Taliyah and Olaf mini-rework, massive Pyke adjustments, and more

Patch 12.9 of League of Legends will be a pretty big patch as Riot Games will be looking to introduce a lot of changes to the champion meta this time around.

However, the highlight of the patch will be the small remake that Taliyah and Olaf will receive, along with tweaks that will affect Pyke.

There will be other champion updates this time around and nerfing Healbreaker to make it a bit less dominant in top lane. League of Legends fans looking for a detailed description of the patch can check out Riot’s official website.

However, for a brief overview, here are all the main highlights.

Official Notes of Patch 12.9 of League of Legends

1) Champion

Olaf

• AD gain: 3.5 > 4.7
• Damage at level 18: 127.5 > 148
• Health gain: 100> 105
• Mana Increase: 42> 50

Passive – Berserker’s Rage

• Maximum Attack Speed ​​Granted: 99% > 40-100% (levels 1-18)
• [NEW]: Berserker’s Rage now provides 10-30% of life stolen (levels 1-18), based on Olaf’s missing health
• [UPDATE]: Bonus max when 0% Health > 30% Health

Q – Undertow

• Cooldown: 7 seconds > 9 seconds
• Damage: 80/125/170/215/260> 60/110/160/210/260
• Minimum range: 300 > 425 units
• Mana Cost: 60 at all ranks > 40/45/50/55/60
• [UPDATE]: Picking up ax now fully refunds Q – Undertow’s cooldown, but can only throw the ax up to once every 3 seconds. (Note: The 3 second limit varies by fast ability.)
• [UPDATE]: Includes an effect that adds quality of life to Olaf’s Q – Undertow so it now casts more consistent ghosting on jungle monsters he hits or is near him when Q is cast

W – Difficult to understand

• [UPDATE]: Dangerous Attacks> Difficult
• Cooldown: 16 seconds at all ranks > 16 / 14.5 / 13 / 11.5 / 10 seconds
• Attack Speed: 50/60/70/80/90%> 40/50/60/70/800%
• Spell Duration: 6 seconds > 4 seconds
• [NEW]: W now resets Olaf’s base attack timer
• [NEW]: When active Olaf now gains a shield of 10/45/80/115/150 (+25% missing health, limited to 30% of current HP) for 2.5 seconds
• [REMOVED]: No longer grants Life Steal
• [REMOVED]: No longer amplifies Olaf’s healing based on missing health

R – Ragnarok

• Bonus Physical Damage: 15/20/25 (+30% AD) > 10/20/30 (+25% AD)
• Duration: 6 seconds > 3 seconds
• Passive resistance: 20/30/40> 10/25/40
• [REMOVED]: R – Ragnarok’s passive bonus magic resistance is no longer lost for the duration of the ability
• [NEW]: Hitting a champion with a basic attack or E – Daredevil Strike extends Ragnarok’s duration to 2.5 seconds. Olaf can renew Ragnarok indefinitely.

Taliyah

• Base Health: 531> 500
• Base Heal: 7> 6.5
• Increased healing: 0.7 > 0.65
• Base Mana: 425 > 470
• Base Mana Recovery: 9.34 > 8
• Mana Regen Increase: 0.85 > 0.8
• Base Armor: 20> 18
• Movement Speed: 335 > 330

Passive – Surfing on rocks

• Out-of-combat bonus movement speed: 20-45% (levels 1-18) > 10/20/35/55% (levels 1/9/12/15)
• Passive off time when not near Terrain: 1s > 2.5s

Q – Lace Volleyball

• Mana Cost: 50/60/70/80/90> 60/65/70/75/80
• Cooldown: 7/6/5/4/3 seconds > 6.5 / 5.5 / 4.5 / 3.5 / 2.5 seconds
• Rock damage: 70/95/120/145/170 (+ 45% AP) > 38/61/84/107/130 (+ 50% AP)
• Reduces damage from subsequent rock shards: 50% > 60%
• 5-Rock Damage: 210/285/360/435/510 (+ 135% AP) > 98.8 / 158.6 / 218.4 / 278.2 / 338 (+130% AP)
• Reduces damage from subsequent stone shards against monsters: 25% > 60%
• [NEW]: Each Stone Shard now deals 30 (+ 10% AP) bonus damage to monsters
• [NEW]: Stone Shards now deal damage within 175 radius (about 1.6 Teemos)
• [NEW]: Q – The Balloon will now continue to be cast while Taliyah is on stasis
• [NEW]: Cast Q – Threaded Volley on the Working Ground now uses Working Ground to fire a single Rock that deals double damage [76/122/168/214/260 (+100% AP)] and slows all enemies hit within a 225 AoE radius by 30/35/40/45/50% for 2 seconds
• Energy consumption on working ground: 1> 20
• Minimum cooldown on construction ground: 1s > 0.75s
• Ground operation time: 25 seconds > 30 seconds
• Working ground radius: 300> 400
• [UPDATE]: The size of the Working Ground on the Howling Abyss now matches Summoner’s Rift
• [NEW]: Q – Worked Ground Threaded Volley Casts now have new VFX, SFX, animations and icons!

