With League of Legends Season 14 kicking off and Patch 14.1 live on servers, we’ve already gotten a sneak peek at PBE Patch 14.2. We’re here to tell you everything, including Buffs, Nerves, Skins and anything else you could ask for!
The League of Legends season has just started. With several major changes brought by patch 14.1, the excitement won’t stop with the next patch. In patch 14.2, we also made many adjustments, including some important and unique ones for Twisted Fate and Briar. So, let’s dive straight into it.
LoL Patch 14.2: champion changes
Patch 14.2 brings several champion changes, especially at the start of the new season. While most are quality of life improvements, more adjustments are expected as the season progresses. They aim in particular to increase the side lane potential of certain champions, thus adding an interesting dynamic to the game.
Champion Adjustments
Changes in AD Twisted Fate
Champion designer Max (Riot Yelough) has released some pretty cool changes for Twisted Fate. By expanding its item options, Riot wants TF to be more versatile and encourage its AD build. While they adjust it, they still intend for its AP version to remain its base version.
- Base attack speed reduced from 0.651 to 0.625
- Attack speed per level reduced from 3.22% to 3.0%
- Passive can now Critical Strike → TF rolls an additional 6-sided die weighted towards 1 instead of 6
- Q AD report added → 50%
- W Improvements:
- Locking “Choose a Card” (W) now resets auto attack timer
- I can now effect inhibitors and Nexus
- The blue/red/gold card can now Critical Strike
- Blue Card → 57.5%
- Red card → 35%
- Gold Card → 25%
- E Changes:
- Bonus attack speed increased by 10/17.5/25/32.5/40% to 10/22.5/35/47.5/60%
- AD report added → 75%
- can affect turrets Now to 50% efficiency
- “Stacked deck” (E) is fully stacked when qualified
Heather | Assassin build nerfs, Bruiser build buffs
Some experimental Briar modifications were added to the PBE, attempting to transition her from her Lethality/Crit version to a Bruiser version.
- Passive:
- Healing amplifier increased from 0.5% per 1% HP missing to 0.4% (+0.03% per 100/bonus health) for 1% missing HP
- Bleeding tick rate adjusted from 1 second per tick to 0.5 seconds per tick
- Changes Q:
- NOW applies effects to impact and lifesteal
- Damage: 60-180 (+80% AD bonus) physical damage modified to 60-180(+80% Bonus AD)(+60% AP) magic damage
- Shred: 10 to 20% armor changed to 10-20% armor and MR
- Changes:
- Healing per bite increased from 36% to 60% of damage dealt to 25-45% of damage dealt + 5% of Briar’s max HP
- W can no longer inflict a critical hit with 5-65(+5% AD) bonus damage
Jax
- W now deals 50% damage to structures.
- R on impact now deals 50% damage to structures.
Champion Buffs
Riot will buff a group of champions that lost some power with the item change for this season of League of Legends. In some cases for this patch, Riot will also adjust champions whose new items have been heavily nerfed to compensate for the power loss.
- Ahri
- Camille
- Darius
- Ezreal
- We are
- Gragas
- Gwen
- Hey
- Illaoi
- Karma
- Karthus
- Shen
- Weigh
For Illaoi, Riot is going to have to make more than a few number adjustments, as the team looks to make some improvements to his tentacle placement in the top lane.
Volibear
- Q now has a bonus attack range of 25
Gragas
- W now deals 50% damage to structures.
Aatrox
- Passive attack is no longer disruptible
Cho’Gath
- R now grants 2.5 casting range per stack to R (up to 25).
Truckle bed
- Q now has a bonus attack range of 25
Champion Nerves
Some champions just rocked with the new items right off the bat, but some are a little too good, which is why Riot is looking to nerf some of the outliers in the top tier of champions. The list is much shorter than the buffs list, but you’ll definitely be happy to see some names getting nerfed, that’s for sure.
- Lightning crank
- Sparkle
- Scold
- Teemo
LoL Patch 14.2 Preview: Item Changes and System Changes
Burst has increased, while snowball has actually decreased since LoL patch 13.24. Riot Phroxzon explains that he thinks this could be due to the game’s high volatility. While teams can snowball, they can also be destroyed just as quickly, meaning the snowball is no longer as strong as she once was.
Item Improvements
In this League of Legends patch, Riot will improve only a few underperforming elements that have not yet reached their full potential.
- Horizon Focus
- Steel seal
- Stride Breaker
Item Nerves
Riot will try to reduce the amount of burst in the game and will nerf a few of our favorite burst mage items.
- Blood Song
- Frozen Heart
- Vulnerability Creator
- Storm surge
Riot will also be significantly nerfing the dual support item meta in this League of Legends patch. We can also expect additional nerfs to support items on the Rift, or at least to how the World Atlas works, so that players can’t abuse the item to gain more gold, in especially in the bottom lane.
Rune Changes
The rune changes in patch 14.2 are bigger than they seem.
Rune Slot
- the second slot now exchanges armor and MR fragments for 2.5% movement speed And 10-150 health points fragments
- the third slot replaces armor and MR fragments with 60 hp flat And 10% slow resistance and tenacitywhile keeping the health growth fragment
Unshakeable
- Now grants 2-10 armor and MR bonuses during CC and 2 seconds after, instead slowing resistance and tenacity based on missing HP.
LoL PBE Patch 14.2: new LoL skins
With the reveal of a new patch, Riot Games is of course also ready to squeeze money out of you for some skins. This time they have a new line of skins up their sleeves!
Primal Ambush
With patch 14.2 we’ll be getting some pretty cool furry skins, I mean, Primal Ambush. These champions will receive one:
These fall into the category of Epic Skins and therefore cost 1350 RP.
When will the new Champion Smolder be released?
With patch 14.3 on February 7, we will be able to welcome the brand new and long-awaited ADC to Bottom Lane: Smolder, the Fiery Fledgling! The League of Legends season has just started. With several huge changes in patches 14.1 and 14.2, the excitement won’t stop in the next patch.
While Smolder has been on the PBE since January 8 and patch 14.1, Riot has confirmed that Smolder is coming to live servers with patch 14.3. As already mentioned, Smolder will be the next ADC after a year and a half since Nilah’s release. . While we wait for his release, you can check out the link below if you are interested in what he is capable of:
Patch 14.2 will be released on January 24. Until then, we will keep you informed of other changes that will be added to the PBE.
More content for Season 14: