LOL Patch 25.04 Notes

LOL've got our first big systemic item swing of the year this patch, taking a peg out of the best-performing tank items and nudging some tier-2 boots closer to where LOL'd like them to be, notably nerfing Plated Steelcaps. We're also making Infinity Edge a bit cheaper as well, helping crit ADCs get their builds online sooner. On the champion side of things, Mel is receiving a few changes to increase her counter-play while Elise and Diana are receiving adjustments to address their role disparities, not to mention another dozen champion balance changes to bring in some outliers. In addition to the usual balance changes LOL've also got some mysterious Masked Justice heroes dropping onto the Rift, a revamp to the honor system, ARURF and Swiftplay balance changes, our 2025 Clash schedule announcement, a new Mythic Shop rotation, and more!

LOL initially went to 25.S1.1 with the hopes of tying patches more closely to seasons, and after a couple of patches we've realized it's not the easiest thing to communicate and wasn't really hitting the mark the way LOL hoped. So this patch is 25.04, with the last patch this year being 25.24. Then come January 2026 it'll be 26.1, you get the idea. This will also tie the patch numbering to how LOL talk about our other events like Worlds much closer each year.

As of this patch, the Honor system has been revamped to better reflect how players interact with one another. Instead of steadily progressing over a Season (unless you're penalized), your Honor now updates regularly based on your recent behavior. Our goal with these changes was to make Honor about how you show up and the positive impact you have on your teammates, not just how many games you've played. As always, we want this system to create a safer and more positive environment for everyone in the community and we believe these changes will help get us there. Now that Honor is a more accurate evaluation of behavior, we're tying it to communication privileges and other rewards. Honor 3 now represents neutral players who aren't being disruptive or positive. All the baseline features to play and communicate with your team are available at this level. Higher levels of Honor are reserved for players who are consistently positive, respectful, and collaborative. These players are rewarded Battle Pass XP drops and benefits like visible Honor levels. At Honor 5 you'll gain access to ally-targeted pings to call for things like Dearest Karthus's ultimate. Meanwhile, Honor levels 1 and 2 indicate an active penalty on your account due to recent disruptive behavior and, as a result, access to rewards and some chat usability will be restricted.

• Honor Levels: Amount of games played without penalties ⇒ Dynamic evaluation based on recent positive behavior.
• Rewards & Entitlements: Based on your current Honor; more info available at Honor FAQ.
• Honor Checkpoints & Seasonal Resets: Gone!
• Demotion Warnings: Will notify you when your Honor is sliding to the previous level.
• Honor Penalties: Game-based; The amount of matches you must play to lift the penalty is viewable in your profile the same way Ranked Restrictions are today.
• Honor Tokens: Any remaining Honor 5 tokens in loot will be converted into 1050 Orange Essence at the start of patch 25.06.
• Progression: Honor Orbs and Capsules have been replaced with Battle Pass XP drops.
• Rewards: After 25.04, the first time you reach Honor 5 you will be permanently awarded the Three Honors Malzahar, Shen, and Akshan skins, alongside Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch and their chromas.

Ashe

• Q - Ranger's Focus

Total Damage per Flurry: 110/115/120/125/130% AD ⇒ 111/117/123/129/135% AD

• W - Volley

AD Ratio: 100% bonus AD ⇒ 110% bonus AD

• R - Enchanted Crystal Arrow

Damage: 200/400/600 (+120% AP) ⇒ 250/450/650 (+120% AP) Secondary Target Damage: 50% ⇒ 100%

Diana

• Passive - Moonsilver Blade

Monster Damage: 300% ⇒ 225%

• Q - Crescent Strike

Damage: 60/95/130/165/200 (+70% AP) ⇒ 70/105/140/175/210 (+70% AP)

• W - Pale Cascade

Maximum Damage: 54/90/126/162/198 (+54% AP) ⇒ 60/96/132/168/204 (+54% AP)

Ekko

• Q - Timewinder

Damage: 70/85/100/115/130 (+30% AP) ⇒ 80/95/110/125/140 (+30% AP)

Elise

• W - Volatile Spiderling Damage: 60/105/150/195/240 (+95% AP) ⇒ 60/100/140/180/220 (+75% AP)