W – Seismic Strike

• Mana Cost: 70/80/90/100/110> 40/30/20/10/0
• Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 seconds> 14 / 12.5 / 11 / 9.5 / 8 seconds
• Knock Up Radius: 200 > 225
• Time delay before Knock Up: 0.8 seconds > 0.75 seconds
• [REMOVED]: W – Seismic Strike no longer deals damage

E – The Earth is unraveled

• Cooldown: 16/14/12/10/8 seconds> 16/15/14/13/12 seconds
• Initial Cast Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 (+40% AP) > 60/105/150/195/240 (+60% AP)
• Slow Power: 20% (+ 4% AP) > 20/22/24/26/28% (AP Ratio removed)
• Boulder Explosion Damage: 50/60/70/80/90 (+ 30% AP) > 25/45/65/85/105 (+ 30% AP)
• Reduces damage for each subsequent rock attack: 15% > 25%
• Maximum Boulder Explosion Damage: 155/186/217/248/279 (+ 93% AP) > 62.5 / 112.5 / 162.5 / 212.5 / 262.5 (+ 75% AP)
• Delay between casting and generating the first row of rocks: 0.1s > 0 seconds
• Delay between rows of boulders after the first row: 0.1s > 0.17s
• [UPDATE]: E – Enlightened Earth now spawns 6 rows of boulders extending outward from Taliyah with 4 rocks per row (previously spawned 4 rows of rocks with 6 each)
• [NEW]: Rocks now stun enemies that pass through them for +0.6 / 0.7 / 0.8 / 0.9 / 1 second. (Note: the maximum stun duration is 2 seconds and the monster is always stunned for the maximum duration).
• [REMOVED]: E – Illuminated Earth no longer explodes to deal additional damage after 4 seconds

R – Weaver’s Wall

• Range: 3000/4500/6000> 2500/4500/6500
• Dash range when jumping off the wall: 400> 700
• Dash speed when jumping off the wall: 1000> 1200
• [UPDATE]: Moving Taliyah while she’s riding the Weaver Wall now causes Taliyah to dash to the clicked location, up to maximum dash range instead of dropping her perpendicular to the wall.
• [UPDATE]: Zooming in when jumping off walls is now more forgiving when trying to dash over terrain
• [NEW]: Damage from enemy champions or structures now prevents Taliyah from casting R – Weaver Wall for 3 seconds
• [REMOVED]: Taking damage no longer knocks Taliyah off her wall

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Taliyah would sometimes permanently lose her passive if she had an active magic shield
• Fixed a bug where Taliyah would sometimes not get a cooldown reduction on Q – Red Rabbit Strike when cast on the Training Field

Ahri

E – Charms

• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 14 seconds

R – Mental Strength

• Cooldown: 130/105/80 seconds > 140/115/90 seconds

Passive – Blow

• Cooldown per target: 8/7/6 seconds > 8/6/4 seconds

E – Unbreakable

Hecarim

Q – Rage

• Physical Damage: 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 85% bonus AD) > 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 90% bonus AD)

W – Spirit of Fear

• Cooldown: 18 seconds > 14 seconds

Master Yi

R – Highlander

• Bonus Attack Speed: 25/45/65% > 25/35/45%

Nidalee

Pyke

Passive – Gift of the Drowned

• Damage converted to Gray Health when near two or more enemies: 40% (+ 0.5% per damage) > 45% (+ 0.5% per damage)

Q – Skeleton

• [NEW]: Bone Skewer now restores mana when hitting an enemy champion
• Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70> 74/78/82/86/90
• Mana Return: 50% > 75%

R – Death From Below

• Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds > 100/85/70 seconds
• [REMOVED]: Pyke no longer gains “Your Cut” gold after successfully executing an enemy champion with R (last supporting ally still gets “Your Cut”)
• [REMOVED]: Pyke no longer gains “Your Cut” gold when allies kill enemies in Death From Below’s execution area

Renata Glasc

Passive – Leverage

• Bonus magic damage against marked targets: 1-3.5% (levels 1-13) (+1% per 100 AP) > 1-2% (levels 1-9) (+2% per 100 AP) 100 AP) (damage to unmarked targets remains unchanged)

Renekton

• Health Growth: 92> 97
• AD gain: 3.75> 4.15
• Damage at level 18: 132.75 > 139.55

W – Ruthless Predator

• Cooldown: 13/12/11/10/9 seconds> 16/14/12/10/8 seconds
• Total Attack Damage: 10/30/50/70/90 (+ 75% AD) > 10/40/70/100/130 (+ 75% AD)
• Total physical damage when empowered: 15/45/75/105/135 (+ 75% AD) > 15/60/105/150/195 (+ 75% AD)

R – Dominus

• Magic Damage Per Second: 40/80/120 (+10% AP) > 50/100/150 (+10% AP)

Rengar

W – Battle Roar Damage to monsters: 85-150 (levels 1-18) > 65-130 (levels 1-18)

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Rengar’s enhanced abilities and W – Battle Roar’s healing would sometimes appear in the Fog of War

Shyvana

• Marking Damage Rate: 1s > 0.5s

E – Breath of Flame

• [NEW] Shyvana’s E – Flaming Breath’s area of ​​effect now applies to enemies entering the area.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Shyvana’s Q – Twin Bite would not hit player-created targets (like Teemo’s Mushroom or Illaoi’s Tentacles) twice
• Fixed a bug where Shyvana’s second attack – Twin Bite would not deal damage if the enemy was running away from her
• Fixed Shyvana’s W – VFX not displaying correctly while in Mordekaiser’s R – The Dead

Sion

Passive – Glory in death

• [NEW]: Sion now takes 40% less damage to structures while in respawn rampage (runes and items included)

Thresh

• Bonus Magic Power and Armor per soul: 0.75 > 1

W – Shadow Walk

• Shield Strength: 60/90/120/150/180 (+1 per soul) > 60/90/120/150/180 (+2 per soul)

Varus

Passive – Living Vengeance

• Bonus attack speed when killing non-champions: 10/15/20% (+15% bonus attack speed) > 10/15/20% (+ 20% bonus attack speed)
• Bonus attack speed when killing champions: 40% (+ 30% bonus attack speed) > 40% (+ 40% bonus attack speed)

W – Light noise

• Bonus magic damage on hit: 7 / 10.5/14/17.5/21 (+ 30% AP) > 7/12/17/22/27 (+ 30% AP)

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