May 15, 2009 Patch

May 15, 2009 Patch

Release Date (US)

May 15, 2009

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Release Notes 2009-05-15

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• New Invite system fully in place.

League of Legends

Champions

Alistar

• Headbutt
  • Stun duration reduced to 1 from 1.25.
  • Speed the target gets pushed back with increased to 1200 from 1000.
• Unbreakable Will
  • Bonus damage reduced to 60 from 80.

Evelynn

• Hate Spike
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.25 from 0.2.
  • Damage increased to 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 from 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100.
• Shadow Walk
  • fade time reduced to 1.5 from 1.75.

Jax

• Weapon Mastery
• Bonus damage modified to 15% at all ranks from 10 / 15 / 20 / 25%.
• Empower
  • No longer triggers item effects like Sheen, Lich Bane, and Tear of the Goddess (since its cooldown > 1 sec).

Master Yi

• Alpha Strike
  • No longer penetrates Invulnerability.
• Meditate
  • Channeling time reduced to 5 seconds from 6 (and made the end of the channel proc a heal).
  • Rewrote the tooltip to make more sense.
• Highlander
  • Duration reduced to 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 seconds from 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8.
  • No longer nullifies Soul Shackles.

Morgana

• Black Shield
  • Cooldown increased to 16 seconds from 14.
  • Duration reduced to 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 seconds from 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14.
• Tormented Soil
  • Ability power ratio reduced to 1 from 1.5.
• Dark Binding
  • Fixed a bug that was causing it to deal double base damage.
  • It no longer does half duration to close range units.
  • Duration modified to 3 / 3.25 / 3.5 / 3.75 / 4 seconds from 4.
  • Updated the tooltip to make more sense/show the correct ability power ratio.
  • Damage reduced to 60 / 120 / 210 / 280 / 400 from 80 / 160 / 240 / 320 / 400.

Singe

• Stats
  • Movement speed increased to 315 from 310.
  • Armor gain per level increased to 3.5 from 3.
  • Base armor increased to 18 from 14.
• Poison Trail
  • Damage increased to 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 from 18 / 27 / 36 / 45 / 54.

Tristana

• Rocket Jump
  • Damage reduced to 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 from 60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300.

Twisted Fate

• Wild Cards
  • Sped up animation speeds so it occurs more fluidly.
• Destiny
  • Cooldown increased to 100 / 85 / 70 / 55 / 40 from 90 / 75 / 60 / 45 / 30.
  • Fixed a bug with Gate that caused you to teleport in 2 seconds instead of 3.

Twitch

• Ambush
  • Slow reduced to 30% from 35%.

Warwick

• Infinite Duress
  • Warwick can no longer be disabled while using this ability.

Summoner Spells

Clairvoyance

• Added a new particle which will allow you to see Clairvoyance above terrain (so no more hiding them in the terrain).

Items

• Fixed a bug where certain item effects would persist past selling the item: Glacial Shroud, Spirit Visage, Infinity Edge, Stinger, Banshee's Veil, Guardian Angel.
• Fixed a bug that caused Warden's Mail to get bonus damage from ability power.
• Made new Recommended items for: Annie, Cardmaster, Chronokeeper, Evelynn, Morgana Le, Fiddlesticks, Master Yi, Ryze, Sion, Sivir, Soraka, Tristana, and Nunu.

Abyssal Scepter

• Ability power reduced to 60 from 70.
• Magic resist reduced to 60 from 70.

Archangel's Staff

• Ability power reduced to 45 from 50.
• Combine cost increased to 1000 from 775.

Atma's Impaler

• Armor reduced to 60 from 65.
• Critical strike chance reduced to 20% from 25%.

Bag of Tea

• Removed.

Berserker's Greaves

• Attack speed reduced to 25% from 30%.

Boots of Speed

• Cost increased to 350 from 250.

Doran's Blade

• Health reduced to 130 from 150
• Cost reduced to 435 from 475.

