LoL 14.22 Update Patch Notes Revealed: All You Need To Know

The League of Legends 14.22 update is just around the corner, and it’s all set to bring a plethora of new changes with it to the MOBA.

The changes in LoL patch 14.22 include the introduction of the new Champion Ambessa, a new Arcane-inspired ARAM map, and a bunch of tweaks to the existing Champs and items.

For the uninitiated, Ambessa Medarda, the upcoming LoL Champ who is also a prominent part of the Netflix show Arcane, possesses a unique kit that enables her to swiftly maneuver through teamfights and catch enemy backliners off-guard.

Without further ado, let’s check out everything you need to know about the LoL 14.22 update.

LoL 14.22 Update: New Hero Ambessa

As mentioned earlier, Ambessa is the newest addition to the LoL roster that’s set to be introduced to the game with patch 14.22. Her in-game kit includes the following abilities:

• Passive – Drakehound’s Step
  • Entering an attack or movement command while casting an ability will cause Ambessa to dash a short distance once the ability is cast. Casting an ability grants her next attack bonus range, damage, and attack speed, and refunds energy.
• Q – Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam
  • Ambessa sweeps her twin drakehounds in a semicircle in front of her, dealing bonus damage to enemies hit by the blades.
  • Striking an enemy will transform the next cast of this ability for a short period of time, causing her to slam her twin drakehounds down in a line in front of her, dealing bonus damage to the first enemy hit.
• W – Repudiation
  • Ambessa gains a shield, briefly braces herself, and then slams the ground to damage nearby enemies. If she blocked any non-minion damage while bracing herself, this ability will deal increased damage.
• E – Lacerate
  • Ambessa whips her twin drakehounds around herself, damaging and slowing nearby enemies. Initiating Drakehound’s Step from this ability causes her to strike a second time at the end of its dash.
• R – Public Execution
  • Ambessa blinks to the farthest enemy champion in a line of her choosing and suppresses them upon her arrival. She then slams the enemy into the ground where they take damage and are stunned.

LoL 14.22 Update Patch Notes Revealed

Below, we have listed the official patch notes for the new LoL 14.22 update, as officially confirmed by Riot Games.

LoL 14.22 Champion Buffs

Blitzcrank

Power Fist (E)

• Damage: 180% Total AD (+25% AP) ⇒ 200% Total AD (+25% AP)

Blitzcrank is in a sad spot so we’re helping him out. We’re bringing up his damage to give him more kill threat to account for overall damage in the game going down in 14.19.

Briar

Base Stats

• Base Health: 590 ⇒ 625

Briar was one of the most-affected champions from Blade of the Ruined King’s recent nerf. We like the item’s new state, so it’s time for us to re-tune champions bound to it. Briar deserves a bit of help here so we’re increasing her durability to help her survive being berserk and disproportionately affect her early game, and thus higher MMRs, where she performs much worse.

Fizz

Urchin Strike (Q)

• Damage: 10/25/40/55/70 (+45% AP) ⇒ 10/25/40/55/70 (+55% AP)

Seastone Trident (W)

• Active Damage: 50/70/90/110/130 (+40% AP) ⇒ 50/70/90/110/130 (+45% AP)

Fizz has continuously lost kill threat due to ratio nerfs from earlier this year along with his items being nerfed in .19 and .21. We’re looking to return some kill threat by rewarding aggressive Q’s along with a slight boost to his active W.

Irelia

Ionian Fervor (Passive)

• NEW: Stacks now refresh upon attacking structures
• NEW: Damage now applies to structures at 50% effectiveness

We’re giving Irelia a small buff that is large in quality of life by letting her retain passive stacks while hitting structures plus dealing partial damage to them. We expect the power of this change to be small relative to its feelability and expect that Irelia will still be worse than most other champions in her class at demolition but expect it to feel way better to split push and capitalize on advantages she earns in lane. 

Katarina

Shunpo (E)

• Cooldown: 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 ⇒ 12/11/10/9/8

Death Lotus (R)

• Cooldown: 90/60/45 ⇒ 75/60/45

Katarina lost a fair bit from the Sorcerer’s Shoes flat penetration nerf and is a little weak right now, so we’d like to give her some power back. We’re going to give her more opportunities to chunk out her opponents without increasing her short-term burst, which already seems high enough.

Kayle

Divine Ascent – Zealous (Passive)

• Attack Speed per stack: 6% (+.5% per 100 AP) ⇒ 6% (+1% per 100 AP)
• Max Attack Speed: 30% (+2.5% per 100 AP) ⇒ 30% (+5% per 100 AP)

Kayle is performing worse than she ought to, considering she’s pretty straightforward and has very little control over her own power level, due to losing almost every single lane matchup. As a result we’d like to increase her maximum power level to ensure she’s got her own unique strengths and a payoff for selecting such a weak laning phase.

