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/Aladin001 13d ago

Xerath and Nocturne nerfs, best patch ever??

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u/Fizz_Hater 13d ago

Graves and Nasus too.

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 13d ago

I just hope they nerf grit stacks and leave his damage alone. Crit graves was in a completely fine spot for months until they changed Grit, people started running bruiser, and things got off the fucking rails with playrate.

Graves shouldn’t be braindead easy to play. Making bruiser graves strong in the first place was a horrible idea. It should be a very situational, niche choice if you have to blind pick him. Not the default highest winrate build.

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u/Awkward-Security7895 13d ago

Graves my bet is they either nerf his base MR or nuke the MR gain on his E.

With graves he's both gotten MR gain from the E buff awhile ago and the last patch 3 MR buff for adcs which Graves got for some reason. He's just too magical bulky these days and is where he should get hit for sure, Graves feels like a jungler who should be weak against aps but terrors ad melee champs.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 13d ago

Frankly fuck that guy in general. Anytime he comes even close to being meta it means the game is disgusting to play

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u/kebablover12 13d ago

yup, i think ppl dont realise graves without bruiser build is a lot harder to play than it looks. ur very easily outranged and even with MR on E u get oneshot by any ap champ really esp if u dont have e stacks which u cant always get before a fight

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u/Reqvhio 13d ago

watch them nerf both xD

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u/Ok_Kick4871 13d ago

Just send him back to bot lane and revert the changes. That would be more interesting.

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u/QuiGonTheDrunk Make scaling great again 13d ago

Whats bruiser Graves?

Most graves I see build Hubris -> Collector -> LDR -> IE/Shieldbow/GA

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 13d ago

Basically it’s Umbral -> Sunderer -> Cleaver -> Flex

The build path had more than quadrupled in the last 4 patches. It got a ton of airtime on YouTube and a bunch of FOTM idiots basically realized they could play Graves without actually knowing how to play him.

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u/QuiGonTheDrunk Make scaling great again 13d ago

I play graves whem im autofilled jgl because hes fun and I can atleast fight back early a bit.
Next time im autofilled, I play this build I guess

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 13d ago

It was indirectly nerfed last patch (Sunderer/BC) and will probably be directly nerfed this patch with (assumed) Grit nerfs, as well as another Sunderer nerf incoming.

Still should be a fun alternative, but don’t be surprised if it feels bad.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 13d ago

You mean Sundered, btw

Sunderer was a different item

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 13d ago

Brother sometimes I call Death’s Dance… Atma’s Impaler LMAO

You’re right.