • AD30% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650)24% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)
  • AS25% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650)20% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)
  • HP30% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650)24% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)
  • MS25% bonus increased up to 30% based on Attack Range (500-650)20% bonus increased up to 100% based on Attack Range (500-650)

Spin Me Right Round

Change
  • Grants 400 minimum attack range for those below it

Arena46 changes

Champions

Akali

You played 91 games

Buff
  • R AP Ratio30%40%
  • R Cooldown120/90/6090/75/60

Brand

You played 1 game

Nerf
  • Q Stun Duration1.75s1.5s
  • W Cooldown10s-8s12-10s

Karthus

You played 12 games

Nerf
  • Q (reverted to match SR) Base Damage60-14040-116
  • Q Ability Power Ratio45%35%

Lillia

You played 2 games

Adjusted
  • Q Movement Speed Per Stack3%-7%2%-6%

Nocturne

You played 1 game

Buff
  • Passive Cooldown129s
  • W Cooldown20s-12s18-10s
Adjusted
  • W Cooldown14s-10s12s-8s
Adjusted
  • W Attack Speed30%-70%28-80%
  • W Cooldown20s-10s14s-10s
Adjusted
  • E Per Wall Cooldown26s-6s16s-0s

Items

Banshee's Veil

Buff
  • Cooldown40s20s

Decapitator

Change
  • Stack generation now has a melee/ranged split.
  • Basic Attack: Melee - 2, Ranged - 1
  • Spell cast: Melee - 4, Ranged 3

Eclipse

Buff
  • Melee Shield Base Value250300
  • Ranged Shield Base Value125150

Edge of Night

Buff
  • Cooldown20s10s

Iceborn Gauntlet

Buff
  • Slow Amount25%30%
  • AoE RadiusIncreased from 300400
  • Ability Haste1015

Imperial Mandate

Change
  • Matches the SR version

Kaenic Rookern

Nerf
  • Out of Combat Timer15s10s

Maw of Malmortius

Buff
  • Cooldown30s20s

Seraph's Embrace

Buff
  • Cooldown45s30s

Opportunity

Nerf
  • Out of Combat Timer4s3s

Profane Hydra

Buff
  • Cleave Melee Ratio40%60%
  • Cleave Ranged Ratio20%30%

Youmus's Ghostblade

Buff
  • Cooldown20s10s

Prowler's Claw

Buff
  • Cooldown25s15s

Serylda's Grudge

Buff
  • Attack Damage4050
  • Ability Haste1015
  • Slow Amount30%50%

Spectral Cutlass

Buff
  • Attack Damage5560
  • Cooldown15s5s

Sterak's Gage

Buff
  • Cooldown30s20s

Trinity Force

Buff
  • Health333375
  • Attack Damage3540

Voltaic Cyclosword

Buff
  • Attack Damage5560
  • Lethality1820

Zeke's Convergence

Buff
  • Cooldown20s15s

Augments

Clown College

Change
  • On-death True Damage is now Magic Damage

Dual Wield

Buff
  • On-Attack Damage Applied40%40%/50%/60%

Ethereal Weapon

Change
  • Max level increased from 2 ⇒ 3
  • On hits at each level 1/2/3

Now You See Me

Buff
  • Cooldown 10s/5s ⇒ 5s/0.5s
  • Movespeed After Blink50%50%/75%

Scopiest Weapons

Buff
  • Ranged Values Increased75/125/17590/135/180

Self Destruct

Nerf
  • Timer15s13s

Stackosaurus Rex

Change
  • Phenomenal Evil
  • Infinite Recursion
  • Tank Engine
  • Heart Steel
  • Hubris
  • Yun Tal Wild Arrows

Upgrade Collector

Nerf
  • Max Level Execution Threshold2%1.5%

Disabled Augments

Change
  • ???
  • Adamant
  • Bounce of the Poro King
  • Devil on Your Shoulder
  • Donation
  • Upgrade Hubris
  • Wind Beneath Blade

Map and System Changes

Petricite Grove

Change
  • Removed the blast cone in the center left of the map
  • Bombs are now untargetable while rolling

Revives

Change
  • If you are in a last player standing situation (1v3), you revive allies slightly quicker.

Vote Phase

Nerf
  • Reduced the time it takes before the game checks if all players have voted from7s5s

Guests of Honor

Vayne

You played 3 games

Change
  • NEW Swindler's Orb: Grants 40% shield reaving on all damage done
Change
  • Health is Set to 50 ⇒ 75

Yone

You played 5 games

Change
  • Hunter round win gold increased from 250 to 500

Swain

You played 6 games

Change
  • Removed from round 2
Change
  • Removed from round 8

Arena Bugfixes

Change
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing certain on-hit items from hurting the Bulwark Blossom
  • Fixed a bug where Jeweled Gauntlet was not converting Ability Power from ADAPt into Crit Chance
  • Fixed a bug where Jeweled Gauntlet was not converting Ability Power from Adaptive Force into Crit Chance
  • Fixed a bug where abilities with dashes were still retaining the bonus Ability Haste after Dashing is removed
  • Fixed a bug where Trickster Demon was not being triggered on Jhin's Lotus Trap (E)
  • Fixed a bug where Bel'Veth attack speed cap was being erroneously set when equipped with augments that are supposed to uncap attack speed
  • Fixed a bug where Jinx's attack speed was being erroneously set when equipped with augments that are supposed to uncap attack speed when she triggers her Get Excited! Passive
  • Fixed a bug where players could still purchase Sunfire Aegis and Hollow Radiance after completing Quest: Icathia's Fall
  • Contract Killer Now correctly displays its capstone effect (mark an additional target) and gold increased when leveling this up.

Bugfixes & QoL Changes7 fixes

7 fixes and quality-of-life changes
  • Fixed a bug where the Helping Hand buff from certain starting items wasn't removed when sold or undone.
  • Fixed a bug where dying before smite upgraded at 45 seconds would keep Smite at one charge.
  • Fixed a bug where Rift Herald would deal magic damage to turrets instead of true damage if the champion driving it had more AP than AD.
  • Fixed a bug where abilities that don't CC but swapped to CC spells (Elise E, Leblanc R, etc.) gained Ability Haste from Imperial Mandate's Control passive.
  • Fixed a bug where Practice Tool keybinds would fail to save when using WASD Inputs in the Options Menu.
  • Fixed a bug where Elise's human form death animation was played when she died in Spider form.
  • Fixed several cases where Neeko would not play the proper homeguard run animation when disguised as Wukong with various skins.