Rumble

Base Stats

• Base Health: 625 ⇒ 655

Rumble’s early damage has been nerfed several times and he’s performing worse in lane than we think is ideal. Instead of just walking back previous damage nerfs, we’d like to improve his baseline survivability now that his laning is less oppressive.

Swain

Base Stats

• Magic Resist: 30 ⇒ 31
• Magic Resist Growth: 1.3 ⇒ 1.55

Death’s Hand (Q)

• Damage: 60/85/110/135/160 (+45% AP) ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180 (+45% AP)
• Max Damage: 120/170/220/270/320 (+90% AP) ⇒ 120/180/240/300/360 (+90% AP)

Nevermove (E)

• Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 ⇒ 12/11.5/11/10.5/10

Demonic Ascension (R)

• Heal per Second: 15/30/45 (+5% AP) (+1.25% Bonus HP) ⇒ 15/30/45 (+5% AP) (+1.5% Bonus HP)

Swain’s update has come out and though he’s a bit weak, we’re really happy with how his new toolset is performing. Since we’ve now got a decent bit of room to give him more power, we’d like to increase his ability to take up space as a beefy mid-laner and give his bread and butter spellcasting more potency.

Varus

Blighted Quiver (W)

• On-hit Damage: 5/10/15/20/25 ⇒ 8/13/18/23/28

Varus was another loser from BoRK’s nerfs last patch and we’d like to give him a little love. We’d still prefer he play in the on-hit space more often than lethality, so we’re playing up his sustained damage profile.

Vayne

Final Hour (R)

• Bonus Attack Damage: 25/40/55 ⇒ 35/50/65

Vayne was in a reasonable spot and got hit too hard from the 14.21 Blade nerf. We’re aiming to give some power back in a way that doesn’t affect her early laning by increasing her R kill threat throughout the game.

Vel’Koz

Tectonic Disruption (E)

• Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 ⇒ 14/13.5/13/12.5/12

Life Form Disintegration Ray (R)

• Cooldown: 120/100/80 ⇒ 100/90/80

Vel’Koz is in a bit of a weak spot and we’re giving him some power. He currently deals plenty of damage as a support and mid laner but is weaker in some other areas, so we’re instead choosing to increase his ability uptime since E’s cooldown is a little harsh as his last max and R is important for securing early kills. 

Vi

Blast Shield (Passive)

• Shield: 12% max HP ⇒ 14% max HP

Vi is looking a bit worse for wear and doesn’t perform her duties in the front line as well as she should. We’re bumping her durability specifically by nudging up Blast Shield to reward her for sustained combat since she can refresh it more than once.

Wukong

Base Stats

• Mana: 300 ⇒ 330

Warrior Trickster (W)

• Cooldown: 22/20/18/16/14 ⇒ 18/17/16/15/14

Wukong isn’t performing so well in top or jungle so we’re buffing him. He most commonly maxes W last so its cooldown remains very high throughout most of the game, which we think is unnecessary. We’re looking to improve his top trading and jungle navigation by lowering its early CD, along with a base mana buff to particularly help him cast more spells top. 

LoL 14.22 Champion Nerfs

Aatrox

World Ender (R)

• Total Attack Damage: 20/32.5/45% ⇒ 20/30/40%

Aatrox has been one of the best low-MMR top laners, and players have discovered new tech with Spear of Shojin, which will raise him up even farther, so it’s time to bring him down to size. We’re siphoning off a bit of his late game raid bossing in order to narrowly target lower MMR play where he’s overperforming.

Anivia

Base Stats

• Armor Growth: 4.9 ⇒ 4.5

Frostbite (E)

• Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+60% AP) ⇒ 50/75/100/125/150 (+55% AP)

Anivia scales quite reliably due to her range and the safety her passive provides in lane. We think that’s reasonable since she doesn’t have a lot of agency, but that some of her later damage and durability should go down to account for how consistently she scales.

Corki

Base Stats

• Attack Damage Growth: 2.5 ⇒ 2
• Mana Growth: 54 ⇒ 40

Corki flew all the way past viable and landed in “overpowered.” We’re super happy that he’s regained an audience and that those players are largely in bot lane. We’d love if he kept those players but he needs to keep his head out of the clouds. We’re hitting growth stats and his mana pool in order to try to widen the gap between mid lane, where he frequently buys Manamune, and bot lane, where spamming abilities for push isn’t nearly as important.

