League of Legends Patch 7.4 comes out tomorrow, which means Riot just released its patch notes. Patch 7.3 was about nerfing meta dominant champions, but I guess it wasn’t enough. Maokai, Jhin and Ryze are all getting minor nerfs to (hopefully) bring them in line with over champion’s power levels.
Lethality was buffed a few patches ago and it seems like it’s been a bit too powerful. AD Champions, like Jhin and Camille, still deal too much damage, so their weapons are getting dulled. To compensate, Last Whisper is going to destroy more armor, making dominant tanks just a bit less powerful. Nautilus can tank 31 tower shots, but now he shouldn’t be able to 1v5.
Here are the changes for League of Legends Patch 7.4, broken up into buffs and nerfs.
Buffs
Cho’Gath
[UPDATED] R - Feast Changes to the rules around Feast stacks. FOOD MEMORY :: Cho’Gath no longer loses Feast stacks on death FEED THE VOID :: Feast can now stack infinitely (only five stacks can be gained from minions and non-epic monsters, though they don’t have to be the first five) NOT THAT FILLING :: Feast no longer heals Cho’Gath when it kills a unit at max stacks (nomming a sixth minion or non-epic monster doesn’t do anything beyond damage) INDISCRIMINATE DIGESTION :: Feast no longer grants two stacks on champion kill or half mana and cooldown refund on minion kill FOOD CRITIC :: Feast’s tooltip on the buff bar now tracks what Cho’s eaten
All the other stuff.
RATIO :: 0.7 ability power >>> 0.5 ability power and 10 percent bonus health
BONUS HEALTH PER STACK :: 100/140/180 >>> 80/110/140
BONUS HEALTH AT 6 STACKS :: 600/840/1080 >>> 480/660/840
MAXIMUM ATTACK RANGE BONUS :: +50 (175 attack range) >>> +75 (200 attack range)
LET’S NOT GO CRAZY HERE :: Cho’Gath reaches his maximum size (and bonus attack range) at 10 stacks
Bard
Passive - Traveler's Call
BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED :: 18 percent, plus 12 percent for each chime beyond the first >>> 24 percent, plus 14 percent for each chime beyond the first
MAX BONUS (5 CHIMES) :: 66 percent >>> 80 percent
Fervor of Battle
Stacks last longer.
STACK DURATION :: 6 seconds >>> 8 seconds
Nerfs
Corki
R - Missile Barrage Normal missile damage numbers: BASE DAMAGE :: 100/130/160 >>> 75/100/125 TOTAL ATTACK DAMAGE RATIO :: 20/60/100 percent >>> 15/45/75 percent ABILITY POWER RATIO :: 30 percent >>> 20 percent Big One damage numbers: BASE DAMAGE :: 150/195/240 >>> 150/200/250 TOTAL ATTACK DAMAGE RATIO :: 30/90/150 percent (unchanged)
ABILITY POWER RATIO :: 45 percent >>> 40 percent
#clarity:
AMMO RACK :: The number of missiles Corki has stored is now shown in his secondary resource bar. The resource bar turns red when the next missile is a Big One.
Jhin
R - Curtain Call
SLOW DURATION :: 0.75 seconds >>> 0.5 seconds
Katarina
Base stats
BASE MAGIC RESISTANCE :: 34 >>> 32
Maokai
Q - Arcane Smash
COST :: 45 mana at all ranks >>> 45/50/55/60/65 mana
E - Sapling Toss
[REMOVED] FAT SAPLINGS :: Saplings no longer deal damage when they land (they still draw jungle monster aggro)
Ryze (They are never going to get this guy right)
E - Essence Flux
Q BONUS DAMAGE VS FLUX’D TARGETS :: 40/55/70/85/100 percent >>> 40/50/60/70/80 percent
Youmuu's Ghostblade
LETHALITY :: 20 >>> 15
Somewhere In The Middle
The Black Cleaver
BUILD PATH :: Phage + Caulfield's Warhammer + 850 gold (3100 total) >>> Phage + Kindlegem + 950 gold (3000 total)
HEALTH :: 300 >>> 400
ATTACK DAMAGE :: 50 >>> 40
Last Whisper
BUILD PATH :: Pickaxe + 425 gold (1300 total) >>> Long Sword + 950 gold (1300 total)
BONUS ARMOR PENETRATION :: 30 percent >>> 45 percent
ATTACK DAMAGE :: 25 >>> 10
Giant Slayer
PASSIVE :: Deal +1 percent physical damage per ||| 50 >>> 100 maximum health difference against targets with greater max health than you (up to +10 percent)
MAXIMUM BONUS THRESHOLD :: 500 max health difference >>> 1000 max health difference
Knight’s Vow
BUILD PATH :: Crystalline Bracer + Crystalline Bracer + Cloth Armor + 700 gold (2300 total) >>> Crystalline Bracer + Chain Vest + 850g (2300 total)
ARMOR :: 20 >>> 40
BONUS ARMOR WHEN LINKED :: 40 >>> 20
TETHER RANGE :: 900 >>> 1000
Warlord’s Bloodlust
MAXIMUM BONUS :: 20 percent >>> 15 percent
Other Changes
Traps can no longer be disabled, meaning Teemo will fill your nightmares for the rest of your League of Legends career.
Slight tweaks to the Mastery tree that are so minimal only Diamond players are going to notice them. You shouldn’t have to redo your masteries after the change.
The person who reveals the ward gets the same amount of gold as the one who killed it.
You get more experience from a kill or around higher leveled team mates when you are behind.
Turret first blood gives 25 more gold.
You can finally play Cho’Gath again.
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