May 1, 2009 Patch

May 1, 2009 Patch

• Evelynn
• Tryndamere
• Twitch

Evelynn

Tryndamere

Twitch

Release Date (US)

May 1, 2009

Evelynn, the Widowmaker
Tryndamere, the Barbarian King
Twitch, the Plague Rat

Highlights

• New Champions: Evelynn, Twitch, Tryndamere
• Champion Remake: Tristana

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Release Notes 2009-05-01

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The May 1, 2009 patch for League of Legends was accompanied by the following noted changes ("patch notes").

PVP.net

• New End of Game Screen
• Can now play 5v5 matches again in Practice games.

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Champions

• New champions: Evelynn, The Widowmaker, Tryndamere, The Barbarian King, Twitch, The Plague Rat.

Reworked Tristana

• Removed ability Rending Shot.
• New ability Rocket Jump (W)
  • Tristana jumps to a distant location, slowing and damaging surrounding targets upon landing.
• Moved Tristana's true passive from E to her innate. She will now gain attack range passively with her level, and she can spend points in order to deal more damage to surrounding units when she deals the killing blow.

Ashe

• Frost Shot
  • Slow reduced to 10 / 17 / 24 / 31 / 38% from 10 / 18 / 26 / 34 / 42%.

Chronokeeper

• Time Bomb
  • Ability power ratio increased to 1.1 from 0.75.
• Chronoshift
  • Fixed bugs which caused champions to die regardless of having the Chronoshift buff.
  • No longer removes positive buffs on revival (such as Elixirs).

Fiddlesticks

• Drain
  • Damage type updated, it should now be back to its power level of a week ago.

Judicator

• Divine Blessing
  • Is now instant cast.
• Reckoning
  • Slow/Stun duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5.

Minotaur

• Unbreakable Will
  • Duration reduced to 8 / 12 / 16 from 10 / 15 / 20.

Singe

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 465 from 565 (Note: Singe's health is further increased by his passive).
• Poison Trail
  • Damage per second reduced to 18 / 27 / 36 / 45 / 54 from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60.
• Mega Adhesive
  • Casting time reduced.

Sivir

• Ricochet
  • Mana cost per attack increased to 6 from 4.
  • Damage type changed to physical (it used to cut through armor, it no longer does this).

Teemo

• Stats
  • Health per level reduced to 74 from 84.
• Blinding Dart
  • Effect changed to blinding the target, causing them to have a 100% miss chance for 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4 seconds, from target champion missing their next 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 attacks.
  • Mana cost modified to 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 from 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145.
  • Cooldown reduced to 11 seconds from 12.
• Bantam Trap
  • Damage reduced to 350 / 500 / 650 from 375 / 550 / 750.
  • New particle added to detonation.

Yeti

• Absolute Zero
  • Fixed cooldown in tooltip, added cooldown to level up section.

Summoner Spells

Boost

• Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds from 180 seconds (known issue - it doesn't break stuns, fears, or silences).

Flash

• Cast time reduced to 0.5 seconds from 0.75.

Ghost

• Duration reduced to 12 seconds from 15.

Masteries

Haste

• Movement speed bonus reduced to 8% from 10%.

Items

Archangel's Staff

• Now gains bonus ability power based on max mana (instead of current mana).
• Tool-tip updated to make more sense.
• Mana gain is now Unique.

Last Whisper

• Functionality changed to a "35% chance on hit to deal 1 Magic Damage for each point of Armor the target has" from a 50% chance to ignore all of the target's armor.
• Combine cost increased to 750 from 600.

Soul Shroud

• Removed the bonus 50 ability power that it was accidentally giving.
• Buff icon updated.

Spirit Visage

• Combine cost increased to 700 from 500.

Sunfire Cape

• Combine cost increased to 800 from 600.
• AoE damage decreased to 40 from 50.

Tiamat

• Combine cost increased to 400 from 200.

Neutral Minions

• Lesser Wolf and Giant Wolf:
  • Critical strike chance reduced to 25% from 33%.
  • Attack speed reduced.