Illaoi

Base Stats

• Attack Damage: 68 ⇒ 65
• Mana Growth: 60 ⇒ 50

Illaoi has been crushing it lately, especially in lower MMRs. We’re nerfing her early game damage and late game ease of piloting in order to give her enemies a greater chance to succeed against her.

Jax

Grandmaster-At-Arms (R)

• Cooldown: 100/90/80 ⇒ 110/100/90
• Damage: 150/250/350 (+100% AP) ⇒ 100/175/250 (+100% AP)

Jax is performing a little better than he ought to right now and while we’re happy with his recent increases to durability and sustained damage, we’re bringing down his burst damage to place more importance on that longer combat pattern.

Lillia

Base Stats

• Armor per level: 5.2 ⇒ 4.5

Dream-Laden Bough (Passive)

• Base Heal from monsters per tick: 6.5-9 (level 1-18 linear) ⇒ 6.5 (flat)

“Another low-MMR skewed champion though she’s very performant everywhere. Making her high move speed riskier via late game armor nerf and slightly less camp healing.”

K’Sante

Ntofo Strikes (Q)

• Damage: 80/110/140/170/200 (+40% bonus resistances) ⇒ 70/100/130/160/190 (+40% bonus resistances)

Footwork (E)

• All Out Dash Speed: 950 + Movement Speed ⇒ 1250 + Movement Speed

K’Sante’s early-game is too strong, so we’re nerfing it. Separately, he’s too easy to kite in All Out. We’re cautious of erasing the counterplay gains from the recent rework, so we’re making a smaller improvement to his dash speed for now.

Mordekaiser

Death’s Grasp (E)

• Damage: 70/85/100/115/130 (+60% AP) ⇒ 60/75/90/105/120 (+40% AP)

Mordekaiser is dominating lower MMR brackets, so we’re taking a swing at his damage there. As better players are more likely to dodge his E, taking down its damage is a targeted way to nerf him in places where he’s performing the best.

Poppy

Base Stats

• Attack Damage: 64 ⇒ 60
• Level 1 Attack Speed: .625 ⇒ .658

While we hit Poppy with the nerf hammer due to her support power level a couple patches ago, she has cropped back up as the number one pick here, so we’re taking another swing at it. We hope to nail this support skew by attacking her base AD, which feeds into Hail of Blades, Bloodsong, and Dead Man’s Plate (all tools she uses commonly in support), while compensating a bit of attack speed to keep her sustained damage in top and jungle similar.

Seraphine

High Note (Q)

• Damage: 60/85/110/135/160 (+60% AP) ⇒ 60/85/110/135/160 (+50% AP)

Seraphine has crept up a little too high in bot lane, so we’re trying to deliver a nerf that we hope to be APC skewed while leaving support Seraphine less affected.

Shen

Ki Barrier (Passive)

• Cooldown: 10 ⇒ 11
• Cooldown Refund: 4-7.5 (based on level) ⇒ 4-8 (based on level)

Stand United (R)

• Shield: 130/290/450 (+16 bonus HP) ⇒ 120/220/320 (+15% bonus HP)
• Max Shield: 208/464/720 (+25.6% bonus HP) ⇒ 192/352/512 (+24% bonus HP)

Shen has really enjoyed the recent itemization shifts and devaluation of gold and is now stronger than we’re comfortable with. We’d like to preserve his crowd control, 1v1 dueling, and late-game tankiness, so we’re lowering power in places we think Shen players are willing to lose.

Sylas

Base Stats

• Health Growth: 129 ⇒ 122

Sylas is now building more health, which we’re happy about but he’s a bit too strong right now. We’re reducing his health growth to make him more vulnerable and to further incentivize health builds.

Syndra

Force of Will (W)

• Damage: 70/110/150/190/230 (+70% AP) ⇒ 70/105/140/175/210 (+65% AP)

Syndra is too good of a mid laner right now and deals a lot of hard-to-avoid damage once she begins scaling. We’re reducing her non-ultimate burst since she often doesn’t need to R to deal significant amounts of damage, which lets her play back without much counterplay.

Udyr

Wingborne Storm (R)

• Damage: 80/170/260/350/440 (+140% AP) ⇒ 80/150/220/290/360 (+140% AP)
• Empowered Damage: 8-16% (level scaling) max HP ⇒ 8-14% (level scaling) max HP
• Monster cap: 60 (+400% AP) (+800% bonus AD) ⇒ 80-400 (level scaling)

Udyr’s Q-max builds are doing fine but the R-max builds are performing too well of late. Though he lost some power from Fated Ashes, he’s very happy about Dead Man’s Plate and the recent shifts to more methodical combat. This patch we’re nerfing his R damage in his tankier builds as he’s too threatening in R-max when built mostly tank.

