Even Riot Games themselve called the latest League of legends’ update is 10.16b, a patch notes, not an official update.
One of the interesting facts in how LOL is developing is that new updates come out continuously every 2 weeks. This makes League of legends always fresh as new when small adjustment on champions, items will affect on the game and create more new and interesting meta. An unbalanced champion in this patch, got nerf a little and disappear in the next patch is very usual.
However, Riot Games’ patch 10.17 is a big difference, the updates they brought out are just buff, and extremely small nerf. It is almost a patch for the 10.16 update when lower an unbalanced champions’ strenght and buff “some love” for those too weak to thrive in the Rift. An LCK professional – Commentator Nick ‘LS’ De Cesare even have to come to a conclusion in his patch explanation stream: ‘These changes affect nothing to professional meta and competitive’.
Aatrox
R – WORLD ENDER
BONUS DAMAGE RATIO 0.2/0.25/0.3 attack damage ⇒ 0.2/0.3/0.4 attack damage
Caitlyn:
BASE STATS
MOVEMENT SPEED 330 ⇒ 325
Evelynn
Q – HATE SPIKE
DART BASE DAMAGE 30/35/40/45/50 ⇒ 25/30/35/40/45
SPIKE BASE DAMAGE 30/35/40/45/50 ⇒ 25/30/35/40/45
Gragas
BASE STATS
ARMOR 35 ⇒ 38
Hecarim
E – DEVASTATING CHARGE
BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED 25-100% (over the first 3 seconds, with fourth second at maximum value) ⇒ 25-85% (over the first 3 seconds, with fourth second at maximum value)
Kai’sa
BASE STAT
ATTACK DAMAGE GROWTH 1.7 ⇒ 2.0
E – SUPERCHARGE
BONUS ATTACK SPEED 40/45/50/55/60% ⇒ 40/50/60/70/80%
Lux
W – PRISMATIC BARRIER
SHIELD 50/75/100/125/150 (+0.3 ability power) ⇒ 45/65/85/105/125 (+0.35 ability power)COST 60 mana ⇒ 60/65/70/75/80 mana
TRIPLE SHIELD BUGFIX Fixed a bug that caused Prismatic Barrier’s effect to apply three times at the edge of its cast
Qiyana
W – TERRASHAPE
BONUS DAMAGE RATIO 0.2 attack damage ⇒ 0.1 attack damage
E – AUDACITY
BASE DAMAGE 60/95/130/165/200 ⇒ 60/90/120/140/180
Sona
BASE STATS
HEALTH 482.36 ⇒ 480MANA 340.6 ⇒ 340
Q – HYMN OF VALOR
DAMAGE RATIO 0.5 ability power ⇒ 0.4 ability power
W – ARIA OF PERSEVERANCE
HEAL RATIO 0.25 ability power ⇒ 0.2 ability power
E – SONG OF CELERITY
SELF BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED 20% (+0.03 per 100 ability power) ⇒ 20% (+0.02 per 100 ability power)
AURA BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED 10/11/12/13/14% (+0.03 per 100 ability power) ⇒ 10/11/12/13/14% (+0.02 per 100 ability power)
Varus
BASE STATS
ATTACK SPEED GROWTH 3% ⇒ 4%
Xayah
BASE STATS
ATTACK DAMAGE GROWTH 2.9 ⇒ 3.5
Yone
Q – MORTAL STEEL
BASE DAMAGE 20/45/70/95/120 ⇒ 20/40/60/80/100
R – FATE SEALED
LIFE STEAL BUGFIX No longer applies life steal at 100% effectiveness
Commentator ‘LS’: ‘ Extremely short patch, not a whole lot of changes, we could just recap. None of these things really affect competitive, whatsoever! This was not really a competitive patch, and i say that with even more certainty, because Yone apparently is disable for world. I really hope that they change their decision on that, or they stance on that, because there has been 2 months to prepare for the champion. And i think it is foolish that he was not allowed for playoffs or something like that. Especially when he was so close in release to Lilia, and yet Lilia is out there and she is not really causing such a big ruckus pretty much anywhere.’
Maybe, the biggest cause which lead to this unnecessary minor update is the current meta is in a stable level. All major tournaments are entering the Playoffs, so launching a bigupdate at this moment is like take “A taste of their own medicine”, maybe Riot Games want to keep LOL in this condition till the end of World finals 2020. Of course they will have adjustment in patch 10.18 or 10.19, however to completely change the entire gameplay, players have to wait until pre-season 2021.