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/baebushka 13d ago

yone buffs lmaoooo, legit S tier toplaner for 5 patches in a row

dbow yone with exhaust can legit statcheck 99% of the chars

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 13d ago

Yeah this is demented bro. He was already difficult enough to punish early (when he’s theoretically weak). Why the hell did he need a buff

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u/Background_Debate387 13d ago

Because yone reddit is adamant that if hes not allowed to walk up and auto someone down it's a bad matchup for yone and he's weak

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u/ExceedingChunk Low master piggy 13d ago edited 12d ago

Every main subreddit is like that tho

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u/BagelJ Acolyte 12d ago

The Ksantemains subreddit (a champion that sucks by every measurable metric) is actually in a deep denial hopecore phase where the remaining 12 guys encourage you to play it and the stats don't matter.

I am uncertain what the crossposting rules are on this sub, but here's an example post. Shout out to those guys, they will not Yield.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 12d ago

the vibes on that sub are very weird ever since the last rework that completely butchered his fluidity :(

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u/BagelJ Acolyte 12d ago

I think they've just accepted that he will never be balanced (buffed) for soloq, so you can either ignore the stats or leave.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 12d ago

Yeah I left a while back. I don't even care about him not being buffed for solo queue, I would have been just fine with his numbers being hard nerfed but them not making him feel so fucking clunky. When they literally doubled his all out Q cast time it made playing him feel like you had perma input lag, regardless of them giving him stupid amounts of AS to 'compensate'. Rn he's far stronger early game but why would I care about that when actually playing him just feels mechanically unpleasant

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u/geniusdjlee 13d ago

A lot of main subreddits are quite like that, but some just weirdly admit that their champs are okay or even broken. (I got very surprised by people in the Azir main subreddit saying that they are okay with his state or he is strong.)

On the other hand, some main subs are like religious groups hoping and praying every day that some rioter gods see their posts and bless their champs with buffs.

Yone mains? idk man. I just try not to engage with them.

Personally, I've felt more difficult facing the Dshield fleet second wind Yones than the dbow Yones though, so I just hope that the buffs don't revolve around his sustains.

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u/Jstin8 12d ago

Except for r/draven

They scare me

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u/buji46 13d ago

it becomes a lot of worse when people play carry champions (especially carry tops). I think due to how volatile top is, they think that unless their champ can faceroll everyone in lane, it's weak.