Bugs

• Fixed lua error with Relentless Assault.
• Fixed lua errors from Unused Items.
• Fixed tooltips giving incorrect values.
• Black Shield and Unbreakable Will no longer proc taking damage from Time Bomb.
• Fixed errant bugs having to deal with true damage.

Miscellaneous

• Misc. tooltip fixes.
• Added a shrine turret
  • Updated shrine turret stats (it is VERY deadly now).
• Updated a few spell tooltips to be updated by cooldown reduction items.
• Destroying a dampener no longer causes the enemy team to gain less experience/gold from minion kills.
• Duration between minion upgrades increased to 200 seconds from 180.
• Health and mana regeneration at the shrine increased to 7.5% per second from 6.5% per second.
• Damage minions deal to champions increased to 60% from 50%.
• Minion gold bounty now caps after 30 minutes (10 upgrades).
• Kill streak bonuses
  • Bonus on killing a champion on a kill streak decreased to 0.25 from 0.3 per rank of the kill streak.
  • Cap reduced to 8 from 10 kills.
• Death Streak Reduction
  • Reduction on kill of a unit on a death streak decreased to 0.25 from 0.3 per rank of the death streak.
  • Floor increased to 40% from 30% of a champion kill.
• ADDED: First Blood gold bonus ( 100).

Art

• New melee and range minions for both blue and red teams.
• New stun particle.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where a queued ability would fail to execute if you toggled another ability on.
• Fixed a bug where buffs were not appearing correctly for units popping in and out of fog of war.
• Next level tooltips no longer round numbers to the nearest whole but show decimals correctly.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a unit would pop after leaving fog of war.
• Fixed a bug where particles would get emitted from a units last known position when they are in fog of war.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with Nvidia FX 5200 cards.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with Integrated Intel GPUs.
• Fixed various server crashes.
• Fixed a bug where you could upgrade a spell passed its current cap when under mid to heavy latency.
• Fixed a bug where the enter key of the number pad did not work with in game chat.

HUD

• Added a "Focus Target" ping system. You can ping an enemy to put a marker over their head to tell your teammates to attack them. You can ping a defensive structure to tell your teammates to defend it. (work in progress)
• New messages for why you cant cast spells (out of mana, on cooldown, etc.).

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Template:Data Tristana/Rending Shot

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Rocket Jump

COOLDOWN: 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14

Active: Tristana jumps to the target location. Upon landing, she deals magic damage and slows nearby enemies for a short time.

When Tristana scores an enemy champion takedown or detonates Explosive Charge at max stacks on a champion, it will  reset Rocket Jump's cooldown.

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Frost Shot

Innate: Ashe's basic attacks deal increased damage based on her critical strike chance and critical strike damage.

Innate - Frost Shot: Ashe's basic attacks apply a slow on-hit.

Innate - Critical Slow: Ashe's critical strikes deal no bonus damage but apply an empowered slow.

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Time Bomb

COOLDOWN: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8

Active: Zilean throws a ticking time bomb to the target location that will attach upon enemy contact, revealing them. It will detonate after a short time or when the attached unit dies, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies hit.

The bomb will detonate immediately if another bomb attaches to the same target, briefly stunning enemies hit.

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Chronoshift

COOLDOWN: 120 / 90 / 60

Active: Zilean places a protective time rune on himself or the target allied champion for a few seconds.

If the target would die, they enter resurrection for a short time, becoming invulnerable, untargetable, and unable to act. They are healed afterwards.

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Drain

COOLDOWN: 4 / 3.75 / 3.5 / 3.25 / 3

Fiddlesticks saps the life force of an enemy, dealing damage to a target over time and healing himself.

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Divine Blessing

COOLDOWN: 15

Blesses a target friendly champion, granting them increased Movement Speed and healing them.

Removed content

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Reckoning

COOLDOWN: 8

Blasts an enemy unit with angelic force, dealing damage, slowing Movement Speed, and applying Holy Fervor.

