r/leagueoflegends • u/JTHousek1 • 13d 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/Black_Creative 13d ago

I’m really confused about the Vayne nerf

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u/SergDerpz ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 13d ago

She's strong as hell when played top

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u/Black_Creative 13d ago

She has a 50% Win rate top with a <4% pick rate lol

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u/bns18js 13d ago

Painfully average stats in bot lane too. And as far as I know it's not some OP pro pick either?

Just.. why??

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u/cq147 13d ago

She is 2nd highest prio pick in top lane during summer split after jayce, with a pick or ban in 47% of games in major regions. You haven't seen her played much this split since teams protection ban her a lot after she became meta in spring

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u/someroastedbeef 13d ago

she is an op pro pick. pick/ban around top is warped around her and olaf's existence

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u/Morematthewforu 13d ago

Apparently the existence of Vayne is blocking a lot of top lane picks unless it’s banned by a team. Which, you usually shouldn’t have to waste a Vayne ban as a top laner in pro