The last League of Legends patch of the year, patch 12.23, will be a significant one. The update will be a follow-up to the preseason patch, which included a slew of game-changing improvements to the jungle, game items, and more.
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Although the complete patch notes have yet to be posted, there are a number of verified changes. Players should anticipate tweaks to ARAM, modifications to jungle Dr. Mundo, Zeri buffs, and updates to Tahm Kench and Kassadin in this release. In addition, the new Winterblessed skins will be included in this release.
That being said, here’s everything we know about LoL patch 12.23 so far.
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League of Legends patch 12.23 pre-notes
Dr. Mundo
Base Stats
- Attack damage per level: 3.5 ⇒ 3
- Magic resist: 32 ⇒ 29
- Magic resist per level: 2.05 ⇒ 2.3
Passive – Goes Where He Pleases
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- Cannister health loss: 7% current health ⇒ 3% current health
- Cannister heal: 8% maximum health ⇒ 4% maximum health
- Max health regen per 5 seconds: 0.8-1.6% ⇒ 0.4-2.5%
- Equal at Level 11
Q – Infected Bonesaw
- Health cost: 50 ⇒ 60
W – Heart Zapper
- Health cost: 5% current health ⇒ 8% current health
- Gray Health heal (no hit): 0% ⇒ 50%
- Damage stored as gray health: 25/30/35/40/45% ⇒ 80-95% based on level in the first 0.75 seconds, then 25% thereafter
- Duration: 4 seconds ⇒ 3 seconds
E – Blunt Force Trauma
- Passive bonus AD: 15/20/25/30/35 + 25/30/35/40/45 based on missing health ⇒ 2.5/3/3.5/4/4.5% max health
- Removed the ability to instantly kill small jungle monsters
- Monster damage: 200% ⇒ 250%
R – Maximum Dosage
- Removed bonus AD
- Missing health as maximum health: 8/11.5/15% ⇒ 15/20/25%
- [NEW] At Rank 3, both healing effects are increased by an additional 5% per nearby enemy champion
Zeri
Base Stats
- Move speed: 325 ⇒ 330
- Attack damage: 50 ⇒ 53
- Armor: 20 ⇒ 24
- Health: 600 ⇒ 630
- Attack speed: 0.568 ⇒ 0.625
- Health per level: 109 ⇒ 115
Passive – Living Battery
- Gotta Zip shield bonus: 10% multiplicative move speed ⇒ 10% move speed
- Duration: 3 seconds ⇒ 2 seconds
Q – Burst Fire
- Fully charged right-click damage: 90-200 (+90% AP)(+1-15% target max health) ⇒ 90-200 (+110% AP)(+1-15% target max health)
- Range: 825 ⇒ 750
- Excess attack speed to attack damage ratio: 60% ⇒ 70%
- Base damage: 8/11/14/17/20 ⇒ 15/18/21/24/27
- Attack damage ratio: 100/105/110/115/120% ⇒ 104/108/112/116/120%
W – Ultrashock Laser
- Damage type: Magic ⇒ Physical
- Damage: 20/55/90/125/160 (+100% AD)(+40% AP) ⇒ 20/60/100/140/180 (+130% AD)
- Cast time: 2.5x attack time ⇒ 0.55-0.3 seconds (based on attack speed)
- Missile speed: 2200 ⇒ 2500
- Beam cast time: 0.75 seconds ⇒ 0.85 seconds
E – Spark Surge
- Mana: 80 ⇒ 90/85/80/75/70
- Cooldown: 24/22.5/21/19.5/18 seconds ⇒ 22/21/20/19/18 seconds
- [NEW] For 5 seconds, Zeri’s Burst Fire does additional magic damage to the first enemy hit and pierces targets
- Bonus magic damage: 20/22/24/26/28 (+20% AP)(+12% bAD)
- [NEW] Now deals up to 65% bonus damage based on critical strike chance
- Pierce damage falloff: 60/70/80/90/100% ⇒ 80/85/90/95/100%
- Ability and attack damage reduces the cooldown of Spark Surge by 0.5 seconds (1.5 seconds for critical strikes)
- Reveal range through walls: 850 ⇒ 1500
R – Lightning Crash
- [REMOVED] Bonus magic damage
- Chain Lightning range: 450 ⇒ 650
- On-cast magic damage: 150/250/350 (+80% AP)(+80% bAD) ⇒ 175/275/375 (+110% AP)(+100% bAD)
- If Lightning Crash hits at least one champion, Zeri gains 10% move speed, 30% attack speed, and chain shots for 5 seconds. Hitting champions refreshes this buff by 1.5 seconds, up to 5 seconds total.
- Hitting champions grants Zeri 1 stack (3 per critical strike) of Overcharge for 1.5 seconds. Zeri gains 0.5% move speed for each stack of Overcharge, stacking infinitely.
Tahm Kench
Passive – An Acquired Taste
- Damage now scales with 2% AP per 100 bonus health
Q – Tongue Lash
- AP ratio increased from 90% to 100%
W – Abyssal Dive
- AP ratio increased from 125% to 150%
R – Devour
- Shield now decays by 200 per second instead of lasting 2.5 seconds.
- Damage AP ratio increased from 5% per 100 AP to 7% per 100
Kassadin
Q – Null Sphere
- Shield granted on spell cast rather than when the missile leaves his hand (small buff to make parry more reliable)
- +20 Shield per Rank: 60/90/120/150/180 >>> 80/110/140/170/200
- -10% Shield AP Ratio: 40% >>> 30%
E – Force Pulse
- Spell no longer locked out and requiring nearby spell casts
- Nearby spell casts reduce the Cooldown by 1 second
- Cooldown: 5 >>> 21/19/17/15/13
ARAM changes
Champion Changes
- Omnivamp and Lifesteal on minions -50%
- Damage dealt by champions (non-ultimate) from 1,000-2,000 units away will be reduced by 15-30 percent (currently flat 15 percent damage reduction for any non-ultimate instance over 1,000 units away)
Map Changes
- At the start of each game, hexgates will appear and connect to the outermost tower on each team’s side.
- The Hexgate’s egress point will be on the inhibitor tower when that tower collapses.
- Gamers can utilize their adversaries’ Hexgates
- Towers leave behind a pile of debris when they collapse, creating impassable terrain and obstructing half of the normal route around fallen towers.
- On the right side of the map, there will be a fresh area of brush big enough for the entire squad of five.
- There will be a somewhat greater pixel brush between towers.
Quality of Life
- Battle Boost is visible to all allies in the same team when anyone buys it.
- There will soon be parameters so that sudden Battle Boosts won’t unintentionally affect a player’s complexion without giving them a chance to respond or opt out.
- If a champion receives an S, players will be able to see which of those champions will grant them.
ARAM Clash
- Eight-team bracket, three matches guaranteed
- Free to join
- Registration from Dec. 5, and games played on Dec. 10-11.
- Each player gets two rerolls per game.
- ARAM Clash icon for all participants.
Winterblessed skins
Winterblessed Diana
Winterblessed Warwick
Winterblessed Warwick Prestige Edition
Winterblessed Shaco
Winterblessed Swain
Winterblessed Zilean
Winterblessed Zoe
Ashen Knight skin
Ashen Graveknight Mordekaiser
According to the League of Legends patch schedule, LoL patch 12.23 will be released on December 6, 2022. Players will be able to experience lots of new skins, new event, as well as a slew of buffs, nerfs, and general adjustments once the patch goes live.
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