• W - Skittering Frenzy

Cooldown: 10 ⇒ 6 seconds. Bonus Attack Speed: 60/70/80/90/100% ⇒ 60/75/90/105/120%

• R - Spider Form

Spiderling Damage: 8/14/20/26 (+15% AP) ⇒ 10/20/30/40 (+15% AP)

Gangplank

• Base Stats

AD Growth: 3.7 ⇒ 4.2

Hwei

• Passive - Signature of the Visionary

Damage: 35–180 (based on level) (+35% AP) ⇒ 35–180 (based on level) (+30% AP)

• QW - Severing Bolt

Damage: 80/100/120/140/160 (+25% AP) ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160 (+25% AP)

• WE - Stirring Lights

Damage: 25/35/45/55/65 (+20% AP) ⇒ 20/30/40/50/60 (+15% AP)

Jayce

• W - Hyper Charge Set Attack Speed: 2.67 ⇒ 3.0

Kalista

• W - Sentinel Target Max Health Damage: 14/15/16/17/18% ⇒ 10/12/14/16/18%

Kog'Maw

• Q - Caustic Spittle Damage: 90/140/190/240/290 (+70% AP) ⇒ 80/125/170/215/260 (+80% AP)

Lulu

• W - Whimsy

Bonus Attack Speed: 25/27.5/30/32.5/35% ⇒ 20/22.5/25/27.5/30%

Cooldown: 17/16.5/16/15.5/15 ⇒ 18/17.5/17/16.5/16 seconds

• E - Help, Pix!

Base Damage/Shield Strength: 80/125/170/215/260 ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240

Mel

• Q - Radiant Volley

Cast Range: 1000 ⇒ 950

Projectile Speed: 5000 ⇒ 4500

• W - Rebuttal

Duration: 1 ⇒ 0.75 seconds

Mana Cost: 60/45/30/15/0 ⇒ 80/60/40/20/0

Reflected Damage: 40/47.5/55/62.5/70% ⇒ 40/45/50/55/60%

• E - Solar Snare

Root Duration: 1.75/1.88/2/2.13/2.25 ⇒ 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25 seconds

Direct Hit Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+50% AP) ⇒ 60/105/150/195/240 (+60% AP)

• R - Golden Eclipse

Damage per Overwhelm Stack: 4/7/10 (+2.5% AP) ⇒ 4/7/10 (+3.5% AP)

Nautilus

• Q - Dredge Line

Damage: 70/115/160/205/250 (+90% AP) ⇒ 85/130/175/220/265 (+90% AP)

Sion

• Base Stats

Base Armor: 32 ⇒ 36

Health Regeneration: 7.5 ⇒ 9

Teemo

• E - Toxic Shot

Monster Damage: 125% ⇒ 145%

Warwick

• Q - Jaws of the Beast

Mana Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 ⇒ 80/85/90/95/100

Yasuo

• Passive - Way of the Wanderer

Critical Damage Reduction: 10% ⇒ REMOVED

Abyssal Mask

• Magic Resistance: 50 ⇒ 45

Fimbulwinter

• Everlasting Shield: 100-180 (based on level) (+4.5% current mana) ⇒ 100 (+4.5% current mana) (Note: this is roughly 30% less shielding in average cases)

Heartsteel

• Colossal Consumption Max Health: 10% of damage ⇒ 8% of damage

Infinity Edge

• Price: 3600 ⇒ 3450 gold
• Attack Damage: 70 ⇒ 65

Mercury Treads

• Price: 1300 ⇒ 1250 gold

Plated Steelcaps

• Damage Reduction from Auto Attacks: 12% ⇒ 10%

Symbiotic Soles

• Flat Movement Speed: 35 ⇒ 40 (Note: Evolved movement speed unchanged at 45)

Unending Despair

• Anguish: 8-15 (based on level) (+3% bonus health) ⇒ 3% of bonus health (Note: this is a 10-15% nerf to the item's damage)

Atakhan

In this patch we've adjusted Atakhan's Form Spawn Rules to better reflect how bloody a game feels with what form Atakhan takes on. This also includes accounting for differences between what a bloody game looks like in Solo Q vs Professional Matches.