Doran's Ring

• Effect changed to +3 Mana Regen per 5 sec from +80 Mana.
• Health reduced to 130 from 150.
• Cost reduced to 435 from 475.

Doran's Shield

• Health reduced to 130 from 150
• Cost reduced to 435 from 475.

Emblem of Valor

• Life steal increased to 17% from 15%.

Frozen Mallet

• Damage reduced to 20 from 30.

Guardian Angel

• Armor reduced to 75 from 80.
• Magic resist reduced to 40 from 45.
• Fixed a bug which allowed you to respawn an infinite number of times with no cooldown.

Innervating Locket

• Combine cost reduced to 500 from 600.

Lich Bane

• Recoded to make it unable to crit.

Madred's Razors

• New Recipe: Long Sword + Cloth Armor + 285 = 1000
  • Old Recipe: Dagger + Dagger + 180 = 1020
• Fixed a bug which caused its proc to give you double gold.
• Bonus proc damage reduced to 500 from 1500 (to reduce the benefit of neutral farming).
• Effect made Unique.

Mejai's Soulstealer

• Ability power increased to 70 from 65.

Ninja Tabi

• Armor increased to 25 from 20.
• Dodge chance increased to 11% from 10%.

Phage

• Combine cost increased to 400 from 300.

Phantom Dancer

• Attack speed reduced to 45% from 50%.
• Critical strike chance reduced to 30% from 32%.

Renewal Tunic

• Armor increased to 24 from 20.

Rod of Ages

• Combine cost increased to 865 from 665.

Sheen

• Ability power reduced to 25 from 30.
• Mana reduced to 250 from 275.
• Recoded to make it unable to crit.

Sorcerer's Shoes

• Ability power reduced to 33 from 35.

Soul Shroud

• Health reduced to 600 from 650.
• Combine cost increased to 650 from 600.

Spirit Visage

• Magic resist reduced to 45 from 50.
• Health regen per 5 reduced to 30 from 35.

The Black Cleaver

• Damage reduced to 75 from 80.

The Bloodthirster

• Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
• Damage cap reduced to 40 from 60.
• Life steal cap reduced to 10% from 15%.

Thornmail

• Temporarily removed.

Tiamat

• Damage reduced to 40 from 45.
• Health regen per 5 seconds reduced to 22 from 25.
• Mana regen per 5 seconds reduced to 7 from 8.

Warden's Mail

• Stun modified to 1 second to all units from 0.5 sec against ranged units only.

Warmog's Armor:

• Max Health stack increased to 500 from 400.
• Health Regen per 5 cap increased to 62.5 from 50.

Wit's End

• Recipe cost increased to 800 from 600.

Neutral Minions

• Ancient Golem
  • Added a hit effect.
• Lizard Elder
  • No longer has a buff that says it has silencing attacks.
• Reduced all non-epic neutral minion gold yield by ~ 10%.
• Reduced all non-epic neutral minion experience yield by ~ 10%.

General

• Updated death timers to be 20 – 85 (based on level).
• Max cooldown reduction increased to 35% from 30%.
• Removed aura from rider minions.
• Regeneration rate from the fountain increased to 8.5 from 7.5.
• Global exp granted by turrets reduced to 300 from 400.
• Fixed a few icon bugs.
• Fixed lua error with slash.
• Basic minion gold yield growth reduced by 50%.
• Added new siege minion and super minion models.
• Gold bounty for assists increased to 75% from 50%.
• Enhanced pathfinding.
• Health bar priority improved. Should now be easier to see enemy health bars.

Patch History in League of Legends

League of Legends content

Headbutt

COOLDOWN: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10

Active: Alistar dashes to the target enemy, dealing magic damage, stunning, and knocking them back.

League of Legends content

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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Hate Spike

COOLDOWN: 4

Active: Evelynn fires her Lasher, dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit and marking them. Evelynn's next few attacks against the marked target will deal bonus magic damage.

