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League of Legends 11.9 Patch Notes are here, bringing nerfs to Hecarim

League of Legends 11.9 Patch Notes are here, bringing nerfs to Hecarim
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League of Legends 11.9 Patch Notes are here, bringing nerfs to Hecarim

The League of Legends 11.9 Patch Notes are here, and the patch was deployed in the early hours of Wednesday.

This patch it full of tiny changes to base stats and adding scaling, the only real sizable change is to Hecarim.

Diana

Diana's Jungle buffs were a little too much. Her Armor Growth is being lowered by 0.5, and her Health Regen is being lowered too.

The Bonus Attack Speed she gains from her (P) Moonsilver Blade is being reduced at early levels too.

Dr. Mundo

In a similar way to Diana, the buffs to put Mundo into the Toplane again were too much.

Both his Armor Growth and Attack Damage Growth has been reduced by 0.5.

Garen

Garen's (W) Courage is making him too tanky when combined with Mythic Items, so his (W) passive will give less resistances per stack, but the stack cap has been increased; basically helping to smooth the curve.

Gragas

Being a triple flex in competitive play, Riot are wanting to take Gragas down a notch. The Base Damage on (E) Body Slam has been lowered at later levels.

Hecarim

One of the larger changes this patch, Hecarim is having some of his base defences lowered, and more scaling put into his abilities to encourage more damage-oriented builds.

Armor lowered but Armor Growth increased to make up for is.
(E) Devastating Charge damage lowered across all levels, both Minimum Base Damage and Maximum Base Damage.
(Q) Rampage is having the Damage Amplification per stack lowered, however it will not scale with his bonus Attack Damage.
(W) Spirit of Dread will also now provide healing which scales with his Bonus Attack Damage. Hecarim will now receive lower healing from damage done by allies too.

Heimerdinger

Heimer is having the damage lowered on his (W) Hextech Micro-Rockets at all levels.

Jinx

Apparently it was a bug, but Fishbones was doing 200% splash damage on crits, rather than the intended 175%.

Kayn

In an attempt to bring the Darkin in line with the Shadow Assassin, the damage modifier on (Q) Reaping Slash is being increased to 65% of Total Attack Damage when in Darkin form.

Kindred

Cooldown decrease, as well as Base Damage increased at later levels, on (Q) Dance of Arrows.

Kog'Maw

Kog is having some more power in his utility, with the cost of (E) Void Ooze being decreased by 20 mana at all levels, as well as the resistances reduction on (Q) Caustic Spittle being increased by 5% at all levels.

Lulu

A buff to (W) Whimsy to help bring Lulu more power early in the game. A slight decrease on cooldown at all levels, as well as increased Bonus Attack Speed when cast on an ally at early levels.

Morgana

Just like Diana, Morgana was over-tuned for the Jungle. The damage against Monsters is being capped at 185%, from 200%, on her (W) Tormented Shadow.

Rumble

Rumble was buffed to help him gain power in the Toplane, but now it seems its just made him stronger in the Midlane; where they wanted him to leave.

The on-hit damage from (P) Junkyard Titan is being lowered, with lower scaling too.

Sett

Sett was last touched in 10.18 where he was taking over too many roles. They're now bringing him back in line again.

Damage ratio on both (W) Haymaker and (R) The Show Stopper have been increased.

Shen

Shen is now gaining more shield on his (R) Stand United, as it will now scale with his Bonus Health; rewarding tanky Shen builds.

Taric

Enemies that leave the map (like Elise's (E) Rappel) will now longer gain the benefits from Taric's (W) Bastion tether.

The mana cost on (Q) Starlight's Touch has also been reduced at later levels.

Trundle

Slow on (E) Pillar of Ice increased at early levels, making up for the nerf in Season 8.

Vladimir

Cooldown on (Q) Transfusion increased at later levels, just to help keep his power in a happy place.

Xerath

In true 'Riot has a skin coming out soon, better buff the Champion' fashion, Xerath is gaining a couple of buffs.

Base Damage on his (Q) Arcanopulse is being decreased slightly, but the scaling is being increased to 85%.

The Base Damages on (W) Eye of Destruction are also being decreased slightly at early levels, but increased later.

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Dead Man's Plate

Clearly, Riot have learnt to no be fans of Movement Speed items; especially with Udyr and Hecarim dominating the meta.

The Health given from Dead Man's is being reduced.

Death's Dance

Death's Dance has been a little too weak, especially when compared to other items.

Attack Damage and Armor increased by 5.

Moonstone Renewer

The recent changes let a little to be desired, so the base healing from Starlit Grace is being increased to 70.

Prowler's Claw

To help with combos, the targeting system has been changed. It now looks for a target in the following order:

Nearest champion within 50 units of the cursor -> nearest non-champion within 50 units of the cursor -> nearest champion within 200 units of cursor -> nearest non-champion within 200 units of cursor.

This is to help with the quick combos, as it previously only targeted enemies directly under the cursor which led to misclicks.

Sunfire Aegis

It has been held back too much, mostly in fear of creating another Sunfire meta, but the Immolate damage is being bumped up.

Turbo Chemtank

Too many engage Junglers are in the meta, and this item is to blame.

The Bonus Movement Speed is being decreased by 20.

Wit's End

Like Death's Dance, this has seemed too niche; and too weak even in the right scenarios.

It is gaining 10 more Attack Damage, and the build path is being changed to include a Long Sword instead of a Dagger, and will also be 50 Gold cheaper; overall cost stays the same.

The Ranked Split is also coming to an end, so players need to get the points needed by May 3rd if they want Split 1's rewards. Split 2 will feature Gwen in the rewards.

The Damwon Gaming Worlds Skins are due to release on April 29th, along with the Conqueror Jax skin.

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