LoL 14.22 Champion Adjustments

Maokai

Base Stats

• Move Speed: 330 ⇒ 335
• Base Health: 635 ⇒ 665

Sapling Toss (E)

• Sapling Move Speed: 400/425/445/460 (based on boots) ⇒ 400-460 (linear scaling 1-13)

Maokai is a little bit weak right now so we’d like to make him a better jungler and support without giving too much more to top lane, where he’s fine. To do that, we’re bringing his move speed back up and increasing his early game durability. We also want to smooth out an unusual optimization with his saplings that made him need to rush boots in order to speed them up.

Warwick

Base Stats

• Model Size: Increased by 15%

Blood Hunt (W)

• • Mana Cost: 70 ⇒ 55
  • Cooldown: 100/85/70/55/40 ⇒ 80/70/60/50/40
  • Passive: Spells now also trigger the attack speed when used to damage enemies under 50% Health. The attack speed granted by attacks and spells now linger between attacks.
  Bonuses from passive: 250% increase on enemies under 20% ⇒ 200% increase on enemies under 25%
  • Cooldown Reduction: Ticks twice as fast while no one is hunted ⇒ Refunds 30% if no one is found by the active
  • Active Lockout Removed: No longer locks out casting while in champion combat

Primal Howl (E)

• Auto attack lockout after casting E2: 0.5s⇒ 0.25s

Infinite Duress (R)

• Hit Radius: 100 ⇒ 150
• NEW Claws in Front: Now only latches onto champions in front of Warwick

Warwick is getting some small updates this patch! In addition to getting slightly bigger and scarier, he’s getting some quality of life changes that’ll help him have a smoother combat feel with his attacks. Additionally, we’re changing the cooldown paradigm on W to make it easier to cast as a scouting tool. 

LoL 14.22 System Nerfs

Summoner Spells

Barrier

• Shield: 120-480 (based on level) ⇒ 100-460 (based on level)

We updated summoner spells a few months ago to give Barrier a real spot in bot lane. However, we slightly overshot and Barrier is almost always the go-to over everything else. We’re slightly nerfing Barrier in order to promote more choice down in bot lane while also making those champions a bit easier to kill for bursty champions. 

LoL 14.22 System Adjustments

Bounty Tracking

• Bounties don’t show up on the scoreboard as often as they should. We’re fixing that.
• Bounties now show on the scoreboard after 100 gold instead of 150 gold.

Side Lane Minions

• Sidelane Minion move speed bonus: Minions gain decaying bonus move speed: 120 Move Speed for the first 14 minutes ⇒ 120-0 Move Speed scaling with game time for the first 14 minutes

Last year we made mid- and side-lane minion waves crash at the exact same time, so that if a mid laner cleared their wave and then roamed, side laners had likely cleared their wave as well. We’re walking this change back by about half: Now, they’ll still meet at the same time very early on, but that will gradually desync over time, giving more and more time for mid laners to roam into side lanes to create action. We’re lowering this bonus with game time in order to make super early lanes still relatively protected but make post-6 roams easier and easier.

Summoner Spells

Smite

• Epic Monster targeting forgiveness: 300 ⇒ 125

We added targeting forgiveness to Smite last year to let players Smite Dragons even when an enemy champion was overlapping with it. Since then, Void Grubs have been added, and it means that Smiting over a Grub’s corpse will often target the closest living one. Wasting your Smite like that feels bad, so we’re reducing the targeting forgiveness to mean Smite won’t seek out an epic monster unless it’s much closer to your cursor. 

Items

Opportunity

• Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Rectrix + 925 gold ⇒ Serrated Dirk + Pickaxe + Long Sword + 475 gold
• Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 55
• Movement Speed: 4% ⇒ 0
• Preparation Lethality: 10/6 ⇒ 11/7

Youmuu’s Ghostblade

• Recipe: Serrated Dirk + Rectrix + Pickaxe + 150 gold ⇒ Serrated Dirk + Rectrix + Long Sword + 675 gold
• Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 55
• Movement Speed: 0 ⇒ 4%

Statikk Shiv

• Total Gold Cost: 2900 gold ⇒ 2700 gold
• Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 45
• Attack Speed: 40% ⇒ 30%
• Electrospark: Remade – Your first 3 attacks within 8 seconds fire chain lightning on-hit, hitting up to 5 targets (including the attack target) for 60 magic damage, increased to 85 for minions/monsters (25-10s CD levels 7-12)
• Electroshock: Remade – Scoring a takedown resets the cooldown on Electrospark