Recast: Evelynn shoots a line of spikes toward the target enemy, dealing magic damage to all enemies hit. She may recast up to 3 times.

Removed content

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Shadow Walk

Removed content

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Empower

COOLDOWN: 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3

Active: Jax empowers his next basic attack or Leap Strike against an enemy to deal bonus magic damage.

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Alpha Strike

COOLDOWN: 20 / 19.5 / 19 / 18.5 / 18

Active: Master Yi briefly vanishes and marks the target enemy, then rapidly marks up to 3 other nearby enemies. If there are no other eligible targets before then, Master Yi can mark the same enemies again.

Upon finishing marking, he reappears and detonates the marks, dealing physical damage and applying on-hit effects. Subsequent marks on a target have less effect.

Basic attacks  reduce Alpha Strike's cooldown.

Removed content

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Intervention

COOLDOWN: 100 / 90 / 80

Shields Kayle or an ally for a short time, causing them to be immune to damage.

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Meditate

COOLDOWN: 10

Active: Master Yi channels for a few seconds, rapidly healing himself based on his missing health.

While channeling, Master Yi gains damage reduction, pauses Wuju Style's and Highlander's duration, and gains one stack of Double Strike per second.

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Highlander

COOLDOWN: 85

Passive: Scoring a champion takedown massively  reduces the current cooldowns of Master Yi's basic abilities.

Active: Master Yi cleanses himself from all slows and cripples and gains ghosting,  bonus attack speed,  bonus movement speed, slow immunity, and cripple immunity all for the next few seconds.

While active, scoring a champion takedown extends Highlander's duration by a few seconds.

League of Legends content

Soul Shackles

COOLDOWN: 120 / 110 / 100

Active: Morgana latches chains of energy onto nearby enemy champions, dealing magic damage and forming a tether between herself and each target for a short time, during which the targets are revealed and slowed, and Morgana gains  bonus movement speed.

If a target maintains the tether after its duration, they are dealt the same magic damage and become briefly revealed and stunned.

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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.

Removed content

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Tormented Soil

COOLDOWN: 12

Infects an area with desecrated soil, causing enemy units who stand on the location to take continual damage.

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Dark Binding

COOLDOWN: 10

Active: Morgana throws a sphere of dark magic in the target direction that deals magic damage to the first enemy hit and roots them for a "short time".

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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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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 detonate Explosive Charge at max stacks on a champion, it will  reset Rocket Jump's cooldown.

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Wild Cards

COOLDOWN: 6 / 5.75 / 5.5 / 5.25 / 5

Active: Twisted Fate throws a fan of three cards in the target direction that each deal magic damage to enemies hit.

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Destiny

COOLDOWN: 160 / 130 / 100

Active: Twisted Fate marks all enemy champions, revealing them for a few seconds. Destiny can be recast within the duration.

Recast - Gate: Twisted Fate briefly channels before blinking to the target location, destroying all incoming projectiles.

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Destiny

COOLDOWN: 160 / 130 / 100

Active: Twisted Fate marks all enemy champions, revealing them for a few seconds. Destiny can be recast within the duration.

Recast - Gate: Twisted Fate briefly channels before blinking to the target location, destroying all incoming projectiles.

League of Legends content

Ambush

COOLDOWN: 16

Active: Twitch becomes camouflaged for some time, gaining  bonus movement speed, increased while facing enemy champions that cannot see him.

Upon breaking stealth, Twitch gains  bonus attack speed for a few seconds.

When an enemy champion dies while afflicted with Deadly Venom, Ambush's cooldown is  reset.

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Infinite Duress

COOLDOWN: 110 / 90 / 70

Active: Warwick leaps a huge distance and stops on the first champion he collides with, suppressing them while channeling for a brief time. He mauls them over the duration, dealing magic damage and  healing for 100% of the damage dealt.

The leap's distance scales with Warwick's  movement speed and he gains crowd control immunity during.

Infinite Duress applies on-hit effects 3 times and  life steal.

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