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Patch 25.21 Preview!
I don't know about y'all, but we're SO F***ING EXCITED for Worlds to start in 5 hours from now , kicking off with T1 vs IG elimination round.
Systems
- This patch seeks to make Mid lane in particular a bit more interactive through nerfs to second wind, dorans shield, a small nerf to Catalyst (we still like it being strong as a situational option for typically immobile mages to hold off Assassins/Skirmishers)
- We acknowledge that this is probably going to require some follow up adjustments to Top lane lane dominant champions, and we're starting with a pre-emptive nerf to Quinn
- We wanted to be cautious as these changes would have wide ranging impacts for the playoffs metas and so feel more comfortable making these changes now
Gwen
- Despite our best efforts, our Gwen changes haven't had the effect we desired
- So we're going to be reverting the vast majority of the Gwen changes
- We wanted to apologize for the Gwen community for the whiplash over the changes
Qiyana
- Qiyana has still been posting a bit too strong numbers in Elite in both Jungle and Mid, so we're tapping her down a bit more (Jungle especially more so)
Yunara
- While Yunara has still been relatively popular in higher levels of play on her current tuning, we're wanting to embrace some of the parts of her kit that are a little underwhelming
- The changes this patch attempt to try to make W max 2nd a more reasonable way to play her that makes her a bit less binary
- Secondly, we're changing E from being a decaying movespeed buff to be static
- Both of these changes are intended to make her a little easier to play, while still keeping the top end pop off moments that she's known for
Yone
- Yone has been a little worse for wear for regular players and DShield Second Wind was the main thing that was keeping him up
- With those items being nerfed, we're buffing Yone up a bit