Early Lane Trading: Pro play features more aggressive early lane trading, and champions simply have less health early anyways so smaller amounts of damage represent greater bloodiness. Therefore we are increasing the impact of early game PvP damage on Bloodiness Score to a greater degree.

• Early PvP generates double the points, decreasing down to the normal amount over 14 minutes (Diminishing Kill Score: Functionally, so long as “enough” kills happen, the game feels bloody and lively. This means that the first few kills are more significant than subsequent ones).
• The first few kills per game grant significantly more points, diminishing with each subsequent kill.
• Tower Dives in particular are extremely high tension moments, and therefore tower dive kills grant multiplicatively more points.
• Threshold Recalibration: Because these adjustments change point values significantly, we are adjusting the Voracious vs Ruinous threshold to try to better match these new expected values.

Clash 2025 is just around the corner so get your 5 stacks and clear these dates for your shot at Clash supremacy! As mentioned in the last dev update, we're reducing the amount of Clash tournaments this year from 12 to 6 total. But we are going to be experimenting with some new tournament formats like ARURF Clash and bringing back player favorites like the ARAM Cup. So get your teams together and we'll see you on the Rift (or Howling Abyss)!

Updated Rewards

Since we're reducing the amount of Clash tournaments this year by half, we're also recalibrating the VP required for each tier of rewards. Check out the new VP requirements down below:

• Random Icon: 100 VP (unchanged)
• “2025 Clash Contender” Title: 200 VP (unchanged)
• Contender Banner: 1000 VP ⇒ 500 VP
• Random Summoner Icon: 2000 VP ⇒ 1000 VP
• “2025 Clash Conqueror” Title: 3000 VP ⇒ 1500 VP
• Conqueror Banner: 4000 VP ⇒ 2000 VP
• Random Icon: 5000 VP ⇒ 3000 VP
• “2025 Clash Champion” Title: 6000 VP ⇒ 3500 VP
• Champion Banner: 7000 VP ⇒ 4000 VP

LOL have a light patch for 25.04, with a focus on Teemo. Trap-based champions have historically been difficult to balance due to ARAM's unique vision system. This time, we're giving Teemo players back more opportunities to plant shrooms while reducing their overall impact. Our goal is to maintain his champion fantasy while keeping an eye on frustration levels. On the tank front, several tank items have been nerfed in Summoner's Rift this patch. LOL'll be monitoring tanks' performance in ARAM to determine whether individual adjustments are necessary. LOL're also working on a Sett nerf for the next patch, so stay tuned! And as always, GLHF!

Champions

Teemo

• R Damage: 200/325/450 (+50% AP) ⇒ 180/290/400 (+40% AP)
• R Slow: 30/40/50% ⇒ 20% at all ranks
• R Maximum Charges: 2/3/4 ⇒ 3/4/5
• Ability Haste: -20 ⇒ -10
• Damage Dealt: -10% ⇒ -5%

Items

• Unending Despair: Healing Multiplier 175% ⇒ 250%

Runes

• Hail of Blades: Melee Champion Attack Speed 130% ⇒ 140%

Systems

Ranged Attack Speed Bonus: 100% ⇒ 75%

Champions

Kayle

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 85%

Kog'Maw

• Damage Dealt: 90% ⇒ 85%
• Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 105%

Sivir

• Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 105%

Tristana

• Damage Dealt: 95% ⇒ 90%
• Damage Taken: 100% ⇒ 105%

Twitch

• Damage Dealt: 92% ⇒ 85%
• Damage Taken: 105% ⇒ 110%

Vayne

• Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 95%

Jhin

• Damage Dealt: 105% ⇒ 110%

Lee Sin

• Damage Dealt: 100% ⇒ 105%

Death Timers

Now that there's a hard cap on how long Swiftplay games can go, we're pulling down on late-game respawn timers so that players can more readily fight for their (Nexus's) life.

