League of Legends: Wild Rift has received one of its biggest content updates for 2022. Patch 3.1 brings two new Champions, Karma and Shen. A lot of balancing changes have also been implemented, including for certain Champions and Summoner Spells, among others.
New Champions
Karma and Shen are the latest Champions to join the fray. Karma, the Enlightened One, deserves a special mention because her abilities are slightly different from the PC version.
First, her Mantra ultimate on PC is now her passive in Wild Rift. Every time she casts one of her abilities, she gains a stack of Mantra. At three stacks, her next ability is empowered.
Inner Flame sends a blast of energy that deals damage and slows enemies. When empowered, a small field spawns at the point of impact that explodes and deals damage a couple of seconds after.
Her Focused Resolve ability now tethers up to two nearby Champions. If the affected enemy Champions fail to escape after a few seconds, they are rooted for a short time. When empowered, it creates an additional tether between enemies, which can lead to creative setups. When the tethers are not broken in time, the enemy Champions are rooted for a longer time.
For Shen, you can learn more about his abilities here.
Aside from the new Champions, the developers will allow you to test the first version of Elemental Rift in a limited-time game mode. It will be available to play from March 31 at 8 p.m EST until April 10 at 7:59 p.m EST.
Highlights
- Base Stats
- Armor reduced to 45
- Armor per level reduced to 4.7
- Overdrive
- First cast: Gains 50/55/60/65% movement speed, decaying to 10% over 1.5 seconds, the total duration of the cast is 2.5 seconds
- Second cast: Gains 140/150/160/170% movement speed, decaying to 25% over 1.5 seconds. Decaying starts after 0.5 seconds
- Alpha Strike
- Master Yi becomes untargetable and strikes up to 4 enemies near his target, dealing 25/70/115/160 + 100% AD Physical Damage to all enemies hit by 4 strikes
- [NEW EFFECT]: If there are no other targets, this ability can strike the same enemy unit repeatedly, dealing 25% damage with each subsequent strike
- Attacks reduce the cooldown of Alpha Strike by 1 second
- Deals 90/125/160/195 bonus damage to minions and monsters
- This ability can Crit, dealing 60% bonus damage
- Movement speed slow changed to 60% decaying slow over the duration
- Cooldown reduced to 100 seconds
- [NEW] Effects are increased by 100% on the most wounded nearby ally champion
- Ally heal: 120-484; ally movement speed: 40%
- Base heal calculation changed to 60-242 (60+20/level to 37+13/level)
- Base movement speed reduced to 20%
- Cooldown increased to 130 seconds
League of Legends: Wild Rift Patch 3.1 is available on Android and iOS.
