Riot Games is releasing a small patch for Wild Rift and several champions and items are tweaked in this patch. The patch notes for Wild Rift Patch 2.1a have been revealed and here are the changes that will be implemented in the next update. Champions like Lulu and Miss Fortune are nerfed and Vayne has received a big buff.
WILD RIFT PATCH NOTES 2.1A:
Here are the patch notes for the upcoming update in Wild Rift. Many champions are balanced but some have heavily nerfed and buffed to adjust the current meta.
CHAMPION BALANCE:
NEW CHAMPION: Katarina
A new assassin champion is getting added to the game. Riot confirmed the release of Katarina in patch 2.1 and two more champions would be released later in this patch. This champion can be unlocked for free from a simple event that will be added later in-game.
ASHE
Ashe has received a small buff in this patch with the cooldowns reduced on one of her abilities.
(1) Ranger’s Focus
- Cooldown: 8/7/6/5s → 7/6/5/4s
DARIUS
Darius is being buffed a lot by making him more tanky with CC ability duration increase.
(1) Decimate
- Missing health heal %: 12 to 36% → 15 to 45%
(3) Apprehend
- Slow duration: 1s → 1.5s
EZREAL
Ezreal was nerfed in the last patch and to balance it out, the damage for one of his abilities is slightly changed.
(1) Mystic Shot
- Base damage: 20/50/80/110 → 20/55/90/125
LULU
Lulu was one of the overpowered champions and was spammed as a support main for almost every match. This champion provided large amounts of shield and hence, it has been heavily nerfed.
Base Stats
- Base health: 570 → 530
- Movement speed: 330 → 325
(2) Whimsy
- Polymorph duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2s → 1/1.25/1.5/1.75s
(3) Help, Pix!
- Shield duration: 5s → 2.5s
- Cast range: 7 → 6
(Ult) Wild Growth
- Cast range: 8 → 7
MISS FORTUNE
Miss Fortune was slightly tweaked by making her a bit squishy and changing her passive damage and healing.
Base Stats
- Base armor: 35 → 30
- Base health regen: 9 → 6
- Base health regen per level: 0.81 → 0.55
- 21 at level 15 → 14 at level 15
(P) Love Tap
- Love Tap Damage vs minions: 100% → 50%
- [BUGFIX] Love Tap Damage vs monsters: 50% (Unchanged – now in tooltip)
OLAF
Olaf is a high risk high reward champion and was considered as a powerful pick early game so Riot has nerfed him a little bit to balance the game.
Base Stats
- Base armor: 40 → 35
- Base AD: 70 → 64
(1) Undertow
- Slow: 30/35/40/45% → 20/25/30/35%
- Slow duration: 2.5s → 2s
VARUS
Varus received a small buff.
(1) Piercing Arrow
- Cooldown: 18/16/14/12s → 16/14/12/10s
VAYNE
Vanye is buffed a lot to match with the item changes and to sustain in the marksmen meta.
(3) Condemn
- Damage on terrain stun: 75/120/165/210 → 105/145/185/225
(Ult) Final Hour
- Cooldown: 100/80/60s → 90/75/60s
XAYAH
Xayah is heavily buffed in this patch.
(1) Double Dagger
- Base damage: 35/65/95/125 → 50/75/100/125
(2) Deadly Plumage
- Bonus attack speed: 25/30/35/40% → 35/40/45/50%
(3) Bladecaller
- Cooldown: 12/11/10/9s → 11/10/9/8s
- AD ratio: 0.6 → 0.8
(Ult) Featherstorm
- Base damage: 100/200/300 → 125/250/375
ITEM CHANGES:
BLADE OF THE RUINED KING
Riot has stated that they are nerfing the Blade of the Ruined King item for the following reasons, “It has risen to the top in all builds for marksmen even when its effect doesn’t seem like it would synergize that well with the individual champion. We are nerfing it and also shaping it so that the identity of the item is more in line with attack speed-based champions. We’re not seeing melee champions abusing this item, however, and we will be increasing its on-hit damage from melee attacks to keep it relatively power-neutral for melee users.”
- Attack damage: 30 → 20
- Attack speed: 30% → 35%
- On-hit damage
- Melee: 6% → 9% of current enemy health physical damage
- Ranged: 6% of current enemy health physical damage (unchanged)
- Drain movement speed duration: 3s → 2s
LIANDRY’S TORMENT
- Ability power: 90 → 70
- Total cost: 3150g (unchanged)
- Combine cost: 800g → 950g
HAUNTING GUISE
- Ability power: 35 → 25
- Total cost: 1450g → 1300g
- Upgrade cost: 950g → 800g
FREE-TO-PLAY CHAMPION ROTATION
- Mar 4 – Mar 10: Aurelion Sol, Fiora, Gragas, Kai’Sa, Lee Sin, Lulu, Sona, Teemo, Tristana, Twisted Fate
- Mar 11 – Mar 17: Alistar, Amumu, Braum, Camille, Evelynn, Jhin, Seraphine, Singed, Vayne, Yasuo
NEW SKINS
All skins will be released throughout the patch.
- Bilgewater Katarina
- Death Sworn Katarina
- Omega Squad Fizz
- Omega Squad Teemo
- Omega Squad Tristana
- El Tigre Braum
- Super Galaxy Shyvana
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