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The evolution of the League of Legends, today

The future of League of Legends is Ultra Rapid Fire and the future is right now.

The future of League of Legends is Ultra Rapid Fire and the future is right now. Set to go live next preseason, this massive update will help every player make impactful plays at every stage of the game. To give you a taste of this bold vision of the future, we’ve enabled a special preview queue that’ll be live for the next week. Check out a few of the hardest hitting changes:

Every champion begins the game with 80% cooldown reduction on abilities, activated items and summoner spells
Casting spells is fun, but running out of mana isn’t, so mana and energy costs have been removed
Marksmen could dole out tons more damage, so attack speed bonuses for ranged champions have been doubled

1/04/2014

03.21.2014 Patch Update

Welcome to the 4.4 patch notes! Last patch, we hinted at long-term changes hitting the lab while we tackled the largest outliers in competitive play. This patch, you'll see the first results of that labor as we bring out a healthier (and hopefully less banned) rework Kassadin who still embodies the theme of a mobile anti-magic assassin.

Our other big change is to Lich Bane, as it was skewing a lot of champion power in unhealthy ways. Specifically, there are champions who have a lot of their power tied to Lich Bane - we balanced them to compensate for the changes - and then there are champions who like Lich Bane for its high burst, low cooldown properties. High burst isn't unhealthy if it's timed and executed properly, but Lich Bane was just a pile of damage for something you're already doing, and it came up much, much faster than other burst damage focused items like Deathfire Grasp. Hitting Lich Bane means we can revisit certain champions in the future and maybe buff them up. We've already begun this process for a few of them as you'll see in this patch.

Statikk, one of our designers, is going to go in-depth on power curves (as in when a champ is the strongest or weakest in the game) later on to help explain some of our changes to champs like Kassadin and Elise, so stay tuned for that. The run-down here is that when champion power curves become too extreme, the champs selected decide the outcome of the game rather than the players themselves. Success in League of Legends should always be a combination of pre-game decisions and in-game execution. We want all players to have the opportunity to meaningfully outplay their opponents at each and every phase of the game - even if there are disadvantages - and champions who automatically win those phases just by showing up negates that philosophy.

21/03/2014

Arctic Ops Varus takes aim! One arrow is all Arctic Ops Varus needs. Arctic Ops Varus leaps from the rampart, a hail of arrows flying from his bow and freezing the ground beneath his victims. As they struggle to regroup, he draws a missile -- circuits flashing along its spine -- and lets fly at the center of the cohort. Chains burst from the missile, snaring everyone in range. He studies his targets for a brief moment before his bow breaks into an X and a holographic reticule appears in front of him. One more arrow is all he needs.

19/03/2014

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