Patch Notes 13.20

DRAGON SLAYER

Drakes currently offer a sizable amount of stats that the winning team generally gets access to. While contesting drakes is valuable to the game in both solo queue and Pro play, we believe there’s room to reduce the amount of stats that the Dragon Slayer stacks give, and to buff the souls to incentivize still taking them. We’re not including Chemtech among these changes since the power level of the Dragon Slayer stack and the soul is already in a reasonable state.

• Cloud Drake: 7% slow resistance and out-of-combat movement speed ⇒ 5% slow resistance and out-of-combat movement speed
• Hextech Drake: 7.5 ability haste and 7.5% bonus attack speed ⇒ 5 ability haste and 5% bonus attack speed
• Infernal Drake: 5% attack damage and ability power ⇒ 3% attack damage and ability power
• Mountain Drake: 8% bonus armor and magic resistance ⇒ 5% bonus armor and magic resistance
• Ocean Drake: restore 2.5% missing health every 5 seconds ⇒ restore 2% missing health every 5 seconds

DRAGON SOUL

• Cloud Drake: 15% bonus movement speed ⇒ 20% bonus movement speed
• Hextech Drake: 40% base slow (30% for ranged champions) ⇒ 45% base slow (35% for ranged champions)
• Infernal Drake: 80 base adaptive damage for explosion ⇒ 100 base adaptive damage for explosion
• Mountain Drake: 180 base shield after not taking damage for 5 seconds ⇒ 220 base shield after not taking damage for 5 seconds
• Ocean Drake: 130 base heal, 80 base mana regeneration ⇒ 150 base heal, 100 base mana regeneration

RIFT HERALD

Rift Herald contributes plenty to snowballed game states due to the large amount of gold on kill, the empowered recall, and the Herald itself solidifying leads (not to mention the tower plate gold it can potentially secure). We believe there’s room to reduce the amount of reward that it gives, and we’re targeting the local gold amount to limit the amount of gold the jungler receives both when soloing it and when taking it with a teammate.

• Local Gold Given: 200 ⇒ 100

BARON NASHOR

Baron is currently too reliable to take safely and too fast to burst down due to the increased damage and durability in the game. This gives the winning team access to a very decisive objective post-20 minutes, and increasing its health will prevent Baron from being bursted down quickly, making the objective more contestable for the other team.

• Base Health: 12600 ⇒ 15000 (Note: health scaling of +180 health per minute is unchanged)

DEATH TIMER ADJUSTMENTS

As part of reducing overall snowballing, we’ll be reducing early death timers, as dying once in lane can be quite punishing today. Aside from the gold/experience reward on kill, one’s opponent can often get a minion advantage, turret plates, get closer to securing the first turret gold bonus, and then recall to get an item lead. Reducing the death timers is intended to reduce access to those post-kill rewards since players will be getting back to lane sooner.

• Level 1 Death Timer: 6 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds (unchanged)
• Level 2 Death Timer: 8 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds
• Level 3 Death Timer: 10 seconds ⇒ 8 seconds
• Level 4 Death Timer: 12 seconds ⇒ 8 seconds
• Level 5 Death Timer: 14 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds
• Level 6 Death Timer: 16 seconds ⇒ 12 seconds
• Level 7 Death Timer: 21 seconds ⇒ 16 seconds
• Level 8 Death Timer: 27.5 seconds ⇒ 21 seconds
• Level 9 Death Timer: 30 seconds ⇒ 26 seconds

TURRET PLATING

Similar to the reasoning for the death timer adjustments, we’re also reducing turret plate gold as a way to reduce the amount of rewards ahead players can get access to. This amount of gold should still be satisfying and rewarding in the event a player can get a turret plate, but won’t be as detrimental to the opposing laner.

• Gold per Plate: 175 ⇒ 125