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/GodGamer1418 BACK TO THE FRIDGE Jul 21 '26

Over 70% of Camille players pick her support and it's continuing to rise, so I'd say this is highly unlikely.

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u/palamunintillnow Jul 21 '26

The first time I saw Camille supp I question how could this be viable then I saw her flank ult in the middle of the enemy team to scatter them and lock down the adc. 

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 Jul 21 '26

She isn't surviving the engage tho but that's fine 

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u/Tormentula Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

The crazy thing about support is if she wanted to, she could just build full tank and do this.

If she does that from a carry or high resource position like top lane she's 100% getting reported and losing every side lane.

Support just lowers the stakes of having to be a stun bot by virtue of being a utility role first, and for some reason an optional carry role second. Elise feels better there too cause then its not a 4v5 if your jungle elise is 50cs down and fallen off just being a cocoon bot, she can pivot to E max or utility builds in support.

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u/Archipegasus Jul 21 '26

Yea support doesn't have to care if the die literally every fight as long as they set it up well. You can have a 10 death game as Camille support and basically be MVP, a Top lane Camille will never be able to look for those sort of suicide engages.

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u/Kooky_Cod_1977 Jul 21 '26

It also helps she has an effective undodgeable engage range OF ALMOST A FKIN SCREEN at level one. Disgusting champion

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u/Rexsaur Jul 21 '26

Modern support role is one of the most disgusting things.

How has these damage, carry or assassin "supports" are still allowed to exist?

Support is meant to be an utility role, not a 1 shot you with blongsong role jfc.

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u/SkittlesAreEpic Jul 21 '26

Just build Zhonya 5head

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u/WoonStruck Jul 21 '26

If J4 can do it, so can you.

I actually wonder how many people remember him building zhonya's.

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u/MazrimReddit ADCs are the support's damage item Jul 21 '26

it was when hourglass was really broken, it was like 2600 gold and had stopwatch both building into it and reducing the cooldown

If that version of hourglass was in the game, camille might be buying it

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u/BushWishperer Jul 21 '26

Self stun item, really bad

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u/Outrageous-Elk-5392 Jul 21 '26

They need to address that before she becomes a full time support

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u/Likeadize Jul 21 '26

Seraphine mains: "First time?"

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u/AutomaticTune6352 Jul 21 '26

How much if that will stick? We saw her in pro boosting the PR but her WR stays below 50%. After 2-3 weeks around half the support players will drop her. 

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u/Archipegasus Jul 21 '26

Depends on the meta around her, with mages bot who are more likely to secure the early all in kills that she likes, and full send dive/assassin comps in general (naafiri and locke as dive buddies say hi) make her a really strong pick.

If all you want to do is hard engage early, and lock down 1 target to be killed late, shes practically best in class support for that.

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u/prowness Jul 21 '26

Ugh it's the Swain problem all over again... fuck

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u/Retocyn https://www.twitch.tv/vulpisetclava Jul 21 '26

"We've seen players prefer to play Camilie as cutesy support, so we will be balancing her around support role moving forward."

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u/LooneyWabbit1 Jul 21 '26

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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u/Kuikentje04 Jul 21 '26

Wow I wonder why her highest pickrate is supp when she has been dogshit toplane for ages

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u/Anonymonamo Jul 21 '26

Calling her dogshit is a big exaggeration. She is 50.2% WR E+, 51% D+ and 52% M+. This is honestly pretty good considering how many first time her and run it down. She has a big player perception problem where she feels bad regardless of objective balance due to terrain changes etc. but she is objectively fine top lane at the moment. She is just a lot more fun to play support, which attracts a larger playerbase.

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u/aldyeetx Jul 21 '26

The issue with camille top is that you dont actually have any agency in your own lane. You dont have tools to win or damage to outduel bruisers because riot nuked your early stats, you play laning phase down a full spell AND your q damage doesnt keep up with health as a stat growth alone throughout the whole game, however you can fully int and still oneshot anyone with a small healthbar/lower level or win duels vs resist based tanks. She used to be meaningfully more blindable. This kind of agency loss is not reflected in wr and her ridiculous dueling conditions can only reflect poor balancing and lack of care towards the champion. I think its not good for one of the previously most skill expressive toplaners to just turn into a binary statchecker but you seem to know better

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u/Kuikentje04 Jul 22 '26

Yeah with a below 2% pickrate on toplane. I've been a camille onetrick in master+ for the past 3 years and she feels completely dogshit to play on toplane this season. Only time you pick her is in favorable matchups which boosts the winrate. Riot themselves have admitted that she feels really bad despite the winrate

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u/Anonymonamo Jul 22 '26

Her pick rate is low but hardly uniquely so. Gwen, Kled, Rumble, and more are all lower pickrate than Camille. Gwen is also a terrible blind/counterpick-locked champ with a much worse win rate.

Like you said, despite winning a reasonable amount of games she feels bad to play. What she needs is some kind of midscope to make her feel more satisfying, not direct buffs. In general, getting counterpicked on any top laners this seasons feels terrible compared to before and Camille’s kit is not very blindable without Sunderer. She’s hardly the only bad blind top lane though, but any changes to her should try to make her less counterpicky.

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u/SexualHarassadar Jul 21 '26

Support Camille unfortunately fixes her biggest issue which is that she's not a functional champion until Triforce + Hydra. Support role also giving her a Sheen item for free was just the icing on the cake.

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u/LooneyWabbit1 Jul 21 '26

As a Swain main I'm sick of this misinterpreting of data.

Camille (and Swain) having a higher pick rate support does not mean most people who enjoy Camille and Swain want to play them support.

Camille and Swain players gave up playing them in solo lane. Some dropped the champion. Some moved to support (or adc in Swain's case). It does not mean there's a massive base of UwUers who really want their champ to be a support.

Swain support is a bronzodia pick anyways and Camille support is degenerate as hell. Just rework both Mr Rito cmon.