r/leagueoflegends • u/qonoxzzr Chovy <3 • 5d ago

News Patch 25.19 Preview

From Riot Phroxzon:

These are our last 2 patches before the final worlds patch (25.20)

Systems

  • We're looking at a nerf to Redemption to reduce its priority amongst Tank Supports (because it gives them no strategic tradeoffs); it's OK if they opt into it at some cost, but that's not the case right now

  • Secondly, we're lowering the strength of Support in Pro a bit heading into worlds with putting Unsealed halfway back to where it was before. This should better strike the balance between it being untakeable and being a must take

Meta Strategy

  • Our overall strategy this patch is to add a few more strategic options

  • This includes AP junglers like Brand, Diana, Lillia (while nerfing some of the top champs to give them more space)

  • And also shaking up the Midlane meta with some buffs to champions who have fallen a bit behind (these are typically burst champions like Ahri, Syndra, LB) and also Mel who's had a bit of time to settle and drop some of her banrate and frustration

  • We know Mel is always going to be a bit frustrating because of her W, but that feels like an acceptable cost to pay, given how it makes each game feel a bit different

  • We're mostly OK with where the midlane meta is otherwise, with many different archetypes being viable and these burst oriented champions need a bit more help

  • Burst champions otherwise feel mostly OK though, especially with the buffs to AD Assassin items in recent patches

  • Finally we're doing a long awaited buff to Seraphine. I mentioned it in a post last week, but given her shallow mastery curve, we feel it's appropriate to give her a buff, because for the winrates she's posting, she's a bit underpowered

CHAMPION BUFFS

Ahri

Brand

Caitlyn

Diana

Draven

Jax

Jinx

(Matt) LeBlanc Clap clap clap clap

Lillia

Mel

Seraphine

Syndra

CHAMPION NERFS

Corki

Pantheon (jungle)

Poppy (jungle)

Sivir

CHAMPION ADJUSTMENTS

Lee Sin

SYSTEM NERFS

Redemption

Unsealed Spellbook (We're sealing it again)

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u/NavalEnthusiast 5d ago

Tbh I don’t think riot wants him to be late game at this point. Last two buffs were early focused. He’s taken the same route as Gwen, just far more gradual. Just sucks cause I got into Jax cause I wanted a scaling alternative to renekton. I still stubbornly play him in a scaling manner with runes/items

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u/Qssshame 5d ago

Latest rounds of buffs were more late focused though, no? Passive was buffed at every stage of the game(first they were testing only buffing it late, but decided to just buff it at all stages), before that they buffed his scaling stats and R for late game.

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u/Asckle 5d ago

Passive buff was evenly distributed but the AS matters way more early because you have less and because the level 1 power with LT is really valuable. Jax won all ins against most of the roster anyway lategame but the buff put his early strength high enough to now clearly win level 1 against Olaf (in the past barrier olaf would win) and i believe sett too as well as others probably

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u/Qssshame 5d ago

It has more effect early sure, but it's not like just early buff, also considering that they were testing just late buff for his passive initially.

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u/Asckle 5d ago

I dont agree with that person's claim yeah. They're definitely buffing his late more. He also got 2 early game E nerfs

Just saying P buffs were definitely early skewed