• Death Timer Multiplier (minutes 10-35): 100-133% ⇒ 100-112%

Champions

Now that Yorick has a sudden death cutoff that covers up his weak endgame power COMBINED with the fact that the sudden death mechanic favors his specialty of dealing structure damage his power levels are off the charts, so we're here to bring Yorick back down to Earth Runeterra.

• AD Growth: 5 ⇒ 4.3
• R Maiden Mark Damage: 2/2.5/3% max health ⇒ 1.5/1.75/2% max health

Now Available

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Leaving the Mythic Shop

• Prestige Lunar Beast Fiora
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• Heavenscale Ward

• Fixed a bug that caused Risen Legend Leblanc and Immortal Legend Ahri (Signature) to have their movement from non-damaging displacement effects (ex: Blast Cones) to be cancelled if the ctrl+5 emote was used during the movement.
• Fixed a bug that caused Axiom Arcanist to treat Twitch's R attacks as Single Target instead of AoE, meaning the damage amp was coming through as 14% and not 9% as intended.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Rengar's boots to swap to Spellslinger's Shoes after completing his hunt Kha'Zix quest. No magic cat shenanigans anymore.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kalista's basic attacks to not fully render correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Scuttle Crab to be attackable during her spawn animation.
• Fixed a bug that caused several of Aurora's SFX to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Aatrox's W tether visual to not display correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kalista's passive dash to not benefit from certain boots.
• Fixed a bug that caused Atakhan's False Life revive to change some champion's passive channel time to 15 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Flash/Hexflash to be disabled if used right before Atakhan's False Life revive.
• Fixed a bug that caused Neeko to retain the jungle item minion experience debuff after transforming into a champion with a jungle item.
• Fixed a bug that caused Zigg's W to not reveal the ability's affected area when used in Fog of War.
• Fixed a bug that caused Lucian's passive to not correctly interact with all plant types.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel's Q cooldown to reset when killing enemy champions affected by Twitch's deadly venom applied by Mel's W.
• Fixed a bug that caused Renata's R to still connect through Yasuo's W, Win Wall.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel's ultimate cooldown to reset if she used her W to reflect Draven's R.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel's E to be counted as single target damage instead of AoE.
• Fixed a bug that caused ultimate pets like Tibbers and Daisy to draw minion aggro to champions.
• Fixed a bug that caused Teemo's E poison to not correctly apply to critical hits.
• Fixed a bug that caused Syndra's W to not have a mana cost.
• Fixed a bug that caused Elise's spiderling stats to not update with her stats and only update on spawn.
• Fixed a bug that caused the end of game UI to remain present if open when the end of game celebration was beginning.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viego, after possessing Mel, to have his Smite deal an incorrect amount of damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel's basic attacks to disable Nidalee's W.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ashe's R on-hit SFW to occur at Ashe's location, not at the enemy's.
• Fixed a bug that caused Urgot to be able to pull enemies into the fountain if the pull was occurring while Urgot was respawning due to Atakhan's False Life.
• Fixed a bug that caused Briar's R to not cancel if killed and revived via Atakhan's False Life.
• Fixed a bug that caused Kayn's R to continue to deal damage even if he died mid-ability as long as he was revived via Atakhan's False Life.
• Fixed a bug that caused Taliyah's Q to continue casting while being revived by Atakhan's False Life.
• Fixed a bug that caused some of Mel's voice lines to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Wukong to be globally revealed when he used his Q on a blast cone.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viego, after possessing Lillia, to be able to use her E and the ability not to collide with terrain correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ambessa's passive to ignore Dodges and Blinds.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel's W to not correctly block some critical strikes.
• Fixed a bug that caused Viktor's R to follow him while taking Rift Herald.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ahri's passive to interrupt her recall.
• Fixed a bug that caused Jayce's Q to render over impassable terrain and structures.
• Fixed a bug that caused some of Warwick's voice lines to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mordekaiser's torches in the Death Realm to not render in the correct locations.
• Fixed a bug that caused Fiora's W to not correctly block some of Mel's abilities.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mel's W to not correctly reflect projectiles from Lulu's Pix.
• Fixed a bug that caused Malzahar's E to instantly kill Zyra's plants.
• Fixed a bug that caused K'Sante's Q SFX to be slightly off in terms of location.