Yun Tal Wildarrows

• Total Gold Cost: 2950 gold ⇒ 3000 gold
• Recipe: Pickaxe + Noonquiver + 775 gold ⇒ B.F. Sword + Scout’s Slingshot + Long Sword + 750 gold
• Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 50
• Critical Strike: 25% ⇒ Removed
• NEW Attack Speed: 25%
• Serrated Edge: Removed
• NEW Passive – Practice Makes Lethal: On attack, permanently gain 0.2% Critical Chance, up to 25%
• NEW Passive – Flurry: On attacking an enemy champion, gain 30% Attack Speed for 4 seconds (40 second CD, reduced by 1s on hit; 2s for a critical strike)

New ARAM Map

Welcome to the Bridge of Progress, where ARAM meets Arcane! Step into an immersive, story-rich map inspired by the world of Arcane. With new visuals, quests, and gameplay twists, this mode lets you experience the heart of Piltover and Zaun like never before. Team up, explore, and dive into new adventures on the bridge. GLHF!

• Adjusted all visuals for Arcane
• Added a small lane speedway in the center of the bridge for more interesting play, also to give melees/assassins an alternative strategy in the early game to succeed as they’ve traditionally struggled
• Adjusted health pad position slightly toward the middle of the bridge
• Added small buffs to health packs based on sides
• Added a speed zone to follow up on allies yoloing in with snowballs
• Added side specific rewards for taking inhibitors
• Added a few base brush/barriers to make defenses a bit more interesting
• Nemesis Quest: Explore five unique Nemesis Quests we’ve prepared—dive in, play, and uncover the stories waiting for you!

New Player Experience

The following changes will start to roll out to specific regions with patch 14.22 and only impact “Revival Players,” aka accounts that haven’t played any PvP matches in the last 6 months.

In a returning player’s first few games in the Bridge of Progress mode, the player might be placed against a bot team. These bots are designed to adapt to the player’s skill and should gradually ease players back into the gameplay of League of Legends.

Players will only see these bots in the Bridge of Progress queue, and only for the first few matches after returning from a minimum of a 6 month hiatus. Players WILL NOT encounter them in any other queue, and Established League players won’t see any changes unless they queue with a new or returning player.

Much like the New Player Experience bots that were released with QuickPlay in 14.18, these bots aim to help new and returning players re-familiarize themselves with the ever evolving landscape of League of Legends. 

Mythic Shop Rotation

Now Available

• Prestige Immortal Journey Sona
• Prestige Dark Star Malphite
• Prestige Star Guardian Ekko
• Prestige La Illusion Renata Glasc

Leaving the Mythic Shop

• Prestige Broken Covenant Miss Fortune
• Prestige Soul Fighter Shaco
• Prestige Valiant Sword Riven
• Prestige Spirit Blossom Teemo
• Prestige Nightbringer Lee Sin
• Prestige Anima Squad Jinx

Bugfixes & QoL Changes

• Fixed an issue where if Neeko tried to clone a freshly respawned Yasuo it would crash the game.
• Fixed an issue that caused Titanic Hydra to consume Hail of Blades.
• Fixed an issue where Naafiri’s Q would deal no damage if she died before the Q landed.
• Fixed an issue where Kassadin’s Q interrupt would be inconsistent.
• Fixed an issue where Warwick’s R hitbox would extend behind him.
• Fixed an issue where killing a Void Grub would grant a Legend:Haste stack.
• Fixed an issue where projectiles like tower shots would sometimes follow and still hit Ekko after using R and leaving range.
• Fixed an issue where Ekko’s Q would sometimes not apply its slow.
• Fixed an issue where one of Rengar’s recommended Runes was missing a secondary.
• Fixed an issue where Zoe would become desync’d after using Flash.
• Fixed an issue where Ekko would sometimes not consume HoB on his E.
• Fixed an issue where if the Rift Herald was deployed inside Mordekaiser’s R it would cause the Rift Herald to be invisible. (Editor’s Note: Excuse me?)
• Fixed an issue that prevented Zoe from gaining move speed from Shurelya’s Battlesong through her W.
• Fixed an issue that caused Akshan’s empowered E shots to not follow the same logic as regular E shots.
• Fixed an issue where all of Udyr’s abilities could trigger Experimental Hexplate and Zeke’s.
• Sometimes a random white line would appear on Summoner’s Rift… we fixed that.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Zoe from being able to receive the Unleashed Teleport spell for her W.