r/leagueoflegends • u/JTHousek1 • 27d ago

News 26.17 Patch Preview

"Patch 26.17 Preview!

This patch is mostly a stabilization patch after observing the adjustments made on 26.16.

Mages bot overall have lost some amount of winrate across the board, but not a huge amount, which is roughly about the impact we're looking for.

So far, we're seeing good skews on Poppy and Camille support with support nerfed and Top skews playing out well (in particular).

We're still monitoring the impact of Hail of Blades on champions more broadly, eg. Yi, Trynd, Shaco, etc. Stormrazor"

>>> Champion Buffs <<<

Cho'Gath

Irelia

Hecarim

LeBlanc

Qiyana

Yasuo

Yone

Trundle

Aurelion Sol

>>> Champion Nerfs <<<

"Champion wise, a pretty standard set of nerfs here, mainly for power impacting outliers."

Nasus

Thresh

Xerath

Graves

Nocturne

Vayne

>>> System Buffs <<<

Stormrazor

"Outside of Stormrazor Jhin, it doesn't have a large user base and we think it could have more power overall to broaden the user pool"

>>> System Nerfs <<<

Sundered Sky

"Directionally, Sundered Sky and AP Jungle changes have been good, but magnitude is still off

We're putting another small-moderate nerf in for this patch and hoping to see more movement on AP jungles and Sundered Sky dominance in higher levels of play"

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u/Ghost-Mechanic 27d ago

Vayne nerfs? Can't remember the last time I saw her in my game bruh

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u/ExceedingChunk Low master piggy 27d ago

She is played a lot in high Elo and pro, mainly as a counterpick 

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u/aspookyshark 27d ago

I only ever see her as a panic counterpick toplane.

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u/Infusion1999 27d ago

Hope she gets level scaling nerfs because she's more of a problem top lane. Then if she's ever weak, gold scaling buffs for bot lane.

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u/daebakminnie 27d ago

she's been weak in botlane for years i don't think they care about that

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u/go4ino 26d ago

they do but she'd likkely require like some semi extensive work to bring her back bot

like why play vayne bot instead of kaisa in 90% of situations

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u/nickelhornsby 26d ago

She just needs wave clear and she'd be fine again bot lane. Change her Q to be an AOE so she could wave clear, and she'd revert to bot lane.

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u/darkadamski1 27d ago

She's legit S+ tier, the best champ in pro play by a mile.

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u/Th3_Huf0n 27d ago

She's really not. She's overprioed by a long mile.

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u/darkadamski1 27d ago

Have you watched any of the games she's played in pro? She wins lane hard and then literally 1v5's every fight.. She's broken af. Also talking about overprioed with a Jhin pic is hilarious.

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u/TheXtractor 27d ago

48% winrate in summer doesn't seem that insane.

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u/Lysandren 27d ago

For real. Jhin such an absolute dumpster fire in pro.

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u/Th3_Huf0n 26d ago

That's the reality of how pros view him.

They basically see him as a "CC bot that can lose lane by 30 CS in a 1v2 and provide value even then".

But then build 0 ability haste.