League of Legends Patch 15.1 Early Notes: Noxus Ascends with Feats of Strength, Atakhan, and More

Patch 15.1 marks the dawn of a new era as League of Legends steps boldly into 2025 with the Season of Noxus. Featuring a complete overhaul of Summoner’s Rift, new gameplay mechanics tied to Feats of Strength, and the introduction of Atakhan, this update is set to redefine the game.

It’s been years since Summoner’s Rift has undergone a transformation of this scale. While previous updates added event-themed elements or slight visual tweaks, the Noxus Map brings an immersive rework with new jungle monsters, enhanced turrets, revamped map geometry, a fresh aesthetic, and even a brand-new soundtrack to set the stage for battles.

LoL Patch 15.1 Highlights

Map Overhaul

The Season of Noxus introduces a dynamic new look and functionality to Summoner’s Rift. From visual updates to structural changes, this makeover ensures a battle experience that reflects the indomitable spirit of Noxus.

Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin

A colossal new jungle monster, Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin, makes his debut in patch 15.1. His arrival brings high-stakes gameplay and unique rewards:

• Spawn Conditions: Atakhan appears at the 20-minute mark on the side of the map with the most kills or deaths by 14 minutes. If no significant kill data is available, he spawns on the side with the most damage dealt.
• Dynamic Arena: Upon spawning, Atakhan creates an arena with new terrain, adding tactical depth to his encounter.
• Rewards: Slaying Atakhan grants permanent team-wide buffs through Blood Roses as well as XP. Blood Roses also spawn over time, appearing on the corpses of champions who die throughout the game.
• Variants: Atakhan has two distinct forms, each featuring unique movesets and buffs, adding variety and strategy to his battles.

Note: Atakhan spawns only once per game, but Blood Roses continue to appear, keeping the battlefield dynamic.

Objective Timers

Turrets

• Turret fortification decreased: 85% >>> 50%
  • This is the damage reduction that turrets get from having plates up
• Nexus turrets now respawn a short time after they go down, preventing backdoors and allowing more late-game comebacks
• Turret heat up: +40% per shot >>> +50% per shot
• Turret heat up duration: 3 seconds >>> 5 seconds
  • This essentially means turret damage will scale faster and that scaling will last longer

Minions

• Total AD reduced by around 10%
• Champion/Turret damage increased by around 10%
• Now deal 2/4/6% current HP damage to lane minions
• Cannon minions have been pushed back a wave

Feats of Strength & Boot Upgrades

Armored Advance

• Recipe: Plated Steelcaps + 750g (total cost 1950g)
• 40 Armor
• 50 Movement Speed
• Reduces incoming damage from attacks by 12%
• Passive: Noxian Endurance
  • After taking physical damage from a champion, gain (10-140 +4% max HP) shield for 4 seconds
    • Base cooldown: 12 seconds

Chainlaced Crushers

• Recipe: Mercury Treads + 750g (total cost 2050g)
• 35 Magic Resist
• 50 Movement Speed
• 30% Tenacity
• Passive: Noxian Persistence
  • After taking magic damage from a champion, gain a (10-140 +4% max HP) shield for 4 seconds
    • Base cooldown: 12 seconds

Crimson Lucidity

• Recipe: Ionian Boots of Lucidity + 750g (total cost 1650g)
• 25 Ability Haste
• 50 Movement Speed
• 10 Summoner Spell Haste
• Passive: Noxian Haste
  • Empowering or protecting allies with abilities, dealing damage to enemy champions with abilities, or casting a Summoner Spell grants (10

Gunmetal Greaves

• Recipe: Berserker Greaves + 750g (total cost 1850g)
• 40% attack speed
• 50 movement speed
• Passive: Noxian Gait
  • Attacks on hit grant (15% for melee/10% for ranged) Movement Speed on hit that decays over 2 seconds

Forever Forward

• Recipe: Symbiotic Soles/Synchronized Souls + 750g (total cost 1650g)
• Will upgrade to Forever Forward even if the boots haven’t evolved yet
• Gain empowered recall
• Passive: Noxian Synchrony
  • Gain 45 movement speed and 10% total Movement Speed out of combat

Speelslinger’s Shoes

• Recipe: Sorcerer’s Shoes + 750g (total cost 1850g)
• 19 Base Magic Pen
• 10% Magic Pen
• 50 Movement Speed

Swiftmarch

• Recipe: Boost of Swiftness + 750g (total cost 1750g)
• 75 Movement Speed
• Reduce the effectiveness of slows by 25%
• Passive: Noxian Fervor
  • Gain 4% total movement speed

Champion Changes

Ashe

Passive: Frost Shot

• Passive base bonus damage: 15% >>> 0%
• Passive damage now triggers on the first attack in addition to follow-up hits

Q: Ranger’s Focus

• Attack speed increased: 25-55% >>> 25-65%
• AD scaling increased: 105-125% >>> 110-130%

W: Volley

• Base damage increased: 20-80 >>> 60-200
• AD scaling reduced: 100% total AD >>> 100% bonus AD

