Season Three

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Season Three (also Season 3) is the third annual cycle of competitive League of Legends. The Pre-Season started on November 20, 2012. Pre-Season Three began on December 4, 2012, with the release of patch V1.0.0.152, almost four weeks after the release of the previous patch (V1.0.0.151). The first patch of the season introduced the champion Nami, a new set of masteries, the removal, remake and addition of items, the removal of the summoner spells Surge and Promote, and the addition of Barrier to Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline. The Pre-Season ended and the Season proper began on February 1, 2013. The Season 3 World Championship took place at the Los Angeles convention center on October 4–6, 2013.

New Features

• New champions
• New masteries
• New and remade items
• The addition of the Gifting Center
• A new League system
• New smart pings (Radial Menu)
• League of Legends Open Beta for Mac
• Restricted Chat Mode
• A new map for tutorial and ARAM games: Howling Abyss

Notable Game Changes

Summoner's Rift

• Gold adjustments
  • Ambient gold gain increased to 16 per 10 seconds from 13 per 10 seconds - gold gained from farming lane minions and jungle monsters have been slightly reduced to compensate.
• Melee Minion:
  • Base gold value reduced to 20 from 22.
• Ranged Minion:
  • Base gold value reduced to 15 from 16.
• Siege Minion:
  • Base gold value increased to 40 from 27.
  • Scaling gold value based on time increased to 1 from 0.5.
  • Minion gold values now update more often on a 90-second interval instead of 180.
• Kill and Death streak adjustment
  • Kill Streak bonus now caps at 500, down from 600.
  • Kill Streaks and Death Streaks now accelerate faster by roughly 50%.
    • Example: A player with a 4 kill streak will be worth 500 - compared to before which required an 8 kill streak.
    • Example: A player with a 4 death streak will be worth 126 - compared to before which required a 6 death streak.
• Assist Gold
  • The bonus gold added for multiple players participating in a kill has been reduced to 150% from 158%.
• Jungle:
  • Initial difficulty of all jungle camps has been increased.
  • Camp difficulty and rewards have been re-distributed more into the large monster in each camp.
  • Scaling difficulty and rewards of the primary jungle camps have been **significantly increased.
  • Overall rewards have been re-distributed between the 3 primary jungle camps (Wolves, Wraiths, Golems) to better match their difficulty and convenience.
  • New jungle items have been added to the store and old jungle items have been adjusted.
• Leashing has been changed:
  • Jungle monsters now attack the closest target rather than chasing their original target.
  • Whenever jungle monsters switch targets it counts as a “leash” - the maximum amount of leashes after which jungle monsters will reset has been increased to 10 from 3.
  • Jungle monsters now deal 50% bonus damage to non-champions (ex: Malzahar's Summon Voidling, Shaco's Jack in the Box). Initial difficulty of all jungle camps has been increased.
• The "Banking" system has been removed.

Items

• Removed:
  • The following items have been removed and any items that built out of them have had their recipe changed:
    • Meki Pendant
    • Regrowth Pendant
    • Force of Nature
    • Ionic Spark
    • Cloak and Dagger
    • Elixir of Agility
    • Leviathan
    • Soul Shroud
    • Heart of Gold
    • Madred's Bloodrazor
    • Malady
• Reworked:
  • The following items have been changed and have had their passives and statistics modified:
    • Phantom Dancer
    • Moonflair Spellblade
    • Zeke's Herald
    • Guardian Angel
    • Lich Bane
    • Eleisa's Miracle
    • Randuin's Omen
    • Deathfire Grasp
    • Guinsoo's Rageblade
    • Tiamat
    • The Black Cleaver
    • Tear of the Goddess
    • Archangel's Staff
    • Manamune
    • Executioner's Calling
    • Morellonomicon
    • Warmog's Armor
    • Avarice Blade
    • Aegis of the Legion
    • Hextech Gunblade
    • Spirit Visage
    • Zhonya's Hourglass
    • Fiendish Codex
• New items:
  • Jungle-Focused:
    • Hunter's Machete
    • Spirit Stone
    • Spirit of the Ancient Golem
    • Spirit of the Spectral Wraith
    • Spirit of the Elder Lizard
  • Support-Focused:
    • Shard of True Ice
    • Mikael's Crucible
    • Banner of Command
    • Twin Shadows
  • Attack-Focused:
    • Runaan's Hurricane
    • Blade of the Ruined King
    • Zephyr
    • Sword of the Divine
    • Mercurial Scimitar
    • Liandry's Torment
    • Statikk Shiv
    • Ravenous Hydra
  • Defense-Focused:
    • Iceborn Gauntlet
    • Ohmwrecker
    • Runic Bulwark
    • Seeker's Armguard
    • Guardian's Horn
  • Charged Items:
    • Crystalline Flask
    • Sightstone
    • Ruby Sightstone

Boot Upgrades

• All Tier 2 boots can now be upgraded further with an enchantment for a gold cost – All Tier 2 boots share from the same pool of enchantments.
  • Enchantment - Alacrity: Increases movement speed by 15.
  • Enchantment - Furor: Dealing damage to a champion with a single target attack or spell grants you a movement speed boost that decays over 2 seconds.
  • Enchantment - Distortion: Your Ghost, Teleport and Flash cooldowns are reduced by a percentage.
  • Enchantment - Captain: Allied champions moving towards you gain a movement speed boost. Additionally, nearby allied minions gain a large movement speed bonus.
  • Enchantment - Homeguard: Being at fountain instantly restores your health and mana. Additionally, you gain a very large movement speed boost that decays over 8 seconds. This passive is disabled if you are in combat.

Summoner Spells

• Barrier made available to all maps.
• Surge and Promote have been disabled

Masteries

• Masteries have been reworked.
  • All Mastery Pages have been reset.

Runes

• Runes have been renamed to be more representative of their actual function (e.g. Mark of Desolation renamed to Mark of Armor Penetration).

Media

Season Three Login Music

References

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Patch History in League of Legends

Removed content

League of Legends content

Template:Data Malzahar/Summon Voidling

League of Legends content

Jack in the Box

COOLDOWN: 15

Active: Shaco summons a box at the target location that becomes stealthed after a short time.

The box will spring out upon enemy contact, fearing nearby enemies for a short time. Enemy champions hit are also briefly rooted.

The box will remain for a few seconds to automatically fire at nearby enemies, dealing magic damage that is increased when attacking only one enemy.

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Platform

• Microsoft Windows, macOS

Regular Map

• Summoner's Rift