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Unbreakable Will

COOLDOWN: 120 / 100 / 80

Active: Alistar lets out a wild roar, cleansing all crowd control effects and gaining damage reduction for a few seconds.

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Poison Trail

STATIC CD: 1

Toggle: Singed continually creates a toxic cloud that shortly lingers in his wake, which continually inflicts poison to enemies within.

poison: The target continually takes magic damage over a short time. Subsequent inflictions refresh the duration.

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Mega Adhesive

COOLDOWN: 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13

Active: Singed creates a field of adhesive at the target location for a short time that grounds and slows enemies within.

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Ricochet

COOLDOWN: 12

Active: Sivir gains  bonus attack speed for a few seconds. During this time, her basic attacks create projectiles that repeatedly bounce to nearby surrounding enemies, dealing physical damage.

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Blinding Dart

COOLDOWN: 7

Active: Teemo shoots a dart at the target enemy that deals magic damage and blinds them for a short time.

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Noxious Trap

RECHARGE: 35 / 30 / 25

Active: Teemo tosses a poisonous mushroom to the target location that becomes stealthed and lasts for a while. It will bounce forward upon landing on another mushroom.

Teemo periodically stocks a charge of Noxious Trap, up to a cap.

Mushrooms can be destroyed by enemy basic attacks and will explode upon enemy contact, inflicting poison to nearby enemies and slowing them for a few seconds, as well as revealing them.

poison: The target takes magic damage every second over a few seconds. Subsequent inflictions refresh the duration.

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Absolute Zero

COOLDOWN: 110 / 100 / 90

Active: Nunu and Willump channel a blizzard for a short time, gaining a shield and gradually slowing nearby enemies.

Absolute Zero can be recast during the channel, and does so automatically when the channel ends by any means.

Recast: Nunu and Willump explode, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies. The effect is modified based on the channel time.

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Stun

A unit that is stunned is unable to control its movement, declare attacks, cast abilities, activate items or use the summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash for the duration.
Stun is an immobilizing effect.

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Interrupts:	Interrupts attack windups (excluding uncancellable windups) and all channeled and charged abilities.
Reduction:	The duration is affected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
Removal:	Removed by Cleanses.

Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.

• The crowd control effect may still be cleansed if it is applied as a debuff separate from the originated ability.

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Flee

A unit that is fleeing or feared is forced to move directly away from the Source (the unit that casted the Fear spell) for the duration, during which they're unable to perform issued movement commands, declare attacks, cast abilities, activate items or use the summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash. All fears also apply a slow.
Flee is an immobilizing effect. Forced action effects cannot force the unit to perform an action that is disabled.

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Interrupts:	Interrupts attack windups (excluding uncancellable windups) and all channeled and charged abilities, as well as overrides previous Forced Action effects.
Reduction:	The duration is affected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
Removal:	Removed by Cleanses or when the Source dies.

Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.

• The crowd control effect may still be cleansed if it is applied as a debuff separate from the originated ability.

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Silence

A unit that is silenced is unable to cast abilities, activate items or use the summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash for the duration.

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Interrupts:	Interrupts all channeled and charged abilities.
Reduction:	The duration is affected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity.
Removal:	Removed by Cleanses.

Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.

• The crowd control effect may still be cleansed if it is applied as a debuff separate from the originated ability.

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Relentless Assault

Innate: Jax's basic attacks generate stacks, up to a cap. Stacks expire one at a time.

Relentless Assault: For each stack, Jax gains  bonus attack speed.

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Black Shield

COOLDOWN: 26 / 23.5 / 21 / 18.5 / 16

Active: Morgana shields the target allied champion or herself for a few seconds, which absorbs magic damage and grants crowd control immunity while the shield holds.

League of Legends

League of Legends (or LoL; initially League of Legends: Clash of Fates) is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre video game developed by Riot Games.

Platform

• Microsoft Windows, macOS

Regular Map

• Summoner's Rift