As a seasoned League of Legends player with over a decade under my belt, I must say this update has certainly piqued my interest! The changes to Ahri’s abilities seem to be a welcome balance between her offensive and defensive capabilities. Reducing the active range and cooldown while introducing a 30% reduction when no enemy is found seems like a smart move. The removal of the combat CD and the adjustments to her cooldown mechanics overall appear well thought out.
In the upcoming League of Legends update 14.22, there will be an addition of a character named Ambessa Medarda, accompanied by a wealth of Arcane-themed content such as event quests, and adjustments to several champions, including Ambessa herself receiving some nerfs. Additionally, a significant number of Attack Damage Carry (ADC) and lethality items are going through changes.
Furthermore, Ambessa is the main attraction in this update, but there’s plenty more Arcane Season 2 content to get excited about, such as the ARAM overhaul that transforms the map into the Bridge of Progress.
Here’s what you can expect from LoL patch 14.22 according to the notes we have so far:
Arcane nemesis quests and ARAM makeover
In honor of Arcane Season 2, a few enemy challenges are being introduced where you can earn Arcane character tokens by defeating other players as part of the new Battle of Progress ARAM arena. As of now, the specifics about these challenges and their prizes remain unknown, but we do know they’re in development.
Arcane + ARAM fans unite🤝 The Bridge of Progress is waiting for you
— League of Legends (@LeagueOfLegends) October 22, 2024
Moreover, the Arcane Map is significantly altering the gameplay in ARAM, and we can expect it to stay for a while, up until early January 2025.
Early LoL patch 14.22 notes
Champions
Ambessa Medarda
Ambessa is League of Legends’ inaugural champion born from the Arcane universe, and with Season 2 being its finale, she might be the sole character hailing from this show. Her abilities make for quite a unique playstyle, so feel free to explore her complete kit and a breakdown of how it functions right here.
However, she’s already received several balance adjustments after just a day or two on the PBE:
Passive: Drakehound’s Step
- Bonus attack range reduced: 100 >>> 75
- Base damage increased: 5-15 >>> 5-30
- Bonus AD scaling increased: 25% >>> 30%
Q: Cunning Sweep/Sundering Slam
- Cooldown increased: 10-8 seconds >>> 14-10
W: Repudiation
- Block bonus damage reduced: 60% >>> 50%
- Shield duration increased: 1.5 seconds >>> 2.5 seconds
- Base shield changed: 85-250 (based on stat growth) >>> 85-325 (linear scaling)
E: Lacerate
- Base damage reduced: 40-160 >>> 40-140
R: Public Execution
- Bonus AD ratio reduced: 100% >>> 80%
Warwick
W: Blood Hunt
- Movement speed reduced: 35-65% >>> 30-50%
- Mana cost reduced: 70 >>> 35
- Active range reduced: 4000 >>> 3000
- Cooldown reduced: 100-40 >>> 80-40
- Cooldown now reduced by 30% if no one is found
- No longer cools down twice as fast when not hunting
- No longer put on a 3 second CD in combat
Items
Opportunity
- AD increased: 50 >>> 55
- 4% movement speed removed
- Passive lethality increased: 10/6 >>> 11/7
- New recipe
- Rectrix >>> Pickaxe + Long Sword
Statikk Shiv
- AD reduced: 50 >>> 45
- Attack speed reduced: 35% >>> 30%
- On-kill passive removed
- Cost reduced: 2900 >>> 2700
- Reworked passive:
- First 3 attacks within 8 seconds fire chain lightning on-hit, dealing 60 magic damage to up to 5 targets jumping within 500 range, increased to 85 damage against non champions.
- Internal cooldown of 25-10 (levels 7-12) starting on the first attack landed. This cooldown is fully reset by takedowns
Youmuu’s Ghostblade
- AD reduced: 60 >>> 55
- Now has 4% movement speed
- New recipe
- Long Sword >>> Pickaxe
- Final cost unchanged
Yun Tal Wildarrows
- AD reduced: 60 >>> 50
- Now has 20% attack speed
- No longer has 25% crit
- Old passive removed and replaced with 2 new passives
- Passive:
- Landing auto attacks grants permanent crit chance, .2% per stack up to 25%
- Passive:
- Attacking enemy champs grants 30% attack speed for 4 seconds
- 40 second internal cooldown, reduced by 1 second per auto attack and 2 seconds per crit
- New recipe
- BF Sword + Scout’s Slingshot + Long Sword + 750 gold
- Costs 3000 gold total
Summoner Spells
Barrier
- Shield reduced: 120-480 >>> 100-460
Smite
- Epic monster prioritization range reduced: 300 >>> 125
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