Patch 13.18 in League of Legends comes with the brand new Vampire champion, Briar, the Restrained Hunger! It also has a few buffs and nerfs, as well as adjustments to both champions and items coming alongside her.
Amongst this, we have eight new skins being released, and if you want to find out about all of these, then you need to read this article until the end to get the full run down of League of Legends Patch 13.18!
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League of Legends Patch 13.18 Champion Changes
New
Briar
Briar Eternals are being released in Patch 13.19.
Nerfs
Jarvan IV
Jarvan IV is getting a small nerf as he’s been the number one Jungler at all ranks for quite some time now, but the nerf comes in hitting his Passive:
- Passive: Additional Physical Damage on Basic Attacks: 8% of target’s current health ⇒ 6% of target’s current health
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Kayn
Kayn has been a decent jungler for the last few patches, and whilst Riot Games attempted to nerf Kayn in Patch 13.17, they are trying again this patch
- Passive: Darkin Bonus: Rhaast – Healing: 20-30% (based on level) of physical damage dealt to champions ⇒ 25% of physical damage dealt to champions
- R: Darkin Version Damage Dealt: 15% (+13% per 100 bonus AD) of target’s maximum health ⇒ 15% (+10% per 100 bonus AD) of target’s maximum health (Note: still heals for 65% of the tooltip damage)
Rell
Rell has been picked as a Jungler in pro play as well as her native role of Support, and Riot Games love this, but she does need a little nerf to her E.
- E: Bonus Movement Speed (Away from Enemies): 15/17.5/20/22.5/25% ⇒ 12/14/16/18/20%
- E: Bonus Movement Speed (Towards Enemies): 30/35/40/45/50% ⇒ 24/28/32/36/40%
Tryndamere
Tryndamere received a decent buff of an attack range last patch, but this has made him very strong, and Riot Games want to make him a little less OP:
- Health Growth: 115 ⇒ 108
- Base Attack Damage: 68 ⇒ 66
Xayah
Xayah is one of the strongest ADCs in the game at every level, and her ultimate makes her one of the safest. Riot Games want to counter this by nerfing her early game.
- Base Health: 660 ⇒ 630
- Health Growth: 102 ⇒ 107
- E: Cooldown: 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds ⇒ 13/12/11/10/9 seconds
Buffs
Gwen
Riot Games really want Gwen Jungle to become viable again, so they’re increasing her sustain and damage to monsters when you lock her in as your designated Drake killer!
- Health Growth: 109 ⇒ 115
- Passive: Magic Damage to Monsters: 6 (+10% AP) ⇒ 10 (+15% AP)
Irelia
Irelia is great at 1v5ing, but only when she has her ultimate up, which a lot of the time she does not. Riot Games are now buffing this, so be prepared to see a lot of Irelia in your games!
- R: Cooldown: 140/120/100 seconds ⇒ 125/105/85 seconds
Kennen
Kennen has a similar issue with Irelia, but across his whole kit his cooldowns prevent him from excelling and shocking his way through the ranks, so Riot is buffing this!
- E: Energy Cost: 100/95/90/85/80 ⇒ 80 at all ranks
- R: Cooldown: 120 seconds at all ranks ⇒ 120/100/80 seconds
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Senna
Senna is having her passive targeted with her Crit Strike Ratio Reduction being completely removed to make it a little more viable, and her W is getting a great quality of life buff.
- Passive: Critical Strike Ratio Reduction: No longer reduces critical strike damage by 8.5%
- W: Area of Effect Effect: Enemies hit with Last Embrace’s AoE snare are now afflicted with a stack of Mist from Senna’s passive.
Thresh
Riot’s last buff is to make Thresh a little bit better defensively when trying to keep his precious ADC alive.
- W: Shield Strength: 50/70/90/110/130 (+1.5 per soul) ⇒ 50/70/90/110/130 (+2 per soul)
Adjustments
Bard
Bard is getting a few quality-of-life buffs to make him better to play as a Support, and, more importantly, better to have as a Support when you are playing ADC!
- Passive: Maximum Chime Stacks: 5 ⇒ 10
- Passive: Chime Stack Duration: 7 seconds ⇒ 20 seconds
- W: Stacking Shrines: Caretaker’s Shrine now accumulates charges over time up to a maximum of 2 charges.
- W: Cooldown/Stack Charge Time: 14 seconds ⇒ 18 seconds
- W: Shrine Charge Time to Full Heal: 10 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds
- W: Shrine Movement Speed Bonus: 30% decaying over 1.5 seconds ⇒ 20/22.5/25/27.5/30% (+0.05% AP) decaying over 1.5 seconds
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League of Legends Patch 13.18 Item Changes
Crown of the Shattered Queen
- Ability Power: 70 ⇒ 85
- Safeguard: 75% damage reduction for 1.5 seconds ⇒ 40% damage reduction for 2.5 seconds
- Poise Break: Crown will no longer provide 10-40 AP while the shield holds
Spear of Shojin
Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 55
Statikk Shiv
- Attack Damage: 45 ⇒ 50
- Electroshock Minion Damage: 250-350 ⇒ 200
Stormrazor
- Attack Damage: 50 ⇒ 55
League of Legends Patch 13.18 New Skins
- Street Demons Briar
- Street Demons Neeko
- Street Demons Dr. Mundo
- Street Demons Zyra
- Street Demons Brand
- Street Demons Rengar
- Crystalis Motus Taliyah
