Upcoming massive changes to objectives, runes and TP in LoL Patch 12.14

Riot Phroxzon teased upcoming 12.14 changes, the last set of major ones sans World’s balances

This patch will focus on pro scene balance, with focus on healing outliers nerf, pro bloodiness changes, GP nerf to top end barrels as well as regular balance changes.

Healing outlier nerfs, pro bloodiness changes, GP nerf to top end barrels and our regular balance changes (with focus on Pro meta) are coming to 12.14.

It'll be the last set of major changes sans World's balance and we'll be otherwise stabilizing + moving everyone to Preseason pic.twitter.com/daWFAhETzh

— Matt Leung-Harrison (@RiotPhroxzon) July 16, 2022

Potions

• Health Potion: 150 Healing >>> 120
• Refillable & Corrupting Potion: 125 Healing >>> 100

Summoner Spells

• Teleport Cooldown: 360 >>> 420, Unleashed Cooldown unchanged
• Exhaust Damage Reduction: 40% >>> 30-40% (levels 1-9)

Runes

Biscuit Delivery

• Restores 10% missing Health/Mana >>> 8%
• Increase max mana by 50 >>> 40
• Manaless Health restore unchanged

Bone Plating

• Cooldown: 45 >>> 55

Conditioning

• Gain 9 Armor/MR and 4% total Armor/MR >>> Gain 8 Armor/MR and 3% total Armor/MR

Guardian

• Cooldown: 70-40s >>> 90-40s

Scorch

• Damage: 15-35 >>> 20-40

Second Wind

• Heal 6 (+4% Missing health) >>> Heal 3 (+4% Missing health)

Sudden Impact

• 7 Lethality & 6 Mpen >>> 9 Lethality & 7 Mpen

Unflinching

• 10-30% Tenacity and Slow Resist >>> 5-25%

Time Warp Tonic

• Movespeed: 4% >>> 2%

OBJECTIVE CHANGES

Elemental Drakes

Buffs

• Mountain Drake Buff: 6% Armor/MR >>> 9% Armor/MR
• Ocean Drake Buff: 2% missing health per 5s > >> 3% missing health per 5s
• Infernal Drake Buff: 4% AD/AP >>> 6% AD/AP
• Hextech Drake Buff 6% AS and 6 Ability Haste > >> 9% AS and 9 Ability Haste
• Cloud Drake Buff: 3.5 Slow Resist & OOC Movespeed >>> 7% Slow Resist & OOC Movespeed
• Cloud Soul Buff: 10% bonus movespeed & 50% on Ult cast for 6s >>> 15% bonus movespeed and 50% on Ult cast for 6s

Dragon Health

• Health Pre-Rift Transformation: 2650(+240 per level) >>> 3450(+380 per level)
• Health Post-Rift Transformation: 4350(+240 per level) >> > 6950(+380 per level)

Dragon Base AD & Damage

• Cloud Drake: 50 >>> 35
• Mountain Drake: 150 >>> 105
• Ocean Drake: 100 >>> 70
• Infernal Drake: 100 >>> 70
• Hextech Drake: 66.7 >>> 47
• All Dragon % Current Health damage on auto: 7% >>> 5%

Elder Dragon

• Health: 6400(+180 per minute) > >> 6400(+290 per minute)
• AD: 150 >>> 105

Rift Herald

• Rift Herald gold reward: 100 to killer >>> 100 to killer + 200 local gold
• 2nd Rift Herald Mercenary (summoned Herald) now has 75% more health

Top lane will be the most impacted

They didn’t lie about the patch’s focus on pro-level gameplay. Heavy potion, rune nerfs will severely impact the sustain and dynamics in top lane and possibly usher in a whole new meta.

Objectives gaining increased HP, damage and rewards will discourage players from sneaking them with 1-2 players and likely require some major team fights to gain control of. We might see a lot more skirmishes happening in LoL in near future.

All in all, 12.14 seems to be the biggest meta shift and set of balance changes we’ve seen recently and will define this year’s World’s Championship

We’ll keep you updated on other changes in the patch as well as pro’s responses!