August Browning, League senior champion designer, today outlines all the champion changes coming to preseason 2021, ahead of the latest item system overhaul.
According to August, the “main” goal of these experimental changes is to ensure the champions work correctly with the new items, while “maintaining compelling build choices.” All champions with critical strike spells or other unique crit interactions have been adjusted to work correctly with the new crit values and the Infinity Edge.
Crit damage was reduced from 200 to 175 percent and crit chance per item from 25 to 20 percent. Infinity Edge also receives an additional +8 percent critical damage per 20 percent crit chance.
Riot reveals experimental champion adjustments in preseason 2021
Caitlyn, Jhin, Senna, Tryndamere, Yasuo, and Yone have each received tentative changes on PBE to reflect this.
Caitlyn
Passive – Headshot
- Headshots gain 25 percent less bonus damage from crit chance
Jhin
Passive – Whisper
- Crit damage reduction: from 25 percent (150 percent damage crits on live) to 14 percent (150 percent damage crits on PBE)
Senna
AS ratio: Increased from 0.2 to 0.32
AS per level: Decreased from 4 percent to 2.5 percent
Passive – Absolution
- Crit damage reduction: from 35 percent (130 percent damage crits on live) to 14 percent 9150 percent damage crits on PBE)
- Crit chance per 20 souls from 15 percent to 10 percent
- Excess crit to lifesteal conversation: from 25 percent to 50 percent
E – Curse of the Black Mist
- Movespeed speed: from 20 percent to 20 percent (+3 percent/100 AP)
R – Dawning Shadow
- Damage AP ratio: from 0.5 to 0.8
Tryndamere
Passive – Battle Fury
- Crit chance per point of fury: from 0.35 to 0.5 to 0.3 to 0.6
Yasuo
Passive – Way of the Wanderer
- Bonus crit strike chance: from 100 percent to 150 percent
- Crit strike damage reduction: from 10 percent to 15 percent
Yasuo
Passive – Way of the Hunter
- Bonus crit strike chance: from 100 percent to 150 percent
- Crit strike damage reduction: from 10 percent to 15 percent
In addition to these adjustments, champions with items passives and champions that make use of on-hit effects have also received changes on the PBE server. This refers to the new Mythic items that soon enter the game.
Ornn
All Mythic items have Ornn upgrades. Only mythic items can be upgraded. Each upgrade is worth roughly 1000 gold in stats
Viktor
Passive – Glorious Evolution
- No longer starts with Hexcore in his inventory and cannot purchase upgrades
- Viktor gains an Evolution point when he completes a mythic or legendary tier item
- Each evolution point upgrades a spell and grants +10 percent total AP permanently
E – Death Ray
- Mana cost: from 60/70/90/100/110 to 50/60/70/80/90
- Laser ratio: from 0.6 to 0.7
- Aftershock ratio: from 0.7 to 0.6
Zoe
W – Spell Thief
- Currently does not work with new item actives. Will be updated to work shortly before pre-season ships
Elise
Q – Venomous Bite
- Now applies on-hit effects
Katarina
Passive – Verocity
- Now applies on-hit effects to all units struck
E – Shunpo
- Now applies on-hit effects
R – Death Lotus
- Split damage into (base and AP ratio) magic, and (AD and ASPD ratio) physical. Now applies on-hit effects at 33 percent efficiency to all units struct (each unit is hit for a total of 3x Kat’s on-hits over the full 2.5 channel duration)
Kayle
Passive – Divine Ascent
- As per Zeal stack: from 6 percent (30 percent at 5 stacks) to 6 percent + 2 percent/100 AP (30 percent +10 percent/100 AP at 5 stacks)
All these adjustments are experimental and are expected to change before the 2021 preseason of the League goes live later this year. You can now test it on PBE.