Summary of "NEW PATCH 26.09 CHANGES: MASSIVE ITEM AND RUNE UPDATE - League of Legends"
Summary of 26.9 Patch Coverage (Items, Runes, and Champion Changes)
Overview
- The video frames Patch 26.9 as a major shake-up after several “snoozefest” patches, featuring 14 item/rune changes including 3 new items and 2 new runes, plus numerous champion adjustments.
- It highlights that the patch is expected to hit live servers Wednesday, April 29th.
Item & Rune Changes
Item buffs/nerfs and system adjustments
- Endless Hunger (buff): Melee ability haste increased from 10% bonus AD → 13% bonus AD (range scaling unchanged).
- Likely strongest impact: Hecarim, with possible benefits for Ambessa, Sahin, and Riven.
- Hubris (nerf): Flat AD reduced 60 → 55, but AD per stack increased 2 → 3.
- Net effect described as overall nerf due to the lost flat AD being more reliable than stack-based gain.
- Comet rune (change):
- Base damage lowered (30–130 → 15–100),
- scaling is reworked to increase by distance, reaching up to +100% at 750 units.
- Axiom Arc (adjustment):
- Passive cooldown reduction reduced 15% → 10%
- Lethality ratio increased 0.15 → 0.25% per lethality point
- Video suggests this will reward multiple lethality items, with less appeal for Riven.
- Staff of Flowing Water (support item buff, mixed numbers):
- Haste lowered 15 → 10 and passive AP lowered 45 → 40
- but passive now grants 15 ability haste and retains/reshapes support value.
New items and boots
- New item: Doran’s Helm (450g): 110 HP, 10 armor, 10 MR, plus passive dealing 5 bonus damage to minions.
- New starting item: Doran’s Bow (400g): 6 AD, 15% attack speed, 1.5% omnivamp.
- New boots: Gluttonous Greaves (950g): 45 move speed, 4% omnivamp, and 1% omnivamp on champion takedown.
- Positioned as more offensive than typical bruiser boots (Steelcaps/Merc Treads).
Dusk and Dawn (major rework)
- Health reduced 350 → 300, AP reduced 70 → 60, attack speed reduced 25% → 20%.
- Spellblade now adds healing scaling with 10% AP and 3% bonus health.
- Video implication:
- Less burst/offense for assassins like Ekko,
- potentially better for more consistent skirmishers (examples given: Volibear, Gwen, Kayle, Xin Zhao).
Reworked item: Statikk Shiv
- Completely restructured stats (cost 3000g):
- 40 AD, 40 AP, 30% attack speed, 4% movement speed
- Chain lightning remains, but now applies to other targets via on-hit interaction more broadly than before.
- Expected users: Katarina and Kai’Sa (due to mixed damage patterns).
New rune keystones
- Deathfire Touch (new Sorcery keystone):
- After burning an enemy for 3 seconds, damage is doubled (+100%).
- Video suggests it suits champions with consistent damage output.
- Stormsurge Raider Surge (new Sorcery rune, replacing Phase Rush):
- Dealing damage equal to 25% of enemy max health within 3 seconds grants:
- 40% bonus movement speed and
- 50% slow resist for 3 seconds.
- Described as a more aggressive, committed version of Phase Rush.
- Dealing damage equal to 25% of enemy max health within 3 seconds grants:
Hail of Blades change
- Bonus attack speed reduced:
- Melee 160% → 120%
- Ranged 80% → 60%
- New effect: empowered attacks deal bonus true damage.
Voltaic Cyclosword (mini rework)
- Cost 3000 → 2900
- Lethality reduced 18 → 10
- Old energized stacking mechanism removed; abilities now trigger energized effects.
- Instead of next basic attack dealing bonus physical + slow:
- now deals bonus physical equal to 10% target current health
- and grants 15 lethality for 4 seconds
- Video implication: less appealing to fighters (e.g., Jax), more appealing for ability-reliant assassins like Zed.
Champion Changes
Buffs
- Gragas: W damage reduction immunity window increased from 10% scaling → 18% scaling to 10% scaling → 26% (stronger mitigation on W).
- Tahm Kench: changes to health conversion and Devour ally movement speed increased (40 → 60).
- Taliyah: Q base damage increased (roughly 50–120 → 55–125), with monster damage reduced.
- Warwick: passive on-hit damage increased (6–46 → 6–55).
Nerfs
- Ambessa: R cast time increased 0.55s → 0.7s, giving opponents more reaction time.
- Briar: health growth reduced 100 → 95.
Ezreal build direction
- Significant changes aimed at double tier builds:
- Q/AP ratio increased substantially
- W and R ratios adjusted upward as well
- Video claims Archangel’s may become a core purchase, boosting AP-styled Ezreal viability.
Jhin (crit/attack mechanics mention)
- Jhin’s empowered W auto can now crit for 140% bonus damage.
- Mentions interactions with Runaan’s Hurricane bolts and changes that extend attack speed duration on crit.
Shyvana: large system-style overhaul
- Many stat/function changes including:
- base attack speed and scaling adjustments,
- Q passive no longer scaling off AP,
- multiple cooldown changes,
- W shield/ratio changes,
- dragon form heal simplified to missing-health scaling,
- E cooldown/damage/slow adjustments.
- Video takeaway: AP Shyvana builds may become stronger, with an expectation of updated builds soon.
Other champion adjustments
- Zeri: large set of changes to execute threshold, Q/W/E ratios, crit multiplier, cooldown behavior, and burst AD vs movement speed scaling.
- Zoe: E now refunds part of cooldown on hitting champions; W bolt damage/AP ratio reduced.
- Teemo: E becomes an on-hit effect, with revised scaling.
- Udyr: extensive Q/W/E scaling changes, shifting damage scaling patterns (max health interaction mentioned).
- Zac? / “Zen Shiao”:
- Passive heal AP ratio redistributed by level,
- W slow duration scales with AP,
- E attack speed ratios and special scaling with non-buff sources added.
Video’s Conclusions / Opinion Points
- The patch is presented as a much larger and more impactful update than recent ones due to its mix of items, runes, and champion rewires.
- Several items/runes are expected to:
- shift power toward mixed-damage builds (e.g., Statikk Shiv changes),
- alter rune strategies (Stormsurge replacing Phase Rush, Hail of Blades adding true damage),
- and change assassin vs bruiser preferences (notably Dusk and Dawn and Voltaic Cyclosword).
Presenters / Contributors
- Narrator/Presenter: The main speaker is not explicitly named in the subtitles.
- Promoted contributors/teams: “our team of challenger players” (no names provided).
- Advertised organizations: Skill capped and its coaching team (no individual names provided).
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