[Patch 15.1] LoL 15.1 Patch Notes

Patch 15.1 ushers in the Noxus map, a massive boots overhaul based around Feats of Strength, Atakhan, a teleport rework, and a whole lot more as League of Legends steps into 2025. It’s been a long time since the League of Legends map saw a full makeover. Sure, it’s had some slight changes based around big esports events with some flags placed around the map and a few changes to how Baron looks, but nothing the likes of what the Noxus map is doing. A brand-new jungle monster in Atakhan, new turrets, some small map geometry changes, a new color, and even new music are coming to Summoner’s Rift to kick off 2025.

• Start: January 9 • End: March 3 • Number of chapters: 5

Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin spawns at 20 minutes on the side of the map that has seen the most kills/deaths by 14 minutes. If there are no kills, it’ll be based on the side that took the most damage.

When he spawns, along with him will come an arena that adds map terrain. He also drops Blood Roses on the map that grant a permanent power buff and some XP for your entire team. There are also two variants of Atakhan, both of which have different movesets and buffs they grant upon being killed.

Ruinous Atakhan spawns in high-kill games where both teams are duking it out. Killing him grants bonus Bloody Petals to the team who gets the final hit on him and spawns more Roses in the area to collect additional Petals.

Voracious Atakhan spawns in slower games with less kills and is a much bigger threat in the short-term. The buffs he grants reads as follows:

• False Life: For the next 180 seconds, the first time you would die, you instead go into Stasis for 5.5 seconds and teleport to your team’s spawn. Your would-be killer instead earns 1 Bloody Petal and 100 Gold
• Your team now permanently gain 40 bonus gold on champion takedown
• Keep in mind this is takedown and not kill. If your entire team participates in a kill, that’s 200 bonus gold across your team.

Atakhan only spawns once per game, but more Blood Roses will spawn on the map over time, with them commonly spawning on the corpses of champions who die on the map.

Spawn timers are shifting around a little with this update. Rift Herald will spawn at 16 minutes, Atakhan at 20, and Baron at 25 to give each objective some time to breathe on the map.

Turret fortification decreased: 85% >>> 50% This is the damage reduction that turrets get from having plates up Nexus turrets now respawn a short time after they go down, preventing backdoors and allowing more late-game comebacks

Feats of Strength is a set of 3 objectives: First blood, first tower, and first to kill 3 epic monsters. Getting 2 of these 3 feats will grant you some pretty substantial boot upgrades for purchase, with the stipulation that you have to already own 2 legendary items to pick up a pair.

Champions Adjusted

1. Cassiopeia

• Passive Movement Speed bonus gets enhanced from 4-72 to 6-108 if her team gets Feats of Strength buff

Item Adjustments

• Bloodletter’s Curse (New Item) This item is new, but has since been buffed on the PBE, resulting in some changes that are now reflected below. Cost: 3050 >>> 2900 55 AP >>> 60 350 HP 10 Ability Haste Passive: Surge Dealing magic damage to champions grants 5% magic pen for 6 seconds (stacks up to 6 times) Build path: Haunting Guise + Fiendish Codex + 900 gold

• Elixirs Level requirement increased: 9 >>> 12 Can now only purchase one copy of an elixir at once

Elixir of Iron Tenacity reduced: 25% >>> 20%

Elixir of Wrath AD reduced: 30 >>> 28-30 (levels 12-18)

• Heartsteel Base passive damage reduced: 80 >>> 70 Passive health damage scaling change: 12% item HP >>> 6% max HP

• Unending Despair Health increased: 350 >>> 400 Armor reduced: 60 >>> 25 Now has 25 MR Passive cooldown reduced: 5 seconds >>> 4 seconds Base damage reduced: 30-50 >>> 8-15 The HP scaling damage is unchanged with an increased tick rate, so the damage on this item isn’t as nerfed as it appears New Recipe: Aegis of the Legion + Giant’s Belt + 800g (final price unchanged)

• Warmog’s Armor Movement speed completely removed Passive regen per second decreased: 5% max HP >>> 3% max HP Bonus HP passive threshold increased: 1500 >>> 2000 Passive cooldown increased: 6 seconds >>> 8 seconds Now grants 12% increased HP New recipe: Winged Moonplate >>> Giant’s Belt (final price unchanged)

• Sorcerer Runes Nullifying Orb removed & replaced with Axiom Arcanist Your ultimate is more powerful. Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate’s current cooldown by 7% and increases its power by 12% (power is damage, healing, and shielding)

• Domination Runes Every single vision-based rune (Eyeball Collection, Ghost Poro, Zombie Ward) has been completely removed and replaced

• Sixth Sense Automatically sense a nearby untracked and unseen ward, tracking it for your team. Also reveals the ward for 10 seconds at level 11 Cooldown: 300 seconds (melee)/360 seconds (ranged)

• Grisly Mementos Collect 1 memento on champion takedown, up to 25 stacks Gain 4 trinket ability haste for each stack. In game modes where vision trinkets do not exist, gain 2 summoner spell haste instead

• Deep Ward Your wards in the enemy jungle are deep. Deep wards gain +1 extra health and (+30-45 seconds) increased duration (+30-120 seconds for trinket stealth wards) In other words, this is weaker for support item wards than trinket ones

• Precision Runes Conqueror DoT stack lock out timer reduced: 5 seconds >>> 4 seconds

• Summoner Spells Teleport has been drastically changed Channel duration reduced: 4 seconds >>> 3 seconds Now dashes to the target location Max travel time for base is 5 seconds, reduced to 4 for unleashed Can target minions and wards without being unleashed Base Cooldown reduced: 360 seconds >>> 300 seconds Unleashed Cooldown reduced: 330-240 >>> 300-240

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