With just over a week remaining till the release of the highly anticipated League of Legends patch 25.S1.4, Riot Games has revealed the early notes for the upcoming LoL update.
The LoL 25.S1.4 patch is set to be a major update that’s expected to bring a bunch of exciting changes to the MOBA. As you might already have expected, tanks and some of their core items are set to receive nerfs, along with a balance adjustment for Mel.
LoL dev Matt “Phroxzon” Leung-Harrison has recently shared the early patch notes for LoL 25.S1.4 on his X (formerly Twitter) handle. Without further ado, let’s check out everything you need to know about the next big LoL patch.
LoL 25.4 Early Patch Notes
Here are the early notes for the LoL patch 25.S1.4, as confirmed by Phroxzon:
Tank Items
- After an extended period last year of being quite weak and unsatisfying, tank items have found their footing in a strong way, especially for normal play but also in high levels for some of them
- A lof of tanks in those times were opting into things like Thornmail 2nd item (in particular), which indicated that they don’t really have any good item choices
- Being able to opt into specialized items like Thornmail 2nd sometimes is OK, but it feels pretty unsatisfying when it’s the option in most games, especially when playing against magic damage compositions
- Unending Despair was reworked to be this 2nd baseline item to allow players to pivot off this foundation if an option is better (eg. MR heavy vs magic, AR heavy vs phys)
- From our player surveys, champs like Mundo, Kench, Skarner, K’Sante, etc. who prominently use these items and are high on “perceived strength” will be nerfed.
Boots
- We’re also doing a small pass to the boot options to ensure they are better balanced; these and the changes above will also systemically help ADC’s do more damage in most games.
- Steelcaps in particular has been a bit too good at shutting down these types of damage
Attack Speed Cap
- With the buffs to attack speed cap last patch, Kog has been pretty happy with that – A bit… too happy; so we’re taking him down a peg
Mel
- For Mel, we are looking at some changes this patch to reduce her frustration, by bringing down her range and reliability slightly, lowering the forgiveness on her W a bit, now that players have had time to learn her, reducing her rank 1 root duration and making her R damage more dependent on having stacks
- Mel sports a pretty low winrate on her first game in particular, but after players have played a few games, this rapidly increases
Elise
- Elise is a champion who’s had a dramatic rise in the support role; we’re not looking to swat her out of there too quickly, but her jungle has been slightly weak and we’re looking to distribute a bit of power into that role without removing her from support
LoL 25.4 Release Date
The LoL 25.4 update is scheduled to hit the live servers on Thursday, February 20. Take a look at the expected release times for the update across the different servers below:
- NA: 3 pm CT
- EUW: 5 am GMT
- EUNE: 3 am CET
- Korea: 8 am KR
That’s everything we know about the LoL 25.S1.4 patch as of yet.
Note that the full patch notes for the update haven’t been revealed by Riot at the time of writing.