Cassiopeia

Base Stats

• Passive Movement Speed bonus gets enhanced from 4-72 to 6-108 if her team gets Feats of Strength buff

Kalista

Base Stats:

• Mana regen growth per level increased: 0.4 >>> 0.8

Q: Pierce

• Base damage reduced: 20-280 >>> 10-270
• Mana cost increased: 50-70 >>> 60-80

E: Rend

• Base damage per spear adjusted: 8-24 >>> 7-35
• AD scaling per spear reduced: 25-45% >>> 20-40%

Tahm Kench

• Base armor: 42 >>> 39

Varus

Base Stats

• Base mana reduced: 360 >>> 320

Q: Piercing Arrow

• Mana cost reduced: 65-85 >>> 50-70

W: Blighted Quiver

• On hit base damage adjusted: 8-28 >>> 6-30

E: Hail of Arrows

• Mana cost increased: 80 >>> 90

Viktor

Base Stats:

• Health growth per level reduced: 100 >>> 104
• Armor growth per level reduced: 5.2 >>> 4.4

Warwick

Base Stats:

• Base AD reduced: 63 >>> 60
• AD growth per level reduced: 3 >>> 2.75

Q: Jaws of the Beast

• Cooldown increased: 6 >>> 8-6
• Mana cost increased: 50-90 >>> 70-90

W: Blood Hunt

• Attack speed duration reduced: 2.5 seconds >>> 1.25 seconds

Item Changes

Abyssal Mask

• HP increased: 300 >>> 350
• MR increased: 45 >>> 50

Aegis of the Legion

• Cost reduced: 1200 >>> 1100
• Armor and MR reduced: 30 >>> 25

Bloodletter’s Curse (New Item)

• Cost: 3050 >>> 2900
• 55 AP >>> 60
• 350 HP
• 10 Ability Haste
• Passive: Surge
  • Dealing magic damage to champions grants 5% magic pen for 6 seconds (stacks up to 6 times)
• Build path:
  • Haunting Guise + Fiendish Codex + 900 gold

Elixirs

• Level requirement increased: 9 >>> 12
• Can now only purchase one copy of an elixir at once
• Elixir of Iron
  • Tenacity reduced: 25% >>> 20%
• Elixir of Wrath
  • AD reduced: 30 >>> 28-30 (levels 12-18)

Heartsteel

• Base passive damage reduced: 80 >>> 70
• Passive health damage scaling change: 12% item HP >>> 6% max HP

Unending Despair

• Health increased: 350 >>> 400
• Armor reduced: 60 >>> 25
• Now has 25 MR
• Passive cooldown reduced: 5 seconds >>> 4 seconds
• Base damage reduced: 30-50 >>> 8-15
  • The HP scaling damage is unchanged with an increased tick rate, so the damage on this item isn’t as nerfed as it appears
• New Recipe:
  • Aegis of the Legion + Giant’s Belt + 800g (final price unchanged)

Warmog’s Armor

• Movement speed completely removed
• Passive regen per second decreased: 5% max HP >>> 3% max HP
• Bonus HP passive threshold increased: 1500 >>> 2000
• Passive cooldown increased: 6 seconds >>> 8 seconds
• Now grants 12% increased HP
• New recipe:
  • Winged Moonplate >>> Giant’s Belt (final price unchanged)

Runes

Sorcerer Runes

• Nullifying Orb removed & replaced with Axiom Arcanist
  • Your ultimate is more powerful. Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate’s current cooldown by 7% and increases its power by 12% (power is damage, healing, and shielding)

Domination Runes

Every single vision-based rune (Eyeball Collection, Ghost Poro, Zombie Ward) has been completely removed and replaced

• Sixth Sense
  • Automatically sense a nearby untracked and unseen ward, tracking it for your team. Also reveals the ward for 10 seconds at level 11
    • Cooldown: 300 seconds (melee)/360 seconds (ranged)
• Grisly Mementos
  • Collect 1 memento on champion takedown, up to 25 stacks
    • Gain 4 trinket ability haste for each stack. In game modes where vision trinkets do not exist, gain 2 summoner spell haste instead
• Deep Ward
  • Your wards in the enemy jungle are deep.
    • Deep wards gain +1 extra health and (+30-45 seconds) increased duration (+30-120 seconds for trinket stealth wards)
      • In other words, this is weaker for support item wards than trinket ones

Precision Runes

• Conqueror
  • DoT stack lock out timer reduced: 5 seconds >>> 4 seconds

Systems Changes

Summoner Spells

• Teleport has been drastically changed
  • Channel duration reduced: 4 seconds >>> 3 seconds
  • Now dashes to the target location
  • Max travel time for base is 5 seconds, reduced to 4 for unleashed
  • Can target minions and wards without being unleashed
  • Base Cooldown reduced: 360 seconds >>> 300 seconds
  • Unleashed Cooldown reduced: 330-240 >>> 300-240

With these updates and more, Season 2025 is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious in League of Legends history. Expect further details as the dev team unveils the full extent of patch 15.1 in the coming weeks.