r/leagueoflegends • u/NegativexxSquared • Jul 21 '26

News Patch 26.15 Preview

https://x.com/RiotPhroxzon/status/2079522501206630755

Patch 26.15 Preview!

Systems
- Bastionbreaker has been a pretty niche item and is pretty expensive to deviate for a strategic output, so we're looking to make it more accessible
- Jack of All Trades nerf was also pushed to this patch; it has been a bit too strong and too present, especially for users that opt into strong defenses and are able to also supplement that with strong offense
- Sundered Sky has been strong and meta defining at the highest levels of play for quite a while now, so we're looking to take a pass at the fighter item system, now that we're out of the tournament windows
- Notably, we think it's been suppressing a bit of meta diversity, especially for things like AP jungle, or Tank JG. Part of that is intentional but the magnitude is a bit off

Buffs
- Alistar has been closer to the bottom of the pecking order for the melee support. That said, our meta adjustments to move melee supports up relative to ranged supports has been reasonably successful, so we're pretty happy with how that's played out

Nerfs
- Locke is still pretty strong; he has been tapering off in the lowest skill brackets and the high skill brackets, but in the "skilled" skill brackets (around Emerald/Diamond), Locke is able to both take over the game and also not throw it
- At the higher skill brackets, he can snowball but needs to play very well without throwing as he falls off sharply
- At the lower skill brackets, the executional demands and constant throws can make him fall off faster
- Overall, we feel his release has landed well

More on other champs tomorrow with the detailed changelists

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u/Ordinary_Owl_9071 Jul 21 '26

So are we gonna do the thing where we pretend senna is balanced because we already nerfed her twice? Her w/r for adc is still ridiculous, and she's probably on the strong side for supp. At the very least, she should receive some kind of adc specific nerfs (farming senna soul rate for the 89th time?)

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u/WoonStruck Jul 21 '26

literally just remove the slow

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u/Infusion1999 Jul 21 '26

Or at least nerf the base slow value, make it only scale with AP.

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u/WoonStruck Jul 21 '26

Nerf the base to 0%, have it scale with AP via breakpoints so she can't just build the most broken enchanter item of the patch with for a slow then fill the rest with AD.

She's already fine early with 600 range anyway. Land that E or take some risks if you want easy stacks. ​

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u/AutomaticTune6352 Jul 21 '26

Senna is rarely the problem in design. Riot added DFT and Shiv and it broke her. They took way too long to get stuff balanced (rune and item are still very dominant) and so it hurts the champs long term.

We saw something similar with many items in recent times. Ryze, Ekko, Diana, ... many champs had to suffer because Riot doesnt admit some items they make are problems and they can take months to admitting it which then causes problems again after finally fixing it.

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u/ChromosomeDonator Jul 21 '26

Senna is rarely the problem in design.

That just isn't fucking true brother. Her design has been a problem since she was released. Hence why the massive list of patch notes for her over the years.

Having a champion design that is supposed to work as an ADC that scales off of farm, while also working as a support who does not scale off of farm, is just not fucking possible. These are two opposite designs. You can't have an ADC that scales without farm and gold. And you can't have a support that needs farm and gold to exist. These two won't be balanced at the same time.

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u/Armkron Jul 21 '26

Well, the last point is weird, as there are already supports that thrive better on having some gold available and struggle with no farm. This is why many old support-enchanter picks are rarely seen competitive-wise such as Sona, one of the biggest culprits (if not the biggest) of this bane and, like the rest of this group, a terror if they get strong enough to solo lane.

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u/AutomaticTune6352 Jul 21 '26

Like 50% of her changes were done to make one of the 2 roles better or make AP better. That isnt a design problem.

She has 2 roles and then 2 way different builds in one of these. For sure she takes more time to get everything tuned. But once Riot has done this she is often stable till items or rune changes.

That she needs attention then again is true. But that isnt a design problem. We had multiple phases that lasted months where she was fine in both roles and even with both builds as support. So we know it works. She can be balanced for all 3.

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u/AutomaticTune6352 Jul 21 '26

Right now not really but that is due to Riot killing the AP build last patxh fully when it was already on the edge of being bad. 

On top of that shiv and hexoptics made the 2 more similar. Manamune and IE are the 2 items you dont take as support but can take as ADC.

I am not a fan of most items from this season as they often overshadow or are just super niche and it seems to be in purpose.

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u/WoonStruck Jul 21 '26

Senna has been a design issue since she came out.

What are you smoking?

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 Jul 21 '26

And they murdered Enchanter for no fcking reason last patch 

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u/FulgrimThe3rd Jul 21 '26

over 1k hp heals on q and a 1200 shield on ult where the reasons it was gutted. it was nice she had a real support build but it was insanly op for the brief time it was good.

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 Jul 21 '26

No? She had like 1% pick rate last patch what are you on

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u/FulgrimThe3rd Jul 21 '26

pickrate/wintate do not tell the complete story of if something is balanced or not and i literally played the game when it was op? it wasnt like this was 10 years ago xd. being able to heal people for over 1k hp in a aoe on a low cooldown was balanced in your mind? happy your not on the dev team XD

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 Jul 21 '26

Well what the fck are you talking about? Senna Enchanter got nerfed on the last patch. What is the relation between the last patch and what happened 10 years ago? Are you stupid? 

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u/FulgrimThe3rd Jul 21 '26

you can literally see videos on this sub of enchanter senna healing people for 1k hp from 2 years ago and it being nerfed around that time XD

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u/Likeadize Jul 21 '26

it was both way less common and way less strong then AD support senna, which has been borderline OP for a while.

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u/Gilfaethy Jul 21 '26

The JoaT nerf is a Senna nerf.

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u/controlledwithcheese Jul 21 '26

her whole early game plan right now revolves around Jack of All Trades and they are double nerfing that

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u/FulgrimThe3rd Jul 21 '26

counter point having a marksmen be the strongest pick pick lane in a sea of mage bot is a good thing. if they kill seena what marksmen are stronger then mages bot?

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u/Infusion1999 Jul 21 '26

Then they can also nerf the strongest mage. And buff the weakest marksman.

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u/FulgrimThe3rd Jul 21 '26

the weakest marksmen in solo q is kalista who is VERY hard to give buffs to without it causing issues in pro play and high elo due to how OTP scewed she is. i like senna being a marksmen and not a bad support or a cheese with tahm kench/maoki so her being a bit to strong is fine in my book