League of Legends Patch 10.18: Full List of Balance Changes

League of Legends Patch 10.18 notes were released revealing a slew of balance changes are soon coming to Summoner's Rift. Patch 10.18 focuses on reducing the power level of seemingly ever present professional picks including Galio and Ashe, while buffing champions who have failed to see much play time on the professional stage. League of Legends Patch 10.18 seeks to diversify professional champion pools as well as sees nerfs to the Guardian rune.

League of Legends Patch 10.18: Champion Balance Changes

Ahri

Base Stats

• Health regeneration reduced from 6.5 to 5.5

Vastayan Grace (Passive)

• Essence Theft (New): Ahri gains an essence theft stack for each enemy hit by her abilities, up to a maximum of 3 per cast, and storing up to 9 at once. Upon reaching 9 attacks of Essence Theft, Ahri's next spell consumes the stacks to heal for 3/5/9/18 (levels 1/6/11/16) (+0.09 ability power) for each enemy hit.
• Vastayan Grace (Removed): Ahri no longer gains 20% bonus movement speed for 3 seconds when she lands 2 ability hits against a champion within 1.5 seconds

Orb of Deception (Q)

• Essence Theft (Removed): Essence Theft is now Ahri's passive

Fox Fire (W)

• Foxier Feet (New): Now grants a burst of 40% movement speed decaying over 1.5 seconds at cast
• Minion-Fire (New): Now deals 200% damage to minions below 20% health
• Improved Minion Targeting (Updated): Targeting now better prioritizes low health minions that can be killed by Fox Fire after champions (charmed champions are still the flames' first priority)
• Cooldown increased from 9/8/7/6/5 to 10/9/8/7/6 seconds
• Mana cost increased from 40 to 55 mana

Ashe

Base Stats

• Attack damage reduced from 61 to 59

Ranger's Focus (Q)

• Bugfix: Runaan Hurricanes' Wind Fury damage now properly takes under consideration the future levels of Ranger's Focus
• VFX Bugfix: Additional Runaan's Hurricane bolts from Amethyst Ashe's Q - Ranger's Focus Runaan's now properly use the skins VFX

Galio

Winds of War (Q)

• Base damage decreased from 80/115/150/185/220 to 70/105/140/175/210

Jarvan IV

Dragon Strike (Q)

• Base damage increased from 80/120/160/200/240 to 90/130/170/210/250

Kayle

Radiant Blast (Q)

• Mana restore (Removed): No longer restores 50% of the mana cost for each enemy champion hit

Celestial Blessing (W)

• Mana cost increased from 70/80/90/100/110 to 90/100/110/120/130

Starfire Spellblade (E)

• Mana cost reduced from 50/55/60/65/70 to No Cost
• Missile speed increased from 2000 to 5000

Kog'Maw

Base Stats

• Health growth reduced from 90 to 85
• Armor growth reduced from 3.5 to 3.25

Miss Fortune

Base Stats

• Attack speed growth increased from 2.25 to 3%

Strut (W)

• Maximum bonus movement speed increased from 50/60/70/80/90 to 55/65/75/85/95

Rumble

Flamespitter (Q)

• Total damage increased from 175/210/245/280/315 to 180/220/260/300/340

Sett

Pit Grit (Passive)

• Right punch bonus damage ratio changed from 0.15 total attack damage to 0.5 bonus attack damage

Knuckle Down (Q)

• Bonus damage changed from 10/20/30/40/50 (+1/2/3/4/5% of target's missing health) (+0.01 per 100 total attack damage to 10/20/30/40/50 (+0.01 of target's maximum health) (+1/1.5/2/2.5/3% per 100 total attack damage)

Shen

KI Barrier (Passive)

• Shield decreased from 70-121 (levels 1-18) to 60-111 (levels 1-18)

Shyvana

Flame Breath (E)

• Dragon form explosion radius changed from 220/240/260/280/300 (boundary check) to 345 (center check) (this is approximately a 280 radius boundary check for most targets)
• Double check: Dragon forms visuals and cast indicator now accurately represent the ability's radius
• Maxed out: Dragon form Flame Breath no longer casts at maximum range when player attempts to cast near maximum range
• Dragon form ground zone damage tick rate reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds (same damage per second)
• Don't Drag it out: Dragon form ground zone is now more responsive

Twitch

Contaminate (E)

• Bonus damage per stack ratio increased from 0.2 ability (maximum 1.2 ability power) to 0.333 ability power (maximum 2.0 ability power)

Spray and Pray (R)

Bolt damage reduction per enemy hit reduced from -20% from the previous hit (minimum damage cap of 40%) to -5% per unit hit (minimum damage cap of 70%)

Xin Zhao

Wind Becomes Lighting (W)

• Thrust damage increased from 30/65/100/135/170 (+0.75 attack damage) to 40/75/110/145/180 (+0.80 attack damage)

League of Legends Patch 10.18: Rune Changes

Guardian

• Shield ratio reduced from 0.25 ability power (+0.12 bonus health) to 0.15 ability power (+0.